The characters / Recurring character
Bob Brooks / Engineer Bob
Bob Brooks / Engineer Bob is recorded in 3 distinct storys.
Charlie the Choo-Choo explicitly names engineer Bob Brooks. The Tower books repeat that embedded story character; Wizard and Glass depicts him in an altered nightmare scene.
Also recorded as Engineer Bob.
Stories and supporting passages
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
Read the passage Spoilers · Fiction within the story
Bob Brooks was an engineer for The Mid-World Railway Company, on the St. Louis to Topeka run. Engineer Bob was the best trainman The Mid-World Railway Company ever had, and Charlie was the best train!
The embedded story explicitly introduces Bob Brooks as Charlie’s engineer.
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
Now the man at the controls was Engineer Bob, from Charlie the Choo-Choo. “Stop!” Eddie screamed. “For Christ’s sake, stop!” “I can’t, Eddie. The world has moved on, and I can’t stop.
Eddie’s nightmare depicts Engineer Bob at the bulldozer controls, identified as from Charlie the Choo-Choo.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
Read the passage Spoilers · Fiction within the story
… he slid out the battered book telling the adventures of Charlie the locomotive and his friend, Engineer Bob. They all looked at the cover. The name below the picture was still Beryl Evans. “Man,” Eddie said. “That is so weird. I mean, I don’t want to get …
The travelers examine the book about Charlie and his friend Engineer Bob.