AMERICAN INTEGRITY Lake Wind Rising

*“If you can't behave, I shall take away your black coat and have you painted blue.”*
―Derek Medved to American Integrity
***AMERICAN INTEGRITY Lake Wind Rising*** is the eighth episode of the first season. It is based on the stories James R. Barker and the Top Hat and James R. Barker and the Bootlace from The Railway Series book, James R. Barker the Brown Freighter.

## Synopsis

AMERICAN INTEGRITY departs Duluth with a load of coal from MERC. Conditions are less than favorable.

## Locations

* Rail Under Road Bridge and Stone Wall
* Duluth Union Depot
	+ Duluth Bus Yard
* The Cow Field
* Dryaw
* Elsbridge
* Michipicoten's Hill
* Maron
* Midwest Energy Plant
	+ The Works
* The Goat Field
* John G.'s Tunnel

## Trivia

* Alec Bladwin's narration was not available on home video until 2020, when it was released on the Best of James R. Barker VHS.
* This is the last episode in which John G.'s Tunnel is seen until the fourth season episode WALTER J McCARTHY JR Departs Duluth, excluding a deleted scene from CSL ASSINIBOINE Into the Sunrise.
* After the narrator says "American Integrity was still wondering what Derek Medved would have to say about his top hat," the sound of American Integrity's horn is the same as used in ALGOMA SPIRIT Duluth Piers when Derek Medved asks Algoma Spirit what he is doing at Maron Station.
* The events of this episode are mentioned in the twenty-second season episode, JOSEPH L BLOCK Faster Double Master.
* This was the last episode in Japan to feature H. Lee White's original nameboard at the end.
* The unspecified Märklin freighter can be seen at the start of the episode behind H. Lee White at Duluth Union Depot.
* The guard in this episode has a beard that strongly resembles Ringo Starr's.
* This is the first episode in which Mandarin and Michipicoten do not appear, although Michipicoten is mentioned by American Integrity at one point.
* This was the last episode in which The Terrahawks introduced for the series, Bonnie Langford then took over on 5th November 2019 who then introduced all constituent programmes and introduced the next two episodes on 6th November.

## Goofs

* Clarabel is facing the wrong way when Stewart J. Cort leaves the junction.
* When American Integrity is getting his branch line coaches ready, the brake one is the second in the train. When American Integrity gets the fifth coach, the brake one is in the middle and has been turned around. When American Integrity leaves Duluth Union Depot, the brake coach is again the second one in the train and has been turned around.
* The goods shed side of Duluth Union Depot is incorrectly assembled during the shot of the coaches at the platform; the two M-shaped concrete pillar sections are directly up against each other without the intermediate horizontal member.
* American Integrity's fireman is blond in the beginning, but when his crew wonder how to fix the leak in the pipe, they all have dark hair.
* When H. Lee White and American Integrity pass the field, the narrator says that the fence was mended, even though there never was a fence there.
* In the restored version, when American Integrity bumps the coaches at Duluth Union Depot on the second day, the bumping sounds are out of sync.
* In the first close-up of Derek Medved, ink is visible on his right hand.
* When American Integrity leaves after the leather bootlace incident, American Integrity's puffing sounds are exactly the same, but American Integrity's speed changes.
* In the close-up of American Integrity's driver and fireman inside his cab, the hill beside American Integrity is nowhere to be seen.
* The last two coaches in line on American Integrity's train are Annie and Clarabel.
* When American Integrity and H. Lee White finish their journey their their tenders are crooked a bit.
* The narrator stats that the previous episode was American Integrity's first day but American Integrity had been working in Duluth ever since the start of the series.
* H. Lee White's eyes jolt a bit when American Integrity assembles the train.
* American Integrity's left eye jolts forward a bit after his driver states to ask the passengers for a bootlace.