Pop Goes the Diesel GC Remake V2

Duck, the Great Western engine, works very hard on the Island of Sodor and everything goes smoothly when he is around. He can keep the coaches quiet, the freight cars behaving, and the passengers happy. He is also very proud of his Great Western heritage and talks endlessly about it, which irritates the big engines, who quickly grow tired of hearing about "the Great Western way".

One day, the engines are happy when a visitor arrives in the shed. Sir Topham Hatt introduces the new engine as Diesel, stating that he has agreed to give him a trial, and asks Duck to show him around and teach him what to do in the yards. Diesel introduces himself before heaping compliments on Gordon, James, and Henry, who are in awe by his flattery. Duck, however, takes an instant dislike to Diesel's oily nature and shows him to the yard, where it becomes apparent that Duck's dislike of Diesel is mutual as Duck orders Diesel to refer to the Fat Controller as "Sir Topham Hatt". Diesel then smugly tells Duck that he does not have to be taught what to do as diesels know everything right from being built and that diesels come to a yard to improve them as they are all revolutionary. Duck is not impressed with Diesel's boasting and orders him to arrange the cars while he leaves to take Gordon's coaches to the station. Eager for the chance to show off, Diesel quickly gets to work.

Later when Duck returns, he finds Diesel trying to move some very old, near-derelict cars with stiff joints and brakes from a siding. Duck decides to let the events play out, and watches with interest. Diesel struggles to move the cars and gets so forceful with them that some of their brakes snap and the gear jams in the sleepers, causing several of the cars to derail and overturn in the process. One of the cars even snaps a coupling behind Diesel, which causes him to shoot forward unexpectedly and because of this, Duck cannot stop laughing at the whole ordeal. Diesel recovers and tries to push the remaining cars back, but he still can't move them and he is forced to give up. As Duck finally comes around carrying some other cars, Diesel asks Duck why he did not tell him about this when he had gone through so much trouble. Duck simply replies that Diesel never asked him, as he was having fun being "revolutionary." With that, Duck leaves happily, while Diesel fumes angrily.

Soon, the breakdown train arrives and Diesel is forced to help the workmen clear the mess, a job that he hates, especially as the cars have started laughing and singing a degrading song at him, modeled after the famous "Pop Goes The Weasel" song. When the clean-up is over, Diesel, now cross with the cars and with Duck, storms away to sulk in the shed.