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locomotive-idiot · 1 year
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do yall like trainz
i should post my trainz screenshots
this is my train blog after all
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dreamingofspring · 7 months
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Intentionally went for ginger Asugi but ended up with some decently mirrored dopplegangers across the board
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dualitysdownfall · 4 months
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trying to sketch out a plan for that empress feferi fantasy au fic i mentioned wanting to write but i just dont know enough about. gobermint
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thewertsearch · 1 year
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In truth, it would be all too easy to solve the land dweller problem once and for all. You'd just need to lighten up on the feeding schedule for a while. [...]
But nah. It would make her upset.
I didn’t consider that. 
Eridan has been served up a doomsday device on a silver platter. All he has to do is work a little less, and Gl’bgolyb would delete every lowblood on the planet for him. 
This is so funny. All that bluster about lowblood genocide, and this whole time his hand has been just offscreen, hammering the ‘prevent lowblood genocide’ button. 
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The WITCH OF LIFE takes her place in the LAND OF DEW AND GLASS.
Finally, we have another data point for the ‘Witch’ class!
Life is one of my main potential Aspects. Feferi has just emerged into a lush, green field, so that’s one point towards ‘nature symbolism’. Not sure how dew or glass relates to Life, though. 
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CA: fef are you in CC: Yea)(... CA: that took forevver [...] CC: Yes, it was a pretty close call, and got kind of complicated. CC: But Sollux finally came t)(roug)(, and now I believe t)(e full c)(ain is complete!
Isn’t Sollux supposed to enter last? Maybe I’m misunderstanding what Feferi means by ‘the full chain is complete’.
Sollux might be the last to enter, but maybe he wasn’t the last to connect to his server player. Perhaps Karkat connected to him out of order, before he connected to Feferi - which would, in a way, mean that the client-server chain was ‘completed’ before he entered. 
CA: hes a fuckin drama machine it is fuckin pathetic CC: YOUR STUPID FIS)(Y FAC-E IS T)(-E DRAMA MAC)(IN-E T)(AT DO-ES NOT)(ING BUT W)(IN-E AND GLUB.
Oh, here we fucking go.
CA: and i just spent all this time here wworryin and thinkin about stuff CA: and i decided i havve something i wwant to tell you CA: that ivve been meaning to get off my nub for a wwhile noww CC: O)(, really? CC: T)(at's good! Actually, I )(ave somet)(ing I )(ave been meaning to say to you too.
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serominee · 2 years
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fef doodle before class :)
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starsnores · 9 months
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what class / race do you think dnd karkat would be?
oh uhm. idk that's hard for me actually lmao. like. gamzee is easy bc he's goat-demon clown guy who can fly into a rage so you could do a couple things with that. and like if you look at fef she could be a merfolk or one of the other water or fish person races and i'd make her a warlock (either pact of the fathomless or great old one) to mirror the relationship she has with her lusus.
karkat is cancer but the crab thing isn't super big? he's jesus 2 and alien with human-blood guy so i don't know if i could pick a fancy race for him. part of me just wants to say human? though since he's an outcast bc of his blood you could maybe pick something more interesting. maybe aasimar? and i think he'd just be a fighter, specifically the banneret subclass bc i think that would fit well with the "knight of blood" thing.
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cuppajj · 2 years
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Morphia funfacts? 👀
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Sure!
Morphia’s name derives from both Morphine, a pain relief opiate, and Morpheus, god of dreams. Since his mnemosurgery practice involves ridding the patient of pain and putting them in a dreamlike state, they fit well! Also the prefix “morph” itself means change, which he does in more ways than one. ;)
Morphia's full name is Morphia of Tetrahex. He is approximately 4.3 million years old.
As you can see, he's an orchid mantis beastformer! His original black and red color scheme is based off of the nymphs. He had his original color scheme throughout his academic years, and changed into his current color scheme once he went professional.
Morphia studied at the Tetrahex Institute of Developmental Science, which specialized in both health and psychology. He was known to be a soft spoken daydreamer, but excitable when his passions were brought up. He studied mnemosurgery and psychological science, graduating top of his class.
Though brief, he studied under Sunder, and took his ideology of life and death to spark. (Interestingly when he became a mnemosurgeon, he would feed off emotions not unlike how sunder would feed off guilt.)
