Skarloey's Family Tree - EXPLAINED!

Skarloey and Rheneas are Little Old Twins BUT just how connected are the Skarloey Railway Family Trees? Let's find out!
Special thanks to ‪@themidlandengine7973‬ for letting me use his Jennings and Fred and ‪@SteamLance‬ for the old photos of Talyllyn and Dolgoch. Also special thanks to ‪@SleepyHenryYT‬ for talking 14 people away from my stream, JK love ya Bri!
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
1:14 Skarloey & Rheneas' Family Tree
7:50 Sir Handel's Family Tree
10:28 Peter Sam's Family Tree
13:24 Rusty's Family Tree
15:24 Duncan's Family Tree
19:43 Duke's Family Tree
20:53 Mighty Mac's Family Tree
21:50 Outro + 18,000k Special!
MUSIC CREDIT
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Skarloey Railway Theme @ • Thomas & Friends - Ska...
Dispicable Me Theme @ • Despicable Me Theme - ...
Mr Bean Piano Theme @ • Mr Bean The Animated S...
Rusty's Theme @ • Thomas & Friends - Rus...
Travelling Theme @ • Thomas & Friends - Tra...
Unknown Theme @ • EVERY FILMED SECOND OF...

[@ThomasTheorist]

1.) Freddie is "Freddie Hunslet" - there where a few characters like "Millie Decauville" or "Victor Baldwin" who I didn't add to the list becuase - frankly I wasn't bothered editing up their family trees as there would've been too many Hunslets and Baldwins to go through. Maybe for a future video! 2.) Alf & Fred are actually Hunslets. For some reason, the wiki listed them as Andrew Barclay. Stupid Wiki, when will you learn! 3.) Little Barford is not "Little Bradford".😅

[@daniel4518]

OK

[@AW.Dry_and_Co.]

Tenechally if you where to make one for victor, he'd be related to Alfred and Atlas, the minitrains Baldwins from the MSR layout :] And also stanley

[@janasevconoka6615]

Rheneas is skarloey's cousin because they are different models

[@pwsthetankengine3259]

Oh, I see now, I was so confused at freddies absence

[@ciarangleeson2880]

If Fred and Freddie, as well as Alf and Russell, are Hunslet engines, then I think you left out a few of Duncan’s cousins.

[@comicfan1324]

Rusty is the only member of the core Skarloey fleet who actually differs from his real life counterpart in someway beyond name and color.

[@mattanatior97studios9]

I see you in almost every video I watch

[@ttteproductions7609]

@@mattanatior97studios9same

[@SodorCentral_]

As much as I know this is likely an April Fool's joke, I am for some reason still pretty hyped up for this lol.

[@vanessasandoval96]

You think April Fools Day is annoying even jokes that very unamused 😒

[@Ninja11125]

Same

[@Ninja11125]

@@vanessasandoval96fr

[@ollysee3656]

It ain’t if it was 18 hr ago

[@ChannelNameStudios]

It makes you think it’s an April Fools joke, but it isn’t. That’s a cool idea for an April Fools joke.

[@joshuaW5621]

It’s very ironic that people say Norman shouldn’t exist just because he and Dennis are both based on the same one-off design when the Skarloey, Culdee Fell and Arlesdale railways are full of engines that are also based on one-off designs.

[@ciarangleeson2880]

I know, right?

[@astrochaos4182]

Probably because Norman is a shit character with one feature to make him stand out

[@joshuaW5621]

@@astrochaos4182 well he has more character than Bertram.

[@HotBitchInAnUglyBody]

Awdry literally be making ocs

[@johnathonmcjohn3]

​@@joshuaW5621yeah and norman actually speaks

[@Veggietalesfan2]

Wow! First Gordon’s family, Rebecca's family and now Skarloey and Rheneas' family? This'll be fun.

[@vanessasandoval96]

Well I’m Tallylynn railway that explains why they are called Tally-twins heh get it

[@sheevhernandez3869]

Hope we can get Edward's and Thomas version of this

[@amyrodgers4252]

Peter Sam actually has five more siblings! Three on the Burma Mines Railway, a sibling called Stanhope from the Apedale Valley Light Railway and No.7 on the Corris Railway. Sir Handel also technically has one more new sibling, No.10, that's currently being built on the Corris Railway. They may not be canon to the rws, but it's interesting to note.

