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During a soaking day around November 2022, Tri-ang Railways (TR) unique 15 class 2-8-0 No. 15, better known as "Casey" (built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1915, delivered in 1919 due to WWI) heads a heavy intermodal container train on the TR mainline from Porthmouth to Ashton via Klondyke and Hyde. These trains are handled by the railway's most powerful locomotives (Casey, Rupert, Big Jim, Rushia and Hymak) with either the "scenic route" (via Klondyke and Hyde) or the "direct route" being used to ferry intermodal trains from Porthmouth in the northeast of Nerland to the British mainland.

While Nerland is part of the British Isles, the loading gauge on TR does allow for American motive power (modified of course to fit the UK requirements) with Casey being no exception to the rule. His design is derived from the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) H10 class 2-8-0s but with reduced specifications to fit the British loading gauge while maintaining a high tractive effort completely unmatched by any other British locomotive (the H10 has a tractive effort of 53,197lbf however Casey's tractive effort is 48,200lbf), stronger than a 9F, Big Bertha, LMS Garratts but weaker than the LNER U1.

We need some more modern image rolling stock as I'm using conventional steam-era bogie bolsters (aka "flatbeds") as stand-ins for modern intermodal flatbeds, which would canonically be a mix of KFA and FIAs.

Sprites: Diamond-Jubilee , BaconOverlord582 , The-Station-Pilot , Princess-Muffins , Myself
Background: BaconOverlord582

Description
During a soaking day around November 2022, Tri-ang Railways (TR) unique 15 class 2-8-0 No. 15, better known as "Casey" (built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1915, delivered in 1919 due to WWI) heads a heavy intermodal container train on the TR mainline from Porthmouth to Ashton via Klondyke and Hyde. These trains are handled by the railway's most powerful locomotives (Casey, Rupert, Big Jim, Rushia and Hymak) with either the "scenic route" (via Klondyke and Hyde) or the "direct route" being used to ferry intermodal trains from Porthmouth in the northeast of Nerland to the British mainland.

While Nerland is part of the British Isles, the loading gauge on TR does allow for American motive power (modified of course to fit the UK requirements) with Casey being no exception to the rule. His design is derived from the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) H10 class 2-8-0s but with reduced specifications to fit the British loading gauge while maintaining a high tractive effort completely unmatched by any other British locomotive (the H10 has a tractive effort of 53,197lbf however Casey's tractive effort is 48,200lbf), stronger than a 9F, Big Bertha, LMS Garratts but weaker than the LNER U1.

We need some more modern image rolling stock as I'm using conventional steam-era bogie bolsters (aka "flatbeds") as stand-ins for modern intermodal flatbeds, which would canonically be a mix of KFA and FIAs.

Sprites: Diamond-Jubilee , BaconOverlord582 , The-Station-Pilot , Princess-Muffins , Myself
Background: BaconOverlord582