History Awesome / RaisingSteam

* Blink and you'll miss it; [[spoiler:''Professor'' Rincewind]].
** [[spoiler:He's even doing actual research now rather than just being the Faculty's lightning rod.]]
** [[spoiler:He's been a professor since at least ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', if not ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', although those have been mostly sinecures that no-one else wanted]].
* Moist causes Iron Girder to ''fly'' across a rickety bridge that cannot support her weight. [[spoiler:Though in truth, some of the [[Literature/MakingMoney golems of Um]] are lifting her across, hidden by the mist]].
* Near the end, it's revealed that due to all the attention Iron Girder has been getting as "Queen of the permanent way", [[spoiler:she has in fact ascended to ''goddess'' of the railway]]. And what's more, Dick Simnel is clearly shown to be in control of her ''despite'' this, making good on his promise to control steam.

* [[spoiler: Vimes and Moist fighting the grags side-by-side on a speeding train. With the Summoning Dark sign practically shining on Vimes' arm.]]
** [[spoiler: And Vetinari, disguised as a stoker, fighting them off with a shovel.]]

* [[spoiler: During the ride to Uberwald, Vimes sends out Cheery as a decoy Low King. When the grags attack the decoy they find, instead of the Low King, a "very angry and very female" dwarf.]].
** There's some FridgeBrilliance here when it's later revealed that [[spoiler: the Low King is really the Low Queen. Not only would the grags have been disgusted by this supposed perversion of their laws, they were probably just as frickin' humiliated that even if Cheery hadn't, for some reason, kicked their behinds, they ''still'' would have lost to a woman.]]

* Rhys Rhysson taking [[spoiler:back her Scone of Stone, revealing the truth about her gender]] and then just DARING anybody in the room to try and take the Scone. Nobody does.

** [[spoiler:He's been a professor since at least ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', if not ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', although those have been mostly sinecures that no-one else wanted]].
* Moist causes Iron Girder to ''fly'' across a rickety bridge that cannot support her weight. [[spoiler:Though in truth, some of the [[Discworld/MakingMoney golems of Um]] are lifting her across, hidden by the mist]].

** There's some [[fridgeBrilliance]] here when it's later revealed that [[spoiler: the Low King is really the Low Queen. Not only would the grags have been disgusted by this supposed perversion of their laws, they were probably just as frickin' humiliated that even if Cheery hadn't, for some reason, kicked their behinds, they ''still'' would have lost to a woman.]]

* [[spoiler: During the ride to Uberwald, Vimes sends out Cheery as a decoy low king. When the grags attack the decoy they find, instead of the Low King, a "very angry and very female" dwarf.]].
** There's some fridgeBrilliance here when it's later revealed that [[spoiler: Ther Low King is really the Low Queen. Not only would the Grags have been disgusted by this supposed perversion of their laws, they were probably just as frickin' humiliated that even if Cheery hadn't, for some reason, kicked their behinds, they ''still'' would've lost to a woman.]]

* Rhys Rhysson taking [[spoiler:back her Scone of Stone, revealing the truth about her gender]] and then just DARING anybody in the room to try and take the Scone. Nobody ''dares''.]]

* Rhys Rhysson taking [[spoilers:back her Scone of Stone, revealing the truth about her gender]] and then just DARING anybody in the room to try and take the Scone. Nobody ''dares''.]]

* Rhys Rhysson taking [[spoilers:back her Scone of Stone, revealing the truth about her gender]] and then just DARING anybody in the room to try and take the Scone. Nobody ''dares''.

* Rhys Rhysson taking [[spoilers: back her Scone of Stone, revealing the truth about her gender]] and then just DARING anybody in the room to try and take the Scone. Nobody ''dares''.

* The grags attack a wedding between a dwarf and a human. One dwarf guest was there only out of politeness despite disapproving of the mixed marriage as against dwarf tradition. Know what else is dwarf tradition? Having weapons at all times. The old dwarf took up sword and axe to defend the unarmed wedding party, because there are some things you just don't do.

Nothing official happened afterwards because officialdom didn’t want any part of the shame of it.

* Detritus and Bluejohn on a train that's being bombarded with large rocks. They decide to PlayTennisWithTheBoss.

* The story that the old man tells of the treacle miners in the early parts of the book is both a CrowningMomentOfAwesome ''and'' a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Both dwarfs and humans are mining, in the same area but separate territories, while tensions over mining rights are high with both sides. And yet, when one of the two groups (nobody can remember if it was the humans or the dwarfs) is caught underground, the other group ''immediately'' comes to their rescue, defying orders and angry guards in order to do so:

** The story that the old man tells of the treacle miners in the early parts of the book is both a CwowningMomentOfAwesome ''and'' a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Both dwarfs and humans are mining, in the same area but separate territories, while tensions over mining rights are high with both sides. And yet, when one of the two groups (nobody can remember if it was the humans or the dwarfs) is caught underground, the other group ''immediately'' comes to their rescue, defying orders and angry guards in order to do so:

* [[spoiler: During the ride to Uberwald, Vimes sends out Cheery as a decoy low king. When the grags attack the decoy they find, instead of the Low King, a "very angry and very female" dwarf.]].

* Moist causes Iron Girder to ''fly'' across a rickety bridge that cannot support her weight. [[spoiler:Though in truth, some of the [[Literature/MakingMoney golems of Um]] are lifting her across, hidden by the mist]].

* Moist saves the lives of two young children who were on the rails when the train was coming. He didn't do it for a photo opportunity or to make himself look better, he saw what was about to happen and nearly got himself killed saving those two kids.

* [[spoiler: Vimes and Moist fighting the grags side-by-side on a speeding train. With the Summoning Dark sign practically shining on Vimes' arm.]]

* "What is the goblin word for "Charge"?"

* Near the end, it's revealed that due to all the attention Iron Girder has been getting as "Queen of the permanent way", [[spoiler:she has in fact ascended to ''goddess'' of the railway]]. And what's more, Dick Simnel is clearly shown to be in control of her ''despite'' this, making good on his promise to control steam.