#chuggington headcanon

[masterj]

Thank god for pilots because this layout is what I'm gonna use for Tootington's depot

Official show never gave us Tootington so I will >:3

[masterjarthub]

I feel like the time has come for you all to meet my main Chuggington OC:

Meet Astra, the new Chug Patroller!

Name: Astra

Created: May, 2020

Gender: Female ♀️

Age Range: 15-16

Home:

• Chuggington

• Tootington (formely)

Chugger Status: Full-fledged

Occupation:

• Chug Patroller

• Backup Equipment Carrier

Eye Color: Mauve

Main Color: Red

Gauge: Standard Gauge

Basis: Freelance Design

Power Type: Diesel-electric

Power Output: 1440 hp

Top Speed: 110 mph

Configuration: Bo-Bo

No. of Wheels: 8

Affiliation:

• Jackman

• Calley

• Asher

• Wilson

• Brewster

• Koko

• Zephie

About Astra:

Astra is a compartment engine who can carry extra Chug Patrol gear and equipment.

Personality:

She is relatively a kind-hearted, eager-to-please teenage girl; she is always happy to do whatever job she is given with a can-do attitude. While there are occasions once in a while when her excitable nature can get the better of her, she is still focused and very capable. Sweet, lively and encouraging, Astra is always ready to do her part, whether it's keeping the tracks safe as a Chug Patroller, or just making everyone smile as a friend.

Astra In Action:

Astra is fresh from completing training, and is the youngest full-time Chug Patrol member. (Wilson does not count; he is only a part-time member as he is still a trainee) She often tags along on emergency callouts with the rest of the squad.

She'll volunteer to do other jobs whenever the oppurtunity arises as she simply loves helping and enjoys a brief change, but in her spare time, she is hobby photojournalist (She has a retractable smartphone-like camera located and stored where her pop-up wingmirrors are; inside the hatch with the Chug Patrol emblem on the door to access her engine placed adjacent to her face, I will draw this in the future)

Ever since she was a trainee, she journals photos and sometimes videos of her everyday life and adventures, usually just cute selfies of herself or group photos. She shares them online with some of her old friends who also partake in this hobby. She also finds her camera useful for reporting track and trackside hazards to Chug Patrol.

Additional facts:

She was a Chug Patroller in Tootington quite some time before moving to Chuggington. She was a top student as a trainee and moved up so quickly, she had graduated while still in the chugger equivalent of teenage years. (Very rarely do chuggers become fully-fledged when they're young. Hodge, Zephie and Emery are the only canon chuggers in this scenario) She had a very close relationship with her old mentor before he suffered a tragic accident that permanently put him out of commission, but he would still be put back together and preserved by a museum. Astra had been invited to Chuggington around this same time and was sad to leave him behind, especially in the sorry state he was currently in, but he reminded her that he'd always be with Astra in her heart. She did manage to recover before she left for Chuggington, but didn't open up to the others about this situation until much later.

She also likes stargazing, and the Planetarium (A new location on the outskirts of Chuggington suburbs) is one of her favorite places.

She has a playful and adventurous relationship with Wilson, and is his best friend to be with whenever Brewster and Koko aren't around. She's usually the Chug Patroller Wilson is on patrol with if not with Jackman or by himself.

Like Wilson, she too would form a father-child-like relationship with Jackman.

She also has a bit of an aunt-like relationship with Calley and an uncle-like relationship with Asher.

Often while they're in CPHQ, Asher likes to listen to chill music on the radio and Astra in particular sways side-to-side or even full-on dances to the music on the turntable.

When she's not with Wilson, Brewster, Koko, or Chug Patrol, she also has a dynamic with Zephie cuz girl power lol

Astra's creation and design was inspired by the Plarail Disney Dream Railway Mickey Mouse Rescue Train by Takara Tomy:

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a perfect real-life resemblance of this locomotive no matter how hard I tried, however the main body does seem to loosely resemble a E6 series Akita Shinkansen:

Now, I'm under the impression that Mickey rescue train was a freelance design, but if by some crazy chance any of you know a better real-life resemblance, do comment below, I'd appreciate that. (^ー^)

Annnd I think that's that, everything you need to know about Astra! I'm hoping to make actual 3d orthos for her, but those are quite tedious and challenging, so for now, that side view and posed render I made back in 2022 will suffice. I wanted to get her revealed before any other Chuggington OCs before it gets too late into the year... and I still need to draw Margot The Monorail for @lomotunes2008 😅...

