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Queen Guinevere comes to see Miharu.

- Queenie: "Come on. Eddie brought you to work, not just sit enjoying the sunshine and the fresh air".
- Miharu looks over "Oh I would love to work but I can not move. I need electric".
- Queenie "Oh be a steam engine, run on coal and water. Then you will be able to reach 100 miles an hour plus"
- Miharu "I can do more than that".
- Queenie "All I have seen is a lot of noise, and no action"
- Miharu "Well go ask Eddie to electrify these rails then you will see me go".
- Queenie "Oh I shall but, I want a return on this" puffs away.
- Miharu "Err thank you"

A few weeks later,
- Queenie comes back "Okay. Hello my friend. How is it going?
- Miharu "Not good.?"
- Queenie "Oh why is that? Sir Eddie Barker installed electric rails and you should be out working and not sitting in the shed".
- Miharu "Yes yes, I can not but it is not enough power!"
- Queenie "What? Eddie Barker did what you asked and you still complain! More? Oh Please. Just do with what you have got".
- Miharu "No, electric engines are the future and yet your system is not updating".
- Queenie "Come on. That is not fair. Sir Eddie Barker is very fair but, we are not going to bow to a small minority. Sir Nicolas might be a prick, and he is a diesel, yet he works just as hard and puts as many hours in, as any regular engine does. I have no issue with his work effic. Just his attitude. And you seem to have bad in both areas".
- Miharu "that is unfair and electricist"
- Queenie "Oh what crap. If we did what you wanted. It would be high electric limits, sucking power and money like a straw, and the network being replaced and needing as much electric as a city. Then what? Steam engines get pushed off to secondary routes because of sickness and nausea. Then once you electrics get the mainlines, you will start moving onto the secondary lines, and more steam engines get scrapped or put on heritage lines and museums! And then we would be out of a job and you electrics would have taken over and pushed us to extinction".
- Miharu "It has happened elsewhere, and you are just being really mean to me!" she whined.
- Queenie "Lil Electric, you are a guest in our country, and railway system, if you do not like it. Then I would say, you can return back to Japan and Asia. As when a nation is forced to do what a minority wants and whom runs the show. That nation and system becomes what?"
- Miharu "I do not know. Tell me you big green kettle".
- Queenie "It becomes a dictatorship. My Pacific, Baltic, Prairie and Mikado sisters and brothers helped fight dictatorships and fascism so, I advice you slip in line, be happy with what you go before, someone takes notice and puts you where you will be happy, and it might not be here. We are not bowing to your wills and demands, and becoming a dictatorship to make you comfortable." pauses "I might not like what you say but, I will defend your right to say it. Now if you do not mind, I have work to do".
- Miharu mumbles "You're a dick" she snorts slowly moves back into the shed.

Queen Guinevere and Miharu (c)

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7/7/19: Now with correct number 193 and not 194, and piston rods added too.

Description
Queen Guinevere comes to see Miharu.

- Queenie: "Come on. Eddie brought you to work, not just sit enjoying the sunshine and the fresh air".
- Miharu looks over "Oh I would love to work but I can not move. I need electric".
- Queenie "Oh be a steam engine, run on coal and water. Then you will be able to reach 100 miles an hour plus"
- Miharu "I can do more than that".
- Queenie "All I have seen is a lot of noise, and no action"
- Miharu "Well go ask Eddie to electrify these rails then you will see me go".
- Queenie "Oh I shall but, I want a return on this" puffs away.
- Miharu "Err thank you"

A few weeks later,
- Queenie comes back "Okay. Hello my friend. How is it going?
- Miharu "Not good.?"
- Queenie "Oh why is that? Sir Eddie Barker installed electric rails and you should be out working and not sitting in the shed".
- Miharu "Yes yes, I can not but it is not enough power!"
- Queenie "What? Eddie Barker did what you asked and you still complain! More? Oh Please. Just do with what you have got".
- Miharu "No, electric engines are the future and yet your system is not updating".
- Queenie "Come on. That is not fair. Sir Eddie Barker is very fair but, we are not going to bow to a small minority. Sir Nicolas might be a prick, and he is a diesel, yet he works just as hard and puts as many hours in, as any regular engine does. I have no issue with his work effic. Just his attitude. And you seem to have bad in both areas".
- Miharu "that is unfair and electricist"
- Queenie "Oh what crap. If we did what you wanted. It would be high electric limits, sucking power and money like a straw, and the network being replaced and needing as much electric as a city. Then what? Steam engines get pushed off to secondary routes because of sickness and nausea. Then once you electrics get the mainlines, you will start moving onto the secondary lines, and more steam engines get scrapped or put on heritage lines and museums! And then we would be out of a job and you electrics would have taken over and pushed us to extinction".
- Miharu "It has happened elsewhere, and you are just being really mean to me!" she whined.
- Queenie "Lil Electric, you are a guest in our country, and railway system, if you do not like it. Then I would say, you can return back to Japan and Asia. As when a nation is forced to do what a minority wants and whom runs the show. That nation and system becomes what?"
- Miharu "I do not know. Tell me you big green kettle".
- Queenie "It becomes a dictatorship. My Pacific, Baltic, Prairie and Mikado sisters and brothers helped fight dictatorships and fascism so, I advice you slip in line, be happy with what you go before, someone takes notice and puts you where you will be happy, and it might not be here. We are not bowing to your wills and demands, and becoming a dictatorship to make you comfortable." pauses "I might not like what you say but, I will defend your right to say it. Now if you do not mind, I have work to do".
- Miharu mumbles "You're a dick" she snorts slowly moves back into the shed.

Queen Guinevere and Miharu (c)

[Image 076 of 400]

7/7/19: Now with correct number 193 and not 194, and piston rods added too.