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Thomas and the Magic Railroad (originally under a working title Thomas and the Rainbow Railway) is a 2000 British-American feature film based on the TV series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and Shining Time Station. The film tells the story of the caretaker of an enchanted steam engine, and a conductor whose magical gold dust is running low, both of whom enlist the help of Thomas the Tank Engine to defeat the evil Diesel 10.
- Directed and written by Britt Allcroft.
Take the magic journey.(taglines)
- Gordon: [waits at the station] 5, 6, 7, 8...
- Thomas: [pulls up beside Gordon] Who do we appreciate? Practicing your numbers, Gordon. That's a good engine.
- Gordon: I'm counting how many seconds late you are. What does that sign say?
- Thomas: Hmm… [reads the sign] "Sodor Railway, really reliable and right on time. Signed, head of the railway, Sir Topham Hatt."
- Gordon: But you weren't on time, little Thomas.
- Thomas: And you're being bossy, Gordon. [Gordon scoffs again] Now, please excuse me. I'm meeting Mr. Conductor. He's looking after us while Sir Topham Hatt takes a much needed holiday.
- Gordon: Oh, I think we can take care of ourselves.
- Diesel 10: [rushes through the station] Get outta my way! I have unfinished business here, and I wanna finish it fast!
- Gordon: [quivers] Diesel 10's back!
- Thomas: Yes, 10 out of 10 for devious deeds and brutal strength! The blast from the past who hates steam engines!
- Gordon: Maybe we do need Mr. Conductor here after all. On time!
- Lily: Grandpa's been so sad since Grandma Tasha died, and he never comes here to see us.
- Mrs. Stone: Well, maybe your visit will cheer him up. Did you get his present?
- Lily: Here. I'm making him a friendship bracelet.
- Mrs. Stone: Honey, that's beautiful.
- Lily: But I'd rather just stay here with you.
- Mrs. Stone: I know. Come here. [she and Lily hug]
- Lily: I'm gonna go up this way.
- Mrs. Stone: Okay. Be careful.
- Lily: You always say that.
- Mrs. Stone: See you in a minute.
- Lily: You're coming with me to Grandpa's, Bluebird. I know how much you like to travel.
- Toby: What's important is to stand up on our own wheels to Diesel.
- Henry: Toby's right. Diesel knows that the lost engine in the legend really exists.
- James: What engine?
- Percy: What legend?
- Henry: An engine who's magic makes her more powerful than Diesel will ever be. That's why he wants to find her.
- Percy: Then we'd better find her, first.
- James: [puffs out of the shed] Leave it to the big engines, Percy.
- [Mr. Conductor picks up a baseball bat]
- Mr. Conductor: [chuckles] So, who dropped the ball then? [catches a beach ball] Oh, there you are. I'd like a nice cup of hot cocoa. Would you fellas care to join me? No? What would you rather do instead? [to the beach ball] Go outside and play? Well, I can understand that. [to the bat] What do you think? [makes the bat hit the ball; mock disappointment] Why do you keep hitting him like that? You're gonna have to have a time out. [throws bat on his bed and makes his hot cocoa]
- [Diesel 10 appears and laughs evilly]
- Mr. Conductor: [sips cocoa] Just a little sweeter, I think. [adds sugar to cocoa]
- Diesel 10: All right, Pinchy, my little bucket of badness, time to feast yourself.
- Mr. Conductor: [sips cocoa again, and is satisfied] Ahh. Now that's better. [Diesel 10 tears off part of the sheds] Whoa! [removes his night cap and puts on his conductor hat, as the steam engines wake up in alarm, and Diesel 10 tears off more of the sheds and laughs evilly] Ahh! Whoa!
- Thomas: [alarmed] Cinders and ashes! It's Diesel!
- Gordon: Diesel?! Oh, no!
- [Diesel 10 laughs evilly]
- Diesel 10: Hello, Twinkle Toes! I got a plan and you're not in it!
- Mr. Conductor: You can't catch me, Diesel! [blows on his whistle twice, but only a little gold comes out of it]
- Diesel 10: [laughs coldly] Losing your sparkle, huh? What perfect timing. Now where is that lost engine?
