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If I ever see any of you in public, the code is "I like your bootlaces"
That way we know we're from the TTTE fandom without revealing anything
Remember, the answer is: "Thanks, I used them to mend a hole in a coach's brake pipe."
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@mean-scarlet-deceiver due to your profile picture my mind immediately went to "F.R. crack AU where Coppernob is given control of the Barrow Central PA system (did they have a PA system back then?) and gives color commentary on the daily goings-on of the station"
With at least one "announces the arrival of a seagull and confuses the passengers who think he's still talking about birds" event a day.
shoutout to the guy in charge of the train station at my hometown, who doesnât limit himself to announcing trains but also:
comments on interesting birds he sees on the platform
gives completely unofficial weather reports on what he thinks the day is going to be like
refers to very crowded trains as âfriendly trainsâ
regularly congratulates everyone on having gotten up on time on Monday mornings
basically seems to use the tannoy system to amuse himself and try and brighten up everyoneâs morning commute
refers to himself as âthe fat controllerâ
#Railway Series Fandom#Railway Series Rubbishposting#friends' ocs#other people's ocs#Coppernob (locomotive)
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How to Swear Like a Steam Engine (And Other Sentient Locomotive Slang)
If thereâs one thing engines enjoy doing, itâs complaining and insulting each other, and theyâve developed their own slang to do it. Phrases like âfusspot,â âcinders and ashes!â and âbossy boilerâ are common in the Railway Series, but there are many other terms.
The following list of phrases and expressions are commonly used by engines on American railroads, in particular on the Jefferson Great Divide Railway in the mountain west of the US. Some may be common in Sodor and the rest of Britain as well, others are specific to America. There are other lists on the internet documenting the various IRL slang used by human employees, and a lot of that is used by engines as well, but this is specifically the slang terms that were more or less developed within the locomotive subculture.
All Smoke and No Steam: All show and no substance. A person or engine who talks a good game or puts a lot of effort into appearing to be helpful but canât back it up. An engine thatâs making a huge cloud of smoke and a lot of noise looks impressive but if whatâs coming out the smokestack is all smoke and no steam itâs not actually doing any work. Can also mean empty words or promises that wonât be fulfilled in the abstract.
âHeâs all smoke and no steam!â = talks a good game, is all hat and no cattle, etc.
âThat ruleâs all smoke and no steamâ can mean a rule isnât / wonât be enforced, or that it will be enforced but it doesnât actually make things better and is just a way of looking like somethingâs being done. E.g. âThe new safety regulations are all smoke and no steam, managementâs still going to come down harder for being late than for safety violations.â
âTheir threats are all smoke and no steamâ (when referring to customers/clients/workers) = they complain loudly but theyâre not actually going to do anything like stop buying tickets, or ship freight by other means, or quit, or strike.
Amtrash: Derogatory term for Amtrak and its engines, used by freight railroad engines. Amtrak is the USAâs quasi-nationalized long-distance passenger rail network. Most of the track it runs on is owned by other railroads which are freight-only, and thereâs quite a bit of resentment between them. See also: Useless Pacific, Nofucks Southern, Satan Fe, All Trains Smell Funny, Borington Northern, Misery Pacific, Criminally Slow and X-pensive, Southern Pathetic, Big Nasty Stupid Fuckers. The US only had its railroads forced into a Get Along T-shirt for like three years and that was during WWI-era, so there are a lot of rivalries between different railroads there.
Ballast Plow: A large truck, especially a flatbed, that stalls at a crossing â because if it gets hit itâs likely to bend around the engineâs front and be dragged down the track instead of getting thrown aside, digging into the embankment and scattering ballast everywhere.
Buckled Rail: A buckled rail (usually happens due to thermal expansion of the track in a heatwave) is at a minimum extremely painful to run over and can often damage engines or rolling stock and derail trains. âI need that like a buckled rail!â
Cattle Cars / Cattle: Derogatory term for a passenger train / passengers, particularly unruly and annoying passengers. Engines arenât supposed to say this within earshot of passengers (and coaches get offended too).
