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Jack the Front Loader
Background Information
First appearance	Butch Proves a Point (Stories From Sodor; mentioned) Jack of Many Trades (Stories From Sodor; first physical appearance)
Creator(s)	Phil Fehrle Jonathan Trueman Abi Grant Robert Gauld-Galliers Chris Lloyd
Overview
Name	Jack
Title	Jack the Front Loader
Gender	Male
Country	Island of Sodor
Affiliation	Sodor Construction Company North Western Railway
Technical Details
Vehicle	Construction vehicle
Type	Front Loader
Fuel type	Diesel
Drivetrain	2WD
Wheels	4
Year built	sometime between 1963 and 1965
Number	11
Company	Sodor Construction Company
Owner(s)	Miss Jenny

Jack is a friendly and enthusiastic front loader, who works for the Sodor Construction Company.

Biography

Thomas & Friends

When Jack first arrived on Sodor, he worked with the Pack to clear room for railway lines. Jack did well with Alfie - that is, until he tried to take some stone up a ledge but failed to pay attention to where he was going and accidentally drove onto an edge of a hill and tipped over. After Miss Jenny scolded him as soon as he was put back on four wheels, Jack learned his lesson and redeemed himself by holding up a collapsing bridge until Thomas had passed over, at the cost of damaging his arms. Jack has since become part of the Pack.

When Jack was being careless again at the warehouse, he accidentally knocked over some slate, but he did not want to be sent back to the yards and left the mess not knowing that Ned had been blamed for it. Ned was about to be sent back to the yards when Jack admitted that he was the one who broke the slate, so Miss Jenny sent him back instead. Later, when Max and Monty carelessly crashed into the lightning tree, Alfie, Oliver and Kelly hold the tree up while he ran to Thomas for the props. Luckily, he made it in time, and the tree was saved.

He, along with the rest of the Pack, helped with the restoration of Great Waterton and worked with Alfie to build a bandstand there. Jack also helped with the restoration of Ulfstead Castle and later saved Stephen and Thomas after the tracks they were on started to collapse.

He also helped with the construction of the Harwick Branch Line, along with Alfie, Oliver, Max and Monty and later attended the branch line's opening ceremony.

Later he, Alfie, Oliver, Max and Monty were working on the Ffarquhar Branch Line and he, Oliver and Alfie helped clear the branch line around the Rail Under Road Bridge and Signalbox after Max and Monty dumped their loads on the line.

After James' accident at Tidmouth Sheds when his brakes malfunctioned, Jack assisted with the shed's reconstruction.

Stories From Sodor

Engine Friends

Like in the television series, when Jack first arrived on Sodor, he worked with the Pack to clear room for railway lines. Jack did well with Alfie - that is, until he tried to take some stone up a ledge but failed to pay attention to where he was going and accidentally drove onto an edge of a hill and tipped over. After Miss Jenny scolded him as soon as he was put back on four wheels, Jack learned his lesson and redeemed himself by holding up a collapsing bridge until Thomas had passed over, at the cost of damaging his arms. Jack has since become part of the Pack.

Later he, Alfie, Oliver, Max and Monty were working on the Ffarquhar Branch Line and he, Oliver and Alfie helped clear the branch line around the Rail Under Road Bridge and Signalbox after Max and Monty dumped their loads on the line.

Season 4

Jack, along with the rest of the Pack, helped construct The Little Strasburg Branch Line.

Season 6

Jack, along with the rest of the Pack, helped construct the Sodor Railway Museum at Great Waterton.

Sodor Stories

Like in the television series, when Max and Monty carelessly crashed into the lightning tree, Alfie, Oliver and Kelly hold the tree up while he ran to Thomas for the props. Luckily, he made it in time, and the tree was saved.

Personality

Jack is brave and will not take any hassle, as seen whenever he stands up to Max and Monty when they bully him and Alfie. He is also kind and caring, he also likes to jump in and get the job done even with other jobs that the other vehicles are assigned to do. But despite the fact that he was trying to be helpful and mean well, he has learned from Ms. Jenny's words, to not jump into another job that is not his own.

