thomas the tank engine

Garden Railroading
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I wish their was a Thomas The Tank Engine Remote Control for the G Scale but would like the one in this photo. Post me back please.

Thanks.

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I’m still not sure what you’re lookng for–punctuation is your friend

Lionel made a thomas the tank engine in G scale years ago. They also made a James and some acessories–annie and clarabell, some freight cars. Then they discontinued it. They go now for a lot of money on Ebay–like 300 bucks. I’m not sure if they were remote controled–I think they were. They were never very well made to begin with. My daughter loves Thomas, but I wasn’t willing to spend 300 bucks

I made one out of a wooden pull toy I got on ebay. Hollowed out the wooden toy. Fitted a motor block from an old LGB Mogul into it, and it runs using an Aristo Train Engineer onboard receiver. I made some bumpers out of wood, and a couple whistles out of bits of brass and dowel

It was not an easy project–it’s hard to convert the LGB blocks to remote control–the blocks are finicky and have a lot of parts. But now it runs very well and kids love it. It’s not quite to scale–it’s a little small

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Wow, that looks pretty good! Even better than the Lionel version, if I do say so myself.

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Click image to view full size.I like this a lot It looks like the one on t.v