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* DungeonBypass: To show Samson's sheer power, when he comes to the same steep grade Linus climbed earlier he instead bores right through the side of the hill.
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: When Linus was enslaved, he heard Henry was in trouble, so the blue engine decided to break his chains and escape the enslavers to save the passenger train.
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: When Linus was enslaved, he heard Henry was in trouble, so the blue engine he decided to break his chains and escape the enslavers to save the passenger train.
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* ShoutOut: The two vultures that leer at Linus as the latter passes the ''“point of no return”'' sign are an obvious callback to the vultures from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.
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** The two vultures that leer at Linus as the latter passes the ''“point of no return”'' sign are an obvious callback to the vultures from''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.
** Colonnaville and Colonna Canyon are named after entertainer Jerry Colonna, who narrated several Disney animated shorts including "The Brave Engineer".
** The two vultures that leer at Linus as the latter passes the ''“point of no return”'' sign are an obvious callback to the vultures from
** Colonnaville and Colonna Canyon are named after entertainer Jerry Colonna, who narrated several Disney animated shorts including "The Brave Engineer".
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The film centers on Linus, a little blue passenger train, and his friend, a conductor named Henry, as they go through the grueling process of obsolescence, and struggle to preserve their little western town after Linus gets replaced by a much larger locomotive named Samson.
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The film centers on Linus, a little blue passenger train, train's locomotive, and his friend, a conductor driver named Henry, as they go through the grueling process of obsolescence, and struggle to preserve their little western town after Linus gets replaced by a much larger locomotive named Samson.
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* BenevolentBoss: Aside from the reassignment of Linus, Baron Von Kapital is hinted to be this wanting his companies' best Driver Henry [=McCloud=] to be allowed to drive his companies newest Train Samson. And following the accident at the Colonna Canyon Trustle Bridge, he gives Linus and Henry their old job back of delivering passengers on a branch line away from the Canyon while the bridge is rebuilt.
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* BenevolentBoss: Aside from the reassignment of Linus, Baron Von Kapital is hinted to be this wanting his companies' best Driver Henry [=McCloud=] to be allowed to drive his companies company's newest Train locomotive, Samson. And following the accident at the Colonna Canyon Trustle Trestle Bridge, he gives Linus and Henry their old job back of delivering passengers on a branch line away from the Canyon while the main line bridge is rebuilt.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Although Baron Von Kapital and Samson were able to deliver passengers to their destination in Colonnaville on time, they forgot about the wooden trestle bridge built over Colonna Canyon that was getting weaker the more times Samson thundered over it. Having learned their lesson in the climax, the bridge is later replaced with a sturdier stone bridge in the future.
* TheDogBitesBack: After enduring enough abuse from the fat trainyard worker, Linus breaks his chains which hit the fat bastard who ends up landing in the chimney of the sinister old dark locomotive.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Katrina Von Kapitals' nickname given to her in the newspapers as ''"The Railroad Princess"'' is this: due to the fact that her family are among the NouveauRiche and her father is a RailroadBaron in the first half of the film, however in the second half; she is shown to be much more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her fathers' company [[JumpedAtTheCall as she immediately went to work alongside Henry [=McCloud=] and Linus in saving Samson and its' passengers from danger over Colonna Canyon]].
* TheDogBitesBack: After enduring enough abuse from the fat trainyard worker, Linus breaks his chains which hit the fat bastard who ends up landing in the chimney of the sinister old dark locomotive.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Katrina Von Kapitals' nickname given to her in the newspapers as ''"The Railroad Princess"'' is this: due to the fact that her family are among the NouveauRiche and her father is a RailroadBaron in the first half of the film, however in the second half; she is shown to be much more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her fathers' company [[JumpedAtTheCall as she immediately went to work alongside Henry [=McCloud=] and Linus in saving Samson and its' passengers from danger over Colonna Canyon]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Although Baron Von Kapital and Samson were able to deliver passengers to their destination in Colonnaville on time, they forgot about the wooden trestle bridge built over Colonna Canyon that was getting weaker the more times fatigued every time Samson thundered over it. Having learned their lesson in the climax, the bridge is later replaced with a sturdier stone bridge in the future.
* TheDogBitesBack: After enduring enough abuse from the fattrainyard worker, lumberyard driver, Linus breaks his chains. The chains which then hit the fat bastard who ends up landing in the chimney balloon stack of the sinister old dark locomotive.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Katrina Von Kapitals' nickname given to her in the newspapers as ''"The Railroad Princess"'' is this: due to the fact that her family are among the NouveauRiche and her father is a RailroadBaron in the first half of the film, however in the second half; she is shown to be much more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her fathers' company [[JumpedAtTheCall as she immediately went to work alongside Henry [=McCloud=] and Linus in saving Samson andits' his passengers from danger over Colonna Canyon]].
