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Hey you, you’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush same as us and that thief over there. 

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C&O 614 IS BACK ON THE "TO-DRIVE" LIST HOLY FUCK

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As a woman doing what was traditionally considered "men's work" (even during the World Wars you didn't see women at the throttle of steam locomotives much at all) I am going to keep doing my work because I know there is a large enough portion of this country that does not like that I am doing it at all and I am a spiteful little piece of shit

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women in STEM (shitty posture, tired all the time, eyebags, miserable)

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req'd by @ironboulderfan

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, START. YOUR. ENGINES.

text: the sheer velocity of my autism is unmatched

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UP YOURS PERLMAN WE'VE GOT ONE

FUCK YOU WE WIN

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Fireman and AC have been looking at my design notes and apparently according to them the way I doodle Conductor versus the way I doodle myself is very telling and I don't think I should elaborate on this

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It's starting to get colder, which means I get to wear a coat 24-7 and have no one question it. Colder weather makes it easier for me to push the dysmorphia aside since the giant winter uniform coat hides everything.

Today's a maintenance day so I'll be moving around a lot anyway. Won't get too cold. I know Fireman found hand warmers in the work shed anyway just in case.

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Representation matters

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Choose a deadly sin

I do not know why you are sending me this but if you put Alfred E. Perlman in front of me I could become the personification of wrath instantly

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WAS THE NEW YORK CENTRAL MERCURY'S STREAMLINING RED OR BLUE, DISCUSS

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WAIT A FUCKING SECOND IS THAT WHY HE CAN'T FUCKING LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M DOING MAINTENANCE WORK AND I'M ALL GREASY -

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You’re in her DMs.

I’m sweaty, my coveralls half off and tied at my waist, my tank top soaked, face covered in grease, deep in her mech’s guts, rebooting the OS, checking connections and circuitry, running diagnostics.

We’re not the same.

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One of Amtrak's lines introduced an official mascot and it looks like my boyfriend

Congrats, Conductor, you've been assigned a fursona by Amtrak

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Happy Mallard day! May you set a speed demon of a record as well someday

ANON I'M-

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IT'S MOTHERFUCKING MALLARD DAY

I BROUGHT CAKE TO WORK AND WE'RE GOING TO HONOR HER SPEED RECORD AND I'M GOING TO CRY A LOT

People may have noticed that Mallard is my blog header and that my locomotive, Nasty Majesty, is numbered 7338, aka 7/3/38. This is not a coincidence - Mallard is why I'm here and why I do what I do and why I'm motivated to go faster and faster and push the limits of what steam can do and achieve.

Nasty Majesty runs on torrefied biomass, aka biocoal. She's designed to be carbon neutral. I hope she and I can continue to carry Mallard's legacy into a cleaner, faster future together.

(Sketch I did from a photo someone took of me and Conductor in the cab.)