The track next to the boardwalk was two track. It acted as a siding of if one engine had to stop there for whatever reason, there would still be a path to the mountain yard without morphing into gem mode.

One morning Thomas was on the track closet to the boardwalk, with the mail vans. Percy had found some old research and was looking over it. Something about a 'Cubic Zirconia' whatever that was.

As Thomas waited for Little. G, Barb and Jamie to load up, he couldn't help but watch them doing so. For one van, Brab was throwing mail bags to Little. G in the van and Jamie was moving moving main on a pallet on a forklift in the other.

Soon enough it was time to depart and Thomas could only think of one thing. He asked Little. G about it when they arrived at Gem Town station "Do you have to load like that every day?" Little. G looked over to him.

"Oh yeah," She said before asking "why do you ask?" "Well it seems a little unsafe." Thomas said "Oh don't worry, we've done it hundreds of times and nothings gone wrong yet." she insured. And with that she continued unloading.

After she was done unloading Thomas shunted the mail vans away he continued thinking about the loading situation. He wanted to ask Duck about it but he didn't get the chance to until lunch break.

"Where did you get the materials of the station?" He asked the pannier tank in his office. Duck looked away for his paperwork "Oh I got them from this catalog. And he hands Thomas a catalog of all sorts of railway infrastructure. Thomas looked at the catalog on his way out, grinning as he did so.

The next day, Percy had gone through most of the discovered research and was able to take the mail. When he arrived at the boardwalk, he and Little. G were surprised by what then saw.

There were two concrete station platforms on the side of both tracks, it coved about half of the track starting from the middle branching out. "Well I'll be." A voice said the two looked over to see Barb and Jamie "Now this is an improvement, no more throwing bags from me. Ahd with that the mail van loading began and was done a lot faster than usual.

When bard and Jame left and walked away, Thomas puffed in. The blue take engine was dirty all over his body; he even had a bit of concrete on his right cheek. "Enjoying the platform?" He asked.

"You did this?" Percy asked back. Thomas did the engine equivalent of nodding "Thought you'd deserve it." He said before explaining "I'm planning on making the whole station next." And with that he puffed away.

And over the next week the station was finished, now there was only the hard part, finding staff for it. Surprisingly not a lot of people wanted to work at the station, which Thomas thought was reasonable as every human and gem he knew had a job.

However there was one that did show up. Ronaldo Fryman seemed very interested in working that started which got Thomas' hopes up. However they were dashed as all his questions were about gems, if they would be here, if he could go to gem town and more.

Thomas shrugged them all off and ended the interview early. He left for home feeling very discouraged. "Don't worry so much." Edward said at the shed "i'm sure the perfect candidate will show up sooner or later."

That made Thomas feel better, but he still felt unsure as he wanted to sleep. Unknowing of what tomorrow will bring.