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Peter, I'm a Japanese high-speed passenger locomotive. Peter!

So, when looking up depraved shit, I discovered this furry meme from 2023. I'm surprised I missed it given how much I'm into trains (especially considering my interest in them was increasing in 2023), but there's some damn cool designs out there, so I thought I'd throw my name in the hat, using a couple of the Shinkansens I didn't see already, my favourite locomotive (the S-1), and a bit of art deco goodness, with the latter two being locos I've actually seen.

- 0 Series Shinkansen. Fast but rotund. Looks like Brian Griffin, no idea why. She's very regal but is a bit full of herself. I gave her tail some spikes to represent railroad ties, but didn't remember until later that Shinkansen don't use wood ties, they use concrete ones.
- 300 Series Shinkansen. Very sharp angles for maximum aerodynamics. The grey insert and the panel on the front reminded me of a rabbit's nose and teeth, and I gave her horns because she looked goatlike. I was going to give her a visual kei-inspired look, but decided to tone it down, making her style influenced by western pop punk that she would have listened to in her teen years, as well as a speedcore T-shirt because, surely, a high-speed train would listen to high-speed music. I also gave her earrings made from tsurikawa. Will likely make a full character out of this one.
- EMD LWT12. The LWT12 was built to head the General Motors Aerotrain. For context, GM owns EMD. It was an experimental passenger train designed to resemble road-going vehicles, as America's highways had begun to replace train travel (which they now have, with Amtrak being the only remaining cross-country rail service in America). The Aerotrains served for ten years, and the two LWT12s that pulled Aerotrains (No. 2 [pictured] and No. 3) have survived, which is more than you can say for its competitor, the Baldwin RP-210. I made him a greaser to fit the automotive styling. His tail is supposed to be the rear car of the Aerotrain, which was not preserved, but I drew it from memory and accidentally gave it more '57 Bel Air-like fins than '55 fins. More chrome is more cooler.
- Alco S-1. Reliable, but tough to work with. Probably missing a finger. The only time you'll see me draw someone smoking (even the EMD has a toothpick), but you can't draw an Alco without it smoking like crazy. I tried to give him a coupler tail, but making it look organic just makes it look like a Lego hand. I imagine the strakes on his muzzle work like gills... God knows an Alco could probably run underwater.
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0 Series photo by Cassopeia sweet on Wikimedia Commons
300 Series photo by Sui-setz on Wikimedia Commons
Aerotrain, S-1 and background photos by me

Artwork of other peoples' characters, or of characters from media franchises.