Little Choo wants to be just like his father Papa Pufferbelly, but pulling a line of freight cars up a steep mountain might be a little too much for the small engine.

Describes the trip taken by a train as it travels over hills, through valleys, past horses and orange trees until it arrives at the next station.

After James tells a scary story, Thomas the tank engine imagines there is a horrible, engine-eating monster coming after him.

Mae is a little girl, and Bear is a bear, but they are both afraid of trains and traveling to places they do not know, so they put on courage hats; Mae's has bear ears, and Bear's has people ears, and when they meet on the train going through bear country to the city, they take courage in each other's company and soon become friends--and when they arrive they exchange hats, which is a lot like exchanging hearts.

Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text welcome riders onto the Goodnight Train as it follows Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve.

Brief text and illustrations present a variety of trains and what they do.

Stories about Thomas' Branch Line, including the stories of Percy's Woolly Bear and Toby's Tightrope, and the one Thomas didn't want put in -- the story of Thomas' Ghost.

A train carrying a class of children on a holiday in Switzerland is stopped in its tracks by an avalanche.