I finally draw another new character! Madeleine, the French 240P type locomotive, the most powerful 4-8-0 ever~

Like all the 240A and 240P locomotives, she was originally built in 1907-1910 for the Paris-Orleans railway, as 4500 class 4-6-2s, which were the first Pacifics to operate in Europe. In the early 1930s, Andre Chapelon began extensive rebuilds of 3500 class 4-6-2s (which were identical to 4500s except drive wheels 4" taller), resulting in vastly increased performance and efficiency.

For more steeply graded lines, twelve of the original non-superheated 4500s were rebuilt similar to the above, except they were also converted into a 4-8-0 Mastodon. In their original form, 2,000 horsepower was developed at the cylinders, but the rebuilt 4-8-0s (Now numbered 4700, and later 240A on the SNCF) develped 4,200hp at the cylinders.

But Chapelon continued to refine his work. When more 4-8-0s were needed in 1940, a further twenty five were rebuilt, and this included Madeleine, and classed 240P. There were some differences from the earlier 240A, such as an overall smoother appearance, a raised footplate, larger smoke deflectors, a stoker, and bogie tenders (Though some 240A's recieved these as well.). Internally, there were further improvements as well, with an astounding 4,700hp developed at the cylinders (And well over 3,000 at the drawbar), a power-to-weight ratio that has NEVER been beaten; only Livio Porta's "Argentina," itself a 4-6-2 rebuilt as 4-8-0, could match said ratio.

Madeleine, now numbered 240P.16, was quite pleased with her new form, as were all the locomotives Chapelon rebuilt. Unfortunately, the War was not the best time for any locomotive...though she did manage to "accidentally" blow smoke in the faces of German crews a few times.

And since this is a fictional world of talking engines, I can pretend that she survived to modern day like other engines, rather then being among all but 1 or 2 of Chapelon's engines to be scrapped >W>