Series original characters

**These Characters** appear in the series but aren't named. Some are, but not given their own page.

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black

The **Spanish Stirling Twins** appear multiple time in Spain.

### Personalities

The twins are very sociable, and are easy to make friends with.

### Appearance

The twins are based on a Great Northern Railway G3 Stirling Single 4-2-2 with fowler tenders. Both are painted black, but one has pink lining and the other has mint lining. Both have chocolate coloured running-boards and their buffers are black. They also have emerald green wheels.

### Trivia

* The twins were remodeled from two TrackMaster Revolution Emily models, but with tenders from two James models. What was left of them were converted into models of Donald and Douglas.

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black sclera, red pupils

This E2 class tank engine was the **servant of Alfred**.

### Personality

Alfred's minion is highly loyal to him, but does question his motives at times.

### Appearance

Alfred's Minion is based on the LB&SCR Class E2 0-6-0T. These engines were built by Brighton Works between 1913-1916 to replace the ageing Stroudley E1 class and were primarily used for heavy shunting and short-distance goods trains in the London area and on the south coast. During their final working years, the E2 class worked as shunting engines at Southampton Docks alongside the USATC S100 Tank Engines (Rosie and Liza's basis), until they were replaced by the BR Class 07 diesel shunters (Salty, Arnold and Oscar's basis). All of the E2s were scrapped, with none surviving into preservation. Unlike the other E2s in the series, Alfred's minion takes cues from the earlier built version, lacking the extended side-tanks and having a leveled front bufferbeam. He also has a brake pump like the real life E2 class. Unlike the in-show E2s, the minion has a cannon in place of his lamp, the lamp itself being on his funnel instead.

Alfred's minion is painted black, grey, and charcoal, with brown lining. His lamp is silver, as is his cannon.

### Trivia

* Like all the E2s in the series, Alfred's minion was made from a Thomas model.
* The creator originally planned on him having a dipped rear bufferbeam before the idea on the concept proved troublesome.

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
blue

**Sherlock** Is Sir Topham Hatt's new car, originally belonging to a now deceased detective.

### Personality

Sherlock is classy and intelligent, but sociable, due to being named after Sherlock Holmes.

### Appearance

Sherlock is based on a Rover P4 90 with the rear end of a Chevrolet Fleetline Sportmaster. He is painted Hatt Blue all over, and he wears a bowler hat on his hood. Due to being in with the police, he has a removable emergency light, with a car phone, built-in computer, a first aid kit, toolbox, emergency gear, and police equipment.

### Trivia

* Sherlock was made from a Wood model of Sir Topham Hatt's car, with an added face and custom hat and emergency light.

## Penny

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Other Sudrians
Other Arlesdale engines

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
pink

**Penny** is a diesel who works on the Arlesdale Railway.

### Personality

Penny is easy-going but hard-working, and one of the few engines capable of telling off ballast trucks.

### Appearance

Penny is based on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's Lady Wakefield. She is painted pink with purple on her front.

### Trivia

* Penny is the first character based on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's Lady Wakefield.

## Raymond

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Other Sudrians
Other Arlesdale engines

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
red

**Raymond** is a diesel who works on the Arlesdale Railway.

### Personality

Raymond is a prankster, but serious to the point that Mike respects him more than even the Small Controller.

### Appearance

Raymond is based on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's Douglas Ferreira. He is painted orange with brown lining.

### Trivia

* Raymond is the first character based on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's Douglas Ferreira.

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
green

**Miranda** is a tram coach belonging to Flora.

### Personality

Miranda is kind-hearted and gentle, much like Flora, and is charming in a way that gains her respect from Daisy. She also gets along with Rebecca.

### Appearance

Miranda is based on the Falcon double-decker coaches used on the Moseley Road Tramway. She is painted green and cream with red lining and yellow stairs. She has the words "SODOR TRAMWAYS" written on either side.

### Trivia

* Flora's coach wasn't sentient in the original series, but was given a life by the creator with a face. Her relation with Rebecca was also a reference; Rebecca's working name was Miranda.

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
red

**Kessie** is a red shunter working on the Global Transit Terminal.

### Personality

Kessie is charming but can put an engine like Gordon in their place. She has a habit of talking to visitors in a flirtatious manner, especially with Thomas, who usually responds with light sarcasm.

