will there be a 2nd part cuz i want to see that old train and him and samson like doing the same job as samson and lenus being dragged and there breaks are on and samson is being hooked onto a flatbed and lenus and the old train being hooked on to the flatbed and pulling samson to the station. also great job on the film :)
This is what the Thomas and Friends reboot wishes it was! Sure, there’s a lot of cartoony physics, but it also includes darker elements that remind me of the classic model era.
Sorry, but I accept these kind of cartoony physics (like bouncing body movements of the engines, and the "let's use our wheels as hands or legs" thing) only in fanmade Thomas contents, which are used to be pretty weird in a sort of funny and nostalgic way at the same time. I'm not really a fanboy of it I'ma Sonic The Hedgehog fan, but in my opinion, nowadays the franchise of my childhood deserves more fair treatment and respect than Mattel's garbage.
Hey there! At 14:37, yes that did actually happen, but to a more terrifying manner. Steam is so INCREDIBLY powerful. If you look up "boiler explosion" the first photo you'll see is one you'll remember forever, but yeah, it did happen, and a good bit too, but less in the 1900's.
steam boilers were deadly, and also a lot of human error, some were machince failure, but a lot were just honest human error. one mistake like adding to much coal making the crown sheet red hot, the moment water touches that burning metal area. steam is expanded in a split second, literally you won't even hear the thing bowl until you;re either dead or lucky enough to be blown away.
@@octopus1066 Hey, so not to be rude. But you have it backwards. The engine would never explode from too much steam, unless the boiler had minor problems that grew in time. If there was ever to much steam, that steam would be released via the satefy valve that popped with to much pressure. Water is the coolant for the crownsheet, keeping it from expanding and shooting staybolts out like bullets. What would happen is the fireman wouldnt watch his water level, they would descend down a grade or level off after a climb, and the water wasnt high enough, allowing for the crownsheet to fail.
Around when Samson was made to stay, you said that this would be "Diesels overcoming Steam" however, Samson is still steam. Bit of creative criticism. (I am a railroad worker.) Great review! I love how you reviewed everything. Also, the pipe connecting to the fire is called a "stoker" and it automatically brought coal into the firebox. Also, explosions, like Linus faced, do occur. It was called a "boiler explosion" and when the water level dropped too low, the metal surrounding the firebox would melt, causing an explosion.
The titular locomotive (Linus) from the short was very clearly inspired by Casey Jr. from Dumbo. He's a 2-4-0, he's small, and his headlight is in the shape of a hat, just like with Casey Jr. However, Casey Jr. has a long protrusion for a nose, whereas Linus does not. Also, Casey Jr. is a mix of red and black (although in other depictions he's blue and orange), and Linus is pretty much entirely blue.
The story also seems to borrow elements of The little engine that could, rolling stock look like they are inspired by the "The Caboose Who Got Loose" by Bill Peet and the human characters seem to borrow style and movement insperation from The Brave Engineer by Walt Disney So many nostalgic elements of borrowed inspiration it's just amazing
OMG you actually did a reaction to this short, thanks for taking my recommendation! Seriously, Andrew Chesworth is an incredible animator, he's worked on a bunch of Disney movies as stated in the video, and also did a lot of work elsewhere, like with the Netflix Christmas movie Klaus. Incredibly talented man, and I love how much of a throwback to 1940's Disney cartoons this short is. Very wholesome and wonderful stuff.
The second newspaper actually states that Samson was grateful for Linus saving his life and the lives of his passengers, and that he was actually reassigned, and now he hauls lumber over great distances, to make up for the bridge he unknowingly caused to collapse.
9:20, railroad nut here. That is a reference to a piece of equipment on a lot of large steam locomotives during ww2, which is an auto storker. A lot of “super power” locomotive consumed a lot of coal at max power, so much that the fire man can’t keep up with the needs of the fire. The auto storker is designed to keep fueling the engine, but not the way in the video. The a video of someone breaking down the parts of a big boy, and they talk about the auto storker. Which I recommend to check it out.
@@gamerfan8445 844 was a coal burner originally, but in all honesty Samson is probably made of a mix of features from different 4-8-4 Northerns. I went to 844 because she's the first one of the type I think of, and to be far the logo on Samson's tender looks very close to the UP shield.
Samson is a steam engine. A 4-8-4 type to be exact. Despite the date shown in the animation these engines were introduced late into the steam era. Around 1930s onward and they’re considered the peak of steam traction engineering in terms of power, speed, efficiency and ease of maintenance coming closest to beating the diesels. So the complete opposite of a dainty 1800s 2-4-0 like Linus. The choice seems very intentional And yes boiler explosions do happen. Very violently and much more easily than you think if you don't tend to your engine right. Most common cause is not paying attention to the water level and uncovering the top of the firebox
Samson looks more like a 4-8-2, albeit a slightly unusual one with the main rod connecting on the 3rd driving axle. Several 4-8-2s were built this way, the New Haven railroad had several, but it is slightly unusual. The design appears to be more similar to a heavy 2-8-2 overall.
The newspaper does say that Samson is very ahead of the times technologically so they acknowledged his design being anachronistic for 1895, saying it was just a great expense for the railroad company to develop him.
4:39 Actually, it's "Colonna-ville", in reference to radio host and actor Jerry Collona. He's the man who narrated Disney's original "The Brave Engineer" short, some of his famous lines including " _Tis' a mooooornin'... _*_TIS A MOOOOOORRRRRRNIIIIING!!_* ", and of course *_"EGAAAAAD!!"_*
Also fun fact, this short is actually based on the creator's old short called "wild west" Where the graphic is dark, gritty and filled to the brim with crass and crude humor. The lady in green dress in this shirt is a prostitute wannabe in old short.
9:15 That's a Mechanichal Stoker. Many modern steam locomotive have them, and Samson is a 4-8-4 Northern, and many had and have these stokers, but this is an exadurated version, all of the mechanical stokers in real life are screws that go from under the tender coal bunker to the firebox.
I swear this video is DIRECTLY inspired by the 1991 movie adaption of The Little Engine That Could. Samson’s design looks directly taken from that movie. (I say “movie”, isn’t only 30 minutes long.)
I did some digging to figure out some things about this film, and I was able to find out that the character Samson is heavily inspired by the C&O J3a greenbrier 4-8-4, Lima s2 Berkshire 2-8-4s, and Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-10-2 60000.
