#ttte crew

[shikariiin]

Leans in what's up babygirl I just posted

HAHA sorry for my absence, had some mental health troubles, but I think I'm well enough now! Anywho, decided to come out of my comfort zone and start to design characters with varying body types :3

Today, I show yall Edward's crew! Supportive old lads who help edward in anyway.

What I meant by "Edward is not choosy" is that the engines in my au have the rights to chose their crew, it's part of another arc I'm working on which hopefully I can show soon, it will dive into Lady as a character and how she impacts the world building WITHOUT magic.

Cuz magic don't exist in my au Lol

Okay ty🩵

#ttte #thomas and friends #ttte edward #thomas the tank engine #ttte humanized #ttte fanart #ttte human au #digital art #ttte crew #life of a seagull #the life of a seagull au

[ohmystarrynight]

Happy anniversary, Thomas!! 38 years ago Thomas and friends premiered!

#thomas #Thomas and friends #Thomas and friends anniversary #anniversary #ttte anniversary #ttte Thomas #miss Penny #Mr Clive #Thomas fanart #ttte fanart #ttte #ttte crew #ttte oc #oc #pilots art! #pilot speaks!

[gundamcalibarney]

funny people that drive funny trains

#daryl draws #ttte #thomas the tank engine #ttte ocs #(<- TECHNICALLY??? Hagen n Ginette n Jarret n Piero are that) #ttte crew #ttte drivers #ttte Bob Dodstein #ttte Charlie Sands #ttte Hagen Ted Archibald #ttte Ginette Adams #ttte Jarett Hall #ttte Piero Adams

[edwards-exploit]

I often wonder about the crews of the rws/ttte universe and what they're like and how they handle the shit their engines pull especially in specials where like. Really insane things happen.

For instance. Does Frankie and Hurricane kidnapping Thomas also count as them kidnapping his crew. can the fat controller sue the steelworks and its employees for trapping his employees as well as his engines. Many such cases.

#live from tidmouth #talk from the tracks #ttte #thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #thomas & friends #jbs #journey beyond sodor #ttte crew #ttte the fat controller #the fat controller #ttte thomas #ttte frankie #ttte hurricane #do not get me started in bwba. #WERE THE CREWS ALSO ON THE SHIP JUST CHILLING OR DID THEY USE AN AIRPLANE AND WAIT A BIT FOR THEIR ENGINES TO COME #i <3 logistics. btw.

[anonymousboxcar]

I have a fic/au idea that I don’t have the spoons to write in full prose right now, but I’d like to put it out there.

So. Henry arrives on Sodor and an outraged Fat Director demands to know who built him. Henry tries to answer all his questions, but he soon realizes he doesn’t know much about his builders either.

He first came to in a damp shed with boarded-up windows. He never made out any faces, only ever hearing low voices around him. This was done to keep him from identifying anyone involved.

Once this is clear to Henry, it eats away at him. All the other engines on the NWR know their builders, their inherited legacies, and their engine families (siblings, cousins, etc.). Even worse, he’s not the engine the Fat Director wanted. He can’t help any of this.

…but he can figure out who his builders are. And maybe being able to answer those questions would make the Fat Director a little less angry with him. Maybe he could find out what family he might have out there. Maybe he could get an explanation from them.

So Henry asks engines coming in from the Mainland for info, with Edward and Thomas also asking around for him. The crew assigned to Henry sees how much this matters to him, and, growing fond of him, write letters to the place Henry was built.

They don’t make much progress, however, until Gordon arrives.

Gordon and Henry both feel very shaken when they see each other. Their designs are so close that it can’t be coincidental.

Their investigation is impeded somewhat by Gordon not wanting to associate with Henry. For him, it’s uncomfortable to acknowledge an engine so similar to him and yet so wrong. He looks at Henry and sees what could’ve been his fate, as an experimental prototype. And that doesn’t even go into the blow to his Gresley lineage and prestige as which he perceives Henry.

But then it only makes sense, a bitter Henry argues, for Gordon to disprove the idea that Henry’s a real Gresley engine. And so Gordon relents (with some sternness from Edward and some scowling from Thomas as well).

Gordon then admits when they question him that some plans went missing from Doncaster. It was before his time, but he overheard some people still speculating about who could’ve done it.

He says nobody saw the plans as a great loss — that they were rejected for having too small of a firebox for a locomotive of that size.

