Steam engines usually use coal, but there doesn't seem to be a place shovel coal into. Or even anywhere to hold it.
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@The Slimy Stump Oh, you think you're so clever, huh? What about the machine suggests such a thing?
Only a madman would try to fight that beast hand-to-hand!
That's also a naming convention in the real world. There are even ships like that, such as the RMS Queen Mary.
@EmeraldMace Even steam engines in real life usually get human names, like "Linda", "Alfred", "Judy", or cool names such as the "Flying Scotsman" or "Green Arrow", not typically edgy ones. Though there are some with royal, or at least noble, names, such as "Prince", "Princess" or "Duchess of Hamilton". Even Edward Thomas was named after a railway manager who purchased her. Yeah, I don't know why steam engines are almost exclusively referred to with female pronouns, even while having male names.
@EmeraldMace I think naming it "Eugene" is better, I mean after all, Eugene's the one who gave the locomotive to the Archivist in the first place.
Where does Peter Griffin factor into this?
@Godzilla2021999 I noticed, nobody said anything about my Train Engine post.
How should we know?
If it's a steam engine, why doesn't it have a fire box? Where do you put the coal, or does it not use coal?
If one were to anthropomorphize it without changing the position of the headlamp, where would the eyes go? Would they be in the cab window, the top of the smoke box, or would the light itself be the eye, effectively making it a cyclops?
I can imagine if ownership of the engine was somehow transferred to the Archivist, they'd name it "Eugene" to honor their fallen friend.