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Published: 2014-04-13 22:36:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 6128; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 0
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Ooooh good lord I cannot draw Erika's face to save my fecking life! ;~;Ah well, was fun to draw at these angles
This is basically my take on American locos being on Sodor, safe for S160s or S100s and it'd be a funny reason as to why Americans can run on sodor now .c.
Just me looking at when this massive German engine was at Steamtown in Carnforth, with a pic of it sat outside the sheds the tender barely squeezed into the shed and I'm just sitting here thinking "If Germans can barely fit on the loading gauge, how can MURICANS do?" But then again this was back when I was completely blinded by British pride. That having melted after seeing how unfairly continental locos get treated over here .c. But not only that, I have seen continentals on British coaches www.flickr.com/photos/5611hong… This sort of gives you the impression of how big European locos are to British ones .c.
But yeah, no intentional hate/attacking towards the charactar, but I found it pretty funny to draw how engines get massive bumps on their heads .c.
Erika belongs to
Right, time for sleep .c.
Take care all
Joey the joj
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Oh wait thats probably the SP and UP get along in 'Waning Daylight' or its just cause wartime conditions.
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Did she actually get though or did she get wedge in halfway through?
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Nah, she just wedged herself.
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How come she didn't hit every bridge, signal, signal gantry, gantry signal box, and the other tunnel outside of knapford? (That tunnel isn't there in the TV series.
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this makes me wonder if an FPA-4 could've fit in that tunnel, let alone a royal Hudson...
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No, more she smashed her head on the roof of Henry's tunnel when she tried to go THROUGH it.
She too big!
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Well, this should teach American's a lesson. to cut engines down to size.
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Well I wouldn't say that.
I'd say that your engine might not be able to go as many places and you thought...!
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Still, I'd say little engines are much better.
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I don't know if anyone else has commented this, but the GS-4 4-8-4s were from the Southern Pacific, not the Union Pacific.
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Interestingly, the Southern Pacific was eventually bought out by the Union Pacific in 1996. Though technically, Denver and Rio Grande Western purchased the Southern Pacific company in 1988, but chose to identify as the latter, and then that company was bought by UP eight years later.
The more you know!
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Then there's the fact that American engines would be too big for British turntables too, meaning unless you had a balloon loop or a triangle, you couldn't turn them, either. lol
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Dunno if I already comented as phone won't let me scroll back more than one page of comments (Hurray for technology! \ o /) but this makes me chuckle everytime X-B
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and so Erika fucking destroyed the Sudrian rail network. Signals and workmen went under as her tender squashed all hell flat.
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A great address to the differing loading gauges between foreign railways.
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I, like everyone else, find this to be a good joke for the fact that Erika's too big for Henry's Tunnel (As well as going on British rails).
But I have a question to ask. If American trains are not only too big for rails, but too big for tunnels like Henry's, and that Swedish trains like 1178 can barely fit into small tunnels, then how big are Japanese Steam Locomotives compared to British ones. Just wanted to know.
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Easy, Hiro's class is actually meant for narrow gauge .c.;;
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I didn't quite know that Hiro's Class is a smaller gauge then the Standard Gauge British Trains.
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Baldwin did build standard gauge models of Hiro's class.
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Funny comic! i love erika's face in the last scene
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Great one ^^ love the wee bit at the end in brackets 
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www.flickr.com/photos/5611hong… Well unfortunatly, we only have our French Compound in order to make a comparison, but the thing is the more you look at the this loco, you see where the GWR got their iconic shapes .c. Its THEN you begin to question just how MUCH are our trains actual British engineering and not something from abroad? .c.
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there's also this for when Flying Scotsman was on his America Tour when comparing to American engines at the turn of the 20th century, Savannah & Atlanta 750 was built in 1910 for the Florida East Coast Railway (who surprisingly still survives today and is looking to bring back passenger service), she was sold to the S&A in 1937 and worked there until she was retired in I believe 1954 (I could be wrong about retirement date) www.railpictures.net/images/d1…
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aye your right the similarity's are there and rather scary ow close they look to one and other
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Well actually fun fact, the GWR ordered a French atlantic for running trials, and the GWR copied that loco into their own designs, so everything that was great about the GWR and LMS originated from the French!
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Wow that is a interesting fact 
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Aw man, that is hilarious! But why do you have Union Pacific on Erika's tender? Is there someone that you're trying to troll?
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HAHA!! That got a good laugh out of me.
I know that in real life engines like the 4449 would be next to impossible to operate there, but sometimes it's nice to look pass that issue and just have some fun with it.
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Indeed, but I looked into the issue and made even MORE fun with it .c.
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LOLZ. You drew her just fine and I love the fact that you got her pistons looking all lovely. Just one thing. Erika's a Southern Pacific engine, not a UP, though that did make me laugh whether or not it was intentional. XD
Pff... Ikea...
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It was intentional, I'm seeing how many actually pick up on it XP Yeah, Since Ikea and 1178 are Swedish.
...You're using my pic as you icon.
Wait.
WAT. <_>
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\ o /
IDK IF THIS IS PLAGIARISM.
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I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW MY DRAWING WAS THAT GOOD
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