{
  "method": "Built-in image generation",
  "date": "2026-10-15",
  "assets": [
    {
      "path": "assets/stories/orient-express/1883-departure-reconstruction.webp",
      "purpose": "Opening scene",
      "prompt": "Photorealistic original1883OrientExpress: black steam locomotive and tender with varnished brown teak CIWL sleeping coaches, cream roofs, restrained gold detailing; Paris railway platform in autumn; three-quarter front view; natural lighting; no Art Deco blue coaches or modern infrastructure.",
      "caption": "AI-generated historical reconstruction of an 1883 steam-hauled Orient Express departure. Representative train and setting, not an archival photograph or verified locomotive."
    },
    {
      "path": "assets/railway/orient-express-1883-realistic.webp",
      "purpose": "Map marker",
      "prompt": "Photorealistic side-profile cutout: nineteenth-century black steam locomotive, coal tender and one varnished brown teak sleeper; face right; transparent alpha; no track or background; mechanical detail; no vector or toy style.",
      "caption": "AI-generated representative 1883 steam locomotive, tender and teak coach; not an exact individual engine."
    },
    {
      "path": "assets/railway/steamship-1883-realistic.webp",
      "purpose": "Map marker for water transfers",
      "prompt": "Photorealistic full broadside representative European passenger screw steamship circa1883, black iron hull, white upperworks, two masts, one buff funnel, facing right, transparent alpha, no sea or background.",
      "caption": "AI-generated representative period steamship, not a verified portrait of Espero or the Danube ferry."
    }
  ]
}