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Thomas the Tank Engine

Saturday, 28th January 2006 by James

During my childhood years I was convinced that the excellent Thomas & Friends, a cartoon about a locomotive who liked being really useful but wasn’t too keen on plowing snow, was a work of fiction.

However, as proved by this photo, I was wrong. All these years later Thomas The Tank Engine is still in service having been relocated to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, where he hangs out with various steam engines and other anthropomorphic vehicles (I think this is George the Steam roller).

Thanks: Adam Sadler

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22 Responses to 'Thomas the Tank Engine'

  1. 1. flyingscot says: January 28th, 2006 at 7:03 pm

    Best. Sight. Ever.

  2. 2. tecnalex says: January 28th, 2006 at 8:15 pm

    Thomas the Tank engine comes to visit the Mt Hood Railroad in Hood River County, Oregon every summer

  3. 3. Luke says: January 29th, 2006 at 12:56 am

    Holy crap!! I remember that show. I loved it.

  4. 4. bill says: January 29th, 2006 at 3:38 am

    I think I can, I think I can….oops, wrong story.

  5. 5. Alex says: January 29th, 2006 at 2:53 pm

    I’m with flyingscot! Best. Sight. Ever.

  6. 6. richardo says: January 29th, 2006 at 3:46 pm

    Again, a pretty cool sight, but i like the one with the giant plane

  7. 7. Olly says: January 29th, 2006 at 5:34 pm

    Seconded. This is way better than those UFOs…

  8. 8. Narco says: January 29th, 2006 at 7:08 pm

    I am with everyone else. This is a fantastic spot and by far the best sighting yet!

  9. 9. northern git says: January 29th, 2006 at 9:20 pm

    Its good to see that amongst all the filth and depravity that fills the world wide web there is still a tiny corner where innocence and childish joy can still find a home.
    Toot Toot!

  10. 10. Lanky says: January 29th, 2006 at 11:00 pm

    Thomas the tank engine is only on the steam railway once a year. So I can find out what year the photo was taken in, I should be able to find myself standing somewhere in that station

  11. 11. Al Cohole says: January 30th, 2006 at 8:58 am

    Great sight!

    This looks like a typical model railroad scenery. Must be a cool place!
    :-)

  12. 12. sdfdfbadf says: January 30th, 2006 at 3:29 pm

    i think it looks bizarre and surrealistic….

  13. 13. Matthew says: February 4th, 2006 at 10:17 am

    Wow, Tomas The Tank, he’s so cool. He comes to my 3 local towns every year and i go to everyone.
    And by the way the photo looks like thomas not George, he’s bigger.

  14. 14. Jayne Hudderson says: February 12th, 2006 at 7:36 pm

    “Matthew” look at your spelling- tomas=thomas, everyone=every one.
    Please change it,
    Very disapointing

  15. 15. Jon says: February 23rd, 2006 at 12:01 am

    Wow, someone else spotted it too! It does look mighty like the programme from space doesn’t it! Happy Google Earthing! p.s. its summer 2004 I think.

  16. 16. Philip Pryce says: March 7th, 2006 at 10:32 pm

    i’ve been there, that place rocks!

  17. 17. Derek says: April 12th, 2006 at 3:22 am

    Jayne, disapointing = disappointing.

    (It’s the law, every spelling flame must contain a spelling error. Except this one. :-)

  18. 18. Immy says: June 12th, 2006 at 2:34 pm

    I LOVE the face on the train!!!
    o ya the sights were ok…

  19. 19. Ronda Klinger says: November 2nd, 2006 at 9:02 am

    My grandson loves Thomas and all his friends. Could you sugest a place we could go to see more than Thomas? We visited Tweetsie Railroad early on this year. Twenty minutes with Thomas just wasn’t enough!He loves them all. Any sugestions would be great !

  20. 20. jenny says: November 24th, 2006 at 3:50 pm

    I was just watching thomas he is the coolest

  21. 21. jenny says: November 24th, 2006 at 3:51 pm

    thomas is the best

  22. 22. rebeca says: January 13th, 2007 at 9:44 pm

    i would like to know when thomas is coming to hood river,or

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