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'Merican Thomas

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 11:25 AM

rdamon

Thomas would not exist in the US as it is a one man crew and the union would object.

Big Smile

 

Really?  What happened to the two very responsible railway workers?  Huh?

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Posted by kgbw49 on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 6:24 PM

BaltACD

Thomas, being American, would not be the smallest engine in the house, he would be the largest.

 

LOL, Balt! You had it nailed per the attached!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t_zsnNs-VYI

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 6:39 PM

kgbw49
 
BaltACD

Thomas, being American, would not be the smallest engine in the house, he would be the largest. 

LOL, Balt! You had it nailed per the attached!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t_zsnNs-VYI

Surprised they didn't use a Big Boy rather than a 2-6-6-6

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, March 28, 2024 9:56 AM

All I know about that Thomas guy is that he comes around once a year for three weekends in a row, causes absolute chaos and havoc, then leaves the CRRM museum under cover of darkness and goes back to Durango.

"Sam" probably got downsized  by those "less than usefull" financial zealots that think they know how to railroad in the US and Canada.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by SD60MAC9500 on Thursday, March 28, 2024 4:58 PM

I can see Thomas as a 2-8-4 Berkshire.

Rahhhhhhhhh!!!!
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Posted by wjstix on Friday, March 29, 2024 1:08 PM

Although the first Thomas stories came out in the 1940s, I believe Rev. Awdry based Thomas and the other early engines on engines that he saw as a boy in 1910s Britain. So I would say if Thomas were American, he'd still be from that time frame, a WW1 era engine.

Maybe "Mike the (USRA) Mikado"?

Stix

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