Which Real Life Thomas and Friends Vehicles SURVIVED? (Some Inaccuracies- READ DESCRIPTION) 

Glad to see Boulder survived. Sad to see Thomas and Edward are gone now....

Fun fact: Donald and Douglas' original numbers in the books were 57646 and 57647, while their real-life counterparts only went up to 57645. This means that, in the Railway Series, two more were built than in real life.

The fact all narrow gauge engines survived and are still working is amazing

Can we talk about how resilient those little Class 08s were that they're still in regular service all these years later?

Just a correction.gordan is actually the prototype of the gresely A1 pacific wich were rebiult into A3 pacific

This is surprising a really fun video. Also, I never knew Terence doesn’t really have a actual basis because I thought he was based on those vintage Caterpillars crawlers from the 1930s or 40s.

Through reading some of these comments, it's apparent that some of my information isn't entirely accurate. I'm not a huge rail fan so it's easy to slip up, I suppose and thankfully people have corrected me in the comments. I plan on making an expanded video at some point with more characters, and this will include corrected errors. Thank you for the feedback!

This is very educational. I was surprised to see that all of the Toby ones got scrapped. These are all of the model series and one the great things about model railroading is that it is a great way to keep the spirit alive. The narrator on this had the perfect voice because although the Island of Sodor is a fictional island, but by looking at the map, it is part of the UK. Someone at the Museum of Transport and I were talking about both Bertie and Bulgy, that if someone was to drive one of the two buses, they would have a great time driving Bertie since someone said that he might have been one of the early buses that the bus builder was trying to experience putting an automatic transmission onto buses but Bulgy had the 5-speed compound transmission. One of the episodes in the 3rd series about the diesels vs. steam engines, is that it takes a lot of manpower to get a steam engine ready for work than it does a diesel.

I still wish that the crew had the budget to finish the model of Flying Scotsman.

Loved that you included boulder at the end 😂😂 Very well done my friend ☺️🚂🚃

Considering the time period Thomas Terence and the snow takes place in, Terence seems to resemble a Caterpillar model 70, however this doesn’t quite work because of his orange paint - a trait that points him towards an Allis-Chalmers tractor with caterpillar tracks. But because of the fact that Allis charmers tractors aren’t exactly common in the UK, and by extension Sodor, I wouldn’t put it past the idea that either Awdry based Terence on a caterpillar tractor that worked on a local farm in the area of which he lived, or the illustrators used Allis charmers caterpillar tractors for inspiration. Nonetheless, whichever design Terence is based on, several of the potential candidates for his basis are still around today whether that be museums, private collections or lovingly restored for use on hobby farms

Sad to see some gone

Funny thing about Stepney-He was rebuilt from an LBSCR A1 Form. Yes, the original Stepney was an LBSCR A1, before becoming an A1x

This video was very well put together!!

Other than the fact that this was a superb video, I'm glad there is someone else who actually does the Welsh pronunciations properly!

this was very interesting, i would really like to see more

You’ve just earned yourself a new subscriber

Thanks for the vid, I've always wondered which real life trains the tv show was based off 😝💕 i grew up watching Thomas & friends

I know Emily is still alive because one of her class is still around in the National British Railway Museum.

Great video love to see what they where based on

Gordon as a Peppercorn A2 😂😂😂

That bit on Boulder was hilarious

Cheers for the run down of our childhood hero's i was surprised that the real train thomas was based on, is long gone, id have thought one would have at least survived, a long with edward.

It is happy to see Henry to survive my favorite but my other favorites like Thomas Edward and Toby had to be scrapped…

I'm so happy that many of them survived to this day👍👍 way to many steam engines have been scrapped over the years. Here in Denmark we have sadly also scrapped a lot of them, and many have also been stored away for an undetermined fate

I seriously do personally just suddenly came up with the officially well-knowingly clever idea of completely building a new generation of each of the well-known locomotives from scratch with modifications that officially include automatic coupling devices on each end to cooperate with various types of American-origin rolling stock with ease @ no complete trouble whatsoever! In other words for another awesome well-known fact, I'm actually gonna also apparently build a specifically wonderfully great new generation of each of the well-known road vehicles in Thomas & Friends alongside modifications for American-origin railroads/roadways with complete ease!!!

