Useful Engines Follow Orders

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  • Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
  • The animation was done by Ethereal Snake, the script was made by ​⁠‪@Smartacus98‬ , the voiceover was done by me. Thank you.
    Here is the script/captions:
    Thomas The Tank Engine. On this day November the 12 1945, you have been found guilty by proceeding commission. Your crimes against humanity will now be paid for in full.
    Crimes? What crimes?
    Pardon me?
    Useful engines follow orders.
    "And you never once asked about your orders?
    Who these people were? Where you were taking them?
    "Useful engines don't ask questions. It wasn't my job to know. It was my job to arrive on time.
    "You never wondered why the carriages were full on arrival, and always empty on your departure?"

    "You never questioned the smell thomas?”
    "I know the smell coal makes when it burns. I knew that the smoke in that place wasn't coal"
    "And still, you took thousands of people there everyday, 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.
    "And so you sacrificed the lives of the countless innocent people to save your own?”
    "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 my 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?"
    "Why do you think you were given the job you had? 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.”
    "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?”
    "You said you’d be replaced if you said no, yet if you refused to follow orders, 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, but I must beg to differ.
    "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?”
    "..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. I wear my punishment either way. I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."

Комментарии • 208

  • @Smartacus98
    @Smartacus98 2 месяца назад +37

    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  2 месяца назад +7

      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

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      @MYJEWISHLAMPSHADES 14 дней назад +1

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  • @asherman10
    @asherman10 11 месяцев назад +64

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

  • @jiado6893
    @jiado6893 2 года назад +548

    “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  2 года назад +51

      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 Год назад +12

      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.

  • @ricowilkins9188
    @ricowilkins9188 Год назад +126

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

  • @kholemcrae1100
    @kholemcrae1100 2 года назад +357

    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 +9

      Ahh yes Hanz and the wall, an enlightening episode.

    • @DaddyVeo1911
      @DaddyVeo1911 2 года назад +4

      Yeah, they do. Their corpses are haunting.

    • @sometrainfan60672
      @sometrainfan60672 2 года назад +3

      The Engine Named Henry Got Out Of The Tunnel In the Next episode so he did not die

    • @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 +4

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

  • @one4all123
    @one4all123 2 года назад +412

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

  • @CFCTheZoren4
    @CFCTheZoren4 2 года назад +175

    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 +11

      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 6 месяцев назад

      @@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.

  • @masloman6534
    @masloman6534 2 года назад +148

    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 +17

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

    • @sirzorg5728
      @sirzorg5728 Год назад +8

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

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  10 месяцев назад +2

      @@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

  • @MrSnapback52
    @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +309

    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 +8

      Caption/Script is in description also

    • @johnnygoodman2003
      @johnnygoodman2003 3 месяца назад

      My favorite episode of Shiney Time Station.

  • @michaelfornes1479
    @michaelfornes1479 2 года назад +103

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

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +11

      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!

  • @BumberenzoTheFireEngine
    @BumberenzoTheFireEngine Год назад +16

    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.

  • @StukkoChonies
    @StukkoChonies Год назад +27

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

  • @lauraner99
    @lauraner99 Год назад +70

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

  • @liammiller1472
    @liammiller1472 7 месяцев назад +7

    the Schindler's List music is perfect

  • @markusguadalupe2461
    @markusguadalupe2461 2 года назад +140

    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  2 года назад +7

      Thank you my friend !!!

    • @bonk2935
      @bonk2935 2 года назад +1

      Watch the og channel Ethereal Snake then

    • @joshbarker-s6k
      @joshbarker-s6k 5 месяцев назад

      fake history

  • @entertext5420
    @entertext5420 2 года назад +24

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

  • @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195
    @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 2 года назад +74

    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 +9

      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 +4

      @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 +4

      ​@@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 Год 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 Год назад +4

      @@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

  • @trevorlahey2112
    @trevorlahey2112 2 года назад +65

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

  • @Maverick-zi8tu
    @Maverick-zi8tu 2 года назад +30

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

  • @longwlenguyen4214
    @longwlenguyen4214 2 года назад +38

    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.

