Is it just me or�
âŚwill this Locomotive have problems going anywhere? I think there needs to be better communication between the marketing and editorial departments. 
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Pilot training not what it used to be? Or am I missing something? (All possible puns intended!)
They are replacing previous human functions with AI now. Federal Government is behind everyone else and they just deployed Agentic AI, I have not even learned prompting AI yet completely. Agentic AI codes part of the application for you. Anthropic just released software two weeks ago call ClaudeâŚI think. It can code an entire application without human input. Which dropped the stock price of packaged software firms like Sales Force, Adobe, etc. (over reaction in my view).
So what I am saying isâŚgood luck with that request. It might be something they will tell you, you need to live with.
It can be fixed though by training the AI with photos of American Trains and Diesel Locomotives. They got the steam train image probably because they let an untrained AI go out and search the internet without proper training (this is all my guess based on my rather limited experience).
Oh no, please tell me they didnâtâŚ
Not a request, just hilarious.
The writing above was an example of the GIGO principle for SI?
While opening Christmas presents at my Daughters house around their Christmas tree, my SIL put some âChirstmasyâ on line video that had numerous âsteamâ engines in its nostalgic Christmasy scenes. One of those âlocomotivesâ really caught my attention - looked to be a 2-4-2, no biggy there, however the drivers were two different diameters with rods linking their motion together. Something didnât add up in the AI creation of the illustration.
Since Iâm not a steam buffâŚis it no tender for fuel, but passenger car following the loco? endmrw0204261750
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Bingo. Hard to get anywhere without fuel
I thought it was the wheels on the right side of the locomotive were resting on the left rail of the right track.
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It could be a tank engine, however, I donât see the boiler being surrounded by the normal water jacket. Some form of a coal bunker could be at the back end of the crew cab.
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Itâs funnier than that: look at the right wheel of the âlead truckâ and how far from the platform edge it is, relative to the drivers.
More important than fuel is water. Youâd have to rig a tank under the following car, like the one used on a steam motor car. Not very likely!
The only way you could explain whatâs going on at the drivers is to see the ârodâ as an outside valve-gear frame and that stuff above it as the original Franklin type B with the brackets holding the sections of the propeller shafts. I think the AI may have used French suburban engines with poppet-valve gear as some of the training material; that might explain the peculiar shape of the âsteam chestsâ.
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Too closely coupled with the coach
Considering how feeble the AI-generated images have been as seen, I wonder why they should be posted here?
And that, right there, is why I sure donât trust it!
Appears the drivers may be a bit underinflated as well!
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I saw that too. Go as far as the next switch or when the tracks spread out.
there is that, but I note a lack of tender water tooâŚand fear the inevitable crown sheet boomâŚ
As I said, the water would have to be carried in tankage like that for steam motor cars. The problem for the âBS artistsâ is that motor cars generally used small-mass-flow boilers or steam generators⌠not comparatively large Stephenson-type as pictured (even assuming narrow firebox between driver pairs).
If you used liquid fuel as on motorcars, that tankage and associated firing equipment could be under the cars as well. Although youâd have to be a bit peculiar to build a train that wayâŚ