She had family all over Equestria, and when they couldn't all meet in one place, she saw it as her duty, as the family from Ponyville, to go out and greet all the family elsewhere. She didn't go on these trips very often, and she insited on going alone every time.
I don't know many details about how she died. This is both a good thing and a bad thing in it's own way. I know far to many details of my friends..passings, for me to be comfortable with. I am glad that I didn't have to wach the life leave her eyes,
yet utterly distroyed that I couldn't stand by her until the end, like I should have been able to do. I should've gone down with her, with them all. Sometimes I don't know if I actually believe that anymore.
The train was headed for Manehatten, and as fate has been so crule to us, on that day, there were hold-ups in the station. There were trains backed up all the way down the line.
Her train didn't know.
They couldn't slow down quick enough, and slammed into the train in front of them.
No pony on that train survived.
She far away from her friends.
Applejack was the second to go.