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Maria Nikolaevna developed a great degree of individuality, a personal trait that would later shock her parents and family. There is a memoir of a confrontation between Tsar Nicholas and his eldest daughter that showed how strong her character was. The Tsar was said to have had a very penetrating stare. Once his eye was fixed on the unfortunate subject, he or she would shake and back down from any sort fo confrontation, but not Maria: “She is like her father, and her stare brings to mind his formidable gaze. His daughter courageously withstood the stare. He (Nicholas) turned pale, his cheeks started trembling and there was more anger in his eyes; his daughter stared back in a similar manner. Everyone around them began to pale and tremble … (all) were scared to breathe because of the cannibalistic duel of stares, similar to the one described by Byron in his “Don Juan.” Nicholas got up, as he realized that it was a case of diamond cutting diamond.” This willfulness was also noted by Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna who confided in her diary that her elder sister was willful, hot tempered, but also had a weak spot for the needy and could not stand pretence and coercion: “She´s a hundred tumes more virtuous than me, more dynamic than all seven of us, she lacks only a sense of duty.”

They look neat but there’s a reason these beasts were retired. The Mercury Streamliners, as they was known, got off to a good start. They improved the quality of travel and attracted many tourists to the rail service, which in the 1930s was already growing less popular as a result of the flourishing air travel industry.

But it was not to last. In 1938, a Mercury Engine plowed into a cow named Bessie in upstate New York and, lacking a cow catcher, the collision tore off part of the sleek streamlined veneer that covered the engine underneath. This is what a Mercury Streamliner Engine looks like under its slick armor:

Clearly visible are the three toothy skulls with phallic lobed craniums and bladed jaws. The public was horrified.

To explain, the Mercury Engine was designed by Hans Richard Giger, father of future “Alien” creature designer Hans Rudolf Giger. Like his son, Hans Richard was known in the art world for his dark and disturbing designs. Having won the design contest for the Mercury Engine based on its exterior, the manufacturers were willing to ignore the unseen undercarriage’s necessary skeletal and demonic fashions.

Once seen however, the jig was up. The public demanded the engines be taken offline, and it didn’t happen a day too soon. It seems the Swiss architect had designed his trains with much the same mentality with which Ivo Shandor designed 55 Central Park West- As a doomsday device.

Had the Engines been online only ten days longer, they’d have seen The Day of The Awakening of the Unholy Star, a Neokhlystic holiday on which the world was mourned in preparation for the end of all time. As designed, Giger’s trains would’ve come to live, devouring and digesting their patrons in a blood sacrifice to the Satanic Lord of Carnage, Beelciftan. Had the sacrifice been accepted, the apocalypse would’ve swept from New York across the globe. So said the legend.

Here’s the thing- Legend or not if the Mercury trains had remained online a week after they were revealed as demonic devices, their owner, Bill Gruss von Krampus would’ve had the funds he intended to send to the Nazi Regime in Germany in 1938, which would’ve allowed them to start their nuclear program two years earlier. This would’ve given them the Bomb in 1943, two years before the United States completed its Manhattan Project.

So the demonic plot may well have come true in reality had the unsettling underskeletons of these beasts been revealed. There is now a monument to the Cow of Albany that died to reveal the truth.