I was planning to get this released a bit earlier in the day, but additional editing and new content on Youtube kinda got in the way of that :P

But anyway, I hope you all enjoy and do stay tuned because there will be more of Astra, and more OCs in the near future!

[masterj]

You've heard it here folks: It is officially canon that it is illegal to scrap sentient engines without their consent.

And yes. This is also part of my Chuggington headcanon.

Loco lives matter. ✊️✊️✊️

So I was watching this video about Thomas facts and it brought up something interesting:  The Trainspotters Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Engines. It’s an organization dedicated to the wellbeing of engines on Sodor.

I really wish there was more information on it. When was it founded? What events led to it being formed? Are any of the engines involved with it?

[chuggingtonfanatic]

Hello!!

I don't know if you're taking requests on headcanons but I wanted to ask for some Irving headcanons. He is by far the most underutilized of the adult chuggers, I thought he was phased out before the great purge between season 5 and 6 during my most recent binge lmao

I'm sorry to disappoint, but I couldn't think of any Irving headcanons at the moment. I'm not interested in Chuggington right now since I'm into other fandoms & that I don't have as much passion for it right now. The uncertainty of s7 certainly doesn't help.🙁

However, I may create a list of Irving HCs if I was to get inspiration again. He's truly underrated & isn't utilized by the show much. I hope you had a great day & thanks for having appreciation to our favorite local dumpster chugger💕

[dawnofplumeria]

I doubt anyone in this site still remembers this silly talking train show called Chuggington or is still even an active fan, but I'm gonna post Chuggington stuff here anyway.

Although I only made one chuggington related post before this one, I'm usually the most active on Twitter and the fan discord. Twitter is where most of my Chuggington friends are active, which is why I posted all of my Chuggington fanart there. For my next fanworks, I plan to post them here, along with lengthy, written stuff that you won't find on my Twitter account (My other socials would be listed soon if interested).

Now, onto what I actually want to post today...

Whenever there is a Chuggington discussion (whichbis hard to find if you're not an active fan) hardly anyone talks about the human characters in Chuggington. Although, this could apply to almost any talking vehicle show really....anyway ,If you've seen at least one episode of Chuggington, the humans aren't the most astounding looking. Just average, not much special, pretty bearable to look at. The humans I gave the most darn about are the three mechanics of Chuggington railway and so, I decided to bring some light to them! Although they are pretty much st Our three mechanics have done so much to the lovely railway, why not give them some love? Below is a small little gallery of headcanons I have for them!☺

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And that's all I have so far for them! I honestly want to include more stuff such as their hobbies, love lives, ect, but those would be created for another time.. Ngl, the three mechanics are kinda adorable (In fact, I fancy for one of them lol). I might add more if I came up with any! Let me know what you think about them so far! 😁

[1863-project]

who are ingo and emmet's favorite characters from thomas the tank engine? did either twin ever develop a crush on one? /hj

Hi, anon! I guess you didn't see my pinned post where I stated I can't write headcanons for people; that's not my place. I can, however, talk about Thomas and Friends from the perspective of someone around Ingo and Emmet's presumed age range who grew up with the show!

When I was a little kid, Thomas and Friends was first introduced to Americans framed in a live-action show called Shining Time Station. The opening sequence featured famed 4-8-4 Northern locomotive Union Pacific 844, the only steam locomotive to never be retired by a Class I railroad in the United States.

Shining Time Station's versions of the Thomas stories were first narrated by Ringo Starr, as they were in the UK, and later by George Carlin. This ran until 1995, and then for some reason there was a semi-related movie in 2000 called Thomas and the Magic Railroad, which is really only notable because it sucked. The only good thing I can say about it is that Strasburg #475, the only operational 4-8-0 Mastodon in North America, played a starring role. I'm proud of her.

I had die-cast Thomas and Friends toys (including a nice roundhouse for them to live in), amongst other merchandise. I was born in 1989, right as the show was hitting American audiences for the first time. There's a few characters looking back that I'm surprised people haven't picked up on yet.

The Reverend W. Awdry, the author of the Railway Series books, was a noted railway preservationist, and those themes show up in his work frequently (you can see how vehemently anti-scrapping he is). And that especially shows up with...