[@vanessasandoval96]

Jokes : why is Peter Sam’s called Edward Thomas because it has a rotating face of Edward and Thomas heh get it

[@pwsthetankengine3259]

Heres how it works in my mind 1. If you're an engine built by the same person and are the same class as another engine, youre siblings! 2. If you're built by the same person, but arent the same class, you're cousins 3. If you were built from drawings stolen from the same builder as someone else, had the same builder as another engine help with your build or were rebuilt into or out of a family group, youre half-siblings

[@polandsocks]

Step-steam engine.

[@NicklasZandeVGCP2001]

Imagine if there was an episode with Rusty and Salty interacting as cousins.

[@Bluegreenslug]

THE SMUDGER!!!! THE SMUDGER IS REAL!!!!!!!

[@juliannaudimanche1094]

can we get much heheheheheheh

[@thesodorsamurai2002]

RWS fans being portrayed as getting worked up over Rheneas' name is so funny!

[@NitroIndigo]

That illustration in Very Old Engines is so cursed because Skarloey has a face but Talyllyn doesn't and it raises too many questions.

[@coledakers6127]

2:05

[@christianpark5155]

we love the awdrys and their inconsistency with how the faces work

[@pilotbug6100]

That image isn't cannon, it is just the real life Talyllyn

[@Skyehye3113]

I suppose you could say skarloey is non faceless but tallylynn isn’t

[@peleanimationcomics3263]

5:15-he’s basically the example of that one cousin that nobody wants to talk about without feeling embarrassed due to the fact he brings shame to the family! 🤭😖😂😅😓

[@AW.Dry_and_Co.]

16:18 if you wanna get even crazier, technically fred is a hunslet, so fred, in a roundabout way, is related to wilbert and 16 XD

[@Iiswired]

And all the other ones of wilbets basis

[@brendanhanley2741]

​@@Iiswiredwell some austerity tanks were built by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co, W.G Bagnall, Hudswell clarke, Vulcan foundry, and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns

[@SeanSearcy]

Midlander and Rusty Ruston-hornsby. What a coincidence. They are indeed two lovable brothers. And narrow gauge cousins towards salty.

[@BladeGaming1XPYT]

"WHAT DID YOU DO!? I- I pronounced it Rheneas instead of Rhenes" HAD ME ON THE FLOOR DYING

[@pwsthetankengine3259]

How funny he used the narrow gauge engines as the rws fans too! 🤣 😂😅 I wonder if their drivers have read the books to them...

[@wuzman6]

I go by this basic Rheneas rule: RWS: RenEas TVs: RHeneas

[@Wolfric_Rogers]

I like to think that Albert and Proteus were Sir Handel's brothers who were eventually broken down and used for parts on Sir Handel, much like the original three real-life Falcon class engines. Kind of dark, but why shouldn't that parallel Sir Haydn's history?

[@vanessasandoval96]

You know that how Proteus died when he fall off the old iron bridge from Duncan get Spooked

[@AlessiaIsLostInSpace]

YOU CALLING EDWARD THOMAS "NICOLAS CAGE" GOT ME LAUGHING ON THE FLOOR.

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

As someone who grew up on Thomas, I was so weirded out the first time I saw rebuilt Midlander. That radiator is the most distinctive element of Rusty's profile, so seeing Rusty but with a different radiator and body panels threw me for a loop at first.

[@jamesthomas5109]

Smudger and the Ghost engine should be featured more in future stories in general, he is criminally underused. Same with Jennings too, wish they were also featured in the RWS more. 😊

[@delawarefurret]

3:34 this is a funny little skit you did... You had me laughing for the whole thing...

[@loganthewolfbear2671]

You seem to have gotten confused, Skarloey and rheneas is technically cousins, when they get called brothers it's figurative

[@vanessasandoval96]

Yeah Skarloey and Rheneas are just brothers but to be honest I think Tallylynn and Dolgoch are also brothers too

[@cartersmith9632]

I adored the bit about the Rheneas pronunciation. Nice work!

[@AW.Dry_and_Co.]

