Thomas & Friends™ LEGO® Reference Guide
It was mentioned in one of the following threads that someone should do this, so I went ahead and did it. This page contains links to the variations of Thomas & Friends that I have found done in LEGO®. This page is divided into three sections: Reference Photo Section, Commercial Section, and Related LUGNET™
Threads. If you know of any others, or if you can help identify any unknown builders, please let me know and I will add them. Like Larry Pieniazek said, all LTCs should have a Thomas! russellclark@verizon.net
Reference Section
Thomas & Friends in LEGO presentation by Russell Clark
Official LEGO DUPLO Thomas sets
The Making of Thomas the Tank Engine uploaded by Tim David
The Real Lives of Thomas the Tank Engine
Official Thomas the Tank Engine Site
SCLTC Thomas layout at LEGOLAND California
Photo Section
Donald Acker: Thomas
Matt Bates: Thomas
Mark Bellis: Thomas & Friends
Melody Brown (BUGS): Thomas
Russell Clark (BayLTC): Thomas & Friends
Matthew Clayson (SCLTC): Thomas & Friends
Janey Cook: Thomas & Friends
Peter Curby: Thomas
Brian Darrow (IndyLUG): Thomas & Friends
Tim David: Toby
Jim Davis (MSLTC): Thomas
Peter Delmolino: Thomas & Bertie
Rémy Evard (NILTC): Thomas & Friends
Daniel House: Thomas & Friends
Steve Martin (IndyLUG): Thomas
James Mathis (PNLTC): James
Toshiaki Mukai (EJLTC): Edward
Adam Murtha: Thomas
Ken Nagel (NILTC): Thomas
John Neal (TCLTC): Thomas & Friends
Dan Parker (PNLTC): Thomas & Friends
Larry Pieniazek (supplied by Kevin Wilson) (MichLTC): Thomas
Jason Railton (UK): Thomas & Friends
L. Andrew Reynolds (GwtLUG): Thomas
Peter Rosenqvist: Thomas inspired from others
Ben Rogers: Thomas
Michael Schian: Thomas & Friends
Daniel Siskind (GMLTC): Rheneas
Jeremiah VanderMark: Thomas-Bot
Mike Walsh (NCLTC): Thomas
Kevin Wilson (VLC): Thomas
“The Legoland Dude”: Thomas
“legozaemon”: Percy & Yaemon (not a Thomas charcter)
“skerat”: mini-Thomas
“unknown”: Thomas & Friends
“unknown”: Thomas
“Brick0937”: Thomas
“bapps”: Thomas
“ilove1981”: Thomas and Troublesome Trucks w/ instructions
Commercial Section
Mike Walsh (Carolina Train Builders): Blue Tank Engine
Kevin Wilson (Lions Gate Models): Tank Engine Custom Train Set
LEGO Shop-at-Home
Thomas models available from Shop-at-Home made by fans using LDD
Related LUGNET™ Threads
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| Has anyone sighted the new Thomas the Tank Engine sets: * 3300 Harold the Helicopter * 3301 Cargo-Loading Cranky here in Oz? My Thomas-loving nephew has his 4th birthday in a few weeks, so I'm hoping to buy one of these sets for his birthday. Kerry (18 years ago, 14-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Trevor the steam traction engine
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| Now that the Thomas Weekend event at LEGOLAND CA is over, thought I'd start posting images of my engines and cars. First up is Trevor the steam traction engine from the Thomas and Friends railway series. It uses old style wheels. With almost the (...) (18 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: NSW Class 38 Streamlined steamer
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| (...) Now that's interesting. Your boiler design is similar to what I did for a GW pannier tank engine, "Duck". I'd love to compare how you did you snotting attachments. (URL) I'm still working on them, but I'm building some engines for a Thomas the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
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| (...) snipped (...) Tim, that was extremely useful, thank you. I'm assuming that Thomas with two coaches would be a B class, same for Toby with his coach and baggag car. Is the red end of train light mounted high or low? Mat (18 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Harold Flies! Worship my Photoshop Skilz!
