Big Alice (Engine)

	Big Alice
	Derailed for New Eden colony
	BA-C0001
	The Engine
	Alice, Allie, Old Alice (by Alex)
	~70.8 meters
	~18.1 meters
	~10.6 meters
	BA-C0002 - Headwoods' Lab
	Melanie Cavill Joseph Wilford
	pre - March 16, 2014
	Wilford Industries
	Motive Power, Energy Generation

The Engine also known as Big Alice was the propulsion method of Big Alice. Big Alice was a propulsion method of a secondary supply train of the same name. The Engine was a perpetual motion machine that propelled the train forward with the use of hydrogen gained from the snow outside and without any obvious need for maintenance. The secondary function of the Engine was that of a powerplant for car bogie-motors and on-board batteries. As such, the speed of the train was directly tied to it's power supply.

History

Big Alice was originally the prototype of the Eternal Engine. Built by Wilford Industries, Big Alice's was designed as a cargo hauler. Originally consisting of 43 cars, she was capable of running routine supply trips for Snowpiercer before the freeze.

At the time of departure, Big Alice was left trackside at Wilford Industries Chicago compound. Shortly after the theft of Snowpiercer, Wilford and his remaining loyalists made their way to Big Alice; bringing her to a low idle.

Big Alice later derailed at New Eden due to the rough track conditions.

Technology

The Engine has a Booster, capable of increasing it's speed in bursts.

Wilford had a dimmer installed in The Engine.

The Engine is equip with airlocks on the both sides. Although we only see the left side used, these doors allow personnel such as breachmen, engineers, and passengers to board/exit the train.

Interior

Cockpit

There are two control rooms, the main one at the front and a secondary one at the back. The main control room has an armored door, with the rear has a curtain which separates the secondary control room from Wilford's bedroom.

In a clockwise motion the interior consists of a couch, a kitchen with a bar surrounded by shelves with statues, the door to the Engine, a bookcase and a dining room table with a chandelier in the secondary control room alongside a closet and display case with swords built into the bottom of a fold out bed, a desk with a microphone to the intercom alongside a red phone and a record player in a drawer, a bathroom with a bathtub, a shelve, two chairs and a table in-between with a dimmer switch.

The interior also has a dimmer and is filled with various panting's, artworks, statues, masks and other items.

Exterior

Big Alice is large and boxy similar to a modern diesel locomotive. It is also ridiculously large compared to it's train cars, rather than being flush to the profile like Snowpiercer. There is a airlock on the left side. On top of the Engine there is one large spotlight directly above both cockpits as well as two smaller ones below the cockpits and two small ones on the sides of the front. There also appears to be walkways with railings on the front sides of the Engine.

Appearances

Season One

• 994 Cars Long

Season Two

• The Time of Two Engines
• Smolder to Life
• A Great Odyssey
• A Single Trade
• Keep Hope Alive
• Many Miles From Snowpiercer
• Our Answer for Everything
• The Eternal Engineer
• The Show Must Go On
• Into the White

Trivia

• Big Alice was a push-pull type engine with the ability to go forward and backwards at apparently the same speed. This is contrary to the Snowpiercer Engine which is a pull-type engine with the primary ability of pulling it's cars behind it.
• Big Alice was powerful enough to push the entire train of Snowpiercer completely powered down for a short time and push the entire train of Snowpiercer with it's brakes on, because it had more torque (and when it had the momentum) and power Snowpiercer without the Engine.
• In the front cockpit, Alexandra Cavill overhauled a panel and upgraded the interface on the second revolution.
• The front cockpit has 2 whiteboards.
• Both Engines were built with a comms panel for communication (the panel in Big Alice is a red box on the wall, in the secondary control room), but there was a flaw in Big Alice that was fixed on Snowpiercer: if two wires were swapped, Wilford wouldn't know if his comms were on or not. However, Miss Audrey failed her mission and defected.
• The Engine has a brig. There's also a phone near it.
• There is a secret way into the Engine by a hatch, in the floor, in Wilford's closet.
• A whistle can be heard blowing in the beginning of, The Time of Two Engines.
• The public address system was connected to Snowpiercer's at some point, presumably after Wilford took control.
• Wilford hosted book club meetings in the Engine. Which he used to find the original thinkers (among the ones he saved in his cull).
• Among Wilford's paintings are Caesar 1875 by Adolphe Yvon and Napoleon Crossing the Alps. Both were famous conquerors.
• The front cockpit windshield, was cracked by Josie Wellstead with a Pneumatic breach pike.
• Following the defeat of Wilford, Big Alice's Engine appears to be left abandoned for the most part with the Engineers working solely from Snowpiercer rather than on both trains. Which means the systems of both trains, were connected at some point.
• In Born to Bleed, Andre Layton and Zarah Ferami move into the Big Alice Engine for protection after Pike tried to kill Layton. After Pike's death, they move back to their carriage on Snowpiercer.
• In A Beacon for Us All, Layton, Bennett, Zarah, Liana, Till and Josie flee to Big Alice's Engine after Melanie Cavill seizes Snowpiercer's Engine.

Gallery

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  Big Alice at the end of season 1

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  Big Alice departing Chicago

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  Outside

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  Outside

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  Outside

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  Passing by the Forbidden City

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  Big Alice hunting the Pirate train

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  Approaching the old trestle bridge

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  Big Alice derailing

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  Cockpit Interior

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  Behind the scenes Cockpit Interior

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  Secondary Cockpit

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  Big Alice CGI

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  Cockpit Blueprint

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