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Description The Early Years of James:

Sir Topham Hatt travelled down to Liverpool to buy a mixed-traffic engine for his railway. When he got to the sales yard, he was in for a disappointment. He was late and every engine had been bought except for one.

"Ooh pick me Sir!" said a lonely 0-6-0 engine.

"No, I'm not looking for a goods engine. Without a pony truck, you can't go fast and pull passenger trains. But tell me about yourself."

"Well I was built as a Class 27 and I worked hard so they gave me a bigger firebox making me a Class 28."

"Would you be willing to get a pony truckΒ making you a Class 29 2-6-0 so you can go faster and work hard for me?"

"Oh I will Sir. I won't let you down."

"Thats a good engine. I'll call you James."

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milla-lilla [2025-05-09 17:04:28 +0000 UTC]

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TheEnderTheEnderman [2024-07-29 03:24:20 +0000 UTC]

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aguyidkignoreme [2023-02-17 03:01:52 +0000 UTC]

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Austria-Hungarymap [2022-01-13 04:04:39 +0000 UTC]

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xxSecondarySquadxx [2021-11-19 22:54:36 +0000 UTC]

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Creepermadness200 [2020-02-15 16:04:27 +0000 UTC]

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The-ARC-Minister In reply to Creepermadness200 [2020-02-16 00:10:38 +0000 UTC]

Yeah. It always intrigues me how Sir Topham gets his engines. We missed Engines 1-5, we actually see Percy being bought and STH meeting Toby but then all the new engines just β€˜appear’ on Sodor.

I just like to imagine how the meeting of those famous engines and STH when (according to the RWS companion books)

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Hnorris16 In reply to The-ARC-Minister [2022-05-11 08:29:54 +0000 UTC]

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The-ARC-Minister In reply to Hnorris16 [2022-05-11 12:13:34 +0000 UTC]

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Hnorris16 In reply to The-ARC-Minister [2022-05-11 21:44:42 +0000 UTC]

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Creepermadness200 In reply to The-ARC-Minister [2020-06-10 10:52:58 +0000 UTC]

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Rose-Supreme [2019-12-21 06:26:50 +0000 UTC]

He certainly looks off, but that's the CGI proportions for ya.

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Danknothin66616 [2019-12-04 03:38:06 +0000 UTC]

His smokebox is a bit too long.

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The-ARC-Minister In reply to Danknothin66616 [2019-12-04 07:33:36 +0000 UTC]

The smokebox is the same length as CGI James’ (but I know CGI James is too long compared to model James.)

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2Funny89 [2019-11-21 00:41:31 +0000 UTC]

It would be incredible to that scene on a DVD!

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SudrianRailwayStudio [2019-10-16 20:19:25 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful Work.

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natethegreat476 [2019-10-16 03:43:07 +0000 UTC]

The smokebox makes James' shape a bit jarring though.

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ParaWarnerViacom-17 In reply to natethegreat476 [2019-10-17 01:50:37 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah? It's the smoke-box that frightens me.

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ParaWarnerViacom-17 In reply to ParaWarnerViacom-17 [2019-10-18 20:29:40 +0000 UTC]

Oh, whoops. You just SAID smoke-box!

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WindowsXPMapping1 [2019-10-15 21:54:59 +0000 UTC]

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Blue-J-Art [2019-10-15 21:05:01 +0000 UTC]

This edit looks awesome!

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culdeefan4 [2019-10-15 20:03:04 +0000 UTC]

Cool edit!

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ESLM-Studios [2019-10-15 16:39:47 +0000 UTC]

And of course, the wooden brake blocks and his crash, changed him completely.

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FiremanHippie [2019-10-15 15:06:46 +0000 UTC]

that's a great backstory for James.Β 

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jimmyhook19202122 [2019-10-15 13:41:46 +0000 UTC]

Okay.... that's the one other glaring flaw in TAB besides Henry in his new shape rather than his old shape: James having a Fowler Tender prior to his accident even though he would get one after his accident. Why not give him the tender he had originally? :/

Know what I mean on that, ? :/

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The-ARC-Minister In reply to jimmyhook19202122 [2019-10-18 09:12:14 +0000 UTC]

They could have modified Donald/Douglas' tender for TAB James but just seeing James in the Black livery was quite satisfying.

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jimmyhook19202122 In reply to The-ARC-Minister [2019-10-18 15:40:47 +0000 UTC]

True

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BECDoesDA [2019-10-15 13:15:25 +0000 UTC]

It's so strange seeing James look like Donald or Douglas.Β 

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The-ARC-Minister In reply to BECDoesDA [2019-10-30 12:31:28 +0000 UTC]

Both their basis' are very similar in design.

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BECDoesDA In reply to The-ARC-Minister [2019-10-30 13:58:25 +0000 UTC]

I see

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