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JohnnyPsycho
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 Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:37 am Post subject: Q for Vanessa: Travelling to Bon Bon |
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I'm in the middle of writing up a quick side-story set in Bon Bon, unrelated to my current on-going story about my fursona, and I suddenly found myself wondering about how one would normally travel to the infamous hidden city of sex? Does a train stop in or nearby the town, or would one have to travel by carriage some distance from the nearest rail-stop?
It seems like such a minor detail, but I wanted to write a scene descriibing one of the characters first entering the city, and for some reason an image of her departing from a train popped in my head.
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Ashton Gray
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:31 am Post subject: |
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Well, William arrived by train, and he did speak of throwing himself under a train after he lost all of his money in the casino, so that would seem to denote a trainstation in town.
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LabrnMystic
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:41 am Post subject: |
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So, a conductor could be a possible occupation for future members. The great train era should have just begun or will begin based on the time-line we're in.
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Cole Blacke
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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Please excuse me, this is a bit bold for myself and a little awkward. 
I literally just joined, but this conversation caught my eye, and I thought it would be the perfect place to introduce myself ( or rather, my fursona). (I will not be able to join as a member at this time due to shortness of coin, I apologize.) Cole Blacke, a raccoon, works as a railway engineer. He is about 24, rather mild-mannered, and, off-duty, dresses in similar attire to that of Buster Keaton. Away from my fursona, I'm basically an "unofficial" railroad historian, so when I spotted this post, I thought I would speak up. Again, apologies where due. |
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Cole Blacke
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Tsavo: *tips hat* thank you, kind sir.
Labrn: If I may:
| LabrnMystic wrote: | | The great train era should have just begun or will begin based on the time-line we're in. |
yes, this was the golden age of railways. The railroad boom was in full swing by the 1870's, but the late 1880's and late 1890's is truly when railroads became a cultural mainstay. Faster, larger locomotives, and safety improvements such as automatic couplers (the kind trains still have) and air brakes, made railroading more respected and efficient. Train crews were looked upon with high respect, and, sometimes, as in the case of John Luther Jones, aka "Casey" Jones, they were immortalized as folk heroes. Books, songs, and art payed homage to the railroads during this period, and idioms like "highball" ( which was a method of signaling used by means of raising a white ball on a post to indicate a clear track, and full throttle) emerged from this period as well. Mentioning the Victorian period without railroads is like having spaghetti without meatballs.
forgive me if I was too forward in posting this  |
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Ashton Gray
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome to Bon Bon, Cole! Always nice to have another "voice" join us here.
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JohnnyPsycho
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Grazie, Vanessa! Or, as they say in my family, miigwetch!
Oh, and welcome to the boards, Cole! If you'd like to share more information about the "train age", we have a sticky thread at the top of the PBB forum about the "World of 1895", which is the year that the story is set in.
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Lidia_Apricot
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:28 am Post subject: |
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Welcome, Mr. Cole Blacke ^w^.
I would love to read more of your knowledge on trains and railroads. |
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Cole Blacke
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you all for the warm welcome, I bid you good will. 
Johnny, Lidia, thank you, I will take you up on that offer. |
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Lidia_Apricot
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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Question: So, there is no other way to get to BonBon besides riding on a train?
No roads to walk there? no carrige to ride there? |
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Cole Blacke
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Lidia_Apricot wrote: | Question: So, there is no other way to get to BonBon besides riding on a train?
No roads to walk there? no carrige to ride there? |
Hot-air balloon is always an option. 
Maybe Bon Bon could be a stop in an "Around the World in 80 Days" type of venture. |
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Lidia_Apricot
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Cole Blacke wrote: | | Lidia_Apricot wrote: | Question: So, there is no other way to get to BonBon besides riding on a train?
No roads to walk there? no carrige to ride there? |
Hot-air balloon is always an option.
Maybe Bon Bon could be a stop in an "Around the World in 80 Days" type of venture. |
Oooooh. I can only imagine that.... |
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Ashton Gray
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Lidia_Apricot wrote: | Question: So, there is no other way to get to BonBon besides riding on a train?
No roads to walk there? no carrige to ride there? |
Well, there are always roads that lead everywhere. The trick is to find them. But, considering Bon Bon is a secluded mountain town, the roads probably are'nt very easy to travel, so a train would be the wisest choice.
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Mystic
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Bon Bon is a magical city where the roads go in circles, each one leading out of the town brings you to a new part of the town. It's a tourist trap!
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Tadelesh
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There must be some water nearby, as well. Else where are those with naval occupations working?
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| Tadelesh wrote: | | There must be some water nearby, as well. Else where are those with naval occupations working? |
I hadn't really given much thought to that, but you're right that there are a couple of royal members who work on steam boats. Perhaps they've simply taken the train from whatever port they arrived in, as none of the pictures I've seen of Bon Bon shows any large amounts of water.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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While I don't actually know, I always assumed my character arrived via train from the nearest port.
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Mystic
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Through the use of railroads of coarse. They built a giant poolcar the length of three regular box cars that they hoist the boats out of the water by pulley and lower them onto the train, that way the mariners feel like they're pulling into port when they reach Bon Bon. *Chuckles at her own imagination*
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Cole Blacke
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Mystic wrote: | | Through the use of railroads of coarse. They built a giant poolcar the length of three regular box cars that they hoist the boats out of the water by pulley and lower them onto the train, that way the mariners feel like they're pulling into port when they reach Bon Bon. *Chuckles at her own imagination* |
You mean like this?: 
http://www.explorepahistory.com/images/ExplorePAHistory-a0a7l9-a_349.jpg
The Allegheny Portage Railroad in Pennsylvania did basically that ( sans swimming pool) up until the late 1880's. It carried canal boats over the Allegheny mountain range to the other side, where they would rejoin the canal. |
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JohnnyPsycho
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Tursi
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:33 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Through the use of railroads of coarse. They built a giant poolcar the length of three regular box cars that they hoist the boats out of the water by pulley and lower them onto the train, that way the mariners feel like they're pulling into port when they reach Bon Bon. *Chuckles at her own imagination* |
{chuckles} At least the ride would be free of icebergs and heavy seas.
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While Stone may have learned quite a bit of his trade working Mississippi riverboats, he's since retired from them after his last boat blew up under him. (not his fault, the chief engineer wired shut the safety valves. while this enables you to run a steam engine at maximum power, there's also nothing to prevent the boiler from turning itself into a bomb, like the 'Sultana' at the end of the civil war.)
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Mystic
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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My, what they'll think up next. *Laughs daintily* And here I was, thinking it was all made up.
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Cole Blacke
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Too late, they've probably already thought of it.
http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/odboyn.jpg
This Jules Verne-esque contraption was actually built, and operated in New York on a 1 3/4 mile line between Gravesend and Coney Island, known as the Boynton Unicycle Railroad, over the summer of 1889. The railroad used a steel bottom rail and an upper wooden support rail to keep the trains upright. Typically, fifty three-car trains, each carrying between 100 to 300 passengers, were run daily, each way. Reportedly, the the high-speed run from one end of the line to the other lasted three minutes.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: hi |
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wow
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: hi |
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hmmmm
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Ashton Gray
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:14 am Post subject: |
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A precursor to the modern subway system, it seems. (Also applicable are the B.A.R.T. and Metro train systems.
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