The Little Lost Engine

by The Blue EM2

Credits

Cast-in order of appearence
Nicole Oliver-Cheerilee
Michelle Creber-Apple Bloom
Britt Irvin-Lightning Dust
Devyn Dalton-Ocellus
Chantal Strand-Diamond Tiara
Graham Verchere-Pipsqueak
Michael Caine-The Top Station Stationmaster
Shannon Chan-Kent-Silver Spoon
Claire Corlett-Sweetie Belle
Ashleigh Ball-Applejack
Vincent Tong-Rumble
Maryke Hyndryksse-Gilda
Andrea Libman-Fluttershy
Madeleine Peters-Scootaloo
Brynna Drummond-Babs Seed
The Guard-Stephen Kynman
Eileen Montgomery-Elaina Mash
Button Mash-Blake Swift

Author's Note:

There's only one new engine, but here he is!

Button Mash

Comments

[Booster Spice]

Just needs one of the childrens windmills sticking out of the cab.

[The Blue EM2]

9242664
Very good observation there!

[Booster Spice]

Strange thing about teh difference between magic, fantasy and reality? You dont tend to get the really weird designs in reality inmagic etc, because theyre too strange?

I always wondered if its possible to get a useable amount of power out of RTG or even compact nuclear core, in the volume of a mainline steam engine. After all, pretty much all power stations are steam engines?

Sorry, Best I can find. Truck sized reactors, generators I think are extra, but thats what Tenders are for? https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/08/los-alamos-truck-transportable-nuclear-fission-reactor-design.html

Also, first reactor was a decade before the last standard mainline steam engine in the UK?

[The Blue EM2]

9242679
The P2 project did look into the idea of powering an engine using a LENR reactor, but abandoned the project on cost grounds. You are correct, the first nuclear power station in Britain was Sellafield, which went live in 1954, 6 years before Evening Star was built.

[Booster Spice]

9242693

Wow, and people complain about Ponyville being an incoherent mishmash of time periods. Obviously theyve never been to England.

[The Blue EM2]

9242884
Just look at our railways. Modern diesels rub buffers with DMUs from the 1970s. On the Woodhead route, steam engines from the 1920s ran alongside the most advanced electrics ever built.

[The Blue EM2]

9242669
And we will. When I am old and grey, I want to be able to go onto Youtube and watch Button videos (been playing Button's Mom more or less nonstop this evening).

[The Blue EM2]

9243550
I'll post the links to the videos here. They still exist on YouTube, just not on Jan's channel. Ironically, C&Ding Jan just increased brony awareness of Button's Adventures: