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Useful Engines Follow Orders

The animation was done by Ethereal Snake, the script was made by ​⁠‪@Smartacus98‬ , the voiceover was done by me. Thank you.
Here is the script/captions:
Thomas The Tank Engine. On this day November the 12 1945, you have been found guilty by proceeding commission. Your crimes against humanity will now be paid for in full.
Crimes? What crimes?
Pardon me?
Useful engines follow orders.
"And you never once asked about your orders?
Who these people were? Where you were taking them?
"Useful engines don't ask questions. It wasn't my job to know. It was my job to arrive on time.
"You never wondered why the carriages were full on arrival, and always empty on your departure?"

"You never questioned the smell thomas?”
"I know the smell coal makes when it burns. I knew that the smoke in that place wasn't coal"
"And still, you took thousands of people there everyday, for two full years?"
Those were my orders! If I didn't follow them I
would be dead too. A useful engine always follows
orders, and there was no place in the Reich for
useless engines.
"And so you sacrificed the lives of the countless innocent people to save your own?”
"Do you think they would still be alive if I didn't Don't you think they would have found another engine to arrive on time? Those people were dead before they even stepped on my platform. Nothing I could have done would have changed that. The only difference between me and them was that I had a choice; a choice to move forward and live, or stay put and die. I made the choice for the lowest possible number of people to die. Is self-preservation a crime?"
"Why do you think you were given the job you had? Why not transporting troops or supplies to
the front? What do you think they saw in you that
made you suitable?"
"I was never there first choice.”
"So you were the last resort?"
"Everyone else was gone. I only survived because I
kept my head down and followed orders, like a
useful engine should."
"So if you were truly the last engine they could call
upon, you could have saved those people?"
"What?”
"You said you’d be replaced if you said no, yet if you refused to follow orders, there was nobody
left to replace you?"

"Is that not what you said Thomas? You were never the first choice? Everyone else was gone? Move forward or stay put, and you chose to go forward?"
"..Useful engines follow orders and arrive on time."
"And it didn't matter what you were useful for, as
long as you were useful for something?"
"Useful engines follow orders
"Was it useful for the people you carried to the
camp?"

"Thomas?"
"You would have done the same. You all would."
I'm sorry, but I must beg to differ.
"The only difference between you and I, sir, is that I can see the tracks I follow. If you were on the tracks, you'd have followed them too."
"Do you regret what you did?"

"Thomas?”
"..I see those gates every time I close my eyes.
Every time I sleep I hear the crying children and
smell the…
“The crying children, Thomas."

"Do you still feel like useful engine now, Thomas,
because you followed orders and arrived on time?"

"Thomas?"

"Kill me or let me go. I wear my punishment either way. I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."

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  • @Smartacus98
    @Smartacus98Ай бұрын

    Hey, only just found out this existed now two years later but I'm the author of the comment this was based on. Thanks for making this, glad so many people have enjoyed my take on the original video!

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    Ай бұрын

    Oh wow!! I’ve been looking for you for 2 years haha! Your writing is absolutely amazing! I’m an actor, and I love a good script, and you have a very great talent. Thank you for writing that masterpiece, friend. I’ll update your name in the credits

  • @jiado6893
    @jiado68932 жыл бұрын

    “I know the smell coal makes when it burns.” This writing is definitely on par with what Ethereal Snake put out with his full Mickey film. It’s a damn shame that this video will only ever have a fraction of the views as that follow-up video with the awkward CG train face.

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    His subscribers really know his style, this script was written by someone in his comments (credit in description). And it’s ok, I didn’t do it for the views, I just wanted to put a voice to this vid, it’s very nice.

  • @MrGamelover23

    @MrGamelover23

    Жыл бұрын

    I was fully expecting the sequel to be this video, that script, that comment. At least the writing was as good and on par with this.

  • @asherman10
    @asherman1010 ай бұрын

    this quote hits too hard for me , "I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."

  • @ricowilkins9188
    @ricowilkins9188 Жыл бұрын

    The amount of emotion in each line is solid af bravo my guy.

  • @kholemcrae1100
    @kholemcrae11002 жыл бұрын

    One episode a train engine didn’t follow orders and was bricked in for it, left in empty solitude. It made me wonder as a kid if the engines die

  • @macdarby9926

    @macdarby9926

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ahh yes Hanz and the wall, an enlightening episode.

  • @DaddyVeo1911

    @DaddyVeo1911

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, they do. Their corpses are haunting.

  • @sometrainfan60672

    @sometrainfan60672

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Engine Named Henry Got Out Of The Tunnel In the Next episode so he did not die

  • @kestrels-in-the-sky

    @kestrels-in-the-sky

    2 жыл бұрын

    I have a video for you kzread.info/dash/bejne/a4tptdGpk5WwqKg.html

  • @noobboi1688

    @noobboi1688

    Жыл бұрын

    Once an engine attached to a train, was afraid of a few drops of rain......

  • @one4all123
    @one4all1232 жыл бұрын

    Jesus Christ, this voiceover is haunting. You sir have done an excellent performance for this video.

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    thank you 😁

  • @CFCTheZoren4
    @CFCTheZoren42 жыл бұрын

    That original comment was perhaps the best story I’ve read from a video ever. Thanks for bringing it to life!

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    It really was! I was hoping the commenter would’ve continued the story or had voiced it over themselves. I knew it needed to have one. If they ever reach out, i’d love to collab with that person.

  • @philippsommer189

    @philippsommer189

    5 ай бұрын

    @@MrSnapback52 Yeah, great job! But I think you could've credited the commenter in the description as well, or at least make it known that you are not the brain behind the script. You know what they say.. don't adorn yourself with borrowed plumes.

  • @masloman6534
    @masloman65342 жыл бұрын

    All I wanted was to be a useful engine. Useful engines always arrive on time. Useful engines follow orders." "And were you aware of where you were taking the people you transported?" "I had only a vague idea sir. I knew they were prisoners. I never knew what was going to...I just...I had my orders and I followed them sir. useful engines follow orders." "And you never once asked about your orders? Who these people were? Where you were taking them, and why?" "Useful engines don't ask questions. It wasn't my job to know. It was my job to arrive on time." "Did you ever consider why the carriages were full on the way there, and always empty on the way back?" "..." "Thomas?" "I am around coal-powered tank engines all day, every day. I know the smell coal makes when it burns. I knew that the smoke in that place wasn't coal." "And you took thousands of people there every day, for two full years?" "Those were my orders. If I didn't follow them I would be dead too. A useful engine always follows orders, and there was no place in the Reich for useless engines." "So you valued your life over the lives of the countless innocent people you carried to their deaths?" "Do you think they would still be alive if I didn't? Don't you think they would have found another engine to arrive on time? Those people were dead before they even stepped on the platform. Nothing I could have done would have changed that. The only difference between me and them was that I had a choice; a choice to move forward and live, or stay put and die. I made the choice for the lowest possible number of people to die. Is self-preservation a crime?" "If you knew what was happening, why did you agree to take the job in the first place?" "You think I knew then? All anyone knew then was that things were better than they had been. The trains were running on time and if you didn't ask too many questions you could have a good life. We were still confident that victory was on the horizon. I only found out what was going on when it was too late for me to say no. There were no choices left for me then - move forward or stay put; live or die." "Why do you think you were given the job you were given? Why not transporting troops or supplies to the front? What do you think they saw in you that made you suitable?" "I was never there first choice! The Allies had bombed the Reich's infrastructure to smithereens, there was nobody else left. You bombed Herr Gordon, Herr James, Herr Percy. They chose me because they had to choose someone and their first choices were all dead." "So you were the last resort?" "Everyone else was gone. I only survived because I kept my head down and followed orders, like a useful engine should." "So if you were truly the last engine they could call upon, you could have saved those people?" "What? I never said that. What are talking about? They were already dead, all I could do was follow my orders." "And if you refused to follow them, there was nobody left to replace you?" "..." "Is that not what you said Thomas? You were never the first choice? Everyone else was gone? Move forward or stay put, and you chose to go forward?" "...Useful engines follow orders and arrive on time." "And it didn't matter what you were useful for, as long as you were useful for something?" "Useful engines follow orders." "Was it useful for the people you carried to the camp?" "..." "Thomas?" "You would have done the same. You all would." "I'm sorry? What do you mean by that?" "The only difference between you and I, sir, is that I can see the tracks I follow. If you were on the tracks, you'd have followed them too." "Do you regret what you did?" "..." "Thomas? Do you regret it?" "...I see those gates every time I close my eyes. Every time I sleep I hear the crying children and smell the..." "The crying children, Thomas." "..." "Do you still feel like useful engine now, Thomas, because you followed orders and arrived on time?" "..." "Thomas?" "Kill me or let me go. You punish me either way. I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yup! This was TheAntiParadox’s script on the original video that was the inspiration for my voiceover. He Is a brilliant writer.

  • @sirzorg5728

    @sirzorg5728

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MrSnapback52 why did you leave out the last part then?

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    9 ай бұрын

    @@sirzorg5728I’m sorry for the year long delayed reply 😂 I felt like the video didn’t need anymore than what it had, plus if ppl went to the original comment, they’d have some “new” stuff to see that wasn’t in this video! Films and books based off films are never the exact same

  • @MrSnapback52
    @MrSnapback522 жыл бұрын

    Please read the description for the credits. The animation was made by Ethereal Snake, not me, I just wanted to add my voice over. Thank you.

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Caption/Script is in description also

  • @johnnygoodman2003

    @johnnygoodman2003

    2 ай бұрын

    My favorite episode of Shiney Time Station.

