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| Anonymous #780951 7 months ago |
Glad someone else noticed. |
| Anonymous #780965 7 months ago |
The fact that the engine is there is because of executive meddling anyway. But maybe they finally found a way to make engines work. |
| DiegoHavoc #780967 7 months ago |
They finally figured out what the engine is for. :P |
| SomeponyTheVectorer #780968 7 months ago |
I must know what that DBZ font is called! |
| DiegoHavoc #780969 7 months ago |
Damn, ninja'd |
| NightJack #780973 7 months ago |
They finally found some coal and put some hard working stallions out of work... wait what? |
| HeinousActsZX #780980 7 months ago |
Technology's a bootiful thing. |
| OmegaRKB #780987 7 months ago |
@SomeponyTheVectorer Saiyan Sans. |
| Anonymous #780989 7 months ago |
Obviously there was a fuel shortage |
| liquidXTC #780996 7 months ago |
How about they only let ponies pull if the weather isn't too bad? |
| RoadPony #781000 7 months ago |
In my headcannon, I have a different idea:
Equestrian Trains are steam powered, and need water to power the engines. When in arid areas, where water isn't as bountiful, a team of puller ponies pull the train to lessen the water usage of the engine. Think of it as an Economy mode. |
| Wheezie_Moonflower #781005 7 months ago |
right liquid, they could be teaming with the engine. You know that some cars require a bit of pushing to start, huh? |
| aceofscarabs #781006 7 months ago |
They fixed the engine! |
| picard #781007 7 months ago |
Equestria is kind of similar to North Korea... only with more friendship. |
| ElementofChaos #781075 7 months ago |
I saw the whole "stallions pulling the train in Over a Barrel" thing as a silly gag. After all, they're pulling the train...even though there's an engine! It's funny!
Looking at it form an in-universe perspective, I'm betting the "Over a Barrel" train was...broken or something? And they had no choice but to go the old-fashioned way. |
| Anonymous #781076 7 months ago |
Maybe equestrian steam engines are slower than horse drawn trains? |
| Anonymous #781095 7 months ago |
These are two completely different trains. The first one goes to some newly founded Backwater. The second train goes to the Capital. This one is probably magically powered, but who would spare spark batteries for a train to Appleloosa. |
| Vree #781247 7 months ago |
These ol' Appleoosa engines are damn unreliable. |
| Anonymous #781268 7 months ago |
Lets face it, except for changing a few things to make stuff sellable as toys, the show remains pretty safe from executive meddling, unlike in cartoons from the 60s-80s :D |
| Marrock #781838 7 months ago |
I'm not sure what you're all talking about, Trains in the show have always been self-propelled.
Having ponies tow a train? That's just silly, no one ever saw anything like that. |
| RedshirtZombie #782120 7 months ago |
Maybe they have better fuel supplies near Canterlot?
Maybe magic engines? |
| NightJack #782457 7 months ago |
@Marrock
Then you never payed attention in "Over a Barrel" or didn't see it. |
| Anonymous #782550 7 months ago |
I'm gonna put on my Watsonian hat, and go with "The train in Over a Barrel was out of order that day, so they pulled it by hoof instead of waiting for it to be repaired." |
| Dysons_Fear #783747 7 months ago |
Train still needs brakes that ponies tied to it by rope could not easily provide. |
| Anonymous #801072 7 months ago |
The Train in Over a Barrel is from before the time Luna Returned. She was the technological genius, and after she was gone, technology faded away, so much that, while the engine remained, no one remembered/knew how to make one work anymore. It existed as a symbol of the front of the train, but no longer as a way to power it.
Now that she's returned, Equestria is returning to a technological nation. First steam engines... next up... microwaves! At least that's how it is in my headcannon. Just look at the facts. She's socially awkward, and has few friends. A true reclusive nerd! |
| Anonymous #843514 6 months ago |
S2E11 Family Appreciation Day - What appears to be a self-propelled train (can't clearly see whether ponies are in-front of it or not) back in the days when Ponyville was founded.
What theory get? |
| Anonymous #945391 5 months ago |
I prefered the old design of train but Im glad they scrapped the horse pulled idea |
| Jackarunda #945397 5 months ago |
they were pulling the train cause it was borked.
Headcanon, bam. |