I Think I Have An New Favorite Gadgetbahn

Western Region Day at the ELR por David Barker

Fantasy setting with magic neatly organised into elemental spheres, except each magic-using culture disagrees with all the others about what the primordial elements are, what their associations and correspondences are, and even how many of them there are. Spells always interact with other spells from the same magic system as though its elemental theory is complete, consistent, and correct, but when spells from two different magic systems come into contact it all goes a bit sideways, often in ways that require flowcharts to explain. Like, you think Ground Type vs. Rock Type is bad? There are five separate, mutually exclusive spheres of magic all called "Fire". The Sylvan Confederacy's "Water" magic explodes on contact with the Empire of the Five Pillars' "Water" magic and nobody knows why.

I have no idea what the context of this is.

Which Jellycat are you?

Thanks for the tag @redwidow616! 🤍

No pressure tagging @brekker-by-brekkerr, @redvanillabee, @profwonderbearthementalista, @jennastarkhasaheart and @solarisone084!

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Holyhead Jubilee por Nigel Por Flickr: 20th may 2006 5690 Leander departs Holyhead to Crewe in fine style

Hop on buster

I like Trains

Here to report American trains are more like the Finns than the French.

Language is universal

What if a suburban tank engine was nuclear powered?

The class UT5 is a concept for what that might look like, with a heaping influence of slightly Americanized British motive power. Brownie points to anyone who can guess the three IRL locos I used as reference!

The size reference is Bob Hannigan, who drove 6110 on commuter service around the northern suburbs of Capital on the Imperial homeworld, out of the Wolton Green depot.

The 1953 Pennsylvania railroad crash is right there. Happened in dc too… 😬