While exploring Sodor, the CMC come across the remains of the Mid-Sodor Railway. After looking around, the three fillies are about to leave, that is until they hear a voice. Confused and curious, they went to the back of what was left of the shed. And when they looked, they gasped! There at the back of the shed, behind a small stone wall, was a little engine! His boiler was smudged, his funnel riddled with rust and his wheels and cab removed. The little engine stirred as the filles approached him.

Apple Bloom: Hello? Who are you?

???: Most of the time, I was referred to by my number, Number Two. However, my name is Smudger, mainly when my face got smudged with coal dust.

Scootaloo: What are you doing back here?

Sweetie Belle: Where are your wheels and cab?

Smudger: Sighs sadly Well.... I first came here, I was quite the showoff. I would ride roughly and often derailed. Everyone warned me to be careful, but I took no noticed and just laughed. Until one day, manager took my wheels away and said he was going to make me 'useful at last'...

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle: Why?

Scootaloo: What did he do?

Smudger: He turned me generator... And I've been here ever since, even when the railway closed...

Sweetie Belle: Awww....

Smudger: Yeah... I very much regret how I acted in the past... Sighs again It would be great to be running again..