Duck

Montague, affectionately known as "Duck" because of his supposed "waddle", is a green Great Western tank engine who lives and works on the Island of Sodor, and is the North Western Railway's number 8 engine. He runs his own branch line with Oliver and his two autocoaches, Alice and Mirabel.
==Biography==
Duck was built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow and worked as the station pilot at Paddington before moving to Sodor in 1955 to take over Percy's shunting duties at Tidmouth, leaving the latter free to assist with the construction of Knapford Harbour. Duck was a hard worker, but the others mistook his work ethic for simplicity and tried to use this to their advantage. They soon found their mistake when Duck and Percy took revenge on them by barring them from entering the shed. Duck earned a reprimand from the Fat Controller for this, but so did the other engines, who were told - as Duck put it - that it is the Fat Controller's railway, and as the controller, he is the one who gives the orders.
When Diesel arrived, the others took a liking to his flattery. Duck, on the other hand, was doubtful and left Diesel to his own devices, which resulted in the latter getting into a mishap with some old trucks. Duck tried to help Diesel when the trucks started to tease him but to no avail. Diesel vowed to get revenge and inspired by several incidents occurring around the yard in Duck's absence, spread rumors that Duck had given offensive nicknames to the others. Duck was sent to work as a banker for Edward at Wellsworth pending further inquiry and after bravely stopping a runaway goods train at his own risk, he regained the respect of the others. Of course, by this time the others were aware that the matter was all Diesel's fault, but Duck's heroism certainly helped.
Duck would later show Donald and Douglas around when they arrived, and they soon became friends. He also allowed Stepney to take a special visitor and helped him double-head a passenger train when Class 40 broke down from sucking an inspector's hat into his air-intake. When Peter Sam told Duck about a duke coming to Sodor, Duck told him that all dukes have been scrapped, causing him to worry. Whether or not Peter Sam meant that it was the Duke of Sodor or the engine Duke, Duck was most likely unaware of what Peter Sam meant, but as Skarloey had put it, Duck was probably pulling Peter Sam's wheels.
Duck continued working on the Main Line until 1967. When Donald and Douglas brought in new ballast for the track, they mentioned that "verra wee engines" brought it down from the hills. Duck was curious about this and asked to take some trucks along the line that was later known as the Tidmouth-Arlesburgh branch line - nicknamed "The Little Western". It is there that Duck met three small engines, Rex, Bert and Mike, who all bring in the ballast and helped restore the branch line. Duck was later asked to run it with help from Oliver and on occasion, Donald and Douglas.
==Personality==
Duck knows how to hold his own and tends to stand for no nonsense from any engines that might get ideas above their station and try to order him or others about; as a result of this and his strength, most tank engines look up to him. However, although he and Thomas are friends, they occasionally have not always got on well due to the latter’s cheeky antics but the two later shared a mutual respect since they ended up working together to help Harold and have always had a great friendship with each other.
==Technical Details==
===Basis===
Duck is based on a Great Western Railway (GWR) 57xx Class 0-6-0 Pannier tank engine with added sand boxes. 863 of these engines were built by various manufacturers over a twenty-one-year period, making it the most produced class of British tank engine. Sixteen of these engines survive in preservation. Unlike his basis, Duck is equipped to work autotrains with Alice and Mirabel. The real 5700s were never auto-fitted with remote control equipment. This was left to smaller pannier tank locomotives that followed; the 5400 Class (introduced in 1930) and the 6400 Class (introduced in 1932). 
Duck's Great Western number, 5741, was that of a real 57xx. The real 5741 was built by the North British Locomotive Company on 31 March 1929 as part of the first batch of fifty of the class (Nos. 5700-5749), and scrapped at Swindon on 31 May 1958. In Sodor: Reading Between the Lines, it is said that 5741 "...might not, in fact, be the number with which he was allocated when built...". The real-life 5741 never worked at Paddington as it was first allocated at Aberbeeg, Blaenau Gwent, with its last allocation at Newport Pill when it was withdrawn in June 1957.
File:Duck'sbasis.png|Duck's basis
File:GWR5741.jpeg|The real 5741
In Percy the Small Engine and The Eight Famous Engines, Duck is incorrectly illustrated as a Great Western Railway 64xx Class 0-6-0 pannier tank engine.
File:GWR6430.jpg|A GWR 64xx class, which Duck is incorrectly illustrated as in Percy the Small Engine and The Eight Famous Engines
Unlike other engines of his class, Duck is depicted as having sandboxes above his running board. These are absent in Percy the Small Engine (in which he was incorrectly illustrated as a 64xx) and Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine.
===Livery===
Duck is painted unlined NWR green with black wheels and valences. The initials "GWR" are painted on the sides of his pannier tanks in yellow and red. His number (8) is painted on the sides of his cab in yellow, on a rectangular black background with a yellow outline. He has red bufferbeams.
== Appearances ==
=== Red Panda Express ===
* Welcome to Sodor 
* Discussing Failures 
=== Movie ===
* Red Panda Express
== Trivia ==
*Duck briefly appear in the series, his first appearance was in Welcome to Sodor, in the beginning of the episode, he made a portrait cameo, which was meant to represent the Eight Famous Engine. His second appearance was in Discussing Failures, but offscreen, however, his whistle can be heared in the background when Mei Lee feel sorry for Thomas's biggest failure.
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:Tank engines
Category:0-6-0
Category:North Western Railway
Category:The Little Western
Category:Awdry-created characters
Category:Male characters
Category:Standard gauge