  • @michaelfornes1479
    @michaelfornes14792 жыл бұрын

    I remember when I read the comment the script is based on. The voiceover is a nice touch.

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Yeah I remember first reading it a few years ago then I stumbled on it again this year and said fuck it, I gotta put a voice to this, it was too good, that guy should write a book!

  • @lauraner99
    @lauraner99 Жыл бұрын

    And ever since then, to pay tribute to what has happened, german trains never arrive on time. It all makes sense now.

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    Жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @PrawnAddiction

    @PrawnAddiction

    2 ай бұрын

    They're traumatised

  • @eldoctordelaplaga5623

    @eldoctordelaplaga5623

    2 ай бұрын

    🤣 🤣 🤣

  • @markusguadalupe2461
    @markusguadalupe24612 жыл бұрын

    this is cool, been hoping for an elaboration on this, a blend of a dark part of history with one of my favorite childhood shows

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you my friend !!!

  • @bonk2935

    @bonk2935

    2 жыл бұрын

    Watch the og channel Ethereal Snake then

  • @user-pt8mu9wg3i

    @user-pt8mu9wg3i

    4 ай бұрын

    fake history

  • @StukkoChonies
    @StukkoChonies Жыл бұрын

    They convicted thomas, but put the engineers that assembled him into witness protection and gave them government jobs in America.

  • @entertext5420
    @entertext54202 жыл бұрын

    In the end...Thomas was right...we are all the same

  • @BumberenzoManilupinoCity
    @BumberenzoManilupinoCity Жыл бұрын

    Sir Topham hat: “I know that you want to go on adventures around the world.” “Thomas, listen to this…Be careful where you go…” “You never know what they use you for!” “There could be…confusion and Despair.

  • @liammiller1472
    @liammiller14726 ай бұрын

    the Schindler's List music is perfect

  • @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195
    @pyrothefriendlyarsonist91952 жыл бұрын

    Buzz Lightyear explaining what happened during Operation Overlord "Once the ramp dropped so did my brothers...I watched as one by one of them dropped to the sea, I saw others climbing over to escape the hail of bullets while I just ran forward, I heard the cries and screams of these boys...Not soldiers, boys...I watch a poor soul holding what's suppose to be his stomach screaming for his mother...I had to keep running...When I came face to face with the enemy...I pulled the trigger and watched him fall into the mud and dirt...I never knew I could take a life so easily" "What else happen Mr. Lightyear?" The Interviewer asked. "I watched two supposedly German soldiers trying to surrender before being killed by members of the 7th Unit...I was told through our propaganda that the enemy will not show us mercy but I witness two enemy soldiers begging for their lives before being killed, When we reached the town...I thought I saw hell on the beach...But the town was hell...at least three soldiers of my unit were cut down by a Buzzsaw...I remember seeing them for one second and then they were just a red mess with chucks" "Mr. Lightyear did you feel remorse after killing a soldier?" Buzz thought on that question before speaking "Remorse? How does someone like me trained to kill and not show emotion feel remorse? I felt nothing....and to this day I still feel nothing....not a damn thing"

  • @somethingiwillremember1239

    @somethingiwillremember1239

    2 жыл бұрын

    Corporal Mr. Potato Head explaining the landing on Iwo Jima "It was a good of a day as any, they said that they destroyed all the Japanese with their bombardments, and that there wouldn't be many left to retaliate. We hopped in our Higgins landing craft and moved towards the beach, many of the men were sea sick and were vomiting over the side, I was vomiting, but not because I was sea sick, but because of the overwhelming anxiety, something was wrong and I knew it. When we landed the beach was covered in ash and soot, it made it impossible to move, not to mention digging foxholes, or moving equipment, or our amtracs. We were trying to get a beachhead established, so we could push further into the island, it was about an hour we were on the beach, and then hell rained down." Corporal Head was staring in the distance "Hell rained down? What do you mean Mr. Head?" The interviewer asked "Everything rained down on us, bullets, mortar fire, grenades, everything you can imagine, I saw my friends- my brothers fall and die. They sent us to that beach to die." "Well how did you survive then, Mr. Head?" Corporal Head was enraged by this question "How do you think I survived?!? Do you think I wanted to!?! Do you seriously think that I'd rather have my brothers lying under Arlington?!?! I wish it were me! I wish I was the one who died! I wish they didn't." "Okay, Mr. Head, I'm sorry for asking. Lets change the topic, did you kill any Japanese?" "Dozens." "How did that make you feel, Mr. Head?" "I am a killing machine, I was born to kill, not to feel. I am a marine." Corporal Head refused to answer any more questions after that.

