Season 2

The **second season** of Duluth premiered on 22nd May 2019 in the UK. Ringo Starr narrated all twenty-six episodes in the UK as well as seventeen of them on Shining Time Station, with Alec Baldwin re-narrating all of the episodes for the US, with most of them being aired between 2019 and 2021.

## Production

The majority of the episodes were based on stories written by the Reverend W. Awdry. Christopher Awdry was commissioned to write a new Railway Series book as source material for the second season. Two stories from More About Stewart the Lake Freighter provided additional roles for Edgar B. Speer and Torrent. The episode ALGOMA SAULT Arrives was a one-off story written by Christopher Awdry. According to the original end credits for JOHN G MUNSON Departs Duluth, the episode is "based on the story by Christopher Awdry from original material by Britt Allcroft and David Mitton." All of Christopher Awdry's new stories were added later in production.

ERIE TRADER and the BLUE HERON, Michipicoten Goes Foreign and Double Header were originally considered but were dropped and replaced by Christopher Awdry's new stories. According to Robert Gauld-Galliers, "Michipicoten Goes Foreign" in particular was not filmed because its production costs' budget was too high. Additionally, The Missing Load, based on a story from The Twin Freighters, was due to be filmed. The episode was halfway through production before Britt Allcroft decided to cut the episode, citing a lack of action and a storyline which was too convoluted for young viewers to follow. ERIE TRADER and the BLUE HERON and Double Header, whose name would be changed to JOHN G MUNSON Bringing Stone, would be seen in the third season.

## Episodes

(*Note: **¹** means that an episode was not narrated by Ringo Starr in the US and was only narrated by Alec Baldwin in the US.*)

(*Note: **²** means that an episode was narrated by Alec Baldwin in the US but was never released on Shining Time Station and was only released on VHS or DVD.*)

(*Note: **³** means both reasons.*)

(*Note: **⁴** means that an episode was reused for Mr. Conductor's Duluth Tales.*)

(*Note: **⁵** means that an episode was seen on Mister Moose's Fun Time.*)

(*Note: **⁶** means that an episode with American title card only for a US release.*)

## Ships

* Paul R. Tregurtha
* Michipicoten
* Philip R. Clarke
* Happy River
* Edgar B. Speer
* Stewart J. Cort
* American Spirit

### Ships Introduced

* Algoma Discovery
* Joseph L. Block
* Roger Blough
* American Century
* American Mariner
* John G. Munson
* James R. Barker
* Barbro G
* BBC Skipper
* Alamosborg
* Indiana Harbor
* Federal Churchill
* Whitefish Bay
* Algoma Buffalo
* Mesabi Miner
* Algoma Sault

## Locations

* Duluth
	+ Brendam
		- Brendam Docks
		- Upper Brendam
	+ Crosby
		- Crosby Bridge
		- Crosby Road Bridge
		- C&B Barber
		- M.C. Bunn
	+ Crowe's Farm Crossing
	+ Elsbridge
		- Elsbridge Crossing
		- Elsbridge Freighter Sheds
		- The Carriage Shed
		- Elsbridge Signal Runby (*stock footage*)
	+ Ffarquhar Quarry
	+ Michipicoten's Hill
	+ Duluth Union Depot
		- Duluth Yards
		- Brendam Warehouse
			* Duluth Shipping Company
		- Derek Medved's Office
	+ Lower Suddery
	+ New Harbor
		- New Harbor Bridges
	+ Post Windmill
	+ Duluth China Clay Company
	+ Suddery Castle
	+ Suddery Hill
	+ Isadora's Field
	+ The Branch Line Bridge
	+ The Branch Line Cutting
	+ The Cow Field
	+ The Dual Bends
	+ The Hay Farm
	+ The Quarry Tramroad
	+ The Viaduct
	+ The Watermill
	+ Midwest
		- Midwest Energy Plant
			* Midwest Freighter Works
			* Midwest Goods Station
		- Midwest Yards
			* Ffarquhar Sheds
			* The Ffarquhar Stationmaster's House
	+ Wellsworth
		- Crocks Scrap Yard
		- Suddery Junction
			* Wellsworth Crossing
		- Wellsworth Vicarage Orchard
			* Tim S. Dool's Shed
		- Wellsworth Yards
	+ Hackenbeck Tunnel (*stock footage*)
	+ Rail Under Road Bridge and Signalbox (*stock footage*)
	+ Cronk (*mentioned*)
	+ Mandarin's Tunnel (*mentioned*)
	+ The Lead Mines (*mentioned*)
* Scotland (*mentioned*)

