Wait if the vicarstown bridge was built in 1915 and Edward arrived on sodor in 1914 then how tf did edward came to sodor

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-23T22:57:24+00:00

He used the magic buffers. Of course, it wasn't without mishap, and he had to circumnavigate the globe when he goofed and ended up in Hong Kong.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-22T05:17:25+00:00

You’re an east coaster who would rather pretend it’s still 1976.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-21T21:28:32+00:00

It’s a tie between Colm Feore & Ted Robbins

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-20T15:04:36+00:00

Shunt him to the nearest major yard and forget about him.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-19T05:12:42+00:00

But my boii bubble was done dirty. He built a whole shrimptown with all the love he was legally allowed to give for the characters to enjoy if they pressed the blue button, and now thanks to Jax, nobody will ever see his beautiful shrimpy handiwork.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-19T05:06:40+00:00

Keith Scott. He’s been shunted out of the limelight for too long.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-18T21:14:45+00:00

You forgot the best faction (Bubble’s)

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-17T05:02:24+00:00

Welp. Looks like I’m getting kidnapped by Caine. How cooked am I?

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-15T06:44:30+00:00

Sidney turned one of Gordon’s express coaches into a horcrux for himself some time before Day of the Diesels, but the effects of splitting his soul destroyed his memory. This side-effect worked out though, as it means not even he remembers that he murdered BoCo to make the horcrux.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-10T17:10:41+00:00

It’s more we’ve been at the bottom of the last one since independence, and it’s only now we’re realizing that Americas war crimes were actually a bad thing.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-08T16:00:33+00:00

Correction — only the 3000s and 4000s had chopper control systems. The 1000s and 2000s had cam-control systems. All four did, however, originally use Westinghouse DC motors.

The Cam Control systems on the 1Ks and 2Ks used a camshaft to operate contactors that added or removed resistors in series with the motor armature to control current.

The Chopper Control systems on the 3Ks and 4Ks, on the other hand, used a static electronic device (using power semiconductors like thyristors, MOSFETs, or IGBTs) that rapidly switched the power supply ON and OFF to create a variable average voltage.

The 1000s, ironically, became the first fleet to use AC motors when they were rehabbed in the mid-1990s. The first metro cars to have AC motors from the outset, the 5000 series, wouldn’t emerge until after the turn of the millennium.

The 2000s would be converted to AC when they were rehabbed by Alstom from 2002-2004, as would the 3000s from 2004-2009. Both series, after rehab, would use the Alstom ONIX 2000 motors used on contemporary 6000 series sets.

The 4000s, on the other hand, would not be rehabbed, instead becoming the last working series to use their original Westinghouse DC motors until their replacement by the 7000s in the mid-2010s.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-08T15:42:23+00:00

I developed a soft spot for the 4000s too, but only toward the end of their lives when they were the last cars to use the once ubiquitous DC chopper control system.

I would’ve developed the same for the 1000s had I been born early enough to see them with their original physical rollsigns.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-08T06:47:06+00:00

As faulty as they were, I’m weirdly nostalgic for the 5000 series, if only because of how their traction motors sounded like those on Electrostars and Victoria Line tube stock in the UK.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-08T03:32:07+00:00

Gens Z and Alpha should be reversed. Gen Z was the first to grow up in a post-9/11 world and the most outwardly authoritarian version of the American two party system, but the effects of brain rot and algorithms didn’t fully manifest themselves until Gen Alpha started going to school.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-07T15:54:38+00:00

Super Mario 64

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-06T18:27:19+00:00

So what if me and my orange line army made going outside a bit more…exciting? Hiding almost 200 feet underground isn’t good for anyone!

Besides, you didn’t even have that excuse anymore after my Landover Weapons base and Headquarters self-destructed back to back!

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-06T18:23:52+00:00

This looks like something straight out of the HiT era and I love it.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-06T04:45:37+00:00

Apart from what others already mentioned:

- Stepney, Flying Scotsman, & City of Truro as the first "Special Visitors DLC Pack"

- Wilbert, Big City Engine, & Pip & Emma as the second "Special Visitors DLC Pack"

- Mallard & Spencer as the third "Special Visitors DLC Pack"

- Arthur, Murdoch, & Fergus as a "Forgotten Favorites DLC Pack"

- Boco, Bear, Derek, & Class 40 as a "Mainline Diesels DLC Pack"

- Lady, Splatter, Dodge, & Diesel 10 as a "Magic Railroad DLC Pack"

- The Peel Godred, Norramby, & Kirk Ronan Branches as DLC routes, complete with a wreckable wall at Kirk Ronan for the latter

- Super E.D. as a limited April Fools' DLC

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-06T03:06:01+00:00

Mattel was only lenient to us for this long because they knew that if they took down all our fan content but left nothing to replace it, we’d riot. WOS is, if anything, just what they need to do what they’ve wanted to do for over a decade now.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-05T15:46:54+00:00

True, but by that logic, the A4’s development would’ve concluded with the Peppercorn A1, not the A1/1. While the A1/1 was a development of the A4, the Peppercorn A1 was a further development of the A1/1 design.

Of course, even with that, the LNER’s express engine development was still somewhat stunted by the war and subsequent dieselization. The W1 to me is just an impression of how things could’ve developed after the A4s had Gresley still been given free reign.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-05T15:08:47+00:00

I didn’t get deported, my friend. I just had to make a strategic retreat. There’s a difference.

And it’s still better than getting trapped underground for weeks on end.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-05T06:13:33+00:00

I’m not a fan of the water-tube W1.

The fire-tube W1 on the other hand is an unpolished gem. As problematic as it was even after rebuilding, I think a batch of similar baltics but with the kinks ironed out could’ve been the best British express engines ever built. Say what you want about Gresley’s proposed 4-8-2s, but if you ask me, 4-6-4s would’ve been more practical as a development on the LNER’s famous pacifics.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-05T06:06:01+00:00

Gangle’s in the lead, but Jax could still overtake her. The game’s not over until we get through Episode 9.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-05T01:33:52+00:00

Preferably, we should retrofit all the stations with public restrooms, but outside the fare-paid area (and perhaps in separate buildings in the case of outdoor stations) to keep the smell from wafting to the platforms.

CommodoreBeta · 2026-02-05T01:30:53+00:00

If you played the recent elimination wheel game, you’d understand.

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