I would think "The Little Engine That Could" would be a major engineering issue, with the blame on whomever put the tracks on that steep hill, rather than something the train itself needs to overcome.

Somebody did their job poorly to make the sentient train have to go up that hill.
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@ziphi Trains are notoriously bad at going up hills, to the point that train tracks, to our knowledge, aren't allowed to have more than a 3° incline to them
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