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Oliver Duck, also known as Ted and formerly known as Oliver267 studios and 1646010, is a TWR Community member that joined YouTube on October 7th, 2011. He is the creator of the series Tales of the North Western Railway, and produces several other types of videos such as custom show cases with his series The Wooden Model Project, and reviews , with his Series Train Yard Reviews. He currently has over 3,000 subscribers and is the current Vice President of the Thomas Wooden Railway Community. He is a two time former TWRC Champion and the current TWRC Island of Sodor Champion in his first reign. He was referred to as the Undisputed TWRC Champion when he held both titles, until he lost the TWRC Champion status in Clash of the Thomas Wooden Railway Community 5.


In The Beginning[]

For the first two years, Ted's channel was used only to post comments, like videos, and so on. Ted then stumbled upon the TWR Community on YouTube in the summer of 2012. He first found ThomasWoodenRailway and watched every video he had ever made that summer. After Ted had done that, he went on and found some other users. He started to get inspired to make his own TWR Videos. 

The Thomas Wooden Railway Competition[]

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Ted's TWR Competition Entry

The Thomas Wooden Railway Competition was what lit the spark in Ted's interest in making TWR videos. Ted decided to enter the competition with his first TWR Video. The entry did not get a prize but Ted decided to start collecting new items for the first time since he was seven.

Name Problems[]

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Oliver Duck Profile image in 2011- Jan 3 2013, This was pared with the channel name "Oliver267 Studios", and 1646010.

Ted had struggled with his YouTube for the first few years. When he was making his channel he thought it was asking for personal information so he put random numbers, and his username ended up as "1646010". This did not bother him for the first two years but when he started to transform his channel and start using it for TWR, he could not come up with a good name. After countless attempts to change it, he gave up and changed his channel name to Oliver267 studios. Oliver267 is Ted's preferred name. Finally, around February 2013, Ted gave in and linked his channel with Google Plus. There, he could change his name to anything with a space and no numbers or symbols. He decided to pick the name Oliver Duck from his two favorite characters from Thomas & Friends. By the time that YouTube changed their policies to allow users to change their names to anything, Ted's Channel was too well known as Oliver Duck to change it to Oliver267. 

Original Tales of the North Western Railway []

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One of the latter shots of Ted's Original Episode 1, and an Early Profile Picture From early 2013- mid 2013.

Ted started making his first episode in December 2012. By the time he was done, it was January 2013. He uploaded a layout video for his first episode. Then, shortly after episode 1, he named his new series North Western Railway Series. He continued to make episodes and gain subscribers. The original 5 episodes produced had no script but had planned plot lines, and lines were recorded as film was by Ted. Around episode 5 the series was renamed to Tales of the North Western Railway. Episode 1-7 was produced in Ted's first set up in his basement common room, After a break, Episodes 8-9 were made in a small set up in Ted's room. Finally, Episode 10 was originally produced in Teds Large set up in his room. At this point, Ted took a break from his series to create a mini-movie special North Western Railway 100 Years in the Making. After the major improvements that came in this era, and fans having a hard problem understanding the early episodes world building, Ted decided to try to bring all the episodes up in quality and start the remastering process. He remastered episode 1-3 with voice actors, and better sets and production quality. Ted left YouTube and production stopped for most of 2015-2016. Ted returned in 2016 however and released episode 4-10 within a year of his return. Some episodes were in a different order. Ted planned to create season two relatively soon after the completion of the first ten episodes. Other major projects and complications with Ted's life have delayed season two from premiering to 2019-2020.   Generally low levels of activity occurred from 2017-2022, with some projects still being made, but overall less activity in the community, and much less videos then normal.

The initial episode of season 2 was released in 2019, Choices and consequences. However Tales of the North Western Railway was canceled after this first episode, with the show being left on a cliff hanger. Ted has publicly stated he is working on a new series, that will make any fan of TotNWR happy, and continue many ideas that were planned for season 2, but little more is known.