Donald and Douglas

These two are a set of twins whose entire initial storyline revolves around not separating them, so I'm stunned the Submas fandom hasn't jumped on this. Donald and Douglas are two engines from Scotland who are brought to Sodor, and initially the plan is to only keep one of them and scrap the other - Donald was ordered, but Douglas tagged along to avoid being scrapped. After they repeatedly pull twin switches to confuse the matter, the Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt finds out that their engineers and firemen are ALSO related and are in on the plan. By this point, their general good performance has endeared them to many, and Percy is sent by the other locomotives to argue on their behalf. The Fat Controller agrees, and both locomotives are saved.

They do, however, receive nameplates so they're forced to stop pulling twin switches, which is funny.

There's another set of twins in Thomas and Friends, Bill and Ben, who are best known for coining the oft-used insult "diseasel." You'll even hear otherwise serious railfans use the term now sometimes if they're steam fans, which is really funny. Bill and Ben solely exist to raise hell. They're officially shunters, but they are actually here to cause problems on purpose and get in trouble.

You can tell these things are up to no good. Just look at them.

Anyway, I was actually telling my roommate recently that I was surprised the Submas fandom didn't jump on Donald and Douglas's story involving them doing anything to avoid being separated, but I suppose there's a lot less crossover between Pokemon fans and TTTE fans than I thought there might be. I have to remember that I'm fairly unusual in that for me the trains actually came first and have been a lifelong interest; finding Submas only happened for me a few years ago and they were a perfect fit because I've always been into trains.

I'm not involved in the Thomas fandom (though I did have a massive...thing in 2014 with another preschool train show, Chuggington), but I have fond memories of the show, as it was an early introduction to steam locomotives for me, which was furthered by my parents taking me to Strasburg, which had the side effect of me discovering Old Rivets and falling in love with one specific electric locomotive class (steam locomotives are a hobby I share with my dad; the GG1 is just my own thing). I am, however, aware that Thomas and Friends has a very vocal and passionate fandom. That "half-joking" got me wondering, anon - do you by chance have a crush on any of the characters? Because I know quite a few people certainly do!

[masterj]

I don't know either but I kinda wish we saw more of it 😂😅

god what was going on with these two

[masterjarthub]

Chuggington Headcanons: Astra

Just thought I'd give a bit of extra background on my main OC Astra The New Chug Patroller.

She has her own group of friends back when she was a trainee in Tootington. I have yet to fully establish who these chuggers are but long story short, they were just fun-loving little kids who had their own little adventures together, not quite as crazy as some we've seen from the show, but then by their 'teenage' years, they all had their own paths around the time she applied to Chug Patrol. One or two may visit Chuggington in the future. One of them looks something like this:

As adventurous as Astra is, she has always had the tride of a Chug Patroller since before she started training for the squad. She cares deeply for her friends and strives to ensure their well being. If someone suddenly goes missing, doesn't show up for something they're supposed to, or a feeling just sinks in that something's gone wrong, her first instinct is to drop everything and go look for them and she won't be having any nonsense about it. Sometimes however this means she gets ahead of herself, but she pulls herself together in the end and always focuses on the task at hand.

Astra's livery was slightly different before joining Chug Patrol. She was still mainly red, but had less blue. At some point I'll post a finalized design.

She's generally unphased by bullies. Of course Chuggington has never really had any, but back in her early childhood in Tootington, she is quick to defend her friends their insults like the encourager she is. (There weren't too many, mostly troublesome chuggers who were in due time sent away, but also some nasty passengers or city residents)

She developed her interest in stargazing when she and her old friends camped outside of the city one night.

[masterj]

Chuggington Headcanon: The Depot Renovation and The Chuggineer's Introduction

So Chuggington fans know that in the fourth season, we see that The Main Depot gets a massive update to accommodate for Chug Patrol Headquarters and The Working Wheels Service Yard. This headcanon will explain this sudden change.

So as we know from the first three seasons, Calley was Chuggington's emergency chugger, dealing with accidents, breakdowns, fires, and even transporting injured people to hospital, as rail is Chuggington's primary form of transport, and road vehicles have not been comfirmed to be canon. However, having only one rescue chugger often proved to be quite stressful, inefficient, and inconvenient, which has been shown on a few occasions in the show.

