Culdee

"He's called Culdee, after the mountain his railway climbs."

- Donald, Mountain Engines

    Culdee  Culdee is a mountain engine named after Culdee Fell, the mountain his railway climbs.
 * Builder: Winterthur
 * Number: 4
 * Configuration: 0-4-2
 * Arrived on Sodor: 1900

Culdee was built at the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1896, and was the first to be used in the test runs on the Culdee Fell Railway. He was also the last mountain engine on Sodor to travel to Switzerland for an overhaul, in the 1960s.

Culdee has his own coach, named Catherine.

Persona
Culdee is careful, cautious and friendly, filled with advice to give to the other engines.

Basis
Culdee is based on Snowdon of the Snowdon Mountain Railway.

Livery
Culdee is painted purple with orange lining.

Railway Series

 * Mountain Engines

Magazine stories

 * 1997 - Culdee (does not speak)

Trivia

 * Culdee has buffers in some magazine stories and on his Take-Along model.

Merchandising

 * ERTL (discontinued)
 * Wooden Railway (reissued with apple orchard cars; discontinued)
 * Take-Along (discontinued)