Looks stunning!

I know nothing about trains, but I like this concept. Makes me wonder if the Core in the game was steam based. Geothermal energy and all that.

I mean its could possibly be? The end of the river from Snowdin goes all the way down to the core where they also have giant hunks of ice to help cool the core. I doubt a river naturally would go straight into the middle of the lava pit for no natural reason. So would suffice to say they rerouted part of the river to go towards the core just for that reason? But it doesn't entirely make sense since the water itself is supposed to be ran through the system to spin a turbine to generate electricity yet giant blocks of ice to "cool the core" which is antithetical to what a geothermal plant is supposed to do.

Interesting, never thought of a railroad in the UT universe, let alone one with a T1

It was lets be honest, one of the most advanced steam engines to grace the planet and probably the fastest but due to some technical issues and also incompetence by the engineers driving them, put them into an early grave instead.

It was very advanced yes, I imagine that's why the T1 Trust exists. It's a shame they didn't get used to their fullest but that seems to be the case for most late steam locomotives

Dieselification and the oil economy boom and the internal combustion engine was the big downfall for steam unfortunately.

On the off chance you didn't see this, you also might be interested in this group trying to rebuild a T1 from scratch: https://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/

Yes, I've known about it for years. If I had spare money I'd donate any extra I could just to get it rolling. Its going to take ages unless someone very rich feels like donating to a worthy cause.

I'm glad how it came together and that I could help even a little in the process. Love the look of it in the end. Maybe someone will love it enough to design some rolling stock or animate it

I don't know if this is supposed to be april fools, but the thing I'd say is: what does the symbol on the front look like from a 3/4s or full-frontal angle.

The trains nose cone is a wedge, its aerodynamic.

So potentially a little distorted, but I suppose that's alright, since you usually don't look at a train directly from the front unless it's a kid's show and the train has a face.

The tip of the front isn't even as wide as the actual front headlight, i should've drawn the headlamp slightly going into the wedges sides but I was too lazy on that.

Tbh this a beautiful t1! Can't wait to see the real one come to life here soon

This mean undyne is gonna be a sharknose? x3

Why?

Bloody good effort.

that is a very interesting wheel config, never seen it before... BEAUTIFUL loco

In the later stages of steam in the early to mid 20th century the duplex became more popular because splitting up the drive wheels into multiples actually increased the power of the trains significantly. The PRR Duplex Q2 boasted less than 20 hp shy of 8000 hp alone, higher than any other steam locomotive to date. Even the big boy being a bit larger, was significantly weaker compared to the Q2. The T1 is actually stronger than the Big boy even at 6500 hp consistently whilst the Big Boy struggled to stay consistent between 5500 - 6200.

fascinating... never seen a loco's drive system separated like that, other than on a big boy or some (experimental) larger engines

Theres been a lot of broken up systems. But Duplex or in case of an experimental Triplex train system is specifically a rigid train that has no swaying parts. Articulated is where two seperate drive trains that are independent like the Big Boy, majority of the Union Pacific trains like the Big Boy and the Challenger are articulated, and then theres Garrat types where the train is broken up into a front and back set of drive wheels where the boiler and cab all sits in the middle with no wheels beneath.

Nah, thats not cringe. You n' me are alike! Gotta love the steamliners...

I'll keep to my Ma & Pa consolidations for now though ;) https://media.discordapp.net/attach.....410_161558.jpg

Have an S1 I like run at the head end of my 'Broadway Limited'.
And I like seeing this kind of 'What If' with railroading, in model or, as here and else where at FA, in art.
My fictitious rail line is the 'Bound & Determined, Route of the Scampering Squirrel'.

es muy impresionante!

If i spent the actual time on it i probably could've gotten it more realistic, especially if i used thinner lines. But my coloring never seems to work if i go too thin on lines.

Oh my God, someone finally did it, a locomotive with the royal color scheme and associated with the underground.

I mean, it made sense. Compared to majority of other steam trains it was the fastest, and ergonomically streamlined ones of the last century. Baldwin and Altoona knew how to manufacture trains. And since in the future it'd be near improbably to use diesel any longer steam would make further sense because, with magic, one can just put fire into the firebox to heat the boiler to create steam without burning any actual material. And the T1 felt like the best choice because of said reasons. I would imagine by then with the technology of the future + monsters ability to reverse engineer things as seen in the underground, they could fix the semi frequent wheel slip issue it had. But for its size and all, the duplex setup gave it one of the higher horse power ratings in the world of steam. Even more than the UP Big Boy by a decent margin. It was only bested by very few stream trains, the PRR Q2 holding title of the highest power output of any steam locomotive to date.

A T1 is a very large locomotive, I doubt it would be their first model. I personally think that a first-generation locomotive would be more like a Crampton-style, or perhaps a 0-4-2 or 0-4-0. Early locomotives are never gonna be record-breakers, not unless they have the blueprints of an existing loco they can modify. Even then, an engine as big as this is a very big investment resource-wise, you could probably build two or three tank engines that can all be pulling trains at once. It's a very fine balance between quality and quantity.

Other than that, great work on this! Interesting concept, and I must say this model looks a lot like the one used on Trainstation.

Unfortunately I disagree. If they're going to have travel between their dwelling and the largest human cities which if given by real world locations to take into account, would be over 40 miles away to reach a urban hubs outreach. And since things would cause tourism and they'd probably bring in goods and send out goods from their own city. They'd need large trains for resources and tourists. They're not going to have something that by all regards is not fit for passenger travel of any scale. Those train types wouldn't be deemed fit for more than a handful of very light coaches for small stretches of rail because the cramptons suffered from severe metal fatigue due to horrible engineering design due to the placement of the body being too low.

Also, given how big the core is they probably have the natural resources to build larger engines all things considered. Plus any metal they can melt down from the dump that falls down in large quantities for all we know would allow them to also build large engines.

Points taken. As their very first though? Unless the junctions and curves in the marshaling yards are very wide, which would take up a lot of space, a locomotive as big as the T1 would have a very difficult time navigating them. I mean, the LB&SCR's E2 class had difficulty with traversing the corners of yards in Britain, and it was a tank engine. Granted, they did have a huge wheelbase for what they were, but you get the picture.

I didn't mean the Crampton style itself, I should've specified. My bad. I meant more that era of locomotive, unless they do literally have the actual blueprints of these more modern locomotives to work with. For passenger work, I'd definitely have to point to something from the LNER or LMS, like Gresley's A1 and A3s, maybe even the A4 from the LNER or the Coronation class from the LMS. They were some of the fastest and strongest steam locos in all of Britain, though if you REALLY want power from Britain then look no further than the LNER's U1 Garratt. Over 70,000 pounds of tractive effort and sixteen driving wheels, it was THE largest and most powerful locomotive in Britain. And, seeing as it was made for banking heavy coal trains up a pretty decent incline, it'd have the power to go at most inclines on your railway alone, or act as a banker.

Hmm, I suppose the resources wouldn't be an issue then. Though, if this is modern day, I must question why they aren't using diesel or electric locomotives instead of steam? They do have a significant power advantage, and they don't have to wait for steam to build up. They're also less maintenance-intensive if memory serves. Is that a stylistic choice, or a practical one?

PRR? Please. I'm a DL&W man. unu

It's very pretty!