Realistic Death & Injury Count on Sodor (S1-7)
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- I got the idea to do this after posting a tweet. With being stuck at home due to the Coronavirus, I'll probably be adding some more things to this channel, both serious and stupid. This is inspired by many videos I've seen such as "Everything Wrong With" or Realistic Injuries in Home Alone. This is purely parody and fair use. Not for children.
"Hi I'd like to purchase some life insurance."
"Yes now where do you live?"
"Sodor."
"Our basic life insurance package costs $100 000 per year..."
BestAverageGaming nah, they pay you if you survive
Camelback Studios Or their families in the event of death.
100K a day!
Sodor is between the isle of man and the uk so thats free healthcare you oblivious foreigner
D'oh!!!
Everyone jokes about the line "luckily no one was hurt" but I've never seen someone dedicate a whole video to the innacuracies in it. I like this.
And there’s probably way more In the “new” and cgi series
@@sobblefan8220 Nah there will prob be less crashes in the reboot than CGI and MODEL series
Yeah
@@sobblefan8220 Because its a true baby show now
@@seardadsdasd yea because Thomas and friends was a true adult experience.
Awdry's Ghost just called, he wants to shake your hand..
It's worth noting that the episodes in the first four seasons were all adapted from the books, so a lot of these crashes are Awdry's own doing.
Furious Sherman season three
@@furioussherman7265 Well, most of them
Is that his hand I'm seeing push Henry into the Flying Kipper?
The crashes from Series 1-4 are from stories written by Rev. Awdry, and he got them from real-life events in his own research. So I would think that the survival of persons in these accidents is realistic.
I love the slight chuckle in his voice as he describes each terrible accident. Delightful
Gotta make a video on the perils and deaths (alleged) of Thomas and friends SH
Hello, Shrouded Hand. Everyone here.
WTF SHROUDED HAND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HEAR
To be fair, some of us have a shocked type of laughter/chuckle that it’s not even funny. The type of shock that everyone would mistaken you’d find the craziest s**t funny.
pretty bad goof
*"Go steady, the Van's breaking."*
"And those would be the Guard's last words."
After being crushed to death
That's assuming that the guard didn't jump before the van went to pieces.
2:11 That would make for an interesting new "grittier better remake" of Thomas featured in current year.
The people in the Le Mans disaster except go fast the cars breaking then those fans last words
He DID jump out! That one probably shouldn’t have been counted.
I imagine locomotive insurance is a very profitable business on Sodor........
Austin love you Sam s. Trains
Do as a certain Welsh narrow gauge line did, for many, many years - they ran without any insurance at all, and were "always very careful"!
I can only imagine that all the sodor rail workers would be constantly protesting and striking since they most likely have no union protecting them from a complete lack of workplace safety measures and no health coverage since no one would be willing to insure workers in an extremely hazard-prone industry where people die and get injured like it was the steel mills of the late 19th century
Yep it must be lucrative
That or the fat Controller workers insurance policies are threw the roof
Victor Tanzig put it best:
Thomas: What’s the railway safety record on Sodor?
Terence: You don’t want to know...
Yeah, that's a fitting assessment.
Blue Eclipse 395 Imagine how rich the execs at the Sodor life insurance center are
Stepney Bulstrode Their safes are probably bursting at the seams.
Blue Eclipse 395 The amount of money in their banks has more zeros than the number of people who die in these crashes
Stepney Bulstrode Oh, definitely.
“Luckily, no one was hurt”
*35 deaths later...*
But they were killed.
That's the joke.
Basically.
Turbo711 they weren’t hurt. Hurting is pain. So due to the inertia they would die instantly
That could be higher, 35 is just the amount of fatal accidents
2:36 I remember her line being “you miserable engine. Look what you’ve done to our breakfast. Now I will have to cook some more!” Really, the ruined breakfast is your biggest inconvenience? Not the tank engine sized hole in your house that will cost thousands of dollars and weeks to repair?
also, do you have ANY idea as to how big E2s are??
Fuckin chonky tank
That makes me laugh 😃
Dollars?
She really gets mad cuz the breakfast was ruined? Man, that lady and her family should be mad because they almost died
@@ILoveSuperVideoGames That's the joke 😅
The stationmaster house crash never ceases to amuse me with the wife’s nonchalant scolding, plus the original book saying that the stationmaster grimly switching Thomas off.
Those attitudes really indicate that crashing trains on Sodor are not a bug, they’re a feature.
