Recently rediscovered in Mattel’s archives and remastered, this is the original 5-minute pilot episode ‘Down The Mineshaft’ for Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends. The pilot, narrated by Ringo Starr and filmed in 1983, was later remade for use as the show’s 25th episode after executives confirmed that yes, this

This is a video of South Korean beatboxer Hiss (earlier this week: Wing) performing a wonderful rendition of the Thomas The Tank Engine theme by layering the different harmonies of the tune on top of each other. The result? I’ll be humming it all day, and if you know a

This is a video from woodworker Matt Thompson of the model train he built around his backyard fence with a locomotive running with a snowplow attached so it can clear the white and fluffy as it travels around the yard. That’s cool. Now, are you thinking what I’m thinking? “Does

This is a video of Japanese guitarist/composer/producer Masayoshi Takanaka performing jazz pianist Mal Waldron’s ‘Left Alone’ on a guitar that has a functional model train running around it. How about that! The train only goes around the outside of the body then stops and reverses though, it doesn’t actually cross

The appropriately named Train Mountain in Oregon is the proud operator of the world’s longest model railroad in the world. The railway consists of over 37 miles of track, which accommodates a 1/8th scale electric train with repurposed car seats so you can don your engineer’s hat and greasy overalls

This is a first person POV video of a trip riding shotgun with the conductor along the steep cogwheel train that summits Switzerland’s Mount Pilatus in the Alps. I’m pretty sure I rode that same train in God of War Ragnarök. It made me nervous then, and it still makes

This is a video of a model train at Hamburg, Germany’s Miniatur Wunderland setting the Guinness World Record for the longest melody played by a model train, by tapping wine glasses set up along its 211-meter (692-feet) track. The train performs a melody of twenty different classical songs on over

This is a video of train maniac (trainiac) Jason Shron giving a passenger’s point-of-view tour of the HO scale model railway he built to resemble some of the the real-life route from Toronto to Montreal, aka the Canadian National Railway’s Kingston Subdivision line. The interior of the train seen in