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A ride above the rest. Ride the luxury Rails - Wilford Industries Global Express
— Wilford Industries

Wilford Industries[1] is a large railroad and industry company responsible for designing, building, maintaining and operating multiple trains, including Snowpiercer and Big Alice.

History[]

Background[]

Wilford Industries is known to have built bridges in Serbia.[2] Wilford owned several high-rises in New York City, which Terence would clean.[3] Wilford was among Chicago's most powerful and had parties on his trains that would go on for days.[2]

Melanie Cavill was contracted by Mr. Wilford to design a Luxury Liner, the Wilford Industries Global Express. The company first developed and constructed a Prototype Engine named Big Alice, Melanie Cavill then built the Eternal Engine for the Global Express. Both Engines used Perpetual Motion Technology and would cruise a 318,000km long track, stretched across the globe. Many major cities were included in this railway track, including Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Jerusalem, Bangkok, Singapore, Sydney, Bejing, Anchorage and Panama City.[1] built the Bering Strait Bridge,[2][4] the Himalaya Roundabout (nicknamed the Corkscrew),[5] the Mongols (stretch of track. undulating, efficient terrain),[6] the Oceania Loop,[7] Ottoman Spur,[8] and the Rocky Mountain Test Track.

The Freeze[]

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Wilford Industries' compound in Chicago.

Eventually, Mr. Wilford realized that climate change is unavoidable, through the CW-7 chemical agent, and he undertook steps to refit his Luxury Liner into an Ark.[1] The Wilford Industries Global Express became Snowpiercer, while Mr. Wilford sold tickets to finance this refit. Ultimately, his goal was not to save humanity but to live his lavish life as long as he could and was eventually taken out of the equation by Melanie Cavill at Snowpiercer's Departure.

Trains[]

Pre-Freeze[]

Post-Freeze[]

  • Snowpiercer - Luxury liner turned Ark that circles the globe.
  • Big Alice - Prototype Engine. Later designed as a secondary supply train.
  • Pirate Train - 10 car train created from the front of Snowpiercer to rescue Melanie.
  • Wilford's Rolling Gulag - 1023 car train that chased the Pirate Train.

Snowpiercer[]

Snowpiercer Employees[]

Snowpiercer Former Employees[]

Big Alice[]

Big Alice Employees[]

Big Alice Former Employees[]

Trivia[]

  • People honor Mr. Wilford and Wilford Industries by hand movement over their chest in the shape of a "W".[10][14]
  • The motto of Wilford Industries is "Work. Honor. Order."[15]
    • Originally, the motto was "Unity. Industry. Victory." It changed into "Work. Honor Order." sometime between the manufacturing of Big Alice and the manufacturing of Snowpiercer.[16]
  • The Track Switches operate on battery power.[8]
  • Wilford Industries had hangars for automated vehicles such as, maintenance vehicles, plows and Track Scalers. One of them was built on the Rocky Mountain Test Track[8]
  • Wilford Industries had a Children's Chorus Songbook.

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 First, the Weather Changed
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 A Single Trade
  3. 3.0 3.1 Dialogue in Access Is Power and The Show Must Go On:
    Tell me, Mr. Osweiller. My previous Head of Janitorial, Terence, I brought from my buildings in New York. How did you come to be in his shoes?
    Joseph Wilford, The Show Must Go On
    You know what I was, in the Old Time, before I was a janitor? A janitor. Cleaned a high-rise building, I get on this train and you know what I see? The train is just a high-rise laying on it's side.
    — Terence, Access Is Power
  4. The Show Must Go On
  5. Our Answer for Everything
  6. The Eternal Engineer
  7. Bound by One Track
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Setting Itself Right
  9. The Tortoise and the Hare
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Prepare to Brace
  11. Keep Hope Alive
  12. Into the White
  13. The Time of Two Engines
  14. These Are His Revolutions
  15. A Great Odyssey
  16. Murals in Big Alice's Galley:

    Mural D includes the motto "Unity. Industry. Victory."

    File:Galleymural hr4.png

    The murals were all made by Seth Rutledge, who worked as a concept artist for Season 2 and Season 3 and made the concept for Big Alice's galley.

    Concept Art - Mess Hall by eldritch48 on Reddit:

    You can just make out the "old" slogan under the 'W' in the far left on the murals - which were fun to make, and it was AMAZING to see them printed out 15' long on set...as I've said before, we concept artist/illustrators don't often see our work directly on screen, and it's always fun when it happens!
    — eldritch48 (Seth Rutledge)