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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarrasque Wrangler" data-source="post: 1031790" data-attributes="member: 7473">Umm.Take a look at the picture.  That thing has a frickin' cowcather on the front!  If it can fly over cows, and doesn't need rails, why would you need a cowcatcher?This thing does not look like some example of divergent evolution.  It doesn't look like something an enterprising mage with no conception of what a train looks like would cook up off the top of his head.  It doesn't look like some wagons lashed together.  It looks like a frickin' steam locomotive jumped tracks and stayed in the air.  I agree that a magical society could conceive of some inventions that might mirror our technological society.  But the locomotive as we know it happened here for a reason.  To say that there's flying trains without a really compelling reason not to just have flying freighters or a big-ass flying carpet or packing crates with wings on them or anything else that might have been imagined by real honest-to-God medieval people smacks to me of a writer just looking to throw in anything kewl without giving a thought to its origin.EDIT: I'm willing to concede, however, that this might just be the fault of WotC's art department, and somewhere, Mr. Baker is saying to himself "What's with the cowcatcher?"</blockquote>