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Piper
Background Information
First appearance	Toot's New Friend
Last appearance	You for a Day (cameo)
Creator(s)	Sarah Ball
Voice Actors
UK/US voice actor	Eve Bentley (2011-2014)
UK voice actor	Faith Delaney (2021)
US voice actor	Dakota Phillips (2020-2021)
Overview
Name	Piper
Nickname(s)	Peapod (by Old Puffer Pete) Pipsqueak (by Old Puffer Pete)
Gender	Female ♀
Eye colour	Navy
City	Chuggington
Residence	The Roundhouse
Affiliation	Steam Team Junior Chug Patrol
Status	Trainee
Technical Details
Basis	North Pacific Coast Railroad Cab-Forward 4-4-0 No. 21
Vehicle	Chugger
Type	Steam
Configuration	4-2-0
Wheels	6

“I'm a little bit wobbly on my wheels.”

―Piper on her first day in Chuggington

Piper is an orange cab-forward steam engine who first appeared in the third season.

Biography

On her first day, she was crowded by all the chuggers as Olwin and Old Puffer Pete arrived with her, and Morgan and Lori steamed her up for the first time. When she started working, Toot was given the job of touring her around Chuggington. Toot wasn't happy with Piper as Piper was taking her space in the Trainee Roundhouse, so went off quickly so Piper would get lost in the depot. As soon as Hoot came back from a run, Toot realized how mean she had been and quickly befriended her. Piper announced to the twins that she wanted to stay in the same roundhouse as Hoot and Toot.

Later, she was given her training plate and Old Puffer Pete gives her her first lesson: How to use her coupler. She struggled with it and thought that she would never be able to do it, but soon learned how to uncouple and decouple. Later, Wilson was put on duty watching her while Pete went up to the Quarry, bringing her to the Chug Wash and got covered in pink bubbles. She ran away from Wilson and tagged along with Chatsworth, also bound for the Quarry. When she realized she couldn't stop on the mountain, Wilson grabbed her and stopped on the Chug Catcher (which he had been struggling with previously). Skylar comments that "Everyone has learned something today, even little Piper!". Upon returning to the Depot, Piper was given training wheels until she was fully ready to work beyond the depot.

Whilst the Chuggineers were building a tunnel, she helped Brewster push a tunnel borer to the worksite with Zephie, Hodge Hoot and Toot. She also came to watch the competing chuggers at the track dash fun race, with Old Puffer Pete. Along with Speedy McAllister, Olwin and Old Puffer Pete, she was due to take part in the Iron Chuggers contest, but got stranded from the group due to a red signal, and derailed when she tried to catch up to them. Jackman came to her rescue but she was forced to pull out from the contest due to the derailment causing damage to her, which eventually led to Brewster being pulled out. During the Chug Patrol Roundhouse evacuation drill, she followed Hoot and Toot's example by misbehaving for Wilson and playing Chug Tag with Zephie, Hoot, and Toot.

One day, whilst playing Chug Tag with the other trainees, the four were sent to collect an important delivery of food from The Docks to the Safari Park. However, with Piper's mind on playing, the journey was very difficult as she frequently lost focus and went off to play. The trainees finally get her to focus by using reverse psychology on her; they make up a game where Piper needs to get to the Safari Park with a wagon first before "The Chasers" get her. With this, the job was finally completed, with Piper's very first delivery being made alongside it.

Personality

Piper is very young and that makes her very inexperienced. She struggles to train, but if she tries very hard, she can do it in the end. She is quite disobedient and sometimes does not do what she is told. However, she soon put this right when she went up and down the mountain. She is very friendly to younger chuggers and is very forgiving, like when Toot left her in the busy depot.

Piper can also be quite playful, much like a small child, and easily distracted. When she was tasked with helping Wilson, Brewster and Koko deliver some cars to the Safari Park, all she wanted to do was play with them, resulting in the three older chuggers making their work into a game for her.

Technical Details

Basis

Piper is based on the North Pacific Coast Railroad Cab-Forward 4-4-0 No. 21 "Thomas-Stetson", a rebuild of NPCRR #5 which had been wrecked in 1897. An innovative engine built by Bill Thomas, it is considered the first cab-forward locomotive and was one of the first oil burners, as well as the first locomotive to use a marine boiler. Unlike her basis, Piper lacks a tender and a cowcatcher on the front and is narrowed down to a 4-2-0.

Piper's basis

Livery

Piper is painted orange and pink with a black cab roof and grey wheels.

Appearances

Chuggington Season 3 - Toot's New Friend and Wobbly Wheels Season 4 - Brewster Leads the Way, Park Patroller Wilson (cameo), Winter Whiteout (cameo), Team Trainee, Iron Chuggers and Round Up Wilson Season 5 - Cormac Patrol (cameo) Season 6 - Wilson's Broadcast Blues (cameo), Glow Koko, Piperactive, The Fast, The Strong and The Wilson, Chug Patrol, Out of Control, Odd Train Out, Rock 'n' Rollers, Chug Patrol: Mission Thunder, The Great Chugger Caper, Piper's City Safari, The Record Breakers and You for a Day (cameo) Specials Season 4 - Snow Rescue (cameo) Season 6 - Chugging Home for the Holidays and Celebrate Chuggington Videos 2013 - Chug Patrol: Ready to Roll (cameo) 2018 - Clean as a Whistle 2020 - Rail Safety Tips (cameo)

Audio Files

Whistle

First used	Last used	Sound Effect
Toot's New Friend	Active

Bell

First used	Last used	Sound Effect
Toot's New Friend	Active

Other Languages

Language	Title
Chinese	皮皮 (PiPi)
Danish	Dampi (Rock 'n' Rollers onwards)
French	Peggy
German	Betty
Japanese	パイパー (Paipā)
Polish	Pyza
Russian	Пайпер (Payper)

Trivia

• Piper is the youngest steam engine, as well as the youngest chugger in general in Chuggington.
• Piper is the only chugger of the following:
  • The only chugger with a 4-2-0 wheel arrangement.
  • The only steam engine that has not lived in the old town of Chuggington.
  • The only steam chugger whose body movement is different from the other steam chuggers; only her cab moves around, whereas her firebox, smokebox and boiler are separated by her driving wheels. Additionally, her cylinders are also connected to her cab, unlike Olwin's, Speedy's and Pete's whose cylinders are separated from their bodies that move around, which also makes Piper the only steam chugger with this distinction.
• She is possibly an experimental electric steam engine, considering the fact that she has an electric firebox and a monitor in her cab.
• Throughout the third to fifth seasons, Piper's coupling rods worked like a pump crank on children's toys; rather than making a complete rotation and being fully attached to the wheels, they only rotated a quarter of the full circle rotation and moved back and forth while the wheels move freely, unlike Old Puffer Pete, Olwin and Speedy who, in comparison, have full rotating side rods in sync with their wheels.
• As of the fifth series, Piper no longer needs her training wheels.
  • She is also shown to be able to pull up to three cars, making her model designed for possibly freight-like, as evident on Piperactive, making her first delivery in said episode.
• Her driving wheels are reused from Speedy's model.
• Piper is the last steam locomotive character introduced in the series.
• In the sixth series, Piper's accent in the US dub was de-emphasized to an American accent.
• Despite her basis, Piper lacks a tender.

Merchandise

• Chuggington Die-Cast (discontinued)
• Chuggington Wooden Railway (discontinued)
• Jazwares (discontinued)

Reference

Chuggington

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Chuggers

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The Depot

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Chug Patrol

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