Heck, I'd like to see an extended episode that's dedicated to a bunch of one-off characters like Boulder, Thumper, Derek, S.C. Ruffey, and the Brake Van.
It always confused me in the classic series how most Diesels we’re described as rude and disrespectful when only Diesel, Arry and Bert were the only ones who never changed.
I think it's largely an artifact of Awdry's early portrayal of diesels since he was against the dieselfication of the BR, and in the early periods there were quite a few reasonable complaints, which can largely be summed up as "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", thus he initially portrayed them all in a more negative light.
When I was little watching the diesels seemed a lil scary or they kinda appeared intimidating especially the really big ones like class 40 and diesel 10
@@AdmiralBlackstar Also most of the diesels Awdry conceived of just didn't appear in the TV series, most of the negative depictions of diesels from the railway series didn't appear in the show, although oddly enough Bear never appeared either despite him being one of the nice diesels in the original books.
Fun fact: in an episode of season 12 rusty's large model appeared with the smaller face, I think it's a second model because the bigger model has the bigger face,
3:32 how they had an entire episode where rusty goes to a place filled with train corpses and an echoing voice and never used the horrified face surprises me.
Finally I always thought that Midlander was two different engines because I’ve never seen it talked about that the engine received a new radiator and I must admit I do agree that I prefer the older one.
The last part "the Small scale model of Rusty's last appearance was in Calling all engine in Thomas's dream sequence" was added by me on the Wikia because that bit of Info was missing.
What's great about both Rusty and Duncan, is they play off each other really well, and it's great to put them in the same episode, like Duncan gets spooked.
Love the content, TTTE was my childhood and seeing the back story of it is awesome. Maybe if you get bored or run out of engines maybe do the Troublesome Trucks or other vehicles like Bertie. If there is anything about them that is. Keep it up!
Enby TVS Rusty confirmed!!!! I always got that vibe from them, even before I properly understood what nonbinary was, but I thought it was only ever headcannon. Britt, my respect for you just increased a decent chunk. The only thing that I don't love about the RWS cannon is the very mid 20th century lack of gender representation, and it's nice to see that Britt at least tried.
I’d like to see what’s the background information about Fergus, his model was so unique to me when I was a kid. Fergus also has some of the most interesting episodes as well
Many years ago, I remember being on the old Microsoft Train Simulator official forums, when the discussion came up about Rusty, and the other narrow gauge trains. One of the forum members was a friend of the Awdry family, and wrote a letter (yes, with pen and paper) to Christopher Awdry asking questions about the trains. Christopher, at the time, helping in the construction of the various trains. In one of the letters, Christopher referred to Rusty as "She". This started a long argument back and forth, with the forum member writing yet another letter, and encouraging Christopher to chime in on things himself if he could. Christopher stated that his father, Rev Awdry, always described Rusty to him as being a female character, and noted that the name "Rusty" was unisex enough to work both for male, or female. Christopher noted that the first time Rusty was called male, was actually with the Britt Allcroft series, which Awdry was greatly annoyed by. Reportedly, Awdry himself brought this problem up with Allcroft, who told the Reverend that the show was being marketed more toward young boys, and not girls, and thus having a locomotive that was a girl wouldn't work. Besides, there were already two female locomotives (Daisy and Mavis), and correcting the error was just going to push production back, as they'd already recorded the voice-overs where Rusty was called "He". Interestingly, Allcroft did seem to acquiesce to Awdry's thoughts on the character, to some degree, by having Starr (the first narrator), affect a slightly feminine voice when voicing Rusty. In the end, though, the whole thing became moot, as by the time that any changes may have been made, viewers were accustomed to seeing Rusty as male, regardless of what the original creator thought. Note: The letters back and forth were scanned and uploaded to the forums. This all took place around 2001, shortly after MSTS released.
Greg Tiernan left before Duncan was animated! 2012 was his last year with Thomas and friends so using Duncan (reintroduced in 2014) as an example is not fair.
Ah fair point; in that case I wish his ideology was kept from that point forward. Seeing that Duncan was a major blow to my respect for the CGI series.
I've been building a 16mm scale Midlander (going to be a different engine though), but good lord - finding close up shots of the details was a real pain in the backside. Still, my hand sculpting skills for making it proper controls from scratch is on point.