Near the end of the third season, it was eventually decided by both Vee and The Department of Chuggers that Chuggington's rescue service needed upgrading. However, they did not yet have an official plan, nor where many rescue engines available, so they set up a 'trial method'.

Skylar had rescue training expierence, so Vee decided he could form a team alongside Calley and recruit the trainees, but first, they would need extra training with cars rescue chuggers used.

In his introduction episode, "Brewster's Crane Training," they practice crane control.

Then in "Wobbly Wheels," they learn how to use the Chug Catcher (a sand trap used to stop runaways on the mountain tracks)

In "Top Secret Koko," both Skylar and Calley teach the trainees how to 'piggy-back' wagons (flatbeds used for carrying chuggers)

And finally, the episode "Skylar's Squad," where the trainees get full-on rescue training with Skylar's own set of rescue cars, and the trainees who do the best will be recruited, which ends up being Hoot and Toot.

This, of course, was short lived however, after Chug Patrol, a modern, state of the art rescue squad was made known to Chuggington, and after investments where made, Chuggington would get their own Chug Patrollers and headquarters in The Depot.

To do that however, space would need to be made. At this same time, Vee decided the Fuel Yard also needed upgrading, to accommodate more chuggers for refueling and washing and improve efficiency, which is how The Working Wheels Service Yard came to be.

A lot of work needed to be done, and thus, the renovation began...

Construction started some time after the third season's events. The cafe half of the Colored Tunnels had to be removed to accommodate for Chug Patrol HQ. It had been years since many people where last there so no one was particularly bothered by this. The Rolling Stock Yard was taken down in order for the Working Wheels Yard to be built, however, it was later rebuilt further back outside of the depot. The area for the Fuel Yard was too small to become the Working Wheels Yard, so it was left alone. They would need it for storing materials and rolling stock out of the way anyway.

Vee put Dunbar, Speedy and Skylar in charge of handling the construction work, as they were the current chuggers best suited for the job. Several tracks in front of the Colored Tunnels had to be rearranged, which was handled by Hodge and Eddie, the latter also handling traffic control due to the construction. Calley also assisted by shunting various rolling stock and materials. It was long, dusty work and project took several months (basically the gap between the third and fourth season's airdates in the UK)

As for the other chuggers, they carried on with all the other work. The trainees - except Piper - also had to pitch in to cover for the chuggers busy with the construction, so training was put completely on hold for them until further notice. Despite this however, problems soon arose...

With several lines under unavailable, and cars of building materials blocking the way, chuggers had to be guided around them to get out of the depot. Trains were delayed, passengers complained, and the backlog of traffic started to cause a slowdown in construction, as sometimes, Calley had to clear a way herself to let trains through. Sometimes, chuggers were even re-routed onto Emery's line on the elevated tracks in order to get their trains out of the depot, which held him and his passengers up too!

Poor Vee was now very frazzled. All this 'confusion and delay' made it quite clear to her that having three of four of her working chuggers taken away from their other work and only one chugger to keep the tracks clear wouldn't be enough. If this project was ever going to get done, she needed to call in professional help...

And now, three special new chuggers come onto the scene, and we know who they are...

Fletch, Tyne, and Zack, and they are The Chuggineers!

The Chuggineers are a team of chuggers from Tootington specialized in construction and engineering, in which Zack, Fletch and Tyne were originally part of. Vee got in contact with the manager of Tootington's railway to see if they could lend some of their Chuggineers. Zack, Fletch and Tyne were choosen - and instead of being loned, The manager sold them to Vee, as well as a full set of Chuggineer wagons - Vee was delighted!

So a few days later after they were purchased, Zack and the Chuggineers arrived and set right to work. Things turned around remarkably. As they and their wagons were specialized in this kind of work, The Chuggineers proved much more efficient. Construction of Chug Patrol HQ started to pick up speed again, The Depot started to become less overcrowded with cars, and the other chuggers where able to get back on schedule. Dunbar and Calley still helped with shunting for the project, and sometimes Brewster as well, while Speedy went back up to the quarry, which was to start its expansion soon, but that's another story.

A couple weeks later, Jackman, the soon-to-be chief of Chug Patrol arrived and assisted in finishing CPHQ, as mentioned previously in my headcanon for him. They were soon able to finish work on The Working Wheels Yard. That's when Cormac, the forklift chugger arrived, but again, that's another story.

