Thomas the railworks tank engine

Example

Thomas shunting trucks that like to slip breaks on:

"Are you f<Thomas whistle> kidding me I only moved two sidings over this is the 3rd f<Thomas whistle> time in 10 f<Thomas whistle> minutes

Your putting me behind schedule like I've not got s<Thomas whistle> to do

New Skarloey railway member

Meet Walter the porter

He was regauged to run on the 2 foot gauge from 3 foot and was brought over to help with running the blue mountain quarry to run trains around the site

Built as and industrial engine he likes shunting but every once in a while he'll get pulled down to the SKR if it's a slow day or if there's an influx of tourists in the valley to run freight and passengers.

As the only current American locomotive on the little railway he's a bit of a star as people like to catch a glimpse at the little outsider.

Adding to him being American it was a bit of a learning curve with different terminologies used.

He can be a grumbler about it

"Hey Luke can you switch these cars over there I'm busy with this lot. "

"Switch cars? Do you mean-"

"*grumble* Switch cars shunt trucks whatever you want to call it yes do that. "

They know what he means they just like to haze him.

He gets along well with duncan for they are both industrial purpose engines and like to bitch about things.

Henry was built off rejected Gresley plans so what if they said "well he's already mostly this engine may as well go all in"

Percy chuffs off

Thomas under breath: that's right go you little bastard

Percy smokebox door swings out so he's looking behind: the fuck you say to me?

Welcome my newest member of my railworks NWR fleet Matthias the CR 191.

Gordon makes a show of being annoyed but actually loves it and they know it.

"Did you hear how they whistle? Real hooters they are."

"Sound like tugboats."

"DO YA WANT TA GET A BEATIN!?"

"No..."

FOR THE GWR!!

Oh boy THIS scenario was such a hassle

The set up for this is it started as a pub debate where some LMS/SOUTHERN folk were like "those little 56xx can't make it up a 1:50 with 20 gravel cars and a breakeven." So now it's your job to prove them wrong, I love the implication that they set this up just to make a point.

Anyway you are tasked to haul said load cab first up the hills and the struggle is REAL, maxed out like 6 mph on those hills but I MADE IT!

Edward (represented as a Caledonian 721 because that's the closest thing that looks like him in railworks) (locomotive from Caledonia works) pulling the express.

Maybe he cut a deal with stanier I don't know.

The GNR A1 (Gordon's basis) was built in 1922

Apparently gordon was a prototype of the A1 so let's say he was built in 21

Remembers throw away line I made in my first Percy post

Hey

But the reason I'm posting this is because what if he doesn't say out right that he and his friends are engines and that everyone listening just assumes that he and everyone he talks about are engine drivers (except the island locals) (and maybe that was intentional sneaky blue shit)

So let's say that Edward gets a live show on sodor, people from the mainland come to see the show, the curtains open to see... a screen?

The screen turns on to show a live feed of Edward in a shed for the night and everyone that didn't already know it was Edward mentality blue screens.

Is it dumb? Maybe but this idea was stuck in my head like a song.