By switching Thomas off, you mean closing the steam valves, or extinguishing the firebox, or releasing all steam pressure?
Maybe she was just being sarcastic to contain herself. She almost lost her life with her family and now has extensive damage done to her home!
TV Show: “Luckily no one was hurt.”
Reality: “I don’t think so.”
Tv: Luckily no one was hurt
Reality: every one was hurt
Let’s be honest with the amount of incidents on sodor if anyone actually got hurt the railway would a be shut down or b eventually run out of workers these trains used to crash like twice a week on a good week
tell me about it
If someone did get hurt, they would sue the railway.
I almost read that in Obi-Wan voice.
*Oh I don't think so*
At this point, the Fat Controller probably has a cloning facility for railway workers.
Sodor Wars: Attack of the Clones
RedRabbit 1987 “It’s over Percy, I have the high ground!”
"You underestimate my power!"
(That's actually Revenge of the Sith BTW)
RedRabbit 1987 (Ah crap.) “Don’t try it.”
*jumps(?)* AAAAA
"Luckily noone was hurt"
Me as a kid: Yay!! Everyone's safe!!
Me now: .....Yeeeeaaaaaaahh
Yeah, now that I saw real scale accidents on the news I know that if this were real there would be lots of injuries and deaths.
lol
a 12 year old after watching this: I wonder how my parents allow me to watch so much death
Turquoise Screen agree
Show: "Luckily, no one was hurt."
Reality: "A 1000 ways to die."
“So many 1000 ways to die”
More like "A million ways to die on Sodor".
More like 999 quintillion ways to die
More like "Infinite Ways to Die".
Ironically, the reason there weren't any more Culdee Fell Railway stories in the Railway Series (and thus they never appeared in the TV show) was because the mountain railroad was "too safe", meaning little chance for "drama".
*O h m y g o d*
And making TV models of them would have been impossible!
That’s fair enough since the crashes are one of the best things about the Thomas franchise.
I mean also that and Godred being horrendously killed off
Godred 💀💀💀
i love how the drivers and firemen always manage to jump out of a speeding train without any injuries and then sir topham hatt always blames the engines not the drivers
They are probably well trained in escaping and landing on rough ground
Tyreek Murillo It doesn't make sense to me since the drivers control the engines
@@florjanbrudar692 I know Right
@@florjanbrudar692 actually the engines control themselves
@@vincentikuomola2946 The engines can presumably control themselves but need crew for assistance
If it weren’t for “Luckily no one was hurt” being said all the time, this would be a good example of showcasing human fragility.
It's actually worth noting that in addition to being stupidly fragile. Humans are also stupidly durable. Utterly pathetic things that almost litteraly any other creature on earth would consistently come out of just fine cause major injuries or death with alarming frequency... But that the same time humans frequently walk off, or at least make fill recoverys with treatment from, mishaps that would be instantly fatal to near on anything else that wasn't so small that it would be functionally experiencing an entirely different accident.
And most of both sides of that can be traced back to the advantages and limitations of the human brain and bipedal locomotion and the structures and systems needed to support both.
A surprisingly high number of the deaths listed in this video would actually be survived with little or no injury (though the deaths by Crushing would almost invariably be fatal unless exceptional luck resulted in the individual getting off with a seveare maiming instead), though obviously not all of them, due to a combination of the above and the video's creator overestimating the speeds and hazards involved.
Likewise, while many of the presumed injuries would be just that, a surprisingly large number would actually be a coin flip between "effectively unharmed" and "flat out dead" depending on exactly how things played out, with the in-between state of significant injury actually not all that likely.
If Thomas was rated R, episodes like Thomas and the Breakdown Train, The Flying Kipper, and A Better View for Gordon would be scarier than episodes like Thomas, Percy and the Dragon, Haunted Henry, and Percy and the Haunted Mine.
Yes.
@That Little blue tank engine also most likely injured/dead
Nobody:
Not even a single controller:
Thomas and Friends: *_Peace was never an option_*
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@@AngryProtoBoi I'm the 70th liker
@@plush-voltage8178I'm the 135th liker
@@AngryProtoBoi What's so special about 69 likes
4:13 Henry & The Elephant
4:25 Fish
4:36 Cranky Bugs
4:52 Horrid Lorry
5:11 A Better View For Gordon
5:34 Lady’s Hatt Birthday Party
5:46 Bye George
5:59 Put Upon Percy
6:12 Something In The Air
6:27 Thomas Percy & Old Slowcoach
6:42 Thomas And The Rumors
3:58 "I'd also worry about his male equipment getting messed up if he landed on Duke's funnel instead." That left laughing HARD!!!
