Bash and Dash

**Bash** and **Dash** are fun-loving American steam engines who live on the Mainland with Ferdinand.

## Bash

### Affiliation

The Mainland - Ferdinand North Western Railway - Thomas, Percy, Sir Topham Hatt

## Appearances

### Voice actor

Scottish Twin Productions - Bash
Samuel Clark - Dash

## **Biography on YouTube**

Bash and Dash first appeared on Sammy Clark's YouTube channel in the SC Short, "Heroes Of The Rails".

## **Biography in the SC Shorts**

Bash and Dash are mischievous twins who always finish each other's sentences. When they were first built, they used to live in America, but were later sent to the UK along with Ferdinand due to the shortage of steam engines left on their railroad and there being no use for them anymore. When they were sent to the Mainland, they caused a lot of problems there. So much so that the former Mainland controller decided to send them to an isolated island located several miles off the southern coast of Sodor called, Misty Island.

Bash, Dash, and Ferdinand lived alone on Misty Island for a few years until Thomas discovered them when he got lost on his way to the Mainland. Once they helped Thomas find his way back home, the Logging Locos were given the opportunity to work on Sodor.

Sometime during the end of 2012, Mattel had taken control of Hit Entertainment and were making some new changes to Thomas & Friends for the better. One of these changes was to get rid of the Logging Locos because of how hated they were in the series. Sir Topham Hatt originally intended on having the Logging Locos placed at the No Longer Used Character Scrapyard, where all of the characters that no longer appeared in the series lived. However, because there wasn't any room in there at the time, he decided to let them go back to America because around that time, the railroad that the Logging Locos used to work on didn't have that many engines working there, and they were desperate for more. While Bash and Dash were sent back to America, Ferdinand stayed behind on Sodor to do some behind the scenes work. After Ferdinand made his last appearance in the show in 2014, he too was sent back to America after getting fired by Mattel.

Six years later in October 2020, the Logging Locos caused some disruption in America and are now on the run as wanted criminals. Because it was no longer safe to be in America, the Logging Locos decided to come back to Sodor. When they returned to Sodor everyone was shocked when they saw them. This caused Percy and Gordon to faint out of shock and Victor to get pull put his gun and start firing at them. When they caught up with Thomas and Sir Topham Hatt, they told them that they have changed throughout their last few years in America, and wanted a restart on Sodor. Thomas and Sir Topham Hatt were hesitant at first, but after some thinking, they both agreed that they deserved a second chance. And because of the demolishing of Misty Island sometime in 2014 and there being no available sheds located on Sodor, Sir Topham Hatt decided to send the Logging Locos back to the Mainland considering that the original Controller there was retired and was replaced with a different one.

Out of the three Logging Locos, Dash likes the Halloween season most of all. And every year in October, he likes to jump scare Bash. Bash was starting to get tired of this trend, and later got an idea from Ferdinand to get back at Dash by scaring him with a scary story. After hearing one from Salty about an engine haunting a cursed tunnel, Bash later told Dash about the scary story, but Dash wasn't scared in the slightest. So the next day on Halloween, Bash got an idea to scare Dash on his way to the Smelters near by a tunnel. He was going to dress up as a ghost and scare Dash into making him believe in his ghost story.

When approaching near a tunnel on his way to the Smelters, Dash heard a strange ghostly whistle from inside of the tunnel. When asking James about it, he mentioned on how he's been on Sodor for years and how he has never heard a whistle like that before. Soon or later, Dash saw a black engine exiting out of the tunnel and ran away with James in fear and panic. Once they crashed into Diesel 10, they heard a different whistle approaching them. However, the whistle wasn't the same whistle that they heard inside of the tunnel. The whistle had belonged to Donald. After realizing this, James suspected that maybe they were hearing things or maybe it was some kids pranking them. But Dash wasn't so sure.

When Bash met up with Dash in the Shunting Yards later on that day, Dash apologized to him for him constantly scarring Bash every October. The two made up on good terms until Ferdinand asked Bash if he had pranked Dash yet. As Dash didn't know about this yet, he accused Bash of being the engine that he had heard from inside of the tunnel that day, until Bash revealed to the both of them that he couldn't pull off the prank because he was called in to take a train full of supplies for the Halloween party on the Mainland. With that in mind, the Logging Locos said nothing to each other for the rest of the day, as they all had a feeling of what Dash saw in the tunnel that day.

## **Personalities**

Bash and Dash are the wacky, mischievous Logging Loco twin engines who know each other so well that they can often finish the others' sentences. Living in an environment without proper rules, authority, or society, Bash, Dash and Ferdinand lived for fun, silly games and playing about in the chaotic, consequence-free Logging Camp and the dense Jobi forests of Misty Island. Often, they were easily distracted, reckless and got very little work done and when they did work, it was in a particularly silly, wacky or questionable manner.

Bash appears to be the more timid, peaceful one of the twins, while Dash is more outgoing and supportive.

## **Trivia**

* Secretly, their real names are **Bashful** and **Dasher**.
* Dash is Sammy Clark's favorite Logging Loco.