The History of Day Out With Thomas

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  • Опубліковано 20 лют 2020
  • Day Out With Thomas is the celebration of all things Thomas the Tank Engine that occurs multiple times a year all across the world. In 2019, I visited this event for the first time in 10 years and had an absolute blast. This trip down memory lane inspired me to research to origins of the event and see how far it's come.
    Sources
    web.archive.org/web/201605120...
    web.archive.org/web/201708160...
    www.docbrown.info/docspics/Arc...
    www.talyllyn.co.uk/enthusiast...
    www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/...
    nvr.org.uk/product.php/15
    www.rrpicturearchives.net/Loco...
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    S.A Music / thomaspercy99
    Mavis M / @mavism
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  • @Polaris5664
    @Polaris5664 3 роки тому +74

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

  • @ShiningTimeStudios475
    @ShiningTimeStudios475 2 роки тому +7

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

  • @BanditAviation
    @BanditAviation 3 роки тому +34

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

    • @AndrewtheLNERA1
      @AndrewtheLNERA1 2 роки тому +4

      no ones too old for thomas

    • @skandto
      @skandto Рік тому +2

      Hell yeah

    • @iatif1995
      @iatif1995 Рік тому +1

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

  • @AdiaTheSpaceAlien
    @AdiaTheSpaceAlien 2 роки тому +10

    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. . :’)

  • @MrGojira95
    @MrGojira95 3 роки тому +34

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

    • @Planetrainguy
      @Planetrainguy 3 роки тому +4

      Great! Hope you will enjoy it.

    • @AlexWeiss94
      @AlexWeiss94 3 роки тому +2

      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
      @marker6814 3 роки тому

      Yes Percy is my fav

    • @MatthewTheRBXMan
      @MatthewTheRBXMan 3 роки тому

      Same

    • @tylerf5929
      @tylerf5929 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @silasradzai6775
    @silasradzai6775 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @racingdriveranony
    @racingdriveranony 3 роки тому +4

    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.

  • @iannichols6452
    @iannichols6452 4 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @MIMRailPics24
    @MIMRailPics24 3 роки тому +7

    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

    • @Thomasdatankengine
      @Thomasdatankengine 3 роки тому +1

      Woah!

    • @MIMRailPics24
      @MIMRailPics24 3 роки тому +1

      @@Thomasdatankengine 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

  • @railroadvelocipedeproducti2020
    @railroadvelocipedeproducti2020 4 роки тому +20

    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
      @RyanentatameintinkFnar 3 роки тому

      Yeah you should watch EDC Thomas "boiler test"

    • @oregonrailfan7046
      @oregonrailfan7046 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @ShiningMew
    @ShiningMew 11 місяців тому +2

    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

  • @valesbridge_yt
    @valesbridge_yt 3 роки тому +6

    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"

  • @circluoy4303
    @circluoy4303 4 роки тому +19

    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
      @abstraction6212 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @christophertolmie6572
    @christophertolmie6572 2 місяці тому +1

    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!!!! 💙💙👍👍🎉🎉

  • @Gothenburg32
    @Gothenburg32 4 роки тому +12

    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.

  • @michaela.pempleton1128
    @michaela.pempleton1128 3 роки тому +4

    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 :)

  • @batteryrailway4229
    @batteryrailway4229 3 роки тому +5

    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.

  • @WasatchWind
    @WasatchWind 3 роки тому +12

    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.

  • @sladkinable
    @sladkinable 2 роки тому +1

    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
    @Bradleygt86 Рік тому

    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

  • @fanofthomasandfriendstoys8185
    @fanofthomasandfriendstoys8185 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @colinkrockenbergerchannel9518
    @colinkrockenbergerchannel9518 Рік тому +1

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

  • @noramcginity9048
    @noramcginity9048 9 місяців тому

    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.

  • @davehinton7927
    @davehinton7927 3 місяці тому

    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

  • @railwayroundhouse3792
    @railwayroundhouse3792 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @austynhicks6437
    @austynhicks6437 3 роки тому +1

    All of us had to watch Thomas when we where younger

  • @win7box276
    @win7box276 3 роки тому +1

    I remember going to day out with Thomas in 2014

  • @EdgicHedgicOfficial
    @EdgicHedgicOfficial 3 роки тому

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

  • @secondvalveservices9856
    @secondvalveservices9856 3 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @jonathanmoncion8476
    @jonathanmoncion8476 3 роки тому

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

  • @joshmontemayor6098
    @joshmontemayor6098 Рік тому

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

  • @gmanstudios11905
    @gmanstudios11905 2 місяці тому

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

  • @uclongnguyen6271
    @uclongnguyen6271 2 роки тому +2

    love Thomas from Vietnam

  • @bluefoxb12productions41
    @bluefoxb12productions41 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @Thomasnumber1fan101
    @Thomasnumber1fan101 4 роки тому +4

    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
      @SunshineHood 3 роки тому

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

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Рік тому +1

    You're a really useful engine Thomas.