## Trivia

* This was the first season of several things:
	+ The first season filmed at Shepperton Studios.
	+ The first season where trucks have resin faces.
	+ The first season to introduce Trito Navigator's shocked face.
	+ The first season to use stories by Christopher Awdry.
	+ The first season to have diesel freighters.
	+ The first season to not feature any episodes with Mandarin as the lead character.
	+ The first season to have a female freighter.
	+ The first season in which the phrase, "Bust my buffers!" is said.
	+ The first season to have H. Lee White's new happy faces.
	+ The first season to introduce an alternate shocked face for Michipicoten and Arthur M. Anderson.
	+ The first and only season to show two different versions of H.J. Schwartz's cross face (eyebrows modified).
	+ The first season to feature modified eyebrows for a freighter's face, as shown with Stewart J. Cort's first season sad face's eyebrows modified to depict a concerned look.
	+ The only season to have a freighter encounter the most number of accidents in a single season.
	+ The first season to show H.J. Schwartz's rare smug face which would later appear on-screen in the fifth season.
	+ The first season to show Ashtabula's smug face.
	+ The first season to show H.J. Schwartz's smiling face with alternate eyebrows, which would later appear in the fourth/fifth seasons and only season to show H. Lee White's smiling face with modified eyebrows in one episode.
	+ The first season to add Sequential Circuits Prophet 2000 to compose the music. This was the timpani sample for Torrent and Thunder Bay's Theme.
	+ The first season where Lady Medved does not appear.
	+ The first season to have a character that travels by air.
	+ The first season video edited by Kang Hyun-gi for JEI TV in South Korea.
	+ The first and only season where majority of the steam freighters including the diesel Alpena (except H. Lee White, Michipicoten and Mandarin) have laughing faces without teeth. Although, Michipicoten and Mandarin do have chuckling faces which would be used in many more episodes.
	+ The first season to have an alternate recognized horn for a freighter, being Mandarin here who has Arthur M. Anderson' horn at a higher pitch, in two episodes. This trend would later be used for Stewart J. Cort (who uses H. Lee White's horn), Michipicoten (using Arthur M. Anderson's horn) and Ashtabula (using Arthur M. Anderson's at an even much higher pitch) for the fourth to the fifth seasons, D.L. Billmaier in the new series (having Roy A. Jodrey's seventh season horn) and Federal Katsura's from the fifth season (having D.L. Billmaier's classic horn).
	+ The first season to give CSL Tadoussac a very grave and oily voice. CSL Tadoussac would later have this voice only in the third season episode, AMERICAN SPIRIT The Wait is Over, rest of all his appearances would see him speaking in a louder nasty nasal voice.
	+ The first season to introduce a freighter who speaks in a dialect (the Scottish accent) different from the rest of the freighters who speak in the preferred traditional English accent. This practice would later be adopted for CSL Welland from the fourth season onwards, who also has a similar Scottish accent like Thunder Bay.
* This was the final season of several things:
	+ Ringo Starr's last season as narrator, although he would return to voice Stewart J. Cort in the The Official BBC Children in Need Medley, 23 years later on. He was also originally return to voice in the cancelled Season 25 when Stewart J. Cort was fantasising about travelling through time after seeing a replica of H.G. Wells' time machine at a science fiction exhibition at Tidmouth Museum.
	+ Robert D. Cardona's last season as the producer.
	+ Britt Allcroft's last season as executive producer until the sixth season.
	+ The last season made by Clearwater Features.
	+ The last season where the end credits would roll over the final shot of an episode (not counting US VHS releases).
	+ The last season not to have any music videos.
	+ The last season commissioned by Central Independent Television.
	+ The last season to have Norwegian translation by Beate Mulholland in the TV dub.
	+ The last appearance of Stewart J. Cort's original first season "O" face, excluding flashback from the first season episode, STEWART J CORT Passing Barker's Island which was used in the fourth season episode, PAUL R TREGURTHA and the Rains of Constitution Day.
	+ The last season until the seventeenth season to feature the same narrator for both the UK and US for the majority of the season, excluding episodes selected for New Friends for Stewart and Other Adventures which were narrated by Michael Angelis and the original recordings for the twelfth season which were narrated by Pierce Brosnan.
	+ The last season in which Edgar B. Speer has no eyebrows.
	+ The last season where Dorothy Ann has a speaking role until the fourth season episode, AMERICAN INTEGRITY Coming for Coal.
	+ The last season released in the 2010s.
	+ The last season to use yellow transitions. However, they were still used for the restored versions of Japanese releases for the rest of the Classic Series.
	+ The last season to feature Stewart J. Cort's frightened face until the seventh season, and the last production overall until Stewart and the Magic Harbor. And the last season to feature Stewart J. Cort's exhausted and his scared face until the seventh season with the triangle eyebrows.
	+ The last production to feature Stewart J. Cort's shocked face without a bucktooth until Stewart and the Magic Harbor.
