Rosie

"Hello, Thomas! What are you doing?"

- Rosie, Thomas and the Birthday Mail, tenth season

   Rosie   Rosie is a tank engine who idolises Thomas.
 * Class: SR USA Class
 * Designer: Howard G. Hill
 * Builder: Vulcan Iron Works or H. K. Porter, Inc.
 * Built: 1942 or 1943
 * Configuration: 0-6-0T

Bio
Rosie began idolising Thomas to the point of hero-worship and imitation. Though this is said to be the most sincere form of flattery, it only served to irritate Thomas whilst he was trying to deliver a special birthday post train to Alice at High Farm. He even started to try and avoid her, but after Thomas had an accident in the course of delivering this train, Rosie helped him and he came to respect her.

Rosie was later called to help Thomas shunt trucks until Hector frightened her away.

Rosie was later charged with acting as a back-engine to Emily with the funfair special. Wanting to take the train herself and, thinking she was doing Emily a favour, Rosie succeeded only in creating confusion and delay on a grand scale, but eventually set things right.

Rosie rescued Thomas when his fire went out after playing a game of "splish, splash, splosh". She later let Diesel take her train of flowers which was headed for market.

One day Rosie had a cracked wheel, so Thomas and Butch brought her a new one.

On Sodor Surprise Day, Thomas bumped some coal trucks to surprise Gordon, but ended up surprising her instead. She is later seen being cleaned up with Whiff at the washdown, and joins Gordon and Thomas at Callan Castle to see Harold decked out in bright lights to make Gordon laugh.

Persona
Rosie is a friendly, respectful, and helpful tank engine. She and Thomas like to have fun and also like to help each other when they are doing work. Rosie could be described as a feisty, energetic tomboy who is not afraid to work hard.

Basis
Rosie is an SR USA Class 0-6-0T. Fifteen of these engines were sold to the Southern Railway where they were used as dockyard shunters at Southampton, where they worked alongside the E2s (Thomas' class). Both classes were replaced by BR Class 07 diesels (Salty's class).

Livery
Rosie is painted lavender with light grey tank panels, gold boiler bands, and red detailing on her wheels and metalwork.

Appearances
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Television series

 * Season 10 - Thomas and the Birthday Mail
 * Season 11 - Hector the Horrid!, Thomas Sets Sail and Thomas and the Runaway Car
 * Season 12 - Rosie's Funfair Special
 * Season 13 - Steamy Sodor (cameo), Splish, Splash, Splosh! and Hiro Helps Out (cameo)
 * Season 14 - James in the Dark (cameo), Diesel's Special Delivery, Merry Winter Wish (cameo), Thomas and the Snowman Party (cameo), Thomas' Crazy Day (cameo), Jumping Jobi Wood! (cameo) and Merry Misty Island (cameo)
 * Season 15 - Gordon and Ferdinand (cameo), Toby and Bash (cameo), Percy's New Friends (cameo), Henry's Happy Coal (cameo), Surprise, Surprise (cameo), Stuck on You and Kevin the Steamie (cameo)
 * Season 16 - Race to the Rescue (cameo), Ho Ho Snowman (cameo), Flash Bang Wallop! (cameo), Thomas Toots the Crows (cameo), Bust My Buffers! (cameo), Percy and the Calliope (cameo), Salty's Surprise (does not speak), Sodor Surprise Day, Muddy Matters (cameo), Whiff's Wish (cameo) and Happy Birthday Sir! (cameo)
 * Season 17 - Steamie Stafford (cameo), Henry's Hero (cameo), The Thomas Way (cameo), Percy's Lucky Day (cameo), Bill or Ben? (cameo), Away From the Sea (cameo) and No More Mr. Nice Engine (cameo)
 * Season 18 - Signals Crossed (cameo), Toad's Adventure (cameo), Long Lost Friend (cameo) and Samson at Your Service (cameo)
 * Season 19 - The Beast of Sodor (cameo), Very Important Sheep (cameo) and Philip to the Rescue (cameo)

Specials:
 * The Great Discovery (cameo)
 * Hero of the Rails (cameo)
 * Misty Island Rescue (cameo)
 * Day of the Diesels (cameo)
 * Blue Mountain Mystery (cameo)
 * King of the Railway (cameo)
 * Tale of the Brave (cameo)
 * Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure (cameo)
 * The Great Race (cameo)

Learning Segments:
 * Season 10 - Which Load for Rosie?

