Motor Road and Rail

Thomas Motor Road and Rail is a battery-operated system manufactured by Tomy and compatible with other Tomica World sets. The engines run on a special plastic blue "track", and the roadway vehicles run on a special gray "road". Thomas Motor Road and Rail is not compatible with other brands of model railway, although several fans have noticed that the cars fit well on the Learning Curve wooden track.

A large number of models have been released, including the majority of major and minor characters from the television Series.

Tomy Trains
In the 1990s, TOMY had previously produced a line of Thomas characters in their Tomy Trains range. This trains were fairly big with magnetic couplings and ran on dark blue track. The following things made were:


 * Thomas with Annie and Clarabel
 * Edward
 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy with trucks

Trains
Since the early 1990s, Tomy has produced a wide array of "Thomas and Friends" motorised road and rail merchandise. In 2007, HiT Toys picked up the license. HiT Toys' Trackmaster engines are still compatible with Tomy's merchandise. Trackmaster's life-like brown colored track is easily connected to existing blue track from Tomy (two adapters are included in every playset). Another exciting modification is special face-changing engines that are included in some sets. Engines include:


 * Thomas with Annie and Clarabel
 * Edward with truck and van
 * Henry with van and log car (with logs)
 * Gordon with Express coach
 * James with cattle truck and breakvan
 * Percy with fuel tanker and mail van
 * Toby with Henrietta and truck
 * Duck with Scruffey and Toad
 * Donald with trucks
 * Douglas with red truck
 * Oliver with red branch line coaches
 * Bill with coal trucks
 * Ben with china clay trucks
 * Diesel with milk wagon and fuel tanker
 * Mavis with the breakdown train
 * Boco with truck and tar wagon
 * Stepney with truck and breakvan
 * Skarloey with blue narrow gauge coaches
 * Sir Handel with red narrow gauge coaches
 * Rusty with red narrow gauge coaches
 * Duncan with slate trucks (with slate)
 * Freddie with green narrow gauge coaches
 * Mighty Mac with green narrow gauge coach
 * Proteus with Blue Truck and Red Log Car
 * Lady with Lavender Troublesome Trucks
 * Diesel 10 with Gold Troublesome Trucks
 * Splatter and Dodge with Works Coach]]
 * Salty with trucks (with cargo)
 * Harvey with coach and flatbed
 * Emily with one of her coaches
 * Spencer with a special coach
 * Murdoch with a Troublesome Truck
 * Arthur with a truck (with fish) and van
 * Molly with green truck
 * Neville with red van
 * Dennis with tile trucks
 * Rosie with green balloon trucks

Trackmaster
In 2007, HiT Toys picked up the contract for Tomy's Thomas Motor Road and Rail range.
 * Thomas with Annie and Clarabel
 * Edward
 * Henry with log car and van
 * Gordon with green express coach
 * James with cattle car and brakevan
 * Percy with mail coach and fuel tanker
 * Toby with truck and Henrietta
 * Duck with Scruffey and Toad
 * Diesel with milk wagon
 * Mavis with crane
 * Bill
 * Ben with china clay truck
 * Stepney with truck
 * Lady with truck
 * Diesel 10 with truck
 * Salty with trucks
 * Harvey with flatbed and coach
 * Arthur
 * Murdoch with truck
 * Spencer with private coach
 * Emily with Martha
 * Skarloey with blue narrow gauge coaches
 * Sir Handel with red narrow gauge coaches
 * Rusty with red narrow gauge Coaches
 * Duncan with slate truck
 * Freddie with green narrow gauge coaches
 * Molly with green truck
 * Neville with red van
 * Dennis with tile trucks
 * Rosie with balloon trucks
 * Rocky
 * Thomas with Hector and coach
 * Whiff with garbage truck and blue truck
 * Billy with ghicken Truck and green brakevan
 * Hank with red breakvan
 * Flora with Sodor Tramways coach and yellow breakvan
 * Proteus with blue truck and log car
 * Thomas with green coach
 * Percy with blue brakevan coach

Road Characters

 * Bertie
 * Bulgy (Green)
 * Elizabeth
 * Terence
 * Caroline
 * Madge

In early 2008, Trackmaster came out with a new line of engines called "Engine's Greatest Moments". They are two packs consisting of an engine and a car. These are Target exclusives.

Special Edition Engines

 * Diesel with crane, green fish truck, Scruffey with barrels red tree truck and brown fruit truck; otherwise known as "Diesel, Freight Wagons and Cargo"
 * Thomas with Jet Engine and DVD
 * Thomas &Chinese Dragon and DVD
 * Busy Bee James with flatbed
 * Chocolate covered Percy, Mail Coach and Fuel Tanker

Vehicles
To go with the road, TOMY introduced road characters.


 * Bertie
 * Red Bulgy
 * Green Bulgy
 * Lorry 1
 * Elizabeth

Talking Engines
Three engines have been released with the ability to talk using special green pieces of track. Note that the engines' first carriage is connected to them (Thomas to Annie, Percy to a mail van and James to his tender) and cannot be taken off.


