Bon Bon and Lyra are celebrating their anniversary with a traveling holiday. Their train from Manehattan to Canterlot is running a service on Hearts and Hooves day and turns out to be one of the CNER's brand new experimental locomotives.

What began as a pleasant happy day takes a turn when a fault occurs and could spell disaster for the train and everypony on board if nothing is done in time.

Roddy, a young pegasus colt that dreams to be a Wonderbolt decides to race one of Equestria's new express trains.

(Equestria's rail network for this is based on British Railways before nationalisation where the railways consisted of the Big Four rail companies.)

(Please let me know if this requires more tags, I'm not sure what other tags are necessary)

Everypony has a hobby. Pinkie likes rock collecting, Fluttershy likes reading, and so on.

Applejack is no exception.

Story inspired by cover art made by dstears.

Written during NaNoWriMo 2022.

A thank you to Scriblits Talo for proofreading before publishing.

Now with a Russian translation by NovemberDragon.

Rated "Decent" by Ghost Mike.