### Appearance

Kessie is based on the KUR ED1 class, a class of 2-6-2 tank locomotive built by Vulcan Foundry for the Kenya-Uganda Railway between 1926 and 1930. Primarily used for shunting duties, they were also used to haul branch line trains. They were later operated by the East African Railways and were reclassified as part of the EAR 11 class. One member of this class, No. 327, has been preserved at the Nairobi Railway Museum in Nairobi, Kenya. Nia and Clover are other members of this class.

Kessie has been modified in order to work on British railways. Whereas her original basis was metre gauge, she is standard gauge and she has been given buffers and screwlink couplings in order to work with the other engines.

Kessie is painted red with small hints of blue. A heart is painted on the side of her cab, bordered in a blue square.

### Trivia

* Kessie was Nia's working name, and as such, her model is Nia's with red paint, but her chassis was from Gina.
* Kessie's whistle sound is Stanley's from season 12.
* In The Monster Files, Kessie is revealed to be a Jampire, something canon only to said series.

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
red

**Diesel Electric Class 152** (better known as **Decka**) is a red diesel-electric built by Carson as a way to deliver tools or weapons from any Adventure Squad base to the field team that requires it. He usually does jobs at the Leonold Yard in his downtime, but he does do other jobs.

### Personality

Decka is casual in his civilian life and easily gets along with most of the others, but he doesn't stand for Diesel's antics (going as far as threatening any arrogant engines for this alone), and takes his role in Adventure Squad seriously.

### Appearance

Decka's shape resembles a hybrid of a EF66 and a Shinkansen 911. He is painted red with a thick black stripe going from his front to his back, with a thinner yellow stripe in a similar pattern. His cab noses have silver patches, and his chassis is painted with a matching shade. Much like Thomas, his couplings change to match foreign rolling stock.

### Trivia

* Decka's model was from the Plarail DX Shinkalion line (specifically the "Ultra Evolution Electric Freight and Weapon Container Set") due to the 5mm post system it uses, making it *Transformers* compatible (the creator collects *LEGO*, *Thomas*, and *Transformers*). The locomotive model itself has the face of a Take Along lights and sound James. His creation was due to the creator needing a new unique standalone male diesel. The clay sticking his face to his body also peeled off some of the nose's silver, which led the the model getting overhauled, receiving a new coat of paint, a new set of wheels and couplings, and a new magnetic face mask. These changes allow Decka to be run from any direction to give the impression he can run in reverse. It also allows the model to pass as a generic diesel.
* Decka's horn sound was Blaze's from *Blaze and the Monster Machines*.

## Scoot and Zipper

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
Yellow

**Scoot** and **Zipper** are twin inspection trolleys built by Carson for the Global Transit Terminal.

### Personality

Scoot is loud, reckless and speedy, but tame enough to avoid causing trouble. Zipper, on the other hand, is quiet, patient, and reserved, though he does like going fast now and then. Both are dedicated to their jobs, and like helping others in track repair. The 2 also shuttle spare parts to broken vehicles needing them.

### Appearance

Both twins are freelanced in design and share a yellow livery, but do have distinguishing features. Scoot has one headlamp, a single horn, black warning stripes and four wheels. Zipper has two headlamps, twin horns, six wheels and his stripe pattern is reversed from Scoot. Both trolleys also have black roofs, silver handrails and footsteps, white control panels and brown seats and flooring. The 2 also have dedicated trailers with their respective stripe patterns and wheel arrangements.

### Trivia

* The twins reuse the chassis, wheels and couplings of the TrackMaster Push Along models. Everything from the footplate upwards, however, was scratch built.
* Only Scoot was conceptualized when the creator decided to introduce a wagon-pulling inspection trolley. Zipper was added soon after.

## Mack and Mason

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
Yellow and Orange

**Mack** and **Mason** are two diesel crane brothers.

### Personality

Mack is a nerd with a good heart and good social skill, while Mason is less of a know-it-all and is more adventurous.

### Appearance

Both twins are freelanced in design but share elements from a 4 wheel Ransomes & Rapier 6 ton crane with an added enclosed cab.

