High and Dry

High and Dry is a magazine story.

Plot
Skarloey is taking some engineers to a reservoir. One of the engineers explain that the reservoir stores and treats water before it goes to homes all over Sodor. Skarloey drops off the engineers and soon sets off again. After a short while, Skarloey spots thick, black smoke and he soon sees a barn on fire. Soon the firefighters arrive and the fire is soon extinguished. Luckily, most of the barn is saved. Skarloey remarks how really useful water is.

Skarloey had not gone far, when he starts to overheat; he had run out of water. Then the fireman roll by in their fire engine and they kindly give Skarloey a nice, long drink from their hose. Skarloey admits that they'd be "high and dry" without water.

Characters

 * Skarloey

Goofs

 * Skarloey is a shade of pink in a couple of the illustrations.
 * Skarloey is depicted as a standard gauge engine.
 * The word "FIRE" is spelt backwards on the front of the fire engine, but in the previous illustration, the writing is normal.