Eustace

Eustace is an american 0-4-0 narrow gauge tender locomotive working on the BarksBurg narrow gauge railway.

Backstory
Eustace was built in 1918 by Winchender Steamworks on the mainland and was sold to a small logging company in Wells. He was originally nameless. Eustace spent a while in the company's equipment shed, in which he was given his name and number 1. His work 'wasn't very interesting, but nor was it boring'. He would pull empty log cars to the logging camp, waited for them to be loaded, then take the logs to the sawmill for the logs to be cut and then took the freshly cut wood to the 'Big Road', where a standard gauge engine would take them away. He enjoyed working at the logging mill and wished he could stay there forever. unfortunately that couldn't happen. The company went bankrupt and was forced to sell everything. Including Eustace .Eustace was sold to the BarksBurg narrow gauge railway and now works at the Pecan Mountain Quarry.

Appearance
Eustace is based on a locomotive design from the United States. Some of these design aspects include a cowcatcher, a large acetylene headlight, a wooden running board mounted directly to the boiler, a small bell (very deep pitched for it's size), and a very american livery of black with a gray smokebox and red fixtures. He used to have link and pin couplers until everyone realized that they couldn't work with the normal hook and chain couplers.

Relationships
Eustace does not exactly get along with Duchess. With Duchess being one of the only tender engines on the line (the other being Muriel) she was not pleased and refers to Eustace as a "disgraceful yack" for dethroning her as the biggest and second tender engine.

Friendship fairs much better with Linny though they do not talk much.

Trivia

 * 1) Eustace's name is a pun on Eustace from courage the cowardly dog
 * 2) He is the only engine in BarksBurg that works in the quarry with a cowcatcher
 * 3) His tender has been known to derail a lot.