Fun fact, Dolgoch/Rheneas are the Class Bb, and skarloey/Tal-y-lynn started out as the Class A, but were rebuilt into a Class C, there not fully "Oneoffs" you where able to buy there Class, it's just, no one else decided to buy the Class A-C 🤷‍♂️

[@17abcdgh]

They do have an essentially illegal cousin in the form of Ballaarat, a 3ft6 gauge loco from Australia that shares an uncanny amount of similarities to Dolgoch, likely to the point that it was simply plagiarized. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe3eqaVrbFlrc0si=JBA9oO9zgrXN954B

[@ItsCarlos563]

I like how you used the Despicable Me theme during Sir Handel's family tree.

[@TheorysoftheMonsterworld]

3:37 this bit is so funny to me XD

[@jonasbelon9379]

I quite like it!

[@weloveteddy]

Smudger just laughed “ha ha ha April fools”

[@amitysluzara2022]

These family trees never fail to blow my mind

[@Arkay315]

I still want to see a bagnall family tree, Bill and Ben have a quite a bit of family.

[@Hocim37]

Dart is their cousin

[@1_railfan]

This...was... a LOT to take in!! Aside of being built by the same company, I was always curious on how Skarloey & Rheneas were related. I thought it'd had something to do with their configuration. Before Skarloey gained trailing wheels, both were 0-4-0 engines. If Peter Sam was built by the same company as Luke & if the Kerr Stuart company is located in Ireland, then...shouldn't Peter Sam have an Irish accent? Standard gauge cousins are insane! I mean, with Captain Baxter I understand since he too is a 0-4-0 engine like Rheneas & Skarloey (before he got trailing wheels). But Rusty's standard gauge cousin being Salty? And Duncan's standard gauge cousin is SAMSON?! SPEAKING of Duncan...Where do I even start?... His diesel cousins surprised me! I know we covered the diesel cousins in the last video with the Bullied family. But with Alf & Fred, I thought Hunslet was the company name. So does that make Hunslet the middle initial? Like "Alf Hunslet Barcley" & Fred Hunslet Barcley"? And what about Freddie? His surname is Hunslet, meaning he could potentially be a cousin to the 2 diesels! And TOPPING IT OFF with Irish Pete/Tom Rolt, maybe he could be an in-law once removed(?). And Ivo Hugh... Let's just simplify it with Henry from the Gresley video. Since Henry was based off of rejected plans by Sir Nigel Gresley and called Henry Gresley for a while until the Kipper crash. We could say Ivo Hugh was based off of plans with Tom Rolt. Making him: Ivo Hugh Bate. 😮‍💨Lord that was a lot...

[@megariderfire1994]

18:57 You could even expand the Hugh family tree further. David Hugh II (the one who created Ivo Hugh the Young Engine) is the son of Ivo Hugh (SKR's No. 7 is named after him), who in turn is the son of David Hugh I.

[@GARILENA]

The rheneas pronunciation joke killed me 😂😂😂❤

[@juliannaudimanche1094]

what if Smudger isn't actually a Fletcher? what if he was an American knockoff sold to the mid-sodor railway for cheap? it would explain why he kept derailing

[@eduardoaguero1220]

"YOU WERE BUILT WRONG!" Duke the Old Engine

[@Azul_akz]

3:45 this part is so funny Lmao 💀

[@kevinkeenan-2.1]

Come one Skarloey, don’t be like that. All of you stop acting like that!

[@percyhenryenginefan99]

Very excited for this one😊

[@SeanSearcy]

Captain Baxter is The cousin of skarloey rheneas smudger and thier siblings. Runs in the Fletcher family.

[@UsefulEngine11]

Wow this was the best timeline video yet! There were so many things I did not expect like Captain Baxter being related to Skarloey and Rheneas, and the same thing with Samson to Duncan and surprisingly Fred. And I had no idea Peter Sam and Luke were related in a way. Also I thought Mighty Mac's class what's designed by Robert fairlie which also has a nice ring to it but I guess there's something I must be missing. Also I do believe Smudger is real if anything I think him along with Stanley can coexist. Either way this was a fun video keep up the good work Adam!