Yeah this feels like old fashioned Disney, and Walt would love it as he loved trains. I also love that the antagonists are not evil, they are just trying to invest in better machines and be able to make more money providing a service to more people that then smaller train can. The fact the ending showed that even though time progresses, technology progresses, that we keep and maintain things to remember the past and appreciate it wasn't lost. There are aircraft, a modern bridge built to support mass transport trains, and the small train is kept around to remember a past worth treasuring puts a smile on my face.
You have to appreciate there is no true villain in the story here; The Baron was a businessman with an eye for progress who saw great opportunities for technological improvements he even allowed Henry a chance to keep his job by being reassigned, and for an upper-class citizen of his time he showed genuine respect for Henry, a working-class citizen, by having tea at the engine with him. Samson was just a big & intimidating train doing his job (admittingly better than Linus ever could) and never did he put down Linus outside of a stern glance. You could argue that the 2 lumber mill workers were cruel but not true villains of the story, just an antagonistic force.
This is what ticks me when Disney says ‘Oh we don’t have the technology to do 2D animation anymore like we can’t go back it’s too outdated’ HOGWASH! You can’t tell me heart felt 2D animated art movies are no more this is probably more entertaining then majority of Disney movies now and it legit packed more emotion and quality into 7 minutes that a Disney movie can’t seem to cram in 1 hr and 40 min movies.
Watching your REACTIONS was almost as fun as watching it the first time myself. Literally, I re-watched the whole thing again almost entirely because your reaction felt so... raw, authentic, deserved. This is such a beautiful animation. I love everything about all of this.
At 4:41, I believe the name is supposed to be a play on the word “colonnade,” which refers either to a row of columns supporting a roof, or otherwise a series of tall objects in a row. Assuming that is the intended meaning, it’s a tad ironic considering the background art depicts Colonnaville of being completely devoid of absolutely anything.
After seeing this animation I actually found an old Disney short called The Brave Engineer which I think this is paying tribute to. It features the voice of a performer named Jerry Colonna as a narrator.
The first time I heard that Disney was going to make a movie to celebrate its 100th anniversary (Wish) I thought they would make an effort to bring us something like this animated short, their original 2D technique by which they became great, or at least make a hybridization of techniques (Not necessarily like Spider-Verse) the same way they did with Paperman.
If you want to really understand the context better, you should have watched The Brave Engineer and Little Toot to get how much homage this pays to those times. That and Casey Jr. looks a lot like Linus. The only other stretch reference that is in my head is that Linus is similar to Lionel, the toy train-making company. ... Can you tell I love trains? 😂
I remember seeing the trailer that was ffrom ages ago and wasn't entirely finished as the end was like a white board without color but now knowing this could be a series is just amazing seeing how far it could get
That thing at 9:06 is a cartoon version of a stoker, it's basically a pipe with a rotating shaft that moves coal directly into the firebox. There are a few preserved steam locomotives in north America with working examples of stokers.
This was a story of the industrialization of the railways during either WW1 or WW2 when there weren't as many available men to run the railways. During the day of Linus, trains were smaller and less powerful as seen with Linus only having two coaches and the caboose, all of which were very small cars. This was also the day when engineers pretty much owned their engine (hinted to in the picture of Henry and Linus). Even though Linus was a tiny train it still would have had at least 5 men operating it, Henry the engineer, his fireman (not Henry shoveling the coal), a forward brakeman, a rear brakeman, and the conductor. If the railroad needed to run more cars then they would add another engine in front of Linus adding two more people to the line up with another engineer and fireman. This story is the story of when manpower was scarce and the need to move freight was high, so bigger and bigger engines were built that could do the work of 20 engines while still only needing the 5 man crew. That is why Samson has the stocker, and is pulling multiple large passenger coaches at a greater speed, showing how much power he has over what Linus can do. But, as in real life we see that the windy up and down path that Linus could run gets leveled out and straightened because Samson isn't able to go around those tight turns and wouldn't be able to be safely ran on track with too steep of a grade due to the length of his boiler. This sadly is the story of progress, and the fall of workforce.
9:19 What you were looking at? My friend is what’s called a Stoker. As you can tell it transports coal directly from the tender to the firebox. Normally stokers wouldn’t be taking up any space in the cab. On the contrary they’d be underneath the cab above the trailing wheels by the way, great reaction and have a nice day.
That is crazy animation. I love how he made the vultures from the jungle book, the fact the crazy locomotive goes into the dark with that guy stuck in that smoke stack, the fact Samson dose not have heart until the bridge brakes. But one question is does Samson have a heart attack when his smoke just stops? The fact that Linus can pull up Samson and risk his life for a modern engine and never see Samson after Linus saved Samson. A lot of great in this cartoon short. I hope Andrew makes a real laminated version of the news papers that was in this short it would be a fun novelty and fun read so you can actually read them with out pausing or zooming in a bunch to be able to read the printing.
Regarding the vultures, much more likely to be inspired by the ones in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The ones in Jungle Book were a little more on the goofy side.
I was there when the only thing public was an unfinished intro. I remember the day it came out and the second I found it, I gave it a watch. Rollercoaster between the start and the end for sure.
9:12 if you are wondering what is the thing from samson tender is actually where the water go's into the boiler let me explain so when you hear the word tank engine like thomas the tank engine is where they put water in the tanks but if it's a tender engine they basically have to build something to put there coal and water together
to awnser some of your questions (because this animation actually has a shit ton of attention to detail). the numbers on the newspaper are talking about how Linus is a 2-4-0 (old steam engines were often categorized along something known as the 'Whyte notation" which counted the number of pilot wheels (the first number), the powered driving wheels (the second number) and the number of trailing wheels (the last one), it may be confusing, especially when looking at it from the side, but just remember that your counting wheels). A 2-4-0, known by the common nickname "Porter" (or "Montezuma" for Rio-Grande fanbois) were VERY old engines, some of the first steam engines to come around, while Samson is a 4-8-4 (a wheel arrangement that has *many* nicknames), and he is very much a late 1940s design, with his cigar actually itself a reference to the "duel headlights" found on some American engines. another thing to point out is that the repair at the end of the short is very realistic to! these old steam engines were absolute units that could come back from some pretty horrific crashes (Linus is actually in pretty good shape by steam engine crash standards)
14:37 you actually answered your own question at 13:32 I didnt catch it on my first watch but you did "he hit him ...oh its the boiler so he'll overheat" And well , overheated boiler +strain = boiler explosion
This is like Susie The Little Blue Car or The Little Engine That Could. Also possibly a Shel Silverstein reference with the poem The Little Blue Engine.
