Marshall

Marshall is a blue Nossungam(2-8-0)-type tender engine who lives and works on the Island of Sodor, and is the North Western Railway’s #16 engine. He was originally built for passenger service in America but he decided to travel to Sodor to meet Sir Topham Hatt’s famous engines.
== Biography ==
Marshall was built in 2009 for passenger service on the Chicago & North Western Railroad(C&NWR) and worked successfully there for more than 14 years. Beginning in 2020, however, the fledgling diesel company Metra(Metropolitan Rail) had begun to acquire portions of the C&NW and was using their increasing power to replace the steam engines with their more powerful diesels. Marshall and his crew expressed interest in traveling to the Island of Sodor, so when Marshall was finally laid off on February 18th, 2024, he was loaded onto the Transatlantic Express and shipped towards Sodor. He arrived March 2nd and was put in service on the Main Line on March 3rd.
Marshall’s arrival on Sodor received so much attention that Gordon became jealous of being ignored. His jealousy mounted to the point that he challenged Marshall to a race to prove he was the superior engine. Much to Gordon’s humiliation, Marshall won the 12.8-mile race by a whopping 1 minute and 18.857 seconds. However, Marshall got stuck on Gordon’s Hill the following day, and Gordon had to help him up. Gordon apologized for trying to put down Marshall, and Marshall apologized for making Gordon feel unimportant.
== Technical Details ==
=== Body ===
Marshall has no real-life basis, but he is essentially a longer version of Edward, as he has eight boiler stripes as opposed to Edward’s five; and he has three and a half splashers on each side, instead of one and a half. His running board slopes down to the front, like Thomas’s. His tender is four wheels long, but he only has two wheels in front and four in the back, which gives off a more unique look. 
=== Livery ===
Marshall was originally painted oat beige with emerald green boiler bands and a dark-wood textured running board. When he came to Sodor he was repainted cerulean with malachite green lining on his boiler, cylinders, splashers, cab, and tender; and mango yellow lining around his windows. His dome was painted gold. Originally, his C&NWR number(8025) was on the sides of his tender, but when he was renumbered as the NWR’s #16, the numbers were repainted and he had the number 8025 painted on the front and back of his tender instead. Both numberings are painted in yellow with malachite green lining. His running board and valences are white, and his bufferbeams are mango yellow.
== Trivia ==
* Whenever Marshall arrives at or departs from Knapford, he takes track 4.__FORCETOC__
Category:2-8-0
Category:Tender Engines