The Ghost Engine
It was quite the cold evening on Sodor. The power had gone out due to a blizzard and the engines were freezing in their shed.
"I think my funnel's going to freeze and fall off." Percy said quickly. James shivered. "P-P-Percy, there's n-n-othing wrong with your f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-funnel." Gordon looked over at them. "Can't you f-find a way to entertain yourselves?" he asked rudely. Thomas smiled. "Want to here a story?" he asked.
The engines smiled. "Is it about Duke?" Toby pondered out loud. "No, but it's about the Narrow-Gauge engines." he responded. Then everyone looked at him. "It b-b-begins something like th-this." And so Thomas began:
A long, long, long, long time ago on Sodor, the Narrow-Gauge route was just being built. The man in charge of the construction, Mr. Louie Selgate had built an office at the new station. He had just bought a brand new engine called Brandon and was eagerly waiting for him to arrive.
"When is he coming?" he quitely asked himself. Once again, Mr. Selgate looked out the window and saw only a line of slate trucks. "Brandon shall run the mine route." he said to himself. Then a loud whistle was heard. "IT'S HIM!" he exclaimed.
Selgate ran out to the platform and saw the smart looking green engine appear in front of him. "Brandon?" he asked the engine hapilly. "That would be me." the engine replied. Louie jumped for joy on the platform. But just as he was jumping, the other engine who was working with them, Lee puffed in with some workmen.
"Mr. Selgate," Lee said in his dark, British accent. "A good man like you shouldn't dance around on platforms like that. It's not correct." But Louie was too happy to pay attention. "So how good does he run!" Mr. Selgate asked the man who drove Brandon in. "He runs fine, but I should mention that his lights-" But Louie jumped right into the cab. "See ya!" he shouted as he threw the throttle and drove off. "You're going to regret that..." Lee sighed.
Louie drove him off to the slate mine. He quickly coupled him up to a long line of slate trucks and drove him away. "You run so nice!" Louie exclaimed. Brandon blushed. "Thanks."
Gradually, the night came on. Soon it was quite dark. The moonlight lit the line, but eventually they went into the forest. That's where the trouble began.
"I'm feeling odd..." Brandon said out loud. Louie looked at him. "You seem fine..." Then all of the sudden, the front headlight went out! And since the trees covered the moon, there was no light!
"STOP!" Louie shouted. He immediately threw on the brakes and Brandon stopped. But the frieght cars banged into eachother. They didn't like that, so naturally, they rammed Brandon.
They started down the darkened track. Louie didn't know that a bridge up ahead hadn't been repaired and that they were heading right at it. So to make it short, they went off the unfinished bridge and wrecked. Louie was killed and Brandon was never found.
But then legend comes into play. The little engines say that if you turn off your headlight in the forest, you can see the ghost engine and his runaway train...
What about Lee? He was put in a small shed. They say he was later scrapped, but the engines say they can see his ghost on certain nights...but that's another story...