Hiro

Hiro is a wise Japanese engine, who is famously known as the "Master of the Railway".

Trivia

 * Hiro is the first character to have the same voice actor in both English dubs.
 * Hiro says that he is the oldest engine on the island, but the D51 class was not built until 1935, making him much younger than most of the other steam engines on the island.
 * According to Christopher Skala, Hiro was originally going to be painted blue. This carried on to his patchwork model.
 * Hiro has only been partially modified to work on Sodor. He has been scaled up to standard gauge and has been given buffers on his front and his tender. But oddly enough, he has a chain and hook coupler on the back of his tender and a knuckle coupler on his front. This would make pushing rolling stock or being pulled away by another engine physically impossible, unless a special adapter used to connect knuckle couplers and chain couplings was fitted onto his knuckle coupling.
 * In the Norwegian narration, Hiro is known as "The King of the Railway".
 * According to the Japanese narration, Hiro is owned by Sir Takaboushi Hideki, who is also good friends with the Fat Controller.
 * According to SiF's Interview with John Lee, Hiro was going to have a different name.
 * Hiro was the last new character to be produced in the Take Along toy-line before it was bought by Fisher-Price and renamed Take-n-Play.
 * In the seventeenth and eighteenth seasons, Hiro's lining on the bottom right-hand side of his cab was not painted very neatly. This was fixed in the nineteenth season.
 * Hiro's whistle is actually Fergus' whistle in a lower pitch.
 * Despite participating in the Great Railway Show, he does not get his own promotional video. The same goes with James.