The History of Day Out With Thomas

[@Polaris5664]

0-6-0 Tank engine: *Exists* Heritage railways: Your gonna be Thomas now.

[@HomerPenguin5516]

True

[@keoeodeooeoeorh2864]

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[@elizabetharas5748]

seems accurate

[@dance_floor513]

True

[@a.rentertainment2232]

It’s free real estate :P

[@AdiaTheSpaceAlien]

I still remember going to a Day Out With Thomas back when I was 4 in 2004. It was the BEST EXPERIENCE a young child had! Also, I remember I had a Day Out With Thomas T-Shirt. Actually, 10 Years of Thomas was one of my FAVORITE Thomas VHS tapes, because took place at A Day Out With Thomas. I still remember recreating Percy going up the hill and down the hill, well using my leg as the hill. . :’)

[@ShelbyBanditNFS]

I'm 35 years old and I still love Thomas the tank engine.

[@AndrewtheLNERA1]

no ones too old for thomas

[@skandto]

Hell yeah

[@iatif1995]

Too bad they had to make a really bad version of it for the new episodes…

[@TheKaidynB]

Likewise and I’m 23

[@ShelbyBanditNFS]

​@@iatif1995the CGI or the Cartoon?

[@gmanstudios11905]

I’m so happy I’m watching this since I’ll be going to strasburg for day out with Thomas in a couple weeks

[@noramcginity9048]

Oh My gosh, I can totally relate. Thomas and Friends has had a massive effect on me too. I started loving Thomas and Friends ever since age 2 1/2, owned at least 7 vhs tapes, and 3 dvds, loved getting engine models and other merchandise, and my collection grew over the years, dancing to the songs, reading the stories, watching the series, the whole enchilada. The only thing I regret not doing is speaking up sooner about going to a day out with Thomas. I went to A day out with Thomas when I was maybe 3 and hardly remember it. However, just last year on November 12, I went to the Day out with Thomas In Parris, CA, and I loved it, despite being 20 years old. I felt very much the same as you did, seeing all those dids was heartmelitng, and just being there was really like a trip down memory lane. It was a good thing I had watche dmost of the reboot that was released by that time, because that was noticed all over. However, it wasn't all the reboot: There were 2 songs played from the original series, a storytelling time was a CGI story, and I say posters of the characters in their original format all over the place too. It truly was a great experience for me.

[@sladkinable]

Me and my twin always grew up going to the Crossroads Village DOWT. We stopped going when we were 10. We're 14 going on 15 now and we wanna go back. VIVA DE REVOLUTION!

[@Bradleygt86]

I remember my birthday when I turned four I went to day out with Thomas I still remember how much joy it brought me I will never forget it for the rest of my life Thomas and friends got me into steam engines and railroading

[@ShiningTimeStudios475]

I'm 15 years old and I still love Thomas the Tank Engine!

[@Acermani456]

I went to the Conway Scenic Railroad for Day Out with Thomas in 2015! I only went to 2 trips. Once in 2015 and again in 2018. I'm sad that they stopped doing it. It was also probably due to the TV show ending for All Engines Go.

[@stuckinthebentclouds3790]

I remember going to day out with Thomas in 2014

[@Dswavy92]

Don't feel bad I'm 31 and still love trains to this day. I don't think I'll ever forget where my love of trains came from

[@christophertolmie6572]

I'm from Connecticut and I remember going to a DOWT event with my mom and my brother and sister when i was little at Essex Steam Train and Riverboat. I think i was around 2 or 3 years old and even though i absolutely loved it, seeing Thomas up close scared the living daylights out of me!!!! It was very overwhelming!!!! But i still loved the event as a whole!!!! Me and my brother are now 22 and while he's grown out of it, i am still a HUGE fan to this day and i always will be!!!! T&F is my 2nd favorite franchise alongside Power Rangers!!!! 💙💙👍👍🎉🎉

[@railwayroundhouse3792]

Thanks for using parts of my video for the mid hants sections. Nice to see it getting more attention :)

[@joshmontemayor1212]

My family & I rode Thomas @ Tweetsie Railroad many years ago. He & another steam locomotive were pulling the train.

[@MrGojira95]

One day, I will go to Strasburg for a Day Out with Thomas & Percy.

[@Planetrainguy]

Great! Hope you will enjoy it.

