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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The story sure takes a lot of time noting when characters "pull Charlie's whistle..."
* SabotageToDiscredit: Though it's not explicit within the story, Jake points out in ''The Waste Lands'' that the story makes an awful lot of sense if you assume that Bob deliberately ruined the diesel engine's fuel. Since he was working as a cleaner at the time, he would have been in a prime position to do so, and it's awfully convenient that on the same day that the diesel engine breaks down, Bob decided to show up in full conductor uniform with Charlie repaired and ready to go.
* SabotageToDiscredit: Though it's not explicit within the story, Jake points out in ''The Waste Lands'' that the story makes an awful lot of sense if you assume that Bob deliberately ruined the diesel engine's fuel. Since he was working as a cleaner at the time, he would have been in a prime position to do so, and it's awfully convenient that on the same day that the diesel engine breaks down, Bob decided to show up in full conductor uniform with Charlie repaired and ready to go.
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Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/ChooChooCharles''.
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Charlie the Choo-Choo is a book written by Creator/StephenKing and illustrated by Ned Dameron, published under the pseudonym Beryl Evans in 2016. A {{defictionalization}} of a book found by one of the characters in Literature/TheWasteLands, it follows the story of Bob, an engineer for The Mid-World Railway Company, and his friend Charlie, a sentient train.
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* ArtStyleDissonance: For a relatively wholesome story, Charlie the Choo-Choo has a lot of creepy-looking illustrations.
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* ArtStyleDissonance: For a relatively ''relatively'' wholesome story, Charlie the Choo-Choo has a lot of creepy-looking illustrations.
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[[caption-width-right:327:''"Don't ask me silly questions, I won't play silly games. I'm just a simple choo-choo train, and I'll always be the same. I only want to race along, beneath the bright blue sky, and be a happy choo-choo train, until the day I die."'']]
[[caption-width-right:327:''"Don't ask me silly questions, I won't play silly games. I'm just a simple choo-choo train, and I'll always be the same. I only want to race along, beneath the bright blue sky, and be a happy choo-choo train, until the day I die."'']]
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Charlie the Choo-Choo is a book written by Creator/StephenKing and illustrated by Ned Dameron, published under the pseudonym Beryl Evans in 2016. A {{defictionalization}} of a book found by one of the characters in Literature/TheWasteLands, it follows the story of Bob, an engineer for The Mid-World Railway Company, and his friend Charlie, a sentient train.
After being replaced by a new, non-sentient, diesel locomotive, Charlie is left to rot in the furthest corner of a rail yard. However, a few years later, when the diesel locomotive fails to start right when Mr. Martin, the President of The Mid-World Railway Company, needs it to get to his daughter's piano recital in Topeka, Engineer Bob and Charlie save the day by taking Mr. Martin to his daughter's piano recital on time. Mr. Martin then gets Charlie and Engineer Bob a gig pulling kids around a brand new amusement park.
!! ''Charlie the Choo-Choo'' contains examples of:
*ArtStyleDissonance: For a relatively wholesome story, Charlie the Choo-Choo has a lot of creepy-looking illustrations.
*CharacterSignatureSong: Charlie sings his signature "Don't ask me silly questions, I won't play silly games" song multiple times throughout the book.
*SentientVehicle: The main character, Charlie, is a sentient locomotive.
After being replaced by a new, non-sentient, diesel locomotive, Charlie is left to rot in the furthest corner of a rail yard. However, a few years later, when the diesel locomotive fails to start right when Mr. Martin, the President of The Mid-World Railway Company, needs it to get to his daughter's piano recital in Topeka, Engineer Bob and Charlie save the day by taking Mr. Martin to his daughter's piano recital on time. Mr. Martin then gets Charlie and Engineer Bob a gig pulling kids around a brand new amusement park.
!! ''Charlie the Choo-Choo'' contains examples of:
*ArtStyleDissonance: For a relatively wholesome story, Charlie the Choo-Choo has a lot of creepy-looking illustrations.
*CharacterSignatureSong: Charlie sings his signature "Don't ask me silly questions, I won't play silly games" song multiple times throughout the book.
*SentientVehicle: The main character, Charlie, is a sentient locomotive.
