Useful Engines Follow Orders

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  • Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025

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  • @Smartacus98
    @Smartacus98 6 месяцев назад +967

    Hey, only just found out this existed now two years later but I'm the author of the comment this was based on. Thanks for making this, glad so many people have enjoyed my take on the original video!

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  6 месяцев назад +143

      Oh wow!! I’ve been looking for you for 2 years haha! Your writing is absolutely amazing! I’m an actor, and I love a good script, and you have a very great talent. Thank you for writing that masterpiece, friend. I’ll update your name in the credits

    • @alexanderweber3120
      @alexanderweber3120 3 месяца назад +17

      @@MrSnapback52 what a god damn story! Never ever I have waited such a kind of a stories about Thomas, even speack of Goffy and Mickey in Vietnam, etc.. That is truly incrediable sides of characters, about which a Disney have no balls to speack of! Addmiers and chears from Hannover, Germany 2024.

    • @Halcon_Sierreno
      @Halcon_Sierreno Месяц назад +8

      ​@@MrSnapback52You guys should do more collabs.

    • @RexTheGamer55
      @RexTheGamer55 Месяц назад +6

      I thought it was a clone wars joke lmao ​@@MrSnapback52

    • @sumiterxeroslargosiuscrosi7819
      @sumiterxeroslargosiuscrosi7819 19 дней назад +1

      😂

  • @asherman10
    @asherman10 Год назад +836

    this quote hits too hard for me , "I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."

  • @internetstrangerstrangerofweb
    @internetstrangerstrangerofweb 26 дней назад +220

    This is an unironically fascinating concept because no one has EVER talked about the locomotive operators that took millions of people to their deaths.

    • @blehtbh
      @blehtbh 24 дня назад +23

      Fun fact In Thomas there. Was a German steam engine in the back ground simply known as Marklin

    • @InveterateMendaciousness
      @InveterateMendaciousness 18 дней назад +11

      Another fun fact is that no one ever did that.

    • @billdoggonejones
      @billdoggonejones 17 дней назад

      @@InveterateMendaciousness”m-muh 271 thous-ACKKK” come on goyim, how do you think the works of one crackpot became so popular? They want you to think that so they can scapegoat you and tighten free speech laws. You’re playing right into their hands and you don’t even know it you fool.

    • @hastyhillfarmand4x480
      @hastyhillfarmand4x480 15 дней назад

      ​@@InveterateMendaciousness that's the funnest fact of all.

    • @brody7714
      @brody7714 13 дней назад

      @@InveterateMendaciousness i don’t believe in karma, but sometimes i hope it’s real, if only for people like you.

  • @liammiller1472
    @liammiller1472 11 месяцев назад +212

    the Schindler's List music is perfect

  • @ricowilkins9188
    @ricowilkins9188 Год назад +386

    The amount of emotion in each line is solid af bravo my guy.

  • @shawnmoun9849
    @shawnmoun9849 29 дней назад +61

    Clone trooper: Good soldiers follow orders
    Thomas: useful engines follow orders

  • @kholemcrae1100
    @kholemcrae1100 2 года назад +952

    One episode a train engine didn’t follow orders and was bricked in for it, left in empty solitude. It made me wonder as a kid if the engines die

    • @macdarby9926
      @macdarby9926 2 года назад +40

      Ahh yes Hanz and the wall, an enlightening episode.

    • @WitchFisterVeo1911
      @WitchFisterVeo1911 2 года назад +27

      Yeah, they do. Their corpses are haunting.

    • @kestrels-in-the-sky
      @kestrels-in-the-sky 2 года назад

      I have a video for you ruclips.net/video/9W5Sopc2JxE/видео.html

    • @noobboi1688
      @noobboi1688 Год назад +16

      Once an engine attached to a train, was afraid of a few drops of rain......

    • @dragonborne089
      @dragonborne089 Год назад +12

      @@noobboi1688 if were kept trapped, yes, he would die, it would take a while, but if rust wouldn't get to him, he would be dead inside, just a hunk of the "train" he was before, no mind just a face without expressions, without motivations, only a blank canvas of a dead man

  • @jiado6893
    @jiado6893 3 года назад +1053

    “I know the smell coal makes when it burns.” This writing is definitely on par with what Ethereal Snake put out with his full Mickey film. It’s a damn shame that this video will only ever have a fraction of the views as that follow-up video with the awkward CG train face.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  3 года назад +85

      His subscribers really know his style, this script was written by someone in his comments (credit in description). And it’s ok, I didn’t do it for the views, I just wanted to put a voice to this vid, it’s very nice.

    • @MrGamelover23
      @MrGamelover23 2 года назад +19

      I was fully expecting the sequel to be this video, that script, that comment. At least the writing was as good and on par with this.

    • @OfficialTrainzGod
      @OfficialTrainzGod Месяц назад +2

      There was a follow-up video?

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  27 дней назад +2

      @@OfficialTrainzGodEthereal Snake did a part 2 to his Thomas Video but it wasn’t the same 🤕

    • @cc0767
      @cc0767 20 дней назад +1

      which mickey film?

  • @StukkoChonies
    @StukkoChonies Год назад +521

    They convicted thomas, but put the engineers that assembled him into witness protection and gave them government jobs in America.

