Editing Excess Express engineer

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{{character infobox
|image=[[File:Excess Express Engineer TTYD.png]]<br>Sprite from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
|species=[[Toad (species)|Toad]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
}}
{{Quote|So let's all hear it... for the Excess Express! Huzzah! Huzzah!|Excess Express engineer|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
The '''Excess Express engineer''' is the [[Toad (species)|Toad]] who controls the [[Excess Express]] in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. The engineer is very enthusiastic about the Express and constantly praises it while singing whenever Mario talks to him.

==History==
[[File:PMTTYD NS Screenshot of Poshley Heights Shadow Queen Cutscene.png|thumb|left|The engineer joins others in Poshley Heights to lend support to Mario]]
On the first day of the train's trip to [[Poshley Heights]], [[Bub]], one of the passengers on the train, wants to be an engineer when he grows up, so he asks [[Mario]] if he can get an [[Autograph|autograph]] from the engineer as his birthday present. The engineer is flattered at the request and happily obliges. Bub gives Mario a [[Shine Sprite]] for getting the autograph. 

On the third day, the engineer, [[Ghost T.]], and the train shopkeeper, who was knocked unconscious, are the only passengers or staff not absorbed by the [[Smorg]] mob that has kidnapped everyone else; however, Smorgs begin flooding the windshield and windows while Mario is talking to him. His immediate thought is for Mario and his partners to go ensure the safety of the rest of the passengers given he has to keep the train running, unaware that they've already been absorbed by the Smorgs.

During the game's final, climactic battle against the [[Shadow Queen]], who has possessed [[Princess Peach]], the engineer joins the residents of Poshley Heights as they shout support into the [[Garnet Star]] to aid Mario and his partners. Whereas he is present for this in the [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|remake]] on the [[Nintendo Switch]], he is absent from this cutscene in the original game.
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==Tattle==
*"''That's the engineer of the Excess Express. Talk about a dream job for kids! But just saying you drive a train doesn't make you cool. You gotta LOVE the job! I mean, we're talking about a train, here. That's some serious responsibility!''"

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=リッチリッチエクスプレスの　うんてんし
|JpnR=Ricchi Ricchi Ekusupuresu no Untenshi
|JpnM=Excess Express engineer
|ChiS=豪华高速列车的司机
|ChiSR=Háohuá Gāosù Lièchē de sījī
|ChiSM=Excess Express engineer
|ChiSC=<ref>{{cite|quote=这是豪华高速列车的司机哦。|author=Goombella|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo (Hong Kong)|language=zh-hans}}</ref>
|ChiT=豪華高速列車的司機
|ChiTR=Háohuá Gāosù Lièchē de sījī
|ChiTM=Excess Express engineer
|ChiTC=<ref>{{cite|quote=他是豪華高速列車的司機哦。|author=Goombella|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo (Hong Kong)|language=zh-hant}}</ref>
|Ita=Capotreno del Fasto-Express
|ItaM=Excess Express conductor
|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|quote=Lui è il capotreno del Fasto-Express.|author=Goombella|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|date=2004|language=it}}</ref>
}}

==Notes==
*Despite being a Toad, the black cap that the engineer wears is distinctly smaller than the mushroom cap usually seen on Toads' heads.

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