u/ZinklerOpra

Portland and Norfolk Northern or just Purple Northern:

The only Class 1 railroad that Spands east to west coast

And the reason it is so terrible

Is because it's unreliable

with a whopping punctuality of 45% it's a gamble if your goods get on time

It all started after the Milwaukee Road went bankrupt in 1976 and died, some dipshit executives who only cared about their failing amusement parks bought all 10 thousand miles of MW track and did nothing with it until 1987.

that means for over a decade, the entire North Western corridor has been left to rot, entire industries and businesses forced to use less efficient alternatives because the owners sat on the railroad and did nothing.

and only in 1987 when the amusement parks failed then they decided to open up a railroad, for now it was called the Chicago Portland and Western not to be confused with The Chicago and North Western.

Fit 100% of their diesel and electric fleet with AI personalities, without the manual, this caused many derailments.

Dis I mention the AI systems in question was the mascot personality units for those failed parks instead of purpose built automation? All they did was made them be able to use the controls in the locomotives

Unions and the FRA were mad of course so they designated the once engineers now "Co-Pilots" that's right, instead of being the driver you're now the "Co Pilot" of a 100 Ton machine.

What happened to their conductor friends? They're replaced with automation of course

Surprisingly the railroad was profitable enough to eventually buy out not just the CNW but also Conrail once it's privatized.

This was when they're called the Purple Northern due to how map makers keep printing their lines as purple, but officially they are Branded the Portland Norfolk and Northern

The government allowed this Massive purple turd on the map because Reagan's deregulation policies

Basically as a rundown

-Played as a Xenophobic Human Enclave in the mountains

-Hostilities with Equestria

-Chaneligns attacked both Equestria and Us (ended with a DMZ)

-We marched our troops through equestria just to kill them

-Killed their queen before the Protagonists arrive

All done on Hard difficulty without AI Gaslighting

I can think of stats for her with funny names like

"Eyy my Clanka"
-reduces all animatronic ai levels by a certain amount (depending on difficulty)

-also does not need mask because.... she's one of them already

"We don't serve your kind here"
-Increases price of all shop items (or alternatively just no shop, upgrade or token store)

"scrapped"
-every ending has her scrapped at the end lol

"Silicon Life"
-Will not be affected by temperature (this means she cannot die when it is hot)

this is just a fun hypothetical I do not know how balanced this actually is lol

45 MM autocannon and 12 Infantry in the back