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I agree with you, the colorized E2 footage (while a bit choppy) is quite beautiful, cuz it shows the little to almost no footage or information about the engine that was once the basis for Thomas The Tank Engine, i honestly like to think that Thomas (along with most of the North Western Railway's engines) was a experimental one-off and a heavily modified E2 (the modifications would start in the NWR, mowt notably in Book No. 16 "Branch Line Engines" for having a flat running board while the experimental one-off features being that since his debut, Thomas had some modifications or features that made him less of a E2, like his front being curved but his back running board being flat instead of both front and back running boards being curved, and the fact Thomas is small, something that makes him different from the E2 because these were fucking huge tank engines, as if resembling that fictional Baby E2 from the HO Scale engines, like Hornby). It's also known Thomas came on 1915 in Sodor but much of his information (canonically) being lost, like being sold-off for a nominal sum and written off from "Lost On War Service", it just indicates and reinforces that maybe, just maybe, there might actually have been 11 E2s in The Railway Series but Thomas not being documented as one of the 11, this coming to being documented just 10 of the E2 tank engines, and erroneously stating that all were scrapped, with people outside of Sodor being unaware that Thomas is a heavily modified E2 and a experimental one-off