Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines is the thirty-ninth book of The Railway Series. Dear Friends,I went to see the Fat Controller the other day. I told him that in 1995 it would be fifty years since the first stories about his Railway were published. "Good gracious me!" he said. "We must do something to celebrate that." And he set to work. Not everything went quite right. For instance, Thomas... but I won't spoil the stories - happy reading.The Author The Fat Controller tells the delighted e