05x24 - Duncan Gets Spooked

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(light music)

(upbeat music)

(cheerful music)

- [Narrator] The little engines

were busy clearing

their railroad of leaves

and broken branches.

(cheerful music)

Peter Sam, and Rusty

often work together.

(cheerful music)

One day, Rusty helped

Peter Sam to a water tower.

(cheerful music)

(horn honks)

Peter Sam felt much better

after his long drink,

but the freight cars were bored.

"Let's break away!"

Their loads were heavy,

and the couplings old.

One snapped.

(chain snaps)

(lively music)

(train chugs)

"Faster, faster,"

shouted the freight cars.

A sign read slow steep

bends and ravine ahead,

but the silly cars never saw it.

Then it was too late.

(cars crash)

Peter Sam arrived at the

scene of the disaster.

His driver sighed.

"This was our fault.

"We didn't secure them properly.

"We'll have to get

help to pull them out.

"Sir Topham Hatt will

be very annoyed."

And he was.

"You will work in the yards

until I can trust you again."

Duncan was delighted

with Peter Sam's dilemma.

"Fancy not securing your

freight cars on a hill.

"They'll come back to spook

ya and your special funnel.

"Woo!"

"And who's to say you're

not afraid of ghosts,"

snapped Rusty.

"Ghosts,

"things that go

bump in the night?

"Rubbish!"

"Well, I'll tell you a story

"that will make your

funnel quiver," Rusty said.

(harp plays)

A long time ago, a little

engine was returning home.

(owl hoots)

It was a misty moonlit night.

(mysterious music)

Suddenly the engine lost control

and plunged over the side

into the swamps below.

(mysterious music)

(crashes)

He was never found again, but

many a workman will tell you

that when the moon is full,

they have seen the little

engine trying to get home.

(train chugs)

But he never reaches

the other side.

"So what do you think

of that, Duncan?"

"Rubbish," replied Duncan.

(train chugs)

"Never mind him Peter Sam.

"He'd be frightened if

he really saw a ghost."

This gave Peter

Sam's driver an idea.

"Let's play a trick on Duncan."

The next day he spoke

to Duncan's driver

and fireman, who agreed.

"We'll do it tonight."

(flute plays)

Duncan had to take coal

cars to the slate mines

and then bring cars back.

(train whistle blows)

Duncan's driver decided

as part of the plan

to cross the old iron bridge.

"Haunted bridge,

rubbish," snorted Duncan.

"It's as tame as a pet rabbit."

But all the same, he kept

thinking about Rusty's story.

When dusk fell, he

was keen to leave.

"If we don't go now, Skarloey

will take my favorite place

"in the sheds."

"We have to collect our cars

first," his driver replied.

You could see their

plan was working

because Duncan was nervous.

(harp plays)

When night fell, they set off.

(train chugs)

(mysterious music)

The mists were rising

around the old iron bridge.

(mysterious music)

Duncan whistled,

(train whistle blows)

and the sound echoed everywhere.

(mysterious music)

Then ahead, he saw

flickering lights.

His driver knew they

were only insects

that shine brightly at night,

but to Duncan they

looked like an engine.

(mysterious music)

(rock plops)

Next his driver

secretly threw a rock

from the cab into

the ravine below.

(mysterious music)

"It's the ghost!

"Take me back!

"Take me back, please!"

(mysterious music)

When Duncan reached

the safety of his shed,

he closed his eyes tightly.

"Spooked are ya, Duncan,"

laughed his driver.

"No, I'm asleep," and Duncan

refused to open his eyes.

He did though when he thought

his driver wasn't looking

just to make sure that

he was still there.

(upbeat music)