-various other industries. Of course, not everyone would have it nearly as good as the Fat Controller’s engines. Most of the industrial engines would probably even look at them like rich folk everyone looks up to and admire, whilst they are just filthy factory workers working in

-the background that everyone overlooks. Most of them would despise the NW engines I’m sure, thinking they have it so much better than them. Of course, some were lucky to have found the Fat Controller’s favor and brought to the railway, or preserved by some organization. Others…

Well… as we all know, not even Sodor is entirely safe from the gas axe, or replacement by diesel engines.

A.W. Dry themselves would’ve definitely used engines. Surely they would’ve used them for various duties, like helping build and run the shipyards, or dredging out the marshlands around Knapford. Given they have steelworks, they’d need shunters too. Perhaps they even invested in-

-reconditioning and distributing industrial engines around Sodor. Perhaps this was where the workshop where Percy came from was? ;)

@Nictrain123 YESS WE NEED THIS YES

@DragonsNavigate Defo would encourage more stories about Sodor’s industrial sector to be written aside from Mavis, Bill, Ben and Fergus! :)

@Nictrain123 People talk about Sodor as if it’s this beautiful green place, when it’s probably industrialized to hell and back

@rocks_jasper Yep… lol

@Nictrain123 On the same mindset as this

@ChryNy79 Ho, nice! Yeah pretty much :)

@Nictrain123 I had an idea for a petroleum refinery at Tidmouth that extends in global trade explaining the tankers all over the place. It is ran by Eugene & Sheldon, the private shunters, but the company is very iffy about environmental practices when it comes to business.

@JACCC_052 Nice! I figure there might be a refinery for processing oil at Tidmouth. There is an abundance of oil wells on the south side of the island if I recall correctly!

@Nictrain123 * I've personally got: the aluminium company, A.W.Dry, SCC, the Sodor Shipping Company, the ironworks, the gas company, Sodor Railway Repair, FQC, Fred Pelham Coal, the cement works, the ballast and granite company, Jolly's Chocolate Factory, the BMQ, a ship canal at Vicarstown-

@Nictrain123 I always assumed both Cronk & Tid had other industrial engines, especially Tidmouth Plus I’m sure the harbor itself has a few engines to call their own

@Nictrain123 In my headcanon, after the NW was formed, the CG Mining Company no longer needed Neil, but other industries on the island did need a private engine. For a bit of extra money, Neil would be loaned out to different sites for many years.

@Nictrain123 I like to think sodor had many more industrial engines. The boxtanks (6 in my case) had to go somewhere, SCC, CGMC, SIW, or just scrapped. Aside from mavis and the twins in present day, the engines who work at the works at privately, and diesels owned by A.W.Dry

@Nictrain123 Arry and bert are privately owned

@Nictrain123 I have 3 more engines that work in sudrian industries : - Jennifer (or Jenny), The Tidmouth Harbour Company engine - Gavin, The (Cronk?) Refinery Engine - Melody, The Peel Godred Aluminium Plant Engine (and the engine that now currently takes Push Pull Trains on Edward's line)