Jack and Alfie were making their way towards the two small railway engines that are working for the day. Since the two diggers are finish digging and loading the dirt into Max and Monty the troublesome dumptrucks, they decide to come and talk to them for they never met the really small engines. They only met engines on the main line and on the narrow gauge line, but never on the small railway line. So the two friends decided to talk to Rex and Mike.
They run smoothly and carefully along the construction site as they made their way towards them. They came to the small railway line just as Rex and Mike came back with more small trucks for the workmen to load more dirt in. Rex and Mike were surprise to see the two big diggers come to them. " Hello there." greeted the two friends. " I'm Jack the frontloader and this is my best friend Alfie the excavator." said Jack. " Well we know what you two are obviously." said a rude Mike thinking that the two diggers were making fun of them not knowing what kind of vehicles they are. " Mike be nice to them. They're just being polite." Rex said sternly at Mike for rude to Jack and Alfie. " Oh sorry Rex." apologized Mike. " Sorry you two he can be that sometimes. Anyways hello you two I'm Rex and this is Mike. We work on the Arlesdale railway." said Rex nicely. " The Arlesdale Railway?" the two excavators questioned. " Yes the Arlesdale Railway." answered Rex. " It's a railway line where it runs from Arlesburgh along the old route of the Mid Sodor Railway to Arlesdale." " We heard all about the Mid Sodor Railway." said Alfie " We heard many tales from the Mainline and Skarlory engines when we work with them. They are very intersting stories." " Yes indeed." agreed Rex. " Tales from a old railway line that you use to work can be know we have some stories from our old line. Would you two like to hear it? " " Yes." answered the two excavators excitedly. " We would like to hear it." " Very well then." replied Rex. " Just let me think of a perfect story to tell." He thought for a moment, then answered. " I know how about a story about the time we first met Mike back on our old railway." " Ok." The two diggers said excitedly. But Mike objected. " No way Rex that story is embarrassing." " Come on Rex." Rex told Mike. " It's a story for our new friends hear. They should have a good laugh out of it." " No way Rex." angerly replied Mike. " Please Mike please just this once." Rex begged " Yeah Mike please." Jack and Alfie also begged. Mike thought about it. " Fine." reluctantly replied Mike. " But please try not to laugh." " Yeah." the two excavators cheered. " Alright then." begun Rex. " This is how it went."
" It was a sunny busy week on our old line. Bert and I along with a couple of other engines were the only ones working there. It was very hot and very busy working for the summer run. It was so hot that some of the water towers there would quickly dry day our old manager came to our sheds. He said that he has bought another engine to come help us with the extra work. So the new engine came and that engine was Mike." " Yeah that engine was me." Mike said as he reluctantly listen to the story. " Any ways." Rex continued on. " Mike came to our old railway. Back then he was inexperince. He would just chuff away without waiting for all of his passengers to climb aboard in his coaches, derail the coaches, and carelessly crash into the didn't even care of these actions. so the manager would repeatedly punish Mike by putting him at the back of the sheds, make him work a night shift, and refuse to give him a rest. Mike was very cross about the manager's decision and punishment, so he continued to act rude and careless and it annoyed me, Bert, and the other engines. Me and Bert tried to reason with him, but all he can say is; " whatever you say doesn't change me."; and he would just ignore us. One day it was very hot and the workmen were just filling in the new shipment of water into the water towers. I was helping the workmen to take them to every water tower on the railway to be filled up. It was a fine job to do. Then while I was resting in a siding, Mike came rushing in pulling some trucks. He was being careless. He was so careless that he didn't know the points weren't switch to clear him and so he came into another siding where the water tower is. He came in too quickly to the siding. His driver to apply his brakes, but it was too late and so the driver quickly jumped out of the engine just as mike crash into the buffers hit the water tower. The water tower swayed back and forth and then it fell on Mike and it cracked open with the water in it. It splattered all over Mike and put out the fire in his firebox. He was soaking wet. I couldn't help it but laugh at him and joke about it. " Well Mike you wanted a cool refreshing drink? Well now you have it." Mike just blushed feeling very embarrass. Mike couldn't move since his fire was out, so another engine came to take his trucks away and Bert helped him to the sheds. The manager was there. He wasn't cross like he usually was to him. Instead he laughed and said; " Well Mike I hope this will cool off you rude behavior right." " Y-y-yes sir.' he replied shivering and from then on he never acted so rudely again."
Rex finish his story and looked at a blushing Mike whose face went red as his own paint. Jack and Alfie try not to laugh, but they couldn't help it. "Wow Mike who knew you were a very hothead back then." Joked Jack. " Yeah it's a good thing you got cooled off." Joined in Alfie. " Please stop laughing it's very embarrassing." said Mike " Alright you two stop it." spoke Rex. The two excavators stopped laughing. " It may be very funn, but at least it helped Mike became a better engine. Right Mike." " Yes yes indeed it did." repiled Mike now with a little smile on his face. Then the four friends could hear a screeching sound and then a crash. They looked behind them and were surprise to see Max and Monty covered in cement. " Ouch." they exclaimed. Jack, Alfie, Rex and even Mike laughed. " Well looks like they couldn't help themselves but went racing." said Jack. "Those two never learn." replied Alfie " Well they remind me of you Mike back then." Rex spoke to Mike. " Well it looks like they both need to cool off their behaviors." Joked Mike. And the four friends agreed.