Anyone here do Day Out with Thomas ???

[njalb1]

Hi John,

  Thanks for the nice words!  Yes the Plymouth was working !!

    Al

[jefelectric]

njalb1,

Glad to hear that you enjoyed the day.  By the smile on her face it looks like the little one enjoyed it as well.  Even Thomas was smiling.  Old #90 looks to be in fine form as usual.  Was the Plymouth operating?

[dwiemer]

njalb1, great pictures!  Looks like y'all had a great time.  Funny thing, I love my trains, but I love sharing them with the kids even more.  Great to see the excitement in their eyes.

Dennis

[njalb1]

Had a great time today with family on my Birthday !
 

[njalb1]

Welcome to the board!

   WOW what great pictures!  Thanks....

[railserve]

I was at Strasburg to see Thomas last weekend. I've posted some photos online at: http://www.railserve.com/strasburg/thomas07/

[jefelectric]

Thanks for all your advice!
 Bella is excited for this Saturday....
   thanks

Enjoy the day.  I worked at the TCA Museum today and ate lunch in the Red Caboose dining car with a crowd of youngsters.  I had forgotten about Thomas.  I did get to see him heading down the track.  They were also running old # 90.  A long line of tents set up for you to deposit money.   The librarian said it took her a while to get through Strasburg at noon.

[Anonymous]

We did the Thomas at the Brason Senic a couple years back.It was my son birthday,And guess what he turned 6 today.He likes to run our train layout and has a good throtle hand already.I had road the BSR before and really like the passenger cars they have there,I'm a dome car fan foreshure.Pete

[cnw1995]

This all reminds me of my first layout - in N scale - it was British outline and featured all the Tomix engines and rolling stock for Thomas - at that time the yen was very favorable to the dollar, and in the dark ages of the Internet, I enjoyed researching andworking with a shop on the Ginza to import them for a great price.

[alexweiihman]

Anyone going, stop by the Strasburg Train Shop, they have a great selection (mostly train cars)

[njalb1]

Thanks for all your advice!
 Bella is excited for this Saturday....
   thanks

[Anonymous]

I love how at the IRM you walk through seemingly acres of tents full of Thomas stuff before getting to the trains - more power to them if it brings in revenue and visitors.

Thomas is a marketing juggernaut and one messes with him at one's peril.

It cracks me up that George Carlin narrates those Thomas shows on PBS.

[cnw1995]

I love how at the IRM you walk through seemingly acres of tents full of Thomas stuff before getting to the trains - more power to them if it brings in revenue and visitors.

[Anonymous]

Forum:  TOY Trains....

Thomas:  TOY Train (imaginary??)

 Enjoyed a great day with Thomas at Tweetsie Railroad in the Blue Ridge Mtns of NC a couple of years ago.  When you see the awe and fascination on a kid's face at seeing Thomas and Sir Topham Hat, combined with a theme park, or other train related area, how can you go wrong?  True, the souvenirs are a bit pricey, but they do have some things at the usual MSRP.  Great fun! 

Thomas, Annie and Clarabelle, Sir Topham Hat and a couple of conductors make regular runs on my layout - My grandson has named it the Island of Sodor, complete with Muffle Mountain! 

Enjoy!

Lisa

 

Tweetsie! There's a blast from the past. I last rode on Tweetsie as an 8-year-old in 1975. I think my son would love that, come to think of it.

[jefelectric]

On June the 23rd (my birthday) I will be taking my family with grandaughter to this event at  Strasburg Railroad PA. Its my first time. Anyone do this, and what did you think? I bought the combo tickets for a ride on both Thomas and a  Strasburg loco.
  Thanks!

One word of advice, GO EARLY.  Strasburg becomes one big parking lot on Thomas days.  That includes the roads in and out.

[billbarman]

I have done this a million times, i myself am aa thomas the tank engine fan, alot of people my age stull are. its amazing how they got an american engine to look so british! still, its great fun, the realt steam train are better though lol

[riverrailfan]

I've done IRM for the last 3 years. It's a good time for the kids. As an adult it gets old. Leave your wallet at home. They started bringing layouts last year which was nice. Do a morning run with thomas. as the day drags on, the crowd gets bigger.

 

The scenery is nice also.

[Anonymous]

Forum:  TOY Trains....

Thomas:  TOY Train (imaginary??)

 Enjoyed a great day with Thomas at Tweetsie Railroad in the Blue Ridge Mtns of NC a couple of years ago.  When you see the awe and fascination on a kid's face at seeing Thomas and Sir Topham Hat, combined with a theme park, or other train related area, how can you go wrong?  True, the souvenirs are a bit pricey, but they do have some things at the usual MSRP.  Great fun! 

Thomas, Annie and Clarabelle, Sir Topham Hat and a couple of conductors make regular runs on my layout - My grandson has named it the Island of Sodor, complete with Muffle Mountain! 

Enjoy!

Lisa

[Anonymous]

It is a great time!! It would have been better if it wasn't 96 degrees!!

Check out the post a couple rows down about sesame place...Strasburg has ALOT of train related places and things to do. I would like to go back again!

[Andrew Falconer]

Have you seen there is a touring show called THOMAS LIVE?

Thomas Live will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the coming week.

Andrew

[Anonymous]

I've done this a few times with my daughter and with friends. The kids love it, but the ride, at least for us, wasnt really too long, and just went up and back about 3 miles. They usually have a lot of other activities too, ranging from clowns, to petting zoo, to other rides. My daughter got a temporary tattoo of Percy and was quite happy with that. Make sure you bring a ton of $$$ for the gift shop, or keep away from it as much as you can!

PJ

[dwiemer]

We are expecting this to come to a local short line in October.  We will bring the kids.  regardless of what we think of it, if the kids have a good time, it is worth it.  They put up with my "fun" often, so a little fun for them is priceless.

dennis

[cnw1995]

I've also done this and plan to do it again at the Illinois Railway Museum with the soon-to-be-five year old.  See http://www.irm.org/thomas/index.html

I go to ride the streetcars around the loop

Thomas 'pulls' a gigantic train out on the main then it backs up out again. That's it. It's a blast though.

[Anonymous]

I did this with my then two-year old son at the Great Smokey Mountain Railway in Dillsboro, NC some years ago. It was ... okay. The "ride" was a 20 minute forward and back across the stream and in and out of the tunnel. Thomas himself is obviously phony, but the kids don't know that. There is, of course, some mope dressed as Sir Topham Hatt (known more accurately as the Fat Controller or, for us non-socialist types, the Fat Director), and you can have your picture taken with him and "Thomas" for the low low price of $14.

All in all a gyp, but a nice gyp for young children. I was more excited by the stainless steel ACL coach car that was gently (but beautifully) rotting on one of the sidings.

[Jumijo]

I was joking, peckerwood or whatever your name is.

[njalb1]

  To all the others!

Thanks for all the great replys!

[Anonymous]

i saw him in st louis but we did not ride him...heres a video you might find interesting...there are a ton on you tube if you just type in a day out with thomas...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mrYElrICIQ 

[BDT in Minnesota]

Lucky people!!!   Along with my grandsons,, I am a Thomas fan myself....Sounds Great, enjoy the day..

BDT

[njalb1]

On June the 23rd (my birthday) I will be taking my family with grandaughter to this event at  Strasburg Railroad PA. Its my first time. Anyone do this, and what did you think? I bought the combo tickets for a ride on both Thomas and a  Strasburg loco.
  Thanks!