He’d be screaming like a little girl.
Ouch!
Bro nearly fell on the funnel!
When we watched this show as children, we never realized the severity of the accidents because they deceived us with the infamous line, “Luckily, no one was hurt.” Anyway, this was an awesome video.
Not exactly. Even as a kid, I always was amazed at how they're euphemized.
Thomas & Friends: "Luckily, no one was hurt"
Final Destination: "Am I a joke to you?"
yes
Better translation: Allow me to introduce myself.
You can't be hurt when you're dead
If Thomas's driver and fireman have been killed or injured multiple times, I wonder how many driver and firemen Thomas has had throughout the entire show....
Sir. Topham hat:"Thats the 93rd body I've had to clone this month"
Has to be more than a pair anyway since the show takes place over several decades of the 20th century; hell, over the course of the story there's been three Topham Hatts because their fathers keep doing that "aging" thing.
Oh God let's not think of that
thomas would likely no longer even be sentient from the crashes hes been in
Yeah! This is only the first 7 seasons!
0:56 In the original book story, the three men WERE still in the brake van when Henry hit it and instead of dying, they got fired out of it like a bunch of Jack-in-the-boxes and landed in the snow.
Rather than being relieved that sheer dumb luck saved them from death, one of the men decided to scold Henry for ruining his cup of cocoa.
That's not meant to be taken seriously
You’d be pissed too if you had a really good cup of cocoa but a steam trains made you spill it
In the episode, the men did manage to get out just in time
@@zacharykim5596 The driver and fireman did. The guard isn't mentioned.
YEET!
I love how his voice often wavers and sounds like he's on the verge of laughter, while describing people getting killed
Children’s show: “Luckily no one was hurt.”
The real world: “I’m about to end this mans whole career!”
Literally.
Fuck his career the real world's taking their whole life.
@@jackswan3420 indeed!
It's probably just me, but I think that maybe TTTE (Model railway one) was more for grown up kids, like around 6-10, rather than like 2-4
@@dbzboi8389 nah. People just think "childish = safe".
How the railway has managed to pass health and safety inspections, I’ll never know. Oh wait, I forgot. In the world of Thomas there is no such thing as health and safety inspections.
There were. Sir Topham had them dealt with.
@@SgtChip Like any big industrialist railroad tycoon, you can bet that The Fat Controller had his share of regulators and politicians paid for in his pocket.
Sit Topham Hatt probably lets the health and safety inspectors choose their own bribe
ladies and gentleman, welcome to the Island of Sodor. Your all doomed.
Or, what would you like your gravestone to look like... no reason.
(okay the last one was a stretch XD)
Henry’s Forest would like to say hello.
Up until recently, I've never realized how FATAL many of these accidents would be to the crew...
Anybody else have the same feeling?
@AI Iv same. Taking off the Nostalgia Googles really paint things in a different light.
For example, if the crew of the goods train Henry crashed into had remained in the brakevan, Henry would have crushed them to death.
Yep
I would say the same thing as you
The driver of 1996 canyon pass did survive after the half the train derailed...
Most of the early incidents from the books were based on real events so you could look up the actual events and find out what the casualties were. The Flying Kipper for instance was based on the 1876 Abbots Ripton rail disaster where the Flying Scotsman collided at full speed with a coal train and derailed. Nobody is believed to have died in the initial accident but a second passenger train later crashed into the train from the other direction resulting in 13 deaths
I mean, those would be helpful. Even Gordon’s Better View crash in season 5 was based on a real crash.
Percy’s promise was based on a real story and people did die in that instance
0:13 "Help Mommy! The man is touching me like daddy does at home!"
Like if you get the reference!
George carlin
Yeah! George Carlin!
"lUcKiLy, nO oNe wAs hUrT"
John Cena "Are you sure about that?"
@@Ladybuggames his name is Josh. Doz
@@amandastill5124 I know! That was a Replie of what John Cena Was saying here's a link ua-cam.com/video/oHC1230OpOg/v-deo.html
You know how people in comment sections of movies with a train scene say,"Luckily no one was hurt". Apparently they never gave Thomas a second thought.
@@harrisonofcolorado8886 yeah...........
The crashes in real life : death
The people in the actual show : tis but a scratch
A _scratch?_ Your arm's off!
