The world’s most beloved #1 blue engine is rolling into the Bay State this spring! A hands-on, immersive and interactive exhibit inspired by Thomas the Tank Engine will be at the Springfield Museums.

When I was a child, I could spend all day at Shining Time Station, the fictive train depot with its own eponymous TV show, where Thomas the Tank Engine and all his plate-faced locomotive friends ...

Thomas started out as a character in a series of books dating back to the 1940s by Rev. Wilbert Awdry, an English Anglican minister and train enthusiast. Awdry's The Railway Series revolved around a ...