Philipo

**Philipo** is a yellow box tank engine who lives and works on the Great Southwest Railway. He made his first appearance in the first season episode, Philipo in Trouble.

## Bio

### Season 1

Philipo came to Sodor in 1962 due to the railway was being constructed, and was hired by Sir Harry Norton as a freight engine for help in the construction of the railway.

Sir Harry Norton was so pleased with Philipo's job, that he purchased Philipo and decided to stay with him. Philipo due to being a "prototype engine" he has some working problems, principally in the brakes.

A few weeks after he was purchased, Philipo was traveling to Reslond, but his brakes played against him and his brakes fail. Causing him having an accident with a fallen tree. Philipo was taken to the Works by Dany, his best friend, there he was repaired.

In Fall 1962, Philipo plans a trick with Denna and Dany to teach a lesson to Jordyn. The engines covered Denna with a sailcloth and Denna acted as the ghost engine and Jordyn learnt the lesson.

In Winter, Jordyn went to England by accident while cleaning the snowy tracks and got lost. Later, Philipo and his friends went to find her. Later they find her covered with snow.

But a few months later in 1963, he was shunting trucks on Reslond Yard and the Troublesome Trucks we're playing tricks to him and push him out off the rails through the fence of the yard. Philipo was sent to Sodor Works and Co. where they repaired him and made Philipo a fully working engine.

In Fall 1963, Denna warned Philipo about a ghost on the forest branch line and an old legend, but he didn't care. After, he got scared by a spooky whistle. The next night, he tried to cross the forest but the troublesome trucks got scared and got derailed by a landslide and fell into the ravine under the viaduct. Then he realized that it was actually Sakura who bowed her whistle to prevent Philipo.

In Winter of the same year, Philipo started to clean the snow from some tracks, but returning from his Nighttime Work a tree from the tunnel's portal fall on the tracks and he crashed. But later has been repaired.

Some days later, he showed Sakura the rules of the railway and he later help her to find Owen the Coach of the Snows.

In Springtime, Philipo had his first chance of pull a goods train to Neisserkast. But when he's going downhill he crashed into the Goods Train to the Mainland. And he was sent to the shed in disgrace.

## Persona

Philipo is very optimist and positive, but sometimes he is pessimist and negative too. He can become jealous when it comes to meeting a newbie, but he can return to his senses and can work peacefully. He is a hard worker and can be cheeky sometimes.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Originally, he was an experimental Hand-Made box tank engine and he had issues mostly on the brakes, he carried these problems by a long time.

But after an accident caused by the Troublesome Trucks in 1963, he had severe damage, so he was taken to Sodor Works & Co. and he was given a fully working system and rebuilt into a Great Southwest Railway 19xx Class box tank engine, designed to be a mixed traffic engine, gaining the following features:

* He gains a running board.
* A water tank was added to his boiler.
* Two coal bunkers were added to both sides of his boiler.
* He gains a two toned whistle.
* Now he has the number 1 and it was moved to the sides of his coal bunkers.
* He gained a tail lamp.
* He gains a brakepipe on the front and the back.
* He gains two extra leading wheels, making a total of ten wheels.

In The Coach of the Snows: A GSRA Story, he had some differences between his shape in the special and his Season 1 shape:

* He got black chains and coupling hooks.
* Red metal plates were added on both sides of his running board.
* He got white buffers.
* He now has has two handrails going from his smoke box to the end of his boiler.
* Two footsteps were placed under his cabs doors.
* He gained rivets across his bufferbeam front and back.

In Season 2, he have stayed pretty much the same as his previous appearance in the special, just some minor changes were made:

* His buffers returned toits original black color.
* He gained two handrails in both side of his cab entrance.

### Livery

In his original shape, Philipo was painted in yellow with red lining on his cab windows, red bufferbeams, nameplates with his name on both sides of his boiler and his original number 3.

In his new shape, he was painted GSR gold yellow with red lining on his front and back cab windows, and retained most of his original features.

In The Coach of the Snows: A GSRA Story, he had white buffers, he gained red stripes through his boiler, the borders of his cab doors and in the upper part of his coal bunkers and now he has the GSR logo on both sides of his cab.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* Philipo in Trouble
* Coal-O-Trick
* Searching Jordyn
* Be Careful with the Snow
* Philipo and the Goods Train
* The Coach of the Snows
* Philipo Gets Spooked

### Season 2

* Look Out for the Train!
* Philipo and the Boulder
* New Home

## Trivia

* Philipo's basis is a ficticional engine, his basis doesn't exists in real life.
* His actual wheel configuration is 6-4-0, this wheel configuration doesn't exists for any steam locomotive.
* He is painted gold yellow because it's MSR2003Productions' favourite color.
* Philipo's odd look was made like that to make him stand out from any other kind of engine.