Beau

Beau is an American tender engine with a moustache, who works for a mining company near the Grand Canyon. He befriended Thomas during his journey around the world, after Thomas derailed outside of a railroad mine.

Biography
Beau was taking a freight train when he came across Thomas and Ace speeding towards him before an intersection. While he avoided the runaway, his train was uncoupled and sped after them. After the two derailed, Beau caught up to them and laughed at Thomas' request to find a breakdown crane as those were not used in the area. Taking Thomas' driver and fireman as well as Ace's driver, he left to find people and horses to help them, not returning until the next day. Once the two were upright on the rails and on their way, Beau commented on the way they talked being funny to him.

Personality
Beau hails from the American Southwest. This gritty old-timer is able to help Thomas in a moment of need, fixing himself in Thomas' memory and making him forever grateful. Beau is also wise and has a lot of cowboy and cowgirl friends who help him out.

Basis
Beau is based on the Baldwin 4-4-0s built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, specifically with the fittings currently fitted onto the No. 12 Genoa. Beau's livery, however, resembles the one worn currently by the Central Pacific No. 63 Leviathan replica.

Beau has been slightly modified from his basis with buffers above his cowcatcher (which is flatter and shorter to accommodate them) and behind his tender, which also has a screw-link coupling.

Livery
Beau's livery is based on the current one worn by the Leviathan, as he is painted silver and red with gold lining. His boiler is painted silver, his cab is brown and his wheels, tender and cowcatcher are red. His Steam dome is gold. His name and number are painted on the sides of his tender and cab respectively in yellow. Unlike the Leviathan, his whistle is black instead of gold, and his lamp is gold instead of red, as is his sand dome.

Appearances
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Specials

 * 2018 - Big World! Big Adventures!

Music Videos

 * Series 22 - The Journey Never Ends

Videos

 * 2018 - Meet the Characters! and Different Ways to See the World

Storytime
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 * Series 1 - Big World! Big Adventures!
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Books

 * 2018 - Big World! Big Adventures! (Golden Book)
 * 2019 - Engines Around the World

Video Games

 * 2018 - Thomas & Friends: Adventures!

Official Description
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Bell
In addition to having a whistle, Beau also has a bell. He shares the same bell sound as Belle's.

Trivia

 * In prototype biographies of Beau, it is said that Thomas saved him after he was abandoned, however this does not happen in the movie.
 * Interestingly, this plot element was reused for Lorenzo in Mines of Mystery.
 * Several parts of Beau's model are reused from other engines:
 * His bell is reused from Belle with a different frame.
 * James' temporary headlamp from the fourteenth series episode, James in the Dark is reused for Beau's tail-lamp.
 * His bogie wheels, driving wheels and connecting rods are reused from Lexi, with his driving wheels and flanges scaled up and the rivets on the counterweights removed.
 * In early storyboards, Beau is depicted as a grey tank engine with a cowcatcher and diamond spark arrestor, a design similar to that of Puffa from Thomas & Friends' sister series, TUGS.
 * Despite having front buffers, Beau has no front coupling, making his buffers functionally useless.
 * Although Beau's name is displayed on his tender as well as in the listing for his Wood toy and various promotional pieces, his name has never been spoken in the television series.
 * Beau appears to have been significantly scaled down from his basis, as his cab is only slightly taller than conventional British rolling stock. This would make it hard for his crew to fit in his cab, however his driver is seen standing in his cab, as well as Thomas's crew and Ace's driver entering it; Beau's cab interior could be modified from his basis to accommodate for his reduced size.
 * Beau does not appear to have a fireman, as seen in his promotional video where only his driver is visible in his cab; this could possibly be due to limited space in his cab, as his driver can be seen crouching in his cab.
 * In his promotional video, his bogie wheels stay facing the camera whilst the rest of his body moves.
 * Most of Beau's model was reused for Marcia and Marcio.
 * Beau and Belle are named after the French word for "beautiful", as well as having the same bell sound.
 * Beau's whistle is Emily's current one, but at an even lower pitch.
 * Beau was originally going to have a grey boiler, gold whistle, black tender, black lamp, black cowcatcher and black domes just like his basis.
 * Besides the Leviathan another locomotive that wore the same livery is Santa Cruz Railroad No. 3 'Jupiter' which is on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
 * Beau's buffers placed the cowcatcher was an inspiration from one of the nine American 4-4-0 Baldwins which operates on the Hanko–Hyvinkää railway.

Merchandise

 * Wood
 * Bachmann Coming soon
 * Top Trumps

Videos
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