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George was looking forward to pulling up a disused railway siding to make way for a road widening project.
Unfortunately, Dennis rolled into the yard and just so happened to decide that siding was perfect to go and rest in.
And knowing Dennis, It'll probably be a while before he decides to move.
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Tied Up!
Written By: SparkArrester
With thanks to @lswro2-222 and @kujakisser for some good ol' inspiration.
Toad the Brake-van is a well known sight along the Little Western. He's probably the best at keeping the trucks in line. Despite this, he’s seen by most non-railway folk as “Just another wagon”, though he doesn’t mind one bit.
One day, however, Donald clanked into the Top Station of the Little Western, where he saw the most peculiar sight!
“Lor Sakes Laddie!” He exclaimed.
Toad was sitting in a siding, wearing, under his chin, a sleek black bowtie!
“Hello Mista Donald! How do you like my new look?”
“It looks great on ye! But where on earth did ye find it? In that size nonetheless?”
Just then, Oliver pulled up with some empty wagons.
“The Fat Controller sourced some!” He answered, “Great Western originals too! We ‘ave a whole box of these things in the shed!”
“Great Western Originals?”
“Yes Mister Donald! We used to have these back on the Great Western. Coal Trucks and Goods Vans were expected to be dirty, but everything else, including us Brake-Vans, had to look as put together and high class as possible! This was management's way of making us look the part!”
“Then why didn’t ye have one when ye first came ‘ere?”
Toad sighed, “When BR took over, they got rid of them. They said it was an unneeded expense…”
“Aye, that’s just like yon snakes, draining the soul oot the railways. Well, I’m glad tah see ye got yours back. Really fits ye!”
Douglas wasn’t the only one who thought so! The summer season brought many tourists and holidaymakers to the railway, and they all took notice! Even passengers who usually took no notice of Toad raised their heads as he passed by. Toad had many different bow-ties in many different colors, and each day he wore a different one. The tourists certainly ate it up, and fellow engines complimented Toad on them. Well, all but one…
“Gawd he looks adorable!” Exclaimed a tourist in a thick accent as Toad passed by the Big Station, trailing after Douglas and his ballast hoppers.
“I say!” grunted Gordon, “Little Toad is making quite the impression!”
“I can see that…” growled James, trying and failing to sound calm.
“You aren’t jealous, are you, James?”
“Me, jealous of a filthy brake-van? Pah!”
And without another word, he snorted off.
But he was jealous, and, and failing to hide it, he made his grievances known at the sheds that night.
“I take great pains in keeping my resplendent paintwork spotless!” He proclaimed, ignoring the looks he got from the cleaners, “But no, they all take to some filthy brake-van with second rate accessories! Honestly, the nerve!”
“The nerve indeed…” Yawned Emily, “Now quiet you, I’ve got an early train tomorrow…”
And that was that.
James was still making a fuss the next morning.
“They want accessories?”, he ranted, “I’ll show them accessories! I’ll accessorize so much they can’t take their eyes off me!”
But by doing that, he took his eyes off of one very important thing: watching where he was going.
“Horrors!” He cried, as he slammed into a goods van. It’s contents flew out and landed all over James. As he opened his eyes, he gaped. He had crashed into a van full of clothing. Blazers, Jackets, Dress pants, and cufflinks covered him from chimney to wheels. But that wasn’t all! Tied around his lamp irons were bow-ties of every shape and color. James was about to lose it when laughter erupted on his left. He had crashed next to the station, and the passengers (and engines too!) all took proper notice of him now!
“Well!”, said Toad, who heard on the grapevine about James’ behavior, “Now that’s what you call accessorizing!”
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having talented friends is so wild!!!!!! like. YOU!!!!!!!!!! YOU made THAT. YOU DID THAT?!?!?!?! YOU created!!!! THAT!!!!!!!!!!! WOAH!!!!!! praise!!!!!!!! praise for one thousand years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary:
Edward’s in the Works for maintenance, so an engine from the Other Railway arrives to fill in on his branch line. She soon proves herself to be a bully. Bill and Ben aren’t about to let that slide.
I would like to give special thanks to @mean-scarlet-deceiver, @sparkarrestor, and @joezworld for helping me decide which engine this story’s antagonist would be! I’d also like to thank Joezworld a second time for letting me borrow the idea that Bill and Ben learned to speak German for the sole purpose of messing with people, and a third time for coming up with the title. You guys are the best!
