Caitlin

"Don't you streamlined engines ever stop?"

- Gordon, Calm Down Caitlin, seventeenth season

    Caitlin    Caitlin is a fast streamlined engine from the Mainland Railway, who was designed for speed. She also has her own rake of coaches painted in a similar colour scheme to her own.
 * Class: Baltimore and Ohio P-7 Class
 * Designer: Baldwin Locomotive Works
 * Builder: Baldwin Locomotive Works
 * Configuration: 4-6-2
 * Built: 1927

Bio
Caitlin loves to challenge the other engines to a race and has a tendency to get a little-overexcited. She, along with Connor, regularly transport passengers from the Mainland to Ulfstead Castle.

Along with Connor, Thomas, Percy and James, she helped with the search of Stephen before Ulfstead Castle's opening. Caitlin once had to spend the night on Sodor and became too excited to listen to advice. During her night on Sodor, she took the mail train and the Flying Kipper. Unfortunately, she did not take others into consideration and ended up waking lots of people up.

Annie and Clarabel, who were in the yard waiting for Thomas, were accidentally coupled up to Caitlin and she took them to the Mainland, but was stopped by Hiro, who brought them back to Thomas.

Persona
Caitlin is a streamlined engine, designed for speed. Along with her friend Connor, Caitlin is an excitable and energetic character, who likes to be busy and loves to race. Both Connor and Caitlin are friendly and eager to get other engines to join in the fun with them. Caitlin is particularly impatient and restless if she has nothing to do. She would rather be racing than sit in a station and be idle. Connor and Caitlin were introduced to the island to bring passengers from the Mainland. They zip on and off the island frequently using the Vicarstown Rolling Bridge.

Basis
Caitlin is based on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad streamlined President Class.

Livery
Caitlin is painted fuchsia with light grey and light blue lining

Television series

 * Season 17 - Calm Down Caitlin
 * Season 18 - Not So Slow Coaches
 * Season 19 - The Truth About Toby and The Best Engines Ever!

Specials:
 * King of the Railway

Magazine stories

 * Not So Slow Coaches

Voice Actors

 * Rebecca O'Mara (UK/US)
 * Merete Brettschneider (Germany)
 * Ewa Serwa (Poland)
 * Sakura Yoshioka (Japan)
 * Sarah MacDonald Berge (Norway; King of the Railway onwards, excluding the seventeenth season)
 * Lena Meieran (Norway; seventeenth season only)
 * Blanche Ravalec (France and French speaking Canada)
 * Mireya Mendoza (Mexico)
 * Tillie Bech (Denmark)
 * Mercedes Espinosa (Spain)

Trivia

 * In real life, Caitlin would be too large for the British loading gauge. However, she seems to have been re-scaled to avoid any animation issues.
 * Her valve gear and siderods are not animated properly. Their movement would be jammed in real life.
 * Caitlin has been modified for use of British rail lines, given a screwlink coupling and buffers at the back.
 * Members of Caitlin's class have been photographed posed alongside the Duchess of Hamilton during the latter's 1938-39 U.S. tour.

Merchandise

 * Wooden Railway
 * TrackMaster
 * Take-n-Play
 * Wind-up Trains (Japan only)
 * Motor Road and Rail (Japan only)
 * Collectible Railway