D199

Diesel 199 (D199), nicknamed "Spamcan" and "Old Reliable", is a rude diesel engine from the Other Railway.

Trivia

 * D199's rear cab has a headcode reading "AC 10".
 * D199 was labelled as "199 Diesel" on the Official Website and his 1995 ERTL packaging.
 * D199's ERTL toy was later recycled for Diesel 10's ERTL toy.
 * D199 has appeared at many Day Out with Thomas events in the UK.
 * D199 appeared in early Thomas & Friends magazines. His depiction was based on his ERTL toy as the red coupling was present.
 * In D199's trading card promo, he is incorrectly depicted as a Co-Co.
 * D199's class, along with the earlier Class 44 and Class 45, was given the nickname "Peak" because the 10 Class 44 diesels were named after British mountains.
 * D199’s nickname, Spamcan, was also one of the nicknames for the Southern Railway’s Merchant Navy Class Pacific locomotives, in reference to their air smoothed casings (of which were eventually removed in the late 1950s), designed by Oliver Bulleid.