* TheDogBitesBack: After enduring enough abuse from the fat
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Katrina Von Kapitals' nickname given to her in the newspapers as ''"The Railroad Princess"'' is this: due to the fact that her family are among the NouveauRiche and her father is a RailroadBaron in the first half of the film, however in the second half; she is shown to be much more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her fathers' company [[JumpedAtTheCall as she immediately went to work alongside Henry [=McCloud=] and Linus in saving Samson and
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* FallingIntoTheCockpit: After literally landing inside of Linus' cab, Katrina Von Kapital immediately grabs one of the shovels with Henry and begins shoveling coal into Linus in order to get him enough steam to pull himself, the three people in him, and Samson away from the collapsing Trestle bridge behind them: even when the track is practically running against the canyon wall.
* FatBastard: The fat worker at the trainyard embodies this as he delights in whipping the trains he's commanding.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Linus is reassigned, he passes by a line of destroyed trains; one of which had an exploded funnel and looked exactly like him, hinting at what would happen to him in the climax.
* FatBastard: The fat worker at the trainyard embodies this as he delights in whipping the trains he's commanding.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Linus is reassigned, he passes by a line of destroyed trains; one of which had an exploded funnel and looked exactly like him, hinting at what would happen to him in the climax.
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* FallingIntoTheCockpit: After literally landing inside of Linus' cab, Katrina Von Kapital immediately grabs one of the shovels with Henry and begins shoveling coal into Linus Linus' firebox in order to get him build up enough steam boiler pressure to pull himself, the three people in him, and Samson away from the collapsing Trestle bridge behind them: even when the track is practically running against the canyon wall.
* FatBastard: The fat worker at thetrainyard forestry railway embodies this as he delights in whipping the trains locomotives he's commanding.
commanding. He clearly knows nothing about maintenance or care, if the hulks of dead locomotives are anything to go by.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Linus is reassigned, he passes by a line ofdestroyed trains; scrap locomotives; one of which had an exploded funnel and looked exactly like him, hinting at what would happen to him in the climax.
* FatBastard: The fat worker at the
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* HeroicSacrifice: Having been shot in the steam dome as he rushes off to save Samson and the passengers, Linus gives it his all to get them off of the collapsing Colonna Canyon Bridge only to explode afterwards.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Having been shot in the steam dome (and perhaps in the safety valve) as he rushes off to save Samson and the passengers, Linus gives it his all to get them off of the collapsing Colonna Canyon Bridge only to explode afterwards.blow his dome off and then suffer a catastrophic boiler explosion after saving Samson.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Baron Von Kapital is right in that Samson should be the Train delivering passengers to Colonnaville, due to the fact that it takes an entire days' worth of travel for a 2-4-0 Engine like Linus to reach the Colonnaville Station to drop off eight passengers before returning to the trainyard at sundown; and even then it's implied that Linus and Henry were the ''fastest'' of his companies other Trains and Drivers before Samson showed up.
* JobStealingRobot: Downplayed variation of this through Samson; where instead of Henry shoveling coal into Samson, he has a pipe leading directly from engine-to-tender that sucks the coal inside; leaving Henry with literally nothing more to do in Samson than just drinking tea with Baron Von Kapital.
* KarmaHoudini: The Trainyard owner is never punished for his mistreatment of trains, nor shooting Linus when he abandons his forced job to save Samson and his passengers from falling off the collapsing bridge.
* LeanAndMean: The owner of the trainyard, who is pretty thin and mistreats his trains, shooting them with his gun if they disobey his orders.
* MadeASlave: Linus being forced to work at a logging trainyard is treated as this. The new engineer is a cruel taskmaster who whips Linus to make him work harder, and there's a gunman standing by to shoot at Linus if he tries to escape.
* MemorialStatue: At the end of the film it's shown that Baron Von Kapital had received one of these, and that he died at the ripe old age of 96.
* JobStealingRobot: Downplayed variation of this through Samson; where instead of Henry shoveling coal into Samson, he has a pipe leading directly from engine-to-tender that sucks the coal inside; leaving Henry with literally nothing more to do in Samson than just drinking tea with Baron Von Kapital.
