abstract | - Railroad Station Series was an Americanised version of the British television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, seen on the PBS network. The show consisted of a plot line, with an "episode" of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (mostly stock footage, which was cartoon-animated instead of live action animated). The show introduced Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends to the US however, none of the original series' plotlines were used; the new stories were rewritten and edited as moral based stories, rather than action based. Another significant change is the characters featured in the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends segments: Gordon was renamed Garten; Toby was renamed Tobold; Duck was renamed Doug and Troublesome Trucks as Foolish Freight Cars. Also, Sodor became Sodall Island. In some cases, even the characters' genders were changed, such as the case with Thomas' major characters, Percy, Peter Sam, Bertie and Rusty who were now all females, instead of male.
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