  • @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195

    @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Joseph Bais Woody was in the North African Campaign "Those Italians were anything but weak...I seen them come at us on horses with sabers and pistols while our Tanks were being refueled...Good troops died" "You were in the battle of Toburk correct?" "Ah yes Toburk...Germans hammered us the port was lost...I still remember popping a Kraut's head clean off with my rifle...seeing his brains splatter onto the rocks it's quite the sight..." Woody begin laughing "And that's funny to you mister Woody?" "No what's funny is watching your closet friends die left and right, your up in the enemy's face bashing their skull open with your rifle...then sticking your bayonet into another..." "Mr. Woody?" "War is a sick twisted joke...We are all just pieces...bunch of old men who have stepped in war once or never been in war shout all their propaganda while WE! The young go out and fucking die!!...I have killed thousands of fathers and sons! And I'm called a hero?! I've became nothing more then a machine in this cog of war...and North Africa was only the beginning...Sicily, France, Germany...I was only getting started..."

  • @somethingiwillremember1239

    @somethingiwillremember1239

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 Sergeant Barnabus "Barney" Stinson recalls his time in the 101st Airborne Division "They dropped us on Nasiriyah and Talil" "Can you recall any of the battles you fought?" "I killed them all." "Killed who, Mr. Stinson?" "The Iraqis." "Why do you seem so shaken by this question?" "They didn't tell us we would be fighting children." "You fought children?" "Child soldiers." "How does this make you feel?" "Nothing, I was an infantryman, I was clay molded into a killing machine, glazed with blood, and fired into ceramic by the heat of war. In fact, I enjoyed it." "You enjoyed killing children..?" "That's what scares me the most Mr. Interviewer. They sent me to war to get all these things that fucked me up in the head, and then when I get home, I get a heroes welcome, somehow justifying me enjoying killing children, but after awhile, just like everyone else, I get thrown away." Sergeant Stinson killed himself shortly after the interview.

  • @movableaxis5349

    @movableaxis5349

    Жыл бұрын

    oh, I just remembered that these green soldiers holding a M16A1 and realized those were the Marines. what they were doing back in Vietnam before they met Woody, Buzz, and other toys?

  • @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195

    @pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195

    Жыл бұрын

    @@movableaxis5349 I got a story for you "He uh..Show me a pic of his girl back home, beautiful little girl i even envy him...Poor boy got his brains blown from a Sniper...He never saw his girl or his kid grow..." Pvt. Arlen held his face as he weep over the lost of his closet friend during the interview while members of his Platoon comforted him "Mr. Rocker, you were at the Battle of Khe Sahn no?" He asked "Khe Sahn? God there was so many..." He said, "So many what?" "NVA, Charlies, Tangos....Call them whatever The city was fucked...My MG was burning hot and I bagged around 80 of those buggers...One of them jumped on me so I threw him out of a window...Felt like forever for him to fall before he splatter..." "What else?" "Civilians were running, I couldn't see between Civilian and Charlies, one of them popped me in the shoulder and the hip luckily D Company rescued me...I was badly hurt so i flew back to Tokyo where I met my Mimoko...Two days later i was told my baby brother died during Saigon...I broke down...Should of been me..." SGT. Rocker, 8th Platoon Dagger Squadron "So Mr. Bronstein, you were a POW for how long?" The Interviewer asked "9 fucking years, i rotted for nine fucking years before I broke out" "You escaped?" Suddenly He begin to laugh which surprised the Interviewer and other Producers "I didn't Escape not yet at least...I broke my cage during a storm and while those fuckers were sleepy I killed them...All of them...some escaped but I made a mess" He says Unnerved as the Interviewer asked "How did you kill them?" "Shot them, stabbed even brained, don't ask if I feel any remorse cause I don't...They tortured a quarter of my men infront of me! Put bags on their heads with rats! Throw into a tiger den! Hell one was even hacked to death slowly with a fucking bamboo!! Those motherfuckers deserved it! Those were my brothers! And how does this nation thank me? They spit on me! Call me a baby killer! Well fuck you you weed smoking jobless commies!" Bronstein finished his rant as he got up and walked away "And get that camera away from me!" He shouted

  • @trevorlahey2112
    @trevorlahey21122 жыл бұрын

    I really like this. Best courthouse drama I've ever seen

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you man 😁

  • @AkiriKanan
    @AkiriKanan2 жыл бұрын

    Lesson we can learn. Some people doesn't read description, Thinking this is stealing. This person doesn't get any money for these or even attempt to.

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, I just wanted to add a voice to the great script in Ethereal’s comments. Nothing more nothing less. Glad u get it

  • @mikimosky4109

    @mikimosky4109

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrSnapback52 Thank you for this voice over, you did an brilliant job!

