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1995express — Flawed design?
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Published: 2020-06-25 21:38:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 5162; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 0
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Percy: You know Thomas, now that I look at you more carefully, you're starting to look flawed.Thomas: "Flawed"? What do you mean? I got my tanks enlarged and my coal capacity increased. Are you just trying to one up me?
Percy: Oh no, I'm just noticing that you have a surprising lack of rivets, and you're missing your step ladders, your grab irons aren't attached, and oh, look at that coupling system, hardly accurate for a real engine. Compared to a realistically detailed engine like myself, you look rather toy-like.
Thomas: I'm realistically proportioned! Give me some credit!
Percy: No, give 1995express some credit. He drew us after all. Although, I don't think full credit is warranted in your case.
Thomas: Well, its not my fault that I'm lacking detail, it's those diagrams that he referenced. They don't include such features on their front profiles!
Percy: Neither did my diagrams, and yet he managed to put in a brake pipe, some piping, and my lamp irons, and all by photographic reference.
Thomas: Well, photographs aren't always so reliable.
Percy: Not if you have a good eye like 1995express does, but then you don't anyways so I'll let this one pass.
Thomas: You are here only to tease me, aren't you?
Percy: Now look!
Thomas: Of course you are! Even since you got hired out to work at the harbor development, it's always been cheeky Percy at Knapford, cocky Percy at Ffarquhar, always making such a big fuss out of everything I do and dallying at your own work as if you were on a Sunday morning excursion.
Percy: I don't dally with my work! You just don't understand all the responsibilities I have being the goods engine of your branch line.
Thomas: I do and I'm capable of doing goods work on my branch line, thank you very much!
Percy: So why don't you?
Thomas: It's because of the harbor development and relocation of my junction! I can't do my goods work like I used to so the Fat Controller had to hire you out to do it for me.
Percy: I'm not just "hired help" you know, I'm the branch line's resident goods engine.
Thomas: Fancy hearing that from an engine that was built for the purpose of hiring out. If you ask me, you've pretty much overstayed your welcome. What's it been? Nearly as long as the existence of the Thin Clergyman's books about us.
Percy: It's only a decade short of that.
Thomas: Whatever, that's still far too long for an industrial engine to work at one spot! Have a proper goods engine run on my branch, like Jinty, or Rosie even.
Percy: 1995express doesn't have profiles for them yet. And even if he did, they couldn't help. Jinty's helping Edward on his branch, and Rosie's strictly the dock engine at Knapford Harbor.
Thomas: Then where did I hear that she was working at Vicarstown?
Percy: Probably that's what the television series depicts.
Thomas: Well, regardless, maybe you and Rosie should swap places. I'm quite sure each of you would be able to perform each other's respective work much better than your regular jobs.
Percy: You're not just saying that because you want to see Rosie more, are you? You ladies' man, you.
Thomas: I AM NOT!
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They're at it again. I'm beginning to wonder if this was such a good idea. This is what happens when you pair two cheeky tank engines together everyone, and let me tell you, it's not as desirable as some of you may wish.
My next deviation will be my 200th. What do you think I should do?
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