Thread 42303134

>oh no all of our magic is gone so we cant fly or teleport
.... but why are they walking instead of just using the fucking train? Are they retarded? Do their trains run on magic?

>>42303134 (OP)
>he doesn't know the train is powered magic
Embarrassing.

>>42303134 (OP)
Do you see any rails? Canterlot is a neo-luddite settlement.

>>42303152
????
What's this prove brap nigga

>>42303134 (OP)
Aren't the trains horse drawn?
>if our car's powered by feet, shouldn't we just keep running?"

>>42303157
Meant to post this one actually, oops. But as you can see, they don't run on magic.

>>42303139
>>42303182
S2E24. Equestrian trains can and do run on coal.

>>42303194
>they have coal mines
>which means someone has to slave away in dark, choking caves to find coal for fuel and heat

>>42303204
>imposing human methods onto pony society
Coal-exporting towns have an arrangement with the local mole population, who turn over the coal that they find when they're digging tunnels in return for protection from Diamond Dog mining operations.

>>42303225
You can construct a headcanon for the workers getting a fair deal for their services but that still means it has to be mined. Someone has to go down there in dark, lightless caves full of methane or other gases and work to get it.

>>42303204
They could possibly be use charcoal instead coal.

>>42303204
pony alchemists can just turn abundant, useless stuff like gemstones/gold into coal

>>42303134 (OP)
Prove Canterlot has a train station right now.

>>42303247
Here it is in S2E11.

>>42303253
There she is!

>>42303268
Colgate!

>>42303134 (OP)
They prioritize the mares and foals on the trains. It's just the soldiers and stallions travelling on foot.

What, you thought they could put the entire population of Canterlot in one train?

>>42303268
OKAY I WASN'T EXPECTING THAT

>>42303194
Gem farming.

In equestria, there's a good chance that ores, such as coal, are generated not by death and heat, but instead by the collection of ambient mana.

... which would still imply that the trains should function, because that would make the coal a semi-artifact, which would have still worked for awhile.

Potential real answer is: there's like one fucking train serving the whole contenent and it does NOT have enough space for every guard.

>>42303253
Mayor Mare spotted
Where is she going?

>>42303282
>Celestia and Luna are stallions

>>42303194
But why would they use steam locomotives if they aren’t some kind of railway museum or historic railway for tourists to ride on? Even if steam engines still had some practical use, why would they be using coal instead of natural gas or atomic energy so that the “fireponies” would not be as susceptible to lung damage?

>>42303352
Because the technologies that harness those things haven't been invented yet. The setting is pretty loose with technology, and we see a lot of anachronistic stuff in one-off scenes and visual gags, but broadly speaking, Equestria is around the technological level of the early 20th century.

>>42303344
They're sticking with the majority of their army for protection because they are the princesses.

>>42303366
Except they literally have a version of the Times Square Jumbotron.

>>42303400
Cool. I don't see how that implies that they have nuclear trains.

>>42303244
kek

>>42303134 (OP)
Fiction is only as smart as its smartest writer and writers of the current year are autistic.

>>42303440
But it means they are closer to us on a technological level than you think.

>>42303499
If they had a better alternative to the steam train, they wouldn't be using steam trains. We don't see any kind of train besides a steam train in the show, so therefore, we can infer that they haven't invented any better kind of train than the steam train. Gag outliers like Twilight's EEG machine don't uplift the entire technology level.

>>42303526
But it isn’t like coal has to power a steam train. They could use something like natural gas or solar power. Heck, if they have car horns in Manehattan instead of steam whistles, why not use petrol or diesel trains?

>>42303244
You can run them on diamonds if you set things up right.

>>42303602
They don't have those. I cannot make this point more explicit. There's nothing in canon to suggest that they've invented the parts, machinery or techniques that would allow them to use these things to create steam. They have lots of things we didn't have a hundred years ago, but a train that's better than the coal-fired steam train is not one of those things.

>>42303644
This guy is correct btw

>>42303134 (OP)
>Are they retarded?
Depends, are the trains run by this man?

>>42303286
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xYQJ_b-0qQ

>>42303204
There's a pony with a coal mining cutie mark, wonder how long that pony will live with all of that smoke?

>>42303487
This.

>>42303134 (OP)
i don't know since season 8 is so bad i only saw this finale like once

>>42303231
And you can construct headcanons about squalor when most of the caves depicted in the show were somewhat bright and filled with gemstones.

>>42303134 (OP)
They were keeping gasoline to power the trains but after giving up their magic Anon stole it all to huff the fumes

>>42303344
Hot.

>>42304687
Half life 2 but ponies when?!