  • @longwlenguyen4214
    @longwlenguyen42142 жыл бұрын

    I close my eyes and all I can see is that tower of ash, floating skyward against a wed sky... then the raining down of a thousand souls, dancing in the wind. I'll never forget the way it burns your throat as you try and breathe a taste of the hellish Sulphur that's to come... the way it forces tears in your eyes... There comes a point where the faces of the people you've wronged become too many to recognize in a dream; they merge and they change and they become all consuming. No longer recognizable individuals, but an entire consciousness within your thoughts. I was once on the path when it began to snow, and from behind me I heard the laughter of a child as she reached her hand out and let a snowflake fall onto her hand, melting into nothing within a few seconds. Amidst all the screams, the curses, the cries... the sound of that laughter was the most haunting thing I have ever known. I won't beg for forgiveness. I don't want it. I don't deserve it. Whatever is coming for me after die, I embrace as inevitable and just." Thomas the tank engine confession on November 1945, Nuremberg trials.

  • @loading470
    @loading4709 ай бұрын

    This is really good, it’s fascinating to see Thomas and friends in this perspective due to Thomas and friends story books being an escape from the war I love the voice acting on this, you did a great job

  • @Maverick-zi8tu
    @Maverick-zi8tu2 жыл бұрын

    Dam this is dark. But I like. Useful Engines follow orders = Good soldiers follow orders.

  • @dummyaccount8378
    @dummyaccount83782 жыл бұрын

    "My guilt... Is that I am still here" - Franz Stangl

  • @Sanctuary.inc0707
    @Sanctuary.inc0707 Жыл бұрын

    This has better dialogue than every single marvel movie

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s amazingly written, I agree. Credits to the writer are in the description!

  • @Chadwich
    @Chadwich2 жыл бұрын

    This is dope. Great voice over job.

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you my friend 🙏🏽

  • @notlarry4905

    @notlarry4905

    2 жыл бұрын

    its stolen from ethereal snake

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@notlarry4905 I gave credit to everyone in the description, the animation was Ethereal Snake but the voice over is me

  • @speckwii
    @speckwii2 жыл бұрын

    This voiceover and music is haunting. Great work!!!

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    thank you! this music is from Schindler’s List so I thought it’d be fitting 😅

  • @calebstevens7487
    @calebstevens7487 Жыл бұрын

    I think it’s worth mentioning that in real life the Nazi’s showed no remorse and tried to justified everything at the trial. Thomas never actually apologizes or says he knew it was wrong.

  • @hello-gx6oi
    @hello-gx6oi2 жыл бұрын

    We found a good voice actor

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    thank you !!!

  • @TheT3Engine
    @TheT3Engine3 ай бұрын

    You need an Oscar

  • @nightking8490
    @nightking84909 ай бұрын

    "All I wanted was to be a useful engine. Useful engines always arrive on time. Useful engines follow orders." "And were you aware of where you were taking the people you transported?" "I had only a vague idea sir. I knew they were prisoners. I never knew what was going to...I just...I had my orders and I followed them sir. useful engines follow orders." "And you never once asked about your orders? Who these people were? Where you were taking them, and why?" "Useful engines don't ask questions. It wasn't my job to know. It was my job to arrive on time." "Did you ever consider why the carriages were full on the way there, and always empty on the way back?" "..." "Thomas?" "I am around coal-powered tank engines all day, every day. I know the smell coal makes when it burns. I knew that the smoke in that place wasn't coal." "And you took thousands of people there every day, for two full years?" "Those were my orders. If I didn't follow them I would be dead too. A useful engine always follows orders, and there was no place in the Reich for useless engines." "So you valued your life over the lives of the countless innocent people you carried to their deaths?" "Do you think they would still be alive if I didn't? Don't you think they would have found another engine to arrive on time? Those people were dead before they even stepped on the platform. Nothing I could have done would have changed that. The only difference between me and them was that I had a choice; a choice to move forward and live, or stay put and die. I made the choice for the lowest possible number of people to die. Is self-preservation a crime?" "If you knew what was happening, why did you agree to take the job in the first place?" "You think I knew then? All anyone knew then was that things were better than they had been. The trains were running on time and if you didn't ask too many questions you could have a good life. We were still confident that victory was on the horizon. I only found out what was going on when it was too late for me to say no. There were no choices left for me then - move forward or stay put; live or die." "Why do you think you were given the job you were given? Why not transporting troops or supplies to the front? What do you think they saw in you that made you suitable?" "I was never there first choice! The Allies had bombed the Reich's infrastructure to smithereens, there was nobody else left. You bombed Herr Gordon, Herr James, Herr Percy. They chose me because they had to choose someone and their first choices were all dead." "So you were the last resort?" "Everyone else was gone. I only survived because I kept my head down and followed orders, like a useful engine should." "So if you were truly the last engine they could call upon, you could have saved those people?" "What? I never said that. What are talking about? They were already dead, all I could do was follow my orders." "And if you refused to follow them, there was nobody left to replace you?" "..." "Is that not what you said Thomas? You were never the first choice? Everyone else was gone? Move forward or stay put, and you chose to go forward?" "...Useful engines follow orders and arrive on time." "And it didn't matter what you were useful for, as long as you were useful for something?" "Useful engines follow orders." "Was it useful for the people you carried to the camp?" "..." "Thomas?" "You would have done the same. You all would." "I'm sorry? What do you mean by that?" "The only difference between you and I, sir, is that I can see the tracks I follow. If you were on the tracks, you'd have followed them too." "Do you regret what you did?" "..." "Thomas? Do you regret it?" "...I see those gates every time I close my eyes. Every time I sleep I hear the crying children and smell the..." "The crying children, Thomas." "..." "Do you still feel like useful engine now, Thomas, because you followed orders and arrived on time?" "..." "Thomas?" "Kill me or let me go. You punish me either way. I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."

