Thread:Brandon10002/@comment-24669562-20160622065424/@comment-24669562-20160622131731

Brandon10002 wrote: The engine in my avatar is named Etienne. He is supposed to represent France in the upcoming Thomas & Friends movie, The Great Race. Oh Wow, a new-coming Thomas and Friends movie! I'd like to see that!

I have to be honest, and this is just my opinion, but I wish the level crossings (railroad crossings) shown in the Thomas series featured the more visible gates that go down and up, and while I'm at it, have red and white stripes. Basically something like this:

http://bricker.info/images/sets/7835_brickset.jpg Other examples just in case you're interested:http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/76/Lincoln-high-street-level-crossing.redvers.jpg http://www.gaugemaster.com/_upload/imgs/lrg/34669/FM9198.jpg (except I prefer the gates were on different sides of the road) http://t05.deviantart.net/rJFcR0tMK009iTP-tVk0OOMdFgU=/300x200/filters:fixed_height(100,100):origin/pre12/e4ba/th/pre/i/2007/332/4/b/german_local_cab_car_by_herrdrayer.jpg And my most favorite of them all: American style gates with red lights on them (and my most favorite kind of signal, but that's asking for too much, British style signals would be more appropriate) http://previews.123rf.com/images/peterm/peterm0812/peterm081200037/4047074-Railroad-crossing-with-gates-in-New-Mexico-USA-Stock-Photo-level.jpg

Then again, Thomas and Friends seems to take place back in the early 20th century, like 80 to 100 years ago, more-less and something like this wouldn't happen until generations later. Besides that's what my fanart is for and I"ve been thinking about doing Thomas the Tank Engine fanart. Okay I admit it, I'm more into railroad crossings than trains, they're my most favorite part of railroads, preferably gated and or at least lighted crossings. (I'm very particular about some things)

By the way, if you're interested, there's a Trains and Locomotives wikia you can join: http://trains-and-locomotives.wikia.com/wiki/Trains_And_Locomotives_Wiki

I also have train and crossing fanart on some other wikias and on Deviant Art (check my profile to access my Deviant Art page)