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While Skarloey is being mended, a little diesel called Rusty comes to help. Regardless, Sir Handel does not feel like working, so Gordon suggests he feign illness. However, when Peter Sam is doing Sir Handel's work at the slate quarry, some of the Troublesome Trucks of slate mistake him for Sir Handel and cause Peter Sam to have an accident.
When Thomas and Diesel are both brought to the Quarry to help Mavis with the work, Diesel lies to Thomas that the Fat Controller plans to scrap the steam engines. The next morning, however, all the diesels take on contaminated fuel and get sick. Thomas is tasked to go around the island and deliver clean fuel to the sick diesels.
When Bill and Ben argue, a new diesel with "teething" troubles arrives to help. When Thomas tells Percy about the diesel, he misunderstands him by thinking he has a toothache, and passes this on to the twins. The next day, the diesel overheats and breaks down whilst pushing a train, and the twins must pull him back to the quarry.
Dragline excavator. Built by Bucyrus-Erie in 1969, Big Muskie was the world's largest ever dragline, being 487 ft (148 m) in length, weighing some 13,500 short tons (12,247 t), and hoisting a 220 cu yd (168.2 m 3) bucket that could move 325 short tons (295 t) of material at a pass. A dragline excavator is a heavy-duty excavator used in civil ...
The quarry has hired a young privately owned diesel shunter called Mavis who wishes she had better things to do instead of listening to Toby. With advice from Diesel, she ignores Toby's advice about a frozen crossing, and soon she gets stuck with her load of troublesome trucks.
A dockside diesel shunter called Salty comes to work on Sodor, but is disappointed that he has to complete an important job in the centre Island Quarry. Bill, Ben, and Mavis soon find out that Salty has absolutely no trouble moving the Troublesome Trucks. One night, Salty goes to get some sea air and Mavis asks him if he really misses the sea.
Thomas (the Tank Engine) & Friends is a children's television series about the engines and other characters working on the railways of the Island of Sodor, and is based on The Railway Series books written by the Reverend W. Awdry. [1]
A 3D diagram of a modern underground mine with shaft access. Underground hard-rock mining refers to various underground mining techniques used to excavate "hard" minerals, usually those containing metals, [1] such as ore containing gold, silver, iron, copper, zinc, nickel, tin, and lead. It also involves the same techniques used to excavate ...