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James (also released as James the Red Engine, and marked in some catalogs as James and Tender) is a mixed traffic engine.

Product Description[]

Character Card[]

James likes to think of himself as a really splendid engine. Occasionally, James' grandiose ideas about the sort of work suitable for a noble engine such as himself lands him in trouble.

European Character Card[]

James likes to think of himself as a really splendid engine.

2018 box description[]

Meet the serious gentleman...

He may be a bit full of himself, but James has a big heart. Even if his ego gets in the way sometimes, he’ll always remember his friends are just as important as he is.

Changes[]

  • 1993 (small face, skinny flat top funnel, unpainted dome, smokebox not connected to front bufferbeam, solid black painted coal, flat magnets, six wheels on engine, thin undated wheels, staples on chassis)
  • 1993 (painted dome)
  • 1993 (shorter flat top funnel)
  • 1993 (smokebox connected to front bufferbeam, speckled painted coal)
  • 1993 (beveled top funnel)
  • 1993 (red outline on cab roof)
  • 1994 (no staples on chassis, taller funnel, fully black painted cab roof, made in China)
  • 1994 (big round magnets, dated wheels)
  • 1996 (small round magnets, new face, rounded wooden funnel)
  • 1997 (big, flatter round magnets, thick wheels, rounded plastic funnel)
  • 1998 (plastic coal added)
  • 1999 (realistic plastic funnel and smokebox)
  • 2001 (gold dome, names on chassis)
  • 2002 (new larger face, bigger smokebox, wide boiler, no ledge on rear, new details, shorter dome, new tender, funnel hole removed)
  • Late 2002 (funnel hole added)
  • 2011 (CG style face)
  • 2013 (updated face, curved edges, longer magnet guards, other minor details)
  • 2017 (smaller face)
  • 2018 (printed details on exposed wood, larger cab, flat dome, flat rectangular tender)
  • 2019 (printed details on painted wood, black buffers, metal pins in chassis, chassis built into bodies)
  • 2022 (face with printed 2D details, longer length, rivet, smokebox handrail and cab handrail details, no buffers, molded dome, molded coal in tender, larger wheels with spoke details and two leading wheels on engine, detailed cab)

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