Harrison Switcher Alco. Built for the batch of switchers the MEECRR ordered after the First World War.
Drats the builders photo!
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Happy Valentine’s from some of the Mainelined crew!
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Adam: After suffering a boiler explosion he was given those corrective eye glasses to help him see again. That accident was also how he got his nickname “Atomic Atom”
Bomazeen! Noah and Brady’s mentor
Sorta just a background character to fill up the void
A engine built in Britain that was shipped to Canada to work in a mill. He was scrapped long ago
Some oldies and some newbies!
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This is Bell, another engine picked up during the buying spree in the late 50s into the 60s
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Charlie Brimstone
Portlin!!
Portlin in Boston getting ready to depart
More More Mainlined!
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Kirk Halftrack
Wyatt and Harrison
Derby! Poor fella is a little accident prone
Elmer! At one point he pulled the bar harbor express!
More power!
Trying to use different brushes
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Vern is a hard working older locomotive who’s main job is bringing coal to the mountains. He isn’t the most friendly guy around so say the least.
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Meet Eris! Read about her in this thread!
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Knox! Named after General Henry Knox. He try’s to live up to his name by putting others before himself and is always ready to help out with anything.
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Kirk Halftrack is a very patriotic usra mike built by alco at the same time as his sister Portlin, a pacific who pulls the bar harbor express. Kirk pulls his own train “the Morning Glory” it’s a fast freight that runs early in the morning from the junction up north all the way down to Boston.
Sawyerville, he exists purely to fill out the world. He’s got a big nose and probably works on the Knox branch.
Gleason also just exists to fill out the world. She shares the GP38 basis with Dominic (who will get MUCH more attention in Mainlined) but Gleason has the BAR colors just like Noah
Another drawing of Oswald! This one is a little more squished and cartoony
Two posts in one day? What a world!
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Goodbye Elliot! The year of 1960 brought new change such as the GCNPTR having its final freight run with steam. A few Maine Eastern Central engines gathered at the junction to say goodbye to Elliot.
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Oswald was the first locomotive to ever haul the Bar Harbor express. He used to be sort of a daredevil going speeds others never dared. After a narrowly escaping death he “turned in his cape” and retired from named trains. All until Portlin arrived and someone needed to show her how to pull the train…
Yes I know trains didn’t exist in colonial times. But as Ben retold the story of Paul Reverie the engines imagined it with themselves in the main roll. Noah taking the roll of Paul Reverie
Former express engine and colonial times?
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Sort of a ring leader to his many identical brothers he proves to be helpful in any situation.
Harry befriended Noah and Brady when they first arrived. Being able to sympathize with their situation with being under looked. All three became close friends.
Being very versatile Harry can be found all over the railroad. He’s got a train he’s earned the right to call his own. The train is a stopping freight picking up refrigerated box cars of fresh lobster on a coastal branchline far east.
Harrison Switcher! Read about him in the image texts
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Here’s one more Ajax I didn’t have room to have on the last post
Louie with a winter hat!
Roy with a winter hat!
When the railroad was having a power shortage conveniently during the transition era the Maine Eastern Central had a buying spree of engines that got decommissioned. Here is one of those many locomotives
More from the sketchbook!
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The poor New York central GP7 that had to go track down the jet powered car that lost control and went through the interchange onto the Maine Eastern Central Railroad
Wyatt is an older ten wheeler built around the turn of the century. Known for having a short temper and a lack of a filter isn’t really the easiest to get along with. But he does his job incredibly well and (even though it might not seem like it) is a great choice to show the younger power what to do.
Van Buren works in the upper county’s of Maine pulling heavy freights. He’s a gentle giant who’s usually quiet. He enjoys a joke so when Artemis and Noah pitted him against Kirk Halftrack to knock him down a peg Van Buren just found it fun! Fun Fact from living up north he’s bilingual being able to speak French and English
Notch is a SW7 sent by EMD along with Nick (GP9) and Dominic (GP38) as a batch of second generation diesels as another temptation (didn’t work obviously) to switch to diesel power. Notch is kind but isn’t very outgoing, he works hard with usually either being a helper on the Mountain Division or pulling trains on the Bucksport branch
Some older drawings for today, click on the images for descriptions.
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Ajax can be kind of cruel with either being rude and having no filter. Another bad habit is choosing violence “This charade is gonna end right now.” But in spite of all of that he’s still a hard worker and isn’t impossible to work with
Mitzi has great fashion sense, with her a giesl ejector, smoke deflectors and booster truck she is very up to date with and hip with modern steam technology
Ajax and Mitzi
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Lemon is a tall consolidation used for passenger service. She can be seen as cruel and mean to the others but she’s actually not that mean .. as long as you don’t interact with her at all.
Noah first arrived in the golden year of 1945, things looked bright in postwar America and the modern diesel was here to stay… it just sucks they were given the worst that emd had to offer
Snowy! Coming off of a peaceful branchline now closed he’s still coping with the busy mainline life. Somewhat of a “pampered pet” he can be a little overdramatic to a broadway level but is overall a sweet and caring character
Jean Pual! I talked about him in an earlier post
More of those trains!
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Roy smiles for the camera at Rockland station
Notch wasn’t too pleased when he learned he had to rescue Buddy Budd Car who couldn’t make his way through the snow. “Ya mean I have to drag that stupid thing through the snow??” Knowing the passengers really did need to get home Notch grouchily rescued him. Notch isn’t a bad sort but he (like everyone else) can get agitated when pushed to their limits. He did later apologize to poor Buddy Budd Car after he leaned it’s nice to take things slow for once.
Here’s Chuck! A U-boat he’s one of the later generations of diesel
Artemis yappin about something (who knows)
You guessed it, more drawings
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Marie at one of the dam sites
A un-named Mikado who usually pulls freight over to Quebec
Jean Pual! A nice guy but bit of a oddball… Has beliefs of the French concurring America
Another un-named character.. probably a far cousin of the switchers
At certain points the Maine Eastern Central has to interact with their Canadian buddy’s who work for the Grand Canadian National Trunk Railway at the interchanges
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