But as Henry and his crew begin looking into who stole those plans, suspecting a rival of Gresley, things go wrong with his trains. Things like loosened couplings, damaged track that was fine an hour ago, and trucks catching fire.

It’s all sabotage. Henry has become a liability to his builders by trying to expose them. And seeing as they already got the money from his sale, they have no further need of him.

Henry is horrified, make no mistake, but he’s also angry. He’s done with this nonsense. He wants to see his builders face-to-face, to draw them out, to get some kind of explanation from them.

And so he makes the impulsive decision to stop in a tunnel.

He’s miffed that the Fat Director matches his expectations and bricks him up, but not surprised. He does his best to explain himself to his crew once the hullabaloo dies down. But as he lays out his idea, his confidence wavers.

He’s not sure if he can face the people who built and then abandoned him. He’s not sure if he’ll come away from this safely. And even if does, he’s not sure he hasn’t burned every bridge on this railway and any hope of a future here. Can he trust anyone here?

He doesn’t tell them this, though. It’s too late to go back. He can only see this through.

That night, some strangers approach Henry’s tunnel. They’re his builders. They’re here to dispose of him. He finally sees their faces, even if he can’t put names to all of them.

The way they talk to him confirms that they never cared about him. He was always a means to an end. He was always one of a kind, the product of a jealous grudge against another engineer.

And yet it doesn’t hurt the way Henry thought it would. He sees them and feels no connection, no obligation to them. He realizes they’re not and never were his family — that he never had to please or live up to them.

So when they give him one last chance to shut his mouth, to keep quiet about who they are, he laughs in their faces.

He takes great satisfaction in telling them they can’t command any kind of loyalty from him. He knows he could never trust them and he’s fine with that, because he feels nothing for any of them now. He doesn’t need them.

The only thing that scares him is the thought that he won’t get away from this. As the builders advance on him, he thinks that he’s grown fond of Sodor and this ridiculous railway. He wants to roll his eyes at Thomas’ quips, to watch the sunrise with Edward. He might even want to bicker with Gordon. He wants a future here.

And then his crew leaps out of hiding, getting into a scuffle with the builders.

It’s long enough for Thomas to come barreling down the line, followed by Edward and Gordon. They bring the police, having been informed of the “stake-out” plan… and the Fat Director steps off Thomas’ footplate, too.

The builders are summarily subdued and arrested, and all the engines and crews ask Henry is he’s alright. (Well, Gordon does so in a very roundabout, emotionally constipated way, but he still asks.) Henry is overwhelmed. He was right to trust them, it seems. He could more than trust them.

Henry and the Fat Director then hash things out. It’s a tense and messy conversation, especially because Henry is still reeling from the events of the night so far. But the Fat Director says that, regardless of his own opinions, it’s clear the rest of his engines and workmen would riot if he turned Henry away now. And he can’t afford that.

“You are needed here,” he says. It’s not quite an apology, but it’s close — an undoing of the bricks between them. “You are useful.”

Henry doesn’t say thank you, because this is the bare minimum. “Yes, sir,” he says, trying very hard not to cry anyway.

And so Henry is let out of the tunnel and remains on the NWR. It’s not perfect — far from it, sometimes — but it’s home. It gets better over the years. Decades pass before the Thin Clergyman starts asking around for the story of Henry’s tunnel.

By now, not many people know about what really happened. The knowledge of Henry’s leading designer would’ve torpedoed a workshop’s reputation, one which turned out to be uninvolved in what one of its designers did in his free time. Many people would’ve lost their jobs and locomotives would’ve lost the ability to find homes. So in the end, the scandal was hushed up and the builders were charged on the more minor offenses they committed.

For that reason, Henry and the others quickly rule out telling the truth. Nor does Henry want to revisit that time in his life. He doesn’t want to be associated with his builders in any way.

Thomas’ cheeky suggestion about him not wanting the rain to spoil his paint isn’t very flattering, but the others’ suggestions are even worse. (Edward’s idea of Henry being in the tunnel for a heroic reason is outvoted, though Henry appreciates it.) He also has to admit the Fat Director doesn’t look much better in that version of events — he looks arguably worse than Henry.

Is it petty? Yes. Does Henry go along with it anyway? Yes.

The Fat Director, now the first Fat Controller, accepts this without comment. He’s learned and grown quite a bit since the early days of his railway. He’s not the same man who bricked up Henry; he doesn’t think it’s worth getting so worked up over a small dig at him. (And while he’d never admit it, he thinks it’s a way to somewhat atone for his part in it all.)