I sort of wish this was brought up (or if we know, was Rusty the most reliable of the O-Scale models? I ask because Rusty has no coupling rods. Since most of these videos give me the impression that it was those that caused the most problems.
Can I just say that Train Boy admitting that Put Upon Percy is one of his All Time Favourite Episodes makes me very happy. I’ve always had a soft spot for that episode and to see such a big name recognise this underrated episode as a Personal Favourite just makes my Day. Also, what happened to the Large Scale Model’s Buffer Beam in the Thumbnail?
Voted Slate Trucks, but not disappointed, and actually very satisfied. Edit: if you look at Rusty’s cab and wonder why it’s only open on one side, all of the Talyllyn stations are on the right side of the track so you only needed one door and much of the Coaches are locked shut on one side because only one side needed to be able to open. I haven’t visited the Talyllyn yet, and I’ve only heard about this a while back.
At 6:09, I thought you said ‘…horror model railway museum…’ and I believed you were talking about Drayton Manor lol Good to know Rusty isn’t, in fact, trapped there.
I just stumbled across your channel, and boy, do I love your videos! Especially this one. As a kid, I _always_ saw Rusty as feminine-of-center (even despite the male pronouns), and it was kind of amazing to get actual confirmation that this wasn't just in my head!
Rusty is an interesting character for sure. While I don't really like the larger scale Narrow Gauge models for having faces completely different from their smaller scale counterparts, Rusty is an outlier for having a gargantuan face on top of the different expressions. Still, the large engines are pretty good shape wise at least. Also I always liked that Rusty was gender neutral and kinda wish that stayed. Rather nice representation for those who are Non-Binary.
Ever since I heard that Rusty was supposed to be non gender specific, it feels weird hearing "he/him" pronouns for it. Those pronouns just don't sound right for Rusty in my opinion.
I just always thought Rusty was a guy when I was a kid even though Rusty was never even referred to as male in the show. Pretty sure his wooden railway card uses she/her. I always thought Skarloey, Rheneas, Stepney, Culdee and Rickety were female as a kid too. I still sometimes forget that Rickety is supposed to be a male character.
Its a Pity we never got a Rusty Centered Story in CGI. I kinda like rusty a lot but I don't understand the whole Gender Neutral thing or why his Season 5 onwards model had a freakishly huge Face.
I always joked about how Rusty is the first engine to get plastic surgery on his face because of the much bigger the large scale models face was in season 5 onwards XD
Can I get a Dennis history video? It would probably be shorter than Murdoch, but I don't care. Maybe do a double feature? Take two small characters that appeared only once each and smoosh them together. I can only hope...
This is the third time I'm asking for Sir Topham Hatt's Car and it's models. I also saw Cranky on the last poll so Cranky would also be a good one too.
He is painted orange because of his name - in a story in the 1997 Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends annual, Rusty told James that he was named after his paint which is rusty orange.
When I was a kid I was unsure if Rusty was a boy or a girl. For the longest time I thought I was just dumb as a child for not realizing he was male, but now i know Rusty's ambiguous gender was intentional. Learn something new everyday.
It was an attempt to make him gender neutral but the show eventually passed on it and let him stay male. And personally I think we shouldn't change a character like that and instead make a new one. Thats like making a white character black and claiming you solved Racism.
I'm impressed they manage to keep him gender-neutral for as long as they did. Honestly would've been some great representation to keep him that way into the CGI era.
I'm rather glad that Britt never got away with that weird idea for Rusty. It's not only inconsistent when we have established genders for all other engines in the series, but it also means she was deliberately going out of her way to try and contradict the source material.
Not to be pedantic, but CNC stands for Computer Numeric Control. So the machine that was used to make the chassis was computer controlled. Still definitely custom machined, but thats not what CNC means. I have enjoyed your videos a lot, keep up the hard work.