    • @yellowtomato898
      @yellowtomato898 24 дня назад +7

      Accurate

    • @Lobsterwithinternet
      @Lobsterwithinternet 19 дней назад +16

      That was the political reality of the Coal War.

    • @hexzinggaming5040
      @hexzinggaming5040 15 дней назад +5

      Harold the Helicopter got a very nice cushy place out in the American countryside despite his crimes

    • @brody7714
      @brody7714 13 дней назад +2

      @@LobsterwithinternetI’m sorry but no, operation paperclip had no excuses. Not as bad as the us pushing unit 713 under the rug though. What a disgusting nation.

    • @Lobsterwithinternet
      @Lobsterwithinternet 13 дней назад

      @@brody7714 “Is only game. Why do you have to be so mad?”

  • @rodrigodepierola
    @rodrigodepierola Год назад +105

    Sir Topham Hatt as a Death's Head SS guy is genius

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  Год назад +10

      the credit belongs to the genius who made the animation, he truly put a lot of thought into it

  • @one4all123
    @one4all123 2 года назад +664

    Jesus Christ, this voiceover is haunting. You sir have done an excellent performance for this video.

  • @CFCTheZoren4
    @CFCTheZoren4 2 года назад +291

    That original comment was perhaps the best story I’ve read from a video ever. Thanks for bringing it to life!

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +14

      It really was! I was hoping the commenter would’ve continued the story or had voiced it over themselves. I knew it needed to have one. If they ever reach out, i’d love to collab with that person.

    • @philippsommer189
      @philippsommer189 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@MrSnapback52 Yeah, great job! But I think you could've credited the commenter in the description as well, or at least make it known that you are not the brain behind the script. You know what they say.. don't adorn yourself with borrowed plumes.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  27 дней назад +2

      @@philippsommer189I did, my friend 😂 it’s in the description, I pinned his comment, and I had a comment of my own stating who made the script

    • @philippsommer189
      @philippsommer189 25 дней назад +1

      @@MrSnapback52 Hm, that's nice, but I surely wouldn't have made that comment if that was the case at the time I wrote it 😂
      You probably added the description at a later time. Again, cool video 🤙

  • @cc0767
    @cc0767 20 дней назад +23

    Perfect recommendation on christmas

  • @BumberenzoThePumperTruck
    @BumberenzoThePumperTruck 2 года назад +95

    Sir Topham hat: “I know that you want to go on adventures around the world.”
    “Thomas, listen to this…Be careful where you go…”
    “You never know what they use you for!”
    “There could be…confusion and Despair.

  • @lauraner99
    @lauraner99 Год назад +211

    And ever since then, to pay tribute to what has happened, german trains never arrive on time. It all makes sense now.

  • @michaelfornes1479
    @michaelfornes1479 2 года назад +151

    I remember when I read the comment the script is based on. The voiceover is a nice touch.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +12

      Thank you. Yeah I remember first reading it a few years ago then I stumbled on it again this year and said fuck it, I gotta put a voice to this, it was too good, that guy should write a book!

  • @masloman6534
    @masloman6534 2 года назад +321

    All I wanted was to be a useful engine. Useful engines always arrive on time. Useful engines follow orders."
    "And were you aware of where you were taking the people you transported?"
    "I had only a vague idea sir. I knew they were prisoners. I never knew what was going to...I just...I had my orders and I followed them sir. useful engines follow orders."
    "And you never once asked about your orders? Who these people were? Where you were taking them, and why?"
    "Useful engines don't ask questions. It wasn't my job to know. It was my job to arrive on time."
    "Did you ever consider why the carriages were full on the way there, and always empty on the way back?"
    "..."
    "Thomas?"
    "I am around coal-powered tank engines all day, every day. I know the smell coal makes when it burns. I knew that the smoke in that place wasn't coal."
    "And you took thousands of people there every day, for two full years?"
    "Those were my orders. If I didn't follow them I would be dead too. A useful engine always follows orders, and there was no place in the Reich for useless engines."
    "So you valued your life over the lives of the countless innocent people you carried to their deaths?"
    "Do you think they would still be alive if I didn't? Don't you think they would have found another engine to arrive on time? Those people were dead before they even stepped on the platform. Nothing I could have done would have changed that. The only difference between me and them was that I had a choice; a choice to move forward and live, or stay put and die. I made the choice for the lowest possible number of people to die. Is self-preservation a crime?"
    "If you knew what was happening, why did you agree to take the job in the first place?"
    "You think I knew then? All anyone knew then was that things were better than they had been. The trains were running on time and if you didn't ask too many questions you could have a good life. We were still confident that victory was on the horizon. I only found out what was going on when it was too late for me to say no. There were no choices left for me then - move forward or stay put; live or die."
    "Why do you think you were given the job you were given? Why not transporting troops or supplies to the front? What do you think they saw in you that made you suitable?"
    "I was never there first choice! The Allies had bombed the Reich's infrastructure to smithereens, there was nobody else left. You bombed Herr Gordon, Herr James, Herr Percy. They chose me because they had to choose someone and their first choices were all dead."
    "So you were the last resort?"
    "Everyone else was gone. I only survived because I kept my head down and followed orders, like a useful engine should."
    "So if you were truly the last engine they could call upon, you could have saved those people?"
    "What? I never said that. What are talking about? They were already dead, all I could do was follow my orders." "And if you refused to follow them, there was nobody left to replace you?"
    "..."
    "Is that not what you said Thomas? You were never the first choice? Everyone else was gone? Move forward or stay put, and you chose to go forward?"
    "...Useful engines follow orders and arrive on time."
    "And it didn't matter what you were useful for, as long as you were useful for something?"
    "Useful engines follow orders."
    "Was it useful for the people you carried to the camp?"
    "..."
    "Thomas?"
    "You would have done the same. You all would."
    "I'm sorry? What do you mean by that?"
    "The only difference between you and I, sir, is that I can see the tracks I follow. If you were on the tracks, you'd have followed them too."
    "Do you regret what you did?"
    "..."
    "Thomas? Do you regret it?"
    "...I see those gates every time I close my eyes. Every time I sleep I hear the crying children and smell the..."
    "The crying children, Thomas."
    "..."
    "Do you still feel like useful engine now, Thomas, because you followed orders and arrived on time?"
    "..."
    "Thomas?"
    "Kill me or let me go. You punish me either way. I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +40

