He was eventually rediscovered by Thomas, who, despite some problems in worrying about sharing the discovery of Hiro with the Fat Controller, helped Hiro to be fully restored to his former glory. Hiro fell victim to neglect when waiting upon parts to arrive for him from his home country when he began to break down and became lost. He has an appreciation for serenity and order and often thinks fondly of his homeland, far away, where he was once one of the strongest engines. He is grand, masterful, mature, wise, very dignified, enormously kind, and is able to find good in any engine he meets. Hiro is an old steam engine who has been on Sodor for a very long time and was originally known as the "Master of the Railway". Two more parts, the part between his lamp and funnel and the part under his face, were also green. His "patchwork" color scheme consists of a blue boiler with gold lining, a green feedwater heater, a green left smoke deflector, a purple right smoke deflector, a brown dome, green pistons, and rusty-red colored wheels except for the right rear driving wheel which was blue. ![]() The number "51" is painted on the sides of his tender in white and he has gold nameplates, with his name in black on the sides of his smoke deflectors. Hiro is painted black with gold lining, boiler bands and fittings, and red wheels. His livery is based on the Soviet Railways D51. Hiro also has a buffer-beam fitted on his front and on the back of his tender. It was preserved at Torokko Saga Station in Kyoto, Japan until February 2020, when it was scrapped due to issues that arose from it being stored outside. However, unlike Hiro, the real engine was an earlier build of the D51 class, with its dome flush with its funnel. Though Hiro's number is a reference to his basis' name, there was a D51 with the number 51. Unlike the D51s in Japan, Taiwan, and Russia, the D51s in South Korea have no smoke deflectors. Over 170 of these engines are preserved throughout Japan, two of which are in working order, while four are preserved in Taiwan (Taiwan Railways DT650) and eleven in Russia (Soviet Railways D51). Hiro is standard gauge, while most D51s were built for 3'6" gauge 1,435mm (cape gauge 1,067mm), though the two examples of his class exported to South Korea (KNR Class Mika7) were built to standard gauge. ![]() In addition to Japan, members of this class have been built for export to South Korea, Taiwan, and the USSR, totaling 1,184 locomotives. ![]() During World War II, they were used to supply weapons and vehicles for the Japanese Imperial Army. 1,115 class D51 locomotives were built between 1936-1951, becoming Japan's most mass-produced steam locomotive. These were primarily used as goods locomotives and were an adaptation of the earlier Class D50. Hiro is based on a Japanese National Railways (JNR) Class D51 2-8-2 "Mikado" built by Kawasaki and popularly known as the "Degoich" in Japan. Hiro is an old and wise Japanese tender engine, who is famously known as the " Master of the Railway".
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