Mack is painted in a yellow livery with black and light yellow warning stripes on his front. His hook is black and his engine compartment cover is red. Mason has more color variety, with orange on his crane and patches of blue. He also has various patterns on his frame.

### Trivia

* The brothers are repurposed by Kevin's 2019 TrackMaster models, Mason being the Hyper Glow version.
* The brothers use the horn sounds of Hoot and Toot from *Chuggington*.
* Mason's model was received on Boxing day 2020 alongside Crystal as a delayed Christmas gift. He had a modified crane arm that used part of a Take Along Scoop for a better range of motion. A 3d-printed winch was also applied to further the realistic function of it. Mack was received as a late birthday gift on February 8, 2021.MackMason

## Waldo

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
red

**Waldo** is a red tender engine who helped run the North Western Railway.

### Personality

Waldo is a fun engine to hang with, but he knows when to put jokes aside.

### Appearance

Waldo is based on the L&YR Class 28, a class of 0-6-0 mixed-traffic tender locomotive designed by George Hughes for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and built by Horwich Works between 1909 and 1912. It was a rebuild of Aspinall's Class 27, with the addition of a Belpaire firebox, a Schmidt/"twin-plug" superheater and the extension of the footplate and front sandboxes. He shares the extensive modifications that were given to James.

Waldo is painted in NWR red with blue lining and gold boiler bands. His dome is brass and he has a red cab roof. He also has silver buffers.

### Trivia

* Waldo was made out of a James model, but to tell him apart from James, he was given red wheels, blue lining, a red cab roof and a black running board. He also has silver buffers and a lack of a number 5, with the addition of James' fourth series whistle sound.

## Kat

**Capulet** (affectionately known as "**Kat**" because of her uncannily effective panther-like stealth) is a tank engine from the Great Eastern Railway.

### Personality

Kat is known for being snobbish and arrogant, all of which rival Duck’s in comparison. Because of this and their origin railways being constant competitors, she rarely gets along with the pannier tank engine, and often mocks the North Western Railway for honouring the Great Western engines and rolling stock by retaining their colors. This initially drove others away before she came to her senses, though as Thomas noted, she was jealous of Duck for having his own branch line and having his heritage intact on Sodor. She later befriended Duck after he rescued her following a nasty accident, though they still maintain a playful rivalry.

### Appearance

Kat is based on a Great Eastern Railway T18 Class tank engine, a class of fifty 0-6-0 tank steam locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping in 1923 and received the LNER classification J66. All real life T18s were scrapped by 1955, none surviving in preservation.

Kat was heavily modified from her basis, having received several modifications evokative of the LBSC E2 Class and the GNR N2 class.

Originally paint the GER French grey livery upon arrival, Kat was repainted in the Great Eastern Railway’s ultramarine blue livery, with vermilion bufferbeams and lining plus black boiler bands. Her roof is also painted French grey.

### Notes

* Kat was created as a foil to Duck, her name being a predator of birds such as ducks. Her real name is also a Shakespeare reference, serving as a foil to *Romeo and Juliet*, along with Duck’ real name.

## Herman

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
charcoal

**Herman** is a giant articulated tender engine who helps out on the Global Transit Terminal.

### Personality

Herman is quiet and reserved yet very talkative, and maintains a playful rivalry with hauling partner Decka, who he works with in jobs requiring extra power (though Herman specializes in strength rather than speed). He also respects many others, though he doesn't take to people who intentionally cause mayhem for wrong reasons.

### Appearance

Herman is based on the Union Pacific Big Boy, a type of simple articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in revenue service until 1959. The Big Boy locomotives were built to haul freight over the Wasatch mountains between Ogden, Utah, and Green River, Wyoming. They were the only locomotives to use a 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement: four-wheel leading truck for stability entering curves, two sets of eight driving wheels and a four-wheel trailing truck to support the large firebox. Due to limited resources at the time of their construction, only 25 Big Boys were ever built, all of them working on the Union Pacific Railway, which had made fortifications to it's tracks to accommodate them. Only 8 Big Boys survive in preservation, all in static display except for number 4014, which was overhauled in 2019 and restored to working condition. It since became the world's largest and most powerful operational steam locomotive in the world.

