D199

Diesel 199 (D199), nicknamed "Spamcan" and "Old Reliable", is a rude diesel engine from the Other Railway.

Personality
D199 was pompous and rude, and sided with the general belief amongst diesels that steam engines are inferior to diesel power. He is blatantly arrogant, and enjoys bad-mouthing the steam engines. However, he earned the nickname "Spamcan" by a signalman after he failed pulling a train of oil-tankers, and he subsided when the signalman jokingly threatened to cut him up with a tin opener.

D199 thought he was more reliable than the steam engines. However, one day he broke down and quickly lost his nickname "Old Reliable". In fact, everyone was rather pleased when he was sent away from Sodor back to the Other Railway.

Basis
D199 is based on a BR Class 46 "Peak" 1Co-Co1. The Class 46s never made it up to D199. They were numbered between D138-D193. 56 of them were built from 1961 to 1963, and three of them are preserved.

Voice Actors
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Trivia

 * D199's rear cab has a headcode reading "AC 10".
 * D199 was labelled as "199 Diesel" on the Official Website and his 1995 ERTL packaging.
 * D199's ERTL toy was later recycled for Diesel 10's ERTL toy.
 * D199 has appeared at many Day Out with Thomas events in the UK.
 * D199 appeared in early Thomas & Friends magazines. His depiction was based on his ERTL toy as the red coupling was present.
 * In D199's trading card promo, he is incorrectly depicted as a Co-Co.
 * D199's class, along with the earlier Class 44 and Class 45, was given the nickname "Peak" because the 10 Class 44 diesels were named after British mountains.
 * D199’s nickname, Spamcan, was also one of the nicknames for the Southern Railway’s Merchant Navy Class Pacific locomotives, in reference to their air smoothed casings (of which were eventually removed in the late 1950s), designed by Oliver Bulleid.