Victor

**Victor** is a dark red narrow gauge tank engine from Cuba who works at the Sodor Steamworks with his assistant, Kevin.

## Biography

Victor is a narrow gauge engine that keeps the Sodor Steamworks operating. He is a busy engine with a winning sense of humour and a heart of gold. He is highly respected among all of the Sodor engines for helping to sort their repairs and see to their needs. He is very friendly, can often put a smile on an engine's smokebox, and will often help guide an engine where he feels it may be to their benefit.

Victor also has a firm manner when something needs to be sorted and stands no nonsense from naughty steam engines or lurking diesel engines. He takes his work very seriously and takes great pride in helping to maintain the service of the Steamworks. In his time, Victor has helped restore, repair and repaint many of Sodor's locomotives and he keeps the Steamworks a welcoming, bustling, hospitable environment. He keeps a keen, watchful eye over Kevin the crane, who assists him in the works' operations. Kevin's clumsiness and antics may cause Victor bother and disturbance, but Victor is fond of Kevin and glad to have him as part of the team. Due to coming from a warm country, he has a deep hatred of snow, but he was able to overcome this when Kevin was in danger.

## Basis

Victor is based on Minaz No. 1173, an 0-4-0ST+PT locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works that worked at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Sugar Mill in Cuba.

As the Sodor Steamworks is based on high profile locomotive works (such as Crewe and Doncaster), Victor is also based on the narrow gauge locomotives that lived there, delivering parts to different departments. So, while Victor's prototype is standard gauge, he - like the high profile works locos - is narrow gauge.

## Livery

Originally, Victor was painted in bright yellow with green lining and was numbered 1173 when he first arrived on Sodor.

When he learned to speak English, his first word was "red", so he was currently painted dark red with yellow lining and black and yellow hazard stripes on his front buffer beam; the black and yellow hazard stripes on the rear of his cab are above his rear buffer beam. The Sodor Steamworks logo is painted on the sides of his cab.

## Appearances

### Season 10

* Hero of the Rails
* Victor Says Yes
* Blue Mountain Mystery
* Don’t Bother Victor
* Welcome Stafford
* Happy Birthday Sir! (mentioned)

### Season 11

* King of the Railway
* The Lost Puff
* Bill or Ben?
* Santa’s Little Engine (does not speak)
* The Frozen Turntable
* Kevin’s Cranky Friend
* Scruff’s Makeover

### Season 12

* Duncan and the Grumpy Passenger (mentioned)
* Thomas and the Emergency Cable
* Emily Saves the World (mentioned)
* Samson Sent For Scrap
* Duncan the Humbug (does not speak)
* Long Lost Friend

### Season 13

* Who’s Geoffrey?
* Best Engine Ever
* Snow Place Like Home
* The Other Side of the Mountain (does not speak)

### Season 14

* Sodor’s Legend of the Lost Treasure
* Cautious Connor
* Henry in the Dark
* All in Vain

### Season 15

* The Great Race
* Philip’s Number
* Hasty Hannah
* Stuck in Gear (does not speak)

### Season 16

* Nia’s Arrival
* Washout
* Nia’s First Christmas
* Daisy and Billy (indirectly mentioned)
* Too Much Work For Duncan (mentioned)

## Trivia

* Victor is one of the very few steam engines in the series to be an oil burner. The other one being Timothy.
* Victor is the only narrow gauge engine owned by the North Western Railway and the only one to be seen using a snowplough.
* Victor is the first engine to speak a language other than English (said language being Spanish). Other engines who are also shown to speak different languages, include Millie and Daisy (at least somewhat).
* In his original yellow livery, Victor has the same number (1173) as his basis.
* Victor is a narrow gauge engine, but his basis is a standard gauge engine. This was done to make it easier for him to go a round tight turns and through small spaces at the Steamworks.