X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,299efc3067cff80c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,299efc3067cff80c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public From: Andrew Belsey Subject: talk-line: trains Date: 1996/04/19 Message-ID: <4l7ctj$8jj@miso.wwa.com> X-Deja-AN: 148317441 sender: boba@sashimi.wwa.com organization: University of Wales Cardiff newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,rec.arts.ascii I have only just discovered the ASCII art groups, and would like to contribute some trains. I was reminded of these trains by reading what Bob Allison said in FAQ: "Before computers, ASCII art was made on typewriters ...". I wonder if all ASCII artists realise that they are heirs to a long tradition of typewriter art, going right back to the early days of the typewriter in the nineteenth century? ASCII artists might even get some hints or inspiration from this book: Typewriter Art, edited by Alan Riddell (London, 1975) ISBN 0-900626-99-2. My original typewriter version of "Train Types" appears in this book, and now, over twenty years later, I have transformed it into ASCII art! (Here is an interesting fact. Among the other contributors to the book was a little known writer from behind the Iron Curtain. Now Vaclav Havel is President of the Czech Republic!) So here are the trains. (1) a four-track railway (or railroad as you say in the USA); (2) and (3) two passenger trains; (4) and (5) two freight trains; (6) the trains on the tracks, the passenger train speeding from right to left, the freight train heaving laboriously from left to right. 1 _____________________________________________________________ ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// _____________________________________________________________ /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_ _____________________________________________________________ ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// _____________________________________________________________ /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_ __ 2 _n_____/o ] ___________ ___________ ___________ ____ [__________]=3D[__|__|__|__]=3D[__|__|__|__]=3D[__|__|__|__] _____ ///// (-)-(-)-(-) (=B7)(=B7) (=B7)(=B7) (=B7)(=B7) (=B7)(=B7) (=B7)(=B7= ) (=B7)(=B7) ///// __ 3 _n_____/o ] _________ _________ _________ _____ [__________]<>[____|____]<>[____|____]<>[____|____] _____ _/_/_/__(=3D)=3D(=3D)=3D(=3D)__(=B7)_____(=B7)__(=B7)_____(=B7)__(=B7)__= ___(=B7)_/_/_/ _ 4 ____ ____ ____ [ ]_____ ____ [____]=8B[____]=8B[____]=8B[____]=8B[____]=8B[____]=8B[_______] __= __ ///// () () () () () () () () () () () () ()-()-() ///// ___ ______ | \____i_ _____ \____/~\____/~\____/~\____/~\____/~\____/~\________/_____ _/_/_/__o__o___o__o___o__o___o__o___o__o___o__o___OO-OO-OO_/_/_/ ___ 6 _n_____/o / __________ __________ __________ ____ /_________/<>/____/____/<>/____/____/<>/____/____/ _____ ///// (-)=3D(-)=3D(-) (=B7) (=B7) (=B7) (=B7) (=B7) (=B7= ) ////// _____________________________________________________________ ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ______________________________________________ __ __________ /////////////////////////////////////////////// / /______ //// ____ /____/=8B/____/=8B/____/=8B/____/=8B/____/=8B/____/=8B/________/ _= __ ///// () () () () () () () () () () () () ()-()-() //// Andrew Belsey Train Types 18 April 1996 [Based on original typewriter version 1971, published in Typewriter Art, ed. Alan Riddell (London, 1975)] The trains look better in some monospaced fonts than others. They were=20 written in Courier, but TTY is all right. I expect someone can do=20 better trains, and I look forward to seeing them. I have a problem: I=20 normally do the lower rail of the railtrack with the underline function,=20 but in ASCII this disappears. That's why most of the tracks above look=20 one-sided! It is possible to replace the underline function partially=20 with the shift-hyphen (see 3 and 5) but does anyone know a better way=20 round this problem? Andrew Belsey