Ray and Mae/Behind the Scenes

Background Information
Ray and Mae are Trackmaster characters created by Charles Leach.

They first appeared in the Stories from the North Western Railway episode A New Discovery.

Behind The Scenes
Ray and Mae are originally from a random train set that Charles had gotten years ago. He kept the engines from the set and turned them into characters for the Trackmaster series.

Ray was actually first choosen to be the first new character of Tomy/Trackmaster Thomas & Friends, but his episode was cancelled and turned into a story introducing Alex.

Before being officially introduced Ray and Mae had original faces that had to be remade into new faces.

Ray also had a two nameplates on his smokebox.