But even if the Fat Controller did get upset, Henry wouldn’t be afraid in the slightest. He knows the engines here have his back. He knows he’ll always have his family.

#I’m a little nervous posting this tbh #so many people have great takes on Henry and his struggles #I couldn’t hope to top any of that #but I wanted to throw my hat into the ring #so I hope you guys like this or at least think it’s interesting! #ttte #rws #ttte au #my au #rws au #ttte henry #ttte gordon #ttte edward #ttte thomas #ttte engine crews #the fat controller #tw: attempted murder #(but not in graphic detail nor successful) #(there is a happy ending here) #long post #long reads

[putuponpercy]

💜Rosie💜

#ttte #ttte humanized #ttte rosie #pup's art #the humanized crew #it's a crime it took this long for me to make a Rosie design

[sparkarrestor]

Any mogul that visits the Island of Sodor is in danger of getting their front pony truck detached in their sleep.

James is the only one allowed, and he goes to great lengths to defend his territory.

#ttte #ttte james #He has to force his crew to do it cuz of his severe lack of arms #lol #Spark's Headcanon

[klein-sodor-bahn]

Oh Henry you sweet summer child

Okay yeah invasive thoughts of that sort are just annoying and embarrassing. One of the downsides of the human form.

#ttte shitpost #ttte human au #ttte humanized #ttte #ttte henry #henry the green engine #ttte gijinka #ttte comic #Just some random dumb shit #I wonder what his crew thought

[uselessalexis165]

tried making some ttte memes (270)

#i should do more dock side crew memes #my edit #my text #thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte diesel #ttte sonny #ttte cranky #timothy the ghost engine #ttte james #ttte duncan #ttte peter sam #ttte sir handel #ttte skarloey #ttte gordon #ttte henry #ttte oc #ttte alfred

[namachuki]

None of you will get this and what emotions this fuels for me

#myart #namachuki #ttte humanized #ttte thomas #ttte edward #ttte lady #also just lady chillin with the crew but bringing occasional mishaps is kinda funny

[orangesartblog]

Traintober day ONE it counts it's still day one in like America or Australia

Free day!

My first thought was immediately Henry's forest.

I wanted to do something with halftones, cause I think in the original inktober you're not supposed to colour? but fuck that everything else I'm doing is coloured cause while I love the look of halftones they are a ball ache LMAO

I went into this not knowing how to draw Henry, and came out not knowing how to draw Henry.

#traintober 2023 #digital art #drawing #ttte #ttte Henry #ttte crews #if you think im not shoving the people into all of these your wrong #also this is henrys crew in my AU #fireman near the tree is called Ted #Driver near Henry is called John #John loves plants #Ted doesn't give a shit about plants #dumbass duo

[ohmystarrynight]

(@ceciasa/@notyourclockworkgirl here (again!)) I really liked Penny, so I tried my hand at drawing her. If you wanna see it, I can reblog it below the ask (I'm scared of it not going through submissions LOL).

HEAVENS TO BETSY YES PLEASE ID LOVE TO SEE IT OH MY STARS?!??!?!??!?!??! I cannot believe I’m getting fanart of Miss Penny today is like the best day of days omg omg

#thomas and friends #Thomas the tank engine #ttte #ttte fanart #ttte crew #driver #fireman #engine #train #Thomas #ttte Thomas #miss Penny #Mr Clive #art #pilots art! #pilot speaks!

[skarloeyspa]

WHOS READY FOR SOME CENTENNIALS!!!!!! unasked for explanations below once again

This set of designs is different from Ryan's because i basically just traced my old sketches and redid them digitally to give them colour so there are less design details (sorry lmao)

ANYWAY continuing with the "time-accurate" clothing choices, I'm hoping it's more obvious with loey and neas this time. You have no idea how RELIEVED i felt when i saw neas' third overhaul was in the 2000s. I love details but I have been working with suits for like 30 designs by now.