In 2020 Ted finished and released a video on his 8 foot by 16 foot model of Tidmouth, a project that was being worked on for several years, along with releasing photos of the main cast of engines in ideal forms. In 2021 Ted released his longest film project to date: The Western Spirit, and plans to become more active in the coming months.

Community Involvement[]

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Teds First Profile Picture in long term concept. This photo was mostly cropped tighter, around the engines. It is known for being out of focus.

Ted's first subscriber from the community was jlouvier because Josh was impressed with his work in the TWR Competition. He was one of the first community members to see and comment on Ted's videos. Later, Percyno6 found him and was impressed, so he decided to promote Ted, like how he promoted SirTophamHatt291. Soon after HenryisGreat15 added him to a Skype call with other members of the community, where he met a lot of people from the community and started befriending many people, including LNERFlyingScotsman, MrMPS2002, bertramfan1 and TheBluebellEngine

Wiki[]

After the wiki's hacking, Ted was one of the three users who went in and rebuilt it. Ted is now a main wiki admin and does a lot of work on the main pages. Some ideas that Ted has had and done, include The Wiki Poll, Wiki Spotlight, Video Spotlight, the "Logo Background", The Navigation, the TWCR on Twitter page, and more!

Ted Continues to actively be a main admin of the wiki today.

New Users[]

Ted was one of the only users who joined at the time of him joining. He had help promoting his channel from friends like Percyno6 and later LNERFlyingScotsman, TheBluebellEngine, and HenryisGreat15. So when the community was "in the dumps" back at the start of December, Ted wanted to help new members, like how so many users helped him. One of the larger examples is a video made about a number of lesser-known users that was posted on Percyno6's channel so it could reach more people. It helped many users who are now on the wiki including woodenrailway123, Ethan P.Crimson2091Christianc6100 and more.

To this day, Ted always tries to tweet about new users and promote them when he can. Some members Ted has helped get 100 subscribers including ThomasWoodenAdventuresRhyndaleWoodenRSLegoLover117, and most recently, TheLittleWesternDuo

Collaboration Channels[]

Ted Has been a founder and Member of many collaboration channels, including:

RailwaySeriesReivewer: Channel between HenryisGreat15 aka Johnny, and Ted, founded in 2013, was a reaction channel, where Ted and Johnny would react to TV series episodes. It had four series, Railway Series Reviewers, (RWSRs), Fail Fridays, You Pick Saturdays, And Classic Sundays. It ended when Johnny left the community in early 2014.

TTTE Community Radio: Founder, and re founder of the group, Ted has hosted various shows including Chat Room With Ted, and Sodors Streets and Statues

MusicofSodor: Music Channel Between EP53 & Ted. Recently only Eric has been active

Tank Engines Studios Ted has uploaded several behind the scenes videos here, and was involved in the community awards.

The JBS Group A Channel for the production and publication of JBS How It Should Be . In this project, Ted produced the Music primarily, and uploaded the score to his channel.

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Ted's Twitter Page

Social Media[]

Besides YouTube, Ted has a Twitter account where he updated on his work, shows behind the scenes and general interaction with the Community. He has a Skype account and uses it to talk to users. He also has a Google+ account which he hardly uses. In January of 2014, Ted attempted to get an Instagram but he did not have a phone so he was not able to. Later in July, Ted tried again and ran an Instagram account for around a year. Ted has lost access to it. On occasion he now uses discord but avoids it where possible

Ted's Early Studio locations[]

For his first video, Ted used his upstairs hall. Later he used his basement foyer. Ted's parents realized that he had an interest in TWR and let Ted move in a table and a blue sheet for his filming. This is where most of his original videos were filmed. However, in late June 2013, Ted's grandparents moved into his basement and as such, they took up his filming location. Ted decided to move his filming outdoors and has started work on moving the ground so he can set up his layouts. However, after 2 failed attempts at making an episode, this idea was for the most part scrapped. One of these episodes would later become James and Harold, and the other would become choices in consequences six years later in 2019. Ted moved to his room in September, with a small studio. Ted continued to use the small space up to Christmas day 2013 when he cleared out his room and was able to fit his old studio table from storage. Upon Teds return in 2016 he moved into a room that was formerly used to have an HO train layout. Teds historic set table would make a return in late 2021/2022, after many years in storage, with plywood boards overtop brining the size out to 4 by 8.

