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Train Station Begins, with Hogwarts Candles

In March 2023 prop began the central train station, then decided it needed floating candles like the Hogwarts dining hall.

Event ASMP S2.5 25 Mar 2023 – 27 Mar 2023

On 25 March 2023 prop announced, with some ceremony, “and finnally the train station build begins” 1. The plan was the Central Train Station (Grand Central), the hub of the Create-powered rail network of Axolotl SMP Season 2.5: parallel tracks and long dark roof halls laid out on a hillside.

The Station Begins
The Station Begins The station begins: parallel tracks and long, dark roof halls on a hillside.prop · 25 Mar 2023

Two days later he shared more progress, with detailed log sidewalls and a glass roof. When nYx said one screenshot made him think of Hogwarts Legacy music, prop ran with it: “remember that dining hall from harry potter with that floating candle” 2. The station would get floating candles too. (prop himself said the build made him hear Attack on Titan music.)

Train station sidewalls
Train station sidewalls Progress on the station: log sidewalls and a glass roof.prop · 27 Mar 2023

Then came the doubt that haunts every builder. prop wondered aloud: “imagine i do all the work and complete the train station only for there to be one train in the entire server” 3, with his own train running between abandoned bases. The station got built anyway.

Primary sources

  1. prop · 25 Mar 2023 · #asmp-s2_1-screenshots and finnally the train station build begins
  2. prop · 27 Mar 2023 · #asmp-s2_1-screenshots remember that dining hall from harry potter with that floating candle
  3. prop · 27 Mar 2023 · #asmp-s2_1-screenshots imagine i do all the work and complete the train station only for there to be one train in the entire server
  4. prop · 27 Mar 2023 · #asmp-s2_1-screenshots is by me

Connected

Person prop Co-founder of the Discord and the server's manager from 2023, prop organises the events, films the videos and writes the chronicle of... Person nYx Necro, the original server host, who ran the first seasons off his laptop and later ruled Japan, planned trains and built Car Mountain Castle. Place · build Axolotl Central Prop's big timber-and-glass central train station, hub of the Create rail network, with four platforms and an eye on Hogwarts.