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Re: Is the Amtrak 40th Anniversary Exhibit Train proving to be popular???
Author: Erik H.
Date: 11-06-2011 - 17:02
Tie Plate Wrote:
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> The website heavily hypes a separate nearby
> "Chuggington Station" geared toward small kids.
> Was this not at the stops you guys visited, or did
> you miss it?
It's a bunch of wooden train play sets, like Thomas the Tank Engine or Brio, set up for kids to play with. My seven year old son has out grown that...he has an HO scale railroad now and the wooden trains are in storage (I'd sell them but he insists I keep them around for his little sister.)
Frankly I can't stand Chuggington. At least Thomas the Tank Engine has a semi-prototypical story behind it, and the newer episodes (albeit the Thomas segments are now done in CGI rather than a huge scale model) have some real train segments taped at a railroad museum in England. But you can give Chuggington credit for using a Baldwin shark-nose as inspiration for one of its characters.
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> The website heavily hypes a separate nearby
> "Chuggington Station" geared toward small kids.
> Was this not at the stops you guys visited, or did
> you miss it?
It's a bunch of wooden train play sets, like Thomas the Tank Engine or Brio, set up for kids to play with. My seven year old son has out grown that...he has an HO scale railroad now and the wooden trains are in storage (I'd sell them but he insists I keep them around for his little sister.)
Frankly I can't stand Chuggington. At least Thomas the Tank Engine has a semi-prototypical story behind it, and the newer episodes (albeit the Thomas segments are now done in CGI rather than a huge scale model) have some real train segments taped at a railroad museum in England. But you can give Chuggington credit for using a Baldwin shark-nose as inspiration for one of its characters.
