Real Steam Thomas Trackmaster available.

[ripley802]

Great news guys. The Steam Along Thomas arrived today. I have not had a chance to play with it to much yet, but wanted to post some pics and a few observations so far.

First, the train it self. I was surprised to see the darker blue and almost metallic body color. It was a pleasant surprise indeed. The train takes 3 AAA as opposed to the normal 2 that most TMR trains have been taking.

The water filling. I know this was a topic of interest for most. I am not sure on what the item is in the pics posted earlier, maybe from a prototype or another earlier version etc.. But this version does not have anything removable from the bottom. The water is drawn up through the supplied yellow dropper, and it goes on the left side which is marked. The directions mentioned to fill it up but I only put a little water in for now. And I did not have distilled water so had to use a little tap water.

On the top the on/off switch is actually a press button. Press once to turn on and then again to turn off. I really like this design and hopefully is something incorporated into more TMR.

My fist impression of the workings were WOW. I think by far this is the coolest engine from the TMR series I have seen. Obviously that is an opinion and everyone has one, but other than not having sound, it is all that I expected. The light is blue versus the red from the old version, maybe this can be modified, but for me it it nice. The smoke seems to function great. You can see the little water droplets inside the smoke stack while it is working.

Well enough talking, here are some pics I snapped of him. I am eager for the Percy to come out and will definitely pick that one up. Enjoy and let me know if there are any questions you make have that I will try and help clear up. Thanks.