I bought a few of the budget, toy train sets recently. These have various names on the boxes, including Rail king / League lines / classic train set, etc.
Surprisingly, for the low price, the steam locomotive, although somewhat lacking in power, runs very smoothly.
Here are a couple of photo's of the layout I am building along with a video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUHiz5n3ols
The steam locomotive body holds 2x AA batteries, while the silver colour tank wagon is an old Playcraft Jouef HO scale model, which goes really well with the rail king products.
The only thing I would say, is that the range of plastic track is very limited, so you can't make complex layouts, or have a passing loop (unless you build it on a curve) and not many sets include points.
Here is a basic Christmas theme set currently on sale here in the UK. The trees in this set look exactly like the Tomy "Thomas" trees that were available in the UK some years ago
(This post was last modified: 12-08-2018, 07:46 PM by Super.)
Surprisingly, for the low price, the steam locomotive, although somewhat lacking in power, runs very smoothly.
Here are a couple of photo's of the layout I am building along with a video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUHiz5n3ols
The steam locomotive body holds 2x AA batteries, while the silver colour tank wagon is an old Playcraft Jouef HO scale model, which goes really well with the rail king products.
The only thing I would say, is that the range of plastic track is very limited, so you can't make complex layouts, or have a passing loop (unless you build it on a curve) and not many sets include points.
Here is a basic Christmas theme set currently on sale here in the UK. The trees in this set look exactly like the Tomy "Thomas" trees that were available in the UK some years ago