I’ve had worse.
Crimson Dynamo You liar!
It’s just a flesh wound
The crashes in real life can cause death but not always. People can be badly hurt instead. The crashes in the actual Thomas The Tank Engine Show: Nope nothing but a scratch.
Narrator: lucky no one was hurt
Me: but what about the laws of physics?
Narrator: NO ONE WAS HURT
Everyone on Sodor has to have good life insurance.
Not a chemist, but I did take chemistry in Year 12. Lime is mostly made of calcium oxide/hydroxide. Hydroxides are highly caustic, so inhaling lime is going to cause a lot of damage to the crew's lungs, possibly killing them.
"Luckily, no one was hurt...
*April Fools! Gordon's fireman went into cardiac arrest and his driver's femur was broken."*
ROFLMAO
Yes
Thomas' Drivers: Those are rookie numbers.
@@jackswan3420 OH MY GOD-
I actually caught myself laughing at April Fools! Gordon's Fireman went into cardiac arrest and his driver's femur was broken.
This is the most clever thing I’ve watched in a while
Surprising seeing you here
Make a video about this James!!! I'd love to see it!!
Oh wow :D James "is here"
Edit: *PUN INTENDED.*
Hello James
Hello james
0:53 Casey Jones fireman Sim Webb jumped while the train was going about 75mph and besides being knocked unconscious from the jump only sustained body bruises. Granted he crouched down before jumping played into his survival and lack of injury. I think it largely depends how someone impacts the ground is what determines how injured some one will be after bailing out of a speeding train.
Casey jones him self holded the brake during that same crash. In the end he him self died in the crash but he did managed to prevent worse.
Casey jones. Always in the hearts of many train enthusiasts (me included)
Yeah, he saved the lives of EVERYONE ELSE INVOLVED! That man died A FUCKING HERO!
2:26 Imagine trying to enjoy a quiet breakfast with your family and THAT face comes crashing through your walls
“Hullo”
“WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!”
“Stupid Bastard Ruined My Breakfast”
I'd like to see a sequel about the realistic chances of the _engines_ surviving these situations.
On a different subject, I never realized Edward was an articulated engine design.
What? Hes a 4-4-0 the front wheels are not drivers they're just to provide suport
Yup, and the reboot one. Yes! This is what could have been if the trains meet their sufferings of violent crash instead the characters like Thomas will be very badly hurt even more.
I love how Oliver just agrees with you that at least one of the children would be sucked out and killed.
Or badly injured.
Percy’s crew wasn’t even in him in the loading ramp scene.
There are more accidents considering Seasons 8 onwards
Sodor is more dangerous than I thought. Clearly STH doesn't know what he's doing
"You've caused confusion and delay."
Never mind that, what about death and dismemberment?
Yes.
6:12 Believe it or not, this is one of the few times that jumping clear may actually save your life. Right as you’re going to hit the water, stand at the back of Henry’s Cab or on his Tender and jump in the water.
What I've learned so far. The humans in this show all have the strength of a terminator.
lmao
That actually made me laugh.
10:41, what about the people inside the factory when Percy went through it? With no warning of a train crashing through the wall with enough speed to reach the other side, I'd imagine multiple people would have either died or been seriously injured.
Yeah. He would've run down anyone in his path. There would've been quite a few screams.
Who builds a chocolate factory at the end of a railway line at the bottom of a hill anyway??
@@gregkiteos1936 mr. jolly does
Maybe someone fell in the hot chocolate and died
And who put the barbershop at the end of a buffer
12:31 I like how toad just pulls up like "sup guys"
Sunrise Spartan to funny XD lmafo
Me when i see the last kit-kat in the frige
Sliding into them DMs like
Toad the British cop at 12:31: hElLO hELLo hElLO
12:31 me when mom says the guests are gone
11:06 Diesel's scream
5:13 In reality, the train indeed crushed towards the lower level of the station, and it caused 1 death of a pedestrian passing by the scene below the chaos. It caused several injuries among the passengers (minor) , crews (minor) , and the people in the station (serious and minor) as well as damages to the station. It was one of the most famous rail accident in Paris and France besides the accident during the 1990s in another terminus in Paris involving a commuter express train and a local commuter train.
5:15 "well Gordon, i knew you wanted a paranomic view, but this is not the way to approve it
Your talking about the Montparnasse derailment right? (In the movie Hugo they made a perfect replica of the crash). Indeed a woman who was waiting for someone got crushed by falling masonry
I never realized that Sodor was such an accident prone death trap!
