The room was fulled of youkai, all of whom were seated by a table. The middle of the table was occupied by a map. Landmarks were written down and each was linked by a line with crosses.
"Here will be the main terminus." said a kappa in a green hat.
"How is this going to help my shrine?" said a human in red clothing.
"Yes Reimu, your shrine. Well, you and Sanae will benefit from both ticket sales and increased patronage to your respective shrines. As such the mainline will end at both shrines." The kappa said, replying to the question.
"Is this going to work?" asked a skeptical tengu.
"Yes. If some youkai in the oustide world can run a railway, so can we." the kappa answered back, she was referring to the North Western Railway and its controller.
"How can you produce these mechanical youkai? Like the ones on that island outside of Gensokyo?" asked a youkai with blonde hair.
"Yukari, you should know. Your the one that toured the railway, broke into their works and gave the information we needed."
"Ah, right." said the blonde youkai.
"We have reserved engineered their ways, and we will have the first batch of locomotives ready by opening day." The kappa said.
"We only have the plans to engines indigenous to Japan. So they'll be familiar to the humans, you Yukari, would be gapped in." She continued.
The meeting went on for at least another hour and a half, discussing the railway's construction and ownership. A local vampire was to be the controller and ownership would be that the kappa community would collectively own 53% whilst the vampire controller would own 37% and 10% would go to the blonde youkai. But no one ever brought up the ethics of these mechanical youkai, they figured if the Hatts could do this, they can.