I have a feeling that the next troublesome truck will be the venelated van repainted ( hopefully with the enlarged troublesome truck #2 face).

I assume that you could make a decent model of lady by taking a Ertl or bandai tecs lady and putting it on a Percy chassis with Thomas' wheels and various Side rodes (FYI, I have never tried this so it may not work)

Sorry for double Posting, but I do remember hearing lady's/Millie's whistle in a WWI documentary but it might have been different, I don't really remember that well.

I think the only problem with arc's animation is the look of the faces, but the rest is amazing.

Yeah, that would actually make sense and explain Duncan's absence ( from the show perspective)

Spencer's coach could also be used as the special coach that Thomas took from Gordon's express in "The Missing Coach" as well. or as RWS coaches.

There are also express coaches left over at shops and the coaches from the "other companie".

on an abridged list...

all time favorite/steam: Donald & Douglas

diesel: Rusty

narrow gauge: Rheneas

rolling stock:Toad

non-rail:Bertie

people:Sir Topham Hatt/Fat Controller

my only problem with the narrow gauge episodes is that they're mostly in the quarry and I do think that they should focus a little bit more on the other parts of the skarloey railway (for example, there should be an episode where Luke has to pull passenger trains while an engine is at the works) but for this season it would be great to see Donald and Douglas and others come back or an episode with Luke and Duncan interacting.

I know that there are body kits available for most of the talyllyn engines to run on N scale track. These could be adapted into the Skarloey engines easily but the only problem is that the don't come with chassis and you have to buy them separately.