  • @SkoPie
    @SkoPie2 жыл бұрын

    dude i cant express how good that was. you should get into voice acting if you havent already

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you my friend! I went to college for theatre acting but i definitely plan on dipping into Voice acting work 😂

  • @Truthteller863
    @Truthteller8632 жыл бұрын

    My God I get chills every time I watch this!! Awesome vid!

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    thank you my friend 🙏🏽

  • @steelblake
    @steelblake5 ай бұрын

    Excellent performance, I was in the edge of my seat the whole time

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    5 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much 🙏🏽

  • @rodrigodepierola
    @rodrigodepierola9 ай бұрын

    Sir Topham Hatt as a Death's Head SS guy is genius

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    9 ай бұрын

    the credit belongs to the genius who made the animation, he truly put a lot of thought into it

  • @TheG119YT
    @TheG119YT2 жыл бұрын

    You know there are some people who think Thomas was a hero and did the right thing. That a person should follow orders and stay in line no matter what their General might order. That if you do talk back and stand up for innocent lives then you’re a child who needs to shut up. Because clearly the people in charge knows what’s best, every time, and without fault. What a bunch of psychos.

  • @bobcat24

    @bobcat24

    2 жыл бұрын

    I can’t call him a hero. But I do think he was just trying to survive. If he disobeyed, he’d die along with those passengers. The only way out of it would be if *everybody* came together and agreed to kill, or at least overthrow, the tyrant who’s ordering these horrible orders.

  • @Astrothunder_

    @Astrothunder_

    Жыл бұрын

    Very same dilemma the Russian people face right now. Though I doubt they will rise up and dethrone their leader. It just isn’t in human nature to disrupt the group.

  • @Zyro-dl4ow
    @Zyro-dl4ow10 ай бұрын

    Rumors tell that Thomas is barely able to run, still carrying the weight of thousands. Others say that the voices of the damned still linger in his mind, calling, screaming, for someone, anyone, to help them.

  • @Supremaque
    @Supremaque2 жыл бұрын

    From youtube comment to a masterpiece. What a ride.

  • @bigbluebuttonman1137
    @bigbluebuttonman11372 жыл бұрын

    I remember the comment and it's great to see it brought to life. Good voice acting, also.

  • @McDonnellDouglass
    @McDonnellDouglass8 ай бұрын

    Poor Thomas He dissevers better!

  • @misankroptic
    @misankroptic Жыл бұрын

    This is incredibly well made bro.

  • @miwoj
    @miwoj9 ай бұрын

    i read that comment every time i stumble on that video. great job voicing it.

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    9 ай бұрын

    🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @joecamel328
    @joecamel328 Жыл бұрын

    Sir Tophamhat was right. Sodor would be better off if they had won the war,

  • @Nicholas_Triumph_Thruxton
    @Nicholas_Triumph_Thruxton Жыл бұрын

    Thomas left his job incomplete.

  • @Julian-zf2ht
    @Julian-zf2ht2 жыл бұрын

    This lives in my head

  • @kniazjarema8587
    @kniazjarema858710 ай бұрын

    100 thousand likes on a comment. That was a masterpiece. Voice cover is a surprise, but a pleasant one.

  • @lelandmilian3988
    @lelandmilian398811 ай бұрын

    He was following orders all he could do was follow the tracks.

  • @andrewnavarrette4807
    @andrewnavarrette48079 ай бұрын

    Gold pure fucking GOLD

  • @shaneoflynn8299
    @shaneoflynn82992 жыл бұрын

    Wow what i watched was voiced so GOOD

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    thank you 🥹

  • @cameronspalding9792
    @cameronspalding97922 жыл бұрын

    November 12 1945 was a Monday

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    wait…u actually watched the video, saw the date, went straight to your calendar, went back 77 years, and confirmed what day November the 12th was lol?