I suggest a thorough safety investigation and that Sir Topham Hat gets taken to court on account of his gross negligence for someone in a leadership role.
0:55 reminds me of the 1996 runaway train where two of the three crewmen jumped out. One died after hitting a rock while the other died after being exposed to the toxic fire as a result of the train derailment. The third crew member stayed on the train and survived.
0:55 reminds me of the 1994 Cajon Pass Runaway
Where a ATSF intermodel hit an UP Coal
@@shirleypelham "UP Helpers, CUT OFF POWER!"
That Brake Van one made me think. In the Railway Series book, it was clearly stated that the guard managed to jump clear before Douglas smashed the van. However in the TV adaption no such mention is made, presumably for time constraints.
So now with that mention no longer in the story, it makes the scene 10 times more darker than it was before!
Yes.
10:22 Are we forgetting the poor guard still in the break van, probably having manhole injuries broken bones or likely death because he would be standing because of no seats in the break van
But in the flying kipper. There are seats in the break van
And with all of these hard stop impacts, one could have a body part thrust into the firebox if the door was open. Read an acount of a derail in Canada where the engineer's whole arm went inside the firebox momentarily, prevented from instant charring only by the full arm leather glove he wore.
He had to of still been burned. Also this reminds me of when my mom worked at McDonald’s and the maintenance guy had a seizure and his arm landed in the deep fryer and someone grabbed him and pulled him out but his arm was burnt pretty bad. He kept the arm at least, although the manager wouldn’t let them call 911 for an ambulance so the other maintenance guy wrapped his arm in a damp rag and took him to the hospital in the bag of his van.
Notice how the fatalities skyrocket in Season 6...
Yea
Considece I think NOT
@@callummckeand1909 coincidence*
@@zavaraninoveuhorky opps
Tim Cliffe What about the 5th series?
'Bye George'
5:47 Accident 1: Yeah, if there was anyone in the barn, they'd most likely be dead. Not sure about the crew, but maybe they'd be paralysed?
5:54 Accident 2: Probably whiplash.
'Twin Trouble'
9:37 Accident 2: Crew would get badly injured, maybe a concussion?
5:56 Gordon forced it….. STAR WARS
Um yes they would be paralyzed in Accident 1. They would have suffered whiplash in Accident Two. Also yeah in Twin Trouble Crew would get badly injured. Possibly concussion if not paralyzed.
And if the crew was an unlucky enough to fall out of donald's(or was it Douglas') cab, which is likely since both of the twins have open cabs, they would cut them selfs on the scrap metal or fall onto the tender and sufocate on the coal
@@the_birb23it was Donald.
So the drivers that jumped out of Crovan and Alfred’s cab basically died right?
Considering they jumped out of engines that were traveling at high speed and most likely landed on concrete, yeah, most likely.
@@mercury7590 And the same when Daisy's driver fell out of her cap
Pretty much ye
Um not necessarily.
"Luckily no one was hurt." Thomas thought to himself. While unbeknownst to him a mere five feet away his driver laid face down in a ditch neck clearly broken and also bleeding from several large wounds.
1:00 we had that on VHS. As a kid I loved watching that scene in particular, I just generally loved collisions.
Thank you
I'm not the only one who thinks some of these crashes would either have some people SEVERELY injured or even dead
Like in the Something in the Air crash was I the only who thought of the idea driver and fireman were washed out of Henry's cab or even dead when I first saw it when I was 8
(Also can you do a review on Season 7 since I know Theunluckytug did his thoughts but I'm as curious as a cat to know your thoughts & that season was a huge nostalgic one for me seeing them between season 8 episodes on PBS kids)
If there are Insurance Companies on Sodor, they're in SERIOUS financial peril from all the payouts!
And if there are Accident Lawyers, they're going to make a FORTUNE!
RIP Unlucky Tug
@@user-sd7qo7qe4v what happened to him?
Harrison La time traveler
He left UA-cam
Moussa Mains Roy I’ll consider it. S7 was weird for me cuz they put a few episodes on DVD in 2004 with the original music and then the rest didn’t air for like 2-3 years after, which at that point I had grown out of Thomas. Generally I feel like I like S7 a lot more than most fans.
Every accident and injury: MY LEG!!!
My Leg!!!
Lets not forget *My Eyes*
Vinyl Stash lol oh my god 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Spongebob
Someone please edit that.
