Taking Charge

"Can I be the Fat Controller and run the big Main Station, for just a little while!"

- The small boy

Taking Charge is a rhyming magazine story.

Plot
A small boy wants to be the Fat Controller and run the big station for a while. The Fat Controller allows him to and gives the boy a top-hat, whistle, and timetable. Soon Murdoch arrives and breaks his siderod and blocks the line. After that, the small boy decides to give the railway back to the Fat Controller.

Characters

 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * The Small Boy
 * Murdoch

Goofs

 * In the final illustration, a man is seen lifting Murdoch's broken siderod, but it would be much too heavy for one person to lift.
 * Murdoch's boiler bands are red.