During his studies, he met the love of his life, a minibot performing artist by the name of Lightflight--the former alias of Blitzlove. The two were inseparable, and even initiated the conjunx ritus; but they would never complete it. To this day, each of them have the other's innermost energon. (Blitz's lore is its own beast that I'm still working on)
Morphia's dream was to revolutionize mnemosurgery, making it not only safer for all involved, but favorable as a form of therapy. Unfortunately, he would never be able to see the day.
His voice claim is FEF Azama!
Edit: Here are some more that aren't lore related!
No one but him knows he's a sparkeater, and good luck pinning the deaths on him. He's very good at remaining inconspicuous.
Truthfully, Morphia doesn't want to kill anyone, but he's let his new predatory urges overtake him. He knows there's no escape, so why should he fight it? He might as well embrace it, if this is his new reality.
If he calls you sweetspark, it's a bad sign. It means he's interested in you for more than just your personality.
He has a sweet tooth, and it's not for just sparks! He eats energon candies constantly, and you'll see a bowl of them by the front desk of his private practice.
He puts incense and calming holoprojections in the rooms where he does his procedures, as they help soothe the senses of the patient before they enter their subconscious state.
for the funsies i like to think he and trepan were petty rivals
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zponds · 8 months
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A week ago, I released a post showing my OCs from the Baltimore and Ohio. Now it’s finally time to reveal my OCs from the only surviving ancient railroad in America; the…
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And these engines are all in Union Pacific’s heritage fleet and can be found on Union Pacific’s massive network (as shown below). ⬇️
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And these engines are…
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Forty-Niner, the streamlined 4-6-2 class P-13 #2906
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Duke, the streamlined 4-8-2 class MT-1 #7002
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Union, the 4-8-4 class FEF-3 #844
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Peabody, the 4-12-2 9000 class #9032
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Challenger, the 4-6-6-4 challenger #3985
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Wasatch, the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy #4014
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Mabel, the 2-10-2 class TTT-6 #5511
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Pip (EMD E9 #949) and Emma (EMD E9 #951)
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Emily, the EMD E8 #928
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Sir Handel, the EMC E2a and first COSF engine
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Peter Sam, the EMD E6 and second COSF engine
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Jennings, the EMC E2a and first SOLA engine
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Daisy, the EMD E6 and second SOLA engine
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Marius, the 1st M-10005 and first COD engine
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Dot, the 2nd M-10005 and second COD engine
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Centennial, the EMD DDA40x “Centennial” #6936
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Bunker C. Charles, the (3rd gen) GTEL #28
P.S.: as a little side note, “COSF” stands for City of San Francisco, “COLA” stands for City of Los Angeles and “COD” stands for City of Denver.
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hungeringheart · 10 months
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Inaugural Classpect Analysis Post: Witch of Life
Doing my own most recent one, Witch of Life, first, and then I'll probably work through more as they're requested or occur to me.
So, all right, let's get into it!
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There beneath the willow tree
I learned a lot about the way of things
I learned that everything (the wind, the leaves)
Has breath inside
~ There Beneath (The Oh Hellos)
Witch of Life is a difficult one because it's one of the canon matchups - my patron troll is actually Vriska, but I'm classpect and ezodiacmates with Feferi, whatever that might or might not mean for me (it means I have an evil fuchsia blorbo, for one).
For the gentle reader it means that Feferi is a canonical example whom we now have to analyze as realized or not, and we will get to that (which is also my opinion about her realization or not). But first we have to find out what a witch is, and what Life means in Homestuck.
So our canon witches are Feferi, Jade and Damara. The wiki tells us all kinds of things about witches, but it's actually all fanon, so we should be careful about how we handle things. It is true that witches are an active (-) class, but here's the rationale behind the fanon definition.
So, the best the fandom has been able to glean from Jade warping space, Feferi healing others and mimicking their abilities, and Damara ... um ... well, Damara, is that all three of them had the basic ability and inclination to fuck around with their aspect. Damara spent her Time Fucking Around until she was required to Fuck Around with Time; Feferi fucked around with the course of life (her animals) and with her own and other lives (her position on the hemospectrum) and with biology itself (every shown manifestation of her Lifey Thing); Jade lived out her life just sort of fucking around with and in space in general (where she lived, what she did in-session, why her dream self was always awake).
Thus, we can assume that the fanon definition of a witch as "one who manipulates or changes their aspect, and their world through it" is fairly spot-on. We may also define it more idiosyncratically as "one who has and uses the power to fuck around". Do they have to find out? Well, maybe not all the time -- certainly not as Doom or Void players...
