Elliot

     Elliot   
 * Gender: Male
 * Colour: Red with yellow lining
 * Number: 14
 * Class: LB&SCR E2, with giesl funnel, belpaire firebox, and counterweights
 * Designer: L. B. Billington
 * Builder: Brighton Works
 * Built: 1913 (rebuilt, various)
 * Configuration: 0-6-0T
 * Friends: Arthur, Gordon, Henry, James, Neville, BoCo, Murdoch, Spencer (mostly one sided on Elliot's side), Big City Engine (mostly one sided on Elliot's side), Thomas (sometimes), Percy (sometimes)
 * Arrived on Sodor: 2005
 * Top Speed: Somewhere between 70-100 mph, formerly 30-40 mph

Elliot is a vain mixed traffic steam tank locomotive. He is a fan made character does not appear in the canon version of the series. Elliot's character was created in 2005 when I was still into Thomas and Friends. Even though I have grown out of Thomas and Friends, I have looked back upon the old days when I was into the series, looking back upon some of my fan made engine characters as a result.

Bio:
Elliot was brought to the Island of Sodor about three fifths of the way through the year 2005, to help pull fish trucks at the docks, the port, and the fishing village, and to pull passenger trains such as the express. He was rewarded with two coaches names Katrina and Ashley (who look like Annie and Clarabel) after he helped a derailed Arthur back on to the track. Elliot was given his own branch line at some point during his time on the Island of Sodor. Despite this, Elliot regarded as a "main line" engine, because of his job pulling heavier main line trains such as express trains, and regular heavy goods trains.

Personality:
Elliot is at times, rather arrogant and self-centered. In a way, he is very similar to James the Red Engine, in terms of his attitudes and habits. One obvious difference between James and Elliot, is that the former much prefers pulling coaches and that he thinks he is too good to pull the tracks. The latter while not lavishing praise for pulling trucks as a whole, he does enjoy pulling fish trucks to and from the port, the fishing village, and the docks. Even though Elliot does not like getting dirty, he apparently enjoys working at the fishing village more than he hates getting dirty. Like Arthur, Elliot doesn't mind the smell of fish.

Despite being a tank engine, Elliot has no problems mixing with tender engines, nor do they have problems mixing with him. Like James, Elliot thinks himself superior to others, and can shallow, boastful, and vain, particularly to those who appear old-fashioned, weak, slow, or dirty. Because of this, he often looks down on tank engines such as Thomas and Percy, both of whom he believes are common cheeky little tank engines.

Elliot appears to be good at keeping a level head, and is usually unaffected by any rude comments the other engines may give him, although he is often quick to retaliate. While James tends to suffer from "self-importance", Elliot usually tends to suffer from "being cool" as well.

Basis:
Despite originating from a LB&SCR E2 tank locomotive much like Thomas the Tank Engine, various parts of Elliot were rebuilt overtime. While he didn't undergo any physical changes outside receiving a new Giesl ejector as of 2005, a belpaire firebox, counterweights, golden buffers as of 2009, and possibly bigger and stronger wheels, Elliot seems to have changed a lot from his former self.

For one thing LB&SCR E2 tank locomotives usually can only travel between 30 and 40 miles per hour, but since Elliot's rebuild, he has been capable of travelling somewhere between 70 and 100 miles an hour. It is presumed that Elliot has been given a newer engine as well, since he is now a mixed traffic engine who can pull both passenger trains and freight trains quite easily. Elliot is also quite strong as he is capable of pulling long fast passenger trains, including the express.

Livery:
Elliot is painted red, with yellow lining, similar to how Thomas is painted blue, with red lining. Unlike most sodor steam engines, Elliot has yellow trim instead of red. He has red wheels with yellow coupling rods, a yellow bunker, and a yellow cab roof. Unlike Thomas, Elliot has a red circle with a yellow outline surrounding a small yellow number 14, instead of a big yellow number 1. Elliot also has his name painted on his sides, whereas Thomas does not.

Arthur
Despite their contrasting differences in personality, Arthur is usually portrayed as being Elliot's best friend. While they may fall out from time to time due to Elliot's arrogance, and Arthur's politeness, their close bond helps to keep their friendship from falling apart.

They became friends after Elliot helped to pull Arthur back on to the track when he was derailed. Arthur could not have pulled himself back on to the track, and Elliot couldn't have pulled Arthur back on to the track without his help.

Gordon
Although Elliot does tend to tease Gordon, he does have a lot of respect for him. Both engines share the same perspective towards tank engines like Thomas and Percy who are in their opinions "not as important". They are also both agreed on the subject of trucks. Even though Elliot is a tank engine, not a tender engine, Gordon does not seem to look down on Elliot because of this.

This is probably because he knows that Elliot is not the one to give Gordon the satisfaction, should Gordon ever address Elliot as "inferior" for being a tank engine.

Trivia:

 * Elliot has James' whistle sound.
 * His face mask (or facial structure) is somewhere between Thomas' and Arthur's in appearance.
 * His favourite station is Kelsthorpe.
 * He is considered to be faster than Arthur, but slightly slower than Henry. However I have yet to find out exactly how fast Gordon, Henry and Arthur's basis in real life can go. Elliot was also portrayed to be faster than D261 and Diesel 10, although their basis would probably be faster than Elliot's in real life. At the time I was unaware that both D261 and Diesel 10 were capable of travelling between 90 and 100 miles an hour.
 * He sleeps in the counterpart of Tidmouth Sheds that has more than the usual six berths, as seen in "Percy, James and the Fruitful Day", and "Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure".
 * Elliot apparently dislikes getting covered in coal dust, and hates the smell of mince and cheese pies.
 * He has a New Zealand accent, due to being shipped there for many years before being brought to live on the Island of Sodor.