A birthday

Running from Chicacolt to San Franciscolt is a railroad called the Union Pacific. It's the largest railroad in the United States, and is run oleh thousands of ponies. This is the story of some of those ponies that run the rails, aka railroading.

Episode 2: To Lease, atau not to lease

August 1, 1950

It has been half a week since Coffee Creme's first hari working on the Union Pacific. She's a hard worker, and normally works with Hawkeye, and together, they would have a special assignment. They were recieving it in Cheyenne at 9 O clock in the morning

Pete: Attention everypony! Listen up.
Workers:...

Chapter 1, Part 1.

All I could hear was bombs thundering in the distance, underneath me the sloppy mud rumbled with each explosion. I opened my mud crusted eyes to corpses scattered around me like ragged dolls, I rolled my armor weighted body over to stare at the black sky. Not a single bintang dotted the dark scape, only a blood red moon hungover us like a man staring down, mocking and taunting.

With weakened arms I slowly pushed my leadened body into a seated position against the sandbags piled up to shelter gunners. I pressed a hand to my numbed chest and breathed deeply, but something felt...