Mickey is a railroad engineer with an anthropomorphic locomotive. He feeds the train (with coal), and then makes lunch for himself. Minnie drops by and plays a tune on her fiddle while Mickey dances. After lunch, the train takes the couple on a trip through the countryside, but has trouble climbing a hill, and the last car with Minnie aboard detaches and runs away.
The ending scene, where Mickey's train is destroyed and its remains forming a handcar, inspired a famous toy version, manufactured by the Lionel Corporation, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. The toy company made so much money from this item and others like it that Mickey was known as "the mouse that saved Lionel".
The cartoon shows Mickey's engine of the train in which he pilots as being an 2-2-0 engine or a Planet type steam locomotive. These types of locomotives of this wheel arrangement were built only during the pioneer railroad days, circa 1830. These types of engines have four wheels on their tender and have wheels, such as two leading, two driving wheels, and no trailing wheels. Usually, a steam locomotive's tender would have four wheels, except Mickey's Planet type engine, who only has two wheels on its tender.
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