Next to “Once Upon a Studio”, this is my favorite animated short from 2023. Who knew that year had better appetizers than main courses in terms of animation?
I’m a train geeks sooo ima say that first it was gen 1 of locomotive technology and fist came some experimental locomotives that where pretty fast for the time. Then next you have your more stereotypical locomotive like the old western locomotives.Then you have the early 1900s locomotives. Then the more modern locomotive like Samson. And then railroads got into streamlined steam this is the period of where diesel engines started to come in this was during somewhere in the mid-1900s. After that railroads started to become more fond of the diesel by the late-1900s railroads replaced steam with diesel completely.
I'll be honest, if this got pushed to be a series, it could IMMEDIATELY bury what little remains of Thomas the Tank Engine after the past 5 years of PR disaster that IP's been through. Like it could do it so easily and I wouldn't even feel bad.
“I wonder if that actually happened with steam engines” Yes, yes it did, excessive steam pressure being one main cause (hence the invention of the safety valve), the other being a crown sheet failure, the former needing no explanation, the latter being caused by the water level in the boiler dipping too low, allowing the crown sheet (the top of the firebox) to heat up more than it should, don’t really know how to explain it but reintroducing the cold water to the seething hot metal causes rapid fatigue, leading to an explosion
An explanation of your question about whether or not steam locomotives actually could explode; yes, they could. Steam Locomotives get very hot. It isn’t like boiling water in a pot, locomotives need to reach very high temperatures, as they need a lot of steam pressure to move, since they are quite heavy (the largest locomotive in existence today, when loaded with fuel and water, is said to weigh more than a Boeing 737). One of the more common causes of a boiler exploding would be the water level dropping too low. Once the water level drops low enough, the part of the firebox that transfers heat into the boiler, now being exposed to air and not having water to help cool it down, can start to get extremely hot, to the point in some cases it would start to deform. What this would result in, in a number of cases, is that, when water came back in contact with that part of the firebox, it would undergo superheating, which would cause the water to evaporate and rapidly expand, causing the boiler pressure to far exceed what it could handle, ultimately causing the boiler to explode, often extremely violently, with causes of boiler explosions leveling brick sheds and such. However, despite this, a boiler explosion was not always the end for a locomotive. Sometimes the rest of the locomotive would only take relatively minor damage, and the boiler could be replaced and the locomotive put back into service (boilers aren’t super complex and can be replaced easily).
samson is a 2-8-4 berkshire class loco, they replaced a TON of old 2-6-2 and 4-6-2 locos when they were brought into the spotlight. pretty much replacing old steamers. So before the tin can known as diesel locomotives like the streamliners and GPs. railroads were scrapping a lot of there older earlier 19th and 20th locos for new and more modern locos. This one has a fire stroker, so no manual firing, the fireman was in charge of making sure the stroker was working right in order for these big giants to be fed right. For ref, the big 4014 was fitted with a coal stroker because if it was manual labor firing. the fireman would straight up die from over working himself and stress since the big boys ate around coal like a orc eating dinner. 74,700 lb (33,883 kg) of coal and 34,800 gallons (131,732 L) of water. This averages to 19,487 lb (8,839 kg) of coal and 9,078 gallons (34,364 L) of water used per hour, or 996 lb of coal and 464 gallons of water per mile (280 kg and 1,089 L per km) you would need 8 guys to fire a big boy going at low speeds.
The small text on the newspapers and the re-assignment contract can be read on the RUclips mobile app, due to a zoom in feature being implemented. Thogh my screen protector did stop me from reading it all anyway, boarder cutting of the text. Wonder if there are any plans for it being implemented on the site though.
The way a steam locomotive works, there's coils inside the engine that are used for the cooling of the engine. It isn't just an empty tube. When a train overheats and explodes, those coils burst out, looking like a wild spaghetti mess. You can find plenty of photographs from accidents over the years.
I think this whole short is also a respin/reference to one of his old shorts Wild West cause there is a train in that one that looks similar to the brave locomotive along with the lady in green
I like how none of the main characters in here (save the foreman and the other guy) are really antagonistic to Linus. No-one is really evil here. The Baron is seeing the future where rail traffic is gonna expand and needs more powerful engines to keep up, and he is right in that sense if history has shown us. The Baron's daughter is clearly not afraid o get dirty when she needs to, she even seems to know her way around an engine enough to fire and repair them. Maybe the Baron insisted his daughter get some practical experience with what she was set to inherit to better understand the business, and she's clearly not sour about the experience. Samson does hit the turtle, though with how that turtle was crossing the tracks without looking that was bound to happen eventually, but Samson doesn't say or do anything to Linus, he's called in to do a job, and he does it. Its mentioned in the newspapers the bridge was rushed to keep up with him, and thats why it broke. Samson was only guilty of doing his job too well. Plus, its shown in the papers as well that he volunteers to help after his rescue, doing long-haul timber runs to replace and reinforce the bridge, which clearly works. He might look intimidating but he doesn't really do anything to warrant being called "villainous". Just a big strong guy who likes his cigars doing his job. I like that they took the time to make everyone believable in their motivations and no-one does anything particularly "evil". You might argue the place (lumber yard maybe?) that Linus was sent to was evil but we dunno why he was sent there specifically, or whether or not the Baron had any real hand in it. I can't imagine the foreman would shoot an engine going to save his boss, so maybe its a seperate company that bought the engine? That happens a lot with older engines being passed down to smaller companies for lighter duties. AMI overthinking a silly little short? Yes, fight me.
It's actually a bit too early for diesels. This is when the Bigger steam locos became prevalent. Pacific's, and Northerns. If I've got it right, Samson is a Northern. Also, the biggest trains, some northerns, Big Boys, had augers that directly fed coal into the firebox. So it's accurate.
Yes, trains actually do explode they’re called boiler explosions. It happens when not enough waters in the boiler and the boiler overheats, breaking their protective layer and exploding the boiler.