[@AlexWeiss94]

Lucky me I live in Pennsylvania, so I was able to go there when I was 3. Also, I live about 250 miles away from Strasburg

[@marker6814]

Yes Percy is my fav

[@MatthewTheRBXMan]

Same

[@tylerf5929]

I have it's amazing, stay at the red caboose hotel while you go there

[@silasradzai6775]

When i went to day out with Thomas, it was one of the best days of my life

[@colinkrockenbergerchannel9518]

I been to a Day Out With Thomas the Train at the Whitewaters Railroad Museum in Connersville IN in 2014

[@a_midland_engine]

6:08 Is that the Huckleberry Railroad? I think it is! Thor is where I first went to dayout with Thomas, I’m also going there on Sunday with my cousins this week!

[@imbroke-rip]

The NVR thomas is my favorite! It is such a massive part of my childhood and i wish to go see thomas again at the Nene Valley Railway.

[@crushingbelial]

Just got back from dowt it was fun! Our family's first time

[@Mascott2004]

I like how you used stock footage of the UK Day Out With Thomas events as well as the US ones. I’m from the UK and I’ve been to 6 DOWT events; my first one was at the East Lancashire Railway, back in 2007 when I was 3.

[@trainlandia697]

4:26 I saw that Thomas a few hours ago!

[@EdgicHedgicOfficial]

I'm 13 and a Thomas enthusiast. Core of my childhood.

[@afallingmouse4343]

When i was 2 or 3. I Went to Day Out With Thomas, And i was sooo Happy! but..... that's the only time i went and i cant go there again :(

[@ShiningMew]

i went to the strasburg thomas back in like 2008 when i was 3, and it still was one of the most magical experiences i’ve ever had

[@circluoy4303]

Good stuff but it would be nice to also bring mention at how the events have evolved through the years. Most notablely, the upgrade to a current accurate CGI face complete with newly added animatronic talking features.

[@abstraction6212]

It's impressive to know that this real life Thomas is a robot vehicle with an AI and not a creepy bio fusion

[@michaela.pempleton1128]

My oldest brother, me, and my younger sister love Thomas and my family always goes to the Day Out With Thomas in Essex Connecticut. It may not have been as exciting as others, not even having Mavis, but it was still fun :)

[@finnthomas7014]

a while back i went to dowt i loved every second of it i wonder how much it's changed

[@WasatchWind]

I lovingly remember my day out with Thomas in the early 2000s at the Heber Valley Railroad. While Thomas was cool, the real highlight of the day was getting to go into the cab of one of the railroad's other steam locomotives, and pull the whistle cord. Honestly the pinnacle of my childhood.

[@legofan6595]

Congratulations on 1000 subscribers

[@jonathanmoncion8476]

I’m 13 and I still love Thomas and I went to a day out with Thomas when i was 4

[@valesbridge_yt]

fun fact: theres thomas events everywhere in every country, even in australia and new zealand, Australia has it at the "puffing billy railway" and new zealand has it at the "glenbrook vintage railway"

[@austynhicks6437]

All of us had to watch Thomas when we where younger

[@101shapshifter]

I was a huge Thomas fan when I was a kid. Unfortunately, where I lived we didn't have a Day out with Thomas (even though there was a museum of transportation with a collection of steam engines), so I never got to enjoy that event.

[@MIMRailPics24]

When I as little my grandparents had a lake house in Missouri and on the way there like when I was 5 we saw a Thomas on a flat bed truck

[@Theabsolutesilly36]

Woah!

[@MIMRailPics24]

@@Theabsolutesilly36 yep i barley remember it since it was like 13 or 14 years ago and I only have a glyphs of memory but is saw it it’s probably because we were kinda close to IRM in northern illinois at the one we saw it

[@georgebendall7401]

At Silverstream Railway there is an old Thomas The Tank Engine he was all rusty and not working anymore also i used to play on him when i was a little boy man those were good times

[@fanofthomasandfriendstoys8185]

He also hold a very special place in my Hart as well too I love that NO.1 cheeky blue British tank engine

[@trainboy3340]

I’m 13 and still love Thomas 999 trillion

[@anthonynigri8585]

Me to

[@railroadvelocipedeproductions]

And also there was that time when the eyes in Thomas’s smokebox...the steam one not the dummy one did melt....but no one saw that so it was fixed thank god...and thomasdotd said that himself

[@RyanentatameintinkFnar]

Yeah you should watch EDC Thomas "boiler test"

[@oregonrailfan7046]

@@RyanentatameintinkFnar it’s called EDT not EDC but even they got it wrong it’s suppost to be BEDTIME Brooklyn eastern district terminal

[@iannichols6452]

I'm hoping to go to day out with thomas next year because I've been going to the one at Illinois Railway Museum since I was six years old.