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But let's continue on to considering Life, which is more complicated.
Clearly and obviously we know what Life usually symbolizes in video games, and we have our own preconceptions about it as an elemental force. But what does it mean in Homestuck, to SBURB's internal symbology? What sort of hero exactly is the lifekind (perchance)?
Sea Hitler, that's what kind. No, really, the only Life heroes we have are Her Imperious Condescension Meenah "Betty Crocker" Peixes, and her children (Feferi [biologically] and Jane [socially]). Sweet Baby Ray, what a lineup. I'd normally not even mention it on a blog like this, but in this specific context is it anything that I'm Jewish?
Fuckin eh. All right. Let's examine what it is that Fef, Meenah and Jane have in common as characters and in their arcs.
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Meenah, Jane and Fef are all "heiresses" of some sort.
Meenah and Feferi are young members of a rare troll biocaste destined to rule their world (if one of them can kill the other for it). It seems like they have a lot of agency in their world, but they don't really - at every step of their existence, the powers that be make decisions that affect them in deep and fundamental ways. Their only objective in life is really to survive it, for all however many billion years they're given.
It's my personal headcanon that mother grubs have some level of control over the brood. It's stated in canon that the "ancestor" relationship is rooted in some kind of an appreciation of a person's most similar predecessor. The genetic relationships between ancestors and descendants are probably not always literal (a person can be the centuries-delayed biological offspring of their ancestor, a biological sibling created from the same genetic material, or in fact the offspring or clone of a direct ancestor of their social ancestor, or something else).
I think if they can hold gametes for potentially centuries, they can also probably sort the material and consciously select the blood caste of their young. This means that mother grubs have the ability to choose when a new fuchsia is born. Of course, it's not like there's a strongly enforced law against just killing the resulting grubs, and raspberry syrup has to come from somewhere -- and that too is an administrative choice, made either directly by jades or by jades at the behest of the reigning Empress.
The point here is that for an Alternian heiress her entire continued existence is a matter of public opinion and the whims of her predecessor and the machinery of state, going all the way down to her own mother (which some of the hivebent adjacent stuff seems to imply might be an elite jade who undergoes some sort of helmsmanlike second metamorphosis rather than just the naturally occurring royal jelly-induced gyne I expected, which would add a circular dimension to this that is ... oddly horrifying. in your own fanon you can do what i do and ignore it if you want).
Enmeshment in this multigenerational spidernest of trauma is a really miserable way to live -- you constantly have to struggle to prove that you're worthy, that you deserve to live, that you're good enough and strong enough to be deemed fit to exist. And considering who Meenah is as a result, it's no wonder that the Condesce (as Betty Crocker) passed the intergenerational trauma torch to Jane.
Since they all fulfill the same culture role (albeit adapted for the colonized Earth in one case) and are directly socially related (Feferi is Meenah's successor in one timeline, Jane in another) we can meaningfully talk about the impact of the same system on all of them -- and about how they reconciled themselves to it, and what they did to fight for their own survival and right to growth.
It's that fight that's essential to the Life aspect -- the struggle to live, to thrive, no matter what, against all imaginable odds. Vitality, vigour, the state of life, the persistence of life against scrutiny and pathologization. Rejuvenation, plenty, and the ability to exert your will in your own life. The constant striving-to-be of all that is, and the way of things, which is comprised by it.
For Meenah, a Thief of Life, her relationship to her aspect was opportunistic and desperate -- she took whatever she could for her own benefit, and was willing to take considerable risks to fuck around and find out. Fuck her predecessor, fuck the system and fuck the entire world -- all of it had done nothing of any worth for her (as a person, as a child), and she felt within rights to claw everything out of it in revenge. Ultimately her hatred of and refusal to be beholden to the Alternian system, selfish and maladjusted as she was, led her to abdicate, run away, and enmesh her friends in the game, sealing their fates and giving her accidental control over their stolen lives. In that control she was manipulative and callous, sowed hostility among her acquaintances in the probably traumatic belief that struggle would help them survive. That's how she made it this far, isn't it?
For Jane, her alternate-universe daughter-figure and a Maid, her relationship to her aspect was servile and self-essentializing. Adult Meenah's parenting philosophy (if you can call it that) was a mirror of her AU self's style of play, with the same obsession with winning and the same roots in a simple wish to be good enough to live, good enough at living, good enough at helping others live.