      Yup! This was TheAntiParadox’s script on the original video that was the inspiration for my voiceover. He Is a brilliant writer.

    • @sirzorg5728
      @sirzorg5728 2 года назад +17

      @@MrSnapback52 why did you leave out the last part then?

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  Год назад +15

      @@sirzorg5728I’m sorry for the year long delayed reply 😂 I felt like the video didn’t need anymore than what it had, plus if ppl went to the original comment, they’d have some “new” stuff to see that wasn’t in this video! Films and books based off films are never the exact same

  • @ragadropenger8623
    @ragadropenger8623 2 месяца назад +8

    WHY IS THIS ACTUALLY SO GOOD

  • @WillySalami
    @WillySalami 25 дней назад +7

    It's a shame the last part isn't included in audio: ""Kill me or let me go. I wear my punishment either way. I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead.""

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  25 дней назад

      @WillySalami it’s a great line for sure! But like they always say, the books are always better than the movies 😅 If this draws more folks to read his original script, I’ve done my job, cause the original commenter is amazing!

    • @WillySalami
      @WillySalami 25 дней назад

      @@MrSnapback52 honorable

  • @Zyro-dl4ow
    @Zyro-dl4ow Год назад +15

    Rumors tell that Thomas is barely able to run, still carrying the weight of thousands. Others say that the voices of the damned still linger in his mind, calling, screaming, for someone, anyone, to help them.

  • @entertext5420
    @entertext5420 2 года назад +58

    In the end...Thomas was right...we are all the same

    • @ogfemto
      @ogfemto 9 дней назад

      reason why I hate moralists they are quick to condemn but hesitant to self reflect.

  • @markusguadalupe2461
    @markusguadalupe2461 3 года назад +156

    this is cool, been hoping for an elaboration on this, a blend of a dark part of history with one of my favorite childhood shows

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  3 года назад +8

      Thank you my friend !!!

    • @bonk2935
      @bonk2935 3 года назад +1

      Watch the og channel Ethereal Snake then

    • @uwantmikehawk1
      @uwantmikehawk1 9 месяцев назад

      fake history

  • @TheEntwicklungEnthusiast
    @TheEntwicklungEnthusiast Месяц назад +13

    i got a thomas ad before this lmfao

  • @El_Presidente_5337
    @El_Presidente_5337 Месяц назад +7

    It's strange that I liked steam engines and Thomas the Tank Engine as a kid so much.
    Because my mother had a great uncle who drove the trains...
    And the nearest camp was in the same region...
    It was Ausschwitz Birkenau. ._.

  • @trevorlahey2112
    @trevorlahey2112 3 года назад +80

    I really like this. Best courthouse drama I've ever seen

  • @pringlerailfan1
    @pringlerailfan1 16 дней назад +3

    I might be a little late to this but this video has what is possibly the most unique Thomas related thing I’ve ever seen. People talk about the trains that took people to concentration camps but never the drivers and firemen and conductors. They were as much at “fault” as the rest of the Third Reich if you think about it. I love the idea here and this is an incredibly awesome way of interpreting that idea. Cheers.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  16 дней назад +1

      @@pringlerailfan1 cheers bud! All credit to the original script writer man, he really did an amazing job, I just added a voice to it, I’m glad you enjoyed it friend!

