Sodor is somehow perpetually stuck in the 60s. Geez, I wonder why?

Something that always bothered me as a TTTE fan is that Sodor seems to be stuck in the past, and I mean that literally.

Look, no body has cell phones, no computers are anywhere to be seen on desks, the cars and outfits are still stuck in the mid 60s, and there’s not a lot of modern British rail traction on sodor(No signs of any BR high speed trains such as Azuma and Javelin). Sure you might say Kenji exists but he’s a 0 Series Shinkansen (a model from 1964).

Why the fuck is this, is Sodor under a universal trade embargo for some reason, or does the government there uninterested in modernizing the place (sans the railways)

Something that always bothered me as a TTTE fan is that Sodor seems to be stuck in the past, and I mean that literally.

Look, no body has cell phones, no computers are anywhere to be seen on desks, the cars and outfits are still stuck in the mid 60s, and there’s not a lot of modern British rail traction on sodor(No signs of any BR high speed trains such as Azuma and Javelin). Sure you might say Kenji exists but he’s a 0 Series Shinkansen (a model from 1964).

Why the fuck is this, is Sodor under a universal trade embargo for some reason, or does the government there uninterested in modernizing the place (sans the railways)