Hiatus 1[]

In Late July 2013 to late November, Ted went on a 4-month hiatus. Ted did not go on Twitter, YouTube or Skype. He said that time just slid away from him. Over the complete time, Ted had around 20 videos filmed which needed to be edited, and his studio set up in his room the whole time.

Comeback 1[]

Ted remembers coming onto YouTube one day and seeing that it was 3 months from his last upload. Ted scrapped the unedited videos and started making new ones. At the same times, the TWRC was going past a major slow point where all major users were less active, had left the Community or were on hiatus. The day Ted came back marked the One Year Anniversary of his series. He made a tweet saying that he would end TWR 2013 with a bang. This was met by users like HenryisGreat15 and LNERFlyingScotsman (who had just left) in incredible disbelief, but somehow Ted did it; One new upload every day in December 2013. As the month went on Ted did all he could to restore viewership. Notable projects included an advertisement for new members (who are almost all on the Wiki now!) and a step it up guide posted on Percyno6's channel. By the end of 2013, the community was back on its feet and Ted believes he did just about everything to help it get there.

December 2013-March 2014[]

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TYR Big City Engine

Ted's First Crossover

Ted looks back at this time as his 2nd stage of videos. He came back better than ever and fined tuned his skills in this time. This time area has many noteworthy videos such as E8 and E9, Big City Engine Review, Old Iron remake and more. In this time Ted was gaining in respect and viewership.  With Hindsight, this era was the start of a 2 year golden era for Ted, particularly for his Crossovers.

Additionally in February, the first episode of the Wooden Model Project came out, focusing on Donald and Douglas.

North Western Railway: 100 Years In The Making[]

Movie

This 8 part project has been by far Ted's largest endeavor. Taking a very large amount of time, he filmed the movie and the many spin-offs and side videos. This was Ted's first project with voice actors. The movie was taken amazingly with users such as EE93 recompensing Ted for the first time and record high views and subscribers.

Hiatus 2[]

This, despite being shorter than the first, hit Ted heavily. Taken when Ted's personal life was so full he could not do much more than tweet. This was different than the first hiatus, as it was not due to lack of motivation. This one was due to lack of time. 

Comeback 2[]

After Ted got off school he went right back to working on his videos. Ted properly continued all work that he stopped before his break. Several new reviews and Episode 10 were to follow, and Ted quickly regained and expanded his following to new heights. 

Summer 2014[]

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This was a golden age for Ted. In the summer, Ted worked on Episode 10 and started to remaster his old episodes, including episode one, which so far is Ted's personal favorite project. TYR's had a plotline which resolved in the stranded island review which gave purpose to Ted's reviews right up to December. Ted also started a music account with EP53 called MusicOfSodor and made a handful of crossovers during this time as well. In the last days of August, Ted finally finished the last cut of Episode 1. By the end of it, he made 5 different cuts.  

Meeting Wooden Railway Reviews in real life[]

In Mid-summer 2014, Ted (Oliver Duck) met Rob (WoodenRailwayReviews) in downtown Toronto. The meeting  

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was planed over a Skype call since neither Ted or Rob live in the city of Toronto, but since the city has such an importance in Ontario, it was easy to get to for both of them. The day came, and the two met. It was Ted who saw Rob first, looking into the roundhouse in the roundhouse park. The two got along seamlessly talking about the community, past events, and users. It was the first time wooden railway users have ever met in real life, something Ted likes to constantly remind people about. 

The video TYR: Harold, has footage of the two in Toronto. 