  • @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195
    @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 2 года назад +118

    Buzz Lightyear explaining what happened during Operation Overlord
    "Once the ramp dropped so did my brothers...I watched as one by one of them dropped to the sea, I saw others climbing over to escape the hail of bullets while I just ran forward, I heard the cries and screams of these boys...Not soldiers, boys...I watch a poor soul holding what's suppose to be his stomach screaming for his mother...I had to keep running...When I came face to face with the enemy...I pulled the trigger and watched him fall into the mud and dirt...I never knew I could take a life so easily"
    "What else happen Mr. Lightyear?" The Interviewer asked.
    "I watched two supposedly German soldiers trying to surrender before being killed by members of the 7th Unit...I was told through our propaganda that the enemy will not show us mercy but I witness two enemy soldiers begging for their lives before being killed, When we reached the town...I thought I saw hell on the beach...But the town was hell...at least three soldiers of my unit were cut down by a Buzzsaw...I remember seeing them for one second and then they were just a red mess with chucks"
    "Mr. Lightyear did you feel remorse after killing a soldier?" Buzz thought on that question before speaking
    "Remorse? How does someone like me trained to kill and not show emotion feel remorse? I felt nothing....and to this day I still feel nothing....not a damn thing"

    • @somethingiwillremember1239
      @somethingiwillremember1239 2 года назад +10

      Corporal Mr. Potato Head explaining the landing on Iwo Jima
      "It was a good of a day as any, they said that they destroyed all the Japanese with their bombardments, and that there wouldn't be many left to retaliate. We hopped in our Higgins landing craft and moved towards the beach, many of the men were sea sick and were vomiting over the side, I was vomiting, but not because I was sea sick, but because of the overwhelming anxiety, something was wrong and I knew it. When we landed the beach was covered in ash and soot, it made it impossible to move, not to mention digging foxholes, or moving equipment, or our amtracs. We were trying to get a beachhead established, so we could push further into the island, it was about an hour we were on the beach, and then hell rained down." Corporal Head was staring in the distance
      "Hell rained down? What do you mean Mr. Head?" The interviewer asked
      "Everything rained down on us, bullets, mortar fire, grenades, everything you can imagine, I saw my friends- my brothers fall and die. They sent us to that beach to die."
      "Well how did you survive then, Mr. Head?" Corporal Head was enraged by this question
      "How do you think I survived?!? Do you think I wanted to!?! Do you seriously think that I'd rather have my brothers lying under Arlington?!?! I wish it were me! I wish I was the one who died! I wish they didn't."
      "Okay, Mr. Head, I'm sorry for asking. Lets change the topic, did you kill any Japanese?"
      "Dozens."
      "How did that make you feel, Mr. Head?"
      "I am a killing machine, I was born to kill, not to feel. I am a marine."
      Corporal Head refused to answer any more questions after that.

    • @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195
      @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 2 года назад +5

      @Joseph Bais Woody was in the North African Campaign
      "Those Italians were anything but weak...I seen them come at us on horses with sabers and pistols while our Tanks were being refueled...Good troops died"
      "You were in the battle of Toburk correct?"
      "Ah yes Toburk...Germans hammered us the port was lost...I still remember popping a Kraut's head clean off with my rifle...seeing his brains splatter onto the rocks it's quite the sight..." Woody begin laughing
      "And that's funny to you mister Woody?"
      "No what's funny is watching your closet friends die left and right, your up in the enemy's face bashing their skull open with your rifle...then sticking your bayonet into another..."
      "Mr. Woody?"
      "War is a sick twisted joke...We are all just pieces...bunch of old men who have stepped in war once or never been in war shout all their propaganda while WE! The young go out and fucking die!!...I have killed thousands of fathers and sons! And I'm called a hero?! I've became nothing more then a machine in this cog of war...and North Africa was only the beginning...Sicily, France, Germany...I was only getting started..."

    • @somethingiwillremember1239
      @somethingiwillremember1239 2 года назад +6

      ​@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195
      Sergeant Barnabus "Barney" Stinson recalls his time in the 101st Airborne Division
      "They dropped us on Nasiriyah and Talil"
      "Can you recall any of the battles you fought?"
      "I killed them all."
      "Killed who, Mr. Stinson?"
      "The Iraqis."
      "Why do you seem so shaken by this question?"
      "They didn't tell us we would be fighting children."
      "You fought children?"
      "Child soldiers."
      "How does this make you feel?"
      "Nothing, I was an infantryman, I was clay molded into a killing machine, glazed with blood, and fired into ceramic by the heat of war. In fact, I enjoyed it."
      "You enjoyed killing children..?"
      "That's what scares me the most Mr. Interviewer. They sent me to war to get all these things that fucked me up in the head, and then when I get home, I get a heroes welcome, somehow justifying me enjoying killing children, but after awhile, just like everyone else, I get thrown away."
      Sergeant Stinson killed himself shortly after the interview.

    • @movableaxis5349
      @movableaxis5349 2 года назад +3

      oh, I just remembered that these green soldiers holding a M16A1 and realized
      those were the Marines.
      what they were doing back in Vietnam before they met Woody, Buzz, and other toys?

    • @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195
      @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 2 года назад +5

