 Percy is sad to learn that steam engines on the Other Railway are being scrapped, and so he is glad when he hears that the Bluebell Railway has saved a number of them.Stepney, from the Bluebell Railway, comes to visit and soon makes friends with the engines, even teaching a boastful visiting diesel a lesson or two.The Skarloey Railway engines meet Culdee, a strange-looking engine who climbs a mountain.