15:48 I can help. If you go on the RUclips app on your phone, you have the ability to zoom in on the video. That can you help read the small text. Make sure to have the quality on 1080p
Little thingy on the name of the station: Colonnaville should be read like "Colonna ville", like Amityville or Belleville. Fun trivia fact, "colonna" is the italian word for column, and as a curious coincidence I happen to live in a town in Italy named Colonna. Even more funny is the fact that like Colonnaville its only perk is a railroad station, for the rest it's just a bunch of houses with some neat green trimming
The funniest part about the train slave mine place is how the dude with the shot at Linus... implying he's probably killed trains before with that gun.
For me, as a person who is a fan of 2D animation, this short cartoon is just a balm for my soul. I am tired of seeing that all major companies produce exclusively 3D cartoons, the quality of which has been slipping for more than 10 years like Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks. And we produce 2D animation only on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Fox, but now they too have become just terrible and have been plunged into hell for a very long time. I really hope that someday society will get tired of this long decline of animation and we will see beautiful full-length 2D cartoons in the cinema again, even if they are completely new animation studios that will replace the old ones.
They're not villains. They're just rich businessmen doing their own jobs and making progress for the future. Samson may look intimidating, but he's just being a really useful engine.
You wanted to know if a steam engine could blow up like that. And yes, it could. And it happened now and then. Though there would be a major difference between the cartoon and reality: None of the people there would have survived standing that close to the engine. I know of an example where a steam engines' boiler burst and the remains where thrown about 200 meters away...... plus everything would be full with boiling steam..... Not pretty.
I would like to point out when Linus starts pulling the passenger cars the coal pipe for Samson disconnects from Samson and he actually stops producing smoke as he has no fuel
I seen the previous one when I was 10 or 11 and now it's getting better the animation is beautiful and Samson looks badass he looks like The polar express locomotive but looking like a Boss fight like Look at him 6:05 he is not playing
Not quite the steam to diesel transition. More of what you see on screen. The early generations of steam engines giving way to the more modern steam locomotives you saw in the later years of Steam just prior to steam getting replaced all together with diesel. What you see at 9:10 though is actually a depiction of how these massive steam locomotives were fueled. Once they were actually out and running on the mainline, the biggest engines needed so much coal that a person couldn't keep up with the need so they designed a way to feed coal directly from the tender to the firebox. There were also steam locomotives that actually use oil instead of coal for an assortment of reasons. The biggest functioning steam locomotive in the world, The Big Boy, actually runs on oil nowadays. The only thing is that the feed from the tender was not directly through the middle of the cab but below it. This was just for show on film. Steam engines can and have blown up if they are overheated and run out of water so that is absolutely something that could've happened. Though, depending on how bad the damage is, it could be rebuilt or just scrapped. I think in most real life instances they were usually scrapped since there just wasn't much of anything left. I also wouldn't describe this as "like Thomas" or whatever you said exactly. Well, not the version that so many of us grew up with. I would say it's more like "The Little Engine That Could."
The diesel takeover didn't happen yet. In the United States, heavier freight and higher populace density caused smaller steam engines to be phased out over larger, stronger ones. Smaller steam locomotives were still used in mining operations, hence the scene of Stanley being sent to work at the mines. While diesels take up that operation now, there are restoration efforts that use steam locomotives for tourism. Especially in small old mining towns where the mines ran dry.
Our crew loved watching your fantastic reactions! Thank you so much for sharing, and to your wife for recommending the film!
You and your crew did a wonderful job!
Thank you for making the flim itself! It's an amazing tribute to 1940s animation and railroads alike.
You and your crew did a fantastic job! Absolutely loved it as train and animation fan! Couldn’t have enjoyed it any more, just fantastic!
Fantastic Job!! Worth The Eight Year Wait!
will there be a 2nd part cuz i want to see that old train and him and samson like doing the same job as samson and lenus being dragged and there breaks are on and samson is being hooked onto a flatbed and lenus and the old train being hooked on to the flatbed and pulling samson to the station. also great job on the film :)
This is what the Thomas and Friends reboot wishes it was! Sure, there’s a lot of cartoony physics, but it also includes darker elements that remind me of the classic model era.
As a Thomas fan, couldn’t have said it better myself!
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That is very true 😎👌
Sorry, but I accept these kind of cartoony physics (like bouncing body movements of the engines, and the "let's use our wheels as hands or legs" thing) only in fanmade Thomas contents, which are used to be pretty weird in a sort of funny and nostalgic way at the same time. I'm not really a fanboy of it I'ma Sonic The Hedgehog fan, but in my opinion, nowadays the franchise of my childhood deserves more fair treatment and respect than Mattel's garbage.
I wish the Brave Locomotive had a series, it deserves it more than All engines go.
Hey there! At 14:37, yes that did actually happen, but to a more terrifying manner. Steam is so INCREDIBLY powerful. If you look up "boiler explosion" the first photo you'll see is one you'll remember forever, but yeah, it did happen, and a good bit too, but less in the 1900's.
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Many people have been killed from steam locomotive explosions
@@billbell70 Indeed
steam boilers were deadly, and also a lot of human error, some were machince failure, but a lot were just honest human error. one mistake like adding to much coal making the crown sheet red hot, the moment water touches that burning metal area. steam is expanded in a split second, literally you won't even hear the thing bowl until you;re either dead or lucky enough to be blown away.
@@octopus1066 Hey, so not to be rude. But you have it backwards. The engine would never explode from too much steam, unless the boiler had minor problems that grew in time. If there was ever to much steam, that steam would be released via the satefy valve that popped with to much pressure. Water is the coolant for the crownsheet, keeping it from expanding and shooting staybolts out like bullets. What would happen is the fireman wouldnt watch his water level, they would descend down a grade or level off after a climb, and the water wasnt high enough, allowing for the crownsheet to fail.
Around when Samson was made to stay, you said that this would be "Diesels overcoming Steam" however, Samson is still steam.
Bit of creative criticism. (I am a railroad worker.)
Great review! I love how you reviewed everything.
Also, the pipe connecting to the fire is called a "stoker" and it automatically brought coal into the firebox.