Cowboy / Car Wrangler / Rodeo Clown: Shunter/switcher engines. Definitely popularized in the American West.
Did you fill your Tender/Bunker from the Ash Pit?: Ash doesnât burn and would make a mess all over the cab. Basically translates to âWho pissed in your cornflakes?âCan also refer to an engine who has no steam or energy.
âDid you fill your bunker from the ash pit this morning? Youâve done nothing but complain and insult everyone all day!â
âDid you fill your tender from the ash pit today? I might as well be pulling this train by myself!â
Did They Fill Your Tender With Rocks?: Less profane version of the above.
Drink Hard Water: Hard water, i.e. water with lots of mineral content, is not good for a steam engine because mineral deposits (boiler sludge and scale) can accumulate in the boiler and other plumbing and be very uncomfortable / difficult to clean out.
âGo drink hard water!â = Go jump in a lake / go to hell / go fuck yourself. Basically âgo somewhere else and have a miserable time while youâre there.â
âIâd rather drink hard water!â or âThatâs like drinking hard water!â = Hell No.
Dry Crownsheet: VERY strong expression meaning an engine is tired or frustrated to the breaking point and about to lose their temper. âMy crownsheetâs dryâ could be compared to âIâm going to blow a fuseâ or âBlow my stackâ but that doesnât cover the intensity. The crownsheet is the top of a locomotiveâs firebox, and allowing the water level in the boiler to drop low enough that the crownsheet is exposed can cause it to overheat, weaken, and fail, which is a common cause of boiler explosions. If that werenât bad enough water suddenly being reintroduced to an overheated crown sheet can flash to steam and cause a catastrophic pressure spike. Blowing a fuse means a safety mechanism has activated to prevent catastrophe. A steam locomotive with a dry crownsheet means the safety mechanisms have already failed and is on the verge of a devastating explosion. Used figuratively, means an engine has run out of ability to cope with stress and is one more tiny irritation away from taking it out on whoeverâs unlucky enough to have added the proverbial final straw, or just anyone nearby, without regard to consequences for themselves.
âDonât worry, it wasnât your fault. He rolled into the yard with his crownsheet dryâ = He wasnât angry because of you, he was already angry and something was going to set him off sooner or later.
âListen, I got a dry crownsheet from my last train. If any of you cars start anything Iâm about ready to jump the track into the river and pull you all along with me.â
âPlease just get me out of this station! My crownsheetâs about dry and if I have to hear the passengers complaining I donât think I can take it!â
Find a Scrapyard: This basically means âKill yourself,â so⌠not a very nice thing to say.
Fire Me Dry: Basically equivalent to âFuck meâ as an expression of exasperation. If an engineâs fire was lit with no water in the boiler at all, it might not cause an explosion but would still destroy the firebox. Apparently Furness Railway No. 1 was severely damaged and later scrapped due to this.
Flatlanders: Insult used on many mountain railways to make fun of engines and crews from plains regions who arenât used to running the difficult routes.
âBoy, if those flatlanders think one in one-twentyâs a hill, I canât wait to see âem coming up the pass!â
âThey way some of these flatlanders talk youâd think you canât climb anything over 1% without cog wheels.â
General Sherman, Shermanâs Army, Shermanâs Necktie: Refers to âShermanâs Neckties,â a tactic of destroying sections of rail by heating them and twisting or bending them until they were unusable. This phrase is pretty much US-specific, and likely originated with engines used in the US Civil War picking up the term from humans, but has spread to subsequent generations of engines who often werenât taught the historical context and only knew that Sherman was a man who commanded an army and destroyed a lot of railroad track. General Sherman and his army have become almost folkloric figures that various causes of track wear and failure are attributed to, sort of like Jack Frost. Can also refer to incompetent track maintenance / rough and poorly maintained track, or to the crews and vehicles responsible for it. Though they sometimes use the term for an engine whoâs particularly hard on the rails or otherwise damages the track.