Wait dude I’m sorry did you say Gordon was an A2? Gordon is an A1 class, not A2.

For Class 40, the real D261 Class 40 got scrapped in 1984

I saw a percy near Sacramento here in California. I seen it when i first got there. I hope to go back to see more

Finally, someone acknowledged the Class 27s

Great video!

I like the fact that Oliver is still kicking!

I didn't even know there were any survivors from the James Family.

Thank you for helping me ❤

6:50 I Love how his base is literally the name of two of the characters from the sieres

While not technically a k2, there was an attempted remake at a rail museum (some even theorising that its a k2 that went through several rebuilds).

4:53 well I guess that line didn’t age quite so well because most of these engines were scrapped and diesel’s bases is still alive.

It’s sad that Edward, Thomas, Toby gone now. Scrapped.

im so happy to see that boulder lived-he is the MOST important character here *sigh of relief* phew

Tbh I can’t quite see how James’s origin is a L&Y loco of a different wheel arrangement. Surely he’s more likely to have been a GWR Churchward 4300-Class 2-6-0?

Wtf Thomas is still alive, I fricking met him in North Conway when I was 5

8:46 Seeing as Harold is portrayed as British and not American, I think that means he's probably a British built version of the S55, the Westland Whirlwind. They look the same, but being UK built would explain the accent. :) He does also appear to have Westland's version of landing floats installed, US built versions with floats also exist but look different.

I'm not sure if we should count Thomas as scraped or not because although all the LBSCR E2's were all scrapped, they did eventually build an actual Thomas train that even talks to you, sooo maybe thomas survived, idk.

I would like to take this opportunity to clarify, Percy’s boiler and wheel arrangement are, indeed, based on the GWR 1340 class of engines, which includes Trojan. However, Percy’s elongated coal bunker comes from that of a GWR 1361 class engine.

For the newer engines, Emily is a GNR Stirling from 1895-1916, today they are still preserved in rail museums

Those Pannier tanks. They were pretty common and far reaching. I'm not sure that they were ever used here, but we even have a couple here in Australia. One is on display, the other does excursion journeys and museum stuff. Cool trains ngl.

I like to think Sodor is an island that focuses on preserving the early 20th century by not upgrading their vehicles and technology. Basically being stuck in the past in order to preserve the old days

I actually live near the railway musem with the Toby, it's actually a John Fowler 0-4-0DH with a shell dropped onto it.

Gordon - A2 Pacific? Blue Peter still exists to this day, Flying Scotsman is an A3

I’m happy for Oliver, saved from scrap in universe and real life

i wish i can go back in time to saved the E2s but is a canon event😿😥

Fun fact there is a Thomas train in at Thomas Ontario Canada and yes it's on tracks and used but rarely more of a museum piece now

Regarding Thomas, I frequently get videos from the Watercress Line and they have a Thomas current being renovated and nearing completion, it seems likely to be back in Steam and on the rails sometime in 2024. Check out their latest video for more details. Brilliant video and hope this helps!

Daisy & the Snailwell Firing Tunnel was a particularly distressing episode

There actually was some sort of kickstarter in 2017 to rebuild an E2 class tank engine sadly the project was canceled

Somebody better start preserving the Boulder class because I’m about to blast through their withdrawal and scrapping so quickly that it would make Beeching blush

a little fact: Bear's class the class 35 Hymek number's went up to 71000 meaning Bear's a fictional ad on to the class 35.

Edward has a Dutch Conterpart which is eerily similar to his TV Series or RWS Appearance. You can find it in the Utrecht Railway Museum in The Netherlands. The engine similar to Edward was the NS 1600 by the Dutch Railways, and coincidentally, they were built by the Sharp, Stewart and Co.-the same manufacturers that built Edward. I would consider Edward to be “Preserved” since he had a Dutch “Brother” still standing in a Railway Museum.