Also, explosions, like Linus faced, do occur. It was called a "boiler explosion" and when the water level dropped too low, the metal surrounding the firebox would melt, causing an explosion.
thank you for teaching me how a steam locomotive blows up
The same boiler explosion happened to Gordon in shed 17
Railroad workers are cool, you are cool
@@HoangHarry-k5v don't mention that film
The titular locomotive (Linus) from the short was very clearly inspired by Casey Jr. from Dumbo. He's a 2-4-0, he's small, and his headlight is in the shape of a hat, just like with Casey Jr. However, Casey Jr. has a long protrusion for a nose, whereas Linus does not. Also, Casey Jr. is a mix of red and black (although in other depictions he's blue and orange), and Linus is pretty much entirely blue.
You can definitly tell it was inspired by stuff like "Little Toot" (1948) and like you said, Casey Junior.
And Samson is based off of either a Berkshire or the Readings T1.
The story also seems to borrow elements of The little engine that could, rolling stock look like they are inspired by the "The Caboose Who Got Loose" by Bill Peet and the human characters seem to borrow style and movement insperation from The Brave Engineer by Walt Disney
So many nostalgic elements of borrowed inspiration it's just amazing
Yes he is
OMG you actually did a reaction to this short, thanks for taking my recommendation! Seriously, Andrew Chesworth is an incredible animator, he's worked on a bunch of Disney movies as stated in the video, and also did a lot of work elsewhere, like with the Netflix Christmas movie Klaus. Incredibly talented man, and I love how much of a throwback to 1940's Disney cartoons this short is. Very wholesome and wonderful stuff.
The second newspaper actually states that Samson was grateful for Linus saving his life and the lives of his passengers, and that he was actually reassigned, and now he hauls lumber over great distances, to make up for the bridge he unknowingly caused to collapse.
9:20, railroad nut here. That is a reference to a piece of equipment on a lot of large steam locomotives during ww2, which is an auto storker. A lot of “super power” locomotive consumed a lot of coal at max power, so much that the fire man can’t keep up with the needs of the fire. The auto storker is designed to keep fueling the engine, but not the way in the video. The a video of someone breaking down the parts of a big boy, and they talk about the auto storker. Which I recommend to check it out.
And Samson is Basically Union Pacific 844
@@railbaron1 no, 844 is a oil burner, he more like a C&O greenbrier
@@gamerfan8445 844 was a coal burner originally, but in all honesty Samson is probably made of a mix of features from different 4-8-4 Northerns. I went to 844 because she's the first one of the type I think of, and to be far the logo on Samson's tender looks very close to the UP shield.
@@railbaron1 true, actually he looks like a richmond fredericksburg and potomac railroad Statesmen.
Funny... I was watching that Big Boy video yesterday.
Samson is a steam engine. A 4-8-4 type to be exact. Despite the date shown in the animation these engines were introduced late into the steam era. Around 1930s onward and they’re considered the peak of steam traction engineering in terms of power, speed, efficiency and ease of maintenance coming closest to beating the diesels. So the complete opposite of a dainty 1800s 2-4-0 like Linus. The choice seems very intentional
And yes boiler explosions do happen. Very violently and much more easily than you think if you don't tend to your engine right. Most common cause is not paying attention to the water level and uncovering the top of the firebox
Samson looks more like a 4-8-2, albeit a slightly unusual one with the main rod connecting on the 3rd driving axle. Several 4-8-2s were built this way, the New Haven railroad had several, but it is slightly unusual. The design appears to be more similar to a heavy 2-8-2 overall.
The newspaper does say that Samson is very ahead of the times technologically so they acknowledged his design being anachronistic for 1895, saying it was just a great expense for the railroad company to develop him.
I love how despite it being short, it has humor and sadness, it's so wonderful and it reminds me of old Disney movies.
4:39 Actually, it's "Colonna-ville", in reference to radio host and actor Jerry Collona. He's the man who narrated Disney's original "The Brave Engineer" short, some of his famous lines including " _Tis' a mooooornin'... _*_TIS A MOOOOOORRRRRRNIIIIING!!_* ", and of course *_"EGAAAAAD!!"_*
The fact this animator worked on this film for got knows how long is just next level impressive
The incomplete opening sequence was made 8 years ago.
I hope he makes a second one we need more of Linus the brave locomotive
Also fun fact, this short is actually based on the creator's old short called "wild west"
Where the graphic is dark, gritty and filled to the brim with crass and crude humor. The lady in green dress in this shirt is a prostitute wannabe in old short.
Yes, it took 8 years but. It was ent a main project so that’s why it took so long.
9:15 That's a Mechanichal Stoker. Many modern steam locomotive have them, and Samson is a 4-8-4 Northern, and many had and have these stokers, but this is an exadurated version, all of the mechanical stokers in real life are screws that go from under the tender coal bunker to the firebox.
I swear this video is DIRECTLY inspired by the 1991 movie adaption of The Little Engine That Could. Samson’s design looks directly taken from that movie. (I say “movie”, isn’t only 30 minutes long.)
I did some digging to figure out some things about this film, and I was able to find out that the character Samson is heavily inspired by the C&O J3a greenbrier 4-8-4, Lima s2 Berkshire 2-8-4s, and Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-10-2 60000.
Yeah this feels like old fashioned Disney, and Walt would love it as he loved trains. I also love that the antagonists are not evil, they are just trying to invest in better machines and be able to make more money providing a service to more people that then smaller train can. The fact the ending showed that even though time progresses, technology progresses, that we keep and maintain things to remember the past and appreciate it wasn't lost. There are aircraft, a modern bridge built to support mass transport trains, and the small train is kept around to remember a past worth treasuring puts a smile on my face.
I like that idea. Preserving the past to show that the past is worth remembering.
You have to appreciate there is no true villain in the story here;
The Baron was a businessman with an eye for progress who saw great opportunities for technological improvements he even allowed Henry a chance to keep his job by being reassigned, and for an upper-class citizen of his time he showed genuine respect for Henry, a working-class citizen, by having tea at the engine with him.
Samson was just a big & intimidating train doing his job (admittingly better than Linus ever could) and never did he put down Linus outside of a stern glance.
You could argue that the 2 lumber mill workers were cruel but not true villains of the story, just an antagonistic force.
I love it that samson broke character, showing he's got a soul.
I am so glad someone reacted to this, it’s so awesome! The art style gives perfect classic Disney vibes and I’d super smooth.
