This is Bachmanns rendition of the red coach from the Thomas and Friends line. In the TV shows these coaches are used for local trains on Sodor. Normally engines like Percy, Edward, Duck, Oliver, and other smaller engines on the main line use these cars. They are modeled amazingly accurate and for the serious Thomas fan these are a great addition to your railway. However they are good for anyone, Thomas fan or not it is a great hefty car and will look great behind any engine really. I actually bought 2 of these to make a longer train so that com of the tender engines had a train that seemed long enough for them to pull.