#98462

[seaswine]

Edward gets cyberbullied :(

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[thesudrianchronicles]

No-Where journal No. 9 - 18th September 1922

Page 16: Our new passenger loco

"The NWR board has the pleasure to announce that, thanks to the generosity of Lord Faringdon & the rest of the Great Central Rly Co. That the North Western has become home to two of the GCR locomotives, '9Q' 4-6-0 No. 462 & '9N' 4-6-2T No. 447. This comes almost a year after the arrival of No. 3, the prototype 4-6-2 locomotive that was purchased last which has proven unsatisfactory on the 'Wild Nor' Wester'. The board expresses hope that, despite high coal consumption, No. 462 will prove a better loco on these duties until another locomotive can be procured. The locomotive, built only last year, has already proven it's on the flat between Vicarstown & Marron, but, like most engines of a similar size, require banking up the incline from the Wellsworth side. Lord Regaby has insisted that this locomotive become the railway's new flagship, with it have received the NWR's blue livery within only a week on the railway! And has even commissioned for this locomotive to be named 'Queen Victoria' in order to provide some elegance to the express. Hopefully, this 'Black Pig', as the GC men have started referring to this class as, will prove that even pigs can more than sluggish!."

No. 462 "Queen Victoria" seen near Crosby with the 10:00am limited from Tidmouth Central - photo credit: W. Middleton

[themidlandengine]

The other engine…

[grouchydairy]

jisoo kim

[thechaddyengine]

Spooktober 23: Rotted

(Yay, 98462 is dead :D)

Yea he's dead in my au, Some infected ate him lol

[sodor-spirit]

The spirit war: ( I really have many questions)

1.Did did Alfred fight too or just use his earth statues to fight with ‘The Three Guardians Spirits’?

2. When Alfred lose his side of the war does he show up himself?

3. After Alfred torn Thomas vessel.

-Did Thomas fainted or traumatised

-When Alfred torn Thomas while Edward was standing there (Edward before he attacked Alf)

((Wow… okay first of all mysterious grey person, I’m truly sorry for how old this ask has gotten. I seriously need to get better at answering asks and managing my tumblr schedule. Second thanks for asking this particular part of my “obsolete” au since it’s one I’m don’t get to show off as often as I want.))

OKAY NOW LET’S BEGIN:

1. During most of the war, Alfred went into hiding around various parts of Sodor and made his earth statues to fight. Reason for this is because Edward, Henry and Gordon wanted to banish him to the Shadow Dimension for everything he’s done and killing Crovan.

2. Yes and no. The trio was able to track him after receiving several accounts from eyewitnesses and was managed to corner him, but Thomas found him first because he wanted to prove to the others, especially Edward that he was ready to help fight against Alfred more directly. As a result he managed to capture Thomas and hold him hostage until the trio came.

3. Thomas was poofed instantly after his gold dust form was torn apart, because he had the guts to insult Alfred despite being taken hostage. But he is definitely traumatised even after nearly a century has passed and he ended up developing a form of amnesia because of it, being unable to remember what his life was like on the Mainland, except remembering that he came from Brighton. And for your last question: Edward got corrupted and kept impaling Alfred on large ice spikes, while Gordon and Henry could only watch with horror before managing to bring the Water Spirit back to senses and banishing him forever to the Shadow Dimension. Gordon would never admit it out loud but he feels guilty for not asking Thomas about his past life on the Mainland before getting his trauma induced amnesia.

[sudriantraveler]

A Very North Western Christmas

Dear Friends, The holiday season is always a very busy time on the railway. “We’re rushed off our wheels, and hardly ever get a rest” Henry told me. “But we have a duty to look after our passengers and our friends,” added Edward. “Yes Indeed” put in Gordon, “It’s most important that everything runs to time”. “But once all’s said and done, the Christmas Party at the sheds is always something to look forward to” peeped Thomas. I asked them all if there was any Christmas which they remembered more than others, and they told me of one from back when Thomas was still the Big Station’s pilot. A most chaotic Christmas, with packed trains, missing Christmas trees, and… Oh, but you must read the story for yourself. The Author

Oh boy, this was a long one, but I managed to get it done just in time.

