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** "Toby and the Stout Gentleman." It deals in the introduction of the tram-engine Toby, and his faithful companion Henrietta as they work on a slowly dying remote mountain rail line. Both of them are well aware that the old line is closing down as more and more goods and people are being moved by the roads than rail, but the entire time Toby keeps that [[StepfordSmiler fragile smile]] on his face, up until the very end. When the line finally closes, he bids farewell to Henrietta, and backs into his shed for the last time.
--> ''Engines can sleep forever, if they so wish.''
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--> ''[James] reversed back onto another track, ready to give [Henry] a piece of his mind.'''\\

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--> ''[James] reversed back onto another track, ready to give [Henry] a piece of his mind.'''\\''\\

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* TearJerker: Carlin's departure from Sodor at the end of Season 4 is quite moving, which is made all the more sadder when even Percy, who's usually the last one to get emotional, starts sniffling.

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** The Narrator's description of Henry's crash from Chapter 19:
--> ''[James] reversed back onto another track, ready to give [Henry] a piece of his mind.'''\\
"HENRY! YOU BLITHERING IDIOT! YOU- You...you-" ''He stared.''\\
''Because for the first time, Henry the Green Engine [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness wasn't responding to a jibe made by him.]]''\\
''In fact, he wasn't responding at all.''\\
"Oh no." ''James whispered.''
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Carlin's departure from Sodor at the end of Season 4 is quite moving, which is made all the more sadder when even Percy, who's usually the last one to get emotional, starts sniffling.

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* BetterThanCanon: It's [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] due to WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad being non-canon, but many people prefer the Abridged version of Magic Railroad over the movie itself.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Given the tendency for Sir Topham Hatt to blame the engines for things beyond their control, as well as Daisy's manipulations and overloading him with work, Percy's morphine driven rant about them both is pretty cathartic. Even moreso in that it leaves the irate Hatt and apathetic Daisy speechless.

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* BetterThanCanon: It's [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] due to WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'' being non-canon, but many people prefer the Abridged version of Magic Railroad over the movie itself.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: There are really too many moments to mention.
* HarsherInHindsight: The bit about the Trotter marking down Percy’s Driver (Alec Baldwin) as someone who needed to die in Baa, becomes a lot harsher after [[spoiler: Baldwin’s death in Thomas and The Magic Railroad]]
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
Given the tendency for Sir Topham Hatt to blame the engines for things beyond their control, as well as Daisy's manipulations and overloading him with work, Percy's morphine driven rant about them both is pretty cathartic. Even moreso in that it leaves the irate Hatt and apathetic Daisy speechless.



* CrowningMomentOfFunny: There are really too many moments to mention.
* HarsherInHindsight: The bit about the Trotter marking down Percy’s Driver (Alec Baldwin) as someone who needed to die in Baa, becomes a lot harsher after [[spoiler: Baldwin’s death in Thomas and The Magic Railroad]]
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* BetterThanCanon: It's [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] due to WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad being non-canon, but many people prefer the Abridged version of Magic Railroad over the movie itself.
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** The end of "Three Cheers For Thomas", with The Fat Controller saying goodbye to Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, The Ffarquhar and Wellsworth getting closed down and Duck, Donald and Douglas deciding to leave the steam team behind due to the three of them being fugitives and The Steam Team thinking of the old Sodor to help them through Seasons 8-16.

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** The end of "Three Cheers For Thomas", with The Fat Controller saying goodbye to Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, The Ffarquhar and Wellsworth branch lines getting closed down and Duck, Donald and Douglas deciding to leave the steam team behind due to the three of them being fugitives and The Steam Team thinking of the old Sodor to help them through Seasons 8-16.
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** The end of "Three Cheers For Thomas", with The Fat Controller saying goodbye to Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, The Farquhar and Wellsworth getting closed down and Duck, Donald and Douglas deciding to leave the steam team behind due to the three of them being fugitives and The Steam Team thinking of the old Sodor to help them through Seasons 8-16.

