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The “Ghost Train” Incident
- 26 April 1000, the “Ghost Train” incident. Taking advantage of the chaos in Equestria's order, Flim and Flam actively expanded the Lomaki Group's business and began dumping shoddy goods on the surrounding regions. They soon set their sights on the Manehattan market far to the east — Lomaki and the area around eastern Manehattan were Equestria's only two large urban agglomerations; Flim and Flam had already largely controlled the Lomaki market, while Manehattan was still contested between several merchant houses and underworld forces, so they judged it was time to move into Manehattan. They prepared a whole trainload of shoddy goods to dump in Manehattan, intervening in and destroying its economy. In Ponyville the train was to stop briefly as planned and then leave, but an ambush by Discord in the jungle forced it to stay and load timber and refuel.
- Cozy Glow and Tirek set out to conquer Manehattan. In Manehattan, 乐善, having lost his Lomaki resort, found his talent for sowing discord useful once more. In a city where government had stopped and the streets had become a free arena for gangsters, the newly risen gang “乐善 Group” took the lead, proposing to stage a train accident to block the only road connecting Manehattan with the outside world, and so stop Cozy Glow's and Tirek's invasion. So a driverless, unregistered “out-of-control” train loaded with combustibles and explosives slowly pulled out of Manehattan.
- The committee inspection team led by 驹绝 arrived in Ponyville to investigate information about Discord. Starlight Glimmer, secretly recovering in Ponyville hospital at Trixie's arrangement, was forced to flee; she stowed away on the Lomaki train stopped at the apple orchard and hijacked it. Because 梅耶's improvised order delayed the train's safety inspection and pulled the Ponyville security force off its posts, the “ghost train” left Ponyville successfully and unmonitored.
- Not far outside Manehattan, the train from Lomaki collided with the suicide train arranged by 乐善, causing the “Ghost Train” accident that shocked Equestria.
- The accident was reported to the Royal Committee. On seeing the report, Cozy Glow dismissed 梅耶 for dereliction of duty — “violating imperial regulations by postponing the train's safety inspection of his own accord” — and the security chief Trixie was promoted to interim mayor.
- Starlight Glimmer escaped the accident, faked her own death, and set out on foot for Our Town.