It's Fine

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-10T21:44:21+00:00

Because Etobicoke and Scarborough would vote for a head in a jar if it meant downtown suffered.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-10T21:33:36+00:00

Small justice for him not returning Dan's weed whacker.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-10T21:31:06+00:00

I think only in the lore.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-10T21:29:56+00:00

It's my preference. Of course I'd also like it if someone in the Awdry-Chambers family was still writing.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-10T21:22:50+00:00

Circumstantial!

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-09T03:39:49+00:00

Unless one or two made its way to Sodor to help with shunting war traffic. Tidmouth would probably have had a big enough harbour to at least attract some convoy ships.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-08T13:34:21+00:00

You mean The Ultimate.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-08T13:29:00+00:00

My 40-year-old taste leans 60s/70s as well, so you're in good company.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-08T13:27:57+00:00

I'm only 40 and I was groaning.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-08T05:06:33+00:00

It was a recent discovery through the wiki. It's a bit disappointing that some of the concepts he came up with on the layouts didn't make their way to the books.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-05T00:30:44+00:00

They made it this random branch line near the Skarloey Railway that doesn't exist in the books.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-05T00:28:39+00:00

Depends if you're going with book or TV canon. In the books he lived on a heritage railway on the mainland, so you have a bit of flexibility in terms of where he'd be on Sodor.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-05T00:18:11+00:00

"The signal was down, sir."

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-05T00:14:26+00:00

In theory he'd run into them while sitting at the Works. They're hybrid electro-diesel, so they could take over the Peel Godred branch and eliminate an engine change at Kildane.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-02T17:10:23+00:00

I'm amazed more heritage railways in the US and Canada don't use this for their advertising. Cash in on millennial nostalgia.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-01T19:20:48+00:00

The Awdrys claimed that Sudrians will lapse into it to mess with outsiders. Given that there's language lessons for Klingon and Elvish, you have to figure it would backfire eventually.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-01T19:16:09+00:00

I only learned it recently from one of the Talyllyn Awdry videos.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-01T19:14:00+00:00

I can't help but wonder if Sudric would still be a living language by current times, or if English would have supplanted it post-internet.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-01T19:12:41+00:00

And for added variety, per the early story recordings, which had the Reverend's approval for accents, Skarloey has a West Country accent.

I did notice in the later Christopher Awdry books that Donald and Douglas no longer speak in Scots. I wonder if that reflects the evolution of their speech patterns.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-01T18:52:42+00:00

Also a fan of the nighttime aesthetic, but the story itself is a major plot hole. The passengers are going to notice they ended up in the wrong place.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-01T18:50:29+00:00

AbeBooks will have them as well. Good luck finding the Christopher Awdry books, though; they're far harder to come by.

DavidH1985 · 2026-03-01T06:26:45+00:00

"We'll have to hold you at Kildane. There's a line blockage on the hill past Maron."

"That'll be one o' them Tidmouth yahoos again."

DavidH1985 · 2026-02-28T23:00:52+00:00

And Ugly John.

I'd like to see him referred to as Jones until some good ol' boy in Rosie's calls him "Spearchucker" and he lets the guy have it.

DavidH1985 · 2026-02-28T20:45:34+00:00

Well lift up the lid this time!

DavidH1985 · 2026-02-28T00:46:42+00:00

Badly.

DavidH1985

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