* KarmaHoudini: The Trainyard owner is never punished for his mistreatment of trains, nor shooting Linus when he abandons his forced job to save Samson and his passengers from falling off the collapsing bridge.
* LeanAndMean: The owner of the trainyard, who is pretty thin and mistreats his trains, shooting them with his gun if they disobey his orders.
* MadeASlave: Linus being forced to work at a logging trainyard is treated as this. The new engineer is a cruel taskmaster who whips Linus to make him work harder, and there's a gunman standing by to shoot at Linus if he tries to escape.
* MemorialStatue: At the end of the film it's shown that Baron Von Kapital had received one of these, and that he died at the ripe old age of 96.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Baron Von Kapital is technically right in that Samson should be pull the Train train delivering passengers to Colonnaville, due to the fact that it takes an entire days' worth of travel for a 2-4-0 Engine like Linus to reach the Colonnaville Station to drop off a mere eight passengers before returning to the trainyard at sundown; and even then it's implied that Linus and Henry were the ''fastest'' of his companies company's other Trains locomotives and Drivers before Samson showed up.
* JobStealingRobot: Downplayed variation of this through Samson; where instead of Henry shoveling coal into Samson,he Samson has a pipe leading directly from engine-to-tender an auto-stoker that sucks the coal inside; into his firebox; leaving Henry with literally nothing more to do in Samson than just drinking drink tea with Baron Von Kapital.
Kapital. Well, at least we know how Von Kapital heats up his tea...
* KarmaHoudini: TheTrainyard owner forestry railroad overseer is never punished for his mistreatment of trains, locomotives, nor is he punished for shooting Linus when he the latter abandons his forced job to save Samson and his passengers from falling off the collapsing bridge.
bridge. It can be implied, however, that he won't be shooting engines much longer once Samson starts hauling lumber.
* LeanAndMean: Theowner of the trainyard, forestry railroad overseer, who is pretty thin and mistreats his trains, locomotives, shooting them with his gun if they disobey his orders.
* MadeASlave: Linus being forced to work at a logging trainyard is treated as this. The new engineer is a cruel taskmaster who whips Linus to make him work harder, and there's a gunman (the overseer) standing by to shoot at Linus if he tries to escape.
* MemorialStatue: At the end of thefilm film, it's shown that Baron Von Kapital had received one of these, and that he died at the ripe old age of 96.
* JobStealingRobot: Downplayed variation of this through Samson; where instead of Henry shoveling coal into Samson,
* KarmaHoudini: The
* LeanAndMean: The
* MadeASlave: Linus being forced to work at a logging trainyard is treated as this. The new engineer is a cruel taskmaster who whips Linus to make him work harder, and there's a gunman (the overseer) standing by to shoot at Linus if he tries to escape.
* MemorialStatue: At the end of the
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* NoAntagonist: Aside from the Trainyard workers that Linus is assigned to, the other "Antagonists" of the film are rather circumstantial.
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* NoAntagonist: Aside from the abusive Trainyard workers that Linus is assigned to, the other "Antagonists" of the film are rather circumstantial.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Linus rescues a heavy passenger train and Samson from falling off the wooden bridge.
* RailroadBaron: Baron Von Kapital presents Henry with a larger train named Samson, which becomes a focal point of the film.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Baron Von Kapital is shown to be this. Having been saved by Linus, he and his daughter help to rebuild the small engine and later both admit his neglect of upgrading the Trestle Bridge over Colonna Canyon in favor of upgrading the town of Colonnaville along with reinstating Linus and Henry to their own branch line and allowed to resume service carrying passengers there.
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the traincars to reach Samson when the Colonna Canyon Bridge was given out in order to save him, Henry and her father. After landing inside of Linus she immediately grabs a shovel to help Henry [=McCloud=] put coal into Linus to get them all to safety and [[WrenchWench later helps out in rebuilding Linus after his accident]].
* RailroadBaron: Baron Von Kapital presents Henry with a larger train named Samson, which becomes a focal point of the film.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Baron Von Kapital is shown to be this. Having been saved by Linus, he and his daughter help to rebuild the small engine and later both admit his neglect of upgrading the Trestle Bridge over Colonna Canyon in favor of upgrading the town of Colonnaville along with reinstating Linus and Henry to their own branch line and allowed to resume service carrying passengers there.
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the traincars to reach Samson when the Colonna Canyon Bridge was given out in order to save him, Henry and her father. After landing inside of Linus she immediately grabs a shovel to help Henry [=McCloud=] put coal into Linus to get them all to safety and [[WrenchWench later helps out in rebuilding Linus after his accident]].
