Rosie

"Hello, Thomas! What are you doing?"

- Rosie, Thomas and the Birthday Mail, tenth season

  CGI S. (JBS onwards)= |-|CGI S. (S13-TGR)= |-|Model Series=   Rosie    Rosie is a tank engine who looks up to Thomas. She works as both a shunting engine and a mixed traffic engine.
 * Number: 37 (Season 21 onwards)
 * Class: SR USA
 * Designer: Howard G. Hill
 * Builder: Vulcan Iron Works or H. K. Porter, Inc.
 * Built: 1942 or 1943
 * Configuration: 0-6-0T
 * Top Speed: 35 mph

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 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 do hard work.

Basis
Rosie is based on a SR USA Class 0-6-0T. Originally classified as the USATC S100 Class and designed for shunting duties in Europe during the Second World War, after the war fifteen of these engines were sold to the Southern Railway where they were used as dockyard shunters at Southampton. There, they worked alongside the LB&SCR E2s (Thomas' class). Both classes were replaced by BR Class 07 diesels (Salty's class) in 1962, though members of the class remained in service on departmental duties until 1966.

Four members of this class are preserved, one at the Bluebell Railway. Two S100s have also been bought from the former Yugoslavia and modified to USA condition.

Livery
From her debut up until The Great Race, Rosie was painted lavender with light grey tank panels, gold boiler bands, red lining and wheels, and light grey wheel rims.

Starting from the twenty-first season onwards, Rosie will be painted faded cherry red with raspberry tank panels, gold boiler bands and light grey lining. She will have the letters "NWR" written on her tank panels in light grey and the number "37" in light grey under her cab windows.

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 - Very Important Sheep (cameo), The Beast of Sodor (cameo) and Philip to the Rescue (cameo)

She will appear in the twenty-first season.

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)
 * Journey Beyond Sodor

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

Magazine Stories

 * 2007 - Airship
 * 2008 - Flower Engine and Perfect Promise
 * 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 - sixteenth season)
 * Jules de Jongh (US; thirteenth season - sixteenth season)
 * 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-speaking Canada)
 * María Rubio (Spain; thirteenth season onwards)

Trivia

 * Rosie is the first engine of several things:
 * The first engine of an American class introduced in the television series, and the second such engine (after Stanley) introduced in the franchise overall.
 * The first engine in the television series to have her original livery changed permanently, and the second character in the television series overall, the first being Bulgy.
 * The first engine in the series to receive a number who didn't already have one.
 * The first engine in the television series to be lettered for the North Western Railway.
 * Rosie's model is currently on display at Drayton Manor.
 * In Red for Rosie, one illustration incorrectly depicts her with a tender.
 * When she had her lip gloss and blush, Rosie rarely had it in various merchandise lines.
 * Rosie's whistle is a higher pitched version of Thomas'.
 * A magazine fact file states that she works on Thomas' Branch Line.
 * The My First Thomas & Friends' Railway Pals model of Rosie is the first piece of merchandise to introduce Rosie's new livery.
 * Since her debut, Rosie has appeared in every season and special except The Adventure Begins and Season 20.
 * 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 (starting with Percy's Lucky Day onwards):
 * 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.
 * Journey Beyond Sodor:
 * She received a new faded cherry red livery with "NWR" painted on her side tanks and the number 37 painted under her cab windows.
 * She lost her lipgloss and blush.

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 Minis
 * DC Super Friends Minis (as Supergirl, Starfire, Hawkgirl and Star Sapphire)
 * SpongeBob SquarePants Minis (as Mrs. Puff)
 * Tootsie Minis (Charms)
 * Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Minis (as the Pink Ranger)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (as April O'Neil)
 * My First Thomas (discontinued)
 * My Thomas Story Library (discontinued)
 * Wind-up (normal, metallic and transparent; Japan only)
 * Boss (discontinued)
 * Discover Junction
 * Bath Toys
 * Micro Rubber Engines
 * Adventures (normal and light-up racers)
 * My First Thomas & Friends