âThat crew really did a General Sherman of a job with these rails.â = Sarcastically saying the maintenance crew made the rails even worse.
âBe careful at that junction, itâs a real Shermanâs Necktie.â
âOuch! Who laid these ties, General Sherman?â
âThat new road-railâs a real General Sherman. Take any track heâs been over slow or you might break an axle.â
âHey, General Sherman, try checking a switch is set right before you barge into it.â
âIn case youâre wondering why the spurâs been closed all day, General Sherman over here spun his wheels âtil he damn near hit ballast.â (Diesels in multiple unit operation can occasionally spin their wheels on a stopped train for so long they grind/melt halfway through the rails)
âThey ought to put you in a siding and necktie the railsâ (similar to âThey should lock you up and throw away the key)
âKeep an eye on the track ahead of you: General Shermanâs hard at work on days like thisâ = a warning given in very hot weather that could cause buckling of the rails.
Getting the Rails Painted: A euphemism for a person or animal being run over by a train. Alternately: âPaint my wheelsâ or âPaint my pilot.â Obviously no sane engine wants this to happen but some engines use this phrase as gallows humor between each other. Occasionally said to humans who break safety rules by a furious engine.
âWhat the hell are you doing walking between moving freight cars? You almost painted the rails back there!â
âI heard they got the rails painted at the 58th Street Crossing?â âYeah. From what I heard, poor guy mustâve been drunk and fell asleep on the tracks. They didnât say whose train it was but Robbieâs been in the shed all week.â
âSome idiot ducked under the crossing gates on a bike and just about painted my pilot.â
âI got my pilot painted by a herd of deer yesterday. I swear, once they get on the track they must think theyâre a train, they just run along it!â
Go Get Your Ash Pan Raked: Removing the ash that collects under an engineâs firebox could be considered the closest steam engine equivalent to using the bathroom, but the connotations arenât quite the same. Cleaning out the ash pan is a task firemen hate, so telling an engine to get their ash pan raked basically means âGo be someone elseâs problem for a while (instead of mine)â Basically translates to "Fuck off."
Hotbox / Hot Axle: A hotbox or hot axle is an overheating axle and/or bearing box, usually on rolling stock but sometimes on engines. âOne hot axle stops a trainâ is a common proverb that means a small missed detail can cause a massive inconvenience or impediment â compare to âFor want of a nailâ or âOne bad apple spoils the barrel.â It doesnât matter how many cars are on a train, a single hotbox can force the entire thing to stop until the problem is fixed. In slang use, of course, a hotbox can refer to anything small and seemingly irrelevant that manages to cause a disproportionate amount of annoyance, delay, or wasted time. It could be a physical object, a rule or procedure or an event. It is also a common insult: sometimes directed at engines, but more often at people or other vehicles. It basically means âkilljoyâ or âwet blanket,â with a specific connotation of âYou and your opinion arenât important but you are holding everyone else back / ruining things for everyone by making a ton of noise.â Common examples of hotboxes include an overly officious inspector or manager, a broken down road vehicle blocking a grade crossing, a track maintenance crew thatâs working slowly and blocking multiple trains, a small weather event that still sometimes manages to delay everything, or an unruly passenger who causes an entire train to be stopped on their account (or unsuccessfully demands it be).