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Linus rescues a heavy passenger train and Samson from falling off the wooden bridge.
bridge. This comes at the cost of him suffering a boiler explosion.
* RailroadBaron: Baron VonKapital Kapital, owner of the railroad, presents Henry with a larger train locomotive named Samson, which becomes a focal point of the film.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Baron Von Kapital is shown to be this. Having been saved by Linus, he and his daughter help to rebuild the small engine and later both admit his neglect of upgrading the Trestle Bridge over Colonna Canyon in favor of upgrading the town of Colonnaville along with reinstating Linus and Henry to their own branch lineand allowed to resume service carrying passengers there.
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of thetraincars passenger cars to reach Samson when the Colonna Canyon Bridge was given out in order to save him, Henry and her father. After landing inside of Linus she immediately grabs a shovel to help Henry [=McCloud=] put coal into Linus Linus's firebox to get them all to safety and [[WrenchWench later helps out in rebuilding Linus after his accident]].
* RailroadBaron: Baron Von
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Baron Von Kapital is shown to be this. Having been saved by Linus, he and his daughter help to rebuild the small engine and later both admit his neglect of upgrading the Trestle Bridge over Colonna Canyon in favor of upgrading the town of Colonnaville along with reinstating Linus and Henry to their own branch line
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: When Linus was part of slavery, he heard Henry was in trouble, so the blue engine decided to break his chains and escape the enslavers to save the passenger train.
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: When Linus was part of slavery, enslaved, he heard Henry was in trouble, so the blue engine decided to break his chains and escape the enslavers to save the passenger train.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn[[invoked]]: As shown with Samson - who is a much more advanced 4-8-4 locomotive - and at the end of the film Airplanes are seen flying over the newly-built Colonna Canyon bridge.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn[[invoked]]: As shown with Samson - who is a much more advanced 4-8-4 locomotive - and at the end of the film Airplanes are seen flying over the newly-built newly built Colonna Canyon bridge.
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* 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.
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* 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.aboard Samson's express.
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* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: After Linus suffers a boiler explosion, he goes through a near-death experience that ends with him getting rebuilt.
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* MadeASlave: Linus being forced to work at a logging trainyard is treated as this. The new engineer is a cruel taskmaster who whips Linus to make him work harder, and there's a gunman standing by to shoot at Linus if he tries to escape.
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* TwoDVisuals3DEffects: Combines CGI for the trains with traditional hand-drawn animation for all the other characters. Linus himself is a combination of the two, with a hand-drawn face on a CG body.
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* TwoDVisuals3DEffects: TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Combines CGI for the trains with traditional hand-drawn animation for all the other characters. Linus himself is a combination of the two, with a hand-drawn face on a CG body.
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* {{Retraux}}: Done in the style of a 1940s Disney cartoon, with a big band-inspired musical score.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Baron Von Kapital is right in that Samson should be the Train delivering passengers to Colonnaville, due to the fact that it takes an entire days' worth of travel for Linus to reach the Colonnaville Station to drop off eight passengers before returning to the trainyard at sundown.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Baron Von Kapital is right in that Samson should be the Train delivering passengers to Colonnaville, due to the fact that it takes an entire days' worth of travel for a 2-4-0 Engine like Linus to reach the Colonnaville Station to drop off eight passengers before returning to the trainyard at sundown.sundown; and even then it's implied that Linus and Henry were the ''fastest'' of his companies other Trains and Drivers before Samson showed up.
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* FatBastard: The fat worker at the trainyard embodies this as he delights in whipping the trains he's commanding.
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* KarmaHoudini: The Trainyard owner is never punished for his mistreatment of trains as well, neither shooting Linus when he abandons his forced job to save Samson from falling.
* LeanAndMean: The owner of the trainyard, who is pretty thin and who mistreats his trains, shooting them with his gun if they disobey his orders.
* LeanAndMean: The owner of the trainyard, who is pretty thin and who mistreats his trains, shooting them with his gun if they disobey his orders.
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* KarmaHoudini: The Trainyard owner is never punished for his mistreatment of trains as well, neither trains, nor shooting Linus when he abandons his forced job to save Samson and his passengers from falling.
falling off the collapsing bridge.
* LeanAndMean: The owner of the trainyard, who is pretty thin andwho mistreats his trains, shooting them with his gun if they disobey his orders.
* LeanAndMean: The owner of the trainyard, who is pretty thin and
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* TheDogBitesBack: After enduring enough abuse from the fat trainyard worker, Linus breaks his chains which hit the fat bastard who ends up landing in the chimney of the sinister old dark locomotive.
