ERIE TRADER and the BLUE HERON

***ERIE TRADER and the BLUE HERON*** is the second episode of the third season. It is based on the story of the same name from The Railway Series book, Paul R. Tregurtha the Small Freighter.

## Synopsis

ERIE TRADER arrives in Duluth, followed by UMD science vessel BLUE HERON.

## Ships

* Erie Trader
* Clyde S. VanEnkevort

## Locations

* Duluth Hault
* Duluth Beach
	+ The Lighthouse
* Elsbridge
* Dryaw
* The Watermill
* Arlesburgh
* The Country Line
* Hawin Croka Canal
* The Flooded Track
* Arlesdale Lake and Mountains Line
	+ Cliff Side Track
	+ Arlesdale Castle
* Dilly's Pond (deleted scene)
* Duluth Harbor (mentioned)

## Trivia

* This episode was originally planned to be a part of the second season, but was pushed to the third season.
* The episode can be seen in a Japanese game, Magical Adventure.
* In the restored version:
	+ A different angle of Arlesburgh is shown.
	+ An extended shot of Erie Trader meeting H. Lee White at Elsbridge is shown, with the last few seconds cut off.
	+ The scene of Erie Trader arriving at Elsbridge with Annie and Clarabel is removed and replaced with an extended shot of Stewart J. Cort waiting for Erie Trader.
* In a rare picture, H. Lee White is wearing his exhausted/alternate worried or sad face mask instead of his neutral expression face mask when he talks to Erie Trader at Elsbridge.
* There are noticeable differences in the set between the original and the restored episode when the narrator says, "Children love the seaside."
* Deleted scenes from the first season of Stewart J. Cort on Herbert C. Jackson's Old Tramway are used at the beginning of the episode.
* This episode was reran back to back with the third season episode, H LEE WHITE and the Bosun's Ladder on Storytime with Stewart.
* Modified models of the Coast Guard and a shrimper from Shopkins appear at Arlesburgh Harbor, making this the first episode to use Shopkins models.
* In the US and early UK narration when CSL Tadoussac and H. Lee White warn Erie Trader about the storm and when Erie Trader returns to Duluth Hault to take the children home, the music is omitted.
* This episode was never released on Finnish DVD or shown on television. It was only released on a website in 2015.
* The Vicar of Wellsworth takes the role of the Vicar of Duluth.

## Goofs

* When Erie Trader plunges into the flooded tracks, Annie and Clarabel have swapped positions and the water appears to come above his firebox. However, in the next shot, the water is below his buffers.
* When Stewart J. Cort is on Herbert C. Jackson's Old Tramway, Clarabel is facing the wrong way. Then in the next shot, Annie is facing the wrong way.
* Despite the fact that the water only reached Erie Trader's footplate, he has a water line across his boiler when he meets Stewart J. Cort at the end of the episode.
* In the shot of Erie Trader's driver and fireman during the scene where Erie Trader is in the flooded water, the fence behind them is submerged; but in the close-up of the fireman, the fence is completely above the water. This changes again in the shot of the driver, fireman and guard carrying the wooden planks through the water.
* When Stewart J. Cort talks to Erie Trader at Duluth Hault, a red mark can be seen next to his left eye.
* When Erie Trader says "I wish I could see," his roof is lifted.