A Cow on the Line and Other Thomas the Tank Engine Stories

"Well, it wasn't anything, really. Water's nothing to an engine with determination!"

- Percy

A Cow on the Line and Other Thomas the Tank Engine Stories is a book illustrated using photographs from the television series.

Stories

 * 1) Double Trouble
 * 2) A Cow on the Line
 * 3) Old Iron
 * 4) Percy Takes the Plunge

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Bill and Ben
 * Annie
 * Troublesome Trucks
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Engine Inspector
 * Toby
 * Clarabel
 * Duck
 * The Naughty Boys

Trivia

 * Photographs from A Close Shave and Wrong Road are used along with a single image from the cancelled episode The Missing Coach.
 * An audio cassette or CD was included with some copies of the book, featuring narrations by Ringo Starr taken directly from the episode's US audio.
 * In Thomas' Big Storybook, A Cow on the Line was put as the last story.
 * This is the the first piece of Thomas US media to feature Ringo Starr's narration of "Percy Takes the Plunge" although his narration wasn't released on home media until the 2001 VHS release of Best of Percy.
 * An rare photo shows Thomas and Percy while he is sad and has mud on his face and his cylinder is loose. The other rare one shows Henry on the bridge without his coaches.

Goofs

 * In Old Iron:
 * The photograph of James' ill driver shows him standing inside of Henry's cab.
 * When the narrator described James as feeling bad tempered, he is smiling while at the sheds with Thomas and Percy.
 * In "Percy Takes the Plunge", it is said that he ran off to the harbor singing, but he is already at there.

Book Packs

 * Thomas' Big Storybook