That Boulder but caught me off guard

Gordon is based on the LNER A1/A3 class in the books being a Prototype of the A1

I know for sure a scammel constructor truck still exists , I've photographed it. It was run by the irish state transport provider CIE under the fleet number SC 1 and its nicknmed Essie . It's in the transport musuem society of ireland display at Howth Castle in Dublin, not sure if it runs on fact I'm 99.95% it doesn't but cosmetically its in resonable nick

Thanks for this. Can you do season 6 to 12?

I've updated the video title to reflect the fact that this isn't completely accurate, so hopefully I can spare any more hardcore enthusiasts from losing sleep over this!

Thomas' real life basis, the E2, wasn't really good in real life, and while it lasted for years as shunters, they were still bad at being shunters, and were outclassed by smaller engines. So, I can kinda see why Thomas' basis doesn't exist today.

Glad to see Henry survived

I mean, IDK if a Tram Engine with 4 wheels count, because basically, what I heard from a friend of mine, a J70 I think was getting a rebuilt, but it was actually a Tram Engine that looked like Toby, but only with 4 wheels, so IDK if it's really Toby

I was driving on a highway somewhere in Virginia a few months ago, and I saw THOMAS on a flatbed trailer. He had a mask over his face.

The boulder caught me off guard.

😂 nooo, glad to find out what happed to my child hood favs

Gordon is an A1, the original A1 of the GNR - which became, with a bit of a rebuild, the A3. Look at the pictures in Enterprising Engines and you can clearly see Gordon and Flying Scotsman are "brothers".

As Stepney and City of Truro are real locomotives surely they are not based on the locomotive as stated, but represents it. Also Flying Scotsman was not mentioned as a character, it is in the books so I assume that story is featured in the TV series.

I’m so glad boulder was preserved!!!!!

Pretty much most of the narrow gauge engines live on the same frickin railway coincidence I think not

I'm aware of the errors in this video, as others have so kindly pointed out. I've made a new video correcting the mistakes made in this one, and also included HiT and CGI era characters! Be sure to check it out! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_l30VKqsHZc.htmlsi=swqV-SbExn0lpCto

gordon was an A1, and flying scotsman is an A3 rebuilt from an A1, A2s came over 2 decades later

Gordon is acually based on the LNER A3 Pacific

I would like to think donald survived as he was the one supposed to survive, douglas came tagging along to save himself from scrap

Sad fact: real life is the bad ending for Thomas because Diesels are the reason the e2 class tank engine was scrapped

Fun fact:at the “Tweetsie Railroad” there is a thomas the tank engine train so he’s like Toby

I couldve sworn i commented that emil was a stirling single class

A2 for gordon. Oh, the indignity.

Flying Scotsman is an A1 and later converted into the A3

how did boulder get included before emily or diesel 10?!

Flying Scotsman is an A3 rebuilt from A1!

Rest in peace Thomas.

LES GOOOOO

Fun fact: a new e2 tank engine was made and decided to make it into thomas

R.I.P Reginald

Gordon is a hybrid of the Gresley A1 and Raven A2, not a Peppercorn A2. Those were built more than 20 years after Gordon.

R.I.P Thomas (even though there’s “them”) and Edward

2:16 Wrong A2, Gordon has been described as a prototype Gresley A1, that's make him one of the two NER Raven A2s of 1922, not the Post war Peppercorn A2. Also Flying Scotsman is an A3 class, not either type of A2. The only preserved A2 is the Peppercorn "Blue Peter" you showed.

Only way for you to mistake Gordon as a Peppercorn A2 would be because both them and Gresley A1’s were Doncaster built.

I was hoping about the update on the engine 'Hiro'

Gordon’s Brother is the Flying Scotsman, so technically he didn’t survive 🤓

Gordon is a Peppercorn A2? I thought he was the prototype A0 For the LNER Gresley A1&3s?

R.I.P Thomas

Actually, there's a replica of Thomas down to the last details that are an old refurbished E2.

Mistake Gordon is actually based of an A3 which is also what the flying Scotsman is

It's a little ironic that the engine named edward thomas survived but not edward or thomas

Today Thomas is at work