[@Thomasnumber1fan101]

Spot on video!!! The amount of information given in this video was well researched. It's sad more and more places are dropping the event. My local heritage line in Ohio the CVSR dropped it last year due to the cost of the brand going up for these events.

[@SunshineHood]

Wait, CVSR dropped it? Oh no! They are my local railway.

[@Lisathecutestandprettiest]

I still remember when I was like 5 years I watch these cartoons my dad on tv and wake me up with the help of these cartoons bcz they was my fav

[@massrootsnwr7067]

I got lucky to live an hour away from the first American Thomas land in Massachusetts 😊

[@OlivergwrThomasthetankenginefa]

thomas it's a huge part of my life

[@batteryrailway4229]

I actually remember seeing this event when I was at Sacramento just by pure luck. I didn’t really get to ride it but maybe one day I will.

[@JOEMAMA_534]

E.D.T 15 is a video of the strasburg Thomas’s eyes melting off

[@Mizzinno]

No its not. Its fake.

[@ScotsmanpProductions]

@@Mizzinno although it did happen

[@BlueFoxB12Productions]

I recently went to the nene valley railway for my birthday but thomas was just sitting in the yard

[@uclongnguyen6271]

love Thomas from Vietnam

[@Charger_84]

6:33 my mouth dropped when i saw that whistle i remember playing with one when i was little

[@robnewman6101]

You're a really useful engine Thomas.

[@secondvalveservices9856]

The bluebell’s Stepney was already painted in the stroudley improved engine green livery, wilbert awdry just used the loco as a character in the book, to attempt to help promote more interest in preserved railways, as the same with the dean forest’s austerity tank.

[@trainnadimamtrakthomasalle9037]

You can go to day out with Thomas whenever you want. I go every year and boy do I love to go to day out with Thomas.

[@kennethfriedel9384]

We went to Midhants in 2010. Fantastic experience. Was at Strasburg for the first DOWT in 1996.

[@madmaxkrauss6628]

This made my day Thanks

[@christophertolmie6572]

The Strasburg Railroad Thomas (4:26 - 4:38)

[@Itz_Sonic57053]

Me As A Kid, I Liked Thomas During My Childhood Years Me As An Adult Now, I Just Like Thomas For The Memes Deep in my heart Thomas will always be my number 1

[@Cwilliam1999]

4:22 where did THAT come from????

[@suzukiomelette4387]

I guess noone remembers Oigawa Railway Company. When I was little, I never knew of strasburg. Because I only saw Oigawa and really wanted to ride on Hiro. One day maybe.

[@adventuresonic4675]

I remember riding with thomas back in 2009. I miss being 6😔.

[@chucke.cheesesunity1254]

I miss being 5 back in 2011 for the Leader Of The Track Tour

[@miguelcarpintero613]

I love Thomas so much I wish they still make more Thomas video

[@DaylightTwinkle]

I been to a day out with Thomas twice before.

[@chucke.cheesesunity1254]

Same with me!

[@idontlikechristmas2269]

I live in the UK so a day out with thomas is a bit different but I remember riding Thomas when I was about 3 or 5 those were fun days

[@lunghingyuen6141]

How do you guys ride on thomas the tank Engine ?

[@rafidhiyaulhaq1107]

Indonesia never have Day out with Thomas.. Its just.. sad... :

[@supermariomya6775]

Bronx never had one im sad

[@rafidhiyaulhaq1107]

@thomas ptkai 2 indonesia only Honestly, we can make a request for INKA to built a replica of Thomas

[@jamesabner6410]

I ride Thomas when I was little kid

[@jamesabner6410]

this were going to see Thomas at ky

[@anthonynigri8585]

Me to

[@mmandmcb14]

0:36 - GWR 6412, Star of the Flockton Flyer.

