Straight Priorities

Straight Priorities is the 1st episode in the series.

Plot
The episode begins with us getting a view of Nicholas pulling a small freight back to the yard and Hank on a siding. Hank is introduced by the narrator, and we then have a view of Arthur and Rosalina preparing to leave the yard for Charlotte, NC. Trainmaster tells them that Rosalina will lead the cut of intermodal from the port back to Adriana County, and then they leave. Trainmaster talks to hank, gives him his job, and Hank leaves to work.

Hank switched hoppers, and then must wait for a signal to change, which he isn't happy about. An intermodal train passes, but then, ANOTHER passes, and Hank isn't happy to see it, but the signal still does not change after both trains. 45 minutes later, Kai shows up taking the siding, telling Hank that dispatch ordered him to go to the mainline. Hank gets out, switches directions, and continues back to the yard until he takes another siding. When he sees that it's Rosalina and Arthur returning from Port Charlotte, he loses it and disobeys the signal, and goes at full speed out of the siding. Hank's engineer says he can't do that, but hank simply responds with "I don't care!"

Lucas is hauling a palmetto and notices hank, who doesn't notice until it's almost too late. Hank dangerously sways into a siding, and Lucas whizzes by just as he starts slowing down. Lucas then shouts at him for being unsafe as he has people on board. When hank realizes he did something very bad, his engineer reprimands him and tells Trainmaster. Trainmaster also lectures Hank, making him depressed, and the message gets put through that what Hank did was wrong. He heads back to the siding, and refuels.

Appearances

 * Kai
 * Jonah (Cameo)
 * Rosalina
 * Hank
 * Nicholas (Cameo)
 * Arthur
 * Cameron (Cameo)
 * Benjamin (Cameo)
 * Lucas
 * Trainmaster
 * BNSF ES44C4 #7311 (Does not speak)
 * BNSF SD70MAC #9556
 * Unknown NS Dash 9-40CW {x2} (Does not Speak)
 * Unknown NS SD60 (Does not Speak)

Errors

 * Rosalina is lacking her Lightning bolt underneath of her roadnumber, but only because the repaint did not include this. This may or may not be fixed in episode 2.
 * Additionally, Rosalina's voice actor is different from the original voice actor set for her, and may become a permanent change.


 * Hank was voiced by Officer Benthetrainkid due to SSRE 2001 having Computer issues.
 * In an essence, two characters had the wrong voice actors, though this is not a big problem.
 * Multiple times during filming, small yellow boxes with words such as "Couple" or "Light" show up where the mouse pointer would be, mainly because of a Railworks bug where the infobox would not vanish.
 * Some shots lag depending on how intense the geometry was.
 * Officer Benthetrainkid accidentally says "Suh" instead of "Sir" due to him trying to imitate a southern accent.

Trivia

 * It was secretly revealed by Seaboard System Productions that one of the engines that don't speak (That are not already characters) will become a future protagonist later in Season 1.
 * This protagonist will also be female.
 * If the watcher looks closely, he/she can see a safetran signal in the shot where Trainmaster is talking. This could mean that there is more beyond the GS&F since the signals are all Griswold.