Traction Action

Traction Action is the forth episode in the forth Series of Miniature Railway Adventures. It was written in 2019 by Michael White.

Plot
Casey presents his new engine that he bought from the Motor Car Society. The engine is nothing more than a pile of odd bits and twisted metal, but Casey reveals that it is actually a traction that he wants to restore. When asked what the engine can do to help the railway during its final year, Casey simply replies that he got it as a project for him to work on and that it has no connection to helping the railway. After the feedback Casey gave him about his project which unfortunately got destroyed in the previous story, Whitehouse lashes out at him for being so selfish when the railway is in despair. He is even more livid when Casey has the cheek to ask him to carry the engine's parts in Puffa, and storms off. Even the others agree that the idea of the traction engine was pointless and leave Casey to do as he pleases.

Meanwhile At the Motor Car Society, Bernard is pleased to hear how the unfortunate turnout for the railway is progressing and that feathers are ruffled when Grinder and Gears sold Casey the old engine. But Bernard's victory is short lived while asking for the receipt for the sale. A letter falls out of Grinder's pocket which was dated 3 months ago and encloses the option for an appeal to re-route the same bypass which is also going through his territory as well as the railway's. Same as the railway, the deadline to make the appeal was missed and so the MCS are also in the same predicament as the MES. This leads to desperate actions to take place.

Trivia

 * The events of this story takes place straight after the previous story.
 * This is Wee Aver's debut to the series, but has yet to get its name. The real engine was bought second hand from a friend, and not in bits.
 * This is the second time the Model Engineers Society does business with the Motor Car Society, even if it is only Casey whose making the purchase.