Inspired by The Railway Series by the Rev W Awdry.
So, this is a new one. And I'm a bit anxious to post this if I'm really honest
I’ve decided to do something a bit tame and experimental. This is the first story of hopefully many to come, taking place in an alternate universe created by me and a few friends that focuses a bit more on the trains.
How is this an alternate universe? There’s a couple of reasons, mainly 3.
Reason 1. Ponies age extremely slowly, even slower for alicorns. This is to avoid the depressing “Alicorn Immortality” situation from the show.
Reason 2. Pear Butter & Bright Mac don’t pass away, although I respect the original motive in the series to relate to children who grow up without parental figures, I decided to keep them alive and well because there’s no reason to kill them off in this universe in the first place.
Reason 3 might be explained much further down the line. But for now, I’ll keep it a secret. For I’m not too sure that I’ll stick with reason 3.
This story/volume takes place in the early 1900's. Featuring Silver Puff working on the Appleoosan Railroad.
I hope you enjoy, and feel free to give some constructive criticism, I'm looking to improve.
This is very interesting- and very good.
I'd like to contribute some loco ideas to this, if you don't mind.
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Alright
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NP.
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My bad, responded in the middle of talking to 3 other people so my reply was really lacking. What ideas did you have btw?
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We see that most engines in this world are 4-4-0s. What if a company suddenly jumps to the front of the pack by introducing a six coupled design similar to the Churchward Mogul?
Is Mr. Conductor who I think he is?
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It's a decent goods engine, but at the moment, I'm only using Equestrian engines from the show, or from images artists make. I'm just getting comfortable with show accurate decisions for now, if I get far enough, I'll most likely set to work with finding ways to introduce real life engines one way or another. Like the GWR 14xx, LNER J36, J83, SR King Arthur, Q1, E2, Q6, Terrier, etc.
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Just a conductor I couldn't be bothered to properly name lol
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Fair enough. The show locos are pretty neat.
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Yeah. They're flawed, but cute to look at, trying to find ways to make them work well enough.
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Well, the lack of cab shots is a challenge.
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So he isn't Ringo, George, Alec, or Micheal?
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he's just an earth pony, his occupation being a railroad conductor
Apologies if this one feels rushed, I was hoping to get this out on time for Halloween