Piper

**Piper** is an American cab-forward tank steam engine that first appeared in Season 3. She is the seventh trainee in the Series.

## Bio

On her first day, she was crowded by all the chuggers as Morgan got her to work. When she started working, Toot was given the job of touring her round Chuggington. Toot wasn't happy with Piper as Piper was taking her space in the Trainee Roundhouse, so went off quickly so Piper would get lost in the depot. As soon as Hoot came back from a run, Toot realised how mean she had been and quickly befriended her. Piper announced to the twins that she wanted to stay in the same roundhouse as Hoot and Toot.

Later, she started training. Old Puffer Pete was teaching her to use her coupler. She struggle with it and thought that she would never be able to do it. Later, she went in the Chug-Wash and got covered in pink bubbles. She ran away from Wilson. When she realised she couldn't stop on the mountain, Wilson grabbed her and stopped on a sandbed. Which he had struggled to do earlier. Skylar said that everyone had learnt something that day, even little Piper.

Whilst the Chuggineers were building a tunnel, she helped Brewster push a tunnel borer to the work site with Zephie, Hodge Hoot and Toot. She also came to watch the competing chuggers at the track dash fun race, with Old Puffer Pete. Along with Speedy McAllister, Olwin and Old Puffer Pete, she was due to take part in the Iron Chuggers contest, but got stranded from the group due to a red signal, and derailed when she tried to catch up to them. Jackman came to her rescue but she was forced to pull out from the contest due to the derailment causing damage to her, which eventually led to Brewster being pulled out. During the Chug Patrol Roundhouse evacuation drill, she followed Hoot and Toot's example by misbehaving for Wilson and playing Chug Tag with Zephie, Hoot and Toot.

One day, whilst playing Chug Tag with the other trainees, the four were sent to collect an important delivery of food from The Docks to the Safari Park. However, with Piper's mind on playing, the journey was very difficult as she frequently lost focus and went off to play. The trainees finally get her to focus by using reverse psychology on her; they make up a game where Piper needs to get to the Safari Park with a wagon first before "The Chasers" get her. With this, the job was finally completed, with Piper's very first delivery being made alongside it!

## Persona

Piper is very young and that makes her very inexperienced. She struggles to train, but if she tries very hard, she can do it in the end. She is quite disobedient and sometimes doesn't do what she is told. However, she soon put this right when she went up and down the mountain. She is very friendly to younger chuggers and is very forgiving, like when Toot left her in the busy depot.

Piper can also be quite playful, much like a small child, and easily distracted. When she was tasked with helping Wilson, Brewster and Koko deliver some cars to the Safari Park, all she wanted to do was play with them, resulting in the three older chuggers making their work into a game for her!

## Trivia

* Piper is the youngest steam engine in Chuggington.
* She is the only steam engine that hasn't lived in the old town of Chuggington.
* She's possibly an experimental electric-steam engine, considering the fact that she has an electric firebox and a monitor in her cab.
* Her siderods are often still, but her wheels are always moving.
* As of the sixth season, Piper does not need her training wheels.
	+ Also she can pull up to three cars, making her model was designed for possibly freight like, as evident on Piperactive.
* Piper is also Philip's girlfriend since she have a crush on him despite her young toddler age.
* Piper guest star in Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's Adventure Series to being with Philip
* She has the same basis as Lexi from the *Thomas & Friends* special, Journey Beyond Sodor.