Chloe

Chloe is a Articulated Engine

Design
Chloe, is a 4-6-6-4 challenger numbered 716 built for the Portland And Northern Railway for banking service along the Cascade mountain ranges. She is heavily influenced by the Union Pacific Challengers. She is roughly 110 feet long and is taller than most other engines, making her have to look down on any one she wants to interact with.

Personality
Chloe, Is a kind but sarcastic engine who is known to have PTSD from the horrific shot of her Brother (P&N #717) being blown up in a boiler explosion from a flaw in her design. Also, because she is a massive locomotive, she will bump locomotives and freight cars around, either because she could not she them, or she was in a bad mood. She is known to be a little bit lazy and will take longer then most engines to fire up. She is known to be a excellent hauler of freight. But, is known to have a severe hate for coal drags.

History
Chloe was built in 1937 as a Challenger 1, a grey and longer version of her modern self, along with this, the Challenger 1s had pilot mounted lamps. Due to this, her mouth was covered up for her some of her revenue career. In 1945, she got a overhaul giving her the Black boiler and larger cab she is currently built as. In 1958, the P&N retired most of her class. She was pulled out of freight service in 1959 and put on a storage track along with a GP7, GP9, and a 65 Tonner switcher awaiting scrap in Seattle, Washington. However in 1971, She along with the locomotives she was with, was bought by the Kahuna Railway Museum in Kahuna, New Mexico. There she stayed on display until 1987, where she was bought by a excursion company based in Ohio, there she was ran in the North East of the US until 2003, where the company couldn't keep up with her repair fees. In 2004 she was bought again by a excursion company based in California and ran excursions up and down the coast. However again, she was too expensive for the company to keep up with her repairs. So in December of 2020, she was bought by the SGRM, Where she currently resides.

Relationships
Chloe, has had many friends/allies. Some of which include: 102, Karen, Grant, Doubleback, Odyssey, Lightning, Charles, and Ellis

Trivia
Fun Facts


 * She is one of the first challenger locomotives of the P&N
 * She has a strong hate for coal drags
 * She is one of the most strongest locomotives the P&N ever had
 * Before 1945, she was a grey and gold locomotive which gave her the nickname "The Whale"
 * She has a small text on her cylinders that say the words "Big Bitch"
 * She is poked fun at by other engines for her enormous size
 * She will sometimes bump smaller engines around for fun
 * In 1943, she was involved in a accident where her front frame broke on a curve, causing her to skid of the rails and onto a road below, killing 3 people.