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** The end of "Three Cheers For Thomas", with The Fat Controller saying goodbye to Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, The Farquhar Ffarquhar and Wellsworth getting closed down and Duck, Donald and Douglas deciding to leave the steam team behind due to the three of them being fugitives and The Steam Team thinking of the old Sodor to help them through Seasons 8-16.
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** The end of "Three Cheers For Thomas", with The Fat Controller saying goodbye to Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, The FFarguhar and Wellsworth getting closed down and Duck, Donald and Douglas deciding to leave the steam team behind due to the three of them being fugitives and The Steam Team thinking of the old Sodor to help them through Seasons 8-16.

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** The end of "Three Cheers For Thomas", with The Fat Controller saying goodbye to Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, The FFarguhar Farquhar and Wellsworth getting closed down and Duck, Donald and Douglas deciding to leave the steam team behind due to the three of them being fugitives and The Steam Team thinking of the old Sodor to help them through Seasons 8-16.
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** The end of "Three Cheers For Thomas", with The Fat Controller saying goodbye to Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, The FFarguhar and Wellsworth getting closed down and Duck, Donald and Douglas deciding to leave the steam team behind due to the three of them being fugitives and The Steam Team thinking of the old Sodor to help them through Seasons 8-16.
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** It's not hard to feel bad for most of the pack when you learn that most of their quirks come from the trauma they faced while working for Captain Zero.

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** It's not hard to feel bad for most of the pack when you learn that most of their quirks come from the [[spoiler:the trauma they faced while working for Captain Zero.]]
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** The battle against Norris Von Stig was one giant one for the Pack.
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* TheWoobie: It's not hard to feel sorry for Edward, considering just how much idiocy he has to put up with on a day-to-day basis and [[spoiler: the trauma that he suffered during the Second World War, as well as him noticing [=BoCo's=] mysterious absence, and later finding out about his death.]]

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* TheWoobie: It's not hard to feel sorry for Edward, considering just how much idiocy he has to put up with on a day-to-day basis and [[spoiler: the trauma that he suffered during the Second World War, as well as him noticing [=BoCo's=] mysterious absence, and later finding out about his death.]]]]
** It's not hard to feel bad for most of the pack when you learn that most of their quirks come from the trauma they faced while working for Captain Zero.

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** [[spoiler:The death of Bertram/Smudger in Part Three of Magic Railroad.]]

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** [[spoiler:The death of Bertram/Smudger in Part Three 3 of Magic Railroad.]]
** [[spoiler:Duke's HeroicSacrifice in Part 8 of Magic Railorad.
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** The ending of "Edward's Brass Band".
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** Thomas and the Magic Railroad has so many CMOAs that it would take forever to list them, pretty much every character in the story gets one.

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** Thomas and the Magic Railroad has so many CMOAs of these that it would take forever to list them, pretty much every character in the story gets one.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The bit about the Trotter marking down Percy’s Driver (Alec Baldwin) as someone who needed to die in Baa, becomes a lot harsher after [[spoiler: Baldwin’s death in Thomas and The Magic Railroad]]
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** Thomas and the Magic Railroad has so many CMOAs that it would take forever to list them, pretty much every character in the story gets one.
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** [[spoiler:The death of Bertram/Smudger in Part Three of Magic Railroad.]]
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** [[spoiler:Diesel 10's description of how Boco died. '''Jesus Christ.''']]

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* WhatAnIdiot: Much of the humor explores and lampshades the bad decisions of, well, pretty much everyone on the Island.