I hope you enjoy my Christmas fic for this year.

Honestly this kinda ended up being something like 2 or 3 stories in one. But part of what I always liked about the Christmas specials in ttte is how they made a point to include as many characters as they could, even if it was just an appearance in the background, so I wanted to try and do something similar.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year.

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

how were engines 87546 and 98462 were sent away beside being spiteful , do you have any headcanons?

Eek, very sorry to respond to this one so late. Hope you see this.

I have several incidents I favor, but the problem is that whenever I come up with another idea I immediately think "oh hey that'll make a really good fic." And I live in the possibly deluded hope that I will actually finish the fics one of these days, ssoooo... I don't want to discuss really specific ideas for the chain of events that led to 87546 and 98462 getting the boot.

But, generally speaking, there are a few angles that I favor:

1.I have doubts that they were both sent away as early as Thomas the Tank Engine/1925. I think they stuck on for a while, perhaps a long while. They just didn't get speaking parts in the books and there was seldom any reason to show them. (In particular, if they stayed on I think the Fat Controller had a specific policy of leaving them "behind" in the boonies Vicarstown to keep them and their bad influence separate from the rest of the fleet.) I also tend to imagine they played a significant role during the strike, but again, there was just no reason to include that in the books.

2. In general, I don't headcanon them as acting with any dramatic evilness. I sometimes write them that way in fic but that's because it's more fun to read. But I reckon they were really mostly just your run-of-the-mill "ill-mannered" engines, as we see later in all the Mean Boastful Diesels who fail their Sodor trials three or four decades later. And they're not even notably more ill-mannered than, like, Gordon was originally. They just never changed.

3. My most idiosyncratic take: I suspect that in some ways FC1 used these two as a scapegoat for his own shortcomings tbh. Like I think he grew remarkably as a human being and as a manager in his early years in the job, but I'm not sure he realized the extent to which he had grown and changed. Which is a very human thing to do.

Like, I headcanon Awdry saying they were "rude" as taken directly from how FC1 himself explained who these two engines were and why they were sent away. (Coz, like? We've seen the engines he didn't send away, lol. They can be very rude to their fellow engines too.) And I imagine FC1 first began to construct this useful little narrative when he realized that, like, Edward and Henry and James in particular were to varying degrees just bundles of anxiety in 1925. And when he noticed this (hey, in fairness to him, he must have been real busy until he signed that agreement with the L.M.S. that same year) he instinctively tried to help.

But—what? A powerful white guy, acknowledging that his shortcomings as a manager directly contributed to his underlings' distress? Hey, it happens sometimes, even a hundred years ago! But is that likely to be his first hypothesis? Nah. That's not how successful business people work—with hard-hitting introspection and shit.

And then there's 87546 and 98462, like, right there. No doubt visibly and audibly being right dicks to his troubled iron children.

I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself well, but I do headcanon FC1 being like "a-ha. now that i'm paying attention i see that they're bullying the other engines. they must be the sole reason some of my other engines are so tense and fearful whenever i see them! and, indeed, now that i've sent them away (or even just arranged that they're kept at a distance), the others are growing more confident. definitely not because i'm making more of an effort to be consistent and fair, and i'm no longer casting engines aside for long periods of time or threatening big punishments for relatively minor infractions. nah. it was all 87546 and 98462. what rotters. so insidiously toxic."

87546 and 98462: *just sitting there, pretty normal jocks whose braggadocio is not otherwise noteworthy*

[hi-my-name-is-cosmopathy]

GUYS LOOK GHOST PALS UPDATES COMING THROUGGGH—

Lily is going through a HUGE change. Lately, I haven't been satisfied with her character or... anything about her. I wanted to make her as interesting as the others but I wasn't really able to achieve that. So I left her to my sister and she's going through a makeover.

