Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions

Thomas Nicholl, better known online as Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions, is an American YouTuber who mainly uploads videos about trains. He gained popularity from his documentaries about train crashes with some already receiving millions of views. He also runs a series called Engines of SEPTA based off of Engines of Amtrak by Amtrakguy365 talking about the different locomotives SEPTA has owned over the years. He also occasionally streams games like World of Tanks and War Thunder and if he's not doing that, he uploads the occasional trains he sees mainly in Southeast Pennsylvania such as Norfolk Southern on their Harrisburg line or SEPTA on their various lines.
==Personal Life==
===Early Life===
Thomas Nicholl was born June 24th 2000 in Bryn Mawr Hospital in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania in the United States. He was raised in Collegeville, PA until his parents divorced at a young age. Like a lot of railfans he grew up watching Thomas and Friends namely the classic series between seasons 1-4. His parents before divorce often took him to New Hope and Ivyland Railroad and on occasion other railroads which helped gear him up to be the railfan we know now. He currently lives mainly with his mother in Norristown, PA. This is why most of the trains he films come from that area. As you would imagine he got teased during his school years because of his name being Thomas and the fact he was into trains but he didn't mind it as he would often say "I took it as a compliment" when asked about it.
===Relationships and Family===
Thunderbolt comes from a middle class family with a British father and Italian mother. He has stated in a community post back in 2020 that his mother is currently battling Breast cancer that spread to her bones making her vertebrae crack which of course puts a large emotional toll on him. As of now his mother is doing much better.
Thunder also has a girlfriend that he's been dating for 4 years as of 2021. She also has a small channel of her own called StoneWolf Gamer which only has around 70 subscribers. The 2 also co own a small roleplay channel called Thunderstone Undertalefans with less than 50 subscribers but its likely to grow overtime.
Thunder's girlfriend also helped him convert to being an LDS church member.
==Videos==
===Train Wreck Documentaries===
Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions offers several different kinds of videos but the most notable ones are his train wreck documentaries. There was a video he watched on YouTube that documented a story of a deadly tornado that occurred in Wichita falls, Texas in 1979. He wanted to make a similar video only on a train wreck and since the 30th anniversary of the Chase Maryland train wreck of 1987 was coming up that seemed like a good choice. He never intended to make multiple documentaries but due to the vast support he released another one this time on the Big Bayou Wreck of 1993. Needless to say ever since then he has released more and more to the point that's what his fans know him for. 
===Engines Of SEPTA===
Of course he also offers other videos and series on his channel. Engines of SEPTA started in late 2017 based off of AmtrakGuy365's series Engines of Amtrak. This series focuses on SEPTA's locomotive roster but unlike Engines of Amtrak, the episodes are batched in certain categories. Episodes 1-4 were focused on the Silverliners I-V, 5-6 focused on the Norristown High Speed line 2 well known locomotives (Brill Bullet and ABB N5), 7 to 8 focused on the old push pull fleet (AEM-7 and ALP-44), and finally 9 onwards will focus on the maintenance diesels with only the U34CH being done so far as of Feb 2021. 
===New Hope Profiles===
New Hope Profiles is similar to Engines of SEPTA but focuses on engines from the New Hope and Ivyland railroad. He chose to name it "New Hope Profiles" instead of "Engines of New Hope" because it sounded better and was something different
==Trivia==
* Thunderbolt's wreck documentaries are often uploaded on or close to the upcoming anniversary of the wreck. Thunder says the resoning behind this is to pay respect for the victims as well as a clever way to make videos. This is often why the scheduling for these videos do not follow a regular pattern.
* When Thunderbolt created his channel in 2013 it's name was actually his real name "Thomas Nicholl" He eventually changed it to "Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions"
* As his username suggests he was into air raid sirens as a kid as well as trains. As of now he's not that much interested in them anymore but has decided to keep his username as is since the name has grown so well known overtime
* Thunder's username comes from the Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1000 Siren. An air raid siren built from the 1950s until the 1980s as a civil defense siren. A system of 165 of them use to be scattered across Thunderbolt's home area until being replaced with newer American Signal Corporation T-128s
* Thunder's profile pic is of Pennsylvania Railroad K4 1361. According to Thunder himself he is a huge fan of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the K4 is his favorite locomotive
* In one of Thunder's Q&A videos he mentions one of his favorite games is Undertale. This is why in some videos if you listen closely you'll find they are from the Undertale soundtrack or are remixed versions. 
* Thunderbolt has said in a community post and Q&A videos that his favorite Norfolk Southern Heritage unit is ES44AC 8102 (PRR)
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