Character
Belle is warm and motherly toward Rusty and the freight. She is not like the other coaches, but she is good friends with them and offers Dinah advice and comfort in "Rolling Stock (Reprise)". Belle is Poppa's coach from years back and according to some, (if the father-son theory about Poppa and Rusty is true) Rusty's mother. However this theory makes little sense as Rusty is introduced to Belle for the first time in "Belle's Song".
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