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[starsodor]

Some small braceletsSome small bracelets Some little bracelets I made inspired by the humans of ttte

[sudriantraveler]

Marvelous Mountain Machinery - Traintober 2025 Day 31: The New

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Culdee Fell Railway has been having a difficult time. High passenger numbers and a supply of bad coal are pushing the engines to their limits. A new member of the railway's staff may have some ideas to help.

I like the idea of Sodor doing a lot to modernize their steam engines, and I think the Culdee Fell would be a good place for some of those modern steam concepts to be tried out.

And that is the end of another Traintober. I hope everyone enjoyed this year's selection of stories.

Thank you all for reading.

[steam-beasts]

Fun Game Concept!

So as you know, Choo Choo charles is a open-world game that has you constantly being hunted down by a man-eating steam engine monster while also gathering enough upgrades and weapons to kill it. Well, I just thought...

...what if it was on Sodor and the monsters were the ttte characters we know and love?

The game would take place after BWBA (but better), and would be followed up as a sequel to my TATMR, which I'm currently writing. There would also be a few elements from Security Breach, which would involve you getting collectibles or weapons that would benefit the player independently, having to sneak through certain areas.

The Story

It's been years since Lily and Patch, along with Mr Conductor had saved Lady and her magic railroad from doom. Both are now young adults when Lily gets a strange letter from her grandpa, asking for help. She decides to see what's going on and Patch tags along for the sake of it. One thing leads to another and the two find themselves on Sodor again.

But something's wrong. The engines have transformed into beast-like creatures, attacking anyone they see on sight. Mr Conductor and the two soon reunite and are enlisted to help find a cure to stop the insanity. Along the way, Lily and Patch must dodge, weave, stun and defend themselves from the horrors of Sodor!

Gameplay + tutorial

In this (not real) ttte horror game, in the first segment, you play as Mr Conductor.

Mr Conductor is who you play as for the tutorial and the rest of the segment. The tutorial involves you learning how to collect items, sneak through areas where engines are roaming and how to shoot/throw and distract enemies using the environment around you. The location of this tutorial is on Misty Island, and the tutorial uses the location as an advantage to help the player be able to navigate through foggy or dark areas without a flashlight.

The three main antagonists for the tutorial are the Logging locos (they seem fitting for baby-step missions) who are always gonna be patrolling the Logging station and beach.

For the rest of the segment, Mr Conductor is tasked with helping around the camps that are inhabited by most of the Sodor residents. Here are the tasks;

1# Reach the other end of the Logging station without being spotted (tutorial begins here)

2# Find the storage hut to store the fish

3# Talk to Ruth

4# Collect 10 peices of jobi wood around the camp to help Ruth build the handcar

5# Give the wood to Ruth

6# Talk to the three railway controllers

7# Find Junior

8# Use the handcar and go to Sodor

Collectibles

Scattered around the island are a total of 13 wooden sculptures of the engines. They can be found in areas that are linked the most to them.

The Thomas sculpture can be located in the mines, a call back to Down the Mine.

The Percy sculpture can be found hanging off the edge of a dilapidated truck, a somewhat reference to Percy's Predicament.

The Edward sculpture can be located at the back of his old berth at Tidmouth Sheds. This is a reference to Edward's Day Out.

Style

The game would have ps1-style graphics and the environment is really dark to increase uneasiness for the player.

The engines

The engines are the enemies of the game. They don't have any dialogue as they've all gone nearly fully insane and feral, practically animals at this point. So good luck begging them to stop, your pleas will fall on deaf ears.

But they're not evil! They're just hungry...I promise. The hunger is strong, so powerful that it hurts. They are just as innocent as you...

The engines are so hungry that they don't want a friendly chat. You smell...so good, every fleshy creature they find smells so sweet...so divine...so delicious. Looks like you've got some massive mouths to feed, Sir.

They stalk around the darkness, looking for something to eat, somewhere to sleep, somewhere to be free. Sodor has recently been gathering a lot of dark clouds, making everywhere dark, but they don't mind at all. Too much brightness hurts their eyes.

You'll know who and where they are, just listen for the blast of a whistle or the honk of a horn.

[spc-rambles]

"Why does my mummy call your mummy baby girl?"

"I don't know."

[ladychandraofthemoone]

For you

Also 3 Questions for Stanley

1: have you got to meet your siblings before? Like the trench engine Davenport

2: do you ever wish you could visit your other home in the states?

3: if you could be rebuilt into any engine you want what would it be?

Stanley: oh?! For…for me….uh…heh thank you I think?(I don’t know why you bother, I’m boring…). Well starting off, I was one of 495 locomotives in the class to be built and I was immediately sent off overseas though I was not in a serviceable condition(guess that where my rotten luck began…the moment where I was bulit)… so I had to be fixed in a workshop which took over a month, that’s where I received my.. my first firing..

(perhaps that where my rotten luck began…I shouldn’t have been built in the first place)..

