#traintober2024

Day 3- The Film/Trust

You believe me... Don't you?

#traintober #traintober2024 #tttetraintober

Here's my personal Traintober list for 2024! I've given it to a few people who have asked but since a lot of people are asking, I've decided to release it so people can start to plan.

I had a few ideas I wanted to get out of my head, so this list is what resulted. Feel free to use it if you want or make your own.

I still can't get over how many people liked the uncoloured version of this!

So yeah, this is Traintober 2024. Or, rather, it's a Traintober, because I started making this list a few days ago and got beat to the punch by @tornadoyoungiron by about a day. Sorry about that!

Anyways this is the fun, scrappy, alternative Traintober. Feel free to be creative with the ideas contained within. I'm always interested to see what people come up with.

Also, to answer an ask I got a little while ago, no I'm not dead/on hiatus. I just work a lot, and real life often gets in the way. Also I have fallen victim to the endless pit of "fanfictions you never seem to finish." That being said, expect some output from me later in the year!

I believe the morning sun

She still can't quite believe that she's finally feeling steam in her tubes and warmth in her firebox again- the dreamlike light that the morning sun casts definitely doesn't help.

Always gonna shine again, and

But here she is, in resplendent new colours and new nameplates affixed to her sides and a new number painted on her cabsides - the newest addition to the North Western Railway! As she thunders down the rails, finally free from the din and darkness of the Steamworks, she only hopes she isn't late!

I believe a pot of gold, waits at every rainbow's end, oh.

Traintober Day 24 - Accepting

Day 6-Harmony 

Other Stories

Other Days

“Should old acquaintance be forgot

 and never be brought to mind?”

The Scottish twins sang happily as they shunted the Arlesburgh yard. One twin shunted empty ballast hoppers shunted from a pair of sidings to the hoppers even as the other pulled the full hoppers away to assemble into a train at the yard mouth.

“Are they always this…” Swindon trailed off, the Castle class searching for the right word.

“Vocal?” Duck suggested.

“Should old acquaintance be forgot

In the days of auld lang syne”

“Musical.” 

“For auld lang syne, my dear

For auld lang syne.”

Duck snorted, “When they're together and in a good mood. You should hear Thomas on his branchline.”

“We’ll drink a cup of kindness yet

For the sake of auld lang syne.”

Rex spoke up from the little railway’s sidings, “It's July.” He said, “We couldn't be farther from new years.”

“And surely you’ll buy your cup

And surely I’ll buy mine.”

“I think they just like the song,” Bert called amusedly from the top of the hoppers.

“We’ll drink a cup of kindness yet

For the sake of auld lang syne.”

“Or it's the only one they know.” Rec grumbled.

“We two who’ve paddled in the stream

From morning sun ‘till night.”

“They sing it so much  because it annoys him,” Duck whispered to Swindon.

“The seas between us roared and swelled

Since the days of auld lang syne.”

Swindon snorted, “of course.”

“For old acquaintance be forgot

And never brought to mind”

The castle stretched slowly, “at least they harmonize well.”

“Should old acquaintance be forgot

For the sake of auld lang syne?”

“Do they?” Rex snarked. The twins, hearing him, decided to serenade him more closely and pulled alongside the little railway’s sidings.

“For old acquaintance be forgot

And never brought to mind

Should old acquaintance be forgot

In the days of auld lang syne!”

“Oi! off with that will ya!” Rex shouted over them. Instead the twins increased their volume.

“For auld lang syne my dear

For auld lang syne

We’ll drink a cup of kindness yet

For the sake of auld lang syne.”

10/10

Have a Douggie with thistles, the national flower of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿!!(also dunmeshi thistle got me in a chokehold rn-)

Bonus RWS/Caledonian Douglas: