'Joshua' The Tank Engine Visits "Tuxedo Junction" by Glenn Miller Orchestra

This is "Joshua" ... named after a pet Gerbil I had many moons ago. This little 0-4-0 Tank Engine was the first Locomotive I ever purchased, way back around 1970!
The little Engine was always a reliable little runner, and one of the fastest things on the tracks! He ran for many years, until one day he didn't. Sadly, "Joshua" was put into storage for a long time. Then a few years ago, I took him out, and replaced his motor, and he ran fine for a few days, then seized up again!
Then a couple of years ago, I met a gentleman at a local Train Show - Frank Timko of 'Timko's Repair Depot' - who said he could get old Joshua running again. I gave him Joshua, and several of the motors I had bought for him over time, and wouldn't you know it ... he got him running again! Even gave him a brighter headlight than before!
So, the next step in the Little Joshua saga, will be for me to make some of the needed cosmetic repairs - chips and cracks from his rough-and-tumble 'younger days' - and apply a new coat of UP Yellow and Black trim, and a new set of UP decals.
Regarding this Engine his 'movie career' ... he and the original Joshua the Gerbil, co-starred in a little Super-8 movie, made by myself and my late friend George Barrow. In it, George played a "Mad Scientist", who developed a serum that made animals grow to gigantic proportions! I guess you could say that Joshua was one of the Rodents of Unusual Size! After feeding the serum to Joshua, the little Gerbil began to grow, until he burst through the roof of the barn where the lab was located, the ran havoc over the layout landscape, until a little yellow Tank Engine bopped the Giant Gerbil in the butt, causing him to jump up, turn around, and take out his ire on an unsuspecting Bachmann Farmer, and biting off his head! "Oh, the Humanity!" What a scene! And what fun!
Music: "Also sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30: Sunrise by Richard Strauss
Music: "Tuxedo Junction" by Glenn Miller Orchestra