This is what ticks me when Disney says ‘Oh we don’t have the technology to do 2D animation anymore like we can’t go back it’s too outdated’
HOGWASH! You can’t tell me heart felt 2D animated art movies are no more this is probably more entertaining then majority of Disney movies now and it legit packed more emotion and quality into 7 minutes that a Disney movie can’t seem to cram in 1 hr and 40 min movies.
Watching your REACTIONS was almost as fun as watching it the first time myself. Literally, I re-watched the whole thing again almost entirely because your reaction felt so... raw, authentic, deserved. This is such a beautiful animation. I love everything about all of this.
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At 4:41, I believe the name is supposed to be a play on the word “colonnade,” which refers either to a row of columns supporting a roof, or otherwise a series of tall objects in a row. Assuming that is the intended meaning, it’s a tad ironic considering the background art depicts Colonnaville of being completely devoid of absolutely anything.
After seeing this animation I actually found an old Disney short called The Brave Engineer which I think this is paying tribute to. It features the voice of a performer named Jerry Colonna as a narrator.
@@jeffrey8979 Oh hey, that’s a very clever find! I’m willing to bet you’re right on the nose with that one.
Love that you reacted to this. I saw the video and was amazed, but to see someone react to it as well is wonderful.
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This is one of the greatest train animations ever. What a great call back to 1900s train animations.
The first time I heard that Disney was going to make a movie to celebrate its 100th anniversary (Wish) I thought they would make an effort to bring us something like this animated short, their original 2D technique by which they became great, or at least make a hybridization of techniques (Not necessarily like Spider-Verse) the same way they did with Paperman.
If you want to really understand the context better, you should have watched The Brave Engineer and Little Toot to get how much homage this pays to those times. That and Casey Jr. looks a lot like Linus. The only other stretch reference that is in my head is that Linus is similar to Lionel, the toy train-making company.
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Can you tell I love trains? 😂
I remember seeing the trailer that was ffrom ages ago and wasn't entirely finished as the end was like a white board without color but now knowing this could be a series is just amazing seeing how far it could get
Linus is or can be related to Casey Jr. the circus train from dumbo
That thing at 9:06 is a cartoon version of a stoker, it's basically a pipe with a rotating shaft that moves coal directly into the firebox. There are a few preserved steam locomotives in north America with working examples of stokers.
9:14 It's an automatic stoker, a few of American steam locos from the mid of 20th century have those
This was a story of the industrialization of the railways during either WW1 or WW2 when there weren't as many available men to run the railways.
During the day of Linus, trains were smaller and less powerful as seen with Linus only having two coaches and the caboose, all of which were very small cars. This was also the day when engineers pretty much owned their engine (hinted to in the picture of Henry and Linus). Even though Linus was a tiny train it still would have had at least 5 men operating it, Henry the engineer, his fireman (not Henry shoveling the coal), a forward brakeman, a rear brakeman, and the conductor. If the railroad needed to run more cars then they would add another engine in front of Linus adding two more people to the line up with another engineer and fireman.
This story is the story of when manpower was scarce and the need to move freight was high, so bigger and bigger engines were built that could do the work of 20 engines while still only needing the 5 man crew. That is why Samson has the stocker, and is pulling multiple large passenger coaches at a greater speed, showing how much power he has over what Linus can do. But, as in real life we see that the windy up and down path that Linus could run gets leveled out and straightened because Samson isn't able to go around those tight turns and wouldn't be able to be safely ran on track with too steep of a grade due to the length of his boiler.
This sadly is the story of progress, and the fall of workforce.
the newspapers read 1895 so
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What you were looking at? My friend is what’s called a Stoker. As you can tell it transports coal directly from the tender to the firebox. Normally stokers wouldn’t be taking up any space in the cab. On the contrary they’d be underneath the cab above the trailing wheels by the way, great reaction and have a nice day.
That is crazy animation. I love how he made the vultures from the jungle book, the fact the crazy locomotive goes into the dark with that guy stuck in that smoke stack, the fact Samson dose not have heart until the bridge brakes. But one question is does Samson have a heart attack when his smoke just stops? The fact that Linus can pull up Samson and risk his life for a modern engine and never see Samson after Linus saved Samson. A lot of great in this cartoon short. I hope Andrew makes a real laminated version of the news papers that was in this short it would be a fun novelty and fun read so you can actually read them with out pausing or zooming in a bunch to be able to read the printing.
Regarding the vultures, much more likely to be inspired by the ones in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The ones in Jungle Book were a little more on the goofy side.
I was there when the only thing public was an unfinished intro. I remember the day it came out and the second I found it, I gave it a watch. Rollercoaster between the start and the end for sure.
9:12 if you are wondering what is the thing from samson tender is actually where the water go's into the boiler let me explain so when you hear the word tank engine like thomas the tank engine is where they put water in the tanks but if it's a tender engine they basically have to build something to put there coal and water together
to awnser some of your questions (because this animation actually has a shit ton of attention to detail). the numbers on the newspaper are talking about how Linus is a 2-4-0 (old steam engines were often categorized along something known as the 'Whyte notation" which counted the number of pilot wheels (the first number), the powered driving wheels (the second number) and the number of trailing wheels (the last one), it may be confusing, especially when looking at it from the side, but just remember that your counting wheels). A 2-4-0, known by the common nickname "Porter" (or "Montezuma" for Rio-Grande fanbois) were VERY old engines, some of the first steam engines to come around, while Samson is a 4-8-4 (a wheel arrangement that has *many* nicknames), and he is very much a late 1940s design, with his cigar actually itself a reference to the "duel headlights" found on some American engines.
another thing to point out is that the repair at the end of the short is very realistic to! these old steam engines were absolute units that could come back from some pretty horrific crashes (Linus is actually in pretty good shape by steam engine crash standards)
14:37 you actually answered your own question at 13:32
I didnt catch it on my first watch but you did "he hit him ...oh its the boiler so he'll overheat"
And well , overheated boiler +strain = boiler explosion
This is like Susie The Little Blue Car or The Little Engine That Could. Also possibly a Shel Silverstein reference with the poem The Little Blue Engine.
I swear,I fell in love with this little train😩❤️
Next to “Once Upon a Studio”, this is my favorite animated short from 2023. Who knew that year had better appetizers than main courses in terms of animation?
