I’m already starting to prepare the pilot episode where Berkshire Partners sends the Fat Controller’s brother Jonathan over to the island of Sodor to implement PSR and a fleet of Progress Rail diesels there…
No, he helps Gertie take her train over the grade, and they do it together where neither one of them could alone.
Then they both thank and acknowledge each other as the other engines look on with admiration and growing understanding.
Gertie isn’t stereotype ‘cranky’ like the crane: she has disabilities and has to surpass them. This is the United States: we don’t need convenient comic-relief villains like the scarecrow in Bob the Buiilder in this modern day and age.
Gotta do the messages right; no one else seems to be willing…
“Rent-A-Wreck” is your title. Clapped out PRLX diesels with previous rr logos crossed out
Perhaps “Rent to Wreck” would be even funnier.
The question is whether that is a recurring series, or a short-term gag. I’m thinking that there’s comedy gold to be mined from a great deal of recent British and American railroad history… the intersection of which promises to be far funnier than many of the other ‘clash of cultures’ movies and shows…
Jon Oliver already kind of did that.
I suck at computers but It would be neat to see someone animate this. (Ahem Cowl Unit Productions)
Baron Barracuda! Wow! Somebody besides Lady Firestorm and me remembers “Diver Dan!”
Oh yeah, I know the Jersey Central’s tank engine was a 4-6-4 (The first Hudson?) but I just couldn’t find a decent link to a picture of one in a reasonable amount of time. So when all else fails fall back on Lionel!
I suspect Lionel used K-Line tooling to produce that model, if they ever did produce it, I’ve never seen one anywhere while I have seen K-Line’s.
That is a pin-guided trailing truck, so at the very lease it would be ‘Baltic’, not ‘Hudson’, if you’re agnostic about whether tank engines share Whyte coding.
It is my opinion that they should not. A 4-6-xT is basically a fancy 4-6-0 (a wheel arrrangement that itself lacks an interesting name!) and needs a name that reflects this somehow, the way that ‘Forney’ means 0-4-4T.
A very clear example is those Reading 2-6-4s, which are properly called the ‘Suburban’ type. They are NOT, NOT, NOT Golsdorf-style Adriatics, no matter whether the trailing truck is pin-guided or otherwise.
I would name the 4-6-4T arrangement the ‘Remembrance’ type (after the greatest of all 4-6-4T locomotive classes).
Thomas would not exist in the US as it is a one man crew and the union would object.
[:D]
But Thomas is at least level 4 autonomous, capable of speech interaction, and arguably possessed of consciousness and self-awareness.
As are most of the other engines who are his friends…
Certain literary situations mention themselves other than the obvious, including a Keith Laumer SF story and a certain Stephen King monorail…
Really? What happened to the two very responsible railway workers? [:^)]
LOL, Balt! You had it nailed per the attached!
Surprised they didn’t use a Big Boy rather than a 2-6-6-6
All I know about that Thomas guy is that he comes around once a year for three weekends in a row, causes absolute chaos and havoc, then leaves the CRRM museum under cover of darkness and goes back to Durango.
“Sam” probably got downsized by those “less than usefull” financial zealots that think they know how to railroad in the US and Canada.
I can see Thomas as a 2-8-4 Berkshire.
Although the first Thomas stories came out in the 1940s, I believe Rev. Awdry based Thomas and the other early engines on engines that he saw as a boy in 1910s Britain. So I would say if Thomas were American, he’d still be from that time frame, a WW1 era engine.
Maybe “Mike the (USRA) Mikado”?