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Sam
Background Information
First appearance	Sam and the Great Bell (books) A New Friend on Sodor (T&F) The New Line (SFS)
Last appearance	Big World! Big Adventures! (T&F)
Overview
Name	Sam
Gender	Male ♂
Country	United States
Technical Details
Basis	Virginian Railway Class AG
Gauge	4'8½" (1,435 mm; standard gauge)
Power type	Steam
Vehicle	Locomotive
Type	Mallet tender engine
Fuel type	Coal
Configuration	2-6-6-6
Wheels	34
Top speed	80 mph
Builder(s)	Lima Locomotive Works
Year built	1945
Number	VGN 906
Railway	Virginian Railway

Sam is a giant American tender engine originating from the Virginian Railway. He briefly helped bring parts to a museum, and helped doing the important job of bring the bell for Percy after his accident.

Biography

Sodor Story Collection

Sam is a super-sized and super-strong locomotive. He came to the Island of Sodor to help Thomas and Percy with the construction of the Sodor Museum. He collected the heavy loads of rails and stone for the museum. He helped Percy and the bell for the museum back on the rails when Percy fell into a ditch. Afterwards, Sam pulled the bell up to the clock tower when Rocky could not. As a reward for his help, Sir Topham Hatt allowed Sam to lead the first group of people into the museum.

Sam and Logan later returned to the Mainland after their jobs on Sodor were completed.

Thomas & Friends

In Big World! Big Adventures!, Sam is seen pulling a goods train through the Southwest of the United States. He passes Thomas, Ace and Nia who are delivering coffee to San Francisco, and they all greet each other.

Personality

Hailing from the United States of America, Sam is the largest, strongest steam engine to ever visit the Island of Sodor. With a big heart to match his massive size, Sam is super-strong and will travel far and wide to help an engine in need.

Basis

Sam is based on the Virginian Railway Class AG, also known as the "Blue Ridge". He shares his number with a member of his class. The engine bearing this number was scrapped in 1960.

The AG class were built to take heavy coal trains from White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia to Allegheny, Virginia. Fluorite was rebuilt into a member of this class during her overhaul.

Sam's basis

Livery

Sam is painted Persian green and black with white lining. The number "906" is painted on the sides of his cab, his name is painted on the sides of his boiler, near his cab, and "VIRGINIAN" is painted on the sides of his tender, all in white.

Trivia

• At a weight of 389 tonnes or 857,598 pounds (not including his tender), Sam is the largest locomotive ever to come to Sodor.
• Sam has only been partly modified to work on Sodor. He has buffers on his tender and has been given chain-and-hook couplings, yet lacks buffers on his front.
• Sam has twenty wheels, the most wheels of any engine on Sodor (thirty-four counting his tender's wheels).

North Western Railway

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The Little Strasburg Branch Line

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