LMS Black 5 No. 44686 "Joseph Campos"

No. 44686 was originally a transfer from Manchester Sheffield to cover for the innumerable failing diesels on the Haggerleases Line and the various lines around the Stainmore and Weardale and Teesdale lines. He ended his working life on a coal run when a cylinder blew a cap and one of the nuts inside seized the motion on the inside.

Mr. Phoenix had purchased the loco from the scrap line with the express purpose of turning the engine into a stationary boiler to power the new wagon lifts in the Faverdale Wagon Works when he finally purchased it. He sat languishing in one of the back sheds until a young high school student came to look the engine over. The boy, Joseph Jackson Brixsforth Campos, had a love of the engine, as it was one of the rare Caprotti locomotives.

Joseph kept coming to visit and do some work on the engine, eventually landing himself a part time summer job as a guard and trainee driver, as well as a station staff member. This attracted the ire of a girl in his school, who believed her rugby boyfriend should be staff member. This lead her to plot the most devious method out there, a false charge that would ruin Jordon's life, which it did and lead him to take his own life.

After that and a huge court case, the parents came to Mr. Phoenix with the proposition to restore the engine to active service and through public donations of all the people in the large towns, small villages and towns, the engine saw himself being overhauled over many years before seeing a first steam test in 2017, before returning to steam later in 2017 on a container train from Darlington to Durham, covering for a class 66 that failed.

The crew shortened the engine's name to "Jordon Campos" so the name plaque would fit in the cab of the engine in the space over the driver side window.

From there, he basically stayed as a powerhouse mixed traffic engine, along side the two Thompson B1s, which were purchased in 1957, a year after 44686 was purchased. The engine carries the BR livery, but there have been rumblings that the crews want him painted in LMS livery with the typical LMS number and LMS painted on the tender.