Been busy working on a music project for a friend but here's something for the time being. Always wanted to get around to doing some version of Henry's theme so I decided to do a shortened S5-esque remix of his S7 theme. The more I listen to it again, it sounds like a good possible theme for "Super Rescue" had it been adapted in the fifth season maybe. Enjoy!

Feel free to use with credit.

A Heave for Henry | Short Triumphant Henry Theme

Helluva Boss is friggin' dope, ya'll

Just an idea I had lately. Not much to say about this one but it was pretty fun to do lol Enjoy!

(Credit to GuiteThe040F for a few of the instruments that were used and modified here)

I.M.P Jingle | Helluva Boss (ITSO Thomas S2)

Was just kinda bored and made this. Not much else to really say about it lol

"Cows" Sad Ditty (ITSO S8-12)

Was just bored again. That's about it. Enjoy :)

Edward's Theme - "Viaduct Mix"

Was in the mood to do some Thomas themes and kinda bring it back to basics since I'm always working my brain trying to think of original pieces to do so doing some covers of themes with my own little twists is a nice change. Started on this one yesterday and it was quite a fun one to do, I must say. That's about it really. (I never really have much of a description to give most of these lmao) Enjoy!

Original Themes by Mike O'Donnel & Junior Campbell
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

The Ffarquhar Trio

Been on a slight roll with themes lately, haven't I?

So, I have a friend who really likes Timothy (SCC; the ghost train can suck a nut lmao) and I've been watching some Season 19 of Thomas lately. I rewatched the episode "No Help At All" and had an idea with the theme that plays throughout the episode that I can only assume is his theme. I decided to rearrange it in the style of Season 5 and using Derek's theme as the base, which really fits into the whole china clay engines vibe, if that's the right wording. I really like how this one came out too. Enjoy!

Timothy's Theme - Season 19 | ITSO S5

There have been many variations out there of what BoCo's theme could've been like and I kinda wanted to have a go at it. I've seen others extend the ditties that play for him in Season 3 or use the diseasel theme. I decided to have a try at using both and mashing the S3 ditty with the melody of the diseasel theme. It honestly turned out much better than I was expecting and I'm actually really proud with how this turned out. Hope ya'll enjoy!

Original Themes by Mike O'Donnel & Junior Campbell
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

BoCo's Theme | A HotboxHolton Arrangement

Here's a fun lil thingy I made a few months back that I only just now realized I never uploaded lol

I think the number of times I've had a go at this theme, both uploaded and not uploaded, speak volumes for how much I like Arthur's Hartshorne theme. It's one of the few examples were I prefer the newer theme as opposed to the Mike & Junior one. It's just so bouncy yet it fits lol. This is kinda just my take on the theme, along with extending it a bit. Enjoy!

Fishy Travels with Arthur

Always loved the smallies so I had to have a go at this. Such a fun tune and it made for some more good practice lol Enjoy :)

Short 'Never Overlook a Little Engine' Theme

It's funny because Tugs and SpongeBob are in the water lol

This is sorta an idea I had in my mind for a long time and finally decided to actually make it a few minutes ago. It's meant to be one of those short SpongeBob title card ditties, hence it's short length. Enjoy. :)

Tugs Production Music - Warrior's Longest Day

Been feeling a bit down in the dumps lately so I decided to make a little S5-esque Henry theme to give me something to do and because I've been wanting to make one since I came to the realization that he's actually my favorite out of the main engines lol Enjoy!

Opening bit slightly inspired by AceOfTrains' "Henry's Triumph" theme arrangement.

Happy Henry

"It's too hot... I'm too hot!"

Recently, I've been experimenting with doing more orchestral style music pieces and scores and, as a bit of practice, I thought I'd put this together. I've always loved the tense danger theme KnapfordHarbor made for Tardisrescue's story "Thomas in Hot Water" (both do absolutely stellar with their work and if you haven't checked them out, I highly recommend to do so) so I thought I could try to do a dramatic orchestra cover of it as a bit of a test. Honestly pretty pleased with the result. That's about it really. :)

(Should really go without saying that, since the music from the video is strictly not for use, this is not to be used in anything either. Also, if the original creator wishes for this to be taken down, I'll gladly take it down. Thanks for understanding.)

Original Themes by Mike O'Donnel & Junior Campbell
Original Arrangement by KnapfordHarbor
Rearrangement by HotboxHolton

(DO NOT USE) TIHW - Thomas Boils Over | Orchestral Cover

Once again, it's been awhile since I last put together and uploaded a music piece on here. The last few weeks have been extremely busy with schoolwork and prepping for a move but now that school is just about done with no more work needing to be done, I've got some more time on my hands. Thought I'd get back into it with a relatively easy theme. I love the Arlesdale Railway stories (and just the railway and characters in general) and decided to have a go at Bert's theme from "Tit for Tat" but with a bit of a twist. Did my own take of extending the theme, sneaking in some other familiar themes, and I'm honestly very proud of how it came out. Enjoy!

(As a side note, yes, the ending bit was heavily influenced by OneTramBand's version of the theme.)