CNC also refers to a type of motor that’s custom machined, you’re very right but it has another meaning too I suppose in another area haha. Thank you man! www.heidenhain.us/resources-and-news/servo-motors-for-cnc-machines/
So, I think we are talking about the same thing, kind of, CNC machine tools (such as a mill) use those motors controlled by a computer to move the work piece, the machine head, or both. There are commercial industrial applications for CNC machining because of their reliability and repeatability with little opportunity for operator error, as well as in smaller shops for prototyping and custom work because one can go from a computer modeled design to the physical end result with ease.
I remember when I first watched "Tuneful Toots" on TV, I was like "Rusty's a girl!" For that point for a while, I passed off Rusty as being a girl. It was around that time that I had noticed that Rusty was never referred to as any gender pronouns in the show prior to that point, which was something I never even noticed until after watching Tuneful Toots. When Rusty was referred to as a male in Season 10, I was like "So now he's a boy? Make up your mind." Eventually, I adjusted to Rusty being male again from that point onward. I had no idea that Rusty was intentionally never referred to by gender-specific pronouns in the classic series.
Rusty is one of the kindest engines on the Island. I love Rusty as a character, he's very kind, and the way Duncan behaved towards Rusty in the early episodes was disgusting. Apart from Edward, Rusty is up there as being the most kindest, and caring for passengers, and he always works hard.
I know this may seem silly...but how about a history of "boulder" from Rusty and the Boulder, would be fun to know that story.
That would be pretty cool. Always wondered why the boulders face looked like gordans
Heck, I'd like to see an extended episode that's dedicated to a bunch of one-off characters like Boulder, Thumper, Derek, S.C. Ruffey, and the Brake Van.
@@jamesytsigros4086 cuz it is gordon
@@sandradjordjevic231 so you’re saying that Gordon can shapeshift?
@@FishHarbor he always dose that
I, also, take it that rusty's small scale model was the best running of the SKR locomotives
I mean without the side rods the others could run fine
yeah
@@OfficialTrainzGod I knew it
Nitrogen Studios: "Every detail was carefully reproduced in CGI."
Also Nitrogen Studios: 7:53
To be fair to Nitrogen, Duncan wasn’t rendered in cgi by them; instead, he was built from scratch by Arc Productions
@@lknmjh good point
And Douglas was under overhaul at the time.
Douglas was under overhaul and thus they had to forgo Duncan, and Arc had to model him from scratch
Boy did we pay the price for it
It always confused me in the classic series how most Diesels we’re described as rude and disrespectful when only Diesel, Arry and Bert were the only ones who never changed.
Yeah. For nice diesels, we had Daisy, boco, mavis, rusty, and derek. They far outnumber the bad diesels.
I think it's largely an artifact of Awdry's early portrayal of diesels since he was against the dieselfication of the BR, and in the early periods there were quite a few reasonable complaints, which can largely be summed up as "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", thus he initially portrayed them all in a more negative light.
@@TheGoombaFromNowhere And in CGI we got even more nice diesels.
When I was little watching the diesels seemed a lil scary or they kinda appeared intimidating especially the really big ones like class 40 and diesel 10
@@AdmiralBlackstar Also most of the diesels Awdry conceived of just didn't appear in the TV series, most of the negative depictions of diesels from the railway series didn't appear in the show, although oddly enough Bear never appeared either despite him being one of the nice diesels in the original books.
Fun fact: in an episode of season 12 rusty's large model appeared with the smaller face, I think it's a second model because the bigger model has the bigger face,
I honestly like the narrow gauge trains. It's neat to see the scale variance.
They are called Engines trains are what they pull.
3:32 how they had an entire episode where rusty goes to a place filled with train corpses and an echoing voice and never used the horrified face surprises me.
0:37 " Send Rusty packing! Send Rusty packing!
-Best line of Duncan
Fun Fact that’s not very fun: S12 actually fixed Rusty’s oversized face issue, only for CGI to go RIGHT back to it.
THEY CAN’T MAKE UP THEIR MINDS!
Finally I always thought that Midlander was two different engines because I’ve never seen it talked about that the engine received a new radiator and I must admit I do agree that I prefer the older one.
IIRC the current radiator came from Indian Runner. No idea why they swapped shapes honestly.
The last part "the Small scale model of Rusty's last appearance was in Calling all engine in Thomas's dream sequence" was added by me on the Wikia because that bit of Info was missing.
Very cool!