  • @massrootsnwr7067
    @massrootsnwr7067 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @afallingmouse4343
    @afallingmouse4343 2 роки тому +1

    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 :(

  • @trainnadimamtrakthomasalle9037
    @trainnadimamtrakthomasalle9037 3 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @suzukiomelette4387
    @suzukiomelette4387 3 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @Acermani456
    @Acermani456 2 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @OlivergwrThomasthetankenginefa
    @OlivergwrThomasthetankenginefa 2 роки тому

    thomas it's a huge part of my life

  • @crushingbelial
    @crushingbelial 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @trainboy3340
    @trainboy3340 4 роки тому +2

    I’m 13 and still love Thomas 999 trillion

  • @finnthomas7014
    @finnthomas7014 3 роки тому

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

  • @Lisathecutestandprettiest
    @Lisathecutestandprettiest 2 роки тому

    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

  • @Charger_84
    @Charger_84 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @rafidhiyaulhaq1107
    @rafidhiyaulhaq1107 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @supermariomya6775
      @supermariomya6775 3 роки тому

      Bronx never had one im sad

    • @rafidhiyaulhaq1107
      @rafidhiyaulhaq1107 3 роки тому

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

  • @jamesabner6410
    @jamesabner6410 4 роки тому +9

    I ride Thomas when I was little kid

  • @Sonic57053
    @Sonic57053 3 роки тому +1

    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

  • @101shapshifter
    @101shapshifter Рік тому

    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.

  • @adventuresonic4675
    @adventuresonic4675 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @madmaxkrauss6628
    @madmaxkrauss6628 4 роки тому +1

    This made my day
    Thanks

  • @mr.minebloxdaylighttwinkle442
    @mr.minebloxdaylighttwinkle442 3 роки тому +1

    I been to a day out with Thomas twice before.

  • @georgebendall7401
    @georgebendall7401 2 роки тому

    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

  • @ChrisIGuess_0
    @ChrisIGuess_0 3 роки тому

    Thomas and friends fan for life

  • @legofan6595
    @legofan6595 3 роки тому +1

    Congratulations on 1000 subscribers

  • @trainlandia697
    @trainlandia697 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @miguelcarpintero613
    @miguelcarpintero613 4 роки тому

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

  • @idontlikechristmas2269
    @idontlikechristmas2269 3 роки тому +1

    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

  • @bradythepokemaniac3675
    @bradythepokemaniac3675 3 роки тому

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

  • @a_midland_engine
    @a_midland_engine 2 роки тому

    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!

  • @lunariansoup9635
    @lunariansoup9635 Рік тому

    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

  • @magicguystudios7940
    @magicguystudios7940 3 роки тому

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

  • @folakeomoniyi195
    @folakeomoniyi195 Місяць тому

    I love Thomas and friends

  • @94gang94
    @94gang94 3 роки тому

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

  • @lunghingyuen6141
    @lunghingyuen6141 3 місяці тому

    Iam 33 years old i love thomas the tank engine

  • @SPG69
    @SPG69 4 роки тому +2

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

  • @Cwilliam1999
    @Cwilliam1999 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @JOEMAMA_534
    @JOEMAMA_534 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @cinnamonmantrainsareawesom7224
    @cinnamonmantrainsareawesom7224 4 роки тому

    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
      @supermariomya6775 3 роки тому

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

  • @mmandmcb14
    @mmandmcb14 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @AtkataffTheAlpha
    @AtkataffTheAlpha 4 роки тому

    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

  • @SharkKid21
    @SharkKid21 3 роки тому +1

    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

  • @evanf1293
    @evanf1293 4 роки тому +1

    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

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Рік тому

    The Island of Sodor comes to life.

  • @brightredmogul1912
    @brightredmogul1912 3 роки тому +2

    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!

  • @victorianocabral8861
    @victorianocabral8861 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @c_alford2011
    @c_alford2011 3 роки тому

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

  • @arandombear5665
    @arandombear5665 4 роки тому

    The H O R R O R of the pre 2014 Thomas face

  • @Hypershadic23
    @Hypershadic23 3 роки тому

    God damn I remember the days

  • @victorianocabral8861
    @victorianocabral8861 4 роки тому

    well said dude well said

  • @starfreak2349
    @starfreak2349 3 роки тому

    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

  • @SonicFabear
    @SonicFabear 3 місяці тому

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

  • @603rail
    @603rail 4 роки тому +1

    My scenic railroad stopped doing it for some reason

    • @603rail
      @603rail 3 роки тому +1

      @Daniel C. Oh that makes since

  • @joshuajohnson508
    @joshuajohnson508 Рік тому

    I want to day out with Thomas three years ago 2019 in the summer

  • @magicguystudios7940
    @magicguystudios7940 3 роки тому

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

  • @DistanceNsVeterans
    @DistanceNsVeterans 2 роки тому

    Basically starsburg thomas is like a American Version of the British E2 locomotives

  • @stormy_person_4204
    @stormy_person_4204 4 роки тому +1

    I wanna go here

  • @carlosthec5ashunter
    @carlosthec5ashunter 3 роки тому +1

    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 .

  • @mingoliplays2365
    @mingoliplays2365 3 роки тому

    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

  • @Defnotyeett
    @Defnotyeett 5 місяців тому

    I HAD THAT THOMAS BED!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

  • @rockyfanatic6846
    @rockyfanatic6846 4 роки тому +1

    They converted the switcher back

  • @filipthetrainguy4723
    @filipthetrainguy4723 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @MatthewTheRBXMan
    @MatthewTheRBXMan 4 роки тому

    I wanna to say I when to see thomas when I was 4 years old but now 2020 i am 14 I am still going

  • @q.h.s5051
    @q.h.s5051 4 роки тому

    I gotta meet one of my best friends someday. My old pal. Thomas

  • @magicguystudios7940
    @magicguystudios7940 3 роки тому

    Strasburg railroad now has rusty the narrow gauge diesel

  • @anthonynigri8585
    @anthonynigri8585 3 роки тому

    The first time I've ridden on Thomas was in 2013 when I was 5

  • @samdance7388
    @samdance7388 4 роки тому

    You forgot to mention Thomas Land at Edaville and Thomas Town at Kenneywood

  • @magicguystudios7940
    @magicguystudios7940 3 роки тому

    Uh dude question what happened to mid hants railway James