I’m a train geeks sooo ima say that first it was gen 1 of locomotive technology and fist came some experimental locomotives that where pretty fast for the time. Then next you have your more stereotypical locomotive like the old western locomotives.Then you have the early 1900s locomotives. Then the more modern locomotive like Samson. And then railroads got into streamlined steam this is the period of where diesel engines started to come in this was during somewhere in the mid-1900s. After that railroads started to become more fond of the diesel by the late-1900s railroads replaced steam with diesel completely.
The vultures gave me Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs vibes
I got animal farm vibes personally
That's what it's a direct reference to. Just like how Linus is a reference to the Little Engine.
Im surprised you actually reacted to this, but im glad you did Airier thank you pretty guardian 😁
Ever seen the Disney short “Little Toot”? That’s what this feels like to me 🥰
I'll be honest, if this got pushed to be a series, it could IMMEDIATELY bury what little remains of Thomas the Tank Engine after the past 5 years of PR disaster that IP's been through. Like it could do it so easily and I wouldn't even feel bad.
This made me think of Little Toot from Disney's melody time. Especially the music
The crazy train was like "finally, I can get sweet revenge" when the guy got stuck in it's funnel
Thanks to you, I can't stop referring to Samson as Zug Zug.
Video: *plays for literally 0.1 seconds*
Him: WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAAHHH-
And I Stand by It, too!
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Thank you for pointing out all those little details because I would've been WAY too busy fawning over the animation quality to notice any of them
“I wonder if that actually happened with steam engines”
Yes, yes it did, excessive steam pressure being one main cause (hence the invention of the safety valve), the other being a crown sheet failure, the former needing no explanation, the latter being caused by the water level in the boiler dipping too low, allowing the crown sheet (the top of the firebox) to heat up more than it should, don’t really know how to explain it but reintroducing the cold water to the seething hot metal causes rapid fatigue, leading to an explosion
14:42 rail nut again, and yes boiler explosion do happen. They are terrifying events.
Super fun review!! Thx.
One small unfortunate thing is you stopped before the credits. There’s another song and more animation.
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Well then. Need to take a minute and rewatch this. :)
The planes at the end, its a sign, a sign that the flags of war flutter in the distance.
An explanation of your question about whether or not steam locomotives actually could explode; yes, they could. Steam Locomotives get very hot. It isn’t like boiling water in a pot, locomotives need to reach very high temperatures, as they need a lot of steam pressure to move, since they are quite heavy (the largest locomotive in existence today, when loaded with fuel and water, is said to weigh more than a Boeing 737). One of the more common causes of a boiler exploding would be the water level dropping too low. Once the water level drops low enough, the part of the firebox that transfers heat into the boiler, now being exposed to air and not having water to help cool it down, can start to get extremely hot, to the point in some cases it would start to deform. What this would result in, in a number of cases, is that, when water came back in contact with that part of the firebox, it would undergo superheating, which would cause the water to evaporate and rapidly expand, causing the boiler pressure to far exceed what it could handle, ultimately causing the boiler to explode, often extremely violently, with causes of boiler explosions leveling brick sheds and such. However, despite this, a boiler explosion was not always the end for a locomotive. Sometimes the rest of the locomotive would only take relatively minor damage, and the boiler could be replaced and the locomotive put back into service (boilers aren’t super complex and can be replaced easily).
Quick hint:
Colonnaville is pronounced "coal-onna-ville"
Colonna references Jerry Colonna who worked on old disney cartoons.
Ooh. 😯
I love how he said the steam dome is the boiler and because it was shot it would cause a boiler explosion
samson is a 2-8-4 berkshire class loco, they replaced a TON of old 2-6-2 and 4-6-2 locos when they were brought into the spotlight. pretty much replacing old steamers. So before the tin can known as diesel locomotives like the streamliners and GPs. railroads were scrapping a lot of there older earlier 19th and 20th locos for new and more modern locos. This one has a fire stroker, so no manual firing, the fireman was in charge of making sure the stroker was working right in order for these big giants to be fed right. For ref, the big 4014 was fitted with a coal stroker because if it was manual labor firing. the fireman would straight up die from over working himself and stress since the big boys ate around coal like a orc eating dinner.
74,700 lb (33,883 kg) of coal and 34,800 gallons (131,732 L) of water. This averages to 19,487 lb (8,839 kg) of coal and 9,078 gallons (34,364 L) of water used per hour, or 996 lb of coal and 464 gallons of water per mile (280 kg and 1,089 L per km) you would need 8 guys to fire a big boy going at low speeds.
The small text on the newspapers and the re-assignment contract can be read on the RUclips mobile app, due to a zoom in feature being implemented.
Thogh my screen protector did stop me from reading it all anyway, boarder cutting of the text.
Wonder if there are any plans for it being implemented on the site though.
The way a steam locomotive works, there's coils inside the engine that are used for the cooling of the engine. It isn't just an empty tube. When a train overheats and explodes, those coils burst out, looking like a wild spaghetti mess. You can find plenty of photographs from accidents over the years.
I think this whole short is also a respin/reference to one of his old shorts Wild West cause there is a train in that one that looks similar to the brave locomotive along with the lady in green
I like how none of the main characters in here (save the foreman and the other guy) are really antagonistic to Linus. No-one is really evil here. The Baron is seeing the future where rail traffic is gonna expand and needs more powerful engines to keep up, and he is right in that sense if history has shown us. The Baron's daughter is clearly not afraid o get dirty when she needs to, she even seems to know her way around an engine enough to fire and repair them. Maybe the Baron insisted his daughter get some practical experience with what she was set to inherit to better understand the business, and she's clearly not sour about the experience.
Samson does hit the turtle, though with how that turtle was crossing the tracks without looking that was bound to happen eventually, but Samson doesn't say or do anything to Linus, he's called in to do a job, and he does it. Its mentioned in the newspapers the bridge was rushed to keep up with him, and thats why it broke. Samson was only guilty of doing his job too well. Plus, its shown in the papers as well that he volunteers to help after his rescue, doing long-haul timber runs to replace and reinforce the bridge, which clearly works. He might look intimidating but he doesn't really do anything to warrant being called "villainous". Just a big strong guy who likes his cigars doing his job.
