Dawnblazer Sucks - A Lighthearted Overly Niche Look at Locomotive Design in Dawntrail

[Enkidoh]

As a train enthusiast myself, it's more believable than those things Garlemald was using (those locomotives resembled streamlined steam locomotives with 'Baltic tank' engine wheel arrangement (4-6-4T), and yet... there was no connection to the wheels from the outside cylinders (it was missing the connecting rod from the valve gear to the driving wheels), and the front bogie had it's own cylinders to boot ('booster' engine perhaps?), and worse, as shown by the example inside Tertium Station... they were actually really diesel-electric locomotives (cereleum-electric?)! As in, no boiler, but a full diesel-like engine with cylinder heads and an electrical generator - to the point the 1st Legion were using it to power the aetheryte and lighting inside the station!

And then there was the carriages of the 'Runaway Train' that had derailed... which seemed to be missing some wheels on the carriage bogies! (Although I guess you could say that the train did derail, the carriages probably lost some wheels in the accident). So yeah, just train wrong on all fronts!

The 0-2-4 wheel arrangement (or at least locomotives with a single large driving wheel) incidentally was quite popular in the early years of steam locomotive development though, and is perfectly useful as long as there is enough weight for adhesion, so the Tural example isn't necessarily out of place.

I wish the Ul'dahan trains were shown, something tells me that they'd be even more crazier!