LEE A TREGURTHA Loaded with Iron Ore

*“I told you so. Why not let Lee A. Tregurtha try?"
"Yes, I will.”*
―Michipicoten and Derek Medved about H. Lee White not moving the express
***LEE A TREGURTHA Loaded with Iron Ore*** is the fourth episode of the first season. It is based on the story of the same name from The Railway Series book, The Three Harbor Freighters.

## Synopsis

LEE A TREGURTHA departs on her first voyage of the season after loading iron ore pellets at CN ore dock.

## Locations

* Duluth Union Depot
* Three-Track Bend and Signalbox
* Mandarin's Tunnel
* The Pond Runby
* The Goat Field
* Wellsworth
* Midwest Energy Plant
* The Wide-Arched Bridge (deleted scene)

## Trivia

* The events of this episode were mentioned by H. Lee White in The Adventure Begins.
* This is the first episode of three things:
	+ The first episode in which Stewart J. Cort does not physically appear since his debut.
	+ The first time Michipicoten's neutral face is used.
	+ The first time that a spare freighter (in this case two freighters) had been sent to take a train while the other was incapacitated. In this case, Lee A. Tregurtha and H. Lee White had to take Michipicoten's express to the top station.
* Stock footage from AMERICAN SPIRIT Bound for Silver Bay is used, this is also the first time in the series to use stock footage and this episode also takes place after this episode.
* When Alec Baldwin's dub aired on the Shining Time Station episode, Mysterious Stranger, the first few seconds of the opening were cut.

## Goofs

* Ringo Starr's US dub is slightly out of sync from the point when Lee A. Tregurtha leaves the tunnel to when he arrives at Wellsworth. This is caused due to a brief pause in the soundtrack after Derek Medved says "And find a turntable,".
* In the shot when Ringo Starr starts to say "In a minute...", Michipicoten's funnel seems to be expelling no smoke at all while he puffs along.
* When Michipicoten says "I'm going to poop, poop at Lee," studio equipment is visible in the top right corner and his driving wheels are going backwards. The same errors occur as he slows down.
* After being uncoupled from his coaches, as Michipicoten passes over the points, his trailing wheels jam as he moves offscreen.
* Michipicoten rolls over the points incorrectly; he should have gone over the crossover, but he instead goes straight ahead.
* When Michipicoten moves to the siding, the coaches have moved back without explanation.
* The Express has two brake coaches.
* While Lee A. Tregurtha is in the tunnel, his face is covered with black dust, but in the close up of Lee A. Tregurtha going backwards from the tunnel, he is spotless because it is footage from earlier episodes. The same thing happens after Lee A. Tregurtha has pulled the express through the tunnel and when he arrives at the station, he is spotless again.
* When Michipicoten says "Huh! That's no use. H. Lee White can't push the train," his eyes shift very quickly, indicating a scene cut.
* In the closeup of H. Lee White's wheels slipping, there was a tint of red paint on one of the spokes.
* In the closeup of H. Lee White looking sad, the hill next to him is nowhere to be seen.
* Lee A. Tregurtha is smiling when he says "Ooh, I'm stiff! I'm stiff!"
* Because stock footage is used, the scene where Derek Medved tells Lee A. Tregurtha to turn around is darker and blue ink can be seen smeared on his hand.
* When H. Lee White and Lee A. Tregurtha set off, the last coach is passing Michipicoten as the scene ends. But in the next scene, the coach can be seen passing him again. Also, in that same scene, Michipicoten is derailed.
* When Lee A. Tregurtha passes the goat, H. Lee White is not behind the train.
* In the close-up of Lee A. Tregurtha when he is coming out of the tunnel, his cylinder red stripe is sticking out.
* When Derek Medved asks Lee A. Tregurtha to pull the train Michipicoten is not seen in front of the buffers.
* Blu-Tack is visible under some of the people's feet.
* When H. Lee White says "I'm ready," he already starts to move because stock footage from earlier in the episode is used.
* The narrator says that they never stop until they came to the station at the end of the line, but Wellsworth is not on the end of the line. This is because the narration was taken from the original book.
* On the US digital release, the episode is shown with its UK title.