[@Zanderguard]

I appreciate that you separate the RWS and TV series canon and make that clear in the intro. Your video is well researched. Great work, it was very enjoyable to watch and you got yourself a +1 subscriber. Sincerely, a RWS purist :D

[@Stepney101wikiuser]

Easily your best family tree video, keep up the good work

[@nintendoallstarsstuffies]

Rest in peace Wilber Vere Awdry (1910-1997)

[@comicfan1324]

SMUDGER IS REAL!

[@Nicecustomer]

Smudger is real we love smudger😂❤

[@Hocim37]

Can you please do?: 1. Riddles family tree 2. Baldwin family tree 3. Decauville family tree 4. Kitson family tree (including stanley was designed also by manning wardle & co) 5. sentinel family tree 6. Aveling & Porter family tree 7. Hunslet family tree 8. Holden family tree 9. collet family tree ( also including that 25 57xx's were built by kerr stuart, and 50 of them were built by w. g. bagnall, which is bill & ben's designer) or if some of the family trees will have too small amount of characters, you could some of them in one video.

[@pukenmg284]

3:37-4:00 At least they’re still accurate, my country narration called him Rennah for some reason

[@user-js5zw8tl8n]

The only issue I have with these family trees is that since Mighty and Mac are separate characters who are cajoined twins, they should be Mighty Spooner and Mac Spooner respectively.

[@skarloey1214]

Great video Adam 👍 But why didn't you cover Freddie?

[@joeleboeuf]

Love the video. Can't wait to see more Thomas family trees. A couple of things: if the engines were seen in the show or books. They're considered semi-canon. Also, Luke technically has another sibling, by the name, Peter Pan. Which was Luke's basis.

[@DavidScholz-bu1ix]

SPONTANEOUSLY SPONTANEOUS!!!!!!!!!

[@mamarussellthepie3995]

Iirc, the og smudger was a 10-12D? Which means he would have been an american built ww1 trench engine! Audry actually did have smudger as a us trench engine on his layout that rode rough due to having a cruddy kitbashed wheelbase, so that'd explain why he ran rough not only in model form but in stories too. That'd also explain the accent. And iirc, they weren't able to make a 10-12 in time for the show, so we get the green *boah* 😅

[@user-yg4pq4et6w]

Skarloey looks so cute and hes dark red

[@vanessasandoval96]

Skarloey and the Magic Railroad could’ve happened in a spin off of TATMR

[@kevinkeenan-2.1]

I wasn’t expecting an actual model of Smudger in real life, nor an actual model that Awdry made name Jennings. Also Samson being a cousin of Duncan and Fred I wasn’t expecting, nor Salty being a cousin of Rusty neither. As for Tom Bate and Ivo Hugh, they look complicated to be resemblance to Duncan‘s class? Excellent work Thomas therapist.

[@isakdahlgren8335]

hi i love your vidios and thanks for doing this famely tree

[@BladeGaming1XPYT]

5:15 Dont Be Mad With Smudger. SMUDGER Now Has 4 Complete Games & His 5th Game Right Now Is A Demo. So Give Smudger His Props

[@slovakpanniertank81]

Well, Dolgoch and Talyllyn irl have a another cousin in Australia named Ballarat, built to a gauge of 3ft 6in. Although not built by Fletcher, Jennings & Co., it´s design is similar if not identical to Dolgoch. So, yeah, cousin from Victoria Foundry that lives in the land down under that is related somewhat to Dolgoch.

[@vanessasandoval96]

But also Dolgoch and Tallylynn are brothers too right just like Skarloey and Rheneas

[@slovakpanniertank81]

@@vanessasandoval96 Ballarat was built to the same class specifications as Dolgoch and Rheneas, is related to Talyllyn and Skarloey, but wasn´t built by Fletcher, Jennings & Co, but rather the Victoria Foundry in the city of Ballarat in Australia in 1871, where she was working on a 3ft 6in logging railway, afterwards she got preserved on static display. Not built by Fletcher, Jennings & Co., but is related to the Talyllyn locomotives by it´s design.

[@StuartStudios5]

Was expecting an April Fools prank, but this is still excellent!