  • @AkiriKanan
    @AkiriKanan 2 года назад +88

    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  2 года назад +7

      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 +3

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

  • @dummyaccount8378
    @dummyaccount8378 2 года назад +7

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

  • @Chadwich
    @Chadwich 2 года назад +37

    This is dope. Great voice over job.

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +1

      Thank you my friend 🙏🏽

    • @notlarry4905
      @notlarry4905 2 года назад +1

      its stolen from ethereal snake

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +1

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

  • @TheT3Engine
    @TheT3Engine 4 месяца назад +2

    You need an Oscar

  • @loading470
    @loading470 10 месяцев назад +1

    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

  • @Sanctuary.inc0707
    @Sanctuary.inc0707 Год назад +9

    This has better dialogue than every single marvel movie

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  Год назад +1

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

  • @hello-gx6oi
    @hello-gx6oi 2 года назад +33

    We found a good voice actor

  • @calebstevens7487
    @calebstevens7487 Год назад +9

    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.

  • @nightking8490
    @nightking8490 10 месяцев назад +3

    "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."

  • @Intergoller
    @Intergoller 10 дней назад

    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?

  • @speckwii
    @speckwii 2 года назад +24

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

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +2

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

  • @SkoPie
    @SkoPie 2 года назад +17

    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 😂

  • @rodrigodepierola
    @rodrigodepierola 10 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  10 месяцев назад

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

  • @Supremaque
    @Supremaque 2 года назад +4

    From youtube comment to a masterpiece. What a ride.

  • @Zyro-dl4ow
    @Zyro-dl4ow 11 месяцев назад +1

    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.

  • @steelblake
    @steelblake 6 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  6 месяцев назад

      Thank you so much 🙏🏽

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

    This lives in my head

  • @KyleMcManus1
    @KyleMcManus1 17 дней назад

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

  • @TheG119YT
    @TheG119YT 2 года назад +37

    You know there are some people who think Thomas was a hero and did the right thing. That a person should follow orders and stay in line no matter what their General might order. That if you do talk back and stand up for innocent lives then you’re a child who needs to shut up. Because clearly the people in charge knows what’s best, every time, and without fault.
    What a bunch of psychos.

    • @bobcat24
      @bobcat24 2 года назад +1

      I can’t call him a hero. But I do think he was just trying to survive. If he disobeyed, he’d die along with those passengers. The only way out of it would be if *everybody* came together and agreed to kill, or at least overthrow, the tyrant who’s ordering these horrible orders.

    • @Astrothunder_
      @Astrothunder_ Год назад +1

      Very same dilemma the Russian people face right now. Though I doubt they will rise up and dethrone their leader. It just isn’t in human nature to disrupt the group.

  • @Truthteller863
    @Truthteller863 2 года назад +26

    My God I get chills every time I watch this!! Awesome vid!

  • @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"

  • @McDonnellDouglass
    @McDonnellDouglass 9 месяцев назад +1

    Poor Thomas He dissevers better!

  • @kniazjarema8587
    @kniazjarema8587 11 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @miwoj
    @miwoj 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @misankroptic
    @misankroptic Год назад

    This is incredibly well made bro.

  • @shaneoflynn8299
    @shaneoflynn8299 2 года назад +2

    Wow what i watched was voiced so GOOD

  • @bigbluebuttonman1137
    @bigbluebuttonman1137 2 года назад +6

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

  • @Nicholas_Triumph_Thruxton
    @Nicholas_Triumph_Thruxton Год назад +1

    Thomas left his job incomplete.