With that kind of mother figure, even at the distance that they had, and with her other parent being AU Dad, it's no wonder that Jane (a Maid of Life) turned out the way she did -- initially a pushover, reliant on others for agency, for healing and to flourish. How else was she supposed to survive and preserve that thing most sacred to a child, the sense that things are as they should be?
It may also be worth exploring that Jane was a member of a species where all of one sex has the ability to reproduce, to create life and to know that they did so -- and Meenah was not, and their relationship was at least partly contextualized by that. But we can talk about that in a different post; what about Feferi?
Now that we've established an archetypal relationship between two people defined by the struggle that typifies Life players, and begun to shed light on a relation of Life to cycles (of cellular repair, of bad choices, of maturing, of abuse -- "that's just life, you know"?), we can talk about what it means that one part of this cycle tried to break it.
Feferi went out of her way to be as sweet as possible and to save the most possible lives -- bending the rules of struggle was the way she chose to respond to the pressure and the social dynamic that damaged Meenah and severely affected Jane.
She had absolutely no clue what she was doing at any point, but I think that's what typifies the idea of the Witch of Life to me: somebody who tries to understand, tries to exist in the system into which they were introduced, but ultimately decides that the best thing they can do to win is not to play by the rules at all.
Early fandom tended to take the trolls' side regarding how adaptive was Feferi's relentless optimism and at least attempt to refuse to be a bad person. In text and probably internally, Feferi deals with a lot of pressure to be a certain way, and questioning of her motivations for acting otherwise. From a hopepunk point of view, and from the point of view that she's a victim of the same institutions as everyone else who refused to let all this make her cruel, we can examine the possibility that Fef really was doing the best she could, sincerely, at all times. Her existence was defined by struggle, albeit struggle that was different in kind from the rest of her society's struggle, and she didn't want to pass more suffering on to others. She wanted to flourish outside the "rules" of flourishing, which in her society said that it was inherently impossible and maybe even immoral to ensure flourishing for anyone else.
Now, is she phenomenally weird about it, does she not apprehend her own sociopolitical context contra those of her friends, and does she fail spectacularly? Sure, but she's also thirteen. At thirteen anybody's idea of saving the whales is going to be a little odd and disrespectful of the whales' agency - how much more so if they're a future absolute monarch (or human sacrifice) in a society that's totalitarian and soulless, and can only envision its opposite in a historical stifling paternalism?
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I'm, apparently, a Witch of Life myself, and maybe that biases me a little bit, but I think that what all of this means about the classpect is that a Witch of Life is someone who aims to manipulate or change or at least reject the circumstances of struggle and flourishing, the "life" about which people say "that's life" for people.
I think it's actually quite a noble thing to strive for if you're an adult, who has finished coming of age -- but to replace a system, one needs to be able to envision and make something that works in its stead. Even works only provisionally -- but works. Feferi never fully realized her potential to do this for her society, although her SBURB powers developed well; it seems like a similar type of journey should take place for other Witches of Life as well, in which control over bodily integrity, cellular life and well-being evolves into control over circumstances and conditions for themselves and others. Life at the micro and macro scale, broadening perspective from cell to ecosystem.
The journey is not easy, and requires experience and the cultivation of a particular type of thinking about oneself and the world that takes a long time and lucky experiences to achieve -- no wonder that at least one person forced by a possibly sadistic space cancer game to rush through a Life-related development process became Sea Hitler.
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Overall, Witch of Life is a very strong classpect potentially, with the ability to manipulate, alter or reframe life itself (life-force, biological matter and the abstract concept of flourishing) -- but the work required to realize oneself in it is something that we all struggle with, well past Feferi's age. Maybe that's why it was given to the single longest-living person in the cast?
A fully realized Witch of Life would have a developed sense of what to and what not to screw with, I think; they would be someone with a very strong sense of the way of things, and a very strong sense of what parts of it are truly essential. They would be able to bend their Aspect to their will, but also aware of the impact their will has on their Aspect, in a human carnivore's resolution of the enrichment paradox.
Was it Ursula Le Guin who once wrote that the more agency someone has, the more power someone has, the less they actually choose to do? The more choices are made, the fewer choices remain, until despite the fact that the world is open to you, there remains one "correct" way to go. I think this is probably something that Life players learn sooner than others -- but not in the way that Doom or Rage players do, where the focus is on the nature of inevitability or the application of zeal to do what you can do. For Life players, this process is underscored by a need to understand that while their own struggle is essential, everything else wants to live too, and there is no evil in that -- a shift from personal to system-focused thinking. Cell to ecosystem.