[@vanessasandoval96]

I hate when that happens even April Fools Pranks so unamused 😒

[@The-Signal-Man]

The theme listed in the description as "Unknown theme" that plays during the section about Mighty Mac's family tree is "Duke the Dog" by Mike O'Donnell, which I think was made for Sidekickjason's dog of the same name, featured in his album "The Engine Themes vol. 3".

[@vanessasandoval96]

Or maybe little giant because mighty Mac and Little Giant are similar but to be honest I wish mighty Mac could’ve reappeared in CGI with new whistles then they’ll have the same argument as Donald Douglas Bill and Ben in not forget me

[@robbiepinkney6320]

The "RWS fans" bit caught me off guard, hilarious stuff

[@blueninjaproductionsandcon7795]

1:14 don’t forget about the iron bride ghost engine

[@EthanTheEngine7]

but smudger just laughed. _HEHEEHHEEHHEHEH._ ok good now cover the irish bois family tree or the house keys are mine 😈😈😈😈😈

[@tudorbrancuturcu5996]

My theory on Ivo Hugh is that he was a completly “original” design built at Crovan’s gate that considentitally looks like Tom Rolt

[@jermainehazebroek4794]

i love that you yosed grus theme fore sir handle and peter sam'

[@vanessasandoval96]

Are Peter Sam and sir Handel brothers too even sir Hayden and Edward Thomas too if duke is a granpuff the Earl even own 2 narrow gauge engines Duke and Millie then that makes Millie Peter Sam and sir Handel ‘s sisters

[@erickaraujo5327]

Great video!, i would have hope that Duke's other sibblings like Princess, Palmerston and Welsh Pony to have made it to the family tree and also Duke's other two sibblings Little Giant and Mountaineer who were both scraped.

[@jacobrumens9601]

Smudger’s laugh at the end jumpscared me 😂

[@SeanSearcy]

Hmmm 🤔 first talyllyn and skarloey are twin siblings. Then dolgoch and rheneas are twins too. Smudger who is The long-lost biological brother of skarloey and rheneas. And now this. Goes by the name of Jennings.

[@notexan182]

im addicted to your voice.

[@blasterblaster1221]

Im about to mame this even more complicated for the duncan family tree, bate who created tom rolt also created toby the trolley, and we know for fact that hugh created 5 different trolleys for the skarloey railway, so i guess thats 6 more to that famiky tree

[@sockshandle]

My explanation for Smudger having an American accent is that his driver was American in some way… (to be fair I’m sure some engineers immigrated to the UK)

[@jimmythemineengine3585]

Isn't percy also technically a cousin of duncan since I'm pretty sure percy was rebuilt with parts from Andrew barclay or something

[@amyrodgers4252]

6:30 it would've been even funnier if Awdry put a Talyllyn/Skarloey basis in the model Mid Sodor layout and called it "Fletcher". Then we'd have Fletcher Fletcher and Jennings Fletcher

[@AshiqShawon]

0:01 weee i loved that part

[@Sebas16]

I think the reason why Smudger has an american accent is because Stanley (the mid sodor's number 2) was an american engine that got re-gauged into narrow gauged, but not properly, which made him a rough rider

[@mbcmechachu]

At first I was going to ask where James was at on Sir Handel's family tree but after some further research I discovered that I'd mixed his builder up with Henry Hughes & found out it was actually George Hughes that built the L&YR Class 28.

[@naaybro]

Yay mighty mac

[@maxproracing-j4f]

Hey adam i just wanna say i really enjoy all the family tree video's but can i asked something will you or are you planning of making thomas's family tree i just want a request because i really enjoy them

[@robrice7246]

20:32/20:33 Something that Thomas1Edward2Henry3 did a story on.

[@jlaws8740]

Funnily enough, when Skarloey returns after getting his trailing wheels, he has a cab. Talyllyn didn't get hers until a later date.

[@DuckyLTD69]

Actually... Percy is based on countless 0-4-0's that where scattered across the UK, so its probable that Percy is actually based on a barclay which would make him related to Duncan.. and Fred.. and f#cking Ivo Hugh

[@I_like_planesandtrains860]

I was waiting for smudger 5:16 Heheheheheh

[@thegreatprimevalshow]

Using Despicable Me’s Steamroller theme for Sir Handel is genius. 🧠

[@vyasasaatvikakundi]

Actually, Duncan had one more sibling like douglas. There were two engines built including douglas, which worked with RAF, but were later almost sold to India's copper mines... But did not meet their expectations... So, you'll have to add that sibling too.

