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[Episode starts with Eddie pulling a passenger train]

It was a beautiful day on The Stout Director's Railway. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and all the engines were feeling cheerful. All, except Tom.

Tom: It's not fair! All I do is shunt for you big engines and I never get any thanks for it.

But the big engines did not care.

Gregory: Yap, yap, yap!

Rob: Groan, groan, groan!

Yandall: It's just the way little Tommy goes!

(Big engines laugh)

Eventually, the big engines decided to play tricks on Tom.

Tom: Has anyone seen my...

(RAILGUN appears and Rob aims at Tom.)

Tom: Aghhhh!

(BANG)

But even THAT got tiring.

Tom: You big engines are really disrespectful, you know that? When will you realize that I am essential to the railway and...

Rob: Ooooh shut up! You talk too much.

Red Ted: Not radical at all!

Eventually the big engines started to complain to who else, but the Stout Director.

Yandall: I tell you that Tom engine is a nuisance!

Gregory: Couldn't you get a tank engine that isn't annoying, or stupid or whiny or-

Stout Director: Alright that's enough! Fine, if it bothers you that much, I will find a replacement.

The next day, Yandall and Rob got up extra early to the big station, so they could figure out how to trick Tom again. To their shock... there was a multitude of tank engines of all different shapes and sizes!

Stout Director: These engines will be trialed in the yard. You all will pick the winner to be the new shunter from now on.

Yandall: We must spread the news around!

Rob: Get this in the papers!

Soon, the news spread around about the new shunters. And especially around Tom.

Tom: They can’t replace me! I'm the only one around here that knows how to shunt.

Jamie: What will you do now, Tom?

Tom: I’ll leave them, and if that's how they feel then I have no business being here.

Jamie: No, Tom! Please, don't go!

Tom: Sorry Jamie, but if that's what they want, that's what they get.

Meanwhile, things at the big station were out of control.

Joshua: Has anyone seen the brake coach?

Wes: You idiot, you have the brake vans and brake coaches swapped!

Rose: Help! I'm stuck!

Shawn: I'm not supposed to even be here. I'm out of here!

Clark: Yeah, me too amigo shawn.

Jake: THE TANKERS ARE GETTING AGGRESSIVE, AAAAAAH!

Hustler: Duh...don't mind us, folks. We're not here for the competition; we just like chaos.

[Cut to the Stout Director trying new burgers in his office]

Stout Director: (Humming) What's going on out there?! ...It’s like World War 2...

Harrison: Is my train ready - Oh - Kay never mind, I’ll come back later...

Stout Director: If only there was a shunter with 6 small wheels, a short stumpy funnel, a short stumpy boiler, and a short stumpy dome who could fix this!

Tom: Wrong engine, but step aside amateurs! Let a real shunter handle this!

Before you know it, Tom was busy sorting out coaches and trucks, he organized the tankers by colour, put the brake coach and brake vans to their correct spots, and had Harrisons train all ready at the platform, just in time.

Tom: Phew! Nothing to it!

Harrison: Tom, you never cease to amaze me. Thanks for your help!

Stout Director: Eh heh, that was incredible work Tom. Mm, well done. Now, I can finish eating my burgers...

Just then Jamie showed up unexpectedly.

Jamie: DON'T LEAVE TOM, DON'T LEAVE!

Rob: What do you mean leave?

Tom: You all wanted a new shunter for the yard, so I'm leaving somewhere else.

Rob: Oh no, don’t go Tom! We didn't really mean it!

Yandall: You really are a hard worker, even if you are 2 seconds late... but you're still really useful!

Gregory: We're sorry we teased you! Don't leave Tom! Don't leave...

ALL: WAAAAAAAAAH! DON'T LEAVE!

Tom: Alright, alright! I was only joking, I wasn’t REALLY going to leave. You all obviously need a shunter around here.

After the tank engines went away, Tom went back to shunting trains for the big engines. They sometimes still tease him as usual, but they never forget to say thank you. For they know that there's no better shunter than Tom. At least on the Stout Director's Railway, that is!