@@BCRivers lol ask Thomas1Edward2Henry3 for permission lol
"Male Equipment" LMAOOO. This is just awesome
Hit to the crotch
I wonder many times the guy had to rehearse that without bursting with laughter.
Imagine getting nutted by a train
@@Kuriboh1008 Yeah imagine that
@@seardadsdasd yikes
9:44 the way diesel said "heeeeelllllp!"
*hEeEeEeElLlLlLlLlLpPpPpPpP*
9:43
This is a much more dramatic series then I, an American in my early mid 20’s, would think a children’s toy mascot would have. Granted shows were just made differently back in the day.
TV Producers: How much miraculous escapes do you need?
Rev. W. Awdry: Yes
This is like: "doctors break down movies"
I feel like all of the crashes would make all of the engines look like bumper cars by bashing into buffers, rolling stock and other engines
Furthermore speaking of realism, I recently decided to update Sir T hatt III in my series for season 3 since I did the math of how old he currently is (He's 79) by added visible veins & wrinkles on his face.
why you liking my theroies?
0:54 That's why, just before the crash, George Carlin narrates "They got out just in time".
Not in the RWS. He was thinking about how the other engine's fireman was complaining about his spilt cocoa (despite nearly losing his life). So it's different in the two series.
Breakvans guard would stay
I used to watch that all the time as a kid, not thinking for a second about the severity of the seemingly hilarious rail accidents. Crazy to think now that the consequences wouldn't be half as benign as I thought they would as a kid.
“Male equipment”. Good one...
I’d like to point out that that man in the Railway Series was the fat clergyman, aka Teddy Boston, a good friend of Wilbert Awdry. And in the Railway Series, he literally landed on dukes boiler legs astride. Yeah.
T1E2H3: With the open coaches and no seatbelts, I imagine one of the children would fall out in which going at that speed would likely kill them.
Oliver: *YEEES!*
LOL, and here is the part of the video: 12:17
12:25
Can we get T1E2H3 on the main show as a writer? He seems to know more about these accidents than anyone who wrote the show before EVER did...
I agree
They probably did know but it's a kids show so describing Henry's driver having his spine come out through his rectum or something wouldn't be appropriate, trust me I wish they could say that though.
I HATE HIM TO DEATH!
Ok dude! You had me cracking up! Don't forget too that the crate also had the same chance of falling on Sir Topham Hatt or one of the passenger's heads just as it did with Percy.
I loved this video
Though I kinda hope there’s a sequel with a crew number injury and death count, based off the realistic crew number counts of the different engines.
I'd love to see something similar, but concerning the cost of each accident. I think that is enough to bankrupt even Jeff Bezos.
It depends on how many industries the Hatt family owns or at least have a controlling share in them. Assuming that they only have assets on Sodor and not anywhere else.
Did i hear the same recording of the word "coal" in the middle engine part? Thats great detail!
Hi
What you pointed out about Percy on the tipper had an error. Percy's crew had already left the cab before he was pushed on.
There’d still be an accident.
Since the trucks were light when going up, they stay down on the tracks.
Since Percy is so heavy, he wouldn’t stick to the tracks or however you say it, *he’d fall into the coal hopper, and if engines have lungs, that would be the end for him- oh wait, he’s been buried in coal before and been absolutely fine.*
Everybody making fun of “luckily no one was hurt” but being flung from the cab of a tank engine is just as unrealistic
4:52
I don't know why but this crash always makes me burst out laughing
Narrator: Luckily, no-one was hurt.
Me as a child: Oh, thank God!
Me at 21 years old when I see this video and look back at these episodes' crashes: My God! Is this for real?!
I'm afraid it is
They must have had to hire a lot of railroad workers/crew members for the trains, and when they hear the tales from previous crew members, they would probably start to rethink things.
I was looking for someone to make this video! Finally someone does it!
So Was I.
I laughed when you mentioned the crash in Percy’s Chocolate Crunch
Why
0:50 To be fair, if I remember correctly; the breakvan crew had cleared out before Henry arrived, but I would chalk up 2 by 2 Fatal or Injured here also since it's not always a sure thing if jumping from Henry before the collision, they would avoid the derailing cars behind.
