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    Three Book Minimum?

    In my opinion, if you've got a very detailed and expansive world, then coming up with multiple stories should not cause a problem. If you only have a limited world, then you do have a problem. My particular situation is I have a expansive world, but most of my stories are short-story length and...
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    Lady: An Autobiography-Part 4

    However, I later became involved in a affair that occurred at the engine terminal in Cincinnati. Steam locomotives from several railroads had complained of mistreatment by a man at the terminal, and I had heard the N&W management was making a investigation into the matter, on account of the...
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    Free Steam Engine Community

    The warrior class are made up of mostly large freight locomotives, though the passenger type occasionally join as well. Charged with the defense of the colony, they are made up in several units, all using a certain color feather as their symbol. So, you have the Red Feather Unit, the Blue...
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    Free Steam Engine Community

    The locomotives also have their own hospital, where sick and injured locomotives are cared for. They are also able to do surgery as well as rebuild badly injured locomotives. Also, there is something called the Tender Exchange, which rebuilds tenders and provides spare tenders for any engine who...
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    Lady: An Autobiography-Part 3

    Later, I was informed 1228 had made a recommendation for me. It was the friendship of the Y6b 2184, who 1228 called "Abigail Two Feathers." This intrigued me, as I thought only J's had names. But the locomotive who gave me this recommendation (an M2) told me that the Y6's had Indian interests...
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    Free Steam Engine Community

    Next I will tell you about the shelters these locomotives inhabit. They resemble the wigwams once used by Native Americans, though on a much larger scale. I'll let my character, Lady, tell you how these shelters are built: "The basis on wild engine shelters is angles. Since logs (the usual...
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    Free Steam Engine Community

    The locomotive community had only recently (in my stories) begun using tracks, as earlier it reminded them of being enslaved to humans, and the loss they had experienced (having been shoved aside in favor of diesel engines.) They ran for many years on the ground, finding that they could run...
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    Lady: An Autobiography-Part 2

    The next day, I was brought something to eat and was tended to in the roundhouse, then was brought out onto the turntable, where I would shortly be shown around. A yard locomotive (a Y3) was assigned to show me around, and I obediently followed him as he showed me about the Shaffers Crossing...
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    wildjlady's Portfolio

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    Lady: An Autobiography-Part 1

    One can learn much about the world in a few minutes. That is how it was for me, on my first day of life, May 29, 1950. Early that day, I found myself (as I have no knowledge of my existence previously) being tended to in the Roanoke Shops, my being scheduled to go out into life on that day. I...
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    Free Steam Engine Community

    My community tends to split its work either by volunteer status or by size of locomotive. Like real railroads, who classified their engines for either passenger or freight work, or for yard switching(shunting). The passenger classes, usually female in my community, are usually charged with...
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    Free Steam Engine Community

    The first item of interest is where these locomotives lived. They chose an area where there was a large coal and water supply, having chosen the southwest corner of Virginia which is not only part of the coalfields, but has an ample water supply through natural springs. However, these...
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    Free Steam Engine Community

    My fantasy world is a place where steam locomotives live on their own, having adapted themselves to live independently of humans. To create their world (which I plan to cover in a series of posts) I needed to focus on several things. First, the nature of the steam locomotive, which originally...
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    Wildjlady's Introduction

    I will be describing my world in greater detail in other threads. But I will note that writing a fantasy story involving locomotives from a real railroad is rare. I think I wanted to do this in part to give these locomotives the freedom I felt they should have, to run and do as they please...
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    Wildjlady's Introduction

    Wildjlady, as most of the characters in my stories, are based on real locomotives, all from one railroad. The remainder are offspring and animal companions. Lady was originally a normal locomotive but she felt that life in the wild would be much better than being in a museum, so she left and...
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