Tony Miragliano is a first generation American. His parents came to Pulp City from Sicily 60 years ago. Brought up in a loving home and in admiration for hard work, Tony admired his father for his skill as an engineer running trains on the Pulp City Line. When Tony grew up, the most obvious choice was to follow in his father’s steps and start working at railroad. Thanks to Miragliano’s hard work, train tracks ran from Pulp City like an intricate spider web, reaching New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Praised for his dedication, young Tony got offered the position he always dreamt of: a job of a machinist. For 25 years, he served as a machinist on a Pulp City-Chicago connection (naming his train Francesca), loving his job and proudly helping to establish the brand of NAMTRAK, his company.

But life wasn’t meant to stay that way, NAMTRAK was taken over by a French millionaire Guillaume Sanguin and the new owner’s policy was simple: sell off the tracks to bigger players on the market and shut down the company.

Tony Miragliano wasn’t the first to stand in Sanguin’s way, only his most recent victim. In a vain attempt to thwart the plan, Tony organized a strike by all the unions. This cost him his job and Tony started suspecting something dirty and rotten when not a single court verdict went in his favor. Depressed and broken, now 50 years old, Tony left the station on his long, slow trip to degradation.

When it seemed that nothing could lift him out of his alcohol mire, Tony read about Sanguin’s recent outrage. The French millionaire refused to retire the old trains to the City Museum, instead Francesca and all other ended up in the junkyard, destined to become scrap.

In a drunken delirium, he broke in the recycling facility, ignoring the warning calls from the guards. As the bullets bit into his body, he collapsed over the wreck of his beloved train. Not even Tony Miragliano knows what has happened on that feral night, but he woke up in the desert north of the city, healed and clad in his iron armor, obviously made of parts from his Francesca. Tony stopped speculating over that some time ago; he is thankful to whatever power that gave him a second chance and literally a second life.

Iron Train is the iconic defender of Pulp City, loved by crowds and his colleagues in the Heavy Metal team. Relying on his supernatural resilience granted by the armor, Tony can withstand almost anything Villains bring to the battlefield.