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Toy Train Further Reading

Plarail-related internet resources

The Plarail Museum is an astonishingly complete resource for nearly every Plarail set, accessory, and train released over its 65 year history. There are many pictures of sets and boxes (a few of which I even contributed!) and tons of information to learn

The Biglobe Plarail Museum is an older website with a similar goal of exhibiting old and rare Plarail. There is a lot of in-depth information about individual sets. It has not been updated since 2009, but it is still a very useful and interesting site

The Thomas Motorized Wiki covers Thomas-related Plarail, Tomy Train, and Tomica World/Motor Road and Rail releases as well as the later TrackMaster and Motorized ranges

Blue Plastic Tracks is a forum for mostly English-speaking Plarail and Thomas TrackMaster collectors. Users post information about new Plarail releases, their purchases, layouts, and repairs. I post on BPT as DuckGWR (if you tell them I sent you when registering it makes a little number on my profile go up)

青いレール.com (Bluerail.com) is a website with many (over 300) Plarail layouts with computer generated perspective views. There are many good articles about how the dimensions of different Plarail rails interact with one another and how to use odd Plarail pieces together. It has not been updated in a few years...

でんしゃごっこ (Denshagokko) is the site of the Mie Battery Railway, part of the Tokyo Battery Railway. There are many pages with different variations of old Plarail, real trains, and Plarail dioramas

プラテツ (Platetsu) is a blog and review site that covers Plarail trains as well as how to use different track pieces. There is information about new releases and products that are going out of production

The Lazy Plarail Diary primarily researches overseas export Plarail. There is also some modified Plarail

Sunhuntin's Sun's Collections has photos and information about Tomy Train, Thomas, and other Plarail and Tomy adjacent things. I have looked through this website a lot and remember when Sun used to post on Blue Plastic Tracks, but they are currently out of the collecting game

Tangentially Thomas is a website archive of merchandise, promotional information, and other materials related to the Thomas the Tank Engine franchise. I have contributed some work cataloguing toys and taking photographs of some of the boxes and trains that I own. Like this website, expansion is actively underway

I am not sure how much longer it will be around, but I occasionally post(ed) my thoughts on and pictures of various Plarail related things on Twitter under the username @GWRDuck

If you have a Plarail or other toy train website and would like to be listed here (and, in the longstanding tradition of "links pages," list this website on yours), let me know using the guestbook. If you would like your link removed from the page, please also let me know

Other toy train resources

More sites about other types of toy trains.

This page shows several Australian examples of the Child Guidance Railroad system

Archived sites

These sites are no longer online, but have been archived in the Wayback Machine and can still be at least partially accessed. If you know of new URLs for any of these sites, let me know!

The Tokyo Battery Railway was a Plarail collection page originally from the late 1990s. There is a variety of old sets and accessories shown. The site seems to have last been updated around 2003 and went offline in late 2016