Promontory is going to lose his job. He hasn't done anything wrong - far from it. His only flaw is being mortal. The railroad executives want to replace him with a new locomotive. Trains don't need to eat. They also don't have families to take care of.
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Yay, new story !
Good story. I think it could be explored deeper, but it says just the necesary to drive the point home. Good work
This has a "john Henry" vibe to it....SHALL READ LATER
I enjoyed it. I agree with Promontory's outlook. As long as you're alive, you can improve.
I can't help but feel as if I've read this story before.
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I can almost guarantee that you have. It just didn't have ponies in it.
Nice idea.
I liked it, but the shortness as well as the fact that we only get a pedestrian-like view of the situation means that it was more on the 'meh' side for my taste. I still did upvote, though.
Still, it might be my inherent sort of academic background in chemistry and economics that poisons these things for me, since my natural intuitive impulse when I see media pundits talking about new technology destroys jobs and when I read stories like these here is for me blanch and call out "no, science is the future; you kill private scientific development, you kill the future". That was not the intent with this story at all, but I guess the well is poisoned for me since I'm tired of seeing real-life idiots say that technology is bad for U.S. jobs and we should simply "make do with less".
It's not an event-driven story—in fact, it's more of a scene or vignette than a story, which is just how I like it.
You nailed the feelings, you nailed the atmosphere, and you left the rest up to the reader to interpret for themselves. Good on ya for taking your audience seriously.
Saw the title, thought "MURDER BALL WITH PONIES?! OMFG!!!!" Read the description, decided to read it anyways.
Good job with this. I loved it. I feel that it could be written into a longer piece of fiction though. Only if you wantedto of course
Excellent work as always; different, but I dig it. Are you gonna do many others like this? Would dig that.
>Trains don't need to eat. They also don't have families to take care of.
Fucking liar, I feed my train and his children 3 times a day, 7 days a week! You must be crazy. Go feed your train, you fucking asswipe.
op is lie
1551490 I call bull. I'm in a railroad club, so don't try to out-locomotive me. I know what I'm talking about. I'm always willing to spread the word to the ignorant masses like you, though. If you want to learn how to be an expert on railroads like I am, I can train you.
That's right. We're getting puns in this bitch.
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Bitch, please. I have owned a train farm for the last 13 years of my life, and I spend hours, on a daily basis(as said above), carefully measuring my food for each of my trains. Clearly, you are just being a pretentious asshole who does not actually understand how trains work.
No, that is not right. We are not getting puns in this bitch.
1551517 Wait a minute? Farm? You do know you can just buy them from GE and EMD, right?
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No need to buy trains when they are reproducing on their own!
1551726 Pfft. Who don't need no train! I Got a TaRDiS!
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1552043 I really hope you didnt just edit that... cause it aint mine.
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Well, that was at the same time more and less sad than I thought it'd be (don't ask me how that works I don't know) It certainly could have gone on longer, but I like it the way it is
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I thought I was going to say something but I lost my train of thought. Oh, well, trains are as good a thing to argue about as anything else, as long as no one starts spewing stuff for crazy reasons. We don't want no loco motives driving us off track. Nope.
Dafaddah
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Promontory Point was where the Transcontinential Railroad was finished.
I see what you did there, TNaB.
1555485 What can I say, other than:
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1555988 The feels...
Excellent story
Very good job good sir....would it be alright if I reviewed this story for job I'm applying for?
1558425 Sure, go ahead. And thanks for telling me first.
1558439 You're very welcome! Thank you for letting me review it
1551526 or ALCO, or Baldwin, or Westinghouse, or Fairbanks-Morse, or Atlas, and many more...
1900863 you forgot rogers, brooks, grant, lima, climax, altoona, roanoke...
2246075 YOU forgot Whitcomb, Montreal Locomotive Works, Baldwin Lima Hamilton, Lima Hamilton, Davenport, Porter, Canadian Locomotive Company, Railpower Technologies, etc. ALCO's are the best! (From an ALCO-holic)
Historically, for someone like Promentory is gonna find himself in an ironic position: behind the controls of the Locomotive that's "replacing" him.
Train crews of this time climbed up through the ranks, from Track Crew(/horse crew when your this early) to Brake man, to Firemen, to Engineer. Hell, Promentory's knowledge of the Lines: the twists, the grades, where to speed up/slow down, would be an invaluable asset that any company of the era would be utterly foolish to give up.