#ttte#thomas the tank engine#ttte fic#traintober2023#bill ttte#ben ttte#boco ttte#salty ttte#derek ttte#edward ttte#cranky ttte#writing#my own writing#i’m quite proud of this one
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even though they can reach mach 2.0 speeds, concordes much prefer life as couch potatoes. if you have a fenced airfield and neighbours who can tolerate sonic booms, please consider rehoming a retired concorde today
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ME: hold up. you see that? train's been through here
FRIEND: how can you tell
ME: tracks. they're not fresh, maybe 60, 80 years old
FRIEND: no chance it'll come back, then
ME: don't be so sure. That's well within their lifespan... and they're highly territorial
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Traintober-lite
Hi guys, just dropping in to say that , no I'm not dead or anything. I've merely caught a major case of capitalism with a side of adult, so I've been working a lot.
With that in mind, let's get into why I am here:
As you might have seen @theflyingkipper has taken on this year's Traintober duties, and I imagine it's going to be a blast. However if you're like me and have (checks watch) negative time to devote to a month of train content, then I have the solution for you! Just one Halloween themed TTTE prompt/challenge, which you can devote as much, or as little, time to as you want.
And that prompt is:
Sodor's Ghostwatch
To explain what this is, we have to go down a bit of a British TV history rabbit hole:
On Halloween night, 1992, the BBC aired Ghostwatch , an hour and a half long programme that purported itself to be a live TV investigation into a haunted house in London. The poltergeist, named "Mr. Pipes", or just "Pipes", is tormenting a family by possessing their daughter on a regular basis. I'll spare the specifics for brevity's sake, but while the broadcast starts off normal, it gradually becomes clear that Pipes is using the broadcast as a way to transmit himself across the TV airwaves, eventually kidnapping the presenter in the house, and jumping into the broadcast studio to possess Michael Parkinson as the broadcast ends.
Now, if that name rung a bell with you, well done. Michael Parkinson was a very famous BBC talk show host... as was every other on-screen personality on the show. That was on purpose, because while the show was actually scripted, it was intended to give the appearance of being a live broadcast, using real TV personalities, real TV facilities, and during a real timeslot on BBC 1, the flagship TV station for the country, at a time when satellite TV and alternative cable channels numbered in the low double digits.
Let me rephrase this: The BBC, an organization that does not joke around, created their own version of the War of the Worlds broadcast, except that instead of aliens invading, they told the entire country that they were doing a live show about a real haunting... and then the ghost escaped and attacked the presenters.
The BBC got over thirty thousand phone calls before the end of the night. Michael Parkinson's mother was one of the callers. Numerous people who believed that the show was legit had actual problems afterwards, ranging from the absurd (a woman called the BBC demanding they pay her husband's laundry bill after he soiled himself while watching) to the more upsetting. (lots of children got nightmares)
To this day the special has never aired again on British TV, regardless of network, and it likely never will again. It predated, and inspired, films like Derren Brown's Séance, The Blair Witch Project, and Host (2020).
It is one of the greatest TV events of its time. It scared the shit out of a lot of people.
So... with that in mind,
What do we think happened on Sodor?
That's what this challenge is:
By 9:00 PM GMT on 31 October, 2023 (5:00 PM US EST), produce some content about Ghostwatch and its effect on Sodor and its residents. It can be art, a story, an audio file, whatever. This is a very freeform challenge. You can make one thing or you can make twenty, just make sure that they're good. Nothing else really matters. Tag it with #Sodor's Ghostwatch and see what everyone else has made!
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My traintober list is here! Please feel free to skip days or combine prompts, this is meant to be fun :] Im posting in advance so that people will have time to prepare in advance if they would like! Have fun everyone and don’t stress out.
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if i had the ability to make my brain animatics real i would be unstoppable
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#video#this is donald and dilly and you cannot tell me otherwise#oh hey i get to add another thing to that tag!
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I really love that ttteblr will see a video of a domestic duck interacting with a human and go "that's donald and dilly right there". Because it's true and it never fails to make me smile
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Donald and his duck 🖤🦆❤️🦆❤️🦆🖤
Happy Donald Day Everyone (9/9)!!!
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time for the monthly ttte "happy [day] to [characters] post
happy 9/9 to them !!
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I will not dox my neighbour and post pictures of his house because I am not an asshole, but he just put an addition on his already batshit insane house and I am dying to share.
He lives in a 1950 PanAm passenger plane. I have no fucking clue how he got it here, because we're nowhere near a runway and it still has its wings and its landing gear. The living space is a solid 15 feet off the ground and he has one of those old school staircase vans as his front step. I would assume its not terribly different from living in a trailer or other mobile home, but its way better insulated because its a plane.
Anyway, he just finished a glassed in porch that comes out of the pilots side of the cockpit and its so cool. This isn't some gimmicky airbnb, this is his house and the commitment to the bit is legendary.
His greenhouse is a fire engine.
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“average train has a delay 3 times a year” factoid actually just statistical error. average train is delayed 0 times per year. Trains Georg, who lives in an abandoned train station and causes the delay of over 10.000 trains every day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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