      @@movableaxis5349 I got a story for you
      "He uh..Show me a pic of his girl back home, beautiful little girl i even envy him...Poor boy got his brains blown from a Sniper...He never saw his girl or his kid grow..." Pvt. Arlen held his face as he weep over the lost of his closet friend during the interview while members of his Platoon comforted him
      "Mr. Rocker, you were at the Battle of Khe Sahn no?" He asked
      "Khe Sahn? God there was so many..." He said, "So many what?"
      "NVA, Charlies, Tangos....Call them whatever The city was fucked...My MG was burning hot and I bagged around 80 of those buggers...One of them jumped on me so I threw him out of a window...Felt like forever for him to fall before he splatter..."
      "What else?"
      "Civilians were running, I couldn't see between Civilian and Charlies, one of them popped me in the shoulder and the hip luckily D Company rescued me...I was badly hurt so i flew back to Tokyo where I met my Mimoko...Two days later i was told my baby brother died during Saigon...I broke down...Should of been me..." SGT. Rocker, 8th Platoon Dagger Squadron
      "So Mr. Bronstein, you were a POW for how long?" The Interviewer asked
      "9 fucking years, i rotted for nine fucking years before I broke out"
      "You escaped?" Suddenly He begin to laugh which surprised the Interviewer and other Producers
      "I didn't Escape not yet at least...I broke my cage during a storm and while those fuckers were sleepy I killed them...All of them...some escaped but I made a mess" He says
      Unnerved as the Interviewer asked "How did you kill them?"
      "Shot them, stabbed even brained, don't ask if I feel any remorse cause I don't...They tortured a quarter of my men infront of me! Put bags on their heads with rats! Throw into a tiger den! Hell one was even hacked to death slowly with a fucking bamboo!! Those motherfuckers deserved it! Those were my brothers! And how does this nation thank me? They spit on me! Call me a baby killer! Well fuck you you weed smoking jobless commies!" Bronstein finished his rant as he got up and walked away
      "And get that camera away from me!" He shouted

  • @MrSnapback52
    @MrSnapback52  3 года назад +360

    Please read the description for the credits. The animation was made by Ethereal Snake, not me, I just wanted to add my voice over. Thank you.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +9

      Caption/Script is in description also

    • @johnnygoodman2003
      @johnnygoodman2003 7 месяцев назад +2

      My favorite episode of Shiney Time Station.

  • @Sanctuary.inc0707
    @Sanctuary.inc0707 Год назад +18

    This has better dialogue than every single marvel movie

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  Год назад +2

      It’s amazingly written, I agree. Credits to the writer are in the description!

  • @Maverick-zi8tu
    @Maverick-zi8tu 2 года назад +51

    Dam this is dark. But I like. Useful Engines follow orders = Good soldiers follow orders.

  • @dummyaccount8378
    @dummyaccount8378 2 года назад +11

    "My guilt... Is that I am still here" - Franz Stangl

  • @jake96ization
    @jake96ization 8 дней назад +1

    Ironically there are more reports of soldiers continuing after they were told they could quit if it was too hard for them than there were people who were punished in any way for refusing outright.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  8 дней назад

      @@jake96ization I believe it 🤕

    • @TheHipsterGamer
      @TheHipsterGamer 2 дня назад

      Well, would you rather get sent to the front lines or be a tower guard at a death camp? Many people today claim the moral high ground out of hindsight, but the cold truth is most of us would’ve happily accepted that guard post without saying a word. Guard duty or frontline grunt, the choice is yours. Germany sustained 5 million casualties during the war, 4 million of which came from the Eastern Front alone. Long wars take their toll, and at some point along the way, most of us would leap at any opportunity that would take us away from combat.

    • @jake96ization
      @jake96ization День назад

      @TheHipsterGamer no moral high ground for me. The "orders are orders" excuse was a load of shit, but that isn't to say any given one of us wouldn't most likely do exactly the same. The propaganda was easy to accept, the enemy was easy to hate, and it's always easy to go along to get along. We like to believe that we are somehow inherently less evil, but in reality, we are probably even worse. I just pray we never get the opportunity to prove it.

  • @AkiriKanan
    @AkiriKanan 3 года назад +99

    Lesson we can learn. Some people doesn't read description, Thinking this is stealing.
    This person doesn't get any money for these or even attempt to.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  3 года назад +9

      Exactly, I just wanted to add a voice to the great script in Ethereal’s comments. Nothing more nothing less. Glad u get it

    • @mikimosky4109
      @mikimosky4109 2 года назад +5

      @@MrSnapback52 Thank you for this voice over, you did an brilliant job!

