Aug 9, 2025
Chris the Live-Steam Engine #1: Ruthless
RUTHLESS Written by Ryansock SCENE 1 - RUTH’S WORKSHOP NARRATOR Ruth is an engineer at the Fat Controller’s Works. She lives beside the ra
In Ruthless, Chris sits there.
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Chris the Live-Steam Engine #1: Ruthless
RUTHLESS Written by Ryansock SCENE 1 - RUTH’S WORKSHOP NARRATOR Ruth is an engineer at the Fat Controller’s Works. She lives beside the ra
In Ruthless, Chris sits there.
Chris the Live-Steam Engine - Foreward
Dear Readers, Engines on the Island of Sodor come in many different shapes and sizes. The Fat Controller’s Railway is standard gauge, the S
Hello everyone I remembered my password : )
It's been a while haha, sorry for the gap in posting! I've had college and summer adventures taking up my time lately - I passed all my classes and went to the Awdry Extravaganza again! I thought now would be as good a time as any to upload some more stories to this blog. I'm not going to upload the whole lot since some contain spoilers for other projects, but I thought it'd be worth uploading a couple, since they're stories I've been sitting on for a while.
Meet Ruth and Chris! This is meant to be my interpretation of Ruth from the CGI series. When I had the idea for Chris, I thought she'd fit in as her owner nicely, seeing as making things in her workshop is something already in the actual series - just taking it to a less BWBA extreme. This is the first intreme-type story.
Chris herself is a 7 1/4" gauge 1366 loco (image from Kingscale Live Steam)! I love live steam, it's such a wild west in terms of engineering and the kinds of rolling stock you'll see come together in one place. If you ever want to see something special, look up the Echills Wood railway and their Standard Gauge weekends (as well as Michael White's Miniature Railway Adventures! He's someone with actual hands-on experience with the gauge and his series is great!). I think it's so much fun to have a character like this in the Thomas universe, an engine who can go to places and get into situations that bigger engines can't.
I don't know if this is a question people are asking when they read these, but I thought it'd be worth addressing anyway: are these scripts canon to Video Workshop? The answer is Maybe! Idk 💀
I hope you enjoy these stories with a character of mine that I'm very fond of.
(Also I've started making an AO3 account for these but I'm not getting that invite link for like 2 weeks haha)
Chris the Live-Steam Engine #4: Welcome to the Club
WELCOME TO THE CLUB Written by Ryansock SCENE 1 - WELLSWORTH FOOTBALL PITCH At the football pitch, stalls are set up all around. A track f
In Welcome to the Club, Chris makes a friend.
To be clear to everyone, Lady Jane is a 7 1/4" Princess Royal, like the one pictured above (image from Steam Workshop)!