I can sort of understand giving the engines sentience, but why

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And when they scrap one, what happens with the face? Do they cut it off, and that's what kills the engine? Or do they just cut the engine up ignoring the face, and at some point the engine will succumb to it's injuries and die? And then what happens to the faces? Are they flesh? Do they bury them somewhere or burn them? Are they metal? Do they melt them down too?
WHERE is the sentience of the engine? Is it contained entirely within the face itself? Is there a brain and shit behind it protruding into the boiler area?

>>88288272
If it has wheels, it feels.

>>88288272
You're reading too much into it.

>>88288349
you sound like my mum

>>88288314
fanart or original?

>>88288272
It's a personification of crappy inefficient British freight trains in the 1900s, literally

>>88288344
Are roller-skates sentient in the TTTE Universe? What about shopping carts? Would making a tire swing be considered some kind of fucked up butchering of a living being?

Just read into Shed 17

>>88292560
No, I want canon answers

>>88292464
That's an original. Haunting stuff.

>>88288272
Wouldn't this lead to the train equivalent of "Human Centipede"?

>>88293640
Does one shit into the next's mouth?

Then no.

>>88288272
In the original books Gordon's coaches did sometimes talk, they just didn't have faces.

>>88294167
They've given Henrietta and the break down train a face in the show now