Train Toys Battery Operated Locomotive Trains for Wooden Track, Motorized Train for Toddlers with Magnetic Connection, Compatible with Thomas, Brio, Chuggington, Melissa and Doug

Very good quality. Long lasting and only requires two AAA batteries. Will run on most surfaces and is powerful. Pulls several wooden trains behind it without issue.

The boys love these. We have several of them

Very pleased this was my sons track when he was little when our son had his son we broke out the train set but the old engine the wheels wouldn’t turn. I was pleased to find a compatible train to replace it! Cant wait for our grandson to play with it!

Awesome, our 2-year-old absolutely loved it! Worked perfectly on his wooden tracks and pulling all of his other magnetic train pieces.

Great quality and loads of fun

0 stars! Right out of the box this POS doesn't work. My son was so excited to use it and now he's upset. I have a tool to test batteries and these are all brand new. None of them are working in this toy.

this train is good but changing battery is a paint you have to unscrew it each time, and main thing is the lack of power the motor has, it barley or wont even make it up a slight incline if you have a brio bridge. will have better odds making it up if you just put in fresh batteries. feels like it would be way better if it had 3 aaa so i gets that extra 1.5volts to the motor. now if you have a flat track then that's where it will shine and you wont have issues

Good looking train. It looks relatively realistic compared to a real diesel engine. It runs great AFTER you fixed the battery compartment. If you want just the fix, scroll down to "The solution?". Otherwise continue reading if you are bored and want to know how I ended up with the proposed fix. The battery compartment was designed wrong. It has two springs, side-by-side, deep in the body. Normally, you mate the negative (flat) end of a battery to the spring. This is how it is for all toys, and for that matter, ANY electronics with a battery box that accepts AAA, AA, C, or D batteries. But on this toy, and another toy from the same company, the springs are on the same end, deep inside the body. This suggests the batteries should be connected in parallel. Knowing better (most toys connect batteries in series, not parallel), I double checked the instructions. My hunch was correct because the "Port" side of the train needs to have the battery go Positive end in, and the "Starboard" side go Negative end in. What you end up with, when the Stern/back is facing you, the left battery has its negative (flat) end facing you and the right battery have its positive (button) end facing you. This will connect the batteries in series producing 2.4v to 3v for the motor, sound, and lights. No biggie, right? Just screw the cover back on and off we go! And of course, we have a NO go. Or rather, a "Sometimes" go. Turning on the power and pressing the forward button will randomly make it "go". If you shake the train, sometimes it will work. If the train derails, there is a high chance it will no longer work until you shake it again. This sounds like the battery is not making proper contact. Another reviewer recommended shimming the battery to make sure there is a good contact. So I added aluminum foil where the battery cover is, to make sure they are making a good connection. This tricked me into believing it worked, because it was going great for awhile until the train was eventually dropped by an overactive toddler. Shaking it again made it worked again but from then on, it behaved the same as previously before adding the aluminum foil. So I did what any sensible parent with too many tools would do, I took the whole thing apart. As it turns out, where the Port side battery goes in (positive end in), the battery's button fits perfectly inside the spring's inner coil. The spring's "ring" presses against the face of the battery (which is isolated from the positive terminal) with the button (the positive terminal) in between the ring not touching the spring. This explains why shaking it makes it work sometimes. While any random bump will cause it to dislodge the button from touching the spring on the side and make it not work. The solution? Take a piece of aluminum foil and shove it down the Port-side battery hole to create a wall for the battery button to press against the entirety of the spring. No more problems after this. Like others have said, the train is all plastic and not the sturdy, indestructible, Lego kind of plastic. The wheels are thin and feels like it can easily be chipped or be bitten off. Definitely not for any little ones who isn't past the stage of putting stuff in their mouth. Otherwise, the pulling power of the train is pretty good and is more limited by the strength of the magnetic coupling. This particular train is good in that it has a magnetic coupler on both ends. This means you can place this in the middle of a very long train set to help push and pull it. Most of the other steam varieties can only pull because there is only a magnet in the rear. I bought a steam version for the front, this diesel in the middle, and had an old Thomas motorized "booster steam car" at the end. This enabled my little one to connect all the Thomas wooden train toys and make it "go"!