Austin's Bad Day

A screenshot from Introduction. This is the only remaining image of Austin from Generation 2.

### Director

Mr3801Fan 26

**Austin's Bad Day** is a lost episode of Rails of Port Ogden, now known as Port Ogden Rail Chronicles G2.

## Plot

Mr. Brown is giving the morning briefing and informs the engines about the bad day he has been having so far. Austin found it very amusing and burst out laughing until Mr. Brown silenced him. Later, he assigns Austin on a freight train delivered by Umit from Kansas City to Los Angeles. Austin at first refuses, but reluctantly obliges after a threat from Mr. Brown. After a long impatient wait, Umit delivers the train, but refuses to give it to Austin unless he changes his mood. Austin's driver manages to sort out the situation and Austin's journey begins.

Late that night, Austin falls asleep and wakes up the next morning. To his horror, he is about to crash into Sheldon. The two narrowly manage to avoid a head on collision. Furious, Sheldon follows Austin to Los Angeles and threatens him. Out of fear, Austin abandons his duty and flees from Sheldon, who is too low on fuel to continue his pursuit. This doesn't drain his rage though, and he decides to refuel and wait for Austin in Wyoming.

At Cheyenne, Conner and Byron are chatting when they notices Austin hiding the backshops. They inform him that Cheyenne is where Sheldon is based and that it's worst place to hide. After hearing an ominous blast from Sheldon's horn, Austin panics and leaves, unaware that Conner and Byron are telling him that he is going the wrong way.

At a cliffside, Austin runs into Sheldon again and the chase resumes. That is until they approach a crossover track. Austin manages to miss the freight train, but Sheldon wasn't so lucky. After witnessing the crash, Austin laughs until he collides into the back of a coal train. He sighs, stating that his day sucked.

#### Alternate Ending

In this ending, both Austin and Sheldon crash into the freight train, which was pulled by Austin's best friend Jim. Austin passes out before waking up to a very cross Mr. Brown, who punishes him by putting him on switching duty for a week. Austin curses this day as the worst day of his life. This ending was changed as Mr3801Fan 26 found it too similar to the Rails of Highland Valley short, Troublesome Cars.

## Characters

* Mr. Brown
* Mitchell
* Austin
* Keith
* Austin's driver
* Umit
* Sheldon
* Connor
* Byron
* Benjamin *(does not speak)*
* Jim *(mentioned, speaks in deleted scene)*
* Ryan *(deleted scene)*
* UP #217 *(cameo)*
* D&RGW #1015 *(cameo)*

## Locations

* Port Van den Hoven, CO
* Newcastle, CO
* Los Angeles, CA
* Cheyennne, WY

## Deletion

When the episode premiered, it was met with a mixed response. AllosaurFan, then known as Mr3801Fan 26, however regretted it, citing it's lack of originality, confusing story, lack of logic, messy editing, and Austin's ear-piercingly high voice. Because of this, he took it down from his channel in November and deleted all evidence that it ever existed.

2026 Productions commented that it was "a trip". In response, Mr3801Fan 26 called it a 'Tidewater Chronicles fanfic gone wrong’.

It is unlikely the episode will ever see the light of day again as all footage has been deleted. However, a few audio files from the voice actors remain. Two can be heard in the early draft of Rhyon's Christmas Carol.

On November 7th 2020, Mr3801Fan 26 rewrote the episode into Conner's Bad Day, with Conner taking Austin's role and Jeff playing a part. The episode aired on August 28th 2022.

Recently, AllosaurFan has considered making a reconstruction of the episode, with NSWSteamFan providing Austin's voice.

## Trivia

* It's history is similar to NSWSteamFan's Tales on the Thompson and Western, except this time no footage exists.
* One of Sheldon's lines is reused in Conner's Bad Day,

## Goofs

* The Stanton Curve theme from Unstoppable is not shown in the credits.