 * Talking Thomas with Annie and Clarabel
 * Talking Percy with mail van and fuel tanker
 * Talking James with cattle truck and brakevan

Flip-Faced Engines
In 2007, when HiT took TOMY's contract over, several sets came with a special flip-face engine. Engines also included a piece of rolling stock or a tender.


 * Thomas with red boxcar
 * James
 * Toby with grey coalmine truck
 * Percy with barrel truck
 * Gordon

Exclusive Items
In several sets, there have been many exclusive items not otherwise available.


 * Cranky (Docks Accesory Kit)
 * Bulstrode (Docks Accesory Kit)
 * Motorized Terence (Thomas Loader Set)
 * Dumper Car #1 (Thomas Loader Set)
 * Caroline (Thomas Ultimate Set)
 * Terence (Thomas Ultimate Set)
 * Trevor (Thomas Ultimate Set)
 * Harold (Thomas Adventure Set)
 * Jeremy (Sodor Airport Set)
 * Confused Thomas (Thomas and the Freight Cars Set)
 * Blood and custard Express coach (Thomas and the Freight Cars Set)
 * White silly tanker (Thomas and the Freight Cars Set)
 * Raspberry syrup tanker (Avalible seperate in Japan)
 * Cocoa tanker (Thomas Christmas Set)
 * Present wagon (Thomas Christmas Set)
 * Christmas coach (Thomas Christmas Set)
 * Snowplow Thomas (Thomas Christmas Set)
 * Birthday trucks (Thomas Birthday Set)

Remote Controlled Engines
Only 3 Remote Control Engines were made.


 * Thomas with red coach and blue coach
 * Percy with blue coach and break van
 * James with Soder Fuel truck

Japanese Talking Engines
In Japan, a line of engines that talk in Japanese have been released.


 * Thomas with Annie and Clarabel
 * Percy with coach and fuel tanker
 * James with blood and custard Express coach
 * Gordon with green and cream Express coach
 * Henry with green and cream Express coach
 * Edward with Sodor Mail coach

Special Steam-making Engines
In 2005, a two sets featuring a Thomas that could make real steam were made.
 * Thomas with Annie and Clarabel
 * Metallic Thomas with Annie and Clarabel

Expansion packs
To expand the the collection, Tomy introduced Expansion Sets, feauturing famous landmarks from the show.


 * Knapford
 * Suspension bridge
 * Sheds and turntable
 * Docks Accesory Kit
 * Sodor Engine Wash
 * Station Crossing Accessory Kit
 * Water column
 * Quarry loader
 * Water column and coal loader
 * Harold and cargo delivery
 * Thomas and Crossing Station
 * Diesel Expansion Pack (Including Diesel with a milk wagon and fuel tanker with tracks)
 * Talking Percy Expansion Pack (Includes talking Percy and tracks)
 * Railway Expansion 1 (Includes fuel tanker, truck and brakevan with tracks)
 * Railway Expansion 2 (Includes milk wagon, boxcar and truck with tracks)
 * Track Expansion Pack
 * Build-a-Bridge
 * Post van, green boxcar and Toad
 * Milk wagon, Scruffey with milk churns and fruit van
 * Sodor Mining Co. hopper, icecream van, brakevan
 * Blue and white freight car, brakevan and red wagon with wireloads
 * Annie, Clarabel and Henrietta
 * Ring a Bottle car, Elepant car and Sodor Fireworks coach
 * Macoll's Farm coach, Cow car and Sheep car

Sets
Most engines in the Trackmaster playsets have different "Flip" faces, and in the "Thomas at Tidmouth Sheds Set" Thomas is remote controllable which can make him go backward and forwards and can sound the whistle or play a tune.


 * Thomas Giant Set
 * Thomas Adventure Set
 * Thomas Big Set
 * Thomas Medium Set
 * Thomas Ultimate Set
 * Talk'n Action Thomas Set
 * Thomas Bucket Set
 * Thomas Beginner Set
 * Thomas Steam Set
 * Thomas sixtieth anniversery Set
 * Thomas Christmas Set
 * Thomas and the Freight Cars Set
 * Loader
 * Coal loader
 * Thomas at Ffarquhar Set
 * Thomas and Bertie's Great Race Set
 * Calling All Engines Set
 * Thomas at Tidmouth Sheds Set
 * Hard at Work at Brendam Docks Set
 * Thomas at the Station Set
 * Sodor Lumberyard Set
 * James at Boulder Mountain
 * Toby at the copper mine
 * Thomas at the coal station
 * Sodor Adventure Set
 * Percy at the icecream factory
 * Sodor Airport Set
 * Thomas and Emily at Knapford
 * Thomas Field Set
 * Duck at Farmer Macolls

Coming soon

 * Rheneas with dinosaur car
 * Percy & Chocolate Tanker
 * Hank with red breakvan
 * Flora with Sodor Tramways coach and yellow breakvan
 * Proteus with log car and blue truck
 * Freddie with a bike car
 * Boco
 * Douglas
 * Donald
 * Splatter and Dodge
 * Jack
 * Ned
 * Alfie