âSorry Iâm so late. Some drunk hotbox picked a fight with the conductor and the cops had to drag him off the train.â
âWill you quit being such a hot axle? Everyone else is enjoying the roundhouse party, if you donât like it just sleep outside!â
âTheyâd better fix those jammed points soon, theyâre hotboxing the whole damn yard!â (note: the use of "hotbox" as a verb among engines probably predates the drug usage)
Icicles In My Smokebox: Hyperbolic complaining about cold weather. There are many parts of a steam engine that are susceptible to things freezing where they shouldnât, such as the feed hoses from the tender, water tanks, and possibly journal boxes and other running gear could feel stiff and numb if the oil gets cold enough. Naturally, when engines are complaining about the cold theyâll claim the hottest parts of them, which have absolutely no chance of freezing while their fire is lit, are freezing. Other variants include âFrost in my flues,â âIf they put ice cream in my firebox it wouldnât melt,â and âCold enough to freeze your smoke halfway up the stack,â and âSo cold a snowman could fire me all day longâ (standing next to a firebox door shoveling coal is hot work, if itâs that cold in the cab itâs pretty darn cold)
Idiot Siding: Off the rails, specifically a safety siding where the rails end in a sand or gravel bed, or wherever a train that runs over trap points / catch points / derailers gets sent. These devices intentionally derail an uncontrolled or runaway train to prevent it from obstructing a main line or endangering people further down the track. If a train ends up here either somebody didnât check the switch alignment, moved when they werenât supposed to, or lost control of their train, hence the name.
If it gets any hotter my firemanâs gonna be out of a job: Hyperbolic complaining about the weather â implying that the heat of the sun on an engineâs boiler is enough to raise steam without them needing a fire.
In My Cab: Sarcastic way of saying another engine (usually) or a non-crew human is being bossy, or controlling and/or micromanaging, or giving advice on things that are none of their business. Basically meaning âYouâre acting like you think youâre my driver.â
âGet out of my cab, I can sort these cars how I want!â
âManagerâs been in my cab all week.â
âWho let you in my cab?â
âYeah, sure thing. Hey, while youâre up there in my cab, why donâtcha polish my gauges?â
Lionel Lines / Lionels: Derogatory term for narrow-gauge railways and trains, named after the popular brand of toy and model trains. Visitors to the JGD are strongly advised to NOT use this term around the resident standard-gauge engines. They are very protective of their narrow-gauge friends due to certain incidents in the past.
No Ashpan: e.g. âYouâve been running with no ashpan all dayâ or âHe ainât got no ashpan.â The ash pan is a tray underneath a steam engineâs firebox that collects ash and cinders that fall through the grates. An engine with no ashpan would leave a trail of red-hot cinders everywhere it went, which could be scattered by the wind from a train at speed, starting fires around the track â especially in the dry climate where the JGD is! Basically it means someone leaves a trail of destruction wherever they go. This is a very strong way of calling someone clumsy or incompetent (as in âYou fuck up everything you touchâ). It can also be used to refer to someone whoâs rude, tactless, cruel, or toxic.
Pulling With Your Regulator: Wasting effort, doing more work than you need to. A steam engineâs power can be controlled using the regulator/throttle (reducing available steam pressure / flow rate to the valves) or by using the valve gear control (the âJohnson Barâ) to reduce the amount of time the valves are open. Controlling power and speed using the Johnson Bar (admitting small amounts of high-pressure steam into the cylinders) is more efficient than using the throttle (letting lots of low-pressure steam into the cylinders).
âSure, you could shunt those cars like that, but youâll be pulling with your regulator. Those grain hoppers are going out tomorrow morning and youâll have to get âem out from behind everything else.â
Put on a Liquid Diet: A coal-fired or wood-fired steam engine being converted to an oil burner.
Rolling Dumpster: Insulting term for a tender. Not like a slur against tender engines, in fact itâs probably mostly tender engines who use it. E.g. âWhy donât you get that rolling dumpster off that siding and do some work for once?â
Sand in my fire and coal on my wheels: An engine feeling sick, confused, or discombobulated. Ironically oil-fired engines do actually periodically get sand thrown in their fire to clean their tubes out.
Scalding: Yelling at someone, dressing them down, treating them with cruelty. Engines canât be physically scalded, but they know the meaning from the injuries that escaping steam can cause to humans.
âIâm sick of that stationmaster. He scalded me and my crew for running two minutes behind schedule without even asking why!â
âGeez, ask a simple question, get a scalding.â
âIf that switchman isnât fired tonight, heâll wish he had been after the scalding I give him next time he see him. Throwing a train onto a siding at that speed couldâve derailed me, not to mention if thereâd been a train there!"
