History WesternAnimation / TheBraveLocomotive

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Samson is crossing the wooden trestle bridge, you can see some of the planks are about to fall off. Samson looks at the bridge briefly while heading towards the other end. The bridge starts to shake and collapse, [[BadassInDistress leaving Samson]] [[OhCrap horrified]] [[HelpImStuck as he tries to go back.]]

* HelpImStuck: After the wooden trestle bridge was about to collapse, Samson frantically tried to reverse but it didn't do anything other than shake the bridge. Henry had to use Samson's whistle to call for help.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bent on getting his new venture underway as soon as possible, Baron Von Kapital disregards concerns that the trestle bridge over Colonna Canyon cannot support the weight and hammering of the massive locomotive Samson. This leads to the bridge collapsing in the climax, nearly causing the deaths of everyone aboard Samson's express.

* BigDamnHeroes: A ''little'' damn hero, but after hearing a distressed train horn, Linus races to the bridge and saves the train off of the bridge. While Linus doesn’t survive, this is only temporary.

* TheDogBitesBack: After enduring enough abuse from the fat lumberyard driver, Linus breaks his chains. The chains then hit the fat bastard who ends up landing in the balloon stack of a sinister old dark locomotive who takes him inside the tunnel.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Samson is crossing the wooden trestle bridge, you can see some of the planks are about to fall off. Samson looks at the bridge briefly before heading towards the other end, the bridge started to shake and collapse [[BadassInDistress leaving Samson]] [[OhCrap horrified]] [[HelpImStuck as he tries to go back.]]

* HelpImStuck: After the wooden trestle bridge was about to collapse, Samson frantically tried to reverse but it didn't do anything other than shaking the bridge. Henry had to use Samson's whistle to call for help.

* ICantLookGesture: Baron Von Kapital was more terrified when he, Henry, Samson, Katrina, and Linus were getting close to fall off the bridge. [[JustInTime Fortunately, they all made it across the bridge to safety.]]

* RailroadTracksOfDoom: In the opening sequence, Linus nearly hits a tortoise, but hits his brakes just in time, letting it crawl off the tracks. However, this is played straight in Samson’s musical number, as the roaring express train smashes into the tortoise. Thankfully in the end, the fragile little tortoise is safe and healthy, and is seen riding on the Linus’s cowcatcher in the ending sequence.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bent on getting his new venture underway as soon as possible, Baron Von Kapital disregards concerns that the trestle bridge over Colonna Canyon cannot support the weight of the massive locomotive Samson. This leads to the bridge collapsing in the climax, nearly causing the deaths of everyone aboard Samson's express.

* ICantLookGesture: Baron Von Kapital was more terrified when he, Henry, Samson, Katrina, and Linus were getting close to fall off the bridge. Fortunately, they all made it across the bridge to safety.

** Samson's reaction to the wooden Colonna Canyon bridge breaking under him. The engine was very terrified and lost his cigar as well. Henry and Baron Von Kapital also freak out for a few seconds, before Henry starts yanking Samson's whistle chain.

* TruthInTelevision: Smaller, obsolete steam locomotives like Linus really ''were'' often consigned to industrial railroads (such as those for logging and mining companies) for which they were drastically unsuited and usually poorly maintained. For example, the locomotives from the infamous Last Train to Nowhere in Alaska were originally designed for elevated train lines, as opposed to hauling raw materials in the tundra.