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| Harlequin_Jester #797017 7 months ago |
I just assumed the train ran out of coal to stoke the furnace. |
| Anonymous #797022 7 months ago |
It could just be a completely different train altogether. |
| PonyPon #797026 7 months ago |
Low on fuel?=resort to muscle |
| Harlequin_Jester #797033 7 months ago |
^ Exactly. |
| Posey #797044 7 months ago |
Two different trains. Some modern trains are still retro, and Appleloosa is stuck in the 19th century. |
| Anonymous #797049 7 months ago |
No, it's because Hasbro wanted there to be an engine and Lauren Faust didn't, so they came to a compromise. Now that Lauren's gone they don't need to compromise. |
| Anonymous #797072 7 months ago |
Ridiculous. I always assumed the engine had run out of fuel, though, so the crew pulled it the rest of the way to Appleloosa. |
| Anonymous #797075 7 months ago |
I was just listening to Do the Evolution about 10 minutes ago. This image terrified me. |
| Dr_Action #797131 7 months ago |
that or the train has a mind of it's own
*Casey Junior's comin' down the track Comin' down the track With a smokey stack* |
| Anonymous #797147 7 months ago |
With as regimented an ecology as Equestria has, there may very well be strict limits on the amount of combustion engines that are licensed in the country. So you'd have special-occasion trains that run on fuel, and more frequent pony-power runs. |
| Anonymous #797175 7 months ago |
Or, if it's powered by unicorn magic, you still have the same calorie expenditure, just from unicorns packing the thing's fuel tanks (and now recovering back at the terminus).
I tend to imagine that the reason Twi couldn't harvest the entirety of Sweet Apple Acres in two twinkles is that she took half an hour to set up that awesome shot we see at the end of Applebuck Season. |
| devour #797246 7 months ago |
* Innovation. |
| Anonymous #797849 7 months ago |
Perhaps the Horse-powered Train is their long distance one. Appleloosa is at least a day's train ride away... meanwhile Cantrlot's OVERLOOKING Ponyville.
Out of Universe reason: Toys, and who cares. |
| Dionysus #798070 7 months ago |
There's actually a meta-explanation for that.
Lauren Faust mentioned that she tossed the idea of a train just in and everyone was really excited about it, but she didn't want the train to run on coal/steam because that would be too human-like, so she had the train pulled by ponys instead. In season 2 however Lauren "left" the team and the other producers could use a train like they wanted. |