Because I did these back in october I don't really have proper ref images but if you googled men's fashion for each of their respective eras you should get pretty good results and if you don't im sorry💀

Not sure if it's obvious but they're supposed to "age" with every overhaul, yea im aware my ability to draw people older than 40 is nonexistent-

On that note, I have a more in-depth hc for how the "human" of an engine appears which would explain how loey and neas can "age" but the short version is the "human" is a combination of the maturity of an engine's mentality and the engine's actual age

I do not know enough of the Skarloey Railway lore to back my headcanons but I hc that during their early days, the SR was more strict with appearances, hence the suit jackets and whatnot (kinda like how RWS SR engines all have the same livery)

Towards the SR's later days, the change of directorship and the increasing diversity of their rolling stock led to much more relaxed regulations on appearances. The jackets that the overhaul 2 designs are holding would look similar to the jacket that overhaul 1 loey is wearing, which would bear the engine's nametag and the signature red shoulder pad designating an engine's gauge

Also the nametag and specifically the number badge were details added later when I finished my handel and petah designs, yes I love it a lot that's why i mentioend it.

Overhaul 1 neas is particularly different from overhaul 1 loey because for one they're two different decades, but also the time between his first and second overhaul was when neas had to run the line on his own (not to mention the world war woah...)

I haven't really figured out specific height hcs yet but neas and loey are around the same height as each other but grow a tad with each overhaul

ok das it for this one i think, thank yall for the wonderful reception of ryan im so happy yall loved him😭🥹also thanks for making it to the end next time it's probably gonna be handel and petah<3

#ttte skarloey #ttte rheneas #ttte humanized #ttte #i was working on and off this for a whole ass week thats why this took so long #that said im thinking of throwing duncan in a blender (uncalled for???) hes like a squeaky toy #capy's graffiti #pictures in the reception hall #capy posting #also i was rewatching slotlt the other day and like. its actually ridiculous #if thomas' drivers had any will of their own none of this would have happened #unfortunately that little fucker was driving around helping some guy dig at like. 4am and the drivers were just like aight cool #and you KNOW they were in there cuz they were there during the entire end chase scene #like they HAD to address that by showing thomas' crew jumping out before he fell into the sea #also ryan during the chase scene. “hey mr crew i know ur off work but im really worried about my train friend can we go for a drive :(” #and those crazy bitches said YEAH SURE AND THEY WENT #LIKE IS THE PAY THAT GOOD???? #dont get me wrong id drive around with ryan at 2am any day of the week but like #so much of the cgi era's events were dependent on the trains' crews having 0 autonomy beyond driving an engine #and i just think thats so hilarious

[edwards-exploit]

Iiiii've been working on the railway, all the live long daaayyyy

#live from tidmouth #creative on the mainline #ttte #thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #thomas & friends #ttte crew #ttte fireman #ttte driver #ttte oc robert rook #ttte oc barbara sand #ttte thomas

[lord-of-snack-falcons]

[1953]

“Hello, Henry. Nice weather we're having, isn't it?”

Henry scoffed. “It had better not be like this when The Queen visits. I don't want to be looking like this when she does.”

The big green engine glared back at his cab, upon which his driver and fireman were stretching a huge tarpaulin.

“What… are they doing?” Molly tried not to chuckle.

“They said it's to keep themselves dry. You know, because they definitely have something to complain about. We're the ones battling the elements face-first. They already have our cabs - that's the whole reason they're there!”

“Why, do you want a tarp across your front as well?”

Henry shuddered. “Absolutely not. No, the exact opposite - they already have our cabs, what more do they need?”

“What if the rain falls into your cab?”

“Well that sucks for them. We struggle through weather like this all the time, without a cab to keep us dry, and yet we're just fine.”

“Well, apparently their clothes absorb rainwater, much more so than our paintwork.”

“So they make a fuss about their uniforms, and no one bats an eye, but when I grow concerned about my freshly applied paint, suddenly it's an issue.” Henry muttered, darkly.

#ttte #thomas and friends #thomas the tank engine and friends #railway series #rws #ttte henry #ttte molly #ttte thomas #i doubt henry was too happy about his crew deciding to hide from the rain #that brief period where henry thought he was gonna be the royal engine #henry's not gonna let the tunnel incident go #not with STH I still in charge

[putuponpercy]

Can't remember if I ever shared these to tumblr - but they're doomed to be uncolored until I can get a new tablet so here they be 🤷

Left to right: Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby, Emily

#ttte humanized #ttte Thomas #ttte Edward #ttte Henry #ttte Gordon #ttte James #ttte Percy #ttte Toby #ttte Emily #idk when or even if I'm gonna get another tablet #we'll have to see #but uh tumblr Toby reveal I guess #pup's art #the humanized crew