Steam Train

Steam Train
Steam Train
Location	The Railway
Used by	Have Cots, Loser, X, Team8s
Color	Red, gold, and black
Effects	Transport
First appearance	"Fashion For Your Face!"
Last appearance	"Fishes and Dishes"

“	Luckily, we have a backup! The steam train is still here!	”
	— Gelatin, "Chapter Complete"

The Steam Train (also known as The Slowest Train Ever and later The Fastest Train Ever) is a train appears in "Fashion For Your Face!". It consists of a tank locomotive and an open-air coach that originally didn't have a roof. It was used to bring the contestants to Yellow Face's Warehouse.

It traveled 2,763 miles between the Pillary Ruins and Yellow Face's Warehouse.

Appearance

The Steam Train is a piece of railway equipment painted in a red and gold livery. The engine has a brass dome and a stove pipe funnel with a copper cap. It has gold stripes and boiler bands and a black buffer beam and foot board. On the back of the engine is a small black coal bunker. The engine has a wheel arrangement of 0-6-0; no leading wheels, six driving wheels, and no trailing wheels. Behind the engine is a red open-air coach (some may say it's a gondola, which is an open freight car) that lacks stripes. It has two sets of bogies each with four wheels. Initially, it had no roof, but due to the passengers falling from the coach while travelling upside down through a loop, Leafy added a roof on it to ensure it doesn't happen again.

Coverage

In "Fashion For Your Face!", the Have Cots use the Steam Train to get to Yellow Face's Warehouse due to Firey setting the High Speed Express Train on fire.

In "Chapter Complete", due to Four taking the High-Speed Express Train, X and the others use the Steam Train in order to get back to The Pillary Ruins.

In "Fishes and Dishes", the Team8s ride it to Yellow Face’s Warehouse, which is 2,762 miles away from The Beach. The train now has a sign that says, "The Slowest Train Ever" which Barf Bag changes to "The Fastest Train Ever", making it go very fast. When they’re done, Needle tells Coiny to turn on the magnet and throws him, sending him flying in front of the train with the magnet. The train begins going back faster after this.

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Trivia

• Despite being 200 years old, it looks more like it's 100 years old, as locomotives from 200 years ago are much more primitive in design.
  • This can also mean that BFB takes place about 100 years to the future.
• The tank locomotive is based on several British side tank locomotives with a wheel arrangement of 0-6-0, such as the LMS Fowler 3F and LB&SCR E2.
  • The tank locomotive also seems to heavily resemble an LNER J65.
  • It also seems to loosely resemble Thomas The Tank Engine, though to a slightly lesser degree. It also resembles Percy the Small Engine.
• This is the replacement of the High Speed Express Train, as it was destroyed from BFB 23 to BFB 30.
• The sound of the tank locomotive's whistle comes from Polson Logging Company No. 2; it was originally thought to have come from Canadian Pacific No. 1238. Outside of BFB, the sound effect is notable for being used by Sam, an American engine from the show Thomas & Friends.
• Despite it moving slow, it can still move fast enough to go fully through the loop-de-loops on the track.

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