The train
The Little Engine that Could is a children's story that only appeared in "Who's Who On The Choo Choo?". Several variations of the story exist, with the earliest in 1906 by Reverend Charles S. Wing in Wellspring for Young People, Marcy C. Jacobs and Mabel C Bragg in 1910, Olive Beaupre Miller in 1920, and the final most well-known version by Arnold "Watty Piper" Munk in 1930.
Synopsis[]
This story is about a big train is in trouble and the little engine that comes to help to bring the toys and food to the boys and girls on the other side of the mountain.
Cast[]
- Stella the Storyteller - Narrator/Trains/Toys
Trivia[]
- The toy trains that were used for the story are: a LGB 22801 DR Steam Loco, 99 6001, LGB 2119D Lake George and Boulder Steam Locomotive (minus its tender), a Lionel 8-55000 "G" Scale Railscope 0-4-0 Steam Locomotive (with parts from a Jim Beam wine decanter train repainted blue), and the red engine by the Antique Pressed Steel Hill Climber.
- The story usually includes 5 trains, though the story told in the episode only utilizes 4.
- Both Barney and Stella name this title as one of their favorite stories.
- The blue engine reside in the collection of one of the costume performers of Barney, Carey Stinson.