Original Music by Chris Renshaw, Robert Hartshorne, Mike O'Donnel, & Junior Campbell

Arrangement by HotboxHolton

Simply Bert

Say what you will about the season he's in but I think Hank is amazing.

It's probably my love for American engines of his type talking here, especially because I myself live in America, but he's just such a neat character who deserved better. His prop, his personality, etc. I always loved the little "Hail to the Chief" ditty that played when he first arrives so I thought I'd have a stab at extending it, along with making it sound somewhat season 5-esque in a way. It's also a bit inspired from Headmaster Hasting's composition of his theme for the soundtrack of a Hank story too. Enjoy. :)

Original Music by Robert Hartshorne and James Sanderson
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

Hail to the Hank

A little orchestral test piece I put together within a couple minutes, made to take the BBC Symphony Orchestra plugin I've gotten recently out for a (rather short) spin. The only instruments here that are not from it are the cymbal roll and "sparkle" percussion sounds. Earlier, I was actually planning on putting together a whole orchestral arrangement of either Stepney or Oliver's themes as the first test but for now, I just settled on recreating the ditty from the end of Stepney Gets Lost. I'll getting around to doing the other ones I planned soon though. I think this turned out rather beautifully though, and I'll definitely be using this for more orchestral pieces. Enjoy. :)

Original Music by Mike O'Donnel & Junior Campbell
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

Bluebells Forever

Here's something I've been meaning to finish for a while. Started working on this lil James theme back in June and got like 80% of it complete before proceeding to not touch it until recently. Last couple of months have been rather hectic and kinda stressful so making music wasn't my main focus but it's gotten better. After making updates and a crap ton of tweaks to most of my Jupiter instruments, along with inspiration from various other people, I felt it was time I finally did a S1-2 piece again, with some S3 sprinkled in near the end (a change I made pretty recently because I love the way it sounds). That being said, I quite like how it turned out. Enjoy!

Original Music by Mike O'Donnel & Junior Campbell
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

Splendid Red At Speed

Now here's a piece that was pretty fun to put together. Heavily inspired by Connor (CGA26)'s remixes of classic series themes in the style of the HiT era (S8-12) music by Robert Hartshorne, along with many other talented people who've done the same thing, I decided to give it a try and put together one for Mr. Big Green himself, Henry. Unpopular opinion but I honestly really love a good chunk of the new music Hartshorne composed for the series, both in the Hit era and even the S7 rescores. Still, it's cool to see what it might've been like in an alternate reality where the main characters kept their OG themes but in the new style. Enjoy!

Original Music by Mike O'Donnel, Junior Campbell, and Robert Hartshorne
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

Henry's Series 1 Theme (ITSO S8-12) (Hartshorne)

Just another one of those fun sounding mashup ideas I thought I'd try out. Not much else other than that. ^^ Enjoy!

Credit to Ctech Music for the TUGS horn/trombone used here (along with a thanks for releasing a soundfont featuring other instruments from the series). Always wanted to have a go at it, so I threw it in while finishing this up. :)

Original Music by Robert Hartshorne, Mike O'Donnell, & Junior Campbell
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

HiT Era Busy Theme (ITSO S3)

Thought I'd hop on the bandwagon with this theme too lol

If interested, be sure to check out the parody the theme originated from. It's bloody great and, speaking as someone who's from the US, it's pretty accurate to the current state of big railroads here. Enjoy. :)
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The Sad Tale of Henry The Engine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgKZIXYMGCg

Original Henry Theme by Mike O'Donnel & Junior Campbell
"Last Week Tonight" Parody Henry Theme by Ryan Dann
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

Henry The Engine - America Edition

It's honestly been a very long time since I've done a rendition of Gordon's theme, so I decided to put this together. Decided to make it of a slightly slower paced version that would fit when he's pulling goods trains instead of the express, hence the name. Not really all that much to say except that this was pretty fun to put together and I'm really pleased with how this one turned out a lot. Enjoy. :)

Original Music by Mike O'Donnell & Junior Campbell
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

Gordon on the Goods

Had the idea to do this for months after rewatching some episodes from the CGI Brenner era of Thomas. I've found myself really enjoying the main theme/motif from the S19 episode "The Other Side of The Mountain" and wanted to do something with it. I eventually got the idea to do a remix of it but in the style of the watermill theme from S2, with some little adjustments of my own. It felt pretty fitting as both are associated Thomas' branch line and have a rather cozy, beautiful tune in each theme. So yeah, I finally got around to doing that right now. Enjoy! ^^

(picture edit by me)

Original Music by Robert Hartshorne, Mike O'Donnell, & Junior Campbell
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

The Other Side Of The Watermill

Well, here's something different.

