Big City Engine

The **Big City Engine** (Also known as the **Foreign Engine**) is a rude express tender engine who works on the Mainland.

## The Big City Engine

### Affiliation

* The Mainland
	+ Spencer
	+ Ferdinand
	+ Hurricane
* North Western Railway
	+ Thomas
	+ Gordon
	+ Percy
	+ Duck

## **Biography on YouTube**

Big City Engine first appeared on Sammy Clark's channel in the video, "Big City Engine's Train", and his first appearance in the SC Shorts was in the pilot episode, "It's a Special Day on Sodor!".

## **Biography in the SC Shorts**

Big City Engine first appeared in the pilot episode, "It's a Special Day on Sodor!". In the episode, he was peacefully minding his own business until Duck came over and started to annoy him by calling 'fat' and mentioning how London is 'Paddington'. This resulted in Duck getting b\*tch-slapped by him in a fit of rage.

In the second episode, Big City Engine was stuck in a pile of snow until Thomas came over and magically got him out of it. Unwilling to say thank you, Big City Engine covered himself back in the snow and then Thomas smacked him across the rug.

When snow came to the island one day, a few engines from the Mainland were sent over to Sodor to help clear away the heavy snow. This included Big City Engine. He wasn't very fond of snow and wished that he could stay in his shed. Despite this, he still worked hard to plow away the snow and help out any engine in danger. Unfortunately, the snow started to get deeper. And this was proven when he struggled to plow away a big pile of snow, and then ended up getting stuck in it. Luckily, thanks to a runaway Hurricane, Big City Engine managed to plow his way out of the snow without a scratch.

When Diesel secretly came up with a plan to get rid of James, he called down a crowd of engines and Jack to the Shunting Yards and told them about the Prince of Sodor whom once owned a private engine, and that the private engine's ancestor is believed to be on Sodor. When James was chosen to be prince, Big City Engine was appalled claiming that it should've been him who was Prince of Sodor.

Later on that day, James gave Jack the task of capturing engines that he doesn't like, and to trap them in a paper prison cell. Big City Engine was one of these engines that James did not have any respect for, so he ended up getting captured and trapped in the prison cell along with Rusty and Duncan. They soon got saved by Thomas when he and his friends were raiding the Shunting Yards.

## **Personality**

Big City Engine is rude and bratty. Although his heart is at the right place, he is rather rude, mean and snobbish. Although at times, he shows remorse to the other engines and has a nice side to him.

## **Trivia**

* Up until late 2019, Big City Engine mostly worked on Sodor rather than the Mainland.
* He is one of the few characters from the early SC Shorts to still appear, but only either having a cameo appearance, or a minor speaking role in an episode.
* He is under-scale compared to the new models used for the SC Shorts as his Take-n-Play model is still being used. But Sammy does have plans to replace his Die-Cast model with his Wooden Railway counterpart.
* Big City Engine has gone through a few aesthetic changes in the SC Shorts.
	+ In "Chouder Cheesy Chester Cheez-its", his head lamp was removed.
	+ In "This Has Nothing to do With Halloween", most of his scratched marks on his paintwork had been repainted, he had gained red lining around his firebox area, and the top of his funnel became black.
	+ In "Prince James Part 1", his scratched marks had been repainted again, he gained rivets across his front bufferbeam, and he gained two LNER headlamps.
* Big City Engine reuses Olwin's whistle sound from ***Chuggington***.

## **Gallery**

Big City EngineBig City Engine with a snowplow