Magazine stories

 * 2007 - Airship
 * 2008 - Flower Engine
 * 2011 - Rumble Rescue, Snug in a Rug, Market Day, Rosie's Rocks, Rosie's Really Useful Scrap!, Harold and the Kites, Flower Engine, and Diesel's Special Delivery (does not speak)
 * 2012 - Stuck On You, The Fat Controller's Bedtime Story (Issue 643), Snug in a Rug, and Messy Rescue!
 * 2013 - Sodor Surprise Day (speaks in speech bubble only) and Boiler Bother (speaks in speech bubble only)
 * 2015 - It's Okay to be Scared

Rosie also appeared in the magazine stories, Frying or Flying, Mighty Magnet!, Really Useful Rosie, Red for Rosie, Rushing Around, and Stone Signal. }}

Voice Actors

 * Teresa Gallagher (UK; thirteenth season onwards)
 * Jules de Jongh (US; thirteenth season onwards)
 * Hisayo Mochizuki (Japan)
 * Simona Pahl (Germany)
 * Micaela Incitti (Italy)
 * Justyna Bojczuk (Poland)
 * Talya Barkay (Israel)
 * Susa Saukko (Finland; thirteenth season onwards)
 * Lena Meieran (Norway; thirteenth - sixteenth season)
 * Mildred Barrera (Latin America; thirteenth season onwards)
 * Blanche Ravalec (France and French Canada)
 * María Rubio (Spain; thirteenth season onwards)

Trivia

 * Rosie was the first engine of an American class introduced in the television series. However, if Railway Series characters were counted, she would be the second character, the first being Stanley.
 * Rosie's model is currently on display at Drayton Manor.
 * In Red for Rosie, one image depicts her with a tender.
 * Rosie is almost always missing her blush and lip gloss in various merchandise.
 * Rosie's whistle is a higher pitched version of Thomas'.
 * A magazine fact file states that she works on Thomas' Branch Line. This was proven to be incorrect through the Talk Thomas Facebook page formerly run by Sam Wilkinson.
 * Rosie has both her whistle and connecting rods in different positions compared to her prototype:
 * Rosie's whistle is positioned behind her rear dome whilst her prototype has its whistle positioned on the right side of the middle dome.
 * Rosie's connecting rods are attached to her middle driving wheels whereas her prototype has its connecting rods attached to the rear driving wheels.
 * Her funnel is also taller than her basis.
 * Rosie has had a few modifications throughout the television series, these include:
 * Season 13:
 * Her face became slightly smaller.
 * Her funnel and steam pipes became thinner.
 * Her lamp-irons were removed.
 * A detail on her coal bunker has been pushed in.
 * Mid-Season 17:
 * She gained a permanent headlamp of the same design as Ferdinand's, mounted in front of her funnel.
 * Tale of the Brave:
 * She gained a permanent tail-lamp.

Merchandise

 * Wooden Railway (normal, battery powered; discontinued, holiday versions; discontinued, early engineers; discontinued, and roll and whistle)
 * Take Along (discontinued normal, metallic, and "lights and sounds")
 * Take-n-Play (normal, discontinued talking, and glow racers)
 * Collectible Railway
 * Motor Road and Rail (discontinued outside Asia)
 * TrackMaster (many versions)
 * Bachmann (coming soon)
 * Mega Bloks (discontinued)
 * Minis (Classic, DC Super Friends and SpongeBob SquarePants (Mrs. Puff))
 * My First Thomas
 * My Thomas Story Library (discontinued)
 * Wind-up (normal, metallic and transparent; Japan only)
 * Boss (discontinued)
 * Discover Junction
 * Bath Toys
 * Micro Rubber Engines
 * Thomas and Friends Adventures (coming soon, normal and glow racers)