  • @cameronspalding9792

    @cameronspalding9792

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrSnapback52 oh no, I was able to work it out

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cameronspalding9792 damn, I appreciate the dedication my friend haha

  • @clown3862
    @clown38622 жыл бұрын

    This is underrated lmao

  • @MoskusMoskiferus1611
    @MoskusMoskiferus16112 жыл бұрын

    Here I am Dirty and Faceless Waiting to Heed Your Instruction

  • @burneronthenetwork736
    @burneronthenetwork73611 ай бұрын

    I am so happy someone voiced that comment

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    11 ай бұрын

    That comment the guy wrote was way too good not too 😂😂🙏🏽

  • @ethanhopper432
    @ethanhopper4322 жыл бұрын

    amazing art

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    thank you friend, make sure you check out Ethereal Snake’s vid, he’s the OG!

  • @melikesmilkshakes1313
    @melikesmilkshakes13132 жыл бұрын

    this is just impressive

  • @Joseisjose280
    @Joseisjose2802 жыл бұрын

    This is some hardcore shit...

  • @karimmagdy4410
    @karimmagdy44102 жыл бұрын

    Hey friend where is the script from ? Is it from a movie?

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope! It’s from the comment section of Ethereal Snake’s Thomas the Train video. It was written by a commenter named TheAntiParadox.

  • @insaneavi
    @insaneavi2 жыл бұрын

    great job!! I must have watched it 5 times and shared it with all my ww2 buff buddies.

  • @R3TR0--93
    @R3TR0--932 жыл бұрын

    "They're always departing but they never arrive...and the ones that do arrive...they never leave...you never see them go they're always full...no one ever gets on but they're always...they're always departing but they never arrive......"

  • @SteveNonkonyana
    @SteveNonkonyana Жыл бұрын

    Me: alright whats this about... Me after: oh Thomas, what did you do. 😢

  • @user-qr7nl8vy5f
    @user-qr7nl8vy5f6 ай бұрын

    A whole another world

  • @luyandzabavukiledlamini4693
    @luyandzabavukiledlamini469310 ай бұрын

    "Useful engines follow orders" That's what every soilders say for their crimes but the uniform doesn't make you above any morality

  • @nebulaorganz
    @nebulaorganz2 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @giovannibramlia4801
    @giovannibramlia48012 жыл бұрын

    This sounds like a real thing in a story

  • @nicholasvanboom4733
    @nicholasvanboom47339 ай бұрын

    The minute we forget the crimes we are doing we are doomed to repeat them.😢

  • @kingwillsadventures2217
    @kingwillsadventures2217 Жыл бұрын

    This is very depressing

  • @venepskeuten9206
    @venepskeuten92062 жыл бұрын

    Damn that's deep

  • @williamhicks6414
    @williamhicks64149 ай бұрын

    The List music. Good work, many followed this same path. We sit in judgement, Thomas was right.

  • @SyrensL
    @SyrensL2 жыл бұрын

    OH MY GOD TBIS IS A MASTERPIECE

  • @teddybetts3254
    @teddybetts3254 Жыл бұрын

    You never questioned... Did we ever question as the migrants were herded into our own concentration camps? Did we ever question as African American kid after African American kid were gunned down by the police? Did we ever question Milton Friedman as our checks got smaller and the cooperations profits got larger? Did we ever question as climate change continued to happen? Did we ever question when Trump got elected... and then tried to stay by whatever means necessary? Yes, many did; but not enough. We'll be judged just as harshly as they were.

  • @Imalilfaggy
    @Imalilfaggy Жыл бұрын

    My God. Wow

  • @yourlocalbaltimorerailfan.6756
    @yourlocalbaltimorerailfan.6756 Жыл бұрын

    *nkp 765 go brrrr in the background*

  • @unknownsux7995
    @unknownsux79952 жыл бұрын

    What is the music you used in this?

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some Schindlers List song

  • @Argos-xb8ek
    @Argos-xb8ek10 ай бұрын

    Tomas Von Wagner was one of the most prolific criminals of the Nuremberg trials. Between the years of 1943-1945 Carried an estimated 485,000 men women and children to their deaths in labor camps, death camps, or to unmarked burial grounds keeping them in inhumane conditions where survivors recounted being forced to stand on the bodies of dead passengers and their own excrement. In a harrowing recounting by one survivor "After I regained enough strength I swore Id never eat another cow or pig again. How could I after i was thrown into that godforsaken train? We were treated as less than the cattle sent to slaughter the nights i spent having to stand in darkness hearing the whimpering of starving babies and the groans of dying people under us will never leave me when i smell garbage left out in the sun it takes me back to the smell of rotted bodies of vomit and excrement Im sorry I cant say more"

  • @ajweaver-oy9mu
    @ajweaver-oy9mu9 ай бұрын

    I just checked out the holocaust museum in Chicago. That makes it this is so much better and worse at the same time

  • @DanielNeedham2500
    @DanielNeedham2500 Жыл бұрын

    What happened to Thomas's driver and fireman?