I can’t take some of these crashes seriously. The ghost train falling in the water was so funny to me 😭
Something I want to do is to actually research is the realistic chance of the crew surviving in these accidents. You also got to take into account what actually happened in the RWS vs the TVS vs real life. For example, when Thomas runs into the stationmaster's house, in the RWS he's maybe going 15 mph at most, he then travels across a road, through a fence, a garden, and then a house. Given that the garden is likely a flower bed based on some illustrations, that very slight gradient could slow Thomas down, then there's the house itself. The house likely had a combination of a wood and steel as a frame as that house was likely financed by the NWR for the stationmaster to live in.
You can see why I'm so keen on researching this since Awdry based a lot of accidents in real life, it isn't always as simple as what appears to be.
Another example is the 1886 Paris train crash. That accident caused only one death, and that was a woman selling flowers/newspapers on the street below, so not even the people in the station, the crew or guard got injured. So its likely Gordon's crash didn't even result in death, but just injuries.
That aside, I loved the video. Funny to see how easily someone could've been killed in the show, despite being a show about talking trains with faces. lol
Well done! Greetings from Australia.
A few points I would like to raise:
1. In Special Attraction, the trucks which fell on Bulstrode probably should've either been destroyed like in the RWS namesake story or badly damaged like in the kids' story. Also, what if there were people inside Bulstrode? Surely they would've been thrown around in his cab, paralysing or killing them.
2. In A Surprise for Percy, wouldn't the guard in Percy's caboose have received whiplash from the trucks breaking away?
3. When Scruffey fell apart in Toad Stands By, wouldn't Oliver's crew have received whiplash?
My son said that bulstrode is powered by a controller
@@michiepooh how can he be so sure Bulstrode is remote controlled?
@@LegoWormNoah101 From my son: “wiki”
Unluckily everyone was hurt
This was a very entertaining walk down memory lane, and compliments quite well the video I watched awhile back about how truly dark Tugs was.
For anyone curious: Tugs was sort of a companion show to this one about tugboats instead of trains. A lot of the same crew worked on it.
At 6:25 Henry is taking a piss.
6:40 if the tankers were on fire, they could be at risk of a BLEVE or a certain point where it's beyond it's boiling point (results in a explosion).
I love how for some of them he didn’t even have to say anything
Interesting video. However, I feel the need to de-bunk some of these Possible Injury & Death counts (I'm no scientist or doctor, either). (Excuse the words in full capitols. They're just meant for emphasis given youtube commenting doesn't have a retched italic option)
.Thomas & The Breakdown Train: We don't actually SEE the crash, so James's crew MIGHT have jumped clear before he toppled... They'd still have some injuries.
.Thomas, Terence & The Snow: I can't really de-bunk THIS one... Best guess: The Driver & Firemen caught a glimpse of the pile of snow & braced for impact. The Guard & Passengers on the other hand...
.The Flying Kipper: If we took into account the RWS Text (which I AM, here): Given the footage of the crash here, The way the Brakevan flips up & its roof flying off upon impact gives a SLIM chance of the possibility that the Goods engine Crew & guard flew out & landed (But not without serious injuries) head first in the snow at the side of the line. Even then, it's a bleeding miracle that they survived at-all.
.Dirty Objects: I can't argue with this one.
.Thomas, Percy & The Coal: pretty much spot on. & that is a very important "IF", for Thomas's crew. Thomas WAS RESTING in the siding, so it is likely that his crew were out to lunch.
.Percy takes the Plunge: Another one I can't argue with.
.A Close Shave: It's not clear HOW fast Duck is moving nearing the end of the siding (Ignoring the TV Footage, here)
.Break Van: The RWS text says (& I quote): "The Guard jumped as the van collapsed. He landed safely on the side of the line." (These details aren't stated in the T.V. Series, mainly Because of the tight run-time, but it doesn't necessarily mean they don't happen at-all! Adaptation or otherwise)
.Thomas Comes to Breakfast:
@aJunctionMalfunction has pretty much covered this one...
.Ghost Train: Another guess; Percy's crew saw the cart just in time to brace for impact. As for the Lime in the air, There IS the possibility they covered their faces with a rag/cloth until Percy moved clear of the Impact area.
.A Scarf for Percy: A VERY comedic visual exaggeration! But the flying debris point is still valid. I can't picture very well how the debris would fly out if we took the layout in the RWS Illustration & Text)
.Resource & Sagacity/Oliver Owns Up: Even in the RWS Text, THIS one is more ambiguous. They COULD have jumped out, but there's no solid proof...?
.Percy, James & the Fruitful day: It's a good job that Percy's crew DID jump before impact.