[@SharkKid21]

In England we have lots of day out with Thomas and I went to it for 6 years in a row and at a place near me they had Thomas as a part of their park railway for 10 years I was on its last ever ride before it got moved out the next day to get remade I guess to their new train which runs to this day

[@SPG69]

0:12 my family visits that railroad every now and then

[@Gorilla_drip]

I WENT TO THAT SAME LOCATION WHEN I WENT TO DAY OUT WITH THOMAS

[@brightredmogul1912]

Wow. Just. Plain. WOW. The fact that HiT Entertainment had the guts to try and SUE other railways for using a character that they thought belonged to them, and forgetting who originally brought Thomas to life (through books AND television)..... that's not only a bad move. That is pure greed at it's WORST!

[@magicguystudios7940]

Thomas has been a big part of my life since I first watched it now I’m 12

[@Steam_Tram_Studios]

Isn't James there? Or am I thinking of the Japanese one?

[@lunariansoup9635]

i remember this time i was on a highway and i looked out the window and saw a thomas engine under the bridge, looking back it seems scary but i was so shocked

[@bradythepokemaniac3675]

I remember going to edaville to ride Thomas when I was 5 years old

[@TOMYMurdoch]

Didn’t the eyes melt on accident when they first fired up the boiler in 1999?

[@itsme_davie]

Yup

[@AtkataffTheAlpha]

I'm not a child anymore but I still love trains & Thomas to this day. I still play with my Thomas trains aswell as my woonden trains that aren't Thomas

[@cinnamonmantrainsareawesom7224]

You’re so lucky I wanted to go to a day out with Thomas event at the Orange County railway museum but my dad thought i was too old for it.

[@supermariomya6775]

You are never too old for Thomas, how dare he 😠

[@stormy_person_4204]

I wanna go here

[@jefffranklin4894]

It's peterborough (Peter bu ru)

[@603rail]

My scenic railroad stopped doing it for some reason

[@603rail]

@Daniel C. Oh that makes since

[@TheKaidynB]

I’m 23 and still want my picture with strasburg Percy!

[@dalilabernardo3188]

Day out with Thomas forever

[@SonicFabear]

Other railroads in 2025: we have Thomas GCRM:why am I getting sued for doing what the other railroads are doing Mattel:idk

[@ChrisIGuess_0]

Thomas and friends fan for life

[@carlosthec5ashunter]

Before: just a B.E.D.T porter After: thomas: im here my children me: y a y percy on strasburg: hello t0m0z thomas: excuse me its T H O M A S .

[@filipthetrainguy4723]

By pulled you mean pushed by a old diesel engine making more smoke then Thomas

[@victorianocabral8861]

you know what would have more better and acturate if the uk railways made annie and clareabell that would have been awsome

[@evanf1293]

I guess I might try and attend one in the future but not sure how'd my parents react since I sometimes try to hide it from them but despite that I'm 18 my love my thomas and friends hasn't left my left because if it wasn't for Thomas I'd never find my love and passion for trains

[@94gang94]

I still like thomas when I was little but now I am 11 I still like it it's my childhood

[@mingoliplays2365]

the EDT 15 boiler test was a *failure* because the face was using plastic wood and other flammable material melted onto the ground and stay had to use a another train to replace the failure and when I said 0-6-0 back when this was not edited it's from the comment that says " Thomas the tank: *exists* " stuff so credits for him

[@magicstardust124]

Back in 2021 I went to spencer nc day out with thomas

[@MathiChannel2]

in 1999 thomas was doing a boiler test but the eyes melted because it was made of flammable material

[@rockyfanatic6846]

They converted the switcher back

[@magicguystudios7940]

Damn the mid hants railway wasn’t kidding when you said that one railway went a step further

[@starfreak2349]

The one here in Australia sucks, there’s a real life steam engine dressed up as Thomas but it’s a dead steamer with no coal and you can only get rides from Henry, Toby, and Donald

[@magicguystudios7940]

Uh dude question what happened to mid hants railway James

[@100allnaturalrock4]

Ive only been there once in 2015

[@RaresTTV2]

Where's EDT 15 boiler test?

[@victorianocabral8861]

uh question where is the mid hants railway james now?

[@prestonsvideos6133]

It's currently stored at Swanage following cosmetic restoration, it's been painted back.

[@c_alford2011]

1:56 No, he gave his son a little wooden tank engine model and he named it Thomas