"Trains don't age, they stay youthful forever, but they retain everything they see."
It was a cold spring morning as Thomas pulled up to the train station in the ghetto of Poland. Thomas was on a special mission today, one sent down to him from the Fuhrer himself, Adolf Hitler. Toot toot whistles Thomas as he pulled into the station. A group of men, women, and children crowded the platform; "this is strange," Thomas thought to himself because he did not have his usual passenger coaches Annie and Clarabel hooked up today; instead he had Gustav and Klaus who were typically used to haul cattle. "In! In! In!" the SS Officers shouted to the people on the platform. Just like that the platform was clear and Thomas was ready to roll out.
The morning was cold, and Thomas wasn't sure where he was supposed to be headed. He saw his friend Percy on the track next to him and decided to stop. "Hey Percy, I've got people in cow cars," said Thomas. "Wow that's so strange, what if they are the scum of the earth and deserve to be in cow cars because rats don't get the comfy seats of our normal carriages." Percy replies. Both trains laugh. They talk for minutes about the ideas of a more perfect society where trains control a puppet government, and humans don't mean shit. "Ah if it were up to me we'd be a step above the Fuhrer, we'd be pulling all of the strings." Percy exclaimed. Thomas realized the time and had to speed off, he did not want to displease Hitler, and if he did he might get melted down and repurposed into something like a furnace or his metal could have been used for a civil project like a bridge which was not okay with Thomas. Toot toot whistles Thomas as he begins to roll along the track.
As Thomas, Gustav, and Klaus roll down the tracks they notice the landscape changing from Polish farmland to the dark menacing forest. Screams of the children could be heard coming out of the cattle cars. "Oi shut the fuck up!" shouted Klaus in an attempt to calm the screaming rats in the back. "I swear to god they aren't even human," mumbled Gustav. Thomas was having trouble staying awake the forest was very dark, and very frightening. Suddenly he saw a light, it was from another engine; "who goes there?" the other engine shouted questioning Thomas. "It's me Thomas!" he replied. Thomas discovers the engine who was questioning him was Gordon. When both engines pulled up next to each other Gordon told Thomas that he was searching for people who may be enemies of the Third Reich. "Have you read Mein Kampf?" asked Gordon, who personally related to the hardships of Adolf Hitler. "Hey Gordon, what do you think of a perfect world?" asks Thomas. Gordon pauses for a moment, "Well you see a perfect society would be united by the common belief that we engines are superior to man. We wouldn't be the only ones to know this. Everyone in our land would be asking what they can do for us, and we would build our utopia off of the fruits of their labor."