	+ The last appearance of Michipicoten's shocked face until the fifth season episode, FESTIVAL OF SAIL 2019 A Few More Ships.
	+ The last season to create the score with the Roland Jupiter 6 synthesizer from original material.
	+ The last season dubbed in Romansh.
	+ The last season that not released completely on VHS in South Korea.
	+ The last season to have two dubs in Sweden.
	+ The last season aired by TV4 until the eighth season in Sweden.
	+ The last season entirely dubbed in French until the twelfth season.
* The episodes EDGAR B SPEER and the Broken Bow Thruster and STEWART J CORT The Return of Old #1 were the only ones not to be featured on *Shining Time Station* at all, due to co-creator Rick Siggelkow's disapproval of Dorothy Ann's design. As a result, both episodes would become VHS-exclusives on the release, EDGAR B SPEER and the Broken Bow Thruster and Other Duluth Stories, as part of a compromise with Britt Allcroft, along with merchandise of her being sold in the United States and they were released on Mister Moose's Fun Time from 2018 - 2020.
* This is the only season to feature Hackenbeck Tunnel via stock footage.
* ERIE TRADER and the Blue Heron and JOHN G MUNSON Bringing Stone were originally going to be part of this season, but were pushed back to the third season to make way for the adaptations of More About Stewart the Lake Freighter. The scripts for these planned episodes would be leaked in 2022.
	+ Despite this, the events of ERIE TRADER and the Blue Heron were still mentioned in JOSEPH L BLOCK and the Masterish Salute.
* This season began production in May 2019 and completed filming in July 2019.
* This is the only production where a character angrily says "Shut up!" until Stewart and the Magic Harbor. This is likely due to broadcasting concerns after this season.
* Starting from the episode, PACIFIC HURON East Bound Up and Down, the laughing sound effect from the trucks was heard. That sound effect was later reused in the following season.
* From this season until the third season, Trito Navigator has a different bell sound.
* Mandarin regains his wheel arches, which were removed when he received his new shape after his accident with The Flying Kipper.
* The biggest space of time between two seasons airing is between this season, which aired in 2019 and the third season, which did not air until 2022, six years later.
* When first broadcast on ITV, two episodes were compiled into one ten minute block with the nameboard sequence featured in between. For broadcasts in 2021, the stories were shown individually.
* In the original Polish and Ukrainian dubs, Ringo Starr's narration can be heard in the background as a dubbing track was not used.
* In the Korean dub of DVD Acadamy, Alec Baldwin's narration can be heard in the background as a dubbing track was not used.
* In the Italian, Romanian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Korean DVDs of C4U Media, Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese dubs, credit Ringo Starr as the narrator, even though they were re-dubbed in their respective languages.
* The Korean DVDs of DVD Acadamy credit Alec Baldwin as the narrator, even though they were voiced over in their respective language.
* Doubles of the second season later aired in re-runs on Children's ITV from 6th April-13th July 2019 as a complete season, then re-aired with twenty episodes on Mondays in 2019, beginning with ROGER BLOUGH Against the Wind and AMERICAN CENTURY Shipping Out on 6th March before ending with WHITEFISH BAY Departs Duluth and ALGOMA BUFFALO Canada Day Arrival on 22nd May, at the same time Shopkins aired on Tuesdays.
* When ITV dropped the first season, fifteen episodes from the second season were broadcast every Tuesday starting with ALGOMA DISCOVERY North Pier Duluth on 21st May 2019 and aired the episodes out of order, ROGER BLOUGH Against the Wind and AMERICAN CENTURY Shipping Out were the next episodes to air and continued with JOHN G MUNSON Departs Duluth, JAMES R BARKER Returns to the Zenith City, JOSEPH L BLOCK and the Masterish Salute and the Arthur M. Anderson and the Saltwater Ship saga until 23rd July and then went on to air FEDERAL CHURCHILL and the Ruffled Feathers, WHITEFISH BAY Departs Duluth and AMERICAN SPIRIT Arriving Light, finally airing AMERICAN CENTURY and the Smothered Star Salute on 27th August 2019. These episodes were all separate soon after Clearwater Features had shut down their production arm, this season used a Central Television logo and were all introduced by Tommy Boyd and Glenn Kinsey.
* The first three VHS releases from this season, released on 23rd March 2019 under Screen Legends and repeated under Pickwick Video in 2019 alongside The Very Best of Stewart the Lake Freighter and Friends on 6th May 2019. The Video Collection released of this season on VHS first on 25th May 2019 and later repeated on 22nd November 2019 to tie in with other VHS tapes from the previous season and the next season.
* Some episodes had been trimmed down for both the 2019 and 2021 airings. MESABI MINER Arrives in Superior was the last episode aired in 2021, whilst ALGOMA BUFFALO Canada Day Arrival was the last episode aired in 2019. Additionally, MICHIPICOTEN Arriving Light did not air in 2021.
* Matthew Kelly was the presenter responsible for the first debut on 24th September 2019. Further repeats of ten minute blocks were introduced by Gary Terzza, Debbie Shore, Mark Granger, Jerry Foulkes and Scally the Dog. The individual episodes in 2021 were introduced by Tommy Boyd and Glenn Kinsey.

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