Tractor Tipping

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Released: November 30, 2021

The Eds and other kids (Sarah, Jimmy, Nazz Van Bartonschmeer, Kevin, Rolf, Jonny 2x4, Plank) lived on Rethink Avenue, a cul-de-sac in Danswampville, New Hampshire 

(Benjamin and Elliot and Robo and Caitriona and their families lived in Litchfield, New Hampshire, located 18 miles away, east)

Benjamin: Hey, wanna come with us?

Kids: (look at him confused) 

Jonny 2x4: (the only one remotely intrigued) Why?

Benjamin: Tractor tipping, it's the latest fad. 

It wasn't, really. But Ben was trying to convince them to come with him.

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(cut to nighttime, with Robo and Caitriona driving a train consisting of 

a large yellow geared steam locomotive (with one cylinder each side of the boiler, attached to a centrally located longitudinal driveshaft, geared to the wheels.) with red wheels and funnel, black zebra stripes and paw prints, and a black floor and middle and lower interior and a yellow upper interior, and a silver safety valve and whistle, 2 grey bogies (A bogie is a structure underneath a railway vehicle (freight car, coach or locomotive) to which axles (and, hence, wheels) are attached.), and a well tank (water tank on the underside of the locomotive), 2 side tanks (tanks that are mounted on the sides of the boiler though in this case also on the sides of the smokebox) and a back tank (tank behind the cab), 

and a yellow tender with red lining on sides and with a sloping shape, the tender was filled with wood and vegetable oil. This tender rested on 2 gray bogies, driven by a line shaft above the shaft driving the main locomotive bogies (these shafts connected to each other through spur gears) This means that the tender's wheels are powered by the locomotive and can help pull the train.

Following it were Elliot and Benjamin Gavrin in an old minecart, with minecarts behind them

along the Ornament Valley Railroad; a 1.25 foot (15 inches) gauge (the distance between the rails of a piece of railroad track) minimum gauge railroad, in western New Mexico, near the border of Arizona and New Mexico. The railway has been open since the late 1930s, when tons of Model T locomotives and railcars were introduced. In the 1950s, however, the entire railroad was put into its last run when semitrucks were invented and they traveled on the newly built highway cross-country.)


Benjamin: (excited) Yeah, tractor tipping's fun! And we like fun! Right, Friends of Fosters?!!!!!

A bunch of real imaginary friend in minecarts behind the one the Gavrin brothers are in and the one kids from the cul-de-sac are in: Yeah!!!!

Benjamin: Yeah, it's really fun, all you do is sneak up in front of the tractor, and then make a noise. And then they tip themselves over, then fart. (cackles) 

Kids: (smile, look startled, or appear confused)

Ben: (almost like he's trying to distract them from something) It's really funny, like they wake up, tip themselves over, then fart. (laughs) Yeah, it's really fun.

Robo: And there's this big combine that will shred you up if you're not careful! 

Ben: ...Yeah, so be careful about that.


The train stops near a field surrounded by a fence.

In the field, are sentient, but not sapient apricot tractors with a different pattern of brown spots and an eye color of green, blue or brown, although some tractors can be a bit more of a white color. 

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