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Meow meow meow meow meow

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SCREAMS

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Train in vain, Naotaka Hirota

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unfortunately i do love pompous and pretentious characters. ☝️ WHO get their asses handed to them this is pivotal to my enjoyment of them

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'Neath the Boughs Is a Heart Made of Iron

I can't and won't stop drawing forest Henry as my GED date rapidly approaches.

(p.s. ripped part of the title off of Yaelkore)

Edit: I couldn't resist and colored the lad. If he can't have two eyes, he at least deserves some color.

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M. Irfan (Indonesian, 1972), Red, 2012. Mixed media on canvas, 170 x 250 cm.

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I’ve heard head cannons (I think they’re head cannons? It might be cannon idk) of Percy being the work’s shunter there. It would be funny if Hatt chose Percy because he was the only engine there gaurenteed to actually function, if he’s literally working there lol.

I've just had a realization about Henry Mk1, the fictional sodor locomotive that was rumored to be built to stolen plans by an engineer jealous of Sir Nigel Gresley, but who stole the wrong plans. The engine was so flawed when built that they unloaded it to the first desperate buyer--Mr. Topham Hatt--who "wanted an Atlantic, but that ----- ------ ------ sent me that!"

So Henry I is said to have an undersized firebox, but he's also said to look like Gordon, and most of the best guesses for Henry's basis is that it was a modified Ivatt Atlantic stretched into either a ten wheeler or a Pacific. He also looks to have as wide a firebox as Gordon's in the illustrations and in the classic show.

an Ivatt Atlantic.

The A0 prototype--also thought to be Gordon as built, though he would have been heavily modified until he was mechanically identical to the A1s. (i.e., Flying Scotsman, Great Northern, etc)

Suppose Gresley's first thought was to stretch an Atlantic into a ten wheeler, and not a Pacific. With no room for the driving wheels, he'd have had to cut into the firebox, changing it into a narrow "keyhole" shape like Edward's. He would have done some calculations on the firebox's heating rate versus the power output of the engine, and determined that the loco wouldn't work, and then tossed the plans--right into the thief's hands.

My theory is that Henry I had the boiler barrel of a Large Boiler Atlantic, and he was built with larger cylinders (comparable to Gordon's, rather than the original Atlantic's). Maybe even three or four cylinders, maybe intended to be a compound like some of the Ivatt Atlantics iirc, but built by the thieves incorrectly as a simple-expansion engine. But he had a thin 'keyhole' style firebox squeezed between the rear drivers.

So Henry was lugging around Gordon-type weight, held a Gordon amount of steam and water, and had just as much tractive effort as Gordon... but with a firebox barely larger than Edward's. He'd take ages to build pressure, and when he did, he'd exhaust it faster than he could build up more.

He looks like he had a wide firebox like Gordon because in order to mask this obvious oversight, Henry's builders built the boiler jacket, the smooth painted outer hull, to be the same shape as an Ivatt Large Boiler Atlantic's boiler jacket, but most of it was just hollow.

Combine that with generally poor build quality--valve gear out of time, low factor of adhesion despite the extra driver due to oversized cylinders, leaky fittings and cylinders--and you got yourself a "deplorable" locomotive, but one that is ultimately recoverable if he's given the care he deserves.

Plus I like Henry being a ten wheeler pre- and post- rebuild.

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Should we be worried at some point?

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Gordon napping while a worker cleans out his smokebox.

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And then I wrote another 80th Anniversary Fic:

This one is based off of this series of Tumblr posts by @mean-scarlet-deceiver (apologies for the tag) which turn the first book into a comedy.

I had to ask to turn it into a fic - and they said yes! So here it is! Hope you enjoy it!

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farts

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Yo chat, they’ve finally found the lost down the mine pilot episode and it’s going to be uploaded on YouTube tomorrow

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Art Trade with MooreMJs_Trains on instagram!

I was tasked with drawing his AU version of Proteus. He combined Skarloey and Sir Handel's features into one which I think is very cool.

Had a blast doing it. His art is baller

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for always and always and always

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Did I post this.... hmm no. Okay. I did it right now.