Too Much Cold

Story 4/8 of Favorite Places, Favorite Faces.

Characters: Gordon, James, Toby, Sir Topham Hatt, Hiro (cameo), Thomas (cameo), Percy (cameo), Henry (cameo), and Emily (cameo).

The snow was back, the engines had to wear snowplows to clear the big drifts of snow. On a snowy day one morning, Sir Topham Hatt had some bad news.

Sir Topham Hatt: "Bad news. Another cold front is coming in from the Mainland today. You must all try to make good decisions again. Last time, Edward showed us what that looks like and how its done. Please be safe and sound."

Then Sir Topham Hatt left.

Gordon: "I'm too inportant to do that. That's only for little annoying engines."

Edward: "Gordon, this is very serious. If you are not safe, your driver and fireman will get hypothemia and will sooner or later die of it. This won't happen if you are safe, and your driver and fireman are in a nice warm place."

Gordon: "Edward, your an old weak engine who doesn't know about inportance."

Gordon puffed away in disarry. He would prove that to Edward if he had to go into the hypothemia stage. Later that day, Gordon went to the coal hopper to refill his tender with coal, James was there.

Gordon: "Hurry up, I don't wait for engines who need bootlaces."

James: "Be quiet. At least I didn't fall into a ditch."

Gordon: "Didn't needed to be rescued by old weak Edward."

James: "I wasn't afraid of a cow."

Gordon: "I didn't show everyone my undercoat."

James: "I didn't get coal stuck in my funnel, and had to go to the Steamworks to get it out."

Gordon: "Well I didn't-"

Toby: "Can you two please be quiet. You are both wrong about both of you being right. There are times when we mess up, but we live and learn."

James and Gordon didn't speak to each other for the rest of the day. That night, Gordon was taking the last express train of the day at 6:00 P.M and had arrived at Mathiwate at 7:00. Gordon was uncoupled, and puffed home, back to Tidmouth Sheds.

Gordon: "Dumb James. I told him so."

But he was wrong. Gordon noticed he had stopped.

Gordon: "What happened?"

Gordon's Driver: "You have run out of coal. If we had only waited, then we wouldn't be stuck out here."

Gordon's Fireman: "We could run back to the nearest signalbox before one or both of us get caught of hypothemia."

Gordon's Driver: "That's a good idea."

And so they ran all the way back down the line to the nearest signalbox. Soon it was pitch-black dark, and Gordon was starting to regret what he thought and said. Finally he heard something. Not two people walking towards as if it was their last minute before dying right before their very engine, Gordon. It was an engine; two engines to be correct.

Donald: "Look Dougie. Poor poor Gordon, getting a catch of it, a catch of enginethemia!"

Douglas: "Aye, I agree with you on that on. Now lets save him."

Gordon felt cold like a frozen piece of track. He had survived, but what about his driver and fireman? Well, they too survived as well as Gordon. Gordon did get into trouble for it, and he knew one thing; if you can survive like Gordon, you shouldn't assume that others will have the same outcome.