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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 ...
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.
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.
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 and other vehicles, including the main protagonist Thomas the Tank Engine, who work on the Island of Sodor.
Success of Dark Reign spurred interest in the game engine from other games developers, and Auran began in-house development of a generalised version of the graphics engine for licensing to third-party companies based on its self-developed middleware game engine called the Auran JET and in 1998 began development of a more specialized version for what became the game engine for the Trainz series ...
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 ...
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
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