.Henry & the Elephant: Yes, Elephants are dangerous creatures, but The circus trainers might have (with extreme difficulty) taught them not to harm the audience on first glance (The Workmen qualify here).
.Cranky Bugs: It's VERY likely that Cranky & the engines were all unmanned at the time... What of the crew on the Tramper, though?
.Horrid Lorry: The driver would VERY likely be thrown from the wreck! Just not alive, though... (At a stretch; He could have leaped out just before impact & a small stone bumped his head)
.Something in the air: They WOULD drown, IF they didn't jump clear after applying Henry's Brakes... (Come on, it's possible!)
.Oliver's Find: We don't know exactly WHAT stopped Oliver? We never get to see in clear view the end of the track. For all WE know; there could have been a thick concrete storage platform level with his buffers & sturdy enough to stop him dead on.
.Busy Going Backwards: The Guard landed in the bushes (Not the softest of landings, I'll admit) but it COULD cushion the landing enough to avoid broken bones...
.Rusty & The Boulder: All statements are Solid, except the viaduct note. TRUE, the weight of the Boulder alone would weaken the structural integrity, but we don't see the viaduct again this episode (So we can only assume that it PARTLY collapsed off screen)
.Harvey to the Rescue: He neglected the Guard in the Brake van. (I'm actually agreeing on this one)
.A bad day for Harold: I would argue that a haystack WOULD soften the landing for a human or two, But admittedly, not Harold Himself. Given when Harold was built, his structure might have been sturdy enough to survive impact & be hammered back into shape. Also, It was never stated what caused his engine to fail, was it? Perhaps he was running low on fuel (His gauge COULD have gotten stuck giving a false reading), explaining the lack of explosion... (Far fetched, but it's the best I can think of. Cut me a bit of slack)
.Middle Engine: It was STATED Percy's crew had left the cab (Probably to speak with the Tipper's operator). But yes, that would have happened, IF they were still in his cab.
.James & the Red Balloon: I'm not sure, but I think a spark from James's funnel would set the Balloon alight before the heat from his boiler. I don't think the metal around his boiler is hot enough to set fire to whatever material the Balloon is made of. (Aren't balloons made of a flame resistant material?)
.Percy's Chocolate Crunch: This is one of the FEW episodes where the The Narrator DOESN'T State "nobody was hurt" so the explanation for this one is PARTIALLY unnecessary. (Otherwise, factual)
.Thomas the Jet Engine: We don't know HOW fast Thomas was going with jet propulsion? Maybe 20 mph faster than Gordon's top speed, & he might not even BE going at his full speed (doing so loosened his dome! Remember?) Plus, I doubt Thomas's crew wouldn't be smart enough to grab something to cling on to for dear life & keep the cab doors shut until the jet slowed down.) Someone please explain to me HOW the Jet Engine could explode...? (The First problem I'll admit is having a Pre-assembled working Jet engine, fully fuelled with a loose switch exposed on top)
Dunkin Duncan: Duncan's Driver Jumped clear (I'll admit nothing was stated about his FIREMAN, though.)
I realise some of these counter-points are far-fetched & nigh impossible & I'll take criticism. (I've never typed a comment this long before)
I never realized how violent this show was
10:16 did gordon barrel roll down the hill or did he stay upright?
Stayed upright
2:20 what about the brake Van, he's dead
totally dead
His name is Dominic
Tom the Tender Engine not canon only in victor taming universe
And in DLTBerkshire’s
Tom the Tender Engine oh I’ve never watched his videos
Take a shot every time he says inertia.
Inertia is a property of matter. (Bill bye joke)
Bill bill bill bill bill bill bill
Bill Nye the science guy!
Great analysis on how much danger would happen if you were an employee or a visitor of Sodor.
5:03 In addition to the lack of an airbag or even a seatbelt in the lorry, there are other possible factors that would be enough to kill the driver on the spot. Some of these other things include the weight of the stone the lorry had, the type of ground the lorry crashed into, and possibly going at a dangerous speed after the driver lost control of the lorry. Not to mention, of course, the lorry was also driving along a narrow road on the cliff above.
Considering the time period the show takes place in i can asure you that even safety belts werent a thing really.
Something not mentioned in this video is the fact that many of these impacts would have compromised the boilers and shot out superheated steam. I’ve seen enough Drachinifel to know that exposing humans to superheated steam is a one-way ticket to an extremely unpleasant and untimely death.