Percy Coming To Strasburg

robertjohndavis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:10 am **Posts:** 2499

There will be a second visitor from Sodor this year. Is this another live steam conversion or a push-replica? Has anyone seen the Reading 0-4-0c lately? ;-)

http://www.strasburgrailroad.com/train- ... th-thomas/

Rob

Matt Mundis · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:39 pm

Percy is a replica. AKA- "P-REP"

Frisco1522 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:55 pm

Make sure he doesn't puff white smoke.

k5ahudson · **Joined:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:30 am **Posts:** 773

A HIT Entertainment rep told me just last week they have contracted Strasburg to build a Percy replica. There is only one being built though and will not make the trip to every Day Out With Thomas event with one of the 6 (or is it 7 now) replica Thomas's. Only a few. Sorry, but Percy will need a little help to make him move. ;)

Mgoldman · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2014 1:57 am

If you are like me, the only trains you saw on TV were on
Warner Brothers or MGM.

So, if you, like me, were wondering what Percy looks like:

/Mitch

Mgoldman · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2014 2:00 am

Side profile - found in Google image search

It's an 0-4-0. Boy, I sure hope they keep their hands off the Reading Camelback!!!!

No way, right? Not in a million years.
(right?)

/Mitch

cnj1524 · **Joined:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:29 am **Posts:** 59

The camelback was moved again to behind the backshop(there 2 weeks ago)
I would think percy will be nothing more than sheet metal on a set of new drivers

MRLX1020 · **Joined:** Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:22 pm **Posts:** 70

the kids at the first DOWT event that features Percy will loose their $h!t when the engines start talking to each other............

TimReynolds · **Joined:** Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:11 pm **Posts:** 287

Percy is gets into lots of mischief on the show. Lets hope this version is well behaved.

p51 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2014 2:48 pm

I took my wife's nephew to ride behind the replica Thomas several years ago when he was a little kid. I was impressed with how the event was run, they have it down to a science. It was pretty cool seeing a full-size Thomas, I have to admit.

Mgoldman wrote:

If you are like me, the only trains you saw on TV were on
Warner Brothers or MGM.

My nephew (a different one, this one was my Brother's son) was just shy of 2 years old when he came to live with my parents for a short while as both his parents were deployed with the USAF. I was living there as well while getting my AA degree. In the afternoons if I was around, Jackson would always know when it was time for Thomas on TV, and would come up to me and ask, "Choo choo?"
We'd plop down in Dad's chair, break out some goldfish crackers (which I really was never a big fan of but only ate them because he liked them so much) and would watch Thomas for 30 minutes. He's in his 20s now and is newly-minted Army LT (did the same thing his nutty Uncle did), and I recently asked if he recalled that. I don't think he does, but they're great memories for me.

S. Weaver · **Posted:** Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:28 pm

TimReynolds wrote:

Percy gets into lots of mischief on the show. Lets hope this version is well behaved.

Yeah, let's hope ...

JimBoylan · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:43 am

robertjohndavis wrote:

There will be a second visitor from Sodor this year. Is this another live steam conversion or a push-replica? Has anyone seen the Reading 0-4-0c lately?

As of 8/9/14, the only progress on the conversion of the body was the removal of the wood parts from the cab roof. It was outdoors, East of the shops.