Thomas and the Statue!

Thomas and the Statue! is a magazine story.

Plot
One day, Duck brings a sculptor to the quarry where Toby works to examine rocks to be sculpted into a new statue. After Duck's driver talks to Toby's, a quarry worker lifts a large rock into one of Toby's trucks, which his driver explains is to be taken to Main Station. While it is being loaded, a photographer takes a picture of the sculptor next to the rock. At Main Station, a lorry is waiting to take Toby's rock and Duck's passengers.

Some months later, Toby is making another delivery of stone to Main Station when James rolls grandly into the yard and is coupled to a carriage. James boasts that he is taking the Mayor to unveil a statue of himself in the town, to which Toby wishes that he could pull an important passenger.

Later, in the town, a crowd watches James arrive with the Mayor. The sculptor and the photographer come along too, with the photographer taking pictures of the Mayor unveiling the statue. When James returns, he finds Toby and Duck there and boasts about how only important engines get to pull the Mayor.

Next day, the Fat Controller shows the engines the newspaper. On the front is a picture of James with the Mayor, but beside it is the photograph of Toby at the quarry with the rock and the sculptor. The Fat Controller tells them that the large rock Toby carried was carved into the statue of the Mayor by the sculptor, and Duck remarks to James that - in a way - Toby did carry the Mayor too.

Characters

 * James
 * Toby
 * Duck
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * A Troublesome Truck
 * Henrietta
 * The Mayor of Sodor

Locations

 * Ffarquhar Quarry
 * The Quarry Tramroad

Trivia

 * Despite being named in the story's title, Thomas is neither seen nor mentioned in the story.