- Mr. Conductor: You won't find her here.
- Diesel 10: You're not clever enough to stop me.
- Mr. Conductor: Oh, yes I am!
- Diesel 10: No, you're not! Ah- [sees Mr. Conductor hold up a bag of sugar] What–?! Is that...?!
- Mr. Conductor: That's right, it's sugar, Diesel! And if I throw this in your tank, it'll seize you up for good!
- Diesel 10: [grunts and chuffs away] Make the most of tonight, Twinkle Toes, because you won't like tomorrow! Neither will that... that line of tin kettles! [to his claw] Shut up, Pinchy!
- Thomas: [after the diesel leaves] Mr. Conductor, but what happened to your sparkle?
- Mr. Conductor: I don't know, Thomas, I'll just have to sleep on that.
- Thomas: [confused] On your sparkle?
- Mr. Conductor: No, Thomas. On the problem of what happened to it.
- Percy: Oh, but Mr. Conductor, without your sparkle or the Lost Engine, you can't travel here to help us anymore.
- Mr. Conductor: I'll solve the problem. You just go to sleep now.
- Percy: Easy for you to say.
- Bertie: Smile, you steamers. It's a sunny day. Vroom-vroom!
- James: It's not sunny, 'cause Mr. C's not at the windmill, I looked!
- Thomas: I think his sparkle's all gone.
- Henry: My smoke box doesn't feel sunny. It feels stuffed up.
- Gordon: Nasty fumes from dingy Diesel 10! [chuckles]
- Henry: And Diesel is after the lost engine.
- Toby: And if he finds her, I fear that will destroy us all.
- Gordon: What, even an engine as big as me?!
- Toby: Yes, Gordon, even you.
- [Thomas sneezes]
- James: Say it, don't spray it, Thomas!
- Thomas: I've still got sneezing powder up my funnel.
- [Junior's shell phone rings]
- Junior: [wakes up] That's my shell phone. [pulls off his headphones, and answers his shell phone] Hello?
- Mr. Conductor: Junior? Junior, is that you?!
- Junior: Oh, hi, Cous! Uh, are you in a tunnel? This isn't a very good line.
- Mr. Conductor: Junior, where are you?!
- Junior: Um, I'm in paradise. I just got in Cloud 9 and here I am.
- Mr. Conductor: Junior, listen to me. You've got to come to the Island of Sodor RIGHT NOW!
- Junior: Now? But I'm waiting on a perfect wave!
- Mr. Conductor: Oh, no. You're not, you're coming here! [Junior sighs in annoyance] You have to help me find the source of all our family's gold dust.
- Junior: What is the source?
- Mr. Conductor: That's the trouble, Junior. I haven't a clue!
- Junior: And I've used up most of my gold dust, too.
- Mr. Conductor: [shocked] What?! [Junior sighs] Then go to Shining Time Station first. And in my signal-house in the box under the staircase, you'll find my emergency whistle with the last of my supply. Please take care of this, Junior, and... [quietly] Don't talk to anyone about the buffers.
- Junior: [loses the signal] What buffers?
- Mr. Conductor: Shh!
- Junior: This is a really bad line! Hello! My shell phone's not working properly!
- Mr. Conductor: Junior, you got to come here right away! I'm counting on you!
- Junior: Hello?! [throws out his phone] I want my money back.
- Thomas: Morning, Henry. What's the matter?
- Henry: I've got... [sniffs] boiler ache.
- Thomas: And I'm collecting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 trucks of special Island of Sodor coal for you.
- Henry: Oh, thank you, Thomas. Special coal will make me feel... [sneezes] ...much better!
- Thomas: [backs into the trucks] I wish I could make Mr. Conductor feel better too by finding him.
- [the sixth truck goes zooming into a pair of buffers with a nearby tumbleweed and disappears into them; Thomas pulls the remaining trucks as Bertie passes by]
- Bertie: Hello, Thomas and your 5 coal trucks! Vroom-vroom!
