#ttte anniversary

[ohmystarrynight]

Happy anniversary, Thomas!! 38 years ago Thomas and friends premiered!

[brendambois]

Traintober day 9: Old Iron

Edward the Blue Engine was parked on one of the many two track jetties in the vast land of Tidmouth harbour, staring out into the horizon.

As the sun was setting, a small blue tank engine with six small wheels, a short stumpy funnel, a short stumpy boiler, and a short stumpy dome rolled up beside him. "Hello Edward, what are you doing out here?"

"Oh nothing Thomas, just thinking" the old engine replied.

"About what?" Said Thomas.

"About how far we've come"

Thomas then looked on to the horizon "We really have come far haven't we."

"Yes we have" Edward said, "I still remember when Gordon was the new engine on the line, and how he would call me old and slow, and how James was young and stupid and would call me old iron."

"Oh the irony of that" said Thomas "At this point we could all be considered old iron."

"Oh the irony indeed" Edward chuckled "it really is crazy how far we've come" he continued "From being the Nowhere Railway to one of the most popular tourist destinations" he looked down at his running board "I never thought that I would make it this far, from the shy steamer on the Furness to one of the the main staple engines on the North Western Railway"

He then looked at the tank engine next to him "And look at you, you went from being a small tank engine on a small railway in the middle of nowhere to being one of the most famous locomotives in the world.

Thomas the Tank Engine looked at his old friend dearly "But I still never would have made it here without you and everyone else, so from the bottom of my metaphorical heart, thank you. Now come on, Edward, the party for the 40th anniversary for our tv show is starting soon, and I don't want to miss it."

"Alright, I'm coming" Edward said.

And even though it was over 100 years ago, when Edward saw Thomas move through the dancing rays of the dying sunlight he could still see flickers of the little engine with the long tongue who wanted to see the world.

[trainsandkitties]

"A better view for Gordon" s5e3 My part of the 40th anniversary of the Thomas and Friends/The Tank Engine TV series collab. Thank you to Britt and all of the amazing people who worked on it for making a show that did and still does bring so much joy to me and others alike

[13o7billionyearsinthemaking]

Tidmouth Runaway

It's The Railway Series 79th Anniversary

Probably the most biblically accurate version of them, even having their correct wheel arrangements

[the-time-lord-oracle]

Exactly 40 years ago today at 4pm on October 9th 1984, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends made it's television debut with a double bill of Thomas & Gordon and Edward & Gordon on CITV and a legend was born. So here's to 40 years of Thomas. Dry rails and good running!

[theflyingkipper]

can you two back me up here instead of laughing!!

[monstersteam]

Based on a dream…

[vhshistory]

Happy belated 40th anniversary, Thomas & Friends!

[unpopularvivian]

Happy 40th Anniversary Ttte!

Have some pictures of the og Steam Team! (I love these little sillies so much)

[thesteamw0rks]

posted these yesterday, but happy 79th anniversary the the three dudes

more art soon!!

[whirligig-girl]

Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends aired on this day 40 years ago. Here's a portrait of the tank engine of the hour.

I usually draw Thomas as a sort of freelance design or "railway series" inspired design, with a few more realistic features and so on, if not as a straight up accurate or slightly modified E2.

But this drawing is a study of the Gauge 1 (1:32 scale) plastic prop built for Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends season 1. Proportions could be a little better; the wheels might be a little small and the boiler a little big. oh well.

A fun detail about the design is it's mostly using flat plastic-card and tubing of just a single radius. So the curve on the front footplate is actually the same curvature as the boiler. I believe the splashers are also the same diameter, but I'm not sure. The cab roof is probably slightly curved plastic-card. I'm not sure how the boiler and funnel are made, probably some amount of sculpting went into it. The chassis is a heavily modified german gauge 1 model built by Marklin, and the details like the vacuum brake pipe (the big tubing of the S1 version of the model looks way better to me than the like, floating pipe we see in later variants of the model), headlamp, and screw-link couplers are also taken from Marklin engines.

There's often discussion of what makes an engine a "RWS" version of an engine, but comparing the Gauge 1 prop to the first illustrations of Thomas from the Railway Series books, it's pretty much spot on. The double-whistle seems to be a slight misinterpretation of the safety valve assembly, and the lamp isn't especially accurate, and the font on the "1" is a little different, but it's basically like the drawing come to life. By comparison, it's usually the later versions of Thomas that people are attempting to evoke with "RWS" versions.

I also noticed that the lining appears to have like, white around it, almost like it's a print-out or something, rather than painted directly onto the model. So that's in my drawing too; and it actually kinda helps blend between the red lining and the blue paint a little better.

[lomotunes2008]

When you realise that the first TTTE episode released 40 years ago

Happy 40th birthday you little blue rascal

[brendambois]

Happy 40th anniversary to Thomas the tank engine and Friends.

[sketch-pencilpoint]

So I was thinking. I've recently put myself on the waiting list to get an Ao3. So, if I was to make a thomas monster engines fanfic to expand all my lore would anyone be interested.

Also happy 40 birthday shithead and dumbass

[sanepersonhere]

CONGRATS TO @bruhstation FOR GETTING ACCEPTED !!! 

Heres a little younger 2x4 redraw thing

more stuff under read more 

not sure how canon these are in cstm but i found them pretty funny ^^

ms paint, my love

[sirrabbitblog]

Happy 40th Anniversary TVS!

Here to 40 Years, of great memories, and hope we can all build more within our community!