Between cargo being picked from the harbor, the workshops in Kappa Valley, and some of the artisans in Mayohiga and in the Human Village, the engine have plenty of goods to move about in Gensokyo. One day Kenta was pulling a slow goods train, it was mostly raw materials for the kappas to use. He lugged stone, wood, and scrap metal.
He was at Mayohiga, picking up his last load when Hachirou arrived.
"That looks really heavy Kenta." he said.
"I know and I have to lug this up Hiroto's Hill." Kenta replied.
"I think you might need a backing engine."
"I'll manage, Hachirou."
Finally his train was fully loaded and he set off to Hiroto's Hill, he reached the foot of the hill at top speed. He climbed to the top of the hill, but because Hina Kagiyama, goddess of misfortune, wanted to interfere or just because of improper maintenance, a coupling snapped. Kenta was already at the summit so the runaway train gained enough inertia with its weight. It sped down the hill.
"Kenta! You lost your train!" cried his driver.
"Crap! We were going so nicely too."
"We need to go to the next signalbox!"
A signalwoman at the bottom of the hill saw the runaway and phoned a warning down the line. The runaway freight train roared down the mainline, Hiroto was pulling the express, when the signal changed.
"I thought we the right of way!" said Hiroto, braking at almost full speed.
He saw a brake van running straight towards him. Hiroto shut his eyes. The signalwoman switched the points and the train went onto the next line. Hiroto nearly missed by a few inches, he was relieved. But the goods train thundered down the line, the train was switched onto a another line as it passed the next signalbox. However, the next signalbox was the one to determine if the runaway would go to the Human Village or straight towards the Hakurei Shrine. The signalwoman had a plan, she knew about a set of trap points on the Eientei branch line. So she set it to keep on the mainline, but the points were jammed and the train run towards the Human Village.
Keine Kamishirasawa was notified and she evacuated the passengers in the station. Onlookers watched with interest. The signalwoman by the yards, was swapping around points, hands darting across levers like greased lightning. The runaway ran past the signalbox and was switched onto a disused siding, the buffers lead into a muddy ditch. The runaway careened down the yard and onto the siding, it smashed past the buffers and crashed into the ditch, the last three trucks spilling cargo as they jumped the line. The guard braced for impact and wasn't too badly injured. But the crisis was over.
The breakdown train was ordered and the mess was picked up, but service was severely disrupted. Kenta went back to pick up the unhurt trucks and brought them to the Kappa Valley, like he was supposed to. That night, the engines talked about the delays in schedule.
"Reimu yelled at me for being late and I almost got run into by that goods train!" complained Hiroto.
"Almost all my trains got canceled!" put in Akemi.
"It wasn't Kenta's fault, that coupling on his train should have been checked better. Besides, with the speed and weight, I'm surprised that the axles didn't go hot and caused a fire!" said Hachirou.
The engines decided that things could have been worse, like if the train crashed into the station. So everyone forgave Kenta.