  • @rimfire8217
    @rimfire8217 2 года назад +17

    "All I wanted was to be a useful engine. Useful engines always arrive on time. Useful engines follow orders."
    "And were you aware of where you were taking the people you transported?"
    "I had only a vague idea sir. I knew they were prisoners. I never knew what was going to...I just...I had my orders and I followed them sir. useful engines follow orders."
    "And you never once asked about your orders? Who these people were? Where you were taking them, and why?"
    "Useful engines don't ask questions. It wasn't my job to know. It was my job to arrive on time."
    "Did you ever consider why the carriages were full on the way there, and always empty on the way back?"
    "..."
    "Thomas?"
    "I am around coal-powered tank engines all day, every day. I know the smell coal makes when it burns. I knew that the smoke in that place wasn't coal."
    "And you took thousands of people there every day, for two full years?"
    "Those were my orders. If I didn't follow them I would be dead too. A useful engine always follows orders, and there was no place in the Reich for useless engines."
    "So you valued your life over the lives of the countless innocent people you carried to their deaths?"
    "Do you think they would still be alive if I didn't? Don't you think they would have found another engine to arrive on time? Those people were dead before they even stepped on the platform. Nothing I could have done would have changed that. The only difference between me and them was that I had a choice; a choice to move forward and live, or stay put and die. I made the choice for the lowest possible number of people to die. Is self-preservation a crime?"
    "If you knew what was happening, why did you agree to take the job in the first place?"
    "You think I knew then? All anyone knew then was that things were better than they had been. The trains were running on time and if you didn't ask too many questions you could have a good life. We were still confident that victory was on the horizon. I only found out what was going on when it was too late for me to say no. There were no choices left for me then - move forward or stay put; live or die."
    "Why do you think you were given the job you were given? Why not transporting troops or supplies to the front? What do you think they saw in you that made you suitable?"
    "I was never there first choice! The Allies had bombed the Reich's infrastructure to smithereens, there was nobody else left. You bombed Herr Gordon, Herr James, Herr Percy. They chose me because they had to choose someone and their first choices were all dead."
    "So you were the last resort?"
    "Everyone else was gone. I only survived because I kept my head down and followed orders, like a useful engine should."
    "So if you were truly the last engine they could call upon, you could have saved those people?"
    "What? I never said that. What are talking about? They were already dead, all I could do was follow my orders."
    "And if you refused to follow them, there was nobody left to replace you?"
    "..."
    "Is that not what you said Thomas? You were never the first choice? Everyone else was gone? Move forward or stay put, and you chose to go forward?"
    "...Useful engines follow orders and arrive on time."
    "And it didn't matter what you were useful for, as long as you were useful for something?"
    "Useful engines follow orders."
    "Was it useful for the people you carried to the camp?"
    "..."
    "Thomas?"
    "You would have done the same. You all would."
    "I'm sorry? What do you mean by that?"
    "The only difference between you and I, sir, is that I can see the tracks I follow. If you were on the tracks, you'd have followed them too."
    "Do you regret what you did?"
    "..."
    "Thomas? Do you regret it?"
    "...I see those gates every time I close my eyes. Every time I sleep I hear the crying children and smell the..."
    "The crying children, Thomas."
    "..."
    "Do you still feel like useful engine now, Thomas, because you followed orders and arrived on time?"
    "..."
    "Thomas?"
    "Kill me or let me go. You punish me either way. I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."

  • @Chadwich
    @Chadwich 3 года назад +39

    This is dope. Great voice over job.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  3 года назад +2

      Thank you my friend 🙏🏽

    • @notlarry4905
      @notlarry4905 3 года назад +2

      its stolen from ethereal snake

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  3 года назад +2

      @@notlarry4905 I gave credit to everyone in the description, the animation was Ethereal Snake but the voice over is me

  • @speckwii
    @speckwii 2 года назад +27

    This voiceover and music is haunting. Great work!!!

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +3

      thank you! this music is from Schindler’s List so I thought it’d be fitting 😅

  • @claptrap4084
    @claptrap4084 29 дней назад +2

    He only "begs to differ" because he isnt in the position. If he was, he would have done the same as Thomas

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  29 дней назад +1

      @@claptrap4084 I love your comment! The script writing of the original man really added to the ambiguity of the situation!

  • @longwlenguyen4214
    @longwlenguyen4214 2 года назад +42

    I close my eyes and all I can see is that tower of ash, floating skyward against a wed sky... then the raining down of a thousand souls, dancing in the wind. I'll never forget the way it burns your throat as you try and breathe a taste of the hellish Sulphur that's to come... the way it forces tears in your eyes... There comes a point where the faces of the people you've wronged become too many to recognize in a dream; they merge and they change and they become all consuming. No longer recognizable individuals, but an entire consciousness within your thoughts.
    I was once on the path when it began to snow, and from behind me I heard the laughter of a child as she reached her hand out and let a snowflake fall onto her hand, melting into nothing within a few seconds. Amidst all the screams, the curses, the cries... the sound of that laughter was the most haunting thing I have ever known.
    I won't beg for forgiveness. I don't want it. I don't deserve it. Whatever is coming for me after die, I embrace as inevitable and just."
    Thomas the tank engine confession on November 1945, Nuremberg trials.

  • @hello-gx6oi
    @hello-gx6oi 2 года назад +37

    We found a good voice actor

  • @loading470
    @loading470 Год назад +5

    This is really good, it’s fascinating to see Thomas and friends in this perspective due to Thomas and friends story books being an escape from the war
    I love the voice acting on this, you did a great job

  • @brinkipinki
    @brinkipinki 16 часов назад

    This is gut-wrenchingly good

  • @N7-WAR-HOUND
    @N7-WAR-HOUND Месяц назад +3

    This is some sick stuff

  • @blazergamer6425
    @blazergamer6425 19 дней назад +1

    "You all would have done the same thing."
    That quote is the God's honest truth and it makes people very uncomfortable and in denial when they hear it.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  19 дней назад +1

      @@blazergamer6425 I definitely like that line a lot cause it makes you think, it’s a deep quote for sure

    • @blazergamer6425
      @blazergamer6425 19 дней назад

      @MrSnapback52 The thing is that there have been plenty of genuine scientific studies and experiments that prove that, that quote is 100% true but yet people who have never been in that situation like to claim they would have done something different.

  • @derpthewolf5082
    @derpthewolf5082 Месяц назад +2

    Oh... My.. god... I just realized what side he was on.

  • @countrycoffeecup7772
    @countrycoffeecup7772 Месяц назад +3

    I actually got a Thomas ad on this.