For Witches of Life, despite their ability to change their world, I think the real end goal on their journey in-game is coming to a place and time when they've struggled enough, meddled enough, done enough for the situation at hand, personally -- a literal journey through the life course and the different stages of involvement in the generational struggle, in miniature.
Oh, yeah, and they can sprout improbable vines from the ground and resurrect the recent dead, that's cool too.
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apoorconductor · 9 months
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TTTT 2: UP FEF-3 #844 "Living Legend", as seen in her passenger gray livery from 1989!
Behind her are the Jim Adams 800-class flag tender and dome car #7015 "Challenger" that are seen on UP's modern excursion trains.
(please do NOT expect this much content from me each week lmao, this was an anomaly)
Also found on: https://twitter.com/ApoorConductor/status/1692166918097010733 https://www.instagram.com/p/CwDDQQOL6wx/
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healthcareexecutive · 10 months
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Friday Evening Fail!
Failing to realize you can achieve a higher level than where you are at now.
I used to have an inferiority complex or imposter syndrome in my career. When I started graduate school I felt I did not belong. I felt that the other students had more work experience, were more knowledgeable than I was, and were better poised for success. When I would attend networking events I would hold senior executives in awe. Admiring how polished and put-together they seemed and how well they spoke. I often questioned and doubted my ability to get to that level.
As I ended graduate school I graduated near the top of my class, I was more involved in professional organizations than others, and I was highly committed to actively engaging in various projects. As I progressed throughout my career, I realized that these senior level executives were people too. They had more experience, yes, but at the end of the day they were people with their own nuances, with their own strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. When I look at people in certain positions I wonder how I would act in their shoes. Would I have made the same decision? Would I process things in the same way? The truth is, you don't need to be someone else to succeed. You just need to be you. Work on your strengths, identify your weaknesses, and do the best you can. Chances are you will find success.
This week's FEF really comes down to self-doubt. While a small amount of self-doubt can be healthy as it can drive and push you to perform better, it's important that you can reach a higher level in your career if you wish to do so.
Best of luck in your career's everyone!
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collinthenychudson · 1 year
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Day 16: Union Pacific 844
Information from Wikipedia:
Union Pacific 844, also known as the "Living Legend", is a class "FEF-3" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad for its heritage fleet. Built in December 1944 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York, No. 844 is one of four surviving FEF Series locomotives and the only one in operation.
The locomotive operated in revenue service until 1959. It was stored while awaiting scrapping, along with the rest of the UP steam locomotive fleet. In 1960, railroad leaders recognized the benefits of having a steam program and retained No. 844 for special activities, the kernel of what has become the Union Pacific's heritage fleet. Today, it is one of UP's oldest serving locomotives and the only steam locomotive owned by a North American Class I railroad that has never been retired.
In 1944, Union Pacific and the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) collaborated on the FEF-3, a class of 10 locomotives designed to pull passenger trains at 90 mph. The FEF-3 could reach and regularly run at 120 mph; one locomotive reportedly pulled a 1,000-ton passenger train at 100 mph. All FEF classes were considered by the Union Pacific to be capable of producing between 4,000 and 5,000 drawbar horsepower.
The FEF-3 class represented the apex of dual-service steam locomotive development; funds and research were being concentrated into the development of diesel-electric locomotives. Originally designed to burn coal, they were converted to run on fuel oil in 1946. Like the earlier FEF-1 and FEF-2 classes, the FEF-3 locomotives were ultimately reassigned to freight service.
UP 844 was the last steam locomotive delivered to the Union Pacific Railroad, constructed as a member of the FEF-3 class of 4-8-4 "Northern" type locomotives. Upon its entry into service, the locomotive spent most of its career pulling a variety of passenger trains, such as the Overland Limited, Los Angeles Limited, Portland Rose and Challenger. From 1957 to 1959, UP 844 was reassigned to fast freight service in Nebraska when diesel-electric locomotives took over passenger service.
After commercial steam operations ended in 1959, the 844 and the rest of the FEF-3 class was placed into storage. Saved from scrapping in 1960, No. 844 was chosen for rebuilding and is now used on company and public excursion trains, along with hauling revenue freight trains during ferry moves.