Autumn 2014[]

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Ted spent most of the season working on Episode 2 and remastering Episode 3.

Christmas 2014[]

For Christmas 2014, Ted uploaded three reviews and a Christmas short. These reviews were the first of a new improved style. The short was a 3-minute long episode that does not fit in the canon of Ted's series.

Winter 2015[]

This was when Ted made some of his best content. He received good lighting equipment for Christmas that improved his quality greatly. He made big plans for Season Two and a movie that would come next. Custom models were the most common videos in these days, with many of them being made and videos about them uploaded. These were proven to be very popular and were some of the last content made before he departed that summer. Other than that, Ted filmed many parts for other crossovers, clips, and lines. So many that he hardly had time for his own videos.

Departure[]

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Ted's Last Original Crossover/ Project before his Departure, meeting up with Tom

Since the start of 2015, Ted felt like he was in a rut. Spending a lot of time caught up in the little fights of the community and talking to many people on Skype. He committed to so many non-main channel things, that soon he only had time for custom videos that were fast, and not to work on episodes. Ted also started to feel like he was competing with everyone, not just having fun on his channel and it was about fame and ad revenue. When Summer of 2015 broke, it brought with it many trips, and jobs, in fact, more than the school year. On one of these trips, Ted met with ThomasWooden123 and filmed his last original era crossover, on the works shed. After the same trip in August 2015, after a months-long hiatus, Ted finally snapped. He spent a month away from home and he could not handle his room and studio being the same room, and having to spend so much time on videos. This, plus the mixture of factors stated earlier, he was no longer having fun making videos. He was no longer able to make episodes, and since that is what Ted initially joined to do, this was one of the factors to bring him out. Ted announced he was leaving the community on August 10th after a few days of discussion with Percyno6. In just under 2 years away, only HiroTheJapaneseTrain, LegoLover117, Percyno6, and ThomasWoodenRailway could contact Ted. He left all of his group channels, and social media for this time. Ted would always be known for helping to save the community and had been missed by his fans and members of the TWR Community. However, his departure wasn't permanent.

Return (2016)[]

The Return

Thumbnail of his Return video

In the spring of 2016, Ted had regained the passion to make episodes, and really just that. He decided to attempt to make as many episodes as fast as possible before he returned, so once he was back he could focus on other people, clips, crossovers, and communication over Skype and Twitter. He started his plan, and by the start of June he had filmed parts of seven episodes, finished three completely, and had scripts started for Season 2 and a movie. His progress was heavily slowed when his computer crashed in late June and halted production to fall of 2016. If his computer remained in working order, it would be likely that much more videos would be made as of now. Ted informed Percyno6 and HiroTheJapaneseTrain about this, so they, along with people Ted knew in person, could voice act. On November 16, 2016, Ted released "The Return", which was a video announcing that he would be officially coming back to the community. The episodes will be released monthly until the summer. Other plans for additional videos are also in the works. One such video was a parody of the Christmas tale "A Christmas Carol" which featured community members MrMPS2002, Percyno6, LegoLover117, turtlesandthomas, DuncanWoodenRailway, MasterOfTheLemons, and EricPierre53.

2017 []

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Ted and Ois994 in 2017

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Toby and the Flood Remake

During 2017 Ted released many projects that he had worked on during late 2016 including most of his remastered episodes. One notable project from this era was Ted's Toby and the flood remake that featured a real dam Ted had built up in his back yard over several years. In addition to 2016 content uploaded in 2017, Ted created Episode 10 in the summer. Episode 10 was finished filming together with HiroTheJapaneseTrain when he came to visit. During this time Ted also met William Politeski, who would go on to be a frequent collaboration pattern, and close friend, as they lived in the same area.