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* KarmaHoudini: The Trainyard owner is never punished for his mistreatment of trains as well, neither shooting Linus when he abandons his forced job to save Samson from falling.
* LeanAndMean: The owner of the trainyard, who is pretty thin and who mistreats his trains, shooting them with his gun if they disobey his orders.
* LeanAndMean: The owner of the trainyard, who is pretty thin and who mistreats his trains, shooting them with his gun if they disobey his orders.
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* BenevolentBoss: Aside from the reassignment of Linus, Baron Von Kapital is hinted to be this wanting his companies' best Driver Henry McCloud to be allowed to drive his companies newest Train Samson. And following the accident at the Colonna Canyon Trustle Bridge, he gives Linus and Henry their old job back of delivering passengers on a branch line away from the Canyon while the bridge is rebuilt.
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* BenevolentBoss: Aside from the reassignment of Linus, Baron Von Kapital is hinted to be this wanting his companies' best Driver Henry McCloud [=McCloud=] to be allowed to drive his companies newest Train Samson. And following the accident at the Colonna Canyon Trustle Bridge, he gives Linus and Henry their old job back of delivering passengers on a branch line away from the Canyon while the bridge is rebuilt.
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* BenevolentBoss: Aside from the reassignment of Linus, Baron Von Kapital is hinted to be this wanting his companies' best Driver Henry McCloud to be allowed to drive his companies newest Train Samson. And following the accident at the Colonna Canyon Trustle Bridge, he gives Linus and Henry their old job back of delivering passengers on a branch line away from the Canyon while the bridge is rebuilt.
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* {{Expy}}: Linus is one of [[Literature/TheRailwaySeries Thomas the Tank Engine]].
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* {{Expy}}: Linus is one of both [[Literature/TheRailwaySeries Thomas the Tank Engine]].Engine]] and [[Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould Tillie]].
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Baron Von Kapital is right in that Samson should be the Train delivering passengers to Colonnaville, due to the fact that it takes an entire days' worth of travel for Linus to reach the Colonnaville Station to drop off eight passengers before returning to the trainyard at sundown.
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* FaceOfAThug: Samson to some degree, he's only just doing his job carrying passengers and holds no ill feelings for Linus when the two are first introduced.
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* FaceOfAThug: Samson Samson, to some degree, he's degree. He's only just doing his job carrying passengers passengers, and holds no ill feelings for Linus when the two are first introduced.
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* VillainRecruitmentSong: Though Baron Von Kapital is more of a dangerously overeager businessman than a real villain, his intro song, "The Baron's Proposal," has a rather classically sinister edge to it as he goads Henry into replacing his friend Linus with the cold and menacing Samson.
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* SaveTheVillain: Although Samson and Baron Von Kapital weren't actually villains, but Linus had to rescue them (along with Henry and the passengers) when the Colonna Canyon bridge was about to collapse.
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* SaveTheVillain: Although Samson and Baron Von Kapital weren't actually true villains, but Linus had to rescue them (along with Henry and the passengers) when the Colonna Canyon bridge was about to collapse.
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* 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.
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* MemorialStatue: At the end of the film it's shown that Baron Von Kapital had received one of these, and that he died at the ripe old age of 96.
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* FallingIntoTheCockpit: After literally landing inside of Linus' cab, Katrina Von Kapital immediately grabs one of the shovels with Henry and begins shoveling coal into Linus in order to get him enough steam to pull himself, the three people in him, and Samson away from the collapsing Trestle bridge behind them: even when the track is practically running against the canyon wall.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Katrina Von Kapitals' nickname given to her in the newspapers as ''"The Railroad Princess"'' is this: due to the fact that her family are among the NoveauRiche and her father is a RailwayBaron in the first half of the film, however in the second half; she is shown to be much more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her fathers' company [[JumpedAtTheCall as she immediately went to work alongside Henry [=McCloud=] in saving Samson and its' passengers from danger over Colonna Canyon]].
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Katrina Von Kapitals' nickname given to her in the newspapers as ''"The Railroad Princess"'' is this: due to the fact that her family are among the NoveauRiche NouveauRiche and her father is a RailwayBaron RailroadBaron in the first half of the film, however in the second half; she is shown to be much more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her fathers' company [[JumpedAtTheCall as she immediately went to work alongside Henry [=McCloud=] and Linus in saving Samson and its' passengers from danger over Colonna Canyon]].
