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Oh I suppose this is absolutely horrible, but I feel compelled to ask-
can you make those trains more American?
Those look like European locomotives, the 1870s locomotives that would have been around at the same time as the seal creation looked like this-
These are actual Kansas Pacific pics from the 1870s.
Slpr, here is a real Hell on Wheels pic of the KP building-
They just started tearing up the old Burnham Yard a month ago, the Denver KP yard from the 1870s that had lasted all the way until now- the roundhouse above is at the approximate site of the current surviving one in KC.
Here is Hotfink’s hometown’s reason to exist- the junction where the rails first swung south to Texas.
Can’t help myself, it just looks wrong.
Oh, I have a HORRIBLY magnificent idea and request.
One of the things the KP did was instigate a slaughter of the buffalo, because they were a huge nuisance and cost to operations (and cut off the Plains Indian from their food source, but mostly it was all those buffalo messing up schedules.
Once the buffalo were out of the way, all those cheap longhorns from Texas could be driven up to the railheads in Kansas for shipping out, thus both helping to create the American taste for beef, and the enduring legend of the cowboy.
So, if you could, have that middle train have a shooting party on board gunning down the buffalo in the field.
That depiction would not go over well in Kansas, but it is a LOT more accurate and fits with the terror of trains motif and my Duchy’s philosophy of an unflinching look at history.
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Kansas, built on skulls of buffalo…
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality. In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others . . . . The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard . . . admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."
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@Jam said in I need an actual icon:
I personally like the Coat of Arms, but there is an incongruity evident.
The locomotives depicted are European designs. The upper one looks like a GWR 4200 class tank engine. Were it not for the prototypical GWR safety bonnet, it may well be a British Railways Standard 4 Prairie tank.
The lower locomotive is a 4-6-0 although it could be a 4-6-2 Gresley Pacific if the trailing bogie is obscured by steam. It appears to be pulling a British Pullman coach.
But otherwise, pretty good drawing!
Hahah, ya I spotted that right away, and had to ask to change it, just cause- took me awhile to find the right pics.
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@Whoofe said in I need an actual icon:
Kansas, built on skulls of buffalo…
VERY much so.
Almost to extinction.
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Buffalo meat is über.
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@Jam said in I need an actual icon:
I personally like the Coat of Arms, but there is an incongruity evident.
The locomotives depicted are European designs. The upper one looks like a GWR 4200 class tank engine. Were it not for the prototypical GWR safety bonnet, it may well be a British Railways Standard 4 Prairie tank.
The lower locomotive is a 4-6-0 although it could be a 4-6-2 Gresley Pacific if the trailing bogie is obscured by steam. It appears to be pulling a British Pullman coach.
But otherwise, pretty good drawing!
Aaah! Another railroad agent! They are everywhere!!! Lithu, what did you do??
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@tigger said in I need an actual icon:
@Jam said in I need an actual icon:
I personally like the Coat of Arms, but there is an incongruity evident.
The locomotives depicted are European designs. The upper one looks like a GWR 4200 class tank engine. Were it not for the prototypical GWR safety bonnet, it may well be a British Railways Standard 4 Prairie tank.
The lower locomotive is a 4-6-0 although it could be a 4-6-2 Gresley Pacific if the trailing bogie is obscured by steam. It appears to be pulling a British Pullman coach.
But otherwise, pretty good drawing!
Aaah! Another railroad agent! They are everywhere!!! Lithu, what did you do??
Hmmm I suspect Lithu’s secret title is Agente de Ferrocarriles de Cuba Communista
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@Pakoon said in I need an actual icon:
@tigger said in I need an actual icon:
@Jam said in I need an actual icon:
I personally like the Coat of Arms, but there is an incongruity evident.
The locomotives depicted are European designs. The upper one looks like a GWR 4200 class tank engine. Were it not for the prototypical GWR safety bonnet, it may well be a British Railways Standard 4 Prairie tank.
The lower locomotive is a 4-6-0 although it could be a 4-6-2 Gresley Pacific if the trailing bogie is obscured by steam. It appears to be pulling a British Pullman coach.
But otherwise, pretty good drawing!
Aaah! Another railroad agent! They are everywhere!!! Lithu, what did you do??
Hmmm I suspect Lithu’s secret title is Agente de Ferrocarriles de Cuba Communista
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Not Lithuuuu!!!
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Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?
https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg
Never go full Lithu-
TwainNo editing is gonna save you now-
Wingmannhttp://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/72217/DSC_2528.JPG
http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/20416/PTOB 101_resize.jpg
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@Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:
Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?
It’s on my to-do list!
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@tigger said in I need an actual icon:
@Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:
Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?
It’s on my to-do list!
dont do it, let them suffer with having to look at superior commie trains!!!
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@dinobot said in I need an actual icon:
@tigger said in I need an actual icon:
@Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:
Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?
It’s on my to-do list!
dont do it, let them suffer with having to look at superior commie trains!!!
dino needs an icon
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality. In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others . . . . The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard . . . admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."
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@Whoofe said in I need an actual icon:
@dinobot said in I need an actual icon:
@tigger said in I need an actual icon:
@Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:
Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?
It’s on my to-do list!
dont do it, let them suffer with having to look at superior commie trains!!!
dino needs an icon
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@Whoofe said in I need an actual icon:
@dinobot said in I need an actual icon:
@tigger said in I need an actual icon:
@Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:
Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?
It’s on my to-do list!
dont do it, let them suffer with having to look at superior commie trains!!!
dino needs an icon
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Is that caption, Lithu to the rescue!..Oh wait…
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@Gators1 said in I need an actual icon:
@Whoofe said in I need an actual icon:
@dinobot said in I need an actual icon:
@tigger said in I need an actual icon:
@Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:
Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?
It’s on my to-do list!
dont do it, let them suffer with having to look at superior commie trains!!!
dino needs an icon
Is that like a modern day viking funeral?
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@Stu said in I need an actual icon:
@Gators1 said in I need an actual icon:
@Whoofe said in I need an actual icon:
@dinobot said in I need an actual icon:
@tigger said in I need an actual icon:
@Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:
Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?
It’s on my to-do list!
dont do it, let them suffer with having to look at superior commie trains!!!
dino needs an icon
Is that like a modern day viking funeral?
No, it is just a normal daily routine.