Since 1960, No. 844 has run hundreds of thousands of miles as Union Pacific's publicity locomotive. The locomotive often pulled the annual Denver Post-sponsored Cheyenne Frontier Days train that ran round-trip from Cheyenne to Denver every July before it was discontinued in early 2019.
It appeared at Expo '74 in Spokane, Washington; the 1978 dedication of the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah; the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans; and the 50th anniversary celebration of Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in 1989, when it performed a side-by-side run with Southern Pacific 4449. On February 14, 1975, it pulled Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr from Denver, Colorado to Cheyenne, Wyoming with a pair of EMD SDP40Fs. In 1981, it traveled to the opening of the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, along with Union Pacific 3985, which had recently been restored to operational condition.
Over the weekend of October 14, 1990, No. 844 led a procession of special trains from Kansas City Union Station to Abilene, Kansas for World War II veterans to celebrate the 100th birthday of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The "Eisenhower Centennial Special" was composed of cars from the Union Pacific, Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway business fleets, with additional passenger cars provided by the Norfolk Southern and Chicago and North Western railroads. Also present in Abilene was General Eisenhower's command train, code-named "Bayonet", including the British A4 steam locomotive No. 60008 and communication and staff cars from WWII's European Theater of Operations.
After the end of the 1991 excursion season, 844 was put in the shop for a major running gear overhaul in addition to other repairs. During that time, 844 was repainted from the passenger greyhound scheme to the freight black. It emerged from the shop in 1996.
On June 21, 1997, on the way to the National Railway Historical Society (NRHS)'s annual convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, 844 and Union Pacific's Executive E units pulled 18 passenger cars on the Union Pacific's soon-to-close Tennessee Pass line, which included tracks on a narrow canyon shelf along the Arkansas River.
On June 24, 1999, while on display during RailFair '99, one of the 844's boiler tubes failed, and the locomotive was subsequently towed dead back to Cheyenne by the recently-overhauled No. 3985. The tube was found to have been made of the wrong material during the overhaul in 1996, a discovery that prompted the replacement of the firebox in a complete overhaul that lasted from September 2001 to 2004. On September 9, 2004, the UP steam crew successfully test-fired the 4-8-4. It returned to operating service on November 10, 2004.
On May 18–19, 2007, No. 844 teamed with Southern Pacific 4449 to pull the "Puget Sound Excursion", a round trip from Tacoma to Everett on BNSF Railway tracks.
On June 25 and 26, 2010, it made an excursion trip to Milliken, Colorado's centennial celebration.
In September 2012, the locomotive was used in "UP 150", a celebration of Union Pacific's 150th anniversary celebration, hosted by the California State Railroad Museum. During that time, it also stopped at Walsenburg, Colorado for a night photo session, parked next to ex-Lake Superior and Ishpeming 2-8-0 “consolidation” 18, which was operated by the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad at the time, before that line was shut down.
In June 2013, the locomotive's gyrating Mars Light, installed in 1946, was removed because its mounting bolts had deteriorated. It was also announced that year that the 844 and 3985 would eventually be joined by a third steam locomotive: Big Boy No. 4014.
After the 2013 season, the locomotive was taken out of service for boiler work required by a change in the water treatment. It spent 2014 in Cheyenne, then received an early 15-year inspection the following year.
On June 16 and 17, 2016, the 844 was test-fired. On July 12, 2016, the Union Pacific Steam Team took the locomotive on a "break-in run" as a sort of all-systems check and dress rehearsal for its return to service. The run was described as a complete success. On July 23, 2016, it pulled the annual Cheyenne Frontiers Day excursion.
On October 13, 2016, the Union Pacific Steam Team started its 18-day "Trek To Tennessee" journey: the restored 844's first major trip.
In April 2017, No. 844 made its first run on the Oregon Short Line Railroad to celebrate the 92nd anniversary of the Boise Union Pacific Depot. Because of heavy snows and a wet spring, the trip was cut short and the engine had to run light across the Malad River because of a washed-out bridge.
In December 2018, Union Pacific requested Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) waivers to exempt UP Nos. 844, 3985 and 4014 from federal Positive Train Control (PTC) requirements in February 2019, the FRA officials responded that such waivers were not needed.