  • @miwoj
    @miwoj Год назад

    i read that comment every time i stumble on that video. great job voicing it.

  • @Supremaque
    @Supremaque 2 года назад +4

    From youtube comment to a masterpiece. What a ride.

  • @legitbeans9078
    @legitbeans9078 15 дней назад

    Merry Christmas Thomas. You were only following orders...

  • @jamessigler6911
    @jamessigler6911 22 дня назад +1

    Why am I just now seeing this 2 years later?

  • @SirMarshalHaig
    @SirMarshalHaig Месяц назад +4

    They say 'We didn´t know'
    Well...I knew...I knew it from the beginning on. It was in the news, between the words, in their eyes, in their steps. I have always known, I have always seen. The only thing I didn´t know was, how could all the adults not know? How could they fall for the lies that a child saw through without even trying?
    Now I know...they all knew.
    Those who helped it made it happen.
    Those who knew but remained silent allowed it.
    Those who fought it failed.
    And so it all happened as planned, as he had wanted.
    Nobody escaped.
    Nobody but those who never had a soul to loose in the first place.

  • @RH-om1ph
    @RH-om1ph 21 день назад +1

    While you didnt make the original animation, I do appreciate the voice acting. Its pretty good.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  21 день назад +1

      @@RH-om1ph I’m not good at drawing plus I got the script from Ethereal’s vid anyways, so I thought it was better to read the script from the video and tag it so they can go there and give it more views 🔥

    • @RH-om1ph
      @RH-om1ph 21 день назад +1

      @MrSnapback52 no shame in that. Like I said, your voice acting is pretty good. You gave credit to the original script and artist, so all you did was add to something to make it more groovy. Cheers.

  • @steelblake
    @steelblake 10 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent performance, I was in the edge of my seat the whole time

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  10 месяцев назад

      Thank you so much 🙏🏽

  • @AtomSmasher-l4b
    @AtomSmasher-l4b 15 дней назад

    Interesting trivia - there are at least 2 WWII German Kreigsloks still in commercial operation. In 2024. Useful indeed.

  • @BoogUwU
    @BoogUwU 11 дней назад +1

    Thomas did notice wrong.

  • @kniazjarema8587
    @kniazjarema8587 Год назад +2

    100 thousand likes on a comment. That was a masterpiece. Voice cover is a surprise, but a pleasant one.

  • @Mooseofmoss
    @Mooseofmoss 18 дней назад +1

    I thought going into this that it’s just another edgy „what if Thomas drove them to the camps??“ but no it’s like actually a heart wrenching look into a broken man(train) who wanted to be useful and didn’t want to die.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  17 дней назад +1

      @@Mooseofmoss The person that wrote the script really is a beast with his pen 🔥 such a thought provoking script I agree

  • @vapor_jem
    @vapor_jem Месяц назад +2

    *_Good engines follow orders..._*

  • @bigbluebuttonman1137
    @bigbluebuttonman1137 2 года назад +7

    I remember the comment and it's great to see it brought to life.
    Good voice acting, also.

  • @misankroptic
    @misankroptic Год назад

    This is incredibly well made bro.

  • @lelandmilian3988
    @lelandmilian3988 Год назад +2

    He was following orders all he could do was follow the tracks.

  • @SkoPie
    @SkoPie 2 года назад +16

    dude i cant express how good that was. you should get into voice acting if you havent already

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +4

      Thank you my friend! I went to college for theatre acting but i definitely plan on dipping into Voice acting work 😂

  • @Liberatingamericans
    @Liberatingamericans 19 дней назад +1

    70 to 90% of people would have done exactly the same thing in the same position. The last four year's of my life has been the slow acceptance of this fact for me. I was going through the stage of loss an everything looking back. An honestly im still fucked up mentally although theres a life of reasons before the last four year's. Unfortunately I learned im one who wouldn't obey but im stupid an hot headed id be killed with the first mabye second wave of dissidents.

  • @Yourfather1987
    @Yourfather1987 28 дней назад +1

    Love the vocals

  • @insaneavi
    @insaneavi 2 года назад +1

    great job!! I must have watched it 5 times and shared it with all my ww2 buff buddies.

  • @coumarin5363
    @coumarin5363 23 дня назад

    Holy shit the voice acting is absolutely gold! Are you a voice actor? If not, then you should be dude. Also really liked the music and general sound mixing, very very nice indeed.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  23 дня назад +1

      @@coumarin5363 thank you dude 🥲 I’m an actor but never did voice acting, though I really love the art, maybe one day!

  • @R3TR0--93
    @R3TR0--93 2 года назад +2

    "They're always departing but they never arrive...and the ones that do arrive...they never leave...you never see them go they're always full...no one ever gets on but they're always...they're always departing but they never arrive......"

  • @Intergoller
    @Intergoller 4 месяца назад +1

    Thomas: but.... But I don't want it!
    Gordon: shhhh little Thomas, You must not resist him, remember what happened to Edward, Henry and Toby?

