#yeah making him the shitty conservative establishment is accurate and relatively future-proof in the US specifically | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

catenary-chad · 1 month ago

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as much as the ham-fisted coach sexism is something I largely write out…. it’s one of the few canon divides that actually does kind of check out irl. The way passenger service became increasingly deprioritized due to economic conditions making it more and more of a burden in the postwar US rail system makes for some interesting dynamics. The politics of it are kind of complicated and I need to think about how to best simplify it

(Greaseball dumping Dinah…. and running off with Dustin or Slick or literally any of the freight to reflect UP and most other railroads of the time ditching passenger service as soon as they were allowed. Comes crawling back later either after being hired by Rainbow Era Amtrak or becoming a heritage unit)

#i will play fast and loose on exact timelines/periods as long as it’s 70s-80s era #greaseball is once again the character who is most true to life LOL #i’ll shift his mindset a bit but other than bragging about size when he’s a loco type that usually worked in groups vs one BIG one #yeah making him the shitty conservative establishment is accurate and relatively future-proof in the US specifically #E/f units are usually “one of the good ones” to boomer railfans who checked out of post-50s stuff #so he’s the perfect mix of being able to mock them and being a pragmatic enough model that it makes sense for him to be around up to the 90 #(To modernize him he’d have to be a homelu roadswitcher lmao and modern train politics are just kind of grindingly slow vs dramatic)

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