A/N I updated the last chapter. This is Gordon settling in on Sodor and ends his backstory.
Gordon began his work on Sodor. He was the new Express engine, as a passenger engine. Gordon was proud of his duties. However, he didn't get along the best with some of the other engines on Sodor.
Thomas was always being cheeky to Gordon, whistling at the bigger engine when he was resting after pulling the Express and Edward, who was the smallest engine in his shed, was picked on by Gordon. Henry, though prone to being vain or grumpy, as a fellow big engine, had a good relationship with Gordon. The other big engines in the shed were also Gordon's cronies, as they, too, were passenger engines. Gordon also got along well with James, the little black tender engine on trial.
Gordon thought Edward needed to just be put on static display on a siding, because he was old. He and the other engines bigger than Edward liked to tell Edward he was too little and weak to go out, when the old engine was first shut in the shed. If Thomas, the station pilot, had reason to come to the shed, he pressed Edward's buffers or Charlie, his driver, might visit him and, if the others made him cry, dry his tears with a cloth.
Gordon's shedmates were sent back to the Mainland for the way they treated Edward. However, Gordon stayed, as the Express engine. Henry pulled heavy freight or maybe non-Express passenger trains, when he had the strength to pull trains. With Gordon and the mixed-traffic engines, Henry and James, the other engines in the shed with Gordon, Henry and Edward, were less needed. Henry remained on Sodor because of Sir Topham Hatt's love for steam engines, because he believed Henry would be scrapped on another railway.
Gordon complained to his fellow tender engines about Thomas, "He's so childish.". He also complained about Edward.
"Edward," Gordon said, "is nothing but a cry-engine. There's a reason he's shut in his shed and it's because I'm his replacement. He'll find himself on a siding yet. He's nothing but an old, Really Useless Engine. Just a pile of old iron, so he might even go from siding to scrapyard. I mean, what else can he do? Watch me pull the Express?"
Gordon was a Sodor engine now.
A/N Respect my Thomasverse.