Ichihiro was sent to work to work on the Sanzu branch line. When he got to the harbor, Shiro was working with two engines Ichihiro hadn't seen before.
"These two engines are Haruka and Haruki, they work for a small industrial railway in Higan." said Shiro.
"Hi Haruka and Haruki."
The twins were too busy arguing over which line of trucks to hear Ichihiro.
"These go on track five!" said Haruka.
"No, no, these go on track three!" argued Haruki.
"Track five!"
"Track three!"
"Track five!"
"Track three!"
"Stop arguing you two!" said Shiro, "Besides those trucks should be on track four."
The two twins were silenced by the fact that the arguing would do nothing, because the trucks weren't needed on any of the tracks they wanted.
"Haruka, Haruki, set Ichihiro's train for him." said Shiro.
"C'mon Haruki, Let's do some more shunting!" told Haruka.
The two twins arranged Ichihiro's train and once it was set, Ichihiro was coupled up to the trucks and set off at once.
The Sanzu Branch Line has an unprotected crossing as a dirt lane crossed the tracks. Sometimes, a farmer would come by with a wagon full of diary products like milk and eggs. This time, the farmer's ox that usually pulled it was sickly and the farmer had a hard time getting it to go. At least, the animal spluttered and hauled the wagon. The ox pulled the wagon was about to finish the crossing, when the ox finally stopped, it laid down and had a coughing fit. The farmer went to go get help, but the back half of the wagon was still on the track. Ichihiro came trundling down the line right until he saw the wagon, but it was too late and he bumped right into the wagon. The force of the impact had spun the wagon around. Milk and broken eggs were all over Ichihiro's front and boiler. Splitter wood was everywhere as the wagon was damaged.
"Look what you did to my wagon!" exclaimed the farmer, "What a way to make tamagoyaki."
Ichihiro's driver came out to see what had happened, he laughed.
"Its not funny." said Ichihiro crossly, as an egg yolk trickled down his nose and onto his buffer beam.
"You looked like a scrambled egg." said Ichihiro's driver.
"If being a scrambled egg is as wet and sticky as this, then clean me at once!" replied Ichihiro.
Ichihiro's crew tried to clean him, but it was no good. The heat of his boiler caused the eggs to cook on boiler and smokebox and where stuck firmly.
"We can't block the line any longer than this, we'll have to finish our journey." said his driver.
Ichihiro gave up and left to finish his work. When Ichihiro came back to the harbor, he was put where Haruka and Haruki stayed for the night and he was being cleaned up more throughly.
"Hello." said Haruki, "What's this?"
"Must be a new engine." said Haruka.
Haruka inspected the arrival carefully, "No Haruki, its Ichihiro!" he finally said.
"He must have been given a new color, he looks just like us! Replied Haruki.
A grinding noise was heard.
"Are your joints stiff?" asked Haruka.
"No, I don't think so." answered Haruki.
But it wasn't Haruki's joints, it was Ichihiro, mashing his teeth.