Thomas and the Magic Railroad/Behind the Scenes

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This is a behind the scenes subpage for Thomas and the Magic Railroad. This subpage contains all behind the scenes material relating to said article.

Behind the Scenes

Concept Arts

Lady First Concept Art

Lady Second Concept Art

Diesel 10 Concept Art

Splatter Concept Art

Dodge Concept Art

The Magic Railroad Concept Art

Storyboards

Storyboards

Film Production

Percy

Cranky

David Axford

David Axford

Dave Eves and Nigel Permane

Adam Slater setting up the salvage tugboat and barge

David Eves and Adam Slater setting up Diesel 10 for the filming of the viaduct scene

Alec Baldwin in Thomas' life-size model with Britt Allcroft

Michael E. Rodgers on James' life-size model

Diesel 10's life-size model

Crew Photos

Britt with Panavision 35mm movie camera

Russell Means on the Isle of Man set (August 1999)

Britt Allcroft

Doug Lennox with Britt Allcroft

Britt Allcroft and David Mitton

A behind the scenes picture of (from left to right) Patrick Breen, John Bellis, Britt Allcroft, Michael Angelis, and Keith Scott

Mara Wilson on board The Rainbow Sun on set

Mara Wilson at the Strasburg Railroad

Phil Fehrle with Keith W. Strandberg and Doug Lennox's stunt double, Mike Jones

Mara Wilson and Peter Fonda

Mara Wilson

Cody McMains and Lady

David Mitton

Peter Eves on Halloween

The crew jacket

Modelling

Gordon's model

Harold's model

Percy's models

Henry's model

Thomas' model

Dave Asling airbrushing a warehouse model

Diesel 10's Mountain

Brass models of Thomas, Percy and Lady

Thomas' brass model

Percy's brass model

Lady's brass model

Tidmouth Sheds' new model

Character/Building Models and Faces

Lady

Diesel 10

Splatter without the name

Dodge without the name

Thomas' brass model

Percy's brass model

Bertie's new model

Thomas' brass model formerly on display at Nitrogen Studios

Percy's brass model formerly on display at Nitrogen Studios

Thomas and Percy's brass models before restoration immediately after arriving in Japan in 2013

Thomas' brass model on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan

Percy's brass model on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan

Diesel 10's model in pre-restored condition at Mattel's storage unit

Henrietta's resin model formerly on display at Nitrogen Studios

Henrietta's resin model on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan

A resin green express coach and red express coach formerly on display at Nitrogen Studios

A resin green express coach on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park

Two resin green express coaches owned by Twitter user TomsProps

Two new resin red express coaches on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park

Two new resin red express coaches on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan

A new resin red express brake coach owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Two resin mail vans on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park

The vans on display at Drayton Manor in 2023

A resin mail van on display at the second Clearwater Event in 2022

Tidmouth Goods Station's new model during construction of Drayton Manor's new model layout display

The road portion of the Rail and Road Under Bridges during construction of Drayton Manor's new model layout display (Note: The broken far left pillar')

Lady's first prototype face

Lady's second prototype face

Thomas' content face prior to being sold and restoration

The face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Thomas' suspicious face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Henry's concerned (formerly sad) face on display in 2022

Gordon's happy, angry and grumpy faces on display in 2019

Gordon's grumpy face on display in 2021

Toby's sleeping face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Diesel 10's worried/speechless and unused cringing faces (bottom left) on display in 2021

Resin casts of some of Diesel 10's faces

Dodge's smiling and cross faces on display in 2019

Resin casts of Diesel 10, Lady, Splatter and Dodge owned by YourProps user Deutschebahn

Face Reference Sheets

Thomas' faces

(Note: Thomas' original wincing face can be made out underneath the right of his elderly face)

(Note: Thomas' yawning face can be made out underneath the left of his confident face)

Production Measurement References

Lady's model

Diesel 10's model

Splatter's model

Dodge's model

Reference Sheets

Thomas

Lady with a smokebox door

Diesel 10

Splatter

Dodge

Block for the green screen

In the ruler reference photos of Lady's model taken before being refurbished for Calling All Engines!, the block used for the Magic Railroad green screen shot remains under her chassis.

Note: Her right stepladder is missing

Note: One of her buffers is missing

Life-Size Lady (2017 condition)

Firebox

List of Sets

Gauge 1 sets

A total of 36 Gauge 1 sets were constructed for the filming of Thomas and the Magic Railroad. In order of their first appearance within this film, these are:

1

2

3

4 - The Watermill

5 - Knapford

6 (redressed from 8 - Killaban)

7 - Rail and Road Under Rail Bridges

8 - Killaban

9 - The Big Dipper

10

11

12 - Tidmouth Sheds

13 - Diesel 10's Mountain

14

15

16 (redressed from 3)

17 - Sodor Grain Windmill

18

19

20 - Sodor Ironworks (1)

21 - Sodor Ironworks (2)

22 - Henry's Tunnel

23

24

25

26

27 - The Coaling Plant

28

29

30

31

32

33 - Sodor Ironworks (3)
(redressed from 20 - Sodor Ironworks (1))

34 - Sodor Wishing Well

35

36

Promotion and Marketing

“Movie magic hits Pa.” on the newspaper

A still slide of Lady, which was provided to various magazine and newspaper companies for promotional purposes of the films premiere, as owned by Twitter user Hardy20068

Most of the promotional still slides from the film's premiere as owned by Twitter user CidrokTheDragon

35mm Trailer Copy (Owned by EdzTrains)

Trailer Film Reel Copy (Owned by Boston Thomas Fan)

Amtrak coupon (The original World Trade Center is indirectly-mentioned in this coupon, when it refers to the United States' 'tallest building'.)

Framed Fill-Cell Print

Japanese merchandise

(Owned by Boston Thomas Fan)