[@johnathonmcjohn3]

He only does locomotives that were mentioned in thomas

[@clayv5422]

you should do georges family tree next hes also related to roly if youd count him

[@jeffreymonroe4776]

there is a three foot six inch version of dolgoch called ballaarat

[@jamesthomas5109]

13:14 Pixie would also make a good addition too, can't imagine her and Millie getting along though. 😆

[@ReviCat]

I like how it says skarloeys brother is skarloey and rheneas 0:09 but seriously diesels cousin as a steamie and biologically locomotives don't have parents

[@jamesthomas5109]

I wonder if Captain Baxter met any other Skarloey family during his build at Fletcher Jennings company?

[@danielsellers8707]

I think the standard gauge Fletcher Jennings locomotive in "Stepney the Bluebell Engine" looks a lot like Rheneas. Maybe as there are 2 Falcon locomotives Sir Handel & Sir Haydn could appear together at the Talyllyn Railway:-)

[@crazydaysifinity359]

It can’t be an April Fools joke cuz after a certain amount of time you can’t make April Fools jokes

[@purpleguy6385]

Its actully a smart idea cuz freds Basis Alf Was a doupple engine so Alf the Front one and fred the back on

[@noahcarlosthenumber12engin38]

I still don’t understand how Skarloey and Rheneas are brothers though when they’re different classes

[@1_railfan]

I thought it had to do with their configuration. Like before Skarloey gained his trailing wheels, he along with Rheneas was a 0-4-0. Heck even Captain Baxter is a 0-4-0 despite being a standard gauge cousin!

[@noahcarlosthenumber12engin38]

Okay that does sound logical, and add onto the fact that they were both built by Fletcher Jennings and Co

[@BillandBenProductions6792]

I didn’t know that Captain Baxter is related to Skarloey and Rheneas, Salty is related to Rusty and Samson and Fred are related to Rusty.

[@NitroIndigo]

I like to imagine that the Skarloeys and Talyllyns are synchronised like the mystics and skeksis in The Dark Crystal.

[@berkshire4607]

You forgot about Peter Pan, aka Luke's brother.

[@TheBandit025Nova]

He’s in Neverland

[@vanessasandoval96]

Peter Pan the one from Disney or Tallylynn if this is Luke Twin Imagine if this was Tinker Bell

[@johnathonmcjohn3]

I don't think he ever appeared in ttte

[@berkshire4607]

@@johnathonmcjohn3 oh, right.

[@SeanSearcy]

I guess Peter Sam is the older brother to Edward Thomas and little Bradford. The Kerr Stuart brothers. Luke and pixie Kerr Stuart. As their biological cousins. Who lives in Ireland. Far away from sodor and England. Many years ago.

[@pizzaplanettruck9761]

Smudger probably gets hated because he replaced Stanley. Yet believe it or not, he could fit in the RWS, as Falcon came to the MSR BEFORE Stanley. Plus, Sodor: Reading Between the Lines, revealed he was a replacement for another engine. As for why Stanley would've been behind the shed after he first became a pumping engine, that could be due to Smudger being out of order, and once he was running again, Stanley was moved to the mine. Also, Jennings' model is still around, just painted red and now a spare engine.

[@BryceMcKoy-lb9jv]

When you make more missing railway series books can you put Molly in one of them please

[@eastlancsesteem]

We would love that!

[@sebstraintime]

Can you make 80s. Your family tree because I think it be really cool to see some of the relationship was with the diesels like how you touch with the ones with salt and rusty

[@user-hb4ym5ne7f]

Hope you can do a video explaining blue mountain quarry?🤔🤔🤔

[@maiyo8518]

You made me laugh when you put your avatar on Thomas and the RWS fans on the narrow gauge engines

[@skarloey1214]

It was very fitting

[@LegoMiester14]

I could be wrong, but I think I heard somewhere that Peter Sam has two more brothers. If I remember correctly, they were sent to Japan or China.