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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I like the idea that Gordon is mainline certified post or maybe even pre 2011 and becomes something of an ambassador to the NWR going across to places like Carlisle, Manchester, York, Shildon, London, Derby, even Edinburgh on special excursions.

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

ANCIENT attempt at humanizing Bill and Ben…couldn’t get a grasp on my drawing style just yet, hence the weird designs on the faces…like the Brendam Bay sports gear and hoodies though…

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Imagine if Class 40 as a human used a bowler hat to cover up a large bald spot?

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Human Duncan would be a Chain smoker…also pictures are him with Rusty, Peter Sam, and Sir Handel from an aborted Hogwarts AU

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

*”One moment, he was on the track, the next his driver and fireman jumped clear as he rolled over. His coach stayed on the rails and the guard braked her to a stop”* ~Culdee From Railway Series No. 19, *Mountain Engines* #RWS80thcollab #RWS80thCollab

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

“Slowly, but surely, the snorting engines forced the unwilling trucks up the hill. But James began losing steam. ‘I can’t do it, I can’t do it!’ He panted ‘Lae it tae me, lae it tae me!’ Shouted Douglas ~Railway Series no. 15 “The Twin Engines” #RWS80thCollab #RWS80thcollab

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Took a cursed AI generated image, a sketchbook, a mechanical pencil, a gum eraser, and a mechanical eraser pen to try and turn the picture on the left into something more pleasing. #pickupapencil

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The Art Of Ash @theartistash.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Did an illustration of Thomas somewhat in the style of a Studio Ghibli film.

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“Engines come and engines go, but Granpuff goes on forever!”

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Do Meridian Models still make these kits?

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out. Or when McConnell was chased out of a resraurant and not allowed a peaceful meal. Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home. That. Do that.

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I used to think Trump was the modern Charles Foster Kane, but now I wonder if it’s actually Elon Musk…

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ok so hear me out…what if the guy who crashed Duck into the barber shop was the one who he crashed into at the back of the Flying Kipper?

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☕️ AMY CHU #donutkiller @NYCC L21 @amychu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

There was that odd tiger stripe BN scheme…imagine how much better though this could look with BNSF orange and green…A tiger bonnet 😁

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This I knew about, but I meant like the bonnet part is orange and the body is dark green and you add the yellow accents to break it up like the Red and silver scheme

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I seem to recall one of the issues the ICC had was duplicate routes, but wouldn’t that just mean you could ship more goods to places without having to worry as much about bottlenecking?

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Say, an “Orange Bonnet” to go with the Red and Yellow bonnets. Or what if you leaned on the Black and Cascade Green of BN units and did an Orange body with green accents?

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I always liked the warbonnets and seeing them in my train videos. Whether they were red, yellow, or Kodachrome, it looked good no matter what color it was. Imagine if BNSF had tried their Great Northern esque Orange and green and made a War Bonnet out of that?

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Cousins once or twice removed?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/02/2025

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It works so well with the Midland loans and the timing honestly, and the designer’s wife was also a woman named Emily, so it still fits! Much better than trying to shoehorn her as a fourth S&M loco. Yeah, I think even something like Emily in the show was out of their price range…

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I actually remember this…I thought for the longest time it was some weird dream I had…

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Dan @oldsquarewheels.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you could preserve any “visiting” engine from the Other Railway in the books, who would it be and how would you go about writing them?

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I just feel like at some point, Bertram was probably used this way and just left to rust…the show doesn’t really make it clear why he’s there, and I recall the merchandise said he was left to “guard” the mines.

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Lost it at the licorice bootlaces! 😂

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

You can’t convince me this guy wasn’t a stationary boiler at some point

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Don’t normally sketch TV series art, but when something strikes me…

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Quick and dirty sketches for a potential Marthwaite layout extrapolating a bit from Irton Road on the R&ER

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I think my problem with the West Country accents was never that it didn’t suit the characters, but that every fan voice actor just defaulted to imitating Steven Kynman and Joe Mills (both talented voice actors btw) but they never really tried to do anything new with the voices

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Feel like there’d be room for some heartwarming bits of a doomed steam loco spotting Oliver on the run, not really knowing if it was real or just wistful dreaming, but going knowing somehow, things would be alright

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

It all depends on who’s telling the story. There would be skeptics of course, and between it all, the steamers would generally agree on the fact of the matter that the train was moving towards greener pastures, though unsure if it was supernatural or just highly illegal.

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Some other fun ideas, while Oliver is still the “Mystery Train” he’s a subject of many a rumor. Railwaymen thinking it’s a ghost, diesels painting him as some “Headless Horseman” figure out to snatch diesel shunters in revenge, and steamers a guide to salvation.

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Imagine even just to screw with things further, a sympathetic diesel who has the opportunity to turn him in, but turns the other cheek

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Imagine what Oliver wouldn’t want to tell…for all we know he could’ve had to hide in plain sight on a scrap line or two just to throw off the scent or hitchhike on a scrap train of doomed engines (pulled by a sympathetic steam engine most likely)

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“To catch you on that hill, Thomas, I’d need wings like an airplane. So I had my driver pour Red Bull into my gas tank!”

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Despite the wonky perspective, I love what I went for with the flashback in the thought bubble/steamcloud

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Initial pencil sketch of Spinner!Emily

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Duck and Percy calmly sat on the points outside the shed refusing to let the engines in. “Oh, you want to fight?” Asked Duck “Instead of running, you’re coming closer”

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

When Thomas tells you to “hurry yourself”

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Another old Inktober prompt from many moons ago

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“Cheer up Granpuff, we’ll find a nice railway and the. You can come and keep us in order”

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Probably not, but Percy is the rarest card in the set of collectible cards you get with the candy bars. Thomas is the most common in case you’re wondering.

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Little Engine @ltllngin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

“NWR no 4 ‘Gordon’ thundering across the Killercrankie Viaduct on the Highland Mainline July 1948”

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