Whiff

"Hello Emily! My name is Whiff, because I'm a bit smelly!"

- Whiff, "Emily's Rubbish", eleventh season.

"I could smell you a mile away" Gordon, "Emily's Rubbish", eleventh season

    Whiff the Garbage Engine 
 * Number: 66

Whiff is a grubby rubbish-collecting tank engine who wears seemingly oversized glasses.

Bio
Whiff was a 2-2-2WT built in 1869 with side tanks were added in 1886. In 1892, Whiff was rebuilt into a 4-2-2. The well tank was removed, the side tanks expanded, and the two-cylinder Worsdell-von Borries compounding system applied. In 1902, he was again rebuilt into a 2-2-4T.

Whiff was still new to Sodor in 2007 when Emily came to help him with his work, but Emily was embarrassed to be seen with Whiff and tried to hide from him. She eventually managed to lose him, but when she was unable to move some trucks of garbage single-handedly out of Spencer's way so Emily got his help and decided that there was nothing wrong with Whiff.

Persona
Whiff is rather naive and ignorant of the others' thoughts about him, his work and his smell. Whiff, still, is very friendly.Whiff turns out to be an enthusiastic and helpful engine, when he worked with Emily.

Basis
Whiff is based on the NER 66 Aerolite, found at the National Railway Museum in York.

Appearances
Whiff appeared in the eleventh season episode "Emily's Rubbish". He also played a big role in the twelfth season episode "Toby's Special Surprise"

He also appeared very briefly in a stock footage, music video cameo in "The Great Discovery"

Livery
Whiff is painted dark green with black and gold stripes and green wheels. He wears the number 66, the same as the locomotive he's based on.

Trivia

 * Whiff has a two-tone whistle, is the second engine to wear glasses the first one being the ballast spreader in small railway engines/ballast. He is the third engine to have no siderods (the first two are Iron Duke and Fergus). And, however, is the second steam engine in the television series to have no siderods, the first being Fergus.


 * Whiff is the first character in the television series to have a name starting with 'W'.

Merchandising

 * LC Wooden model
 * Take-Along model
 * TOMY/Trackmaster model
 * 'My First' model