(I think I might have this one up around the first week of December and put up the rest of the winter set as the Christmas season goes along. I'm super excited about these stories, and I feel like I can set the festive atmosphere if I make this choice. I'll probably have this first one up in about a month's top, but I'm just so excited that I thought I'd preview the one I got through with this one first. Till then, enjoy this preview of...The Missing Snowplow! By the way, thanks, NeverLander852, for giving me this idea. I know it was originally with Thomas, but I thought James would work better, so I hope you don't mind)

Moral: don't take things that don't belong to you/always ask for permission

Short Synopsis: James gets into an accident while trying to clear lines of snow, damaging his snowplow. Victor says it will take all day to fix it, so James decides to borrow Donald's snowplow until his old one is repaired…without asking Victor for permission first! But he has much so much fun with it that he forgets to take it back. As the news spreads, James' bad feeling grows stronger…as Donald and Douglas pursue a wild goose chase trying to find The Missing Snowplow!

Winter had come to the Island of Sodor as the snowy season drew near. Ice and snow had just began appearing all around, and the weather became colder. But that didn't stop the engines from being really useful as they carried on with their important loads, knowing that they had warm toasty fires to keep themselves warm throughout the day.

James was running his usual late afternoon journey, delivering coal to all the stations around the North Western. Soon, all the station waiting rooms and village homes had warm toasty fires to keep them comfortable. Afterwards, James returned to the Shunting Yards to place his trucks back in line and get ready for his last passenger train of the day.

"Come on, you silly trucks!" he whistled, as he bumped them into line, "keep in line, and STAY in line while you're at it." The trucks groaned as James bumped them harder.

"Why the rush, James?" chuckled Thomas, as he stopped on the track across.

"The sooner I'm done with these trucks, Thomas, the sooner I can to finishing up with my passengers for the day. I am a mixed-traffic engine after all and I'm fine delivering coal, as important as it is, but these trucks have been nothing but trouble all the way."

"Trucks will be trucks, James," reminded Thomas, "Our job is to keep them in line, remember? Otherwise we'd never make our loads on time."

Donald and Douglas whistled and chuckled as they arrived in the yard, back-to-back with a brake coach between their tenders.

"I'm afraid Thomas has a point, James," Donald put in, "trucks are a nuisance, but luckily Dougie and I don't have to deal with 'em."

"Aye," agreed Douglas, facing James as the red engine pushed his trucks further towards Donald, "Donal and I are taking workmen to inspect the line in case of ice on the track or a broken signal."

"We don't mind it at all. We love the snow," added Donald.

"Well, you'd better mind," warned James, as he chuffed up towards the twins, "snow can be a bother once you're up to his axels in it."

"Oh, yeh," said Douglas, facing James as they pulled away, "but we're used to it."

James couldn't understand how well the twins could endure the snowy weather and went about his shunting. But fortunately, he didn't have to worry about that for long, as it was soon time for him to pull his evening passenger train. Phillip wasted in no time in getting his coaches ready.

"Come on now, Phillip!" James whistled, "the sooner I'm done with my train, the sooner I can get home to Tidmouth!"

"Coming right up, James!" Phillip replied, as he hurried the coaches into the station and came to a hard stop. "There! You're ready to go, James!"

"All aboard!"

The shunter coupled James up, and he waited as the passengers boarded the train. Then, he set off as soon as the guard's whistle blew.

James ran his evening passenger train on time, and it wasn't long before his passengers were soon able to get home safe.

Meanwhile, Donald and Douglas, back-to-back with snowplows on their fronts and a brake coach between their tenders, were finishing up their maintenance run with the workmen, who have all checked every signal and part of the line to make sure it was safe for engines to run on. Afterwards, the twins dropped off the workmen at Knapford, and then headed to the SteamWorks to return their snowplows.

"Are you two sure you'll be safe traveling back to the sheds without a snowplow?" Victor asked.

"Certainly, Victor," Donald replied, as his snowplow was unfitted, and he chuffed off the turntable.

"Most likely," Douglas chuckled in agreement, as he chuffed onto the turntable and it turned him round, "after all, we are accustomed to blistering cold weather conditions.

"Okay. If you say so. But be careful, my friends. Ice and snow is not always good for an engine's wheels."

"Don't worry, Victor," Donald chuckled.

"Aye. Snow's not bother for us," Douglas added as the table turned him round, and the men got to work at unfitting his snowplow.

Soon, Douglas's snowplow was unfitted, and both twins whistled as they left the SteamWorks, while Victor expressed a look of concern and went back about his work.

And also stay tuned for...

Snowed Under - Rusty discovers fog on the line, so the Thin Controller asks his engines to have headlamps fitted. However, Peter Sam and his driver miss the memo and get caught in an avalanche, and Rusty sets out to rescue him.

Mavis' Christmas Surprise - Paxton shockingly discovers that Mavis has no time for parties, so he secretly plans a surprise party for her, but must take caution of other diesels lurking in his shadows.

Thomas Saves Christmas - it is Christmas Eve, and Thomas is to lead the Earl's Christmas fair, but feels low on the spirits when Gordon and James claim he'll never be able to pull bigger holiday trains. However, Henry breaks down that evening delivering the Presents Train, and Thomas braves a fierce snowstorm to bring Christmas to all of Sodor!

A Salty New Year - after one of Salty's New Year's Eve stories annoys Cranky to a point where he causes an accident and is blamed for it, the two friends agree on a New Year's resolution to see who can change for the best in the New Year.