It was just one of those days, I wake up, I grab a shower and get dressed, sit down and watch the 5 AM news on WTOL 11, get in my truck, drive to work, pick up Bob Evans along the way, arrive at the freight yard, get my train, deliver cargo all day, drive back home, watch that day's CBS Evening News on DVR, get ready for bed, sleep, repeat. That's all I do except the weekends. But today would change my life forever…
I'm Dexter Conwell, I'm a 25-year-old male, your average Brony and vehicle enthusiast, and I'm about 6 Foot and weigh in at a good 150 lbs. I work as an engineer for Norfolk Southern railway, and I love the HiE fanfics on Fimfiction.com but this isn't an HiE, most MLP fans who read fanfics as well know about Pony on Earth, I read those a lot, and to be frank, wish that could happen. Well enough chit-chat, let's get on with the story.
Alrighty, so I did the normal morning routine. It was a Friday so no work on the weekend and the next 2 weeks because of vacation. I arrived at the NS rail yard outside of Toledo about 50 min later, after parking the truck, I got my profile and went to go find my crew members for the day. I find my crew at a table having a cup of joe, my engineer for the day is Dameon Ganger, the conductor for the second locomotive is Eugene Senor, then Matthew Secor as the engineer. We were double-heading a fast freight train down to Findlay then haul a manifest to Lima, then end our day taking the tank train back home where that train will be picked up by a Canadian National and taken to Lansing MI. I introduced myself and we sorted out who is in what locomotive, we then walked out into the yard and found our freight train on track D10, then we were told to hurry up and gtfo because a fast freight was coming in on D10 in 15 minutes. After doing a speedy checking of the train, we split into our locomotives, Eugene and Matthew were in an EMD SD70ACE from the NS heritage fleet while me and Dameon were in a GE-40, we got the go ahead and we took off. 5 minutes into the journey, I started humming the MLP theme song and Dameon picked it up over the engine.
"My Little Pony?" Dameon asked.
I was scared for a sec. "Uh yeah…" I replied nervously
"Im a fan myself."
"Oh cool."
We then started talking about the show and our expectations for G5. We somehow got the other 2 roped in via CB a moment later.
2 hours later
We were in a town I had never heard of and we were getting hungry. We thought about waiting till we got to Lima but I barely ate anything so we needed to find food soon. Luckily for us, we found an ice cream parlor trackside so we applied the brakes and came to a stop, Dameon set the air brakes and we disembarked the train and went for ice cream. I returned to my cab a few minutes later to grab some trash I left there. Right after I opened the door to the cab I see 3 technicolor ponies lying on the cab floor and they appeared to be out cold. One good look at 'em and I realized who they were.
I yelled at the top of my lungs, "DAMEON! GET YOUR FUCKING ASS OVER HERE! NOW!!"
He comes charging over like a pissed off bull then stops dead when he sees the 3 ponies.
"Are those the Flower Ponies?!" He exclaimed.
Then I had a thought. 'If the flower ponies are in this cab, are there any in the other cab.'
I darted out of the cab, jumped the coupler, then ran to the other cab and opened its door and sure enough, the Spa Ponies were heaped beside the control panel. Not 2 minutes later I hear footsteps and in comes Eugene and Matthew. They see me then the ponies.
"What the fuck?!" Matthew exclaimed followed by Eugene who then pulled out his phone.
"Don't. This HAS to be kept secret. Got it?" I said in a dark tone which made him pee himself.
"What are we going to do about them?" Matthew asked.
"Make sure they are comfortable, me and Dameon have our own to deal with" I replied
"You got it"
I then went back to my cab and saw Dameon holding a crying tan and reddish pony that could be identified as Roseluck.
"I'm giving orders to our crew and this is what I come back to."
"What the fuck man." Dameon said while petting Rose.
The radio crackled to life. "NS-8770 and 3209 what's your status? Over."
I grabbed the radio from the control panel. "This is NS-8770, we are idling at M.P. 892 for a bite and a checkover. Over."
"Ok stay where you are. Bad storm down the line. Over"
"Copy that. Over and out"
I put the radio back then saw a very shocked Roseluck.
"H-how and what was that?" Rose uneasily asked.
"Dameon, go ahead and shut off the locomotive. We are gonna be here for a while."
Dameon cut the engine, went outside and notified the others to cut their engine and applied the first car's handbrake then came back to the cab and sat down in the driver seat.
"So. You already know you're in another world right?" I asked.
"Yes, this kind gentlecolt told me everything and comforted me as you probably saw." She said and blushed along with Dameon.
"Front row seat. From the cab door."
"What?"
"Come." I led her outside and she went wide eyed when she saw the locomotive and a maintenance truck working on a railroad crossing.
"Wow. I'm impressed!" Rose said.
"I'll show you more later if you want. Need t-" The cab door opened and Dameon poked his head out.
"Storm passed and green lights all the way to Lima." He said.
"Fire her up and knock off the handbrakes" I said.
Rose went into the cab and sat in my usual seat and looked out the window as Dameon alternated the brakes and throttle using the Dynamic setting and set the train in motion, I picked up Roseluck, sat down, and then set her on my lap. After 10 minutes, she fell asleep with her head on my chest and I blushed HARD. I got sleepy as well.
"Dameon?" I said.
"Yeah?"
"I'm gonna catch some Z's if you don't mind."
"Sure thing bro. Sleep well"
"Thanks"
I fell asleep instantly with my head on Roseluck's head.