Just a reminder!
If you have to get your inspection done and you don’t know or trust the mechanic. Take as many pictures of your undercarriage and engine and really everything as possible.
Some mechanics will be honest with you, some aren’t and always get an itemized list of any work they say it needs.
Your filters take ~10 min to change and cost roughly $10.
My sister just got her inspection and they wanted to charge her $70 to change her filters.
They also told her she needed new tires….the day after they were changed.
This has been a random PSA. You may now continue your tomfoolery.
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Day 15-Recovered
Traintober 2023
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Day 15-maintenance/inspection
Recovered
AN:This story takes place after last years story-Promise
The works looked over the Lady of Sodor, thoroughly. For an engine hidden for nearly seventy years, she was in remarkable shape.
"My crew visited every so often," she explained, "they would clean me and oil any parts that needed it."
"Why didn't they ever tell anyone you were still around?" Samantha asked, "You were an icon of the Wellsworth and Suddery."
"It wasn't safe," Thomas spoke up quietly. He considered his crew, "For as long you've been alive, Sodor has been a safe haven for engines...but it wasn't always."
"What do you mean? Nicole asked, "Weren't you already saving engines during the war?"
"Against management orders." He paused, "It's probably hard to imagine, but during the Great War the North Western was completely controlled by ROD and admiralty. It was only after the war ended that Lord Harwick became director."
"Would he not have tried to save her?" Samantha asked.
Thomas frowned in consideration, "I would like to think he would have, but quite simply we didn't have the resources. It was only with Gordon's arrival in 23 that our situation stabilized and Sir Topham Hatt took over as Director shortly thereafter."
"Burnett never trusted Topham Hatt." Lady said, "Not after the tunnel incident."
Thomas winced, "I was being overhauled during that, and I still heard about it. Even after Henry was let out it took a long time for it to settle."
"What did happen with that?" Nicole asked. "He didn't actually brick up an engine in a tunnel, did he?"
Thomas snorted, "he did. It was a cover for giving Henry a rebuild, but no one knew that at the time."
Samantha blinked, "wait what? I always thought that was made up for the Reverend's books!"
"No, it was not," Thomas sighed, "the early twenties were a weird time for all of us."
Lady chuckled, "Indeed Caomhnóir."
Thomas blushed, "anyway," he said quickly, " He retired in 54."
"Which was right before the modernization plan," Samantha realized.
"Even if I had found her then I probably would have kept her hidden," Thomas admitted. "It was far too dangerous to reveal her. If only because it would make the other railway question where any other engines were hidden around the island."
"Burnett wanted to move me when he heard the line was being restored." Lady admitted, "It was only when Lily pointed out there was nowhere for me to go that he accepted that I would be rediscovered."
"Where you be working once you're restored?" Thomas asked curiously.
"Why Thomas," Lady asked with a mischievous smirk, "didn't they tell you? I'm to serve at the stone quarries up in the hills of your line."
Thomas's sudden expression of mixed elation and panic meant Lady of Sodor was suddenly Samantha's favorite engine.
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Was a busybody last time I was here and called in this "rotated street sign" to the Department of Public Works.
running errands today I noticed it hadn't been fixed. Turns out it's been that way as far back as street view records (2015). Further turns out it's not a street sign that somehow slipped out of alignment (which I should have guessed; it would have slipped the other way!) but is instead a
sign blank, for countering galloping. I bet I'll notice these everywhere now!
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