Chuggie And Charley

Chuggie And Charley is the sixth episode of the first season of Chuggie & Pals.

Summary
Chuggie meets a tractor named Charley and comments that trains are superior than vehicles, but when he gets in an accident, Charley must come to his rescue.

Story
One afternoon in Piperville, Chuggie was dropping off some passengers at a station.

"Last stop, everybody off", Chuggie said.

The passengers disembarked, and Chuggie was uncoupled from his coaches and puffed off.

"What a day", Chuggie said, "I can't wait to get back to the roundhouse and relax."

On the way back, Chuggie noticed a dark green and gold tractor with the name "Charley" painted on his side and stopped to greet him.

"Hi there", Chuggie said.

"Oh, hello", the tractor said, "my name's Charley, who are you?"

"I'm Chuggie", Chuggie said, "I work on the Piperville Railroad."

"Good for you", Charley said, "what all do you do?"

"Plenty of things", Chuggie said, "take passengers on rides, pull freight, you name it."

"Cool", Charley said.

"I tell ya, rails are the only way to go", Chuggie said.

"Now hold on, just a minute", Charley said, "roads are good too."

"Yeah, right", Chuggie said.

"No, really", Charley said, "I can go anywhere I want."

"Like under the sea", Chuggie asked, "or how about in the air?"

"Well, anywhere on the ground", Charley said, "but not up steep hills, or under low bridges."

Then, Charley's owner and driver, Farmer Yumi, a Japanese-American woman wearing a tan straw hat, green shirt, blue overalls, red and white gloves, and black rubber boots walked over to Charley.

"Alright Charley, enough gossiping", Farmer Yumi said, "we've got a field to plough."

Farmer Yumi got into Charley's cab and started his engine.

"Well, better get to work", Charley said, "nice talking with you."

"You too", Chuggie said.

Chuggie then puffed on his way.

"What a delusional bucket of bolts", Chuggie said.

That night, Chuggie arrived at the roundhouse.

"Hey, Chuggie", Roger said, "how was your day?"

"It was alright", Chuggie said, "I met a pretty crazy fellow."

"Who was it", Oscar asked.

"A tractor named Charley", Chuggie said.

"Hey, I know Charley", Buck said, "we both like country music."

"What made him so crazy", Benny asked.

"He thinks roads are amazing", Chuggie said.

"So", Roger asked.

"It's crazy", Chuggie said, "we engines pull passengers and freight, and get to see things only vehicles could ever dream of."

"Now slow your roll, Chuggie", Benny said, "that's just his opinion."

"And besides", Roger said, "he probably thinks rails are good too."

"If you say so", Chuggie said.

The next morning, it was raining, and Butch arrived at the roundhouse in his rainwear, which consisted of a blue rain hat, blue raincoat, his regular white pants, and white rain boots.

"Okay, everyone", Butch said, "here are your chores for the day."

Butch assigned the engine's tasks, with Roger, Pete, and Oscar getting passenger duties, Tim and Tom helping out in the quarry, Benny taking a coal train, Rudy taking a train of autoracks, Erin taking a train of tankers, Buck taking a train of intermodal containers, and Atticus taking a goods train to Montpelier, and finally, Butch got to Chuggie.

"And for you Chuggie, I need you to go on the maple syrup run", Butch said.

"You got it, Butch", Chuggie said.

Chuggie collected the syrup from the maple syrup factory, and as he puffed down the track, it began to rain a little harder.

"Gee", Chuggie said, "all this rain is making the tracks slippery."

Then, he noticed a bend approaching and tried to slow down, but couldn't due to the wet tracks.

"Oh no", Chuggie said, "I can't stop!"

Chuggie came off the rails and landed in a mud puddle, but his freight cars weren't damaged.

"Lucky them", Chuggie said.

Benny soon arrived with the breakdown crane and used it to put the freight cars back onto the tracks and lift Chuggie out of the mud, and the latter spoke with Butch.

"I'm sorry, Butch", Chuggie said, "I tried to stop, but the rails were too slippery."

"It's alright", Butch said, "just glad you're okay."

"And I'm glad the syrup's alright, too", Chuggie said, "but how are we going to get it to the market now?"

"I could take it", Benny said.

"That's very kind of you Benny, but you need to take Chuggie to the repair yard and put the breakdown crane back", Butch said, "that, combined with coming back here, would take about 20 minutes."

"Oh", Benny said.

"There must be another way", Butch said.

Then, they heard a horn honk and saw Charley approaching.

"Leave it to me", Charley said.

"Charley", Chuggie said, "what are you doing here?"

"Farmer Yumi noticed what was going on and thought we should come up here and see if there was anything we can do to help", Charley said.

"Well, this maple syrup needs to get to the market as fast as possible", Chuggie said, "think you can help?"

"Of course", Charley said, "we know a road that goes to the market quickly."

"Do you really think you can get it there quickly", Butch asked.

"Trust me", Charley said, "that syrup is as good as delivered."

"Alright, then", Butch said, "let's get it loaded."

Soon, the bottles of maple syrup were loaded into Charley's trailer, and he set off.

"I sure hope Charley gets the syrup there on time", Chuggie said.

"Don't worry", Butch said, "I'm sure he knows what he's doing."

Charley drove down a road and soon arrived at the market, where the workers were waiting.

"Hey, everybody", Charley said, "got a delivery of syrup for you!"

"We thought Chuggie was bringing the syrup", a worker said.

"He had an accident, so I brought it for you", Charley said, "it's all right here in my trailer."

The men unloaded the syrup from Charley's trailer and brought it inside.

"Thanks, Charley", another worker said.

"Anytime", Charley said.

Chuggie was soon repaired and back to work, and saw Charley at the farmer's market one day and decided to talk to him.

"Hi, Charley", Chuggie said.

"Well hello, Chuggie", Charley said.

"Hey, Charley", Chuggie said, "listen, I just wanted to thank you for helping me out the other day."

"Aw, it was nothing", Charley said, "I know you would've done the same for me."

"Yeah", Chuggie said, "sorry I made those comments about roads."

"Hey, water under the bridge, man", Charley said, "no need to worry about it."

"Alright", Chuggie said, "friends?"

"Friends", Charley said.

Chuggie then puffed away, happy to have made a new friend in Charley.

The End