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| (URL) Okay, okay, my Photoshop skilz rule Monaco, but that's about it. Actually, there is a little more to the story.... We at the TCLTC have a Thomas the Tank Engine area of our layout, and so when we found out that there were going to be a few new (...) (18 years ago, 2-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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| | Thomas the Tank Engine duplo trains
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| I received my Thomas The Thank Engine duplo trains on the weekend. I got the complete collection: (URL) they are only available in North America, so you may have to set your shipping address to be USA to see them. But one would think the enormous (...) (19 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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| Well, my prayers have been finally answered (sorta:-) I had gotten into the habit of firing off an email to Brad Justus every 6 months or so when he was still heading up LEGO Direct begging for TLG to get a license for producing Thomas the Tank (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX) !!
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| | I LOVE the new 10170...
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| Even though I am a committed 8 wider, I love this new container car (and the BNSF which preceded it). This set (and the newer BNSF) actually creates in me a dilemma. On the one hand, I want to show off my building prowess by constructing 8 wide (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Compressionism
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| <Throws bucket of cold water on the whole 6-wide vs. 8-wide posturing...> Build what you like. If it runs, great! If not, either live with it, or rebuild it. My take is as long as the 'trainheads' recognize what I'm trying to build, I've done a good (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Duplo Trains
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| This popped up this morning on Brickset - 3772 Duplo Deluxe Train Set, 2005 (URL) a neat looking set - blue engine, freight car, platform, cranes, etc. I have to say, the Duplo train line looks great this year. Freight, Thomas, etc. What is in store (...) (19 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Pics from ToyFair 2005
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| I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Lego StarWars 2005 V.I.P. Gala event at the LEGO showroom at 25th and Broadway, in NYC, as part of this year's Toy Fair, so naturally I went... I uploaded a bunch of pics to BrickLink. They haven't been (...) (19 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005, lugnet.lego) !!
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| | Thomas Train
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| Speaking of Thomas Train. . . I know this is horribly off-topic and Larry is going to want my head for this, but my 2 year old really enjoys playing with the wooden toys. I was wondering if any of you train guys knew a good place to buy the Thomas (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Comcast On Demand & Thomas
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| My family recently upgraded to Comcast Digital Service. Comcast offers a service called. On Demand. It is a library of recent cable programming that you can view at any time. You can also pause, rewind, fast forward, etc. So we clicked into On (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | My First Train MOC
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| For my first train MOC, I wanted to do something small, simple and fairly easy to recognize. It is based on the recipe from the ILTCO website. (URL) let me know what you think. :) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | looking for the owners
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| Will the owners/builders of the following engines please contact me: (URL) am updating my Thomas presentation and I need your names to give you proper credit for the models. Russell BayLTC (20 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | New train MOC pictures
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| The first new pictures of my train MOCs have appeared on Brickshelf: LMS 2-6-0+0-6-2T Garratt Steam Engine: (URL) has 5 motors (2 train, 2x 71427 and 1 micro motor in the cab to turn the coal bunker) and working valve gear. Toby the Tram: (URL) with (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | "Percy" MOC with some clever techniques
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| I said pretty much everything I wanted to say on the MOCpage: (2 URLs) Briefly, it is a collaborative effect between me and Ross, but you've got to check out a couple of Ross' unique innovations-- quite clever indeed! JOHN (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Dear ILTCO
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| Sir, I wish to take issue with the caption of two images in Russell Clark's otherwise excellent presentation, "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends". On page 23 (of 27), a compound image is captioned "Thomas by unknown modeler[sic] (UK)". The model (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Wrap-Up - MichLTC Display - January 25-26th, 2003 Novi Expo Center - Novi, Michigan
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| To All, MichLTC’s third display in three years at the Great American Train Show (GATS) in Novi, Michigan, at the Novi Expo Center, on Saturday January 25th & 26th was a great show! With a huge layout, a kids building table, numerous train loops, and (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug) !!