  • @Julian-zf2ht
    @Julian-zf2ht 2 года назад +1

    This lives in my head

  • @gamsssreal
    @gamsssreal Год назад

    I am so happy someone voiced that comment

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  Год назад

      That comment the guy wrote was way too good not too 😂😂🙏🏽

  • @SteveNonkonyana
    @SteveNonkonyana Год назад +1

    Me: alright whats this about...
    Me after: oh Thomas, what did you do. 😢

  • @calvinsuu1949
    @calvinsuu1949 5 дней назад

    "Useful engines follow orders..."

  • @shaneoflynn8299
    @shaneoflynn8299 2 года назад +3

    Wow what i watched was voiced so GOOD

  • @McDonnellDouglass
    @McDonnellDouglass Год назад +1

    Poor Thomas He dissevers better!

  • @TheT3Engine
    @TheT3Engine 8 месяцев назад +2

    You need an Oscar

  • @lordterra1377
    @lordterra1377 Месяц назад

    This hits deep. The algorithms bless me.

  • @Mobius118F
    @Mobius118F Месяц назад +1

    Oh OK it's just really unfortunate I got a "Thomas and Friends" ad

  • @mikofox9798
    @mikofox9798 Месяц назад

    Shiutouts to this video randomly pipping up in my feed once more

  • @deadmemes4242
    @deadmemes4242 27 дней назад +2

    I can't belive a shit post made me feel remorse

  • @HakugyokurouGardener101
    @HakugyokurouGardener101 Месяц назад

    I got a Thomas ad as soon as I clicked on this lmao

  • @jo2832
    @jo2832 Месяц назад +1

    No, no! 😂 after the video finished, i got a thomas and freinds Comercial that was a sing-along.

  • @nicholasvanboom4733
    @nicholasvanboom4733 Год назад +1

    The minute we forget the crimes we are doing we are doomed to repeat them.😢

  • @Argos-xb8ek
    @Argos-xb8ek Год назад +2

    Tomas Von Wagner was one of the most prolific criminals of the Nuremberg trials. Between the years of 1943-1945 Carried an estimated 485,000 men women and children to their deaths in labor camps, death camps, or to unmarked burial grounds keeping them in inhumane conditions where survivors recounted being forced to stand on the bodies of dead passengers and their own excrement. In a harrowing recounting by one survivor "After I regained enough strength I swore Id never eat another cow or pig again. How could I after i was thrown into that godforsaken train? We were treated as less than the cattle sent to slaughter the nights i spent having to stand in darkness hearing the whimpering of starving babies and the groans of dying people under us will never leave me when i smell garbage left out in the sun it takes me back to the smell of rotted bodies of vomit and excrement Im sorry I cant say more"

  • @DUKEY-cp8qm
    @DUKEY-cp8qm 2 месяца назад +2

    I might remake this

  • @andrewnavarrette4807
    @andrewnavarrette4807 Год назад +1

    Gold pure fucking GOLD

  • @BirbThatonerat-f3t
    @BirbThatonerat-f3t Месяц назад +1

    I knew where this was going

  • @PetiteTactical
    @PetiteTactical 18 дней назад

    The reality people judge what people do to survive when in reality they would do the same if it was happening to them

  • @KyleMcManus1
    @KyleMcManus1 4 месяца назад

    I just found this, but this is some great voice acting

  • @williamhicks6414
    @williamhicks6414 Год назад

    The List music. Good work, many followed this same path. We sit in judgement, Thomas was right.

  • @MoskusMoskiferus1611
    @MoskusMoskiferus1611 2 года назад +2

    Here I am
    Dirty and Faceless
    Waiting to Heed Your Instruction

  • @FrogThunderOfficial
    @FrogThunderOfficial 23 дня назад

    Why is this actually traumatising

  • @calvinsuu1949
    @calvinsuu1949 5 дней назад

    Damn sh*t got dark real quick

  • @calebstevens7487
    @calebstevens7487 2 года назад +12

    I think it’s worth mentioning that in real life the Nazi’s showed no remorse and tried to justified everything at the trial. Thomas never actually apologizes or says he knew it was wrong.

  • @daveh2504
    @daveh2504 2 дня назад

    Intense beyond words

  • @EthanHopper555
    @EthanHopper555 2 года назад +4

    amazing art

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +1

      thank you friend, make sure you check out Ethereal Snake’s vid, he’s the OG!

  • @kingwillsadventures2217
    @kingwillsadventures2217 Год назад +2

    This is very depressing

  • @clown3862
    @clown3862 2 года назад +1

    This is underrated lmao

  • @Nu_bopustim_Vlad
    @Nu_bopustim_Vlad Месяц назад +1

    Useful engens follow orders...

  • @Joseisjose280
    @Joseisjose280 2 года назад +4

    This is some hardcore shit...

  • @cameronspalding9792
    @cameronspalding9792 2 года назад +7

    November 12 1945 was a Monday

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +1

      wait…u actually watched the video, saw the date, went straight to your calendar, went back 77 years, and confirmed what day November the 12th was lol?

    • @cameronspalding9792
      @cameronspalding9792 2 года назад +1

      @@MrSnapback52 oh no, I was able to work it out

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад

      @@cameronspalding9792 damn, I appreciate the dedication my friend haha

  • @joecamel328
    @joecamel328 2 года назад +2

    Sir Tophamhat was right. Sodor would be better off if they had won the war,