Tender Engines

"Pah! What's this? Educating Gordon Day?"

- Gordon

Tender Engines is the twentieth episode of the third season.

Plot
Gordon is impressed when he sees a visitor with two tenders, but becomes depressed when Diesel gloats the diesels' victory over steam on the mainland. He perks up when he is told that he will never be scrapped on Sodor and that the visitor had two tenders due to the lack of coal and water on the mainland, but Henry is cross and grumbles he deserves two tenders for his work. Duck, planning a trick, coerces Henry into pulling some spare tenders. Henry is delighted, but is less than thrilled when he finds they are all filled with boiler sludge.

Characters

 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Duck
 * Donald
 * Diesel
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Thomas (cameo)
 * Edward (cameo)
 * Percy (cameo)
 * Douglas (cameo)
 * Flying Scotsman (cameo)
 * Annie and Clarabel (cameo)
 * Bertie (rare picture cameo)

Trivia

 * One of Henry's tenders has LMS on the side, a possible reference to his model, the LMS Black 5 Class. Some of the other tenders have "NE" on the sides, indicating that they are North Eastern Railway tenders.
 * Flying Scotsman was originally intended to feature as a character in this episode, rather than a tender cameo, but due to budgetary constraints the entire locomotive model could not be constructed.

Goofs

 * When James leaves the coal loader his eyes are wonky.
 * When Henry bangs the trucks one bounces upward. Another appears to be a first season-style truck.
 * Before Henry comes out with the tenders, look at James; his first wheel is crooked.
 * Henry passes Thomas twice while pulling the tenders.
 * A camera tripod is seen when Gordon says "Don't be vulgar!"
 * What is Diesel doing on Sodor?