As a result , I never got to meet my “siblings”, especially this “Davenport fellow”…though from what I’ve hear of some went sent to other countries and railways like Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Morocco 🇲🇦,Australia 🇦🇺 and India 🇮🇳(Kyle…he said he would take me to India 🇮🇳…I miss him) though I do have brothers in the form of Luke, we love talking about anything if we get the time too and… tired sigh… Andreas, Stuart and Falcon, I love them but…grumpy grouchy eldest sibling sigh..and the last two are mean’t to be older than me…

I’m… torn on visiting the states as I must admit.. I don’t have any feelings or connections to that place that automatically sent me off to a new country to fight in the exact same year I was built and especially the flaws that place has though from what Miss Ruth told me about her hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as long as the others come with me they’ll maybe one day I’ll visit but for now I’m content with just staying here 

As for the last question… I… I wish wished I was rebuilt in any engine that wouldn’t..just screw up everything…anything would be better than me…perhaps an engine built by the Hunslet Engine Company like Nia and Freddie…as long as it’s not standard gauge (I’m… I’m terrified to think about what he would’ve done to me….) though I wish I was built in and for India 🇮🇳, maybe then….maybe then Kyle and I would’ve been together (I would’ve protected him better)

[sudriantraveler]

Bleak Midwinter

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Dear Friends, Skarloey and Rheneas have run their line for many years. They have seen it all, through good times and bad times. This is a story from when their railway was on its last wheels, and the hardships of winter were taking a toll on Rheneas in particular. The Author

I hope you all enjoy reading this. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year.

[ladychandraofthemoone]

Monster Engine Infection/Virus AU Rambles Stankyle Angst:

Yep, I’ve joined the bandwagon basically Kyle gets released from the lamp with the organization’s “assistance” though they had their own plans and made Kyle “patient 0” well for the narrow gauge engines and dumped him nearby the skarloey railway after he attempted to escape where he was then found recused and reunited with Stanley who’s is overjoyed and immediately keeps him updated one everything that has happened, weeks to a month pass and Kyle is settling in nicely Stanley has done all he can to help him recover to the point that the older engines had to tell him to take a break cause he’s overworking himself (guy wants to impress Kyle so bad he’s got it bad)

Then one day after having to handle people and differing them about “proteus” he falls “ill” at the same time some of the standard and miniature engines fall “ill” Stanley is understandably nervous and worried for Kyle often staying up late into the night keeping Kyle company who seems to be getting worse each passing day…

The currently skarloey railway manager, Sir Handel Hans Brown understands Stanley’s feelings and lets him stay though it’s the older engines mainly Duke and Nia gently yet firmly convincing him that Kyle wouldn’t want to see him running himself down to the ground as he’s doing both of their jobs.

So for the first time in what felt like ages Stanley leaves Kyle on his own devices in the shed with Kyle’s encouragement of course it getting hard to smile and remain confident in himself but he hold his grin till Stanley is out of view…

So when Stanley returns as quickly as he can worried but hopeful he finds the shed doors closed which is odd Kyle always wants them open even in rainy or snowy weather he hasn’t experienced it in 50 years

“Hey Kyle I’m back,sorry it took so long-…” So his driver and fireman,Benji and Charlie, Ruth’s apprentices who Stanley watched grow up after Ruth took him in before he went to the mid-sodor railway open the doors..,

It’s dark..there’s a strong stretch none of them can place..but over in the corner hunched over…something..Stanley could make out the familiar shape of Kyle..a nagging sense of dread filled his boiler as Stanley prayed to the Lady above that this wasn’t real..

“Kyle?”

Golden eyes turned to his names, no they’re not Kyle’s warm honey brown eyes they’re now more feline-like with bright red silts and golden irises and matching light sclera, sparkling ✨ glittering ✨ golden tears dripping from them and his mouth…

“K-Kyle?..” it was then he finally noticed what Kyle was…chewing at…ripping up..or what remained of a certain B12 that was their former supervisor..

Alfred…

Everyone throughout the entire railway was alerted to the sounds of Stanley’s gut wrenching screams of absolute sadness and terror, Benji and Charlie screamed too but not as loudly as Stanley as people workman and any nearby engines rushed over to contain Kyle who was reaching out a clawed?paw?hand?engines don’t have fur engines don’t have hands towards Stanley…

“S-Stan?” Minutes before Stanley screamed, Kyle managed to mutter a “run…please…” trying so hard to keep his new instincts,his urges but finally gave in as he became aware of the horrified looks and shouts from everyone ,their pointed fingers and some of them holding… no he won’t be trapped anymore, he won’t let them trap him…

Without thinking he lunged towards the first thing he saw coming towards him,being Duke, Nia,Skarloey,Rheneas, Charlie and Benji..Stanley now realizing what he has done immediately rolled forward towards him calling out for him as Kyle turned his attention to Stanley....

like god the feels and how everyone gotta be handling this especially Stanley considering he nearly loses an eye (he and Thomas have eye trauma here and Kyle is either directly or indirectly involved…) gotta do a follow-up post on this and maybe art…

[ladychandraofthemoone]

Is Carly still a crane in your headcanon?

Yes, she’s a rail tie/railway crane in my au (photo from the industry-railway suppliers, inc.) a kershaw 12-12 tie crane built around 1985-1993. She works alongside Sandy who both are owned by the Crovan’s Gate Works more specifically by Dr Ruth Bell on the maintenance trains laying down rail sleepers while cleaning up the tracks with Harvey.