At long last, the project was finished, Calley went into The Repair Shed for an overhaul, where she was repainted and refitted into her Chug Patrol gear and attire, which she bears to this day, while Zack, Fletch and Tyne and made fast friends with the other chuggers, and were proud to call Chuggington their home.

[masterj]

Chuggington Headcanon: Jackman's Origin

Jackman was built and lived in a far away country named Ironland - The Chuggington equivalent of Ireland - hence his Irish accent. After completing training, he spent his early working years at a logging company on the outskirts of his hometown, where he became quickly became handy with his huge crane arm mounted on top of him, but also served as a rescue chugger, exactly like Calley in the first three seasons.

When Chuggington's rail emergency service had been decided to be upgraded to what is now Chug Patrol, Jackman, now with wide rescue experience, was invited to become part of the squad, and gladly excepted, and after being shipped to Chuggington, he also assisted in completing the construction of Chug Patrol Headquarters, located in the main depot.

As it turned out, Chuggington wasn't the only railway with its rescue service being revamped to Chug Patrol, Tootington and Ironland - some time before Jackman moved - where two of a few that had undergone the change, so Jackman already had experience with the new and modern Chug Patrol wagons, and knew techniques that even Calley didn't know, which quickly won him the position as chief, which he proudly resides in to this day.

[masterj]

Ahh there I am! 😄

Wilson, what's your current relationship with Harrison? I know you look up to Jackman a lot more now so are you two still good friends?

Uh Yeah Harrison of course he is I also help him work on mechanical stuff things that get bought in like cars , trucks ,planes , helicopters . But he mainly fixes our engine counter parts.

[masterj]

Chuggington Headcanon: Wilson The Artist - WE WERE ROBBED \😫/

So if you know the CGI TV series Chuggington, you know its three main protaginists, Brewster, Koko, and Wilson, who is ultimately the main character overall, and TOTALLY THE BEST AND MOST RELATABLE talking train with face to grace the face of the earth and I'M TOTALLY NOT SAYING THAT OUT OF BIAS I'm NOT obsessed I'M PERFECTLY NORMAL I totally didn't kidnap him from his roundhouse to adopt him as my son I don't know WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT CRAZY A-

...Anyways, yes, Wilson is in fact the overall main character of Chuggington. He is mostly known for showing severe signs of ADHD, including having a short attention span and getting easily distracted, particularly in the first three seasons, and then in season 4, when our beloved trio move up to advanced training, Wilson becomes promoted as an apprentice for Chug Patrol Rescue Squad, due to various past occasions of him rescuing his friends from certain disaster.

Wilson has always been my favorite characater because he has the most relatable character of the main three, his fun personality is always so well-written, coupled with the voice acting from Morgan Overton and Tony Terraciano in the UK and US dubs respectively, and while his dodgy attention span, cheekiness and foolishness can get him into trouble, he always comes through to put things right and has creative and ingeniously unique ideas to solve problems. But you know what people DON'T talk about? >:( The fact that Wilson is CANONICALLY an ARTIST. 😎👌🎨

Let's quickly go over three examples:

Exhibit 1: Wilson and the Paint Wagon (Season 1 Episode 41)

So naturally, we must first go over the one that started it all: In "Wilson and the Paint Wagon", our trio learn how to use said wagons. Wilson struggles at first like the ADHD boi he is, but with Old Puffer Pete's help, he quickly learns how to control his paint wagon. 🎨

Right afterwards, see Wilson paint a yellow butterfly on his roundhouse door with some basic 2D detail. 🦋

And at the end of the episode, Wilson's newfound talent comes full circle when he demonstrates his skill to his friends as paints a picture of the main trio with Dunbar on the wall in the Training Yard, and coming from someone who's been drawing since three, I think it's safe to say he's got quite the unique artstyle for a beginner. 😎👍

Exhibit 2: Trainer Wilson (Badge Quest Season 2 Episode 13)

In the 13th and final second series episode of the Badge Quest short series, Wilson is to teach Hoot and Toot how to use the paint wagon, where he graces us once again with his painting skills with a picture of Hoot and Toot. 😌

Not too much difference in the artstyle compared to last time, but still a vitally noteworthy mention nonetheless.

