Duck

Goody Goody Tell-Tale/Tattletale (by Diesel along with Percy)

Yah Booh Snub (by Bulgy along with Oliver)

Fuddy Duddy (by James)

Mr. Duck (by Toad)

**Montague**, affectionately known as "**Duck**" because of his supposed waddle, is a green pannier tank engine. Duck runs his own branch line with Oliver. He holds great pride in being Great Western and this results in him having a strong work ethic. This can, however, be a cause for friction with the other engines, when he insists that his way is the only right way to do things.

## Appearance

Duck is a tank engine painted in the North Western Railway's livery of unlined apple green like Percy and Henry, with a green safety valve cover and black wheels. His number (8) is painted on the sides of his cab in yellow, upon a black background with a yellow border.

## Personality

Duck knows how to hold his own and tends to stand for no nonsense from any engines that might get ideas above their station and try to order him or others about; as a result of this and his strength, most tank engines look up to him. However, he and Thomas have not always got on well due to the latter’s cheeky antics but the two later shared a mutual respect since the two ended up working together to help Harold and have always had a great friendship with each other.

However, his moral code is not perfect and often favours fairness to kindness, like when he asserted to Percy that Thomas deserved his comeuppance for teasing him about being scared. He enjoys running like clockwork, without problems or interruptions, making him a very efficient and loyal engine. He takes tremendous pride in the responsibilities bestowed upon him, particularly in his role of running his own branch line with Oliver, sometimes known as the "Little Western" as a result.

Duck is cheerful, busy, mature and tends to bustle about. He is very proud of his noble Great Western heritage, often claiming that "there are two ways of doing things: the Great Western way, or the wrong way", occasionally to the annoyance of other engines. He strongly admires City of Truro and enjoyed talking "Great Western" with him when he visited the North Western Railway. He is also shown to be kind to others, but the one engine he finds the most difficult to be kind to is Devious Diesel, especially after Diesel spread rumours about him giving nicknames to the bigger engines.

Duck is often welcoming of newcomers, even most diesels as long as they are not rude. He will often support the underdog, stick up for his friends and help others see the error of their ways. However, occasionally he does have the "Tank Engine sense" of teasing the bigger engines such as Gordon. Duck is also known to have a rivalry with James, but he has earned the respect of the bigger engines and has firm friendships with Edward, Percy, Oliver, Toad, BoCo and the Scottish twins.

## Trivia

* Duck's whistle sound was reused for a few different engines, most of them erroneously:
	+ Gordon in the fourth series, some scenes in the fifth series episodes Gordon and the Gremlin and Bye George!, and the eighth series episode Thomas to the Rescue.
	+ Donald in the fourth, eleventh series and the game "Engines Working Together."
	+ Douglas in the UK version of the fourth series episode Thomas and Stepney, one scene in the same series episode Toad Stands By, the eleventh series, the game "Engines Working Together" and in the mobile app, Read and Play!.
	+ Oliver in the sixth series episodes The World's Strongest Engine and Percy's Chocolate Crunch.
	+ Peter Sam in some pages of Don't Bother Victor in the mobile game app Read and Play!.
	+ Victor in Victor the Shiny Red Engine and one page of Little Engines Easy Reading: Don't Bother Victor in the mobile game app, Read and Play!.
	+ James in one scene in the twenty-fourth series episode Emily's Best Friend.
* In the CGI series, Duck gained different brake pipe outlets compared to his model. They were still based on Märklin outlets, but they lacked the additional molded-on brake pipes which were present on his model.

## Quotes

* **There's only two ways of doing things. The Great Western way or the wrong way.**
* **Beg pardon, Sir, but I'm a Great Western Engine. We do our work without fuss. But begging your pardon, Sir, Percy and I would be glad if you would inform these, um, engines that we only take orders from you.**