More characters coming in;

Adam (lily's sensible cousin who unintentionally spreads the plague everytime he coughs 24/7)

Colin (the mandela catalogue inspired spamton g spamton rip off who's a technicolor angel-ghost thingy)

Adeline (the sane and sweet old official of the heavens but stepped down for a rlly odd reason & dire need for revenge)

Lady (a pink reaper or god idk yet she's either rlly weird or...who am I kidding she's gonna be weird and she's either gonna be a shy rookie or a rebelious “teenager”)

Pretty Polly (thinks she's different because she stays inside and fawns over trains and doesn't go to parties & date but she's actually just trying to pls conservatives)

Blinky Bonny (polly's old sensitive cousin. thas all I have lol)

“98462” (alfie's twin brother whom his father adopted to replace alfred. edward and him have a horrible relationship.)

Tiffany (works too hard and is friends with RYAN thas all I have for now lol)

Theodosius “Theo” (sings survive the night and likes FNAF— wait what am I saying- the Bruno of the e2's and Timothy hates him so so much)

Andreas (his faces is as badly damaged as big Mickey's who he wears a mask- i didn't say he was any better than him- lives with duncan rent free (oh Duncan hates it)

Diesel 5 (his history with the Scottish twins is rather... interesting....)

Gosh there's a lot in this AU being added lol

[arandomthomasfan]

98462 edit

i made a shitty edit of the evil lad from the first rws book

[scytheral]

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[arthursisland]

Live loaned engines reaction:

The red engine is giving Lady a 100 hundred mile stare

✨Be Not Afraid Young Mortal✨

[railwaysparrow]

As the rain lashed down 98462 thundered on though the tunnel!

A smug look adorned his face as he saw Henry coughing and spluttering in the darkness of the disused tunnel.

[weirdowithaquill]

If you had to add one fan OC to the NWR, who would it be? (Only caveat is that it cannot be a copy of a pre-existing RWS character. This includes Scott.)

This is a tough question! I'm going to guess that I can't include Andrew in this answer (cause that's way too biased), so I'll run on with that in mind. Cause if he was included, it'd be him. He's my OC, and therefore would be my instant pick - and that kind of negates the entire question. Sorry Andrew, maybe next time!

I'm also going to avoid picking Alfred the B12, mostly cause he's one of those characters who has practically melded his way into the series already as 98462.

Ok, so I think a preface to my answer is to note that I grew up on the very early years of the Thomas fandom on YouTube - we're talking 2011 and 2012 (to give you an idea of what was going on around this time, it's only about 2 years after Alfred the B12 was introduced). This era was very much coloured by a hatred of the HiT era, SiF was still the dominant place to find Thomas content, and many of the cornerstones of the Thomas fandom on YouTube were just starting out. And I was not on SiF much at this point (I was a kid back then, and YouTube was easy to find and use) - so I grew up on EE93, WildNorWester and DieselD199.

With this in mind, I would have to pick Alice.

Alice is a WildNorWester OC from their series 'Sodor the Early Years' (link to her debut episode here) and perhaps one of my favourite early era OCs. Then again, it's hard to decide when it comes to WildNorWester simply because they created several of the most notable and well-remembered fan engines - Peter, Eric, Iris, Lily, Adam, Colin and Patrick all originated with WildNorWester, not to mention Andreas and Atlas. And most of them have had up to 10 years to bed into the fandom. EE93's Young Tucker is another good contender, though they're a bit more obscure.

I recommend all three YouTubers and their series'. The quality may not be exactly the greatest anymore, but wow are they incredible to watch!

[sodor-spirit]

I wonder...

When a kid(7-9 years) bumps into Alfred or Crovan

How do they reply to a kid?

I need to know how Crovan and Alfred treat a kid(7-9 years)

Before the Spirit War, Alfred would ignore the kid and pretend they don’t exist. He considers humans lower than him and not worth a second of his time. As for during the war… you don’t want to know.

Crovan on the other hand is still getting used to humans being able to see him on the island and would actually be caught off guard at first but treat the kid affably. (He might be bigoted spirit at the time before coming to Sodor. But he always found humans, especially children curious.) If asked he would even show off his air magic to them.

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

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