Exhibit 3: Chug-O-Flage (Season 3 Episode 4)

And last, but definitely not least, "Chug-O-Flage" from season 3.

After unsuccessfully trying to make a camouflage net for safari training with Mtambo, Wilson decides to instead camouflage himself by getting painted as a parrot (Big mistake, it almost got him killed lol 🦏) but I'm sorry, the fact he got himself painted as A PARROT?🦜 HE CAME UP WITH THAT PAINT JOB, He TOTALLY DESIGNED THAT and somehow programmed it into the spray shed computer or something- THERE IS NO OTHER WAY- I SWEAR TO GOD, he HAD to- You can't tell m- there's NO WAY-

Your honor, my boi is an artist, I rest my case. 😌

This is why Wilson is best chugger. He's not only my inner child, (yours too, don't lie 😈) he's an artist. CANONICALLY an artist. He has ALWAYS had talent, Why wasn't there MORE of this, LUDORUM YOU ROBBED US ALL-

So finally here's where my headcanon comes into play:

Whenever Wilson makes the time for it, he likes to make paintings with the paint wagon just for the fun of it, usually of his favorite things like butterflies, ice cream or even his friends.

'Course, he already knows he can't just do it anywhere without permission, cuz dat's graffiti which is illegal, he usually uses whatever flat junk or scrap he can get hold of such as old metal sheets or wooden boards, even unused hopper cars rusting away in sidings that haven't met the cutter's torch get a touch up.

Sometimes, he does have actual canvases for painting (Lori gives them to him 😊) and he even puts them up in the wall in his roundhouse. Whatever he can't put in there is safely put in a storage unit located behind the Loading Yard.

It's safe to say his artstyle has improved quite a lot since what we've seen on-screen. 😉😎👌🎨

[masterjarthub]

Chuggington Headcanon: Payce & Daley

Daley, the express courier chugger introduced in Season 5, reuses the same model of Payce, the Tootington high speed link tunnel runner from Season 4, albeit with minor modifications. This means they have the same basis as well, which is the Siemens Velaro family:

Payce is canonically Tootington's fastest, so she was quite popular nationwide, but she and Daley never knew each other throughout their time growing up in Tootington. A couple years after Daley first came to Chuggington, which was offscreen between S4 and S5, it was noticed by multiple chuggers how similar he looked to Payce and joked about them being lost siblings. Sometime after, it was revealed they were indeed related.

Hear are some additional facts:

Payce and Daley become platonic best friends and spend a lot of their spare time together, usually racing all over Chuggington and Tootington, watching movies at ride-in theaters or hanging out with Hanzo and Koko, and got to know each other after years of not even knowing they were related.

Payce still lives in Tootington, but she and Daley become honorary Speed Fleet members. They are usually on the team with Koko and Hanzo in events and races, such as the Track Dash from the S4 episode "Team Trainee." Also, they often join Koko and Hanzo in their meditation sessions in between their passenger runs and deliveries.

As promised, Daley lets Koko assist in his express courier deliveries. This is on a semi-regular basis.

As skilled, careful and disciplined these two are, it doesn't stop Payce's bravery and Daley's confidence from causing them to end up in an incident or two on rare occasion. One frosty morning, Payce and Daley offered to grit the mountain tracks of Rocky Ridge while the Chug Patrollers were busy. Unfortunately, Daley accidentally caused a landslide by blaring his horn and they were trapped by heaps of snow and rubble. Luckily they were quickly rescued shortly after.

Eventually, more young high-speed chuggers are recruited as candidates to join Speed Fleet, and Payce and Daley are quite often teaching these apprentices. We have yet to find out who these youngsters are and who will join...

[masterjarthub]

Chuggington Headcanon: Rosa

Tonight, we'll be talking about Rosa, the Spanish crane chugger introduced in the 6th season episode "Not From Around Here" where she moves to Chuggington from her home of San Locomota, to try and find jobs that utilize her to her full potential, and in the end, she is recruited by Zack as part of the Chuggineers.

In my headcanon, Rosa never joined the Chuggineers.

The reasons for this is because with how many characters and locations were written off and Herschend's rather mixed writing quality and their overall depiction of the world of Chuggington, (I'm not normally much of the reviewer type, but that elephant in the room shall be covered some other time) It really feels like they were hastily scraping the bottom of the barrel with the choice of having Rosa join the Chuggineers...

