Episode Review: Season 19, Episode 2 - The Truth About Toby

 Written By:  Davey Moore
Narrator: Mark Moraghan

 Release: Wale of a Tale DVD

Summary

After Toby dropped some workers off at Farquar Quarry Henrietta told Toby that they should stop by the Steam Works to have his side plates fixed, but Toby said he didn't have time to go to the Steam Works. Then Toby took some scrap to the scrapyard, but he still wouldn't listen to Henrietta.

When Toby got to the Scrap Yard he ran out of coal, so he waited for an engine to come by, but every time they couldn't see Toby because of all the scrap in the way. Then Reg tried waving a red scrap car to get an engine to stop, but Henry raced by when Reg dropped the car on the other side of the tracks.

Latter there was a rumour that Toby was going to be scraped because an engine saw Reg lifting Toby up so he could tell an engine he need coal as they went by. In the evening Emily came by with Henrietta to give Toby some coal, and in the yard Sir Topham Hatt gathered the engines up to tell them that Toby wasn't going to be scraped, and that it was a rumour.

My Thoughts

Well this episode reminds me on the season 18 episode "Signals Crossed". If Toby's the oldest steam tram on Sodor, doesn't he know when to fill up on coal? And why doesn't his driver control him?