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so today I was reminded about the old mountain engine godred from the railway series (which was later adapted into Thomas and friends) and came across your guy’s godred. I have a vague idea of what’s going on with him, his face is the ertl toy of godred‘s rear end face, something about sacrificing a goat and death, but to me this seems a little weird because the godred I know is (to put it bluntly) is a dick, he was a reckless engine who was too full of himself to look out (his only story being bad look out) before plummeting to his near death at the culdee fell mountain, where he would then be brought back, but unfortunately due to a lack of funds, he would be canibalized for parts (also to clarify Topham has no hand in this, this railway is a short tourist line called the culdee fell railway, which is on sodor but isn’t owned by the fat controller)

exactly like what the title says, what would realistically happen if all the talking trains (and by extension Sodor, but Sodor isnt in the scope of this right now)

to get a few details out the way, the engines have first very different natures compared to us. a engine‘s “goal” is to work, to be useful, to operate, since they are, from a literary perspective, ment to be allegories for the mechanical side of a machine, and a machine wants to work(except for the near-suicidal maniacs known as the troublesome trucks)

Second, the engines are also completely capable of the same feelings as us, they feel when something touches them, pain when they hit something, happiness when they‘re rewarded and sad/angry when punished. they’re capable of human language, reasoning (though, not all the time as seen with Percy‘s multiple near death experiences), and essentially everything else a average human could do.

if they were real, and were sapient as seen in the show and books, would some governing body give them rights? As Realistically most businesses (except for the Hatts, who outside of Henry’s tunnel, were surprisingly very kind to their engines) from the time would not have given living machines any form of autonomy, as they wouldn’t even bother with their human workers to begin with.

Thomas fan here, what’s with your guy’s godred?