One day Percy the Small Engine was sitting at Mavis’s Crossing with a morning parcel train. The brakes had jammed and his crew and Guard were working hard to fix it. Percy was impatient. “This is taking a long time,” he said, “c’mon Driver, hurry it along! Otherwise Harold’ll take my favorite job away from me again!” “Almost done,” said the Guard. Just then, screeching tires were heard alongside someone yelling, “One side ol’ chap! Coming through! The future’s now thanks to–” A loud crash erupted from behind Percy’s bunker, and the second mail car jolted sideways. Luckily nobody was hurt, but Percy was most annoyed. “Whoops,” said the deranged road vehicle, “sorry Percy!” “GOD DAMMIT WEMBLEY!!!!” exclaimed Percy. Wembley is an electric self-driving mail van made by the Telsa electric car company in California. He’d been brought to Sodor in 2021 on a 3 year trial to test the sustainability and viability of electric cars on Sodor and to see if
'The Not-So-Sad Story Of Diesel 10' by TTTEAnimeFanBoy2000, literature
Literature
'The Not-So-Sad Story Of Diesel 10'
Once a Diesel attached to a train couldn’t be asked through the buffeting rain. It went under a hill, vented fumes from its grills, and wouldn’t come out again. Well not for a little bit anyway. The Diesel’s name in his British Railways service life was Glory, but he’d changed to Diesel 10 in the mid 2000s when he was modified. Anyhoo, Diesel 10 was mortified. “What’s happened to me?” he coughed, “I feel so weak!” The Driver went back to Diesel 10’s engine room to find out what the problem was. When he came back it wasn’t good news for the “Warship.” “Your 2nd engine’s gone old boy,” he said, “you’d be fine as a ‘light engine,’ but you can’t pull your train anymore!” “Botheration,” exclaimed Diesel 10, Pinchy coming to life and snapping his jaws, “my run was going fine as well! Looky there, there’s Rusty Red Scrap Iron and his identical twin brother laughing at me!” James and Winston, double-heading a heavy goods train to the mainland, could only bloat in