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Other train toys

Tomy train toys

Tomy was founded as the Tomiyama Toy Manufacturing Company in February 1924 by Eiichiro Tomiyama. The company produced many friction-drive and tin toys throughout their first 30 or so years until the rise in the use of plastic in toys throughout the 1950s. In the late 1950s Tomy began producing plastic toys including the Plarail range covered elsewhere

Year	Name	Description
1958	Plarail	Plastic and primarily battery-powered train system with a wide range of track, accessories, and Japanese trains produced over the decades
early 1960s	Shuttle Train	Tin "shuttle train" toy from the Tomiyama days sold by AHI. Battery-operated train runs back and forth up and down and performs a coal loading and unloading operation
1969	Motorized Shuttle Train	Manufactured by Tomy and sold by Child Guidance in the U.S. and Geyper in Spain. Japanese release seems limited and sold in American boxes with an "Action Plarail" ribbon sticker over part of the box
1972	The Little Engine That Could Train Set	American "Freerail" export set sold at Montgomery Ward's with a "puffing" steam locomotive and flexible, cuttable track
1970s-1990s	Super Rail	Advanced train toy with reversing and multi-speed trains, operating couplers, and a variety of track and accessories
1988-1997	TOMYTRAIN	Toy train system based on the Plarail rail standard with larger reversing locomotives with magnetic couplers, released primarily in Europe and the U.S.
1999	Train Unlimited series	Smallish plastic train system with interlocking magnetic base pieces and accessories sold by People as 電車やいたい放題

Other Child Guidance trains

In addition to Child Guidance Railroad, Child Guidance Toys of the Bronx, New York also produced several other train toys

Year	Name	Description
1961	Child Guidance Railroad	Plastic toy train system around the size of wooden toy train systems
1963	Musical Railroad	Large battery-powered locomotive that strikes metal notes to produce a tune like a xylophone when running
1969	Motorized Shuttle Train	Fully-operational shuttle train with working turntable, lift, and yard all automatically selectable using just two buttons on the turntable

Toy Town/Toybox trains

Toy Town started in the late 1960s in the industrial park also known as Toy Town and intentionally produced toys that could also be sold in export markets. Toy Town became known as Toybox in the 1980s and continued marketing and remaking toys into the 2000s. Toy Town and Toybox were associated with Tomy throughout most of their life

Year	Name	Description
1969-early 2000s	Mountain Railway	Oyama Shuppo or Mountain Railway series of train toys with simple track system and engines capable of "climbing" large inclines sold under the Toy Town and later Toy Box name
1976	Flying Stunt Loco	Toy Town export of the Aerial Tank Engine flipping, climbing train toy
2002	Thomas the Tank Engine Mysterious! Transfer Station	Thomas the Tank Engine toy where Thomas, Percy and Toby cycle around a small layout, swapping engines at the station

Bandai trains

Bandai, originally part of a textile firm and now part of Bandai-Namco, produced a few different series of train toys and sets as well as several Thomas the Tank Engine licensed train toys

Year	Name	Description
1975-1982	Mini Mini Rail	Motorized, reversing toy train system around the size of N scale model trains
December 1991	All Aboard! Thomas and Friends	Thomas-themed version of a 1989 Bandai downhill train racing toy
1999-2009	Thomas Town	Candy toys that include a Thomas character and section of track; released in waves that can create small dioramas or be connected together randomly

Dah Yang Toys trains

Dah Yang Toys is a Taiwanese manufacturer of seemingly primarily inexpensive and occasionally knockoff electromechanical toys like the classic stair-climbing penguin slide and magi-magnetic swimming dolphins. In addition to the Plarail-style knockoff track-conversion shown below, Dah Yang also produced a Super Rail knockoff converted to the same ("borrowed") track system

Year	Name	Description	Photo
1970s	D-51 Deluxe Freight Train Set	Taiwanese clone of an early 1970s Plarail D51, flatbed, and well wagon converted to run on knockoff Yonezawa Shushupoppo-type track

Intoport Development Co., Inc

Intoport Development Co. was a New York company that seems to have imported a few toys and transistor radios in the 1970s, some licensed. In 1972 they made a Disney World playset that heavily borrowed concepts and even seemingly some designs from the Child Guidance Kiddieland and associated Plarail Yuuenchi series

Year	Name	Description	Photo
1972	Walt Disney Character Fold-A-Way Play World	Unfolding plastic Disney World playset with train that operates rides with Disney characters and graphics

Playmates/Unimax

Playmates, a Hong Kong toy company that later worked with or under the Unimax name, released a series of plastic playsets in the 1980s and 1990s called Li'l Playmates as well as other mostly plastic toys. In the 1980s they released a few versions of an amusement park-themed set as well as a figure eight set with a yellow track system and in the 1990s they released two Li'l Playmates sets with grey LEGO Duplo-like rail

Year	Name	Description	Photo
1986	Disneyland Play Set	Disney licensed playset with many figures and a battery-powered train that powers different amusement park rides as the train goes around

Payva trains

Spanish manufacturer Payva produced a copy of the Plarail Amusement Park Train locally in Spain

Year	Name	Description	Photo
late 1960s-early 1970s	Tren Verbena Electrico	Spanish copy of the late 1960s Plarail Amusement Park No. 2 Set

Straco trains

Straco was the name used for imported plastic toys from the F.J. Strauss Co. Inc. of New York, New York

Year	Name	Description	Photo
1975	Straco My First Train Set	Repacked copy of the Ray's version of the Plarail 1974 Panorama Tokkyu Set. Includes Panorama Tokkyu with oval of track and cut-out scenery kit

More Thomas the Tank Engine licensed train toys can be seen on the Thomas train toy page.