Duncan Gets Spooked


 * ''"Haunted bridge. Pah! It's as tame as a pet rabbit!"

- Duncan snorting at the bridge

"Duncan Gets Spooked" is a fifth season episode.

Plot
It is autumn and the Skarloey Railway engines are clearing branches off the rails. One day at a water column, Peter Sam's trucks break away and fall into a ravine, and thus the Fat Controller tells him to shunt in the yard. Duncan is delighted and chortles that Peter Sam's trucks will return to haunt him, so Rusty tells him of an engine who tried to cross the bridge over the same ravine and fell off. Duncan is dismissive, but his crew plan to teach Duncan a lesson and take him across the bridge. Duncan becomes convinced that the ghost engine is trying to cross, and runs back to the safety of the shed.

Featured Characters

 * Rusty
 * Duncan
 * Skarloey (does not speak)
 * Peter Sam (does not speak)
 * The Ghost Engine (does not speak)

Trivia

 * The Ghost Engine uses Skarloey's model.
 * The engine formed by the fireflies resembles Rheneas.

Goofs

 * When Skarloey passes by in the first scene a red wire is visible underneath him.
 * Peter Sam's trucks come off the bridge coupled, but when they fall into the ravine they fall one by one.
 * Duncan's face moves when he exclaims "Whoo-oo-oo!"
 * The narrator says that Duncan had to bring back slate trucks from the mines, but he pulls coal trucks!
 * When the fireflies form the lost engine the lines behind them lead to a dead end.
 * Duncan's driver threw a rock into the river, but when Rusty told the story he didn't say the ghost engine fell back into water when it tried to get back across.