Slug: Someone who blindly follows orders with no initiative or independent thought, or a yes-man or toadie. Used by diesels. A slug is an extra motor unit that can be coupled to a diesel-electric engine that draws excess power from it to provide extra traction while shunting, but a slug is not alive in the same way that tenders arenât alive.
âOh, company policy says, the rulebook says â quit being such a slug and live a little!â
âYeah, the guyâs just Bernieâs slug. Always following him around hoping to be noticed. Pathetic.â
Smoke out the Stack: Similar to Water Under the Bridge. Expression meaning somethingâs in the past and no longer relevant.
âHey, sorry about this morning.â âAhh, donât worry, thatâs smoke out the stack."
Squishies: A very rude way of referring to careless yard workers and light road or rail vehicles, as well as people who trespass on tracks.
Sugar in My Fuel Tank: An unpleasant surprise. Originated in petrol-powered vehicles, but spread to diesel locomotives even though sugar in a diesel tank doesnât really cause that much damage.
Teakettle: Insulting term for steam engines, especially small ones.
Tender-first: Doing something totally wrong, i.e. Ass-backwards. This one translates very literally. A tender engine running backwards canât see very well and neither can its crew.
This Trainâs Leaving. You can be on it, beside it, or under it: Means âMy mind is made up. You can either help or leave me alone, but if you get in the way thereâs going to be serious trouble.â
Thrown: Throwing a switch is what changing it from one direction to another is called, but when an engine talks about getting thrown it means being switched in an unexpected or unwanted direction, particularly at high speed. Like other types of sentient vehicle engines need a human operator to move with full control, but they also run on rails and cannot âsteer.â In essence a train moves in one dimension while a car or boat moves in two and an aircraft moves in three. Even the most free-spirited engines donât usually truly want the ability to go any which way: they like the certainty and predictability of knowing where moving forward will take them. However, engines do value the limited autonomy they do have. An engine canât control itself without a driver, but as anyone whoâs read the Railway Series will know, it is extremely difficult to move an unwilling engine. Thomas and James had runaway incidents because they were either trying to move without a driver on purpose or didnât realize there was no one at the controls, and once they had made the choice to let themselves start moving, they couldnât change the state of their controls by themselves. But an engine wonât move without their consent. Switches are a different matter. An engine is reliant on someone outside the cab to set the points, and being sent down the âwrong trackâ against their will feels very violating to many engines in a way that being physically pushed or pulled by another vehicle doesnât. Itâs like being manhandled. There is an expectation that switch operators follow the instructions of either an engine, their crew, or the dispatcher or yardmaster who is expected to tell the engine in advance where they are supposed to go. Itâs also physically a jarring and unpleasant out-of-control feeling for an engine even when traveling at a safe speed â basically the train equivalent of going up or down a staircase and expecting another step that isnât there, or suddenly hydroplaning or hitting a patch of ice in a car, or having your feet start to slide out from under you. And itâs often downright dangerous, either because a train is moving too fast for the curve of the switch and is derailed or because itâs sent into a collision on the other track or off the end of a siding (e.g. the Flying Kipper crash). Engines being engines, the term is also used hyperbolically to complain about an abrupt change of routing or scheduling with little warning, e.g. âWell, nobody told us about the special using my regular platform, until the last signal, they just threw me to Platform Five!â or âTodayâs ore train was late. Dispatch gave them the tunnel instead of me so they didnât have to stop going uphill, but I didnât hear about it until they threw me on the passing siding!â It can also be used figuratively, similar to âthrown off trackâ or âthrown off,â to describe an unpleasant surprise or failure of communication.
Traveling In Style: Slang for a vehicle, especially a locomotive, being transported on a flatbed.
Tubes in a Twist / Knot: Expression of an engine (or human) being irritated, or feeling sick.
