The 35-millimeter film flickers. An arm descending from the blue sky holds a clapboard over a quaint railway station, where custom-made train models with expressive human faces wait for action. The ...

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To celebrate the 80th anniversary of British children’s classic, Thomas & Friends, an original unseen version of the pilot episode will be available to watch for the first time ever – with narration ...

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 ...

Thomas the Tank Engine wasn't the only one smiling on Saturday. The 15-ton replica of the train engine, star of the popular PBS KIDS' series "Thomas & Friends," chugged along at 8 miles per hour on a ...