That’s very interesting at 2:03. When I was a kid I didn’t know if rusty was a boy or a girl.
What's great about both Rusty and Duncan, is they play off each other really well, and it's great to put them in the same episode, like Duncan gets spooked.
Rusty certainly helps to humble Duncan, that’s for sure.
Love the content, TTTE was my childhood and seeing the back story of it is awesome. Maybe if you get bored or run out of engines maybe do the Troublesome Trucks or other vehicles like Bertie. If there is anything about them that is. Keep it up!
Enby TVS Rusty confirmed!!!!
I always got that vibe from them, even before I properly understood what nonbinary was, but I thought it was only ever headcannon. Britt, my respect for you just increased a decent chunk. The only thing that I don't love about the RWS cannon is the very mid 20th century lack of gender representation, and it's nice to see that Britt at least tried.
Train boy: * uploads *
Me: *"FINALLY SOME DELICIOUS FUCKING CONTENT!"*
I’d like to see what’s the background information about Fergus, his model was so unique to me when I was a kid. Fergus also has some of the most interesting episodes as well
I'm a simple man, I see a TrainBoy video, I press like.
Rusty is one of my favorite diesel engines!! Rusty is for sure a gem, especially since he saved Stepney from scrap!!
Many years ago, I remember being on the old Microsoft Train Simulator official forums, when the discussion came up about Rusty, and the other narrow gauge trains. One of the forum members was a friend of the Awdry family, and wrote a letter (yes, with pen and paper) to Christopher Awdry asking questions about the trains. Christopher, at the time, helping in the construction of the various trains. In one of the letters, Christopher referred to Rusty as "She". This started a long argument back and forth, with the forum member writing yet another letter, and encouraging Christopher to chime in on things himself if he could. Christopher stated that his father, Rev Awdry, always described Rusty to him as being a female character, and noted that the name "Rusty" was unisex enough to work both for male, or female. Christopher noted that the first time Rusty was called male, was actually with the Britt Allcroft series, which Awdry was greatly annoyed by. Reportedly, Awdry himself brought this problem up with Allcroft, who told the Reverend that the show was being marketed more toward young boys, and not girls, and thus having a locomotive that was a girl wouldn't work. Besides, there were already two female locomotives (Daisy and Mavis), and correcting the error was just going to push production back, as they'd already recorded the voice-overs where Rusty was called "He". Interestingly, Allcroft did seem to acquiesce to Awdry's thoughts on the character, to some degree, by having Starr (the first narrator), affect a slightly feminine voice when voicing Rusty.
In the end, though, the whole thing became moot, as by the time that any changes may have been made, viewers were accustomed to seeing Rusty as male, regardless of what the original creator thought.
Note: The letters back and forth were scanned and uploaded to the forums. This all took place around 2001, shortly after MSTS released.
Greg Tiernan left before Duncan was animated! 2012 was his last year with Thomas and friends so using Duncan (reintroduced in 2014) as an example is not fair.
Ah fair point; in that case I wish his ideology was kept from that point forward. Seeing that Duncan was a major blow to my respect for the CGI series.
@@ItsTrainBoy That makes sense. Duncan is one the best characters!
You know, that horrorified face would've been perfect for Rusty and the Boulder
Rusty and the boulder
Is a fantastic episode
I've been building a 16mm scale Midlander (going to be a different engine though), but good lord - finding close up shots of the details was a real pain in the backside. Still, my hand sculpting skills for making it proper controls from scratch is on point.
Rusty is one of my favorite engines of all time, and I am glad you finally covered him.
I sort of wish this was brought up (or if we know, was Rusty the most reliable of the O-Scale models? I ask because Rusty has no coupling rods. Since most of these videos give me the impression that it was those that caused the most problems.
4:42, the big-face Rusty always scared me for some reason
My favorite narrow guage engine! About time you did Rusty!
I voted rusty a fair few times so thanks for doing him!
Can I just say that Train Boy admitting that Put Upon Percy is one of his All Time Favourite Episodes makes me very happy. I’ve always had a soft spot for that episode and to see such a big name recognise this underrated episode as a Personal Favourite just makes my Day.
Also, what happened to the Large Scale Model’s Buffer Beam in the Thumbnail?