  • @andrewnavarrette4807
    @andrewnavarrette4807 10 месяцев назад

    Gold pure fucking GOLD

  • @ethanhopper432
    @ethanhopper432 2 года назад +3

    amazing art

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +1

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

  • @joecamel328
    @joecamel328 Год назад +2

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

  • @burneronthenetwork736
    @burneronthenetwork736 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 😂😂🙏🏽

  • @clown3862
    @clown3862 2 года назад +1

    This is underrated lmao

  • @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

  • @MoskusMoskiferus1611
    @MoskusMoskiferus1611 2 года назад +2

    Here I am
    Dirty and Faceless
    Waiting to Heed Your Instruction

  • @lelandmilian3988
    @lelandmilian3988 Год назад +1

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

  • @Joseisjose280
    @Joseisjose280 2 года назад +3

    This is some hardcore shit...

  • @nebulaorganz
    @nebulaorganz 2 года назад +2

    Beautiful

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

    "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......"

  • @giovannibramlia4801
    @giovannibramlia4801 2 года назад +1

    This sounds like a real thing in a story

  • @williamhicks6414
    @williamhicks6414 10 месяцев назад

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

  • @teddybetts3254
    @teddybetts3254 Год назад +1

    You never questioned...
    Did we ever question as the migrants were herded into our own concentration camps?
    Did we ever question as African American kid after African American kid were gunned down by the police?
    Did we ever question Milton Friedman as our checks got smaller and the cooperations profits got larger?
    Did we ever question as climate change continued to happen?
    Did we ever question when Trump got elected... and then tried to stay by whatever means necessary?
    Yes, many did; but not enough.
    We'll be judged just as harshly as they were.

  • @insaneavi
    @insaneavi 2 года назад

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

  • @venepskeuten9206
    @venepskeuten9206 2 года назад +1

    Damn that's deep

  • @SteveNonkonyana
    @SteveNonkonyana Год назад

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

  • @dyztroyax4628
    @dyztroyax4628 4 дня назад

    Good channels make their own content

  • @kingwillsadventures2217
    @kingwillsadventures2217 Год назад +1

    This is very depressing

  • @luyandzabavukiledlamini4693
    @luyandzabavukiledlamini4693 11 месяцев назад

    "Useful engines follow orders"
    That's what every soilders say for their crimes but the uniform doesn't make you above any morality

  • @nicholasvanboom4733
    @nicholasvanboom4733 10 месяцев назад

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

  • @karimmagdy4410
    @karimmagdy4410 2 года назад +3

    Hey friend where is the script from ? Is it from a movie?

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +4

      Nope! It’s from the comment section of Ethereal Snake’s Thomas the Train video. It was written by a commenter named TheAntiParadox.

  • @melikesmilkshakes1313
    @melikesmilkshakes1313 2 года назад +6

    this is just impressive

  • @Imalilfaggy
    @Imalilfaggy Год назад +1

    My God. Wow

  • @user-qr7nl8vy5f
    @user-qr7nl8vy5f 8 месяцев назад

    A whole another world

  • @SyrensL
    @SyrensL 2 года назад +3

    OH MY GOD TBIS IS A MASTERPIECE

  • @yourlocalbaltimorerailfan.6756

    *nkp 765 go brrrr in the background*

  • @g_br
    @g_br 2 года назад

    Nice.

  • @SollomonTheWise
    @SollomonTheWise 2 года назад

    Dang, Thomas

  • @unknownsux7995
    @unknownsux7995 2 года назад +2

    What is the music you used in this?

  • @mattb5427
    @mattb5427 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thomas did nothing wrong.

  • @Argos-xb8ek
    @Argos-xb8ek 5 месяцев назад

    I come back every now and again to get a good dark laugh. But seriously I dont think how horrible of a delimma it would be to have to sit and be told/reminded that I personally aided in the suffering and deaths of countless scores of people. Its the same thing as being part of corporations or governments that aide and abade atrocities. Does it ever haunt people like Rawandan Genocide or Yemen or Mayanmars ethnic cleansing or even in Gaza rigbt now

  • @TailsTheSmartest
    @TailsTheSmartest 2 месяца назад

    Can i use this video's audio for a video? Ill give credit to you

  • @louisejhoisagaysay1217
    @louisejhoisagaysay1217 2 года назад +1

    Mam this is dark the original comment should be a arthur

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад

      I completely agree with you, his writing is brilliant

  • @DanielNeedham2500
    @DanielNeedham2500 Год назад +1

    What happened to Thomas's driver and fireman?

