A royal service can be many things. Weather it be of military origin, or just a lowly farmer growing apples. The rising industrial might of Equestria needed to be shown off. The country's beside needed to know that the ponies were nipping at their heels, and they were closing in fast. Smoke Stack was told to make the most influential run of his entire life... will he and his firepony be able to do it? Will they be able to break 100 miles per hour?

Please note the cover art is something I found off google images. Represented is the MR's Hiawatha Hudson, which is what the locomotive in this story is based on.