Basis

Between the sixth and twelfth series, Jack was based on a Nuffield tractor with an added front loader.

Since the special, King of the Railway, Jack was designed as a International 454 tractor. Because of this, his face shape has changed dramatically from round to rectangular.

Jack's (possible) basis

Livery

Jack was painted red with the top half of his cab and his wheels painted cream. He had the number 11 painted in cream on his sides. From King of the Railway onwards, the top half of his cab and his number are painted white, his back wheels are painted grey and his front wheels are painted red.

References

Non-rail vehicles

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Road vehicles	Terence | Bertie | Trevor | George | Caroline | 040 BMC | Bulgy | Bulgy's Friend | JTK 62 | Willie's Tractor | Tractors | Post Van | The Horrid Lorries | Butch | Thumper | Elizabeth | The Pack (Nelson, Jack, Alfie, Oliver, Max and Monty, Kelly, Byron, Ned, Nigel, Isobella, Patrick, Brenda, Buster, Darcy) | Madge | Kevin | Flynn | Ace | Sir Topham Hatt's Car | Buses | Dyson Lorries | Soft-sided Lorries | Caterpillar Cranes | Taxis | Fire Engines | The Ambulance | Sodor Bakery Van | Miss Jenny's Land Rover | The Blue Mountain Quarry Vehicles | Algy | Angus | Baggage Transporters | Crawler Tractors | Forklifts | Cargo Lorries | Ester
Aircraft	Harold | Tiger Moth | Jeremy | Emerson | Isla | G-Hewi | The Biplane | Aeroplanes | The Hot Air Balloon | The Airship
Watercraft	AC. 3929 | Alyssa | Boats | Bob and Steve | Bulstrode | Captain | Captain Calles' Pirate Ship | Coast Guard | Fishing Boats | Jacqueline | The Jetty | Judith | K 91 | Katherine | Krystyna | Lakesider III | Lucinda | Mail Boats | Old T. | The Queen of Sodor | S12 FH | Skiff | Stefano
Cranes	Big Mickey | Cranky | Colin | Owen | Merrick | Reg | Beresford | Carly | The African Crane | Cranes | A.J.R. No.1 | Ol' Wheezy | Hee-Haw | Happy Hook | Cassia

Sodor Construction Company

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Red Characters

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North Western Railway	Locomotives	Arthur | Dawson | Dustin | Glynn | Harvey | James | Norman | Rosie | Salty | Victor | Winston
	Rolling Stock	Rocky | Slip Coaches | Sophia
	Non-Rail Characters	Bertie | Bulgy | Buster | Caroline | Elizabeth | Flynn | Jack | Max and Monty | The Horrid Lorries
	Formerly	Dexter | Isabel and Dulcie
Skarloey Railway	Locomotives	Ivo Hugh | Rheneas | Skarloey
	Rolling Stock	Red Coaches | Talyllyn Railway Coaches
	Non-Rail Characters	Merrick
Arlesdale Railway	Locomotives	Mike
Crystal Island	Locomotives	Garnet | Ruby | Rutile
Keystone Railway	Locomotives	Red Diamond | Red Imperial Topaz | Red Pearl | Ruby (KR) | Ruby Aura Quartz | Ruby Zoisite
The Mainland	Locomotives	Sixteen | The Flying Thistle | The Mainland Diesels | Ulli
USA	Locomotives	Natalie
Brazil	Locomotives	The Dark Red Tank Engine(s)
	Formerly	Cassia
Denmark	Locomotives	Emil
China	Locomotives	Yong Bao
Tanzania	Locomotives	Kwaku | The Dark Red Tank Engine(s)
	Non-Rail Characters	Kobe
Egypt	Locomotives	Delilah
	Rolling Stock	Alexandria
Belgium	Locomotives	Axel