The Cursed Railway Engine (TTTE Novel)

Part I - Chapter 3 "Morning Discussion"

 "Did you hear about what happened to Henry last night?" asked Donald. The engines were having their normal morning discussion before their first trains.

"No, I didn't, what happened?" asked Thomas.

"He saw something at Ballahoo tunnel and it spooked him so much he won't talk about it. We were able to get some words, but still pretty much nothing." They had gotten out a very vague description of the engine he saw out of him, and that's it.

"Personally, I'm not a believer," said Toby, "I think it's just some folk lore getting to him. The poor engine was probably just hallucinating in the fog." Toby wasn't in the wrong, the fog has made engines see things before, and it happens more often than you think. The only issue was, there wasn't any fog that night.

"You never know Toby..." said Percy, "what if he really DID see a ghost!"

Toby pondered, "Well if he did I'd like to see it for myself!"

"You might get too soon," said Crovan, pulling into the yard. "He definitely sounded like he was seeing a real one."

"What exactly did you see, Crovan?" quizzed Toby.

"Not much, I definitely saw the steam of another engine in front of him though. Not sure who it was, there weren't any other trains scheduled other than ours after all."

"Interesting..." pondered Toby.

"Well, I must be off. Got to pull my first goods train." said Donald.

"Be careful!" said Toby, "Have a good run!" Thomas had stayed respectfully quiet.