Rusty's horrorfide face was used is season 5 rusty and the bolder
Nice upload today.Thank's for sharing.
Yes. My boy. He has come
Rusty is my childhood favorite.🧡
Love coming home to a trainboy video
The history of Bertie the bus & his models could be next also it would be a nice transition into road vehicles.
I have been waiting for this vid
YES
Trainboy: talking about Rusty
Me: are we not gonna talk about the gold running board?
Rusty has quite a history with the changes to how "The little diesel" was referred to and how "the little diesel's" face changed.
I like Rusty, he’s one of my favorite narrow gauge engines.
Voted Slate Trucks, but not disappointed, and actually very satisfied.
Edit: if you look at Rusty’s cab and wonder why it’s only open on one side, all of the Talyllyn stations are on the right side of the track so you only needed one door and much of the Coaches are locked shut on one side because only one side needed to be able to open. I haven’t visited the Talyllyn yet, and I’ve only heard about this a while back.
When I heard the model was preserved at Hara Model Railway Museum,that's is a relieving moment.
At 6:09, I thought you said ‘…horror model railway museum…’ and I believed you were talking about Drayton Manor lol
Good to know Rusty isn’t, in fact, trapped there.
Love your videos man! Legit love learning more about the narrow gauge engines!
By the way Sir Handel Is my favorite :)
I just stumbled across your channel, and boy, do I love your videos! Especially this one. As a kid, I _always_ saw Rusty as feminine-of-center (even despite the male pronouns), and it was kind of amazing to get actual confirmation that this wasn't just in my head!
"Its a girl! What are you gonna name her?"
*"Rusty"*
"..."
I remember when I first saw Rusty. He was the first narrow gage engine in the series as I recall.
I agree Rusty's one of my favorite characters and Thomas and Friends
The Troublesome Trucks would be an interesting episode.
Nobody: thomas and friends with narrow guage engines: tallylyn railway, take it or leave it
Rusty is an interesting character for sure. While I don't really like the larger scale Narrow Gauge models for having faces completely different from their smaller scale counterparts, Rusty is an outlier for having a gargantuan face on top of the different expressions. Still, the large engines are pretty good shape wise at least.
Also I always liked that Rusty was gender neutral and kinda wish that stayed. Rather nice representation for those who are Non-Binary.
The episode rusty and the boulder was also adapted to be a creepypasta by a youtuber named narrow gauge for the series horrors of the rails.
History of Henrietta.
Let’s see Derek in the poll
7:53, Duncan was made when Arc Productions took over the show.
NOT Nitrogen Studios.
Ever since I heard that Rusty was supposed to be non gender specific, it feels weird hearing "he/him" pronouns for it. Those pronouns just don't sound right for Rusty in my opinion.
I just always thought Rusty was a guy when I was a kid even though Rusty was never even referred to as male in the show. Pretty sure his wooden railway card uses she/her. I always thought Skarloey, Rheneas, Stepney, Culdee and Rickety were female as a kid too. I still sometimes forget that Rickety is supposed to be a male character.
Its a Pity we never got a Rusty Centered Story in CGI.
I kinda like rusty a lot but I don't understand the whole Gender Neutral thing or why his Season 5 onwards model had a freakishly huge Face.
Shame Rusty was the only narrow gauge diesel in the show. There should have been more.
I always joked about how Rusty is the first engine to get plastic surgery on his face because of the much bigger the large scale models face was in season 5 onwards XD
Thomastankmerch is truly a savior.
Rusty got possessed in the thumbnail.
rust boi is here
My favorite narrow gauge diesel👍🏽👍🏽
Mines as well!
Can I get a Dennis history video? It would probably be shorter than Murdoch, but I don't care. Maybe do a double feature? Take two small characters that appeared only once each and smoosh them together. I can only hope...
This is the third time I'm asking for Sir Topham Hatt's Car and it's models. I also saw Cranky on the last poll so Cranky would also be a good one too.
He is painted orange because of his name - in a story in the 1997 Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends annual, Rusty told James that he was named after his paint which is rusty orange.
When I was a kid I was unsure if Rusty was a boy or a girl. For the longest time I thought I was just dumb as a child for not realizing he was male, but now i know Rusty's ambiguous gender was intentional. Learn something new everyday.
