| Montana the Streamlined Locomotive | |
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Real Name |
Montana |
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First Appearance |
Play Safe (1936) |
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Original Publisher |
Paramount |
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Created by |
Dave Fleischer & Max Fleischer |
Origin[]
Montana is a 4-6-2 blue tender engine who appears in a 1936 cartoon, Play Safe. He is a very strict blue steam engine who dislikes people being ignorant and not caring about safety.
A little boy boards the cab of a shiny, greenish blue streamlined engine. Then he hops in the seat, blows the whistle and plays with the levers and valves. The engine starts moving, slowly at first but quickly shifting up to rapid speed. Suddenly, the gauges on the dashboard start stalking the boy with the ominous warning "play safe". Frightened, the boy realizes that the engine is going much too fast, and reaches for the levers, but they disappear before he can grab hold of them. With no way of stopping, the boy finds himself trapped on the runaway engine as it travels around treacherous mountains and into a cavernous tunnel back in placers. Suddenly, from out of nowhere a red streamliner, coming in the opposite direction and screaming, appears on the same track. The two engines blow their whistles at one another, but instead of colliding, they jump off the tracks and scream face to face as the nightmare cuts away.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Play Safe (1936)
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