Why else would a grown man play with trains?

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Did it bother anyone else that the “Troublesome Trucks” and brakevans were personified like the other machines but destroyed (murdered?) without any sentiment?

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That gives me flashbacks to an early rock operetta from The Who, “Quick One While He is Away”
Ivor the engine driver comes in at 8:30

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I’ve actually seen Thomas the Tank Engine live and in, er, ‘person’. Not a model; the real thing. He’s just as creepy live as he is on TV!

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My favorite line is that the train remained in the river until WWII when it was salvaged for scrap metal.

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I think that fits with my personal theory about Sodor

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“is this susquehanna 2222?”

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and just cuz I’ve been re-listening to it lately, trying to learn a new lullaby for bedtime…

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…the truth behind Thomas and his friends is no childrens story. It is a story that begins in wartime Germany, and ends with a discovery that would change Thomas, and his friends, lives forever.

ETA @beep54orama, this vid is the real creepy Thomas stuff.

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oh and the Smurfs are insects.

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It could be worse. Thomas’s buddy Gunter was transporting people to Auschwitz.

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Insects that are three apples high? I’m going to have nightmares from that.

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Not all Bugs

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Reckon we need the xkcd.

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John Astin as Gomez Addams. The best casting decision in the history of American television.

And having got that out of the way, here’s the best 1:1 scale train crash in any movie ever.

(Skip ahead to 2:30 if you must, but the setup is worth watching)

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I’m hearing that in George Carlin’s voice…

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You can go for rides pulled by the full-size locomotive used in that movie at Railtown 1897 State Park up in the Sierra Foothills. It’s pretty awesome. Highly recommended if you’re in California.

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I love trains. I have many of my Dad’s childhood O-guage units, unfortunately, in boxes behind my workstation here. After he had us, he got more into HO-scale railroading, and I was able to build him a table a few years ago.

I should get all that set up again. It’s been too long, and sometimes it’s nice having a distraction from the climate of nightmares we live in now.

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I find it funnier in Ringo’s voice.

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