Professor Tom

"Attention! Attention" - Tom calling for attention when he arrived in episode 119
Professor Thomson Richard Riddles Jr. (Nickamed Tom, called Sergeant/Professor Tom for short) was the former General of the 8012 Platoon. He currently guards the Magic Railroad with Warrior and Lady.
== Biography ==
===The Adventures of the Purple Shunter===
Tom grew up with his twin sister Lucie and his little sister Jennifer in London. Not much is know about there childhood apart from the fact Jennifer looked up to her older sibblings and that Tom and Lucie were very close.
In their later years, Tom and Lucie would continue to be very close and they would later be hired by Thneedville for military work in their teenage years. It wasn't until they both turned 21, when they would become shapeshifters and start life as an engine.
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===Godred's Filler Series===
Jennifer joined the two 9Fs not long after they joined the 8012 Platoon, it is comonly stated that Tom abused Jennifer, this is false. However, Tom was very harsh and crule to his little sister in his early twenties, verbal abusing her every other day due to Tom having some issues on the way he liked things to be done on his district of London. One night, when Jennifer helped an engine escape, Tom struck her violently. It was around this time Tom developed anger problems.
== Personality ==
When He arrived on Arlenville, He was rude, loud, bossy and racist. He was also very selfish and minipulative.
After he fell of The Arlenville Viaduct, he had a completely different out look on life, throughout his time with the Red X Clan, Tom was worried and quiet. However, when on the brige with Eli he showed his true colors and acted bravely in the case of danger.
When he returned in The Birth Of Black Dust he was Brave and kindly much like how he was before he left.
== Basis ==
Murdoch is based on a BR Standard Class 9F, which were used for fast and heavy goods trains. The class was the last of the BR Standards and the final steam engine class built by British Railways, with the last one, "Evening Star", built in March 1960.
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