Ghost Engines

This page contains several **ghost engines** that have been seen or mentioned in Lukeillie's Series.

## Percy's Ghost Engine

* II
* I

### Type

Tank Engine

**Percy's Ghost Engine** was mentioned in a ghost story Percy told to Thomas and Toby, which his driver told him about the night prior.

### History

#### The Railway Series/Thomas & Friends

The story stated that the ghost steam train fell to its doom in a ravine where a viaduct was going to be built, and its ghost continues to run every year on the anniversary of the accident as a warning to others. However, Thomas refused to believe him and Percy's driver confirmed to him that the ghost was just television fiction. Percy could not help but feel disappointed.

When Percy crashed into a cart of lime, a signalman remarked that Percy looked like a ghost. This gave Percy an idea to scare Thomas. With the help of Toby, they convinced Thomas that Percy had crashed and returned as a ghost, thus scaring Thomas out of the shed. Later, Toby jokingly told Percy that Thomas had seen a ghost.

### Trivia

* The Ghost Engine was made using Percy's model covered in white streamers and reused Edward's whistle sound.
* In the UK narration of the episode, Percy's driver says the ghost was a pretend one on television. However, in both US narrations, he simply states that it was only a "Pretend ghost story".

## Rusty's Ghost Engine

* II
* I

### Nicknames

* The Ghost Engine
* The Little Engine

### Type

Saddle tank engine

**Rusty's Ghost Engine** was a narrow gauge saddle tank engine who supposedly worked on the Skarloey Railway.

### History

#### Thomas & Friends

According to legend, the engine was returning home one misty night. As the engine was travelling across the Old Iron Bridge, he suddenly lost control and fell off the bridge, plunging into the swamps in the ravine below. While no-one was able to find his remains, in the light of the full moon, several workmen have claimed to have seen his ghost constantly trying to cross the bridge. However, it disappears half way every time, never reaching the other side.

Rusty told the story to Duncan, who was teasing Peter Sam for allowing his trucks to derail and fall into the ravine. While Duncan did not believe the story at first, Peter Sam and Duncan's respective crews arranged a plan the next day to teach him a lesson.

While crossing the bridge during a full moon, the crew secretly threw a large rock from the cab into the ravine and fireflies for unknown reasons formed into the shape of an engine. Duncan believed that the bridge was haunted and the engine was trying to cross the bridge at the same time as him. This frightened Duncan, and he quickly ran back to the safety of his shed.

In the magazine story, *Creepy Cutting*, the ghost engine was mentioned by Skarloey who suspected that he was haunting Echo Pass.

### Livery

Rusty's Ghost Engine was painted black prior to his demise, while the ghost apparition was bluish white all over. The firefly formation was gold.

### Trivia

* The Ghost Engine reuses and shares the same whistle sound as Percy.
* The engine formed by the fireflies resembles Rheneas, Smudger and Dolgoch.
* His actual livery was unknown until Behind the Scenes footage was released.
* His driver and fireman were seen in the Behind the Scenes footage but not when the engine was crossing the bridge. If the story was true, then this engine's "death" is potentially the first fatal accident, although the crew were never acknowledged.
* Unlike other ghost engines in the series, it is never revealed whether the ghost engine was real or not. This makes him possibly the only ghost engine that is actually real.
* The Ghost Engine is popularly believed to be Proteus.

## Edward's Ghost Engine

### Nicknames

* Ghost Engine
* Ghost Whistle

### Vehicle

Locomotive

**Edward's Ghost Engine** was mentioned in a story Edward told the other engines one Halloween.

### History

#### Thomas & Friends

According to the story, the engine returns every Halloween to haunt the scrapyards, trying to look for his lost whistle. Thomas later teased Percy, saying Percy thought it was real, but he learned his lesson after remaining behind at the Smelters to take a special load and thinking that some chains touching his cab were ghostly fingers. He then believed that a whistle in the shed was the ghost's lost whistle, forcing him to race out of the smelters, frightened.

### Trivia

* The Ghost Engine uses either Donald or Douglas' model without the tender and nameplate.

## The Halloween Engine

### Nicknames

* The Halloween Engine
* Ghost
* Scary Steam Train

### Builder

Doncaster Works or North BritishLocomotive Company

### Type

Tender Engine

The **Halloween Engine** is a ghostly tender engine who appeared in the eighth series episode, *Halloween*. It was briefly seen at Tidmouth Sheds.

### Trivia

* The Halloween Engine was made using Gordon's model from the cancelled *Down The Mine* pilot, with Murdoch's chassis and one of the old tenders pulled by Henry in the third series episode, *Tender Engines*, with an added tail-lamp.

## Emily's Ghost Engine

### Type

Tender Engine

**Emily's Ghost Engine** is an engine that once appeared in Emily's dream, it only appeared in the magazine story *Peep and Sleep*, in which Emily is having trouble sleeping, due to Duck blowing his whistle too loudly.

### History

#### Magazines

One night Emily has a dream, in which the ghost engine makes her fall asleep for 100 years. Following this, Emily decides she won't sleep the next night, until the other engines arrive at the sheds first.