TTTE Real Life Counterparts
Thomas is based on this tank engine in real life...
What is an LB&SCR E2?
This engine was the very first character created throughout the entire TTTE franchise...
Who is Edward the Blue Engine?
This book was the 19th book of the RWS, and had none of its stories adapted for the TVS...
What is Mountain Engines?
This character was the first CGI Series ONLY character in T&F...
Who is Hiro the Japanese Engine?
This character was the first AEG ONLY character in the 2021 reboot...
Who is Sandy the Rail-Speeder?
This engine is an actual engine from the LNER in real life and carries the number "4472"...
Who is The Flying Scotsman?
This character is one of the few characters in the franchise to NOT TECHNICALLY be based on any locomotive in real life...
Who is Percy the Small Engine?
This book was the last book of the RWS, it was the 42nd book of the RWS, and it got published in 2011...
What is Thomas and his Friends?
This movie was considered the best Thomas movie ever in the T&F timeline, and it came out in 2015...
What is Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure?
This movie, was the first movie in the AEG timeline, and it came out in late 2021...
What is Race for the Sodor Cup?
Donald and Douglas are fictional add-on members of their actual class in the RWS, which are Caledonian Class 828's, before they came to Sodor, having carried the numbers "57646", and "57647", but are ACTUALLY based on this engine in real life...
What are Caledonian Class 652's?
This engine was the only narrow gauge engine from the RWS NOT to make an appearance in the TVS...
Who is Ivo Hugh the New Little Engine?
This book was the last book of the RWS to be published by Wilbert Awdry before his son Christopher took over, and it was the 26th book of the RWS...
What is Tramway Engines?
In the RWS, Tidmouth is where the big terminal station where all the trains depart, however, in the TVS, while Tidmouth does still have it's own station, it's not where the big terminal station is located. Where is it located in T&F?...
What is Knapford Station?
This location in AEG, where the crazy and steep mountain is...
What is Cannonball Curve?
This engine is an actual engine in real life who works on the Bluebell Railway and carries the number "55". He was the first engine to escape to the Bluebell Railway and the only real engine IN THE MODEL SERIES to be named...
Who is Stepney the Bluebell Engine?
This engine is based on the L&YR Class 28's with the added pony truck at the front, while there were blueprints made of them, they got cancelled and never made the version with the pony truck added to the front of them. Which engine is a fictional member of this class?
Who is James the Red Engine?
This book explained how Skarloey and Rheneas first came to Sodor when they were young. This was also the 20th book of the RWS...
What is Very Old Engines?
This episode of T&F was considered the spookiest and most popular Thomas episode in the TVS...
What is Duncan Gets Spooked?
This engine in AEG was the first international engine from the original T&F series to return in AEG...
Who is Yong Bao the Chinese Engine?
Edward is one of the few engines in the TTTE franchise to be built in the 19th century, having been built in 1896, and is based on this engine in real life...
What is an FR K2 Seagull Class?
This engine is currently the oldest surviving engine on Sodor and works on the SKR...
Who is Skarloey the Little Old Engine?
This book was the last book of the RWS to be published in the 20th century. It was the 40th book of the RWS, and was published in 1996...
What is New Little Engine?
This episode, was the last episode to be based on a story from the RWS IN THE MODEL SERIES...
What is Mind That Bike?
These engines are strictly used as background characters only in AEG, they're from the original T&F series, and they are currently the only engines to be background characters in AEG...
Who are Edward the Blue Engine and Henry the Green Engine?