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* StereotypeFlip: While Katrina Von Kapital seemed to appear as a RichBitch {{Socialite}} in the first half of the film, during the climax she is actually shown to be a far cry from her father.
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* WomenAreWiser: Compared to her cowering father, Katrina Von Kapital leaped at the chance to shovel coal into Linus alongside Henry [=McCloud=] in order to save themselves and Samson from the slowly collapsing Trestle Bridge. Later on she is seen wearing coveralls having helped to rebuild Linus with the others.
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* WomenAreWiser: Compared to her cowering father, Katrina Von Kapital leaped at the chance to shovel coal into Linus alongside Henry [=McCloud=] in order to save themselves and Samson from the slowly collapsing Trestle Bridge. Later on [[WrenchWench she is seen wearing coveralls having helped to rebuild Linus with the others.others]].
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* ShoutOut: The two vultures that leer at Linus as the latter passes the ''“point of no return”'' sign are an obvious callback to the vultures from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: As shown with Samson - who is a much more advanced 4-8-4 locomotive - and at the end of the film Airplanes are seen flying over the newly-built Colonna Canyon bridge.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: TechnologyMarchesOn[[invoked]]: As shown with Samson - who is a much more advanced 4-8-4 locomotive - and at the end of the film Airplanes are seen flying over the newly-built Colonna Canyon bridge.
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* WomenAreWiser: Compared to her cowering father, Katrina Von Kapital leaped at the chance to shovel coal into Linus alongside Henry [=McCloud=] in order to save themselves and Samson from the slowly collapsing Trestle Bridge. Later on she is seen wearing coveralls having helped to rebuild Linus with the others.
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* WomenAreWiser: Compared to her cowering father, Katrina Von Kapital leaped at the chance to shovel coal into Linus alongside Henry [=McCloud=] in order to save themselves and Samson from the slowly collapsing Trestle Bridge. Later on she is seen wearing coveralls having helped to rebuild Linus with the others.others.
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* CigarChomper: Samson is this, shown in a newspaper that as part of train maintenance he has a crew assigned to give him a new cigar and to light it for him.
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* CigarChomper: Samson is this, shown in a newspaper that as part of train maintenance maintenance, he has a crew assigned to give him a new cigar and to light it for him.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Although Baron Von Kapital and Samson were able to deliver passengers to their destination in Colonnaville on time, they forgot about the wooden trestle bridge built over Colonna Canyon that was getting weaker the more times Samson thundered over it. Having learnt their lesson in the climax, the bridge is later replaced with a more sturdier stone bridge in the future.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Although Baron Von Kapital and Samson were able to deliver passengers to their destination in Colonnaville on time, they forgot about the wooden trestle bridge built over Colonna Canyon that was getting weaker the more times Samson thundered over it. Having learnt learned their lesson in the climax, the bridge is later replaced with a more sturdier stone bridge in the future.
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* OlderIsBetter: Linus is very much an old western locomotive in the vein of late 19th-century wood-burning locomotives (with elements of British locomotives, to boot) that comes save the lives of the larger, more modern Samson and his passengers.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Linus rescuing a heavy passenger train and Samson from falling off the wooden bridge.
* RailroadBaron: Baron Von Kapital presents Henry a larger train named Samson, which becomes a focal point of the film.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Baron Von Kapital is shown to be this. Having been saved by Linus, he and his daughter helps to rebuild the small engine and later both admits his neglect of upgrading the Trestle Bridge over Colonna Canyon in-favor of upgrading the town of Colonnaville along with reinstating Linus and Henry to their own branch-line and allowed to resume service carrying passengers there.
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the traincars to reach Samson when the Colonna Canyon Bridge was giving out in order to save him, Henry and her father. After landing inside of Linus she immediately grabs a shovel to help Henry [=McCloud=] put coal into Linus to get them all to safety and [[WrenchWench later helps out in rebuilding Linus after his accident]].
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: While technically not Royalty in the traditional sense of the word, Katrina Von Kapital, ''"The Railroad Princess"'' is more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her fathers' company: showing a sense of bravery and duty in the face of danger and a willingness to roll up her sleeves in order to get work done with others.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Linus rescuing a heavy passenger train and Samson from falling off the wooden bridge.
* RailroadBaron: Baron Von Kapital presents Henry a larger train named Samson, which becomes a focal point of the film.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Baron Von Kapital is shown to be this. Having been saved by Linus, he and his daughter helps to rebuild the small engine and later both admits his neglect of upgrading the Trestle Bridge over Colonna Canyon in-favor of upgrading the town of Colonnaville along with reinstating Linus and Henry to their own branch-line and allowed to resume service carrying passengers there.
