Snow

"What's the funny part about an avalanche?"

- Thomas

"Snow" is the fifth season finale.

Plot
Thomas and Rusty become snowed down by a tunnel, so to pass the time Rusty tells Thomas a story.

One snowy day, Skarloey was travelling up to the slate mine when he passed through a ravine. His driver was concerned that noise could cause an avalanche, and he sets an emergency cap. When Skarloey runs over it, nothing happens, so his crew decide to make a cup of cocoa. Unfortunately, up in the slate mines some "empties" jam the winch and some trucks run down the slope into the ravine, causing an avalanche which buries Skarloey. When Rusty comes to the rescue, they discover that Skarloey's heat has created an igloo, and inside they find Skarloey's crew nonchantly sipping cocoa.

Gordon then arrives with his snow machine, only to be buried when the noise causes an avalanche. Thomas jokes that if Skarloey could emerge from an avalanche laughing, Gordon could at least do the same.

Featured characters

 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * Percy
 * Rusty
 * Skarloey (does not speak)
 * Gordon's snow machine (does not speak)
 * Peter Sam (cameo)
 * Duncan (cameo)

Trivia

 * Stock footage from "Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure" is used.

Goofs

 * In various scenes part of Skarloey's cab roof is snapped.
 * When the trucks race down the incline the middle truck derails.
 * When the trucks crash through the snow bank and buffers they are coupled, but they fall one by one.
 * Two trucks are missing when they fall into the ravine.
 * When Rusty tells the story his face is small, but in the flashback his face is much larger.
 * When the trucks are on the incline the front truck has a narrow-gauge truck face, but when it crashes through the buffers it has a standard-gauge truck face.
 * In the first shot of Rusty's story, when Skarloey approaches the camera, he bounces.