âWhatâs gt your tubes in a twist this morning?â
âThatâll put a knot in the foremanâs tubes for sure!â
âAre you feeling okay? You look like youâve got a knot in your tubes!â
Turf Train: Affectionate term for farm tractors pulling multiple trailers or appliances.
Turn Your Grates: Implying that an engine has a buildup of ash on their firebox grates that is preventing their fire from getting enough air â almost always used figuratively to imply the engineâs mind is clogged with useless thoughts or strong emotions that are keeping them from thinking clearly. Or that theyâre just being an idiot.
âTurn your grates before you run your mouthâ = Think before you speak, in particular about whether youâre coming from a place of emotion or bias.
âTurn your grates and look at the trackâ = You have your mind on something other than what youâre doing, stop thinking about that and concentrate.
âYour cars are right on Spur 7 like I told you, turn your grates and look again!â
âI know the last diesel who visited was rude, but letâs turn our grates and keep an open mind about the new ones.â
Yoopers and Burlies: These are JGD-specific slang. The railroad connects to two major interstate railroads, Union Pacific and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF). At some point some engine heard about the word âYooperâ to describe people from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, decided to start calling engines and employees from Union Pacific this, and the name stuck. âBurliesâ are BNSF engines. Prior to the 1995 merge of Burlington Northern and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the term was used for Burlington Northern, but there wasnât really a term for Santa Fe engines other than âSantasâ or âS-Fs.â A few engines tried to get âReindeerâ adopted as a term but it never caught on. Yoopers and Burlies are common on the JGD because both railways have trackage rights on one or more of its major routes.
You Got Your Valve Gear Backwards On the Left Side: Steam locomotives reverse by using their valve gear to change the timing of their valves. If one somehow had its valve gear operating backwards on one side, one cylinder would be trying to go in reverse and the other forward and it wouldnât get anywhere. Used figuratively to mean âYouâre sabotaging yourselfâ or âYouâre the cause of your own problems.â Mostly used by older engines.
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Dear Railway Series / TTTE Fandom of Tumblr:
I am so, so sorry, but this came to me in a vision and I was left with no choice but to make it.
(not supposed to be any actual RWS character just a random Midland Region steam engine circa like 1960. Traced poorly off some photo of an LMS 8F)
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can you two back me up here instead of laughing!!
#we got a number 1 victory royale yea tidmouth we bout 2 get down (get dow#lots of this was just me staring at the edwardsâ illustrations and goign HOW#maybe Iâll do one of those me not shutting tf up tutorials on this#if you want me to do that#let me know please!!!#ttte#thomas the tank engine#the railway series#this was started like a day before the anniversary#no way I was finishing it on time đ#ttte gordon#ttte edward#ttte henry#kips art#ttte fanart#ttte fandom#art#the thing is I cant stand drawing humans how the illustrators do and it shows#thomas and friends
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Prev tags for posterity:
#unfortunately this IS coppernob đ#⌠moments like this i regret having made up this guy
#shitpost#railway series fandom#other people's ocs#Coppernob (RWS)#now I want to know what engines were doing for clout in the 1850s-60s
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If all the other fandoms have Poor Little Meow Meows, I think we should just start calling James a Poor Little Choo Choo whenever he fucks up.
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I noticed something today in âDown the Mine:â after Thomas mocks Gordon, the narrator says, âAnnie and Clarabel were deeply shocked. They had a great respect for Gordon the Big Engine.â
Why do Annie and Clarabel respect Gordon so much? Thatâs a genuine question; I feel like Iâm missing something here.
Iâm guessing they knew him before Thomas became their primary engine. But at that point, Iâm not sure Gordon would give the time of day to small, aging coaches. So how did he gain their respect?
Was it because he was an express engine and there were railway hierarchies associated with that? Was it because he embodied the growing prominence of their railway? Or was it something else?
Iâd love to know what you guys think!