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Ted's 5 Year Anniversary Mike Review

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JBS, Ted made the music

After season one's completion, Ted turned to working on season 2 customs, and sets. Ted also hit his 5-year anniversary mark and uploaded his Mike review that was in addition to being his 50th review had many jokes and references from all of Teds time on YouTube. It encompassed plot lines that explained why Ted left, Concluded the two Rob vs Ted videos made on Rob's channel, and referenced many videos from Ted's past. In addition, Ted worked on the JBS how it should be video with several other users. This took the majority of his videos time in 2017 and was uploaded on new years eve. 

2018[]

TWR Con 2018 (Shining Time)

TWRCon 2018 (Shining Time)

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Ted (Oliver Duck) & MasterOfTheLemons at ShiningTime2018, standing next to Ted's new Tidmouth Sheds

2018 saw Teds channel fall into inactivity. This is largely due to two reasons. Firstly the intended effort on JBS How It Should Be during the summer and fall of 2017 did now allow any time to prepare further videos. Secondly, the efforts Ted did make on further videos did not result in videos. Some major modeling projects including Tidmouth Sheds, and Tidmouth Station were undertaken and completed in this time, among many others. Work continued on Ted's series, and most other projects had been stalled. Other than some minor projects, and behind the scene work on pre-production for season 2. Most of Ted's visible involvement in the community was in videos related to the 2018 TWR Con or now known as Shining Time. This was the first full year in a long time where there were no uploads.  

#BringBack2002[]

In late 2016, he challenged MPS that if he got 2002 RTS, he'd bring back the 2002. Ted would eventually succeed, reaching 2002 retweets on June 28, 2019. 

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Episode 11 was the first major project since 2017 Ted produced for his own channel and the first new story since flat beds in early 2015.

2019[]

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Teds Ffarquar as scene in episode 11 and Shining Time 2019

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The first half of the year saw little to no involvement. In July work resumed on season 2. Ted announce work on filming episode 11. Ted attended Shining Time 2019 and premiered episode 11 at a showing between users who were there. Soon after season 2 premiered. It is not known what project Ted might make in 2019, however continuing season 2 is a priority. Shortly after Shining Time, Ted was apart of the team to bring back TWR Community Radio. This time, Ted retired his show "Chatroom with Ted" and replaced it with "Sodor's Streets and Statues." , however Sodor's Streets and Statues would not be launched initial 2020 and only received 2 episodes by the end of 2021.

2020[]

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Ted at Tidmouth

Ted confirmed he would be exhibiting Tidmouth layout including the sheds and station at the Great British Train Show 2020 in Brampton Ontario. Following CO-VID 19, the Great British Train Show was cancelled. Ted took an extended absence from the community, coming back to Twitter June 8th, 2020. He would go on to show his 8 foot by 16 foot scale Tidmouth that had been under construction on and off since 2017. Additionally he revealed a set of ideal engines. Little videos were made this year.

2021[]

Western Spirit Oliver Duck

2021 was very inactive. Ted became active on twitter more and more as the year progressed. In the last days of November 2021, ted announced he would start work on a new filming studio, and a holiday special. This was true, Teds new customs, and locations that he had spent the past several years on were used. The Western Spirit takes place during the story Little Western, showing how duck got his branchlike, and the early time when he operated on it and how Duck remembered what the Great Western way even meant. It was released as a special 1 off.

2022[]

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Ted, as the Undisputed TWRC Island of Sodor Champion.

Ted did his first live stream in a while that he left out, to start the year. We will say how the rest of 2022 goes. In Late January He released his first video on Community Radio for 2 Years, and rebooted his show Sodor Street's and Statues, featuring MasteroftheLemons as co-host.

Trivia[]

  • Ted's real name is Edward, but Ted is a short form.
  • Two deleted episodes were made in the late summer of 2013 fully outside.
  • Ted played on the Ontario Rugby team.
  • The first user Ted found was Smudgersirhandel.
  • Ted has a large HO scale model railway, that he took apart to be able to film from 2016 on. 
  • Very different from the current Ted the Wiki Admin, when Ted first found the TWRC Wiki, he made a page 3 times, having them deleted each time before he understood the Wiki rules.
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