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the traincars to reach Samson when the Colonna Canyon Bridge was giving out in order to save him, Henry and her father. After landing inside of Linus she immediately grabs a shovel to help Henry [=McCloud=] put coal into Linus to get them all to safety and [[WrenchWench later helps out in rebuilding Linus after his accident]].
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: While technically not Royalty in the traditional sense of the word, Katrina Von Kapital, ''"The Railroad Princess"'' is more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her fathers' company: showing a sense of bravery and duty in the face of danger and a willingness to roll up her sleeves in order to get work done with others.
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* OlderIsBetter: Linus is very much an old western locomotive in the vein of late 19th-century wood-burning locomotives (with elements of British locomotives, to boot) that comes to save the lives of the larger, more modern Samson and his passengers.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Linusrescuing rescues a heavy passenger train and Samson from falling off the wooden bridge.
* RailroadBaron: Baron Von Kapital presents Henry with a larger train named Samson, which becomes a focal point of the film.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Baron Von Kapital is shown to be this. Having been saved by Linus, he and his daughterhelps help to rebuild the small engine and later both admits admit his neglect of upgrading the Trestle Bridge over Colonna Canyon in-favor in favor of upgrading the town of Colonnaville along with reinstating Linus and Henry to their own branch-line branch line and allowed to resume service carrying passengers there.
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the traincars to reach Samson when the Colonna Canyon Bridge wasgiving given out in order to save him, Henry and her father. After landing inside of Linus she immediately grabs a shovel to help Henry [=McCloud=] put coal into Linus to get them all to safety and [[WrenchWench later helps out in rebuilding Linus after his accident]].
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: While technically not Royalty in the traditional sense of the word, Katrina Von Kapital, ''"The Railroad Princess"'' is more than just a pretty face meant to inherit herfathers' father's company: showing a sense of bravery and duty in the face of danger and a willingness to roll up her sleeves in order to get work done with others.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Linus
* RailroadBaron: Baron Von Kapital presents Henry with a larger train named Samson, which becomes a focal point of the film.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Baron Von Kapital is shown to be this. Having been saved by Linus, he and his daughter
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the traincars to reach Samson when the Colonna Canyon Bridge was
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: While technically not Royalty in the traditional sense of the word, Katrina Von Kapital, ''"The Railroad Princess"'' is more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her
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* WomenAreWiser: Compared to her cowering father, Katrina Von Kapital leapt at the chance to shovel coal into Linus alongside Henry [=McCloud=] in order to save themselves and Samson from the slowly collapsing Trestle Bridge. Later on she is seen wearing coveralls having helped to rebuild Linus with the others.
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* WomenAreWiser: Compared to her cowering father, Katrina Von Kapital leapt leaped at the chance to shovel coal into Linus alongside Henry [=McCloud=] in order to save themselves and Samson from the slowly collapsing Trestle Bridge. Later on she is seen wearing coveralls having helped to rebuild Linus with the others.
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* HighClassGlass: Baron Von Kapital sports one of these.
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* JobStealingRobots: Downplayed variation of this through Samson; where instead of Henry shoveling coal into Samson, he has a pipe leading directly from engine-to-tender that sucks the coal inside; leaving Henry with literally nothing more to do in Samson than just drink tea with Baron Von Kapital.
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* JobStealingRobots: JobStealingRobot: Downplayed variation of this through Samson; where instead of Henry shoveling coal into Samson, he has a pipe leading directly from engine-to-tender that sucks the coal inside; leaving Henry with literally nothing more to do in Samson than just drink drinking tea with Baron Von Kapital.
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* JobStealingRobots: Downplayed variation of this through Samson; where instead of Henry shoveling coal into Samson, he has a pipe leading directly from engine-to-tender that sucks the coal inside; leaving Henry with literally nothing more to do in Samson than just drink tea with Baron Von Kapital.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Linus is reassigned, he passes by a line of destroyed trains; one of which had an exploded boiler and looked exactly like him, hinting at what would happen to him in the climax.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Linus is reassigned, he passes by a line of destroyed trains; one of which had an exploded boiler funnel and looked exactly like him, hinting at what would happen to him in the climax.
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* TheAtoner: The second newspaper tells us that after the accident at the Trestle Bridge, Samson took on Linus' job of hauling lumber to help repair the damage he inadvertently caused and that he was grateful for Linus saving the lives of his passengers and himself.
