"A solar eclipse is scheduled to come through to Sodor! However, the weeks leading up to it cause a bit of a disturbance, and when the eclipse finally does come. It changes the lives of everyone on The Fat Controller's Railway.
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February 18th: 3:33am: It felt like we were staring death in the face, as we looked down the branchline. We knew this would make or break us. Ash got down, and changed the points. And slowly, the cavalcade set off. We travelled slowly at first, but slowly picked up some speed. However, this quickly came to a stop, when we saw the orchard! Jem Cole flagged us down. Thank god he and Trevor were alright! The Fat Controller and Jem spoke for a moment, and Trevor gave us his story. He had been sleeping when the Eclipse arrived. He woke up when Jem arrived. He claimed he hadn't been able to sleep, and decided to take Trevorm out to marvel at the Eclipse. Only then did they realise that it had arrived. As they stopped, they heard a horn. To their horror, the thing clattered slowly past them!
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Trevor was out of water, and couldn't build up any steam. So, Oliver elected to stay behind with half of the workforce, and we'd continue. Donald was hard to handel, and would constantly pick up speed.
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Sadly, Gordon only encouraged this behaviour. He wanted to save Douglas, just like us.
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We flew down the line, and passed the torn up remains of a goods train, sat in a siding. The siding was a death trap for the diesel who sat up the front of the train. I felt Donald shudder, but we still didn't stop. At last, the docks came into view! The gates that had blocked us off a week prior had been bashed in, and strung to the side! And with one last call from Gordon, we charged in! The docks was a mess! Bill and Ben were tossed to the side, both had been ripped up by the thing, and we knew it had no mercy. Not too far from them, was Cranky and Salty. Cranky had toppled over, blood poured from every crevice of the crane. We all knew it'd take Salty with it, as the fire from under the crane told us everything! Unluckily, we weren't alone. Men sprinted out from the building and started firing at us! The Fat Controller flew out from the works unit coach, and sprinted to the dock foreman's office! We had to stand our ground! Donald shouted in pain, as bullets ricocheted off his boiler! But there was worse to come. We jolted back, and heard a roar! The thing came flying into the docks!