  • @JNR_C62

    @JNR_C62

    Жыл бұрын

    they got arrested for feeding an human organ fire

  • @g_br
    @g_br2 жыл бұрын

    Nice.

  • @TailsTheSmartest
    @TailsTheSmartestАй бұрын

    Can i use this video's audio for a video? Ill give credit to you

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    Ай бұрын

    Sure thing friend, have fun 🔥

  • @TailsTheSmartest

    @TailsTheSmartest

    Ай бұрын

    @@MrSnapback52 thanks

  • @louisejhoisagaysay1217
    @louisejhoisagaysay12172 жыл бұрын

    Mam this is dark the original comment should be a arthur

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    I completely agree with you, his writing is brilliant

  • @SollomonTheWise
    @SollomonTheWise2 жыл бұрын

    Dang, Thomas

  • @mattb5427
    @mattb54279 ай бұрын

    Thomas did nothing wrong.

  • @ahmedelbattouti7040
    @ahmedelbattouti70402 жыл бұрын

    Pourrais tu faire des sous-titres en anglais pour que les gens comme moi qui ne sont pas très bon puisse mieux comprendre en lisant

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Q: “Could you do english subtitles for the people like me who are not very good can understand better by reading” A: Yes friend !- (Oui Ami !”)

  • @masloman6534

    @masloman6534

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrSnapback52 pls do subtitles ☺️

  • @brodaciousmax8025
    @brodaciousmax80252 жыл бұрын

    Sady most of us r good lil engines.

  • @jamiemiller1482
    @jamiemiller1482 Жыл бұрын

    Anyone know the background music?

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    Жыл бұрын

    it’s the main theme from Schindlers List

  • @jamiemiller1482

    @jamiemiller1482

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MrSnapback52 thank you my friend

  • @ethanmalandain3072
    @ethanmalandain307211 ай бұрын

    From a comment to a full video. I have been looking for it but it disappeared

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    11 ай бұрын

    it should still be there, you just gotta scroll a little more since it’s been so long 😭

  • @ethanmalandain3072

    @ethanmalandain3072

    11 ай бұрын

    @@MrSnapback52 yeah but it's really hard to find

  • @patrikbergqvist6988
    @patrikbergqvist698810 ай бұрын

    He moved to England ?

  • @zzz-ec6ng
    @zzz-ec6ng Жыл бұрын

    THOMAS Was only following

  • @codedlAnguage
    @codedlAnguage Жыл бұрын

    😘. Think for Yourselves. 💝

  • @brandenburgkommando707
    @brandenburgkommando7072 жыл бұрын

    Thomas Choo Choo choosed the fate of the people on his platform with his actions. Following orders isn't a sufficient excuse.

  • @Sweetdude64
    @Sweetdude64 Жыл бұрын

    song?

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    Жыл бұрын

    I dont know the song name exactly but I know it’s the main song from Schindlers List

  • @juancabrera-ru9jx
    @juancabrera-ru9jx2 жыл бұрын

    Damn that voiceover is good

  • @Argos-xb8ek
    @Argos-xb8ek4 ай бұрын

    I come back every now and again to get a good dark laugh. But seriously I dont think how horrible of a delimma it would be to have to sit and be told/reminded that I personally aided in the suffering and deaths of countless scores of people. Its the same thing as being part of corporations or governments that aide and abade atrocities. Does it ever haunt people like Rawandan Genocide or Yemen or Mayanmars ethnic cleansing or even in Gaza rigbt now

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    3 ай бұрын

    This is deep 😳

  • @VidalMoon
    @VidalMoon2 жыл бұрын

    I am moved by this.

  • @masloman6534
    @masloman65342 жыл бұрын

    Add comment with subtitles pls

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Okay! I had another comment ask me to do this to, I have to figure out how, but I will try!

  • @masloman6534

    @masloman6534

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or at least add it into description ☺️

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@masloman6534 Great idea! I’m doing it now. Thank you 🙏🏽

  • @masloman6534

    @masloman6534

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrSnapback52 thank you!❤️

  • @joeyfoureyes98
    @joeyfoureyes98 Жыл бұрын

    Kanye west should have been his defense

  • @chels5001
    @chels50012 жыл бұрын

    Second

  • @mepersonally2527
    @mepersonally25272 жыл бұрын

    holy shid there are 666 likes

  • @skskksk2653
    @skskksk2653 Жыл бұрын

    Eeeee

  • @marquisyarosh4994
    @marquisyarosh49942 жыл бұрын

    What is this a parody of?

  • @MrSnapback52

    @MrSnapback52

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thomas the Tank and the Nuremberg Trials

  • @deathcogunit106
    @deathcogunit1062 жыл бұрын

    Trainler did nothing wrong

  • @backuplphotos2389
    @backuplphotos23892 жыл бұрын

    First