Carlos

**Carlos the Mexican Engine** is a supporting character in the Seventyverse and comes from Mexico.

## Backstory

Carlos won the Strength Competition in the first ever Great Railway Show and came back every show to participate.

In 2007, Carlos was once again selected for the Great Railway Show, this time as part of the Best Dressed Engine Parade. He was on the same ship as Ashima, Rajiv, Shane, Yong Bao, Frieda, Axel, Vinnie, Gina, Ivan, Etienne, Raul and Gabriela. Unfortunately, they would end up stranded on Sodor when the ship they're on breaks down. During this time, the engines help around the island, and Carlos wanted to help out wherever he could. However, he proves too helpful and does not get decorated from the Best Dressed Parade. As a result, both he and James were unprepared for the parade when the time for the Great Railway Show came. Carlos finished fourth as his livery was a more striking than James who came last but not by much. Carlos took defeat gracefully and said he knew better for next time.

## Personality

Carlos is a proud and happy steam engine from the heart of Mexico. Always wearing a smile, this engine is the life and soul of the Great Railway Show. Originally competing and winning the strongest engine race at the very first Great Railway Show, this engine continues to please the crowds and is now taking part in the Best Dressed Engine Parade. Carlos is also a helpful engine, perhaps too helpful as he ended up being unprepared for the Best Dressed Engine Parade.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Carlos is based on a Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (National Railways of Mexico) GR-3 class 2-8-0, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Eddystone, Pennsylvania. The engine carrying his number, 903, was built in 1910 and was originally built for narrow gauge tracks and was used by the Veracruz Terminal Company and the Teziutlan Copper Company before being bought by NdeM in 1945. Re-gauged to standard gauge in 1950 and taken out of service in 1963, the engine is currently on display outside the José Cardoso Tellez Railway Museum in Acámbaro in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.

### Livery

Carlos is painted black with a silver smokebox, cowcatcher and bell. His cab doors, windows, handrails and other details are painted red, while his sandboxes and dome are painted with green lining around them. His number 903 is painted on both his headlamp and cab and his company's initials, "N. DE M." are painted on the sides of his tender.

## Differences between the episodes and the series

* In the original special and BWBA: The Movie, Carlos only had a small role. In the adaptation, Carlos is shown to be a helpful engine but this results in him being unprepared for the Best Dressed Engine Parade.
	+ In the special, it wasn't revealed what placement Carlos got. In the rewrite, he came fourth due to being unprepared.

## Trivia

* Although Carlos has had two official voice actors, the preferred voice actor for Carlos is Gael García Bernal who voices Héctor Rivera from *Coco*.
	+ The reason for this is that it was felt the fans didn't get much out of either David Badella (TGR) and Gabriel Porras (BWBA).
	+ Also, much like Hector, Carlos is a good singer. A running gag in the special was him singing about his first railway show and was cut off three times: once by Philip being clumsy with his trucks, once when Nigel urged the competitors to get into position, and once when Gina thought they were missing an engine on the ship.