| | |  | WowToyz Classic Train Set - Diesel Engine with Tanker | Home » » » » WowToyz Classic Train Set - Diesel Engine with Tanker | | | | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 18.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 2.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Length:
| 14.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 13.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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 KNKNov 06, 2011
By KKN
I bought two trains, one steam engine with a passenger car and another one, which has a diesel engine with an oil tanker. Both had the same price and this review is for both of them.
I got this toy for my 5 year old son. Arranged the track and turned on the diesel engine and it did not move even an inch. Then opened the other pack that had the steam engine and that worked well. The diesel engine's wheels turned only if you hold the engine in your hand at it stopped the moment you keep it on the track or on any surface where the wheels touch something. I disassembled it and found that the motor's drive shaft moves forward when there is any little load on the wheel and when it is in that forward position, it just stops turning. Then I used a small piece of plastic to hold that drive shaft in position, by stopping it from moving forward and it worked! Already the toy made a lot of noise from its speaker and now my fix makes extra noise, but it works!
The steam engine has better looking grips on its drive wheels. So, it works well. However, the diesel engine has some kind of a rubber band around the drive wheel to stop the wheels from slipping instead of pulling the train. That looked very cheap and as expected, one of them started coming out of the wheel and soon the other one also followed. So, the train runs for a while and then would stop after these two come out of the wheel. I fixed that too by glueing those rubber bands on to the wheel to stop them from coming out.
If you are buying this toy as a stationary model train, it is good. But if you are thinking of buying it as a running model, then this is not the one for that. The plastic is so delicate that if you apply a little pressure on top of the train, the axle might break, although it hasn't happened with mine yet. The steam engine runs fine, but the coupling (what allows you to join the passenger car) broke in a week's time. I fixed it with the super glue and don't know for how long it is going to stand.
There are no straight tracks in the pack. So all what you could make is a perfect circle. I used the tracks from both the packs and made one big round track that's kind of elliptical. It is permanently fixed like that, because I feel if you keep dismantling the tracks and join them every time you want to play, it may not stay in shape for long, because the things that keep two tracks joined together may not stand for long.
 Great starter's train.Jul 01, 2011
By Odd Ball
"oddballhero"
Looks great and good value. Good way to see how nephew will treat train and if ready for bigger set. Hard to find semi-realistic toy trains without faces on the front nowadays.
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