#ttte#rws#the railway series#ttte questions#question for the fandom#ttte gordon#ttte annie#ttte clarabel
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listen it's not my fucking fault ok I grew up watching Thomas the Tank Engine and the eyes on the models do in fact move in a circle like that so I just assumed that's what the phrase meant
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Thomas the Tank Engine (mutlimedia) | My Hero Academia (manga & anime)
Thomas & Percy:
Oh, I don't know if they'll win. But if there's one thing I know for certain... it's that the TTTE fandom goes nuts when our blorbos get into a poll. I think we need to do that again. And who better than Our Boys?
Bakugou Katsuki & Kirishima Eijirou:
Both of the charactersâ developments rely a lot on each other. They push each other to be the best version of themselves, with mutual trust and respect - of which one of the characters, Bakugou, has never really been seen to share with any other character. They very clearly care about each other a lot, and have a special bond I feel is inspiring and endearing. If there were such things as soulmates, I feel theyâd be platonic soulmates, your honour.
#round 1#part 2#platonic pals punchout#tournament#character tournament#team tournament#fandom poll#tte#thomas & friends#the railway series#my hero academia#mha#the thomas one is worded so threateningly i love it
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Tidmouth, 1915 (preview)
Freshly renumbered NWR #1 still in patched GNR paint having been rescued from a scrapyard backs onto a train as NWR #5 in the background pulls out with a goods train.
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Happy 79th Anniversary !
Ohhhh boy, this book is 79 years old? Blimey! The book that started in all, The Three Railway Engines. Cheers, Wilbert⌠however imperfect your stories were, it did have a positive impact in that it inspired the love of steam locomotives in younger generations for years to come.
Cheers to the first three⌠Edward, Gordon and Henry!
Salut!
I know itâs a bit late, but hereâs my tribute inspired by the poster for Trainspotting.
#ttte#rws#thomasallgrownup#ttte henry#thomas and friends#ttte gordon#ttte edward#The Three Railway Engines#the railway series#ttte gijinka#ttte humanised#ttte humanisation#ttte human au#ttte fanart#ttte fandom#ttte humanized
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Lost Custody of My OCs In Internet Court Club meets M-W-F 3AM at AO3. Complimentary cinnamon rolls provided.
#lost a few braincells reading some of these#fandom problems#tags that passed peer review#(look 'lost custody of my ocs in court' is pretty funny)#(i'm glad that's not a thing or some of y'all would have wrangled poppet from me already)
ok though this made me giggle at the mental image of a big sign outside Barrow Central Station saying: "EXPECT SIGNIFICANT DELAYS OF ALL TRAINS TODAY. LOST CUSTODY OF OUR STATION PILOT IN COURT. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE."
not submission. I really hate the "My OC, my rules" thing. Cause like, no? Just because they are your oc doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with them. If you want to make your oc suffer and not like them get help, you deserve to lose rights over them. Especially if you only do that stuff to purposely trigger people. Once you do that, your oc no longer belongs to you. they belong to the public who will take better care of them instead
Making a comment to get this to post.
#shitpost#fandom meta#railway series fandom#sign outside WWI supply depot: 'LOST CUSTODY OF OUR E2 IN COURT'#sign outside Barrow again: 'LOST CUSTODY OF OUR SEAGULL IN COURT'#sign outside LMS Headquarters: 'LOST CUSTODY OF OUR MOGUL IN COURT FOR GIVING HIM WOODEN BRAKE BLOCKS'#yet another sign on New Barrow Station's platform: 'LOST CUSTODY OF OUR METROVICK IN COURT'#sign outside MSR terminal: 'ALL TRAINS CANCELED INDEFINITELY. LOST CUSTODY OF OUR ENGINES IN COURT'#sign outside R.W.Awdry's Office: 'LOST CUSTODY OF HENRY IN COURT'#whump meta
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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!
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TTTE/RWS Fandom, please go watch How Diesel 10 Stole Christmas. Holy shit this is the funniest TTTE fanfilm I've ever seen. My sides hurt.
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A Gallant Old Engine redraw. Hope you enjoy
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