{
  "id": "game-mariowalker-rail-yard-guide",
  "name": "Rail Yard Guide",
  "aliases": [],
  "type": "character",
  "reality": "fictional",
  "loreStatus": "established",
  "summary": "Rail Yard Guide is the subject of a character animation lab for mariowalker.",
  "traits": [],
  "style": [],
  "collections": [
    "game-mariowalker"
  ],
  "cardArt": {
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    "id": "catalog-lab-models-game-mariowalker-rail-yard-guide-v1",
    "url": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-lab-models-game-mariowalker-rail-yard-guide-v1.png",
    "previewUrl": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-lab-models-game-mariowalker-rail-yard-guide-v1-480.webp",
    "alt": "Rail Yard Guide in the original game's character animation lab.",
    "caption": "Isolated capture from the original character animation lab, using its authored idle model or sprite.",
    "status": "approved",
    "version": 1,
    "sourceLabel": "Character Lab",
    "sourceUrl": "/gamelab/projects/mariowalker/character-labs/rail-yard-guide.html",
    "sha256": "5135bec08cac855a16eb3e0d7e65934ef37f404c90e9784bc528689a97737057",
    "selectedUrl": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-lab-models-game-mariowalker-rail-yard-guide-v1-1200.webp",
    "selectedSha256": "2cd312b73cd19755ff87e415409e03c1360e2dab5152fc572ad8eaf75d48c65a"
  },
  "variants": [],
  "appearances": [
    {
      "title": "Character Lab",
      "url": "/gamelab/projects/mariowalker/character-labs/rail-yard-guide.html",
      "collectionId": "game-mariowalker"
    }
  ],
  "relationships": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "public-site-gamelab-projects-mariowalker-character-labs-rail-yard-guide-html",
      "title": "Character Lab",
      "url": "/gamelab/projects/mariowalker/character-labs/rail-yard-guide.html",
      "revision": "sha256:ca8840c6ce663e90681bba6486270826aedcf247ce6b00cd051d4ca3161e178e"
    }
  ],
  "history": [],
  "spoilers": [],
  "questions": [
    "What identity and story details should carry forward from this character lab?",
    "This source is a crossover experiment. Its borrowed characters do not establish shared canon with Eric’s original worlds."
  ],
  "references": [],
  "revision": 1,
  "updated": "2026-10-30"
}