This is something I've always wanted to make but was never satisfied with my previous attempts at it as I wasn't all that good at music making the last times I've tried and have learned a lot since then; a theme for my main Thomas OC, Benjamin. ^^ (Yeah, he's named after me. Sorta a product of the older "trainsona" days but has pretty much mostly evolved beyond that over the years while still retaining the name.) For those who've been around this account long enough, you may remember some of the older uploads of my attempts at a theme for him lol Been working on and off this thing for a long time now, frequently adjusting things in it as I continued to improve my music over the last year. However, I finally got around to finishing it yesterday and I'm honestly extremely pleased with how it all turned out. I should also mention that the overall theme is heavily based on the motif of a childhood film's soundtrack that I love very much and always wanted to incorporate into his theme, even back during the first few attempts, with the exception of some parts. Particularly the second half of the "bridge" section, which I threw together to fill a gap. So, I guess you could say it's partially an original theme lol. Oh well, quite a few other themes in Thomas fall into the same category and regardless, I'm still very happy with it. Hope you all enjoy and have a great summer too! :)

Please do not use this theme in your projects. Thank you.

Model (and picture) are by Me
Based on Music by Bruce Broughton, Mike O'Donnell, and Junior Campbell
Arranged by HotboxHolton

Benjamin's Theme | (DO NOT USE)

Fun little triumphant Edward theme I started working on a while ago and finished recently. Was heavily inspired to do this not long after The Unlucky Tug's "Sodor's Finest" video of Edward was released, along with the amazing score done for it by One Tram Band. Not too much else to say really other than I am extremely pleased with how this one turned out. (I think I say that just about every time in these descriptions nowadays lol) Hope you all enjoy!

Original Music by Mike O'Donnell & Junior Campbell
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

Victorious Little Edward

Hope everyone's having/had a safe and happy Halloween today. ^^

While I've got nothing in terms of special spooky music pieces for the holiday, I did cook up this little arrangement of Rusty's theme this morning as I wanted to make something that wouldn't take me too long to make and I could post to fill the gap between my other music projects that are taking a while. Just to sorta have something new completed to somewhat cheer myself up. I've always really liked Rusty's theme with how much of a calm vibe it is. One reason I actually chose to work on it is because, upon relistening to it, there's just something about it that just makes me think about Fall/Autumn (my most favorite season of the year) and I can't explain why. It just does, which is neat. But yeah, here's my little take on Rusty's theme. Enjoy! :)

(Also, I dunno why the release date thing below is giving different dates but if it's still doing that, this was posted on the 31st.)

Original Music by Mike O'Donnell & Junior Campbell
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

Rusty The Little Diesel

Big fan of Lackadaisy here heyyyyy :)

Just something I somehow managed to put together in a day and a half. Was listening to a music track made for one of the animated shorts up on their channel and I just kinda got the idea out of nowhere to do an arrangement of it for fun and to also try something different. Feels nice to branch out to the other stuff I like outside of Thomas. Not much else to say really. I was not expecting it to turn out as well as it did. ^^

Original Music by Bryan Teoh
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

Lackadaisy - Stratagem Ambiance | Cover

A remaster of an old track I made back in like 2021 for a long-since cancelled story project I was working on at the time. Came across some old music files when clearing out space for my PC and found this one piece that I was still pretty happy with, even though it was very outdated and rather empty sounding compared to my newer stuff, so I decided to make a brand new version of it with a few little changes. It's basically a rendition of that one opening theme from Series 6 but with a bit of Thomas' theme in the middle. Yeah, there's really not much else to it but I always liked how it came together. Enjoy! :)

Original Music by Mike O'Donnell & Junior Campbell
Arrangement by HotboxHolton

A Busy Day For Thomas

I don't think I've ever heard anyone recreate the ending theme/ditty from Edward's Brass Band, so I decided to have a crack at it. I didn't even know about this one until not too long ago when I was listening to some instrumental uploads, as I haven't seen the UK dub of this episode all that much before. Definitely an underrated one. I quite like how they integrated Thomas' theme into it as well. Enjoy. :)

Music by Mike O'Donnell & Junior Campbell
Arrangement/Recreation by HotboxHolton

The Brass Band Concert (Edward's Brass Band)

After seeing Carson's recent story adaptation, "Flashbang", I decided to have a go at Fergus' theme and even extend it using elements from the song, 'There Once Was An Engine Who Ran Away'. With that being said, enjoy. :)

Pride of the Cement Works - Extended Fergus Theme

Got inspired by Carson Marenka's recreation of this theme. Kinda thought it'd also fit in with the hit era music so I decided to give it a go. Been awhile since I've used these instruments. Enjoy!

Wooden Bear (ITSO Thomas S8-12)

Donal' & Dougie

Got inspired to do this from listening to a classical band version of the song (heavily inspired by the music heard here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iXHUd2HPvE) and I had the urge to make my own version of the main melody. That's all I can really say. I may do an extended version but who knows. Enjoy!

Screenshot by Me

I've Been Working On The Railroad

hi :)

I do mediocre music stuff and overall just sorta exist here

Most of my music here is free to use as long as proper credit is given. Those with "DO NOT USE" or anything similar in the title or description are pretty much self-explanatory. Headphones are also recommended for a better listening experience. Thank you and enjoy. ^^

(banner photo taken by me)

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