Ginga Tetsudô Monogatari
(The Galaxy Railways)
Episode 08 “Zanshô”

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Summary

Manabu is being trained by an old man named Whiteman while forced to repair broken-down train cars in a scrapyard. At that time, there was a request for the Big One to deploy because Train 227, the Pegasus Express, was stranded after being caught in a magnetic avalanche while passing through a tunnel on Planet Rosamund. Whiteman, who is from that planet and knows about a disaster from 40 years ago, says “I will help the Big One,” and boards Freight Train 825 which is about to be scrapped, ignoring the stop signal from the Galaxy Railways Control Office…