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J&M Scrap 001 "Aloe"

Taking a small break on making the U-boat fleet, so i can make some other stuff and to avoid burnout. With Okami's new Mackerel locomotives being up on the WS, i decided to make a locomotive using this livery, and for a possible future map, here is a scummy scrap-moving locomotive at a small industry with an odd history.

Built in 1975 for a German oil plant, this Mackerel locomotive operated at the private oil plant during its early years as a conventional switcher. During 1977, the locomotive would receive a new repaint, being painted pink and getting named "Aloe" after one of the drivers daughters who would come to visit and probably ride the locomotive if lucky. She requested to see the locomotive painted pink for her 6th birthday, and she was happy to see the locomotive. Sadly, the locomotives livery would slowly get dirty, and added in with the industry it was working at shutting down due to bankruptcy and a terrible safety record, Aloe was stored on the then abandoned chemical plant, before being bought by an American company in 1981 as a switcher for their complex in Wisconsin. When sold, with it being renumbered #1 and gaining new couplers to make it compatible with American freight cars. The industry would switch to trucks in 1985, and the locomotive was sold to a private collection in Wisconsin during the Summer.

Even with Aloe surviving into a collection, the person who had the collection would mistreat its stock, and its reputation would be ruined with salty behaviour and douche-bag personality, so most of the equipment would deteroirate. Aloe was said to be "rebuilt to HTC trucks, and run on a 12-cylinder FDL engine", which thankfully never went through. With Aloe sitting dormant in the collection, the unit was bought privately in 2005 to J&M Scrap and Co as a switcher where it still operates in 2021. The locomotive was sent to Railpower for an engine-upgrade, and receive a "new" livery, but had its name kept, aswell as some hints of its original pink paint from Germany left.

Because of Aloe being painted pink, some members that did see the Private collection were disgusted to see a locomotive in pink, saying ♥♥♥♥ like "It makes railfanning look like a circus", which resulted in some staff considering to repaint the unit, but some defended Aloe saying it was historically significant to keep the livery to respect the daughter it was named after, but sadly the daughter would pass away in 2004 unexpectedly, and the unit would see mistreatment with a lack of maintenance, repainting it orange, writing graffiti and obscenity towards Aloe, and even saying it was "The Worst Locomotive", which would nearly cause Aloe to be sold off for Scrap, before being bought by the scrapyard company for work. Aloe has had a weird history, and now its future is silent.