Victor

Victor the Steamworks Engine
Background Information
First appearance	Crotoonian Shoots: Cliffstone Junction/Kahlville Repair Shed
Creator(s)	Sharon Miller
Voice actor(s)	Joel Hunter
Character Overview
Name	Victor
Gender	Male
Country	Island of Sodor Cuba (origin)
Affiliation	North Western Railway Sodor Steamworks Kahlville Works Doc Kevin Mary
Technical Details
Basis	Minaz No. 1173
Gauge	2ft 3in (686 mm, narrow gauge)
Power type	Steam
Vehicle	Locomotive
Type	Saddle/Pannier tank engine
Fuel type	Oil
Configuration	0-4-0ST+PT
Wheels	4
Top speed	30-40 mph
Designer(s)	Baldwin Locomotive Works
Builder(s)	Baldwin Locomotive Works
Year built	1915
Railway	North Western Railway
Company	Sodor Steamworks Kahlville Works
Owner(s)	Sir Topham Hatt

Victor is a narrow gauge tank engine who works at Kahlville Works.

Personality

Victor is a narrow gauge engine who keeps the Kahlville Works operating. He also helps out at his own 'Steamworks' on The Island of Sodor. He is a busy engine with a winning sense of humour and a heart of gold. He is highly respected among all of the 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 Works. 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. He is also very good friends with Doc and Mary who give him a helping hand when the works gets too busy for one engine to handle. 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.

Technical Details

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. The engine carried water in its saddle tank and oil in its side tanks. It was in poor condition and withdrawn after 1993. 1173 was rescued from Céspedes on 3 August 2012. From there it was transferred to the Patria Sugar Mill Museum where it was repainted and put on display with other engines rescued from Céspedes and other sugar mills.

Victor is also based on the narrow gauge locomotives that lived in high profile works in Britain, 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 repainted dark red with yellow lining, and black and yellow hazard stripes on his front bufferbeam; the black and yellow hazard stripes on the rear of his cab are above his rear bufferbeam. The sides of his cab have the Sodor Steamworks logo on them.

Whistle

The Island of Sodor

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