Troublesome Trucks (episode)

"Troublesome Trucks", retitled "Foolish Freight Cars" in American releases, is the ninth episode of the first season.

Plot
James is finally let out again to pull a goods train. James is determined to redeem himself, and makes good time even though the trucks break away on Gordon's Hill. The Fat Controller is pleased, and allows James to keep his red paint.

Featured characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * James
 * Sir Topham Hatt

Trivia

 * Stock footage from "Thomas and the Trucks" is used. The aforementioned episode was even filmed at the same time as this one, as the siding arrangements are the same.

Goofs

 * Bootlaces were used to fix the leak in the brakepipe in "James and the Coaches", but in the narrator refers to it as singular.
 * James' tender is derailed while Thomas arranges his train.
 * When Thomas says "Have you got some bootlaces ready?" there's blu-tak under his lantern.
 * When James puffs out of the yard the truck at the front loses its face.
 * When the trucks get to the bottom of Gordon's Hill a truck disappears.
 * When James goes up Gordon's Hill the second time, a wire pulls him up.
 * James' puffing noise is not in sync with his speed.
 * When the narrator says the line, "Sometimes their axles would run hot", a crew member's shadow is seen at the end of the set.