Inspirations[]
Rose's design was greatly inspired by Diesel, albeit with added lining, silver buffers, and a blue running board.
Rose's personality is also slightly based on Diesel's, with other added features, such as her being protective over those she cares about.
Design[]
Rose was originally conceived in 2015, albeit under the name Cassandra. She was originally painted aqua with dark blue lining and was based on a BR Class 28 Co-Bo diesel-electric engine.
She retained this design until late 2016, when Jacobacranmer decided to completely overhaul the character, and she became the character she is to this day.
Basis[]
Originally, Rose was based on a BR Class 28 Co-Bo diesel-electric engine.
She is currently based on a BR Class 08 diesel shunter.
Liveries[]
Originally, Rose was painted aqua with dark blue lining.
When she was overhauled, she became painted black with light blue lining. She had her name and number on her sides in light blue. She also had a light blue bufferbeam.
In the ninth season of Stories From Sodor:Future, Rose was repainted rose pink with navy blue lining. She has her name and number on her sides in navy blue and a navy blue bufferbeam.
Appearances Throughout the Years[]
Throughout the years, Rose has become one of Jacobacranmer's most used locomotive characters, behind Brady, Marie, and Madison. However, much like Brady, Rose's appearances have been less frequent in the later seasons of Stories From Sodor, making only one appearance in the fourteenth season and one in the Friends Around the World miniseries.
She was also absent from most of the Jacob and Friends:All Grown Up spin-off series, until the final episode of the second season, where she made her only appearance of the series.
Rose was absent from the first three seasons of the Stories From Sodor:Future spin-off, and did not make her first appearance until the final episode of the fourth season. She would then go on to appear in the fifth, seventh, ninth, and thirteenth seasons.
Rose made only one appearance in the International Friends Around the World spin-off, with that lone appearance coming in the second season.