Engine Stories: The Lawnmower & Charlie's Ant

[@Jude-72]

I'm excited to see the lawnmower replica built hopefully around 23-24, good work as always!

[@loganbloom6191]

No 7. Would be awesome as a railway inspection vehicle

[@garrettsmith2776]

Seems though it’s either the former No. 8 and 10 or Dolgoch next.

[@champ2stay920]

what about No. 9?

[@darthknuxward3220]

@@champ2stay920 already been done

[@billybath2140]

That is really interesting story is the original number 7 going to be rebuild as well because I think they can be really useful

[@ThatScottishAtlantic57]

To be honest, im half surprised that there would be a video on these two! (Not that im complaining of course =) )

[@gobyrail]

Out here in Australia we had things we called "rail tractors", which were basically the frame of a wooden four wheel wagon with a tractor engine, chain drive and a very basic cab to keep the sun off. They were only used for pushing wagons around a yard, rather than on the main line. Eventually over 50 of them were built, and a few of them are still in service today.

[@jamesthomas5109]

Great video mate, very good. Best wishes from the midlands as always, big fan and looking forward to seeing more videos in future. 😊🙏

[@catapultking8861]

Those aren’t crazy when it comes down to it! Over here in the states we got logging railway locomotives that are often like that; Random pieces of whatever you got lying around thrown onto a chassis and made to work! I find the Lawnmower and Charlie’s Ant an interesting move in the right direction. It’s always like that at the start, but in the end it’s the effort of the past that made the present possible!

[@blindpugh12]

Very interesting, brilliant concepts! How about nipping over to Boston Lodge to look at their battery-electric PW trolley for possible power source for 'new' #5?

[@blasterblaster1221]

Im glad these engines are finally getting there spotlight moment...im actualy making a 3d model of the original no.7 and who knows when its done lawnmower might be next

[@ptonpc]

It'd be good to see them on the rails or at the very least in a museum. They are part of your history.

[@champ2stay920]

2 questions. 1. does anyone else think Charlie's Ant looks like a grasshopper with its 4 front small wheels and 2 big rear wheels? 2. when whill Dolgogh get their stories told? when they return to service?

[@Trackmaster_Tehachapi]

Wouldn’t it be funny if this series was called “Talyllyn Tales?”

[@danielmilov8718]

Can you do a video on dolgoch, Merseysider, or Bryn Eglwys next?

[@OmniscientCameo]

The image used at 2:11 is not of Flat wagon No. 19, despite the photographer's assumption in the caption! That picture is of a rolling chassis used to transport the Ruston excavator (10-RB) along the railway during the 70's - notice the height of the wheels relative to the top of the frame And No. 5 wasn't built on a Slate Wagon chassis (at least not one ever owned by the TR). The whole frame is metal (steel?), but doesn't match any of the other TR preservation-era wagons. I imagine it was purpose-built by Curwen

[@OmniscientCameo]

It was great to see the handheld film footage of No.7 being turned on its portable turntable

[@GreatEasternStudios123]

Still waiting for storie of dolgoch

[@jacobchernack1055]

I wonder if Charlie's Ant inspired the Juggernaut from _Ivor the Engine._

[@JosephRailwayStudios2000]

You’ll never know it could happen

[@retrogamelover2012]

Kind of surprised that the Rev. W Awdry or his son Christopher, seemingly never thought to try and adapt any of these two into the Railway Series.

[@pizzaplanettruck9761]

They might not have been seen as worth it. Plus, I have my doubts as to whether they would have been sentient.

[@retrogamelover2012]

@@pizzaplanettruck9761 Ehh, you never know.

[@Thatonesaddletank]

He looks funny, still a creative build nice

[@roboticenby]

What’s the background music? It sounds spacey

[@jamesthomas5109]

I wonder if any Thomas and friends characters will be based on No. 5?

[@ciarangleeson2880]

That would be something worth trying out.

[@garrettsmith2776]

Railfan 1 did in “Frightening Folly” via “Grass Chomper”.

[@Bulgy13]

The Extended Railway Series introduced one too, called 'Flivvy' (derived from the term 'Flivver')

[@jamesthomas5109]

@@Bulgy13 Cool, any pictures of Flivvy? I think I'd have to be a member of the sodor Island forums in order to see all the volumes in the Extended Railway Series.

[@jamesthomas5109]

@@Bulgy13 thanks, are there any pictures of Crabby the gantry crane form the ERS?

[@champ2stay920]

so hwere did the name "Charlie's Ant come from?"

[@legoman604]

The unused engines

[@pilotbug6100]

Dolgoch when?

[@russeldavis1787]

Charley's Ant, what a terrible pun

[@ciarangleeson2880]

I don’t get it.

[@russeldavis1787]

@@ciarangleeson2880 There's a popular late-Victorian comedy play called Charley's Aunt ,which was and still is frequency played across both professional and Am-Dram theatre and also on film and subsequently TV. For example a few years before the TR was taken on by the preservation society, there had a big British film with Arthur Askey, (plus Moore Marriott and Grahame Moffett of Oh Mr Porter fame). As the play is set in that the same late Victorian never-land as: "The Importance of being Ernest" , the characters speak in that extended posh oxford drawl , so that Charley's Aunt , sounds like Charley's Ant