These are two locomotives I dreamed about back in about 1995. When I woke up shortly after I dreamed of them, I made sketches of them so over time I would not forget what they looked like.
The locomotive I dreamed of in the 1st pic was a Diesel, with a cab at both ends, and it did have the grey with blue and orange colours like shown. I dreamed that in Hill Valley, California, the hometown of the 'Back to the Future' character, Marty McFly, the local railroad line used these locomotives. In the dream was also a train of two those locomotives pulling articulating, double section boxcars at about 45 mph...Each boxcar had a wheel carriage at each end, and one carriage under where the boxcar sections hinge together.
In a different dream, at a different time, was the locomotive in the 2nd pic. It was a nuclear powered locomotive with an on-board reactor to generate the power it ran on. The locomotive ran very quiet, not making any noise except for the wheels clacking on the tracks and when the horn was blowing...There was no motor sound. The 4 axles at each end were not 4 axle carriages, but rather double sets of two axle carriages at each end...Two carriages were attached to an intermediate sub-frame, and the sub-frames that the carriages were attached to were attached to each end of the main frame of the locomotive...The old General Electric GG1 locomotives were built similar, except for the larger carriages being attached to the main frame; https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=gg1+loc...
The setting where I dreamed of this locomotive was in the rural, open farm lands of Nebraska. I dreamed that only one of these locomotives was pulling a long train of freight cars with ease at about 60 mph, that would have taken three or four conventional locomotives to pull. In the dream, the locomotive ran so quiet, the only way I knew the train was approaching was that it had blown the horn for a crossing just up the tracks a ways.
Ooooh! Those are niiiice! I used to draw airplanes and helicopters, especially the Bell Jetranger. in the late 80's to very early 90's I cheated, wayyyy easier to draw than cartoon characters. Like I mentioned to someone on IB I still have many pieces that I have to bring out.
I also used to make models of public transit busses, police cars, helicopters out of cardboard. The only remaining thing I have is a model of the Los Angeles RTSII bus. It has survived many moves since being made by me in 1988! I'm old school yo! 😎
Ooooh! Those are niiiice! I used to draw airplanes and helicopters, especially the Bell Jetranger.
I use to draw trains and trucks a lot when I was a kid. There were times I would draw bridges, and also heavy construction equipment. Sometimes I would draw car crashes and train wrecks in art class in school. Other kids in school thought those crash pics were cool, and they didn't have all that psych evow stuff back then (now days a school kid drawing that stuff would be seeing a school councilor). One time in 7th grade art class, I drew a tornado blowing away a McDonalds (back before they had the dine in accommodations). And the teacher gave me an A on it. https://youtu.be/tnlcBQ1EFz4?t=11 That's the way all the McDonalds were back then.
BTW, Thanks for the comment and fave.
I use to draw trains and trucks a lot when I was a kid. There were times I would draw bridges, and a
