Over the years I have collected many different types of toy and model trains. Here I will show the features of some of them that I find interesting or noteworthy in some way.
Wooden train sets | generic and branded wooden train sets | |
Plarail | very popular Japanese toy train system with plastic track and battery-powered trains | |
Tot and Child Guidance Railroad | plastic track train sets in the same vein as wooden trains produced from the 1950s to the 1980s | |
TomyTrain | train system with reversing engines and magnetic couplings that used Plarail-style track sold in Europe and the U.S. | |
Super Rail |
advanced train toy from Tomy with automatic reversing and coupling features | |
Mini Mini Rail | small ~N scale plastic trains and track from Bandai aimed at being a model train alternative | |
Thomas train toys | train sets related to Thomas the Tank Engine | |
Mountain Railway | climbing train system by Toy Town released for several decades in different iterations | |
Model trains | N, HO, and O scale model trains I have come across over the years | |
Plarail exports | sets based on the Plarail system exported to America, the U.K., Europe, and elsewhere | |
Other train toys | other miscellaneous train toys | |
Other toys | other toys I have collected | |
Who Made Who | information about toy companies mentioned on this site and their products and imports | |
Further reading |
other Plarail and train-related
resources (links page) |