Herman is heavily modified from a real Big Boy, possessing retractable buffers, interchangeable couplings, portal generators, spotlights, tow cables, hidden weapons, emergency lights, a megaphone, and a warning siren. He also has 12 driving wheels and bogey wheels rather than 8 bogey wheels and 16 driving wheels, making him a modified challenger by wheel count. Because of the massive amount of coal he would use after one load, Carson built Herman based on the oil-burning specifics of the Big Boy locomotive. As such, he runs on the Leonold eco fuel instead of diesel fuel or coal. To amend to the reduced traction of removing 4 of his driving wheels, Herman's bogies have electric motors powering his smaller wheels, with energy supplied by a turbine built into his boiler pipes.

Herman is painted black with a silver smokebox. His dome, bell and sandboxes are painted gold, and he bears the symbol for the Global Transit Terminal on his tender. His headboards read his number, 2163. His cylinders have gold lining, and he features all the colors present in Adventure Squad's machine division.

### Trivia

* Herman's front section was made from a TrackMaster (Revolution)/Motorized James with parts of a scrap Lexi model. His rear section is made from a second TrackMaster (Revolution)/Motorized James (or a 2013 TrackMaster James depending on availability). 4 6-wheeled TrackMaster Push Along chassis were used to make his bogeys and tender base.
* Herman uses Vinnie's whistle sound, but deepened to emphasize his large posture and raised in volume to recall his large volume.

## Heather

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)Blue

**Heather** is Captain Star's eighth, second-largest and second-strongest vessel. She shares duties with Hercules and Top Hat.

### Personality

Heather is lady-like in behavior to compliment Hercules' gentleman traits, and shares many similar mannerisms.

### Appearance

Heather was based on the *Hercules*, a steam driven tugboat built in 1907 for ocean towing. It mainly towed logs and barges up and down the US Pacific coast, and supplies to build the Panama canal. In 1924, the Hercules was converted into a railroad tug to ferry car floats across San Francisco Bay, before she was retired and refurbished as a national landmark in the 70s. She currently resides at the San Francisco Maritime Museum.

Heather is painted in the Star Fleet's corporate livery. This consists of a black hull, a yellow superstructure, white mast and an American flag-styled red, white and blue funnel. Her name is painted on the sides of her bow in white and she has the number "8" on her funnel. She wears a blue and white sailor's cap.

### Trivia

* Like the majority of the creator's *TUGS*-styled characters, Heather's model was 3D-printed.

## Tatsuya

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
silver

**Tatsuya** is a high speed electric engine from Japan who works with Kenji.

### Personality

While Kenji tends to be cool-headed and approachable, Tatsuya is mainly grumpy and argumentative, often impatient to keep up to time. Despite this, he does care for his friends. Unlike Kenji, Tatsuya exclusive speaks in Japanese, and he understands little to zero of other languages.

### Appearance

Tatsuya is based on a 0 series Shinkansen, also known as a "Bullet Train". These were the first generation of such engines and were designed specifically to run the high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen line in Japan. By 2008, all units had been withdrawn from active service, however a large number are preserved, including one at the National Railway Museum in York. Kenji is another member of this class. Tatsuya is painted silver with blue skirts, and to work with international engines, he received buffers on his rear and has a pin-and-hook coupling system. He was also re-gauged to the international standard gauge wheelbase, and recieved temporary modifications that allow him to run without the aid of power lines.

### Trivia

* Tatsuya's model was made from a second Kenji model, with a modified rear coupling hook and retrofitted to run in reverse. This was so that like a real Shinkansen, Kenji would have 2 engines at both ends on his train.

## Mulligan

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
gray

**Mulligan** is a vintage power shovel who used to work in open pit mines. He was originally rusted and abandoned but after he was repaired for a rescue mission he was eventually preserved by the Global Transit Terminal.

### Personality

Mulligan is a gentle giant of a machine, and although he does not speak any intelligible language, his heart and willingness to help others always wins out. Mulligan has a rusty sense of humor, meaning that many of his pranks often appear dated.

