The Official Website

https://xleehs.wixsite.com/jamesfan05official/ (previous URLs: https://hnitzel8.wixsite.com/jamesfan05official) is the official website of Tales From The Tracks. The website was launched on December 16th, 2018 by Zach Johnson and Leland Nitzel.

Content

 * Games
 * Videos (Including Exclusive Videos)
 * Activities
 * Sodor Superstars Hall Of Fame (Engine Depot/Character Gallery)
 * About
 * Link To The Teespring Store
 * Link To Buy The Complete Second Season DVD
 * Link To The Zman & Friends Website

Site History
The site was launched on December 16th, 2018. It doesn't take on the style of any official Thomas & Friends website and instead takes on it's own style, save for the main Character Gallery page, which takes on the style of the Thomas & Friends Website's Character Gallery Page seen from 2009-2014, albeit with the "Sodor Superstars Hall Of Fame" banner placed over the original "Engine Depot" banner. The website's header takes on the style of the header seen on the Thomas & Friends Website from 2009-2014. In 2021, Zach wanted to add other languages to the website. A Spanish version of the site was added on December 7th, 2021 and a Japanese version was added on January 10th, 2022. Also in 2021, Zach wanted to reformat the Character Gallery to be more like the Sodor Superstars Hall Of Fame seen on the Zman & Friends Website. Leland said that he liked the way the character gallery looked on his site, and didn't want it changed yet. In 2021, Zach put the "Sodor Superstars Hall Of Fame" banner over the original "Engine Depot" banner, and in 2022 he changed the buttons on the Character Pages to the ones from the Sodor Superstars Character Pages on the Zman & Friends Website. Donald & Douglas' page background was also changed to the Sodor Superstars Background.

Trivia

 * The website was originally titled "JAMESFAN05 OFFICIAL", and is currently still reflected in the URL.
 * The 4 Flash Games originally hosted on the site were removed in 2021, following the discontinuation of Flash. They were replaced by a emulation of the Sega Genesis Thomas & Friends Game.
 * A download link to the Thomas & Friends PC Game, "The Special Delivery" was originally hosted on the website, but was taken off some time in 2018 by Leland for unknown reasons.
 * The Thomas & Friends Theme that plays on the home page has changed over time. First, it was the New Series Theme, then, it was changed to Leland's Cover.
 * In 2022, the Vanish Cap Switch on the Shop page that linked to the Zman & Friends website was removed and replaced with a Warp Pipe to the website with the text, "MORE FUN" above it in a similar vein to the supermariobrothers.org website's "WORLD 2 MORE GAMES" pipe at the bottom of it's main page during a period of time in 2011.
 * In 2022, the games page was redone to "add" the Hero Of The Rails DS Game to the main page, and add a new "World 2" section to the games page. The World 2 page is linked on the main games page via a Warp Pipe, and the page is stylized after the World 2 Games page from the supermariobrothers.org website, complete with header pipes and the supermariobrothers.org logo in the clouds at the top of the page. It includes 2 DOS Thomas games (which are external links), Sonic 2, Super Mario Bros. 3 and a download for the fan game Mario Forever. There is also another pipe at the bottom of the page linking to the Zman & Friends Website's games page, with text over the pipe saying "WORLD 3 MORE GAMES".

Goofs

 * At one point, Spencer and Stanley's pages could only be accessed by the main character gallery page.
 * When the site header was updated, the seperate videos pages were no longer accessible.
 * The URL for the wallpapers sub-page is "thomas-wallpaper", from when it was just the Thomas Wallpaper, and not both Thomas and Percy.
 * Many characters on the main Sodor Superstars page do not have pages, these include: Annie, Alfie, BoCo, Clarabel, Dart, Den, Diesel 10, Donald, Douglas, Harold, Hector, Henrietta, Jack, Molly, Mr. Conductor, Oliver The Excavator, Rosie, and Rocky. Skarloey, Rheneas, Peter Sam and Rusty are not listed on the main Sodor Superstars hub despite being planned for Tales From The Tracks.
 * For a time, Edward's page did not have his theme.
 * Bertie's page plays a mash-up of his theme and the Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) Overworld Theme, made by Sudrian Afro.
 * For a time, Edward's page used a promotional image of his Bachmann model.
 * Spencer's page uses an official Hornby promo image.
 * Stanley's page uses the promo from the 2009-2014 Thomas & Friends Official Website.
 * Sir Topham Hatt's page uses an official Thomas & Friends promotional image.
 * For a time, the Vanish Cap Switch on the Shop page that lead to the Official Zman & Friends Website had the wrong URL linked.
 * For a time, the "About" button on the header didn't work, as there wasn't an About page on the site at that time.
 * The Hero Of The Rails DS game is actually the DS version of Puyo Pop Fever!.
 * There is no download link to Mario Forever on it's page.
 * The 8-Bit styled font used on the Mario styled pages is inconsistent.
 * The layout of the Mario Forever page is a copy of the World 2 page with minor block and character rearrangements.
 * If you look outside the bounds of the shop page, you can see wood blocks that are higher than the ones visible.
 * On the World 2 page, Mario is floating off the block slightly.
 * All the Wood Blocks have a blue sky background. This is most noticeable on the Shop page as it has the sunset background.
 * On the shop page, Luigi is floating slightly.
 * On the Mario Forever page, most of the Brick Blocks are at a slightly different height than the others. The pipe linking back to the World 2 page is also floating.
 * The translations for the other languages are not finished.