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* WhatAnIdiot: Much of the humor explores and lampshades the bad decisions of, well, pretty much everyone on the Island. It's impossible to count the times that ''something'' stupid has happened. Edward manages to compile 100 of them in his book "What Were They Thinking?! 100 Tales of Stupidity from The Island of Sodor".
* TheWoobie: It's not hard to feel sorry for Edward, considering just how much idiocy he has to put up with on a day-to-day basis and [[spoiler: the trauma that he suffered during the Second World War, as well as him noticing [=BoCo's=] mysterious absence, and later finding out about his death.]]
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Iron 'Arry and Bert's murder of BoCo, to provide Diesel 10 with a body, pretty much ensures they've crossed this before "Stepney Gets Lost"]].

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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Iron 'Arry and Bert's murder of BoCo, [=BoCo=], to provide Diesel 10 with a body, pretty much ensures they've crossed this before "Stepney Gets Lost"]].
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Iron 'Arry and Bert's murder of BoCo, to provide Diesel 10 with a body, pretty much ensures they've crossed this before "Stepney Gets Lost"]].
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* TearJerker: Carlin's departure from Sodor at the end of Season 5 is quite moving, which is made all the more sadder when even Percy, who's usually the last one to get emotional, starts sniffling.

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* TearJerker: Carlin's departure from Sodor at the end of Season 5 4 is quite moving, which is made all the more sadder when even Percy, who's usually the last one to get emotional, starts sniffling.
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* TearJerker: Carlin's departure from Sodor at the end of Season 5 is quite moving, which is made all the more sadder when even Percy, who's usually the last one to get emotional, starts sniffling.
** Even more so for [=BoCo's=] departure in "Double Teething Troubles", especially when [[HeterosexualLifePartners he and Edward]] talk for the last time. [[spoiler: And then it turns to downright ''tragic'' when he's murdered by 'Arry and Bert on his way to the Mainland. Even the ''narrator'' seems saddened.]]
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Given the tendency for Sir Topsham Hatt to blame the engines for things beyond their control, as well as Daisy's manipulations and overloading him with work, Percy's morphine driven rant about them both is pretty cathartic. Even moreso in that it leaves the irate Hatt and apathetic Daisy speechless.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Given the tendency for Sir Topsham Topham Hatt to blame the engines for things beyond their control, as well as Daisy's manipulations and overloading him with work, Percy's morphine driven rant about them both is pretty cathartic. Even moreso in that it leaves the irate Hatt and apathetic Daisy speechless.



* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Really too many moments to mention.

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Really There are really too many moments to mention.
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* NightmareFuel: Marklin (and later, [[spoiler:The Malevolence]]) is a pretty disturbing KnightOfCerebus, who formerly invokes ParanoiaFuel as a background engine plotting while everyone was none the wiser.
** [[spoiler:Marklin's possession of Diesel, despite the latter being an AssholeVictim, is also pretty creepy. Doesn't help that Diesel's introduction is described as something like a monster breaking free of its crate]].
** The Fat Director, who has ominous clones of Sodor's Diesels at his disposal, is [[TheDreaded pretty much feared by almost everyone who crosses paths with him]]. And those aforementioned evil clones? He uses them to [[ToServeMan graphically]] [[YouHaveFailedMe dispose of underlings who have failed him]].

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Really too many moments to mention.

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** [[spoiler:The climax of "Mind that Bike" bears mention. Thomas, for once in his life, actually takes charge and directs everyone to evacuate the people, coaches, and even trucks away from the tracks planted with bombs. Then there's Duck's battle with Davidson, where the former holds off the latter, despite his PsychoElectro capabilities and demeanor. And when it seems as though Davidson will kill Duck, a well-timed truck knocks Davidson to his KarmicDeath in the ocean]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Really too many moments to mention.mention.
* WhatAnIdiot: Much of the humor explores and lampshades the bad decisions of, well, pretty much everyone on the Island.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Given the tendency for Sir Topsham Hatt to blame the engines for things beyond their control, as well as Daisy's manipulations and overloading him with work, Percy's morphine driven rant about them both is pretty cathartic. Even moreso in that it leaves the irate Hatt and apathetic Daisy speechless.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Really to many moments to mention.

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Really to too many moments to mention.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Really to many moments to mention.

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