#4-4-0

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Commission for Idran commemorating the 1930 edition of The Little Engine That Could entering the public domain.

you will not BELIEVE the name that these have.

they're literally just called "Americans". I'm not fucking with you.

Their first form was an 0-4-2T - with a short coupled wheelbase and and exceedingly long one overall. They displayed a marked reluctance to remain on the rails and were later modified...

Into 0-4-4Ts, with short-wheelbase rear bogies - this did little to aid matters and the class were still apt to sway alarmingly at speed - they were in this form used to work West Country expresses after the end of Broad Gauge and were the cause of a bad accident.

They were then rebuilt again - back to front! As 4-4-0 tender engines they at once became far more attractive as well as more stable - they continued in their work for many more years, reformed characters - they lasted into the 30s, with several receiving larger, tapered boilers and superheaters - while this was an obvious improvement on power it was however the end of their good looks:

Ever since my interest in steam locos and railways in general was rekindled back in 2012, I’ve come across a truck load full of spriters on DeviantArt. Needless to say most of them are a bunch of whiny crybabies who only upload recolour after recolour of the same base loco and then complain when someone dares to give them criticism.

Well, several of said people offered to make a sprite of my main OC Sandy and reversed back out of the idea once I showed them pictures of her class. They stuck with the long outdated and failed idea of a red Mogul hybrid as that apparently was “a lot easier to make”.

Tell ya’ll what, guys, they’re a bunch of lazy asses as this here proves very well how easy a 306 in fact is to make as a sprite, or side view digital art as I prefer to call it. At least the whining will stop now as I proved them wrong in every possible way with any of their statements that “it’s not possible/too hard”.

I’m still working on a face for each version as that will be pre-drawn with a pencil and then digitalized and fitted.

Misty Island Logging Company No.4 "Ethel"

Mr. Logan Miller --the owner-- saw a great deal, but when he returned from overseas with a 4-4-0, the mechanical engineer put his head in his hands. "How are we gonna run that," he said, and then he pointed to the 70 ft radius curve leading out of the dockyard, "on that?" "Very carefully, I expect," Mr. Miller said. Ethel's was too fast for her own good. She, Ferdinand, and Gladys have perhaps the same tractive effort, but Ferdinand and Gladys can output that tractive effort at 2 or 3 miles per hour slogging up a grade. Ethel can not run 2 or 3 miles per hour. She'll stall, or she'll go faster, but she won't run that slowly. and with a comfortable speed of 40 or 50 miles per hour on tracks where you'd be very lucky to go 20 mph, she is definitely struggling. "hoist her boiler up on some trucks and run her number one driver as a flywheel. We need another geared engine," Logan said. "No, please," begged Ethel, "I'll try harder!" "I wonder if we could just make your wheels smaller," said the mechanical engineer. "Or maybe we could use a booster truck on your pilot or tender. That rickety old yarding crane might have some cylinders we could use."

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