Sunny Starscout and her friends have been on many challenging adventures, and believe they can tackle anything the world throws at them.
All of this changes when they discover the remains of an old railway line that used to connect Equestria together. Getting it restored would assist with bringing the country together, but the challenges are immense. Geography, resources, and various other problems work against them. Have the Mane 5 truly met their match?
A complete rewrite of my first ever story, Railway Adventure, and written to mark five years since I started writing My Little Pony fanfiction. Takes place after the events of Chapter 3 of Make your Mark, but was planned and written before Chapter 4 began airing, and as a result does not take it into account.
awesome
great start mate keep it up cant wait for the next chapter
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Glad to see you onboard.
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Glad to see you're liking it so far.
At least she has some things left of her later father.
Ngl, I kinda thought that ban would be lifted after she and her friends saved Equestria by bringing back its magic. Though knowing she still did vandalism, I can understand it clearly.
a book I requested*
I see the reference now with that code.
Was that supposed to be a reference to the T&F season 3 ep "Percy, James & the fruitful day" or was it shoed in for the scene just now?
Lol, I'm guessing that's a reference to "Rollercoaster of Friendship?"
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1. Indeed she does.
2. Vandalism is a pretty big no-no on most public transit networks.
3. Corrected.
4. Yep. In the US date format, that's the day I joined Fimfiction.
5. It is indeed. The moment when Sunset expressed her disagreement about the importance of parakeets quickly became a meme.
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I still find that parakeet moment funny from the special 5 years later.
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Funny?
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Yes... Guess I forgot to add it while typing it.
Very nice work on here.
But then again, all stories you produce are outstanding works. No matter what setting.
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Hey, no worries.
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Putting this story up, my mind recalls what uploading Railway Adventure was like all those years ago. Was it any good? Would anybody read it?
The rest, as they say, is history. With five years of writing experience under my belt, I hope this exceeds that first story in terms of quality.
Really liked the touch of including opening credits.
Well, the dialogue, characterizations and future chapter set-up are well done. Definitely appreciated the discussion concerning "entertainment" and "advertising" as well as Sunny reflecting on some of the stuff from her father that she and her friends were able to recover, the build-up to the gang working on fixing the railroad and Izzy getting perplexed about the "flying stuffed parakeet".
REALLY looking forward to more of this.
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I have full confidence it will.
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It's something I started doing for my Thomas and Friends stories, then transferred to other stories.
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Thanks.
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Hello there! Welcome onboard for the ride! One of the issues of the original story was that the pacing was all over the place (it was my first real attempt at a fanfic in many years). This time around I'm determined to ensure it all flows more naturally, such as tying the history back to Sunny's dad (in the original it rather comes out of nowhere).
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A new chapter just steamed into the station.
Hey there. Again, this was some really good work on the exchanges, characterizations and future chapter set-up. The "sibling banter" between Zipp and Pipp was enjoyable, to be sure. Definitely appreciated how Sunny was so excited about restoring and restarting the railroad that, not only did Zipp and Pipp have a hard time understanding her at first, but she also forgot about dialing Hitch's number. And, yeah, Pipp has a point about how it would probably be better to get a start on the project at night.
At any rate, I am certainly going to be looking forward to more of this.
Mhm.
moi?
Ok?
Of course she'd say that.
Good.
awesome chapter mate keep it up cant wait for the next chapter
Good reference to The Transcontinental Railroad.
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I know from having lived in hot places that doing things early or late is usually a good idea. I've found the dynamic between Pipp and Zipp fun to write in the past, so decided to carry it over to here.
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1. Indeed.
2. French for me. It's quite common in middle or upper class English speaking circles for people to insert French words into conversation.
3. Unicorns have some weird traditions.
4. She's not wrong.
5. Yes.
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Glad you enjoyed.
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I figured the Americans in the audience would appreciate the reference.
For the next chapter, can you put Sagwa references even if you hadn't seen it?
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Eh?
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the Chinese Siamese Cat.
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Right.
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Sure. Which is ironic given that the Friendship Passenger service was loosely based on a standard 4-4-0 steamer.
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My favorite episode from that show is "Spreading Rumors".
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And ask Thomlight what his favorite Sagwa character is, okayc?
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That is true (although unlike the classic engines the Friendship Express loco appears to be a well tank).
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Yes, mother.
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Aye. As it they crossed a 4-4-0 steamer with a British Well Tank Engine. (Which kinda makes sense given that are European things in most parts of Canada)
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Very true. Still, the Guild had a lot of fun figuring out how it worked.
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Yeah, I bet.
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Or the Crystal Empire loco, which ended up being a cab forward chain drive steam turbine or something absurd like that.
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I still think an LNER Pacific A4 would've been a better choice.
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shouldn't thought that moi was french.
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You have taste.
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Oui.
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Thank you.
Besides, whenever I look at that engine, it literally screams: “A4 Pacific” in my POV. Moreover, given that the train only comes from The Crystal Empire, it would make sense that it’s an express train.
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What about C&O 490?
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I know this engine looks a bit strange, but it's a classic of the Loewy school of locomotive design.
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Yeah, that engine would work too.
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True. Saw that as well. One of only a handful of Loewy engines left.
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Wow!
And I can imagine.
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Seeing as the S1, T1s, and J3as are long gone.