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reintroducing... Railway Misconductor

I made a big list of names for the project formerly called Train Puzzle dot exe (title pending) including various proposals from myself and some of the people who responded to my call soliciting names for the game. Thanks to all those on tumblr and various discord servers who contributed names. Then me and @msasterisk (and @wisdomsavingthrow too since you can't vote with a small even number of participants) ran through a double elimination tournament bracket, discussing each of the options.

The winning name is Railway Misconductor. (For the record, the runners-up were Shunt Everything!, Go Shunt Yourself, and Train Puzzle dot exe (title pending)).

For those just joining us, Railway Misconductor is a game under development by myself and @msasterisk, based on several model railroad switching layouts, including Inglenook Sidings and Timesaver, as well as various other inspirations and original puzzles. It takes place on Gymnome, an alien planet inhabited by amorphous agender bipeds, the Gymnomi Slimes, and more specifically, on the South Lymer Railroad (the SLYM). You operate SLYM No.11513, a modern Advanced Steam tank engine on various yard switching duties of increasing complexity.

There will be minimal story, but the characters--the orange Conductor, who relays the orders from dispatch or the yard manager to the player and has to go throw the switches, and the blue Engineer, who runs the locomotive itself--will have dialogue tying into the player's progression.

There is no release timeline.

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it's not only sodor drivers who are angels, guys (x)

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Despite knowing the reasons for why Henry was rebuilt into a 4-6-0, a small part of me wishes he remained a pacific and was rebuilt into a Princess Royal class instead.

*nod* I would read the fic.

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Can you rank the narrow gauge engines in order of attachment issues

Or is it a three-way tie

Lmaooooo!

I leave this one as an exercise for the MSR/SR lovers. I doubt I can do it justice.

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Okay so this is a semi spicy take but i think that duke and duncan would actually get along really well. Like outside of duncan's colourful language, duke would resepct duncan for his work ethic with goods, like yeah he would rag at duncan for his less than stellar passenger work but his freight handling would suit his grace, especially if you hc duncan as having his industrial background in an environment that needs pretty delicate skills i.e. the glass industry/pottery/explosives. Meanwhile duncan hears about the slow decline of the msr and is sincerely complimenting duke for how he handled such a bad situation amd it's so weird to the others that they have to confirm that yes, duncan just complimented someone

It would be an interesting and productive pairing! They are a study in contrasts but a good fic would avoid characterizing them as reductive. They're not one-note. Both guys have grown a lot.

It's not the exact same idea/same dynamic as you propose, but this ask puts me in mind of Engines in Sidings Ch. 7.

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Should we be worried at some point?

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This is a report in Railway Magazine December 1958.

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there was an A3 named "Call Boy"?

and none yall TOLD me???

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Railway Magazine October 1963

Metrovicks needing assistance and Black 5's being all "this shit again?" — name a more iconic duo

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whoa wait what

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what is this, a fucking APB?

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Me too, train. Me too.

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Should we be worried at some point?

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I had a thought occur to me the other day. The last Stirling Singles retired in 1916... I think it's easy enough to say Emily could've arrived on the island during WW1. The fun part is who she has to work with though. The Island Of Sodor book says the NWR borrowed primarily from two mainland railways.

The Furness, and the Midland.

The Whoops! All double headers! Railway. (Slight exaggeration)

I'm sure Emily "My creator will come to my shed and beat me with hammers if I ever accept help" Stirling would take this very well, (/sar) don't you think?

You're cooking 👀

I don't usually like early N.W.R. Emily but this angle is too fabulous to be left unexplored.

(I will only add the Furness was also double-heading culture 🔥 Emily would have been purely a fish out of water)

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Just your average Hymek diesel