Homer Bedloe, trouble-shooter for the C&F W Railroad, journeys to the little community of Hooterville to find out why a branch line doesn't connect with a main line.

Kate Bradley decides that the only way to save it from the scrap heap is to hide the ancient engine - all seven and one-half tons of it.

C&F W Railroad President Norman P. Curtis can't get ace trouble-shooter Homer Bedloe to scrap the Hooterville Cannonball, so he decides to do it himself - incognito.

Railroad President Norman P. Curtis breaks the throttle of the Hooterville Cannonball and now folks can't get to the Shady Rest Jamboree.

Smoot Kate pretends to fall in love with Floyd after his bad experience with a mail-order bride.

S1:E6: Please Buy My Violets Joe goes into the cologne business.

Jo enters the annual Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament against Pixley Fats and becomes the first female contestant in the tournament's history.

Kate is determined to get her book-loving daughter, Bobbie Jo, to go out on a date.

A couple of respectable-looking young crooks plan to rob the Hooterville Cannonball of its bank shipment.

Railroad executive Homer Bedloe returns to Shady Rest for another try at scrapping the Hooterville Cannonball.

Uncle Joe believes he is being "put out to pasture" when Kate gives general store clerk, Herbie Bates, a job as assistant general manager of the Shady Rest..

Uncle Joe decides to become a justice-of-the-peace and turn Shady Rest into a honeymoon haven.