The History Of Rusty & His Models: The History Of TTTE 

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.

I, also, take it that rusty's small scale model was the best running of the SKR locomotives

Nitrogen Studios: "Every detail was carefully reproduced in CGI." Also Nitrogen Studios: 7:53

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.

0:37 " Send Rusty packing! Send Rusty packing! -Best line of Duncan

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.

Fun Fact that’s not very fun: S12 actually fixed Rusty’s oversized face issue, only for CGI to go RIGHT back to it.

I honestly like the narrow gauge trains. It's neat to see the scale variance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Rusty is one of my favorite diesel engines!! Rusty is for sure a gem, especially since he saved Stepney from scrap!!

Train boy: * uploads * Me: *"FINALLY SOME DELICIOUS FUCKING CONTENT!"*

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.

Rusty is one of my favorite engines of all time, and I am glad you finally covered him.

My favorite narrow guage engine! About time you did Rusty!

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.

Love your videos man! Legit love learning more about the narrow gauge engines! By the way Sir Handel Is my favorite :)

I'm a simple man, I see a TrainBoy video, I press like.

You know, that horrorified face would've been perfect for Rusty and the Boulder

Love coming home to a trainboy video

Nice upload today.Thank's for sharing.

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.

I have been waiting for this vid YES

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 and the boulder Is a fantastic episode

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.

Rusty's horrorfide face was used is season 5 rusty and the bolder

Rusty has quite a history with the changes to how "The little diesel" was referred to and how "the little diesel's" face changed.

When I heard the model was preserved at Hara Model Railway Museum,that's is a relieving moment.

The history of Bertie the bus & his models could be next also it would be a nice transition into road vehicles.

Amazing video

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.

4:42, the big-face Rusty always scared me for some reason

Yes. My boy. He has come

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.

I remember when I first saw Rusty. He was the first narrow gage engine in the series as I recall.

I voted rusty a fair few times so thanks for doing him!

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!

Great video. Loving the narrow gauge engine videos. Can we have the rolling stock they pull please

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.

Trainboy: talking about Rusty Me: are we not gonna talk about the gold running board?

"Its a girl! What are you gonna name her?" *"Rusty"* "..."

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

I like Rusty, he’s one of my favorite narrow gauge engines.

The Troublesome Trucks would be an interesting episode.

nice job & plus rusty is my favorite narrow gauge engine kind helpful & careing to all hehe even to gumpy Duncan

7:53, Duncan was made when Arc Productions took over the show. NOT Nitrogen Studios.

rust boi is here

I’d love to see you do videos where you rate episodes you either love or hate and why

Nobody: thomas and friends with narrow guage engines: tallylyn railway, take it or leave it

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.

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...

I agree Rusty's one of my favorite characters and Thomas and Friends

Wow this is so cool

Rusty sure does have a neat history

Hey train boy, you should do a video ranking your favorite episodes from each era of Thomas and friends

Shame Rusty was the only narrow gauge diesel in the show. There should have been more.

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.

Wooo! Top 2 favourite train

History of Henrietta.

Thomastankmerch is truly a savior.

Let’s see Derek in the poll

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.

Best lesson ever.

Rusty got possessed in the thumbnail.

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 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.

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.

I honestly prefer the face on the large scale Rusty, I know it's oversized but it's just a much better sculpt.

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.

6:56 actually thats the front, the door is on the right side like how it’s supposed to be

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

My favorite narrow gauge diesel👍🏽👍🏽

My 5th favorite narrow gauge character

The thumbnail though 😳

I want troublesome trucks next

Finally

Wow I'm here pretty early

Can you please do the troublesome trucks next. I really want to hear about their history.

Trans Train Trans Train Trans Train I also prefer the smaller face version. After seeing this series, I'm tempted to try scratchbuilding the small scale models to run on my garden railway (minus moving eye mechanisms and smoke generators), although I don't know about the height difference between standard UK 0 gauge models and these, which could foul on several places. I'm also gonna rewatch Thomas again, because I've never got past season 9.

I only wish that Rusty's large-scale model had the small face. Were that the case, he'd be spot-on.

So it turns out TomsProps also owns Duncan, but wasn’t revealed until a few days ago.

Season 4 Rusty might be my favorite model for any of the engines, then he was cursed with the fattest face we have ever seen.

Hey Trainboy, what about an episode on Nevil?

Duncan Looks like that in the cgi era because arc made him look more realistic

Yes my favorite character

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.

Could you do the Scottish twins next!?

Yes! Rusty!

I haven't clicked so fast

I suppose it is weird that the different models of Rusty were used in "Rusty and the Boulder"

Fearless Freddie next