#Rails engineers

[gumi-artpoidd]

Silver Wolf made entirely out of the Unity Game Engine default 2d sprites.

scene view + objects under cut

[milfcutlawquane]

"Why are you here? Where have you been?"

"Ah. That's a very long story. Do you like stories, Thomas?"

"Yes! The little engines in the hills tell me stories all the time."

"Then, I hope you will like mine."

Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2009)

[spooky-activity]

… yep still hate drawing backgrounds. The lengths I go for you, my beloved readers’ collective benefit 😩

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[bruhstation]

man who enjoys every single second he's dedicated to hating to the point it pisses everyone except him off

[prringlecan]

When are we getting more Herta and Welt interactions PLEASE I know she wants to pick apart that old man’s brain soooo bad

Likely for her own curiosity but if I were a genius and some old fuck showed up saying he was an animator and then not ONLY pulled a BLACK HOLE out of nowhere, but CUT IT IN HALF????????? I think Herta would really enjoy working with him at least

[q-theeccentric]

"acheron and zephyro's fight will be epic" chat i want sampo koski vs asat pramad

[catenary-chad]

The whole intent and dialogue around that statue in Times Square that pisses people off for being so radically average (Grounded in Stars) is so relevant to how I see Electra. Electric trains are just so invisible and never given serious media attention in the Anglosphere for how much they quietly keep society running and are genuinely superhero-tier stat-wise compared to any other trains (the environmental angle woefully undersells them they are OP in general).

Anyways, the more people go out of their way to make Electra anything but a regular electric train (which are SO rare in English-language fictional media) to villainize them, the more I make Electra a radically average fat middle aged commuter train with realistic “stuck in the 70s-80s” aesthetics. Because it makes you question everything and long for revisionist Train Wicked, because media misrepresenting and erasing electric trains for so long is such a silent but influential problem in the Anglosphere and has FASCINATING implications. The fact that people bend over backwards to praise steam engines for less than mediocrity but scream at electric trains for anything less than perfection (and ignore them otherwise) is telling and could be made so meaningful.

Anyways, flounce on New Jersey Transit Electra. Her hair is made of those coiled wires like on telephones. I may spin her into an OC because NJT is all electro-diesel bimodal engines and she really does feel like a midpoint between Electra and Greaseball lol

[paigeparty]

Hiro knows what it's like to be the master of something. It's a great responsibility on your buffers!

Sometimes, he takes Tinker out to a secluded spot where he loves to relax and let her just be herself (even if she changes form). Being a controller, driver, and fireman all at once must be exhausting, even if she only has two (sorta three) engines. One is magical for sake!

Hiro is really proud to be on her railway, he's like a grandfather to her 🤞

[hazelcongestion]

what do you mean you don’t use the NWR app to book tickets??

[mrwelshdrummerman9015]

Ex-LMS Stanier Black 5 No. 45212 passing Saltney Junction on its way to Holyhead from Manchester Piccadilly pulling The Mancunian rail tour organised by The Railway Touring Company.

@british-rail-official @british-rail @national-rail @network-rail @guerrerense I thought you lot may like this. This probably would’ve been a common sight back in steam days as the North Wales Coast route was LMS territory and Chester had a mix of LMS and GWR stuff.

[milfcutlawquane]

Very slowly, Thomas chuffed forward into the bushes. The branches crackled and crunched. Then Thomas gasped, his eyes popped wide with wonder. There, on the other side of the bushes, was a very old engine. It was broken and rusty. Thomas felt scared, he didn't dare speak. Then, the old engine smiled at him. It was a little frightened smile, but it made the old engine look kind and gentle. And it made Thomas feel less scared.

Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2009)

[henryandgordon]

Are we going to talk about the frogs?

[mwolf0epsilon]

The Unlucky Tug's season 13 & Hero of the Rails Retrospective video got me thinking about Spencer... As a character we really don't have much on him do we? (Which is ironically fitting since he's a private engine)

Come to think of it, most of what we know of Spencer are a handful of crumbs you can count off your fingers (that he's proud of being a speedster, that he enjoys his work as a private engine, that he's not overly fond of Sodor's engines, etc...), and just a few personality traits you can parse from watching how he interacts with others (which often amounts to him being a pompous jerk who cares more about his status than actually behaving in a way that upholds that status with grace). Other than that, we don't really know who he is or what he did before he became the Duke and Duchess of Boxford's privately owned engine...