On May 4, 2019, No. 844 participated in the inaugural run of the newly-restored Big Boy No. 4014. The train departed the historic Cheyenne Depot following a christening ceremony for No. 4014. The two locomotives arrived at the Ogden Union Station on May 9 for the city's Heritage Festival. The two locomotives were on display at the station until May 12, when the return trip to Cheyenne began. They arrived at Cheyenne on May 19, concluding the first run of No. 4014 in excursion service.
As of January 2020, Nos. 844 and 4014 are the only two operational UP steam locomotives left on the active roster, following the retirement of No. 3985 from excursion service due to its poor mechanical condition. No. 3985 was eventually donated to the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America on April 28, 2022. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, UP cancelled all of its 2020 steam excursions and stated that Nos. 844 and 4014 would not operate for the 2020 operating season. UP eventually resumed excursion operations with No. 4014 in August and September 2021. No future excursions have thus far been scheduled for No. 844.
From 1962 to 1989, the locomotive was numbered UP 8444 because the railroad had given the number 844 to an EMD GP30 locomotive. After the GP30 was retired from active service in June 1989, No. 8444 was renumbered back to 844. That GP30 is now owned by Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City, Nevada, and operates periodically at the Nevada Southern Railroad Museum on excursion runs. There is now an EMD SD70ACe on the UP roster numbered 8444.
On July 21, 2018, while pulling the Cheyenne Frontier Days Special to Denver, Colorado, No. 844 struck and killed a pedestrian in Henderson, Colorado. It was reported that the pedestrian was trying to take photos of the train while standing too close to the tracks before she was hit. The train was stopped immediately following the accident.
UP 844 was documented in the 1981 film "Eighty Four Forty Four" by the Union Pacific Railroad. Some of those clips would be later used for the opening and closing credits of the PBS show Shining Time Station, which ran from 1989 until 1995 (including the four hour-long Family Specials).
UP 844 also appears in Extreme Trains in the episode "Steam Train", in which it pulled the Frontier Days special from Denver to Cheyenne.
UP 844 also makes an appearance in the 2nd Episode of the 3rd Season on the TLC TV series, Mostly True Stories?: Urban Legends Revealed.
In the 1990 PBS special Ghost Trains of the Old West, UP 8444, as it was numbered at the time of filming, is seen pulling a Union Pacific diesel locomotive and passenger train through Wyoming.
UP 844 (and several other restored steam locomotives) appear in the music video with the Pat Metheny Group's "Last Train Home".
The 2014 short film "Locomotive Song" features UP 844—particularly its running gear—accompanied by the song of the same name by boogie-woogie pianist Honey Piazza.
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this does have a typing quirk for comfort reasons, i hope that’s ok.
dear sollux captor and feferi peixes, (homestuck, human tl)
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dear sollux captor and feferi peixes, (homestuck, human tl)
man, i miss you both a lot. if i knew how much i’d miss you once i figured out this stuff, i don’t think i would of lol. you both were my closest friends even if i was a bit of an asshole sometimes. i dunno how you dealt with me to be honest.
sol, we were both a pair of dorks that just wanted to talk to someone. we met in class, in maybe middle school? we managed to simultaneously piss each other off yet somehow became friends. weird how things work, huh. regardless, we both were there for each other, and i miss ya a lot. whether i was making jokes about you, or we were having a “moment”, i loved my time with you. when we meet again, i dunno if i’ll punch or hug you, so expect both lmao.
fef, god, fef. you were my childhood friend. cliche, i know. i liked you, both as a friend and as a crush. i know you didn’t like me the same way i did, but that’s ok, because i’m sure that you managed to get to be with the person you liked, and that by itself makes me happy. i remember helping to bake and just making stupid jokes together. i spent so much time with you and i miss you a lot too. i know that i made you mad a few times, and i hope you can forgive me.
that being said, i hope you’re all doing well now. i miss you both so god damn much.
- eridan ampora
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theoretical-tactician · 6 months
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Hey y'all. I uploaded one of my really stupid mods. Feel free to play with it if you want a laugh. Or to simply supply yourself with cursed content.
idk, if y'all like it, I might add it to the mods list in my pinned post.
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(( As opposed to Fef who does it because she's too big to really move. Not that Sol minds ))
//Haven't given overmuch thought to what Fef is like here beyond having some capacity to take on the results of her overenthusiasm with relative ease. She is the Witch, the controller Class. More easily able to adapt herself or change up the effects of having too much fun with her customized cute captor cream dispenser. Obviously I'm me I like bigness as a solution to things but it could just as easily be her doing some witchery to metabolize things away perfectly.
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