I like that they took the time to make everyone believable in their motivations and no-one does anything particularly "evil". You might argue the place (lumber yard maybe?) that Linus was sent to was evil but we dunno why he was sent there specifically, or whether or not the Baron had any real hand in it. I can't imagine the foreman would shoot an engine going to save his boss, so maybe its a seperate company that bought the engine? That happens a lot with older engines being passed down to smaller companies for lighter duties.
AMI overthinking a silly little short? Yes, fight me.
It's actually a bit too early for diesels. This is when the Bigger steam locos became prevalent. Pacific's, and Northerns.
If I've got it right, Samson is a Northern.
Also, the biggest trains, some northerns, Big Boys, had augers that directly fed coal into the firebox. So it's accurate.
You have got to be kidding me .That engine on the new bridge was a Chesapeake and Ohio Hudson J-type!
did anyone else notice at the end how dang long that streamliner was it had like 100 passenger cars
4:59 i can agree with you i see it too
Strange you and me are the only reactors to this.....this is amazing and worthy of praise and awards!!
14:39 yes they have blown up before from overheating lack of water ect
Correction, the two vultures are more likely inspired by the Two Vultures in Snowwhite
Lads just sayin Linus is a 2-4-0 well that’s the wheel arrangement
The thing ontop of linus's boiler that geta shot is probably his safty valve 😢
Yes, trains actually do explode they’re called boiler explosions. It happens when not enough waters in the boiler and the boiler overheats, breaking their protective layer and exploding the boiler.
15:48 I can help. If you go on the RUclips app on your phone, you have the ability to zoom in on the video. That can you help read the small text. Make sure to have the quality on 1080p
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Little thingy on the name of the station: Colonnaville should be read like "Colonna ville", like Amityville or Belleville. Fun trivia fact, "colonna" is the italian word for column, and as a curious coincidence I happen to live in a town in Italy named Colonna. Even more funny is the fact that like Colonnaville its only perk is a railroad station, for the rest it's just a bunch of houses with some neat green trimming
I would really love that in the end Linus and samson became best friends and would work together
At the bottom it says about an engineer quickly fixing him before he fully ascended
A couple of mental wounds were healed with this for me☺
The funniest part about the train slave mine place is how the dude with the shot at Linus... implying he's probably killed trains before with that gun.
Linus is a 2-4-0 Columbian type locomotive while Samson is a 4-8-4 a northern type of locomotive. For Samson think Union Pacific 844
He does look like the FEF-1 or FEF-2
Or Reading T-1
@@Railhog2102this is west of the Mississippi so the T-1 won’t make sense
For me, as a person who is a fan of 2D animation, this short cartoon is just a balm for my soul. I am tired of seeing that all major companies produce exclusively 3D cartoons, the quality of which has been slipping for more than 10 years like Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks. And we produce 2D animation only on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Fox, but now they too have become just terrible and have been plunged into hell for a very long time. I really hope that someday society will get tired of this long decline of animation and we will see beautiful full-length 2D cartoons in the cinema again, even if they are completely new animation studios that will replace the old ones.
A pretty good train themed animation. But I kind of wish the villains got more emphasis or explanation but other than that great.
They're not villains. They're just rich businessmen doing their own jobs and making progress for the future. Samson may look intimidating, but he's just being a really useful engine.
@@TheLazyFusspot_3428 No, I'm talking about the people on the mountain you know, with guns. And whips for some reason.
6:29 🤓☝️actually the diesel trains have not yet take over that big train is Union Pacific 4014 “big boy” the biggest moveing train
12:52 god i love it when he uses the cylinders as arms
You wanted to know if a steam engine could blow up like that.
And yes, it could. And it happened now and then.
Though there would be a major difference between the cartoon and reality: None of the people there would have survived standing that close to the engine.
I know of an example where a steam engines' boiler burst and the remains where thrown about 200 meters away...... plus everything would be full with boiling steam..... Not pretty.
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This film was nostalgic to me when I saw the WIP version
Holy crap the part we’re Lunis’ boiler exploded and almost died at the end I almost cryed
I watched this in monochrome the first time I saw it....I couldn't even tell it should have been in color
I would like to point out when Linus starts pulling the passenger cars the coal pipe for Samson disconnects from Samson and he actually stops producing smoke as he has no fuel
I seen the previous one when I was 10 or 11 and now it's getting better the animation is beautiful
and Samson looks badass he looks like The polar express locomotive but looking like a Boss fight like Look at him 6:05 he is not playing
check 6:38 6:54
Did you know that the brave locomotives is actually a reference to casey Jr. From dumbo (old)
The small blue engine is Linus, and the giant gray engine in Samson
I just randomly got this train video recommended, I don't know why.
That video reminded me of a little bit of Thomas and a lot of the little Engine that could.
Not quite the steam to diesel transition. More of what you see on screen. The early generations of steam engines giving way to the more modern steam locomotives you saw in the later years of Steam just prior to steam getting replaced all together with diesel. What you see at 9:10 though is actually a depiction of how these massive steam locomotives were fueled. Once they were actually out and running on the mainline, the biggest engines needed so much coal that a person couldn't keep up with the need so they designed a way to feed coal directly from the tender to the firebox. There were also steam locomotives that actually use oil instead of coal for an assortment of reasons. The biggest functioning steam locomotive in the world, The Big Boy, actually runs on oil nowadays. The only thing is that the feed from the tender was not directly through the middle of the cab but below it. This was just for show on film. Steam engines can and have blown up if they are overheated and run out of water so that is absolutely something that could've happened. Though, depending on how bad the damage is, it could be rebuilt or just scrapped. I think in most real life instances they were usually scrapped since there just wasn't much of anything left.
I also wouldn't describe this as "like Thomas" or whatever you said exactly. Well, not the version that so many of us grew up with. I would say it's more like "The Little Engine That Could."
Samson uses an automatic stoker. Big Boy 4014 also uses one.
The diesel takeover didn't happen yet. In the United States, heavier freight and higher populace density caused smaller steam engines to be phased out over larger, stronger ones. Smaller steam locomotives were still used in mining operations, hence the scene of Stanley being sent to work at the mines. While diesels take up that operation now, there are restoration efforts that use steam locomotives for tourism. Especially in small old mining towns where the mines ran dry.
I really really enjoyed this film so incredibly much, it’s down right awesome!!!
6:53 you were so right😂😂😂
This is more reminiscent of the Little Engine that could, than Thomas... but i'll except the comparison.