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Coalburn

by Lionel Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

A new taur to my family of taurs that love trains. This fellow at least doesn't have to worry about soot and coal dust showing on his pelt.

Awesome art and depiction of train cab with boiler by

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black panthertaur panther melanistic jaguar train boiler hot box hotbox coal burn chakat tag so this taur shows up on searches male u_lionel c_all t_all s_panther

fennectaur ~fennectaur

Watcher

11 years ago

I can imagine a friend coming up behind him and clapping him on the back, only to choke on a sudden cloud of soot flying off of him.

Great art!

Lionel ~lionel

Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

That would very likely happen.

Chakat_Wavelength ~chakatwavelength

Watcher

11 years ago

ooh magnificent jaguar. i like!

WerewolfSS ~werewolfss

Writer

11 years ago

Amazing!!!! Very handsome too!

viewfinder ~viewfinder

Watcher

11 years ago

Is it his natural colour or coal dust?

Lionel ~lionel

Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

He is naturally black in color but like most melanistic species the spots still bleed through.

viewfinder ~viewfinder

Watcher

11 years ago

I wanted to ask about only female panthers being melanistic, but then noticed "chakat" tag :)

Lionel ~lionel

Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

I've seen male melanistic panthers. Did someone tell you that only females can be melanistic? Its not true.

Indagare ~indagare

Writer

11 years ago

I somehow suspect that there would end up being an accumulation of white ash instead.

Lionel ~lionel

Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

Surprisingly the cabs on the steam engines I have been on are pretty clean and even the smoke from the stack doesn't put out much soot or ash but some does come out. Coal itself tho is pretty dirty and leaves a residue if you've ever handled it. Hand some out for Christmas. Its fun.

Indagare ~indagare

Writer

11 years ago

That's cool to know about steam engines! I only mentioned the white ash because it seems to be inevitable that when you have white it gets stained by everything but, somehow, when you have black it ends up covered in white dust or similar!

Lionel ~lionel

Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

When I was on the Zephyr they also had a car that that a coal burning kitchen. It was really cool although ironically that train was Diesel.

Indagare ~indagare

Writer

11 years ago

Okay. Ironic.

bondedlevity ~bondedlevity

Fursuiter

11 years ago

So how does it go and stop * looks at backhead*

Lionel ~lionel

Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

If you mean the train I have no idea. I'm sure there are also some levers up near the ceiling and other parts of the cab that aren't shown. He is laying down after all. No gas pedal

viewfinder ~viewfinder

Watcher

11 years ago

I don't know about modern steam engines (other than many of them use liquid fuel), but a century ago the locomotives had the crew of at least two: a driver, who handled the controls and a stoker depicted above. They didn't even have to be in the same room.

Lionel ~lionel

Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

Cool thanks for the info. Heh, of course back then they still used a caboose. :)

Balina ~balina

Head Moof

11 years ago

That's not what 'taur train' typically means!

Lionel ~lionel

Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

I've seen taur trains and 4 legs is quite enough as it is. Then there are the other naughty taur trains heh which I won't go into.

Blackpaw121 ~blackpaw121

Watcher

11 years ago

oh my god that would be me if i was male and not a solid black fur pattern as i love steam tech

TomRedlion ~tomredlion

Photographer

11 years ago

Could very easily be a "Camelback" type. The cab for the engineer and his assistant is midway down the boiler. They were eventually banned.

RedtailFox ~redtailfox

Photographer

11 years ago

I think Coalburn would get on well with my Chakat 'Firefeeder' who has the same interest XD

Lionel ~lionel

Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

Yep, there are a couple of taurs and chakats that like train stuff. Railrunner is a fan as well.

RedtailFox ~redtailfox

Photographer

11 years ago

Firefeeder is more narrow gauge though, since I am here in Queensland, Australia where it is all 3ft6in and 2ft gauge
Little cane locos like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEltel_LewM

Lionel ~lionel

Caffeine Addict

11 years ago

Oh, I think I rode a train like that up somewhere near Sydney. Um.... But it was so long ago I can't remember the details.

RedtailFox ~redtailfox

Photographer

11 years ago

they are remarkable little machines

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