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Trainz is a series of 3D train simulator video games.The Australian studio Auran (since 2007 N3V Games) released the first game in 2001.. The simulators consist of route and session editors called Surveyor, and a Driver module that loads a route and lets the player operate and watch the trains run in either "DCC" mode, which simulates a bare-bones Digital Command Control (DCC) system for the ...
A pair of dark yellow 0-4-0 saddle tank engine twins belonging to the Sodor China Clay Co (SCC). They both work in the china clay pits, and at Brendam Docks, where they shunt trucks. Bill and Ben are Sodor's most mischievous engines, which they like teasing and playing tricks on the other engines. Bagnall 0-4-0ST "Alfred" and "Judy" Mavis: FQC 1
King of the Railway; Tale of the Brave; Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure; The Adventure Begins; The Great Race; Journey Beyond Sodor [9] King of the Railway through Journey Beyond Sodor John Hasler: UK: 2018–21: Series 22, 23 and 24 Big World! Big Adventures! through Series 24. As Thomas the Tank Engine. Joseph May: US
Thomas & Friends (formerly known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) is a children's media franchise created by Britt Allcroft and currently owned by Mattel.The franchise revolves around an ensemble cast of anthropomorphic steam locomotives, including the titular main protagonist Thomas the Tank Engine as well as other vehicles, who work on the Island of Sodor.
The first appearance of Duke and No. 2 (referred to as Stanley in off-hand material by Wilbert Awdry). The only appearance of the Mid Sodor Railway. Most of the book is told in flashback, and it fills in some history for the Arlesdale Railway and characters from the Skarloey Railway. Duke is based on the engine Prince from the Ffestiniog Railway.
The "Sodor" part of the title comes from the Sudreys, but Awdry decided that a fictional island between the Isle of Man and England by that name would be an ideal setting for his stories. In partnership with his brother George (the librarian of the National Liberal Club ), he gradually devised Sodor's history, geography, language, industries ...
Awdry, a Church of England cleric, noted that while there was an Isle of Man, there was no island of Sodor. [note 2] He decided to create a fictional island of "Sodor" as the setting for his books. Sodor would be between England and the Isle of Man, isolated from the British railway system, but somewhere that readers could easily imagine.
In The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways he is termed Richard Robert Norramby. He opened the loop line to Lakeside on the Skarloey Railway. [32] He returned to Sodor after traveling the world, to restore Ulfstead Castle and turn it into a visitor attraction. [citation needed] Norramby's coat of arms