Thomas and Friends- Island of Sodor adventures
American style
The island has many nationalities of engines including Hiro the Japanese engine and Victor who was originally from Cuba.
Emily Hatt and her family liked to welcome all different kinds of engines to the railway and made them feel at home.
This story doesn't begin on the island of Sodor it begins on a standard gauge railway at winds around the mountains, Casey a big American locomotive was heading to the big apple (New York) with a goods train when there was trouble the ridge holding the track started to fall away, the track snapped leaving Casey struggling to keep his remaining trucks still on the track.
"Driver uncouple the trucks or we go down" said Casey
"Okay old boy" said his driver
While the driver climbed over Casey's tender, the fireman started to lay sand down to give Casey grip.
Casey started to move forward as his driver uncoupled the trucks, they fell down losing over two thousand dollars worth of cargo.
Later that day Casey made it to the depo in New York where his crew had to explain what had happened, in the sheds Paul and John the diesel locomotives started on Casey for losing the cargo.
"Great job Casey that's more money lost money that we could be using to replace you" said Paul
"Your old and slow you need scraping and replacing with big and efficient diesels like us" said John
"Leave the lad alone" said Pete the oldest member of the crew
"I'm sorry Pete I did try" said Casey
"I know you did lad" said Pete
The railways owner Jon Barton sat down for a while in his office and thought about what to do with Casey after a while he got his phone and phoned Emily Hatt.
Emily was just about go to sleep when she heard the phone ring.
"Hello Emily Hatt" said Emily
"Hello Emily it's Jon Barton the owner of the shinning time rail tour company" said Jon
"What could I do for you Mr Barton" asked Emily
"My engine Casey has been in a spot of trouble and I need a new home for him" said Jon
After a further few minutes Emily had just been given an American locomotive, Casey was told later that night.
-THREE WEEKS LATER-
Bredam Dock was busier than ever, Salty and Porter were getting trains ready while engines like James and Gordon were picking up passengers.
Patrick was waiting for Cranky to unload his load but he had wait a while until a even more special load was being unloaded.
"Ah how much do you weigh" cried Cranky
"A lot my dear chap" said Casey as he dangled from the air.
"I can tell" said Crankey
After lowering Casey to the ground Patrick could see what type of engine he was.
"Why hello there I'm Patrick" said Patrick being polite
"Hiya Patrick I'm Casey" said Casey
Just then a BMW convertible pulled up, Emily Hatt got out and walked over.
"You must be Casey" said Emily
"I sure am mamm" said Casey
"How was the trip over the Atlantic Ocean" asked Emily
"It was clear as anything" said Casey
"Oh good I will make arraignments for you to help James" said Emily
A few minutes later Emily came back over to the two engines.
"Patrick will take you to the Coal hopper and Water Tower and the escort you to Knaford station" Emily
"Sure ready Patrick" said Casey
"Ready as i will ever be" said Patrick buffering up behind Casey
Patrick pushed Casey to the coal hopper and the water tower then under his own steam the two engines set off to Knaford.
At Knaford James was waiting for Casey when he heard a loud whistle, Patrick and Casey pulled into the station.
The station master told Casey to be James's banker up Gordon's hill, James liked this new engine.
The two engines set off, Casey was interested in the history of the island and James was happy to tell.
At Welsworth James tooted to Edward as they went past, this was to tell that James was okay and had Casey to help.
"Okay Casey you ready to push" asked James
"I've pushed heavier loads up steeper gradients" said Casey
James was impressed by Casey's strength and soon arrived at the next station, Casey allowed James to carry on alone and went to help at the docks where he met fellow American Hank.
"Hank isn't it" said Casey pulling up along side the big blue engine
"Yes and your Casey its nice to see you again" said Hank
The two engines had met in Pennsylvania when Casey was being borrowed the two friends talked about the few weeks that Casey had worked with Hank until it was time to get back to work
Later that night at Tidmouth sheds Casey was staying until he could be found a shed of his own, Patrick and James had both seemed like great engines and Casey was pretty sure that the others would also be great.
"Hello I'm Casey" said Casey as he backed into the shed
Gordon, Alice, Diesel, Henry, Bear and Peter introduced themselves, it was James to speak up next.
"Casey earlier you asked me to talk about the island why don't you tell us about your railway" said James
"Okay sure" said Casey
This is what he told the engines.
Casey was built in the late 1800's and bought to be a mixed goods engine, he would take coaches full of passengers up and over the mountains.
After accident involving another engine Casey was sold to the Shinning time rail tour company, where he was mentored by Pete.
For the next 110 years or so Casey worked on the railway, with Pete and the other steam engines until quite recently the railway was declared bankrupt and slowly falling apart.
He explained about the accident involving the trucks.
Afterward the engines were surprised and wanted to know more.
The next day Casey was asked to go to the steam works and get a service, a few days later Emily gave Casey the run to Barrow in Furness with the goods train that would have been normally taken by the Scottish twins.
When Casey got to Barrow he asked his driver if he could take it all the way to London his driver agreed and went to ask for permission, a few minutes later Casey had been given permission and was being told which way to go.
Casey's first stop was in York a city with historic links to the Romans and Vikings, Casey had been given special permission from Emily to take a break at the National Railway Museum after parking the trucks into a siding he headed off to learn about Yorks attempted to preserve steam engines.
Casey backed into a shed with two other engines talking to each other.
"Hello I'm Casey from the island of Sodor" said Casey
"I'm Princess but my official name is the Duchess of Hamilton I worked as the royal families personal steam engine" said Princess
"I'm Neil I worked on the island of Sodor in the 1800's and early 1900's then I worked in Glasgow before being persevered by the railway Museum" said Neil
Casey learnt all sort of things from the two engines before having to continue his trip, soon he arrived in Leeds a city about thirty minutes down the line he didn't have to stop for long.
Casey kept on going until the skyline of the capital was visible, Casey was asked to park the trucks in a siding and then headed off the the sheds for the night before returning to the island the next morning.
Emily was more than happy with Casey and now once a month he takes the train down to London.
He's fit in and become a well respected member of the fleet.