Sure, he's an A4 Pacific but... Is he meant to be a specific one?

Every engine in the railway series and the tv shows has a proper basis one can refer to. Even if some of them are fictional members of a specific line of engines or heavily altered (Gordon as his class's imperfect but no less endearing prototype, Edward being a surviving member of his class despite all of the Larger Seagulls having been scrapped in actuality, James being a custom fleshed out in the series, and Henry being a personification of one class configuration being rebuilt into another, etc...the list is never ending here!) they still have a concrete basis you can look at and equate them to.

With that in mind... Is Spencer supposed to be one of the Silvers? The first batch of A4s that pulled the Silver Jubelee and didn't escape scrapping? If so, is he meant to be a fifth fictional member of the Silvers or is he actually one of them under a new identity?

I've seen the latter idea being toyed with a lot (and I do vibe with it because second chances at life freaking slap as a character arc!), but the former idea... The one where maybe he's a secret fifth member that was never really in prominence compared to his older siblings (overlooked and ignored)... It also does seem fitting doesn't it?

Especially considering none of his fellow Silvers survived.

What I'm getting at, is that Spencer strikes me as someone who's deeply insecure to the point he'll latch onto what he thinks is his (his status for example), and protects it with such jealous ferocity that it makes him a very difficult engine to get along with.

If he were one of the Silvers who somehow miraculously got bought by the Duke and Duchess of Boxford when he was going to be scrapped, it definitely makes sense why he tries to seem like he's more than he really is. Making himself out to be important would ensure he continues to remain useful enough that he won't see the cutter's torch so soon...

But it also makes him a potentially very unstable and volatile individual if he gets it in his funnel that someone is threatening his position/existence. Literally anything minor can be blown out of proportion. Including something as harmless as a cheeky little tank engine trying to show him up, and humiliating him in front of his lifeline...

Because trying to get a fellow steam engine scrapped due to a wounded ego is DEFINITELY a disproportional response to his petty squabble with Thomas. And his later reaction when Hiro rescues him shows this too. If Spencer were that much of a jerk that he is all for getting someone else scrapped, he wouldn't have changed his mind so easily.

Spencer's lack of a backstory not only bothers me, it also makes his behavior all that much more interesting to study under a microscope... Just what did he go through that THAT was the only way he thought was appropriate to get back at Thomas? Especially when later it becomes very apparent he didn't mean it...

Who were you Spencer? What did you see?

[lomotunes2008]

What did they do to him??

[ttteanimalau]

How does Spencer look in ur AU? And would he and Thomas have had an actual fight in HOTR movie in ur AU? :o

How do u think Edward react to Spencer’s belittling to Thomas? (Similar to the actual scene, when Edward says he is a really useful engine 🩵💙).

Also may I ask for permission on drawing ur wonderful animal AU characters in future? :)

Here's the bastard lmao

And yes, it would likely start off as a chase but Thomas being the bold idiot he is, he turned around and took on Spencer while Hiro made it to the Sodor Infirmary, where Victor was informed and The Fat Controller was called.

Spencer chose not to cause much actual injury to Thomas, instead choosing to mildly bruise him and make sure he couldn't get up, of course not seeing Hiro running away. He prioritized his ego and "victory" over Thomas than whatever that "strange lion" was.

Also when I think about that beginning scene, I generally like to imagine Edward, James, and Gordon were alot more vocal about defending Thomas, especially Edward. James and Gordon had the vibes of "No one insults him but me" which I find funny lol

I tried to draw lil sketches but I lost motivation quick so I chose not to, sorry about that lol

Also yes! You're free to make fanart so long as I get credited and tagged so I may see!

[drinkingteainthedark]

Everytime someone portrays Blade as stupid a Sunday loses his wings