Erie Railroad E1 Atlantic

This is a sprite I started in 2011, worked on briefly in 2012, and finally finished over the last week.  I originally saw a photo of this engine in an ancient book hidden away in the tower of my old university’s library and found it so beautiful that I was compelled to eventually pixel it!

This Erie Railroad E1 Atlantic of 1900 is in 1-pixel-to-the-inch scale and the animated running gear was inspired by Nick Beecher ( ) ’s work.  (Sadly the animation frames suffered some degradation when I converted them into gifs, but at least I have the frames saved separately as pristine pngs, too.)