Skarloey (Story Library book)

"How dare they treat me like this!"

- Skarloey on being left dangling in the ship's derricks

Skarloey is the ninth book in the My Thomas Story Library series.

Plot
The Narrow Gauge engines enjoy Skarloey's stories of when he was new to the island. Skarloey was young and full of excitment. He bounced roughly causing the inspector to fall off of him. Skarloey was then given another pair of wheels and a cab and even now, one-hundred years later, he has not bounced since.

Characters

 * Skarloey
 * Rheneas
 * Nancy
 * The Manager
 * Agnes, Ruth, Lucy, Jemima and Beatrice
 * Sir Handel (cameo)

Trivia

 * This book is based on the stories, Crosspatch and Bucking Bronco from the Railway Series book Very Old Engines.

Goofs

 * Sir Handel's bufferbeam is blue and his roof is painted white.
 * Skarloey is missing a hand rail on his saddle tank.