Another thing to note:

Notice how the Chuggineers all match each other, Zack, Fletch and Tyne all have matching stripes and certain parts. Even Brewster has the Chuggineer attire to some degree, but Rosa does not. She still wears that brightly colored Carribean styled paint job.

Some of you fellow Chuggington fans who have been around a hot minute on the internet may remember user TranquilSkies, or on here, @chuggingtonfanatic , who is no longer active in the Chuggington fanbase as far as I'm aware, but around the time of S6, she used to write some headcanons for Chuggington herself, and I was greatly inspired.

In her headcanons for the Chuggineers, she mentions that Rosa turns down the Chuggineer livery in favor of her own, due to her still being very attached to her homeland. I very much see this being canon and while I agree that Rosa would have good character dynamics with the Chuggineers, having her part of this team just felt kinda forced and doesn't exactly sit right with me, especially since Fletch and Tyne were two of the characters cut from S6 and Rosa pretty much replaces them...

Now, I DO NOT mean to say this out of bias in any kind of offense, but I'm sorry- I... I just can't get over how trippy this feels... They did Fletch and Tyne dirty...

So now, this begs the question: If I am not having Rosa become part of The Chuggineers, what is her new job in Chuggington? Where will she go?

Well recently, I finally found the answer: An underused character, and an EXTREMELY underused location, both of which were ALSO absent from S6...

...Yeah, I think it's already safe to say I'm gonna have to post a re-write of "Not From Around Here" someday, as well as the other misfires from S6, but anyway, here's what happens:

In this re-write, the episode plays out mostly the same, albiet with more characters of course.

After caring passengers with Koko, Wilson, on his way to deliver extra safety barriers, shows Rosa the quarry of Rocky Ridge where Speedy is working, and she helps him with his work. After deciding hauling heavy stone is not for her, Brewster meets up with Rosa and asks for her help; The Chuggineers are repairing a wooden bridge in the countryside and need some timber, so Rosa offers to pick some up from The Timber Yard while Brewster is busy collecting ballast.

Little did she know, she would not only encounter a familiar face on the way, but a VERY close call as well...

As Rosa heads down from the quarry after getting directions to the Timber Yard from Brewster, she comes across Rocky Ridge Rickety Bridge, which is just before the quarry.

Speedy was coming out of the mine and crossing the old bridge with loaded hopper cars. Then there was trouble...

The weight of Speedy and his heavy stone cars made the old bridge sag and creak, and only after he made it safely across, a chunk of the bridge snapped off with a CRACK, about to crash down on another chugger!

Rosa rushed in and caught the falling wooden beams just in time. But when she saw who exactly the chugger she saved was, she could not believe her eyes...

The chugger was none other than Skylar, whose model was reused for Rosa. Although we've known him since the 3rd season, he unfortunately did not get much focus due to the advanced training update in S4-S5 before he was written out. Regardless, he and Rosa are indeed siblings.

Thankfully, Skylar was not hurt, and he and Rosa were very happy to be reunited after so many years. Skylar did live in San Locomota with Rosa for a period of time before going of to The Training Academy in Tootington, to pursue his career of becoming a trainer.

By this point in the show, the trainees of Chuggington would become less dependent of both Dunbar and Skylar as their trainers.

As we know, Wilson, Brewster and Koko have well already joined Chug Patrol, The Chuggineers, and Speed Fleet, respectively, and Hoot and Toot are recently promoted to advanced training as shunting engines in The Depot, giving Dunbar the extra set of wheels he needed. Even little Piper would have completed the basics of training and find her own role in Chuggington becoming a frequent helper for Mtambo at The Safari Park.

With the younger trainees needing less and less lessons from Dunbar and Skylar, Their time would go completely into their work. Skylar became The Timber Yard's designated chugger, which would explain his semi-regular usage after S3, since The Timber Yard has not been seen at all since the first season.

Rosa and Skylar head off together to The Timber Yard and load up the timber to take to The Chuggineers. It is then Rosa finds that she really enjoys working there - loading and pulling logs was the perfect job for a crane chugger, and even better, she had her own long lost brother to share it with; she had found just the right job for her in Chuggington at last!

The two set of with the timber for not one, but now two bridges in need of repair, catching up and Rosa getting to know The Chuggineers for the rest of the day, which raps up the episode.