I mean it's more weird when you consider that up to that point, more diesel characters were female.
It was an attempt to make him gender neutral but the show eventually passed on it and let him stay male. And personally I think we shouldn't change a character like that and instead make a new one. Thats like making a white character black and claiming you solved Racism.
I honestly love the idea of Rusty being Non-binary.
I'm impressed they manage to keep him gender-neutral for as long as they did. Honestly would've been some great representation to keep him that way into the CGI era.
Amazing video
My 5th favorite narrow gauge character
I want troublesome trucks next
I'm rather glad that Britt never got away with that weird idea for Rusty. It's not only inconsistent when we have established genders for all other engines in the series, but it also means she was deliberately going out of her way to try and contradict the source material.
Weird? Weirder than gending a vehicle in general?
Hey train boy, you should do a video ranking your favorite episodes from each era of Thomas and friends
Rusty sure does have a neat history
6:56 actually thats the front, the door is on the right side like how it’s supposed to be
Thank you I’m a tad rusty on my history of this little engine..
Goddamn it, Barb!
I showed my friend your Thomas the Tank channel.
I showed my friend your Thomas the Tank channel.
I showed my friend your Thomas The Tank channel
1:53 not only that but in the TV series if you pay close attention Rusty does have a bit of rust on him to
Finally
Not to be pedantic, but CNC stands for Computer Numeric Control. So the machine that was used to make the chassis was computer controlled. Still definitely custom machined, but thats not what CNC means. I have enjoyed your videos a lot, keep up the hard work.
CNC also refers to a type of motor that’s custom machined, you’re very right but it has another meaning too I suppose in another area haha. Thank you man!
www.heidenhain.us/resources-and-news/servo-motors-for-cnc-machines/
So, I think we are talking about the same thing, kind of, CNC machine tools (such as a mill) use those motors controlled by a computer to move the work piece, the machine head, or both.
There are commercial industrial applications for CNC machining because of their reliability and repeatability with little opportunity for operator error, as well as in smaller shops for prototyping and custom work because one can go from a computer modeled design to the physical end result with ease.
Wooo! Top 2 favourite train
I honestly prefer the face on the large scale Rusty, I know it's oversized but it's just a much better sculpt.
History of Daisy
Could you do the Scottish twins next!?
He already did Donald and Douglas.
Yes my favorite character
Rusty Is My Favourite Narrow Gauge Engine.
Mines too
The thumbnail though 😳
Wow I'm here pretty early
I’d love to see you do videos where you rate episodes you either love or hate and why
Small scale Rusty my beloved
I remember when I first watched "Tuneful Toots" on TV, I was like "Rusty's a girl!" For that point for a while, I passed off Rusty as being a girl. It was around that time that I had noticed that Rusty was never referred to as any gender pronouns in the show prior to that point, which was something I never even noticed until after watching Tuneful Toots. When Rusty was referred to as a male in Season 10, I was like "So now he's a boy? Make up your mind." Eventually, I adjusted to Rusty being male again from that point onward.
I had no idea that Rusty was intentionally never referred to by gender-specific pronouns in the classic series.
Don't know why britt made that decision, considering he(yes he will always be a boy) was always potrayed male by the Reverend.
Rusty my boi!
I love him! 🧡
Great video. Loving the narrow gauge engine videos. Can we have the rolling stock they pull please
So it turns out TomsProps also owns Duncan, but wasn’t revealed until a few days ago.
nice job & plus rusty is my favorite narrow gauge engine kind helpful & careing to all hehe even to gumpy Duncan
History of Lady next Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeéeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease😍😍😍😍😍😍
Duncan Looks like that in the cgi era because arc made him look more realistic
I only wish that Rusty's large-scale model had the small face. Were that the case, he'd be spot-on.
Rusty is one of the kindest engines on the Island. I love Rusty as a character, he's very kind, and the way Duncan behaved towards Rusty in the early episodes was disgusting. Apart from Edward, Rusty is up there as being the most kindest, and caring for passengers, and he always works hard.
Can you please do the troublesome trucks next. I really want to hear about their history.
Fearless Freddie next