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Feb. 22nd, 2023 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiger_moranMe: I need to try to go to sleep earlier
Also me at 1 a.m.: watching youtube videos about diesel shunters
(Mostly brutally ugly things but I'm fond of them in a weird way)
I also just found a video featuring the last of the shunting horses. Obviously they were very lovely but the thought of horses working so close to moving trains is still kind of horrifying. I don't know why shunting horses are so little known about though, I remember seeing a couple of articles about them in old horse books but compared to things like cab horses and barge horses and pit ponies, the railway shunting horses seem to be barely talked or known about yet the last shunting horses only retired in the 1960s.
Also me at 1 a.m.: watching youtube videos about diesel shunters
(Mostly brutally ugly things but I'm fond of them in a weird way)
I also just found a video featuring the last of the shunting horses. Obviously they were very lovely but the thought of horses working so close to moving trains is still kind of horrifying. I don't know why shunting horses are so little known about though, I remember seeing a couple of articles about them in old horse books but compared to things like cab horses and barge horses and pit ponies, the railway shunting horses seem to be barely talked or known about yet the last shunting horses only retired in the 1960s.