- Thomas: 5? But I'm supposed to have 6.
- [Percy puffs into the night by Diesel 10's Mountain]
- Percy: I am brave. I am brave. Thomas says I'm brave, so I'm brave. Oh, it's not easy being brave. [sees Splatter and Dodge at the buffers] Shiver my pistons. There's Splatter and Dodge. Oh, they found the buffers! Oh, now what's going to happen? [a flock of birds fly by a tree] Ohh!
- Tumbleweed: [rolls along] Hey, partner. Excuse me, coming through, pardon me.
- Percy: Oh, that's just nothing. [a shed door opens slowly, then closes quickly] That nothing was something!
- Splatter: These must be the buffers Diesel's looking for.
- Dodge: Are we supposed to go through them?
- Splatter: Not we, you.
- Dodge: Not me, you.
- Splatter: This is a job for the boss. [an owl hoots, scaring them] We'll tell him tomorrow.
- Dodge: Yeah, tomorrow's good.
- Percy: [backs away] Oh, I'd better hurry back and warn Thomas.
- [while approaching the old magic buffers]
- Thomas: I promise I'll get you home to your grandfather, Lily.
- Tumbleweed: [starts leading Thomas to the buffers] Follow me, partner!
- Thomas: Whoa!
- Tumbleweed: Right this way to Bufferville, just a walk in the park!
- Thomas: We're going though, Lily.
- Tumbleweed: You're on your own here on in, little blue buckaroo! Yee-hoo! [bounces off the track]
- Thomas: Little engines can do big things! [passes through the magic buffers]
- Lady: [gets her face in the Magic Railroad] So, Burnett, you didn't forget about magic. It's safe inside you. [later; Thomas toots]
- Lily: Thomas!
- Thomas: You found her, and she's beautiful!
- [after Thomas comes out of the Magic Buffers, Diesel 10, Splatter, and Dodge can see him with Lady]
- Diesel 10: Ah-ha! There's the blue puffball, and look who he's with! Splodge, come and destroy!
- Splatter: N-No, y-you do it yourself.
- Dodge: We don't like you.
- Splatter: Yeah, we mean that.
- Dodge: Emphatically.
- Splatter: Yeah. What does that mean?
- Dodge: I have no idea.
- Splatter: It's a good word.
- Thomas: Run, Lady! Quickly, and I'm going to help you!
- Burnett: So am I, my Lady. I'll not let you down again.
- Diesel 10: Ahh, who needs you, Splodge?
- [the conductors finally get their supply of magic gold dust]
- Thomas: Lady, you're a helpful engine.
- Lady: And helping each other brings to life the magic in all of us.
- [last line]
- Mr. Conductor: [narrating]: And so we've come to the happy end of our story, and it's time for all of us to go home, just like Thomas.
- Pulling into theaters everywhere July 2000.
- Take the magic journey.
- Little Engines Can Do Big Things...
Live-action
- Alec Baldwin - Mr. Conductor
- Mara Wilson - Lily Stone
- Peter Fonda - Burnett Stone
- Jared Wall (young)
- Michael E. Rodgers - C. Junior
- Cody McMains - Patch
- Robert Tinkler (adult; uncredited)
- Didi Conn - Stacy Jones
- Russell Means - Billy Twofeathers
- Lori Hallier - Mrs. Stone
- Laura Bower - Tasha Stone
- Doug Lennox - P. T. Boomer (uncredited, some deleted scenes)
Voices
- Eddie Glen - Thomas the Tank Engine
- Neil Crone - A tumbleweed (uncredited), Diesel 10, Splatter and Gordon the Big Express Engine
- Kevin Frank - Dodge, Henry the Green Engine, Bertie the Bus and Harold the Helicopter
- Britt Allcroft - Lady the Magical Engine
- Linda Ballantyne - Percy the Small Engine
- Susan Roman - James the Red Engine
- Colm Feore - Toby the Tram Engine
- Shelley-Elizabeth Skinner — Annie and Clarabel
- Thomas and the Magic Railroad quotes at the Internet Movie Database
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