To this day, Rosa and Skylar work happily together at The Timber Yard, and while neither of them are part of The Chuggineers, they do help them out with certain construction jobs around Chuggington from time to time, and become very close friends indeed.

Although Rosa can be a little shy around those she's not too familiar with, it doesn't stop her from proudly sharing her heritage of San Locomota with all her fellow chuggers who welcomed her with open arms, and her experience and knowledge from navigating complicated routes to keeping loads even does wonders.

She wasn't sure at first, but while she is indeed still attached to San Locomota, she can now safely say that she is proud to call Chuggington her new home.

(Oh, and before we close off, I should also mention that Rosa and Skylar's close call with the bridge was also based one of TranquilSkies's headcanons, so credit to her)

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So, @lomotunes2008 , I haven't got around to designing Margot yet, but dammit, I couldn't wait any longer to post these facts about her story I came up with:

On the other end of Chug Town Trackside Towers is Chuggington Airport, a new location I will introduce in my headcanon (loosely based on what I saw in my dreams once or twice lol.)

Speed Fleet are the most common chugger here. It has a big station where passengers and parcels are transfered, and is the terminus of a newly built monorail line that goes all the way to Buffertonia.

Margot is one of the monorails on trial. Only up to four would be chosen to by Vee to stay.

Poor Emery was very hurt by Margot's mean words - but it wasn't Margot saying he was bad at his job that broke him - she also said his face looked like a pig, his swaying horns and buffers make him look like a ugly caterpillar, (Ooh, deja vu...) and that his eyes make him look like an ugly alien, because he has heterochromia. (Emery's left eye is green, and his right eye is blue)

And of course, he wasn't the only chugger she tormented; she called Chatsworth a wimp when she honked as loudly as she could at him, causing him to jump and overturn his hopper car.

She called Olwin a fat old fusspot because of her large streamlined body, and how upset she was when she got covered in sand from Chatsworth's car tipping over.

She called Old Puffer Pete a rusty, weak piece of junk and that he was the most useless, pathetic, and ditzy chugger she had ever seen, because he is the oldest in Chuggington and always gets the youngster's names wrong.

She finished off with I quote: "What's a smelly steamer like you still doing around?😒 Go find a scrapyard!😈"

Pete: 😨

What a bi🤬🤬🤬.

She then passes Hodge and Eddie and calls Hodge similar insults, due to the fact he is a 'hodge-podge' of scrap metal. Eddie, with his wrench clutched in his fist, shouted just what he thought of Margot insulting his faithful work companion, but alas, she was already leaving them far behind.

Margot is also very impatient and honked at everyone yelling at them to work faster, whether they were in her way or slowing her down in any way, shape, or form or not, kinda like Emily when she was bossy little b🤬tch in the S8 episode "Emily's Adventure."

Margot literally yelled exactly this at the start of her journey at The Airport, when the station porters were loading up her passenger's luggage, and honks at them, which only caused them to bump the trolley and drop everything, and the passengers, disturbed by her horn, were very angry; monorails are supposed to be quiet!

She then honked rudely at Wilson and Brewster hauling a heavy stone train from the quarry, telling at them to hurry up, even though they were not in her way or anything whatsoever because she is a monorail so they don't run on each other's tracks at all. Brewster thought Margot was the rudest monorail he'd ever met and Wilson was very cross.

But Margot thought 'it made them work harder'.

What a f🤬🤬🤬ing stupid 🤬🤬🤬🤬.

She even insulted Koko's speed claiming she could go three times faster than Hanzo, let alone her. Koko was fuming.

So yeah, she was indeed just being an absolute menace to society and causing confusion and delay overall lol, and Emery was especially miserable. He meets up with the main trio (and my yet-to-be-revealed main oc) in The Depot later and told them what she said to him. Already angry with Margot, they convinced Emery they need to tell Vee about her appalling behavior and overcoming the pain, he agrees.

But of course, they weren't the only ones to complain to Vee about Margot, and long story short, Vee was not happy, and indeed, there was nothing for it but for Margot to be sent away in disgrace. All the other chuggers and monorails went off back to work as normal, and Margot was put back on the wagon, and taken straight back to the Buffertonian production plant she came from by Dunbar. Did she ever change her ways? We may never know...