The Sodor Retirement Home
All the characters in my AU who were on or near Sodor pre-NWR era.
Featuring (from left to right starting from the top):
The three (later just Niel) Sodor and Mainland box tanks, the first steam engines on Sodor. Numbers 1 and 3 were eventually scrapped, but Neil survived and now resides at the Ulfstead Preservation Estate
The Tidmouth, Knapford, Elsbridge Light Railway Coffeepots: Ethel, the 4 vertical boiler engines and Five. Ethel was the first, then replaced by the 4 vertical boilers after she gave out, Five joined later, all were designed by Sir Topham Hatt and are now restored
Great Waterton Tramway No. 1, a vertical boiler tram commissioned from Sir Topham Hatt
Ada of the Wellsworth and Suddery Railway, a spare engine thrown together in the early days and later abandoned, now restored
Jill of the Misty Island Logging Railway, the smallest and fastest of the Logging Locos
(Former, now scrapped) Great Waterton Tramway No. 3, destroyed in the Great Waterton Bombing of WWII, then scrapped
Wellsworth and Suddery Railway No. 1, 2, and 4
Great Waterton Tramway No. 2, a heavily modified tramway version of a Terrier A1x, with his front axle replaced with an unpowered axle to shorten wheelbase and increase fuel economy
Bash, Dash, Ferdinand, and Jacob of the Misty Island Logging Railway, all very slow logging engines
Louis of the Tidmouth Harbor Company, an American import who still works the harbor now
Mildred of the Tidmouth Wellsworth and Suddery Railway, an underpowered prototype "Fishbelly" Class
Ptah of the Rail Operating Division, later the War Department, left Sodor in 1931 and was either destroyed or scrapped during WWII
Aubrey of the Furness Railway, later the North Western Railway, primarily stationed in Barrow but later moved to Vicarstown
Joeseph of the Tidmouth Wellsworth and Suddery Railway, originally Wellsworth and Suddery No. 3, converted into a tender engine
Chester and Millicent of the Reed-Hogtram Tramway, working as public transit in Vicarstown city and station
Ethel's old tramway coach, later converted into a shed housing for a pumping engine
Edward of the Furness Railway, later the North Western Railway, now runs the Brendham Branch
Cromsley of the Ulfstead Mining Company, which was abandoned in 1901, and he now resides at the Ulfstead Preservation Estate
Old Slow Coach, a Great Western clerestory brake coach, one of the first big coaches on Sodor and now the Express brake coach
Gary of the Tidmouth Wellsworth and Suddery Railway, originally an Addams Radial tank engine, converted into a tender engine
Ethel's old bogie coach, now converted into a normal branchline coach
Finally posting my art feels really good! looking forward to posting more