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| | Re: the perfect way to sell lego trains
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| lots of snipage here: (...) I think so too, Thomas starters run from $25 (basic circle w/1 engine no cars) its $40 (basic figure 8 w/1 engine 2 cars) they go way up from there (...) yep (...) I think some options here would be good... 9v train motor (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Blue tank engine train set available again
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| As I did last year, I've put together a kids train set for sale featuring a blue tank engine, small UK-style freight cars and a brake van. Yes, it looks very like a certain blue tank engine of our acquaintance, although it's not "officially' him :-) (...) (21 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Thomas' Annie, Claribel; and some Troublesome Trucks
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| With the advent of the new "Yoda" brown, a decent color finally exists to model the 2 cars Thomas the Tank Engine always pulls: Annie and Claribel. After scouring Bricklink for dozens of necessary 1x1s and the like (thanks, guys!), I present a (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Nambour trip to see Peter Curby's exhibition
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| Peter Curby and his mother Frances are running a large Lego exhibition up in Nambour, as a fundraiser for the SES cadets. It will be held at the Nambour Central Mall (near the IGA supermarket) from 22 June to 7 July (Monday to Saturday, not Sunday) (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Thomas the Tank Engine ;) - MOC
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| G'day... well 1st of all, I have to say I don't know diddly-squat about trains and building them... so therefore I shall present you with 'My First Thomas' lol, yeah, he's probably not to scale, and neither is half the toys out there based on him... (...) (22 years ago, 19-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Pics: Life-size Thomas
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| Don't know all of the particulars about this Thomas, but he came to Minneapolis last weekend and the weekend before (snowed *both* weekends!) I do know that he is a dummy (a hard-working GP-7 pushed him around from the rear). Ross (my son) said that (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | New MOC: Bill/Ben from TtTE (7 wide;)
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| I started this MOC over a year ago and *finally* finished him last night! And I'm glad I waited because I made some great improvements from the original design. First, how about that color match with the new sand red!!!! We have a metal Bill/Ben (...) (23 years ago, 27-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Thomas?
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| Kevin, this occurred to us after you left last night. Is Thomas going to make it to this show (the vote was certainly that he should ;-). Robin (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Idea for Thomas
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| Kevin, I came across this page, which has a very pretty little train (especially the face) that could easily be adapted for Thomas. It's still 6 wide, and quite recognizable as a face (I think). We could even build the entire face up by one plate, (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Edward the Blue Engine
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| Just a note that my friend's new MOCs Edward the Blue Engine can be seen here: (URL) think it's the one of the greatest Thomas series engine I have ever seen........ Masayuki Ogura (URL) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.jp)
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| | YATTTE - Yet Another Thomas the Tank Engine
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| I know numerous people have built Thomas so far but a comment Larry made a few weeks made a lot of sense (every club should have a Thomas). So with that thought in conjunction with the fact that we are headed to my parents house for Thanksgiving (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 4 Wide Loco & 3 Wide Thomas:-)
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| Okay, my son strikes again:-) Here are some pics of his 4 wide Soo engine and a 3 wide Thomas: (URL) Soo utilizes some HO passenger trucks that I had purchased to use on my 4 wide Hiawatha passenger car: (URL) . We will have to find some Blombergs (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | More Thomas Engines: James
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| Here are some pics of an attempt to model James from the Thomas the Tank Engine stories. It was a joint effort between me and my 11 year old son. We tried to be as faithful to the original model of James from the videos (spent lots of time searching (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: WHAT IF? Take a look!
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| (...) TLC may not be in bed with Britt Allcroft, but can you say "Hogwart's Express"? Actually, a member of the GMLTC (who is offline) has already built that train.... (...) Easy on Thomas, Lar. You know as well as I that at train shows, the one (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Has anyone tried building a Thomas?
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| has anyone tried to build a Lego(R) version of Thomas the Tank Engine, a chrarecter in the Rev Awdry's Railway stories? Given Thomas's popularity, I am suprised that no-one hadn't already. Also I think that TLG/TLC should try and get the right to (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Matt's Lego Train Depot
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| In case anyone is wondering why my website hasn't been updated for a while it's because I can't get to it. I think some NFS software screwed up my Compuserve configuration and no amount of uninstalling/reinstalling seems to fix it. I think I'll take (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.trains)
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