### Appearance

Mulligan is based on a Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric shovel, a series of large electric shovels used for strip-mining coal in the USA during the 1900s. This class of shovel was one of the larger designs, eclipsed only by the Marion 6360, nicknamed "The Captain", which was the largest power shovel of it's time until extreme damage from a large internal fire caused it to be scrapped. An unknown number of 1850-B electric shovels were built during the coal age, but as of now, only one remains. The surviving example, nicknamed "Big Brutus", is currently on static display at a mining museum in Kansas, and is the only giant stripping shovel still intact to the present day.

Mulligan is painted bright red with a black shovel arm and bucket. He also has numerous silver highlights and fittings across his frame. Prior to this, he was completely covered in rust, and many of his components were very grimy.

### Trivia

* Mulligan is based on Mary-Anne the steam shovel from the book "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel". As a result, he lacks a face on his superstructure and instead has eyes on the side of his bucket, it's trapdoor acting as his mouth. He is also named after Mike Mulligan, the book's main human character.

## Milton

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
green

**Milton** is a large helicopter who works with Anton in moving cargo. He is one Thomas's many old friends.

### Personality

Milton loves hauling cargo and enjoys his job to the fullest extent, always ready to help out a good cause. He and many of his relatives are very easy-going, making him very easy to befriend.

### Appearance

Milton is based on a Mil Mi-26, a series of large helicopters produced by Russian company Rostvertol. This class of helicopter holds the record for the biggest of their kind in the world, with over 300 of them being produced since 1980. The Mil Mi-26 is also the world's most powerful helicopter, and saw several uses in civilian and military duties, primarily transporting cargo or troops a far distance to hard-to-reach areas.

Milton is painted military green with olive and tan camouflage patterns across his body. He has black rotor blades with white end stripes.

## Anton

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
blue

**Anton** is a large jet plane who works with Milton in moving cargo. He is one Thomas's many old friends.

### Personality

Anton, like Milton, is easygoing and easy to befriend, though compared to his smaller comrade he is a bit more dimwitted.

### Appearance

Anton is based on the Antonov An-225 Mriya, a strategic airlift cargo aircraft that was designed by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Ukrainian SSR within the Soviet Union during the 1980s. It is powered by six turbofan engines and is the heaviest aircraft ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes (710 short tons; 630 long tons). It also has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in operational service. The aircraft is built to carry large payloads across the globe, with loading areas in the front and rear of the plane. Only one example has been completely built, with a second currently being constructed fully. The lone completed An-225 was later destroyed in February 2022, in the midst of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. However, there are plans to rebuild the plane, possibly by using the unfinished bodyframe.

Anton is painted white with a pale blue underbelly. His fuselage, wings and turbofan engines have pink, yellow and navy blue stripes on the sides and over his nosecone.

### Trivia

* Anton's livery is based on the 2 existing color schemes of his basis.

## Slick

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
blue

**Slick** is a high-speed engine who was bought from British Railways to assist in high-speed delivery services on the North Western Railway. He now operates in occasional capacities, but served as Kana's mentor before he was restored as a museum piece.

### Personality

Unusually for a high-speed engine, Slick is laid-back and more easygoing. He ironically enjoys taking things slow and steady, and is very easy to get along with. He is very intolerant of tomfoolery, though.

### Appearance

Although he is a former British engine, Slick’s design is based on that of an E2 Series Shinkansen, most likely to match Kana to act as her end unit. He is painted blue and purple with red and yellow stripes, though towards his rear, his paintwork eventually transitions into a pattern that follows Kana's own.

### Trivia

* As Kana is planned to be made out of a plarail model, Slick was created to make use of the end car.

## Wesley

### Affiliation

Adventure Squad (Team)
Global Transit Terminal staff and visitors

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black (formerly)
teal

**Wesley** is a small saddle tank built for the Global Transit Terminal.

### Personality

Wesley is a engine who is easily described as a shrinking violet; he keeps to himself and generally avoids crowds if he can. Because of his smaller size, he is easily intimidated by larger engines such as Vinnie. During his time around the terminal, however, he slowly began to break out of his shell, and grew into a friendly and chipper shunter.

### Appearance

Wesley is based on a Peckett & Sons B2 Class 0-6-0 Saddle Tank. He is painted teal with a grey running board and orange coupling rods and bufferbeams.

### Trivia

* Wesley was created specifically for song purposes, specifically a Six Small Wheels extension.