The Port Ogden Rail Chronicles

**The Port Ogden Rail Chronicles** (formally titled **Rails of Port Ogden**) is a Trainz comedy series created by AllosaurFan for YouTube. Two seasons are planned.

## Premise

The series follows Rhyon, an ex-D&RGW mountain type who works for the Port Ogden and Northern Railroad. He looks at the world in a rather cynical view, in sharp contrast to most of his goofy and energetic collogues.

## Main Cast

* Rhyon - Denver and Rio Grande Western M-64 #1705. He looks at the world in a very down and dark way and feels this is being realistic and mature.
* Mitchel - Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe EMD FP45 #5998. He seems to be full of energy and gets on the nerves of others, particularly Rhyon.
* Georgia - Canadian National U2G #6204. She is a friendly and sweet engine who has a crush on Rhyon, though she has a hard time confessing it.
* Conner - Union Pacific Challenger #3940. He is arrogant and pompous, continuously demanding a high position that offered.
* Byron - Union Pacific Big Boy #4009. He is like a big brother to Conner and watches out to keep him out of trouble.
* Gwen - Union Pacific GTEL #59. She is a silent, yet potentially aggressive engine if provoked, primarily by Conner.
* Cabott - Southern Pacific AC-3 #4037. He is often the odd one out because of his design, yet he feels proud of it and uses his pride to lecture those who feel different or excluded.
* Sheldon - Union Pacific GE C30-7 #2477. Short tempered and aggressive, he is prone to anger issues and he never lets go of a grudge.

## Background

Development of the series goes back to 2018, when he initially developed the concept of Ironbark Rail Adventures. While creating the concept for the series, he planned on developing a spin-off called Southern California Railroad. Said series would've been set on an imaginary railroad hinted to be based on Mr3801Fan 26's childhood imagination. NSWSteamFan took some influence for some of the characters for Tales on the Thompson and Western. Although the series was cancelled as Mr3801Fan 26 wasn't satisfied with it, some of the characters like Austin and Jeff were reused in The Port Ogden Rail Chronicles.

Development began again when Mr3801Fan 26 was inspired to create a trainz series along the lines of NSWSteamFan's Tales on the Thompson and Western. Although he was never a fan of Rails of Highland Valley or it's copies, he found the new episodes of Tales on Harrison Rails surprisingly good. These episodes were the inspiration for the series. While creating the series, he looked over the flaws of Rails of Highland Valley and it's copies and wrote some fixes for them, most notably removing the TTS voices.

### Generation 1

Production began in mid 2019 when Mr3801Fan 26 created a test intro. It was met with a mildly positive reaction in the comments and he immediately had a complete cast. The series was officially titled Rails of Port Ogden.

### Generation 2

Mr3801Fan 26, just rewatched Full Bucketniers, reworked it from a 1990s shortline into a 1950s mix of class I railroads. The main cast was also changed.

Episode 1 was finished and was met with a decent feedback in the comments. Episode 2 however was a major disaster. Although some people called decent and palatable, Mr3801Fan 26 absolutely hated the final result, calling it "a Tidewater Chronicles fanfic gone wrong". Just as a Halloween special entered production, the series was put on the verge of cancellation.

### Generation 3

Eventually, Mr3801Fan 26 decided to give the series another chance, and rebooted it again. This time, however, he made some major changes to it, most notably the change of the title to the Port Ogden Rail Chronicles. He also went for a less Rails of Highland Valley style and decided a more Looney Tunes style of story writing as it suited the premise of talking trains.

Initially, the Halloween special was set to be the premiere, but it missed the target release date. So he decided to premiere the series with a Christmas special, which is a retelling of A Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

The COPPA situation was a major blow the series. Mr3801Fan 26 briefly abandoned YouTube due to the risks of keeping his old videos up. He wiped his channel clean until March, when he revived it.

The special resumed production until April, when the series was officially cancelled again, in favor of Rail Tales, which was also shelved.

### Generation 4

As of October 2020, Mr3801Fan 26 is considering reviving the series yet again. This time, he renamed most of the characters and dropped George, Austin, Jim, Lyle, and everyone else he felt was pointless.

On February 16, 2021, Mr3801Fan 26 announced that the series will be ending at 7 episodes in favor of Engines of Galston Rails. In August the same year, he announced that the series had been reduced to 5 episodes.

In August 2022, Mr3801Fan 26 began reconsidering cancelling the series and has intended on reviving it. A the same time, Engines of Galston Rails was quietly cancelled.

## Reception

The series has gained mixed reactions from viewers, including the voice cast. However, it was praised for it's humor and characters.

## Trivia

* Generation 1 is the only generation of the series that never went into production, although an intro was created.