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* TheAtoner: The second newspaper tells us that after the accident at the Trestle Colonna Canyon Bridge, Samson took on Linus' job of hauling lumber to help repair the damage he inadvertently caused and that he was grateful for Linus saving the lives of his passengers and himself.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Although Baron Von Kapital and Samson were able to deliver passengers to their destinations on time, they forgot about the wooden trestle bridge that was getting weaker the more times Samson thundered over it. Having learnt their lesson in the climax, the bridge is replaced with a more sturdier stone bridge in the future.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Although Baron Von Kapital and Samson were able to deliver passengers to their destinations destination in Colonnaville on time, they forgot about the wooden trestle bridge built over Colonna Canyon that was getting weaker the more times Samson thundered over it. Having learnt their lesson in the climax, the bridge is later replaced with a more sturdier stone bridge in the future.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Having been shot in the steam dome as he rushes off to save Samson and the passengers, Linus gives it his all to get them off of the collapsing bridge only to explode afterwards.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Having been shot in the steam dome as he rushes off to save Samson and the passengers, Linus gives it his all to get them off of the collapsing bridge Colonna Canyon Bridge only to explode afterwards.
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* OhCrap: Samson after the wooden bridge was about to collapse.
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* OhCrap: Samson after the wooden Colonna Canyon bridge was about to collapse.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Baron Von Kapital is shown to be this. Having been saved by Linus, he and his daughter helps to rebuild the small engine and later reinstates the train and Henry to their own branch-line and allowed to resume service carrying passengers there.
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the traincars to reach Samson when the bridge was giving out in order to save him, Henry and her father. After landing inside of Linus she immediately grabs a shovel to help Henry [=McCloud=] put coal into Linus to get them all to safety and [[WrenchWench later helps out in rebuilding Linus after his accident]].
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the traincars to reach Samson when the bridge was giving out in order to save him, Henry and her father. After landing inside of Linus she immediately grabs a shovel to help Henry [=McCloud=] put coal into Linus to get them all to safety and [[WrenchWench later helps out in rebuilding Linus after his accident]].
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Baron Von Kapital is shown to be this. Having been saved by Linus, he and his daughter helps to rebuild the small engine and later reinstates both admits his neglect of upgrading the train Trestle Bridge over Colonna Canyon in-favor of upgrading the town of Colonnaville along with reinstating Linus and Henry to their own branch-line and allowed to resume service carrying passengers there.
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the traincars to reach Samson when thebridge Colonna Canyon Bridge was giving out in order to save him, Henry and her father. After landing inside of Linus she immediately grabs a shovel to help Henry [=McCloud=] put coal into Linus to get them all to safety and [[WrenchWench later helps out in rebuilding Linus after his accident]].
* RedIsHeroic: Katrina Von Kapital is shown to be this, having traveled across the rooftop of the traincars to reach Samson when the
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* SaveTheVillain: Although Samson and Baron Von Kapital weren't actually villains, but Linus had to rescue them (along with Henry and the passengers) when the bridge was about to collapse.
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* SaveTheVillain: Although Samson and Baron Von Kapital weren't actually villains, but Linus had to rescue them (along with Henry and the passengers) when the Colonna Canyon bridge was about to collapse.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: As shown with Samson - who is a much more advanced 4-8-4 locomotive - and at the end of the film Airplanes are seen flying over the newly-built bridge.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: As shown with Samson - who is a much more advanced 4-8-4 locomotive - and at the end of the film Airplanes are seen flying over the newly-built Colonna Canyon bridge.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: While technically not Royalty in the traditional sense of the word, Katrina Von Kapital "The Railroad Princess" is more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her fathers' company: showing a sense of bravery and duty in the face of danger and a willingness to roll up her sleeves in order to get work done.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: While technically not Royalty in the traditional sense of the word, Katrina Von Kapital "The Kapital, ''"The Railroad Princess" Princess"'' is more than just a pretty face meant to inherit her fathers' company: showing a sense of bravery and duty in the face of danger and a willingness to roll up her sleeves in order to get work done.done with others.
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* SmoochOfVictory: After having saved Samson and his passengers and later being rebuilt, Katrina Von Kapital kisses Linus on his cheek. Bonus points for the fact that Katrinas' said in an earlier newspaper to be called ''"The Railroad Princess".''
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* SmoochOfVictory: After having saved Samson and his passengers and later being rebuilt, Katrina Von Kapital kisses Linus on his cheek. Bonus points for the fact that Katrinas' said in an earlier newspaper to be Katrina is called ''"The Railroad Princess".''Princess"'' in the newspapers.
