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Being pulled by an electric faux steam engine.

That's true, but I just don't get what human would put the smoke stack at the back

The first few things that jump out to me are, the smoke isn't coming out of the front stack, instead it's coming out of a second stack thats more in the style of an older steam tractor. The second stack and subsequent second smaller steam engine are where a tender box should be. Worst of all is the illustration of the connecting rods/tie rods, i don't think even a lazy human who'd gone so far as to make the whole image would get that sloppy drawing them so non uniform.

Even if you didn't know much about steam locomotives spending more than 5 second absorbing and processing the contents of the image would tell you the smoke is in the wrong spot and the rods that make it go look bad. That is assuming you've seen a steam locomotive, which i imagine is the bulk of anyone with access to the internet.

The wheel linkages have to be horizontal - think about it, they need to stay the same length as both wheels rotate.

Also, why is smoke coming from the coal storage and not the engine?

• the color of their shirts is somewhat pointless. not only do they change for the "worker" between boss and leader but leader also uses the color blue twice instead of red. I can understand that the introvert is green but it's odd that the boss and leader don't use the same color.
• the yellow "worker" in the leader panel has two hands on the same arm.
• the leader's mouth is odd and their upper body is "twisted"

All of this doesn't necessarily mean it's AI but since each character is unique (and not simply copy-pasted) it would take more time to create them, so these choices have to be deliberately.

I agree, it doesn't resemble typical AI generated content in appearance. It does in form though. It's like the most "I've seen pieces of a train, but I don't understand what a train looks like or how it works" drawing I've ever seen. If the flame is at the back, how would that work with the entire rest of the engine (the cylinder at the front)? Why do the linkages not make sense.

If this is made by an autistic train fan, this is incredibly wrong. If it's made by a person joking about them, it's slightly more forgivable (but still, I don't think anyone wouldn't understand the Steam comes from the front).

You're right, the perfect edges and perfect circles and all of that make me think it's not AI slop at first, but even the least careful person I don't think would make this many stupid mistakes. They're mistakes you'd expect for something that knows that the shape is statistically expected from trains, but it doesn't have any understanding of why.

The most autistic guy I know is a literal train conductor for a freight line lmao. He always gives us a huge blast of the train horn when he goes by our house.

Other than that though, yeah autistic people rabbithole into anything and everything. The train stuff and related stereotypes, like "all autistic people are socially delayed and have photographic memory like rainman" are actually super harmful and contribute significantly to under diagnosis of autism. Especially for those who don't present as "nerdy white guy who builds model trains all day and can only see the world through the lense of advanced maths".

Very true. Though I have encountered many of the train lovers.

in the last few years any remotely orderly and unique interests are equated to "autism". i think its obnoxious and really wish it becomes less common.

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It's not about trains, it's about hyperfixation on whatever. It just doesn't let you go, possibly a life long.

That doesn't sound like a heirarchy, if you can all just do your thing.

If the manager or frontman tells everyone else what to do and you can't tell them what to do, that would be hierarchic.