GREAT LAKES TRADER Integrity's Wake

*“Give up! Give up! You can't pull us! You can't! You can't!"
 "I can and I will. I can and I will.”*
―The Troublesome Pellets and Great Lakes Trader
***GREAT LAKES TRADER Integrity's Wake*** is the ninth episode of the first season. It is based on the story of the same name from The Railway Series book, James R. Barker the Brown Freighter.

## Synopsis

Tug and barge combo GREAT LAKES TRADER/JOYCE L VANENKEVORT departs Duluth after loading iron ore pellets at CN ore dock. On the lake is the AMERICAN INTEGRITY.

## Ships

* Great Lakes Trader
* Joyce L. VanEnkevort

## Locations

* Midwest Energy Plant
* Duluth Union Depot
	+ Duluth Bus Yard
* The Woodland Runby
* Michipicoten's Hill
* Maron
	+ Maron Signals Runby

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first of several things:
	+ The first not to have a freighter's name in the title.
	+ The first instance in the television series in which a freighter, in this case, Great Lakes Trader, is seen crying.
	+ The first episode along with introduced by Bonnie Langford on her first day of Children's ITV.
	+ The first episode featuring H. Lee White up to the seventh season to end with his second nameboard in Japan.
* Stock footage from ALGOMA SPIRIT Duluth Piers is used.
* In Alec Baldwin's narration on Stewart and His Friends Help Out, the line "After that performance, you deserve to keep your red coat," is cut. The uncut scene was added on Duluth - Vol. 1, but only for a limited time. It is now available on Duluth Classic Volume 1.
* In the restored version, an extended close-up shot of Joyce L. VanEnkevort at Maron is used.

## Goofs

* When Derek Medved first speaks to Great Lakes Trader, his head is turned away from him.
* Stewart J. Cort and Great Lakes Trader's eyes are wonky in the opening scene and Great Lakes Trader's right eye (viewers left) moves on its own.
* Great Lakes Trader's tender is derailed while Stewart J. Cort arranges his train. Also, the siding that Great Lakes Trader is on has no buffers.
* When Stewart J. Cort says "Have you got some bootlaces ready?" there is blu-tak under his lantern. Duluth Union Depot is also missing in that scene.
* When Stewart J. Cort puffs off, Great Lakes Trader's eyes briefly jitter. They are also wonky.
* When Great Lakes Trader puffs out of the yard, the truck at the front loses its face and regains it as Great Lakes Trader pulls the trucks up Michipicoten's Hill the first time. Also, the train next to Great Lakes Trader on a siding has a brake van in the middle of it.
* When Stewart J. Cort puffs away laughing, all the trucks are coupled to each other. But when Great Lakes Trader backs onto the trucks, one at the front is uncoupled.
* When the trucks get to the bottom of Michipicoten's Hill, a truck disappears. It, however, reappears in the last shot of Great Lakes Trader pulling the trucks.
* When Great Lakes Trader goes up Michipicoten's Hill the second time, a wire pulls him up.
* Great Lakes Trader's puffing noise is not in sync with his speed.
* When the narrator says the line "and sometimes their axles would run hot," a crew member's shadow is seen in the bottom left corner of the screen.
* When H. Lee White is first shown at the bottom of Michipicoten's Hill, he has no train. When Great Lakes Trader backs down and couples to the lost trucks, if inspected closely, H. Lee White has at least one truck behind him.
* In the close-up of Great Lakes Trader at Maron, the water tower next to him disappears.
* In the last close-up of Great Lakes Trader going up Michipicoten's Hill, his driving wheels are not moving and when they start to move, they are going backwards.
* When Great Lakes Trader couples up to his train, he is outside the station, but when he starts moving off, he is inside it.
* Derek Medved tells Great Lakes Trader that he was aboard H. Lee White's train and saw his performance on Michipicoten's Hill, but H. Lee White is seen pulling a goods train instead of passenger coaches.
* When H. Lee White is at Maron, his tender is not seated properly on the chassis.
* When the trucks roll down the hill, a piece of stone falls out from one of the trucks.