  • @codedlAnguage
    @codedlAnguage Год назад

    😘. Think for Yourselves. 💝

  • @brodaciousmax8025
    @brodaciousmax8025 2 года назад

    Sady most of us r good lil engines.

  • @ethanmalandain3072
    @ethanmalandain3072 Год назад

    From a comment to a full video. I have been looking for it but it disappeared

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  Год назад +1

      it should still be there, you just gotta scroll a little more since it’s been so long 😭

    • @ethanmalandain3072
      @ethanmalandain3072 Год назад

      @@MrSnapback52 yeah but it's really hard to find

  • @ajweaver-oy9mu
    @ajweaver-oy9mu 10 месяцев назад +1

    I just checked out the holocaust museum in Chicago. That makes it this is so much better and worse at the same time

  • @zzz-ec6ng
    @zzz-ec6ng Год назад

    THOMAS
    Was only following

  • @ahmedelbattouti7040
    @ahmedelbattouti7040 2 года назад +3

    Pourrais tu faire des sous-titres en anglais pour que les gens comme moi qui ne sont pas très bon puisse mieux comprendre en lisant

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +2

      Q: “Could you do english subtitles for
      the people like me who are not very good
      can understand better by reading”
      A: Yes friend !- (Oui Ami !”)

    • @masloman6534
      @masloman6534 2 года назад

      @@MrSnapback52 pls do subtitles ☺️

  • @juancabrera-ru9jx
    @juancabrera-ru9jx 2 года назад

    Damn that voiceover is good

  • @patrikbergqvist6988
    @patrikbergqvist6988 11 месяцев назад

    He moved to England ?

  • @brandenburgkommando707
    @brandenburgkommando707 2 года назад +1

    Thomas Choo Choo choosed the fate of the people on his platform with his actions. Following orders isn't a sufficient excuse.

  • @jamiemiller1482
    @jamiemiller1482 Год назад +1

    Anyone know the background music?

  • @Sweetdude64
    @Sweetdude64 Год назад +1

    song?

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  Год назад

      I dont know the song name exactly but I know it’s the main song from Schindlers List

  • @VidalMoon
    @VidalMoon 2 года назад

    I am moved by this.

  • @masloman6534
    @masloman6534 2 года назад +1

    Add comment with subtitles pls

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +1

      Okay! I had another comment ask me to do this to, I have to figure out how, but I will try!

    • @masloman6534
      @masloman6534 2 года назад

      Or at least add it into description ☺️

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  2 года назад +1

      @@masloman6534 Great idea! I’m doing it now. Thank you 🙏🏽

    • @masloman6534
      @masloman6534 2 года назад

      @@MrSnapback52 thank you!❤️

  • @joeyfoureyes98
    @joeyfoureyes98 Год назад

    Kanye west should have been his defense

  • @chels5001
    @chels5001 2 года назад +3

    Second

  • @Gurnerman
    @Gurnerman 28 дней назад

    Fucking hell this is awesome if a little dark especially the Deaths head SS on the fat controllers hat. It actually sound's like somebody being tried for crimes against humanity

  • @lilbeam4145
    @lilbeam4145 5 месяцев назад

    The original video is way better

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  5 месяцев назад

      I can’t argue with that, brother! ❤️

    • @SpaceVoyager1701
      @SpaceVoyager1701 5 месяцев назад

      @@MrSnapback52 This one was heart wrenching. Thoma's clearly regrets what he did...

    • @MrSnapback52
      @MrSnapback52  4 месяца назад +1

      @@SpaceVoyager1701Truly heartbreaking smh