The History of Day Out With Thomas 

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

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. . :’)

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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"

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.

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 :)

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

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!!!! 💙💙👍👍🎉🎉

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

All of us had to watch Thomas when we where younger

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.

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

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.

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

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

This made my day Thanks

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 :(

I remember going to day out with Thomas in 2014

love Thomas from Vietnam

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!

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

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

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

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

You're a really useful engine Thomas.

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

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.

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

thomas it's a huge part of my life

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

I ride Thomas when I was little kid

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

I’m 13 and still love Thomas 999 trillion

I been to a day out with Thomas twice before.

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas and friends fan for life

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

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

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

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

My scenic railroad stopped doing it for some reason

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

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

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

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

well said dude well said

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

I love Thomas and friends

The Island of Sodor comes to life.

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

I wanna go here

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

How do you guys ride on thomas the tank Engine ?

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

God damn I remember the days

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

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 .

Didn’t the eyes melt on accident when they first fired up the boiler in 1999?

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

Iam 33 years old i love thomas the tank engine

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

They converted the switcher back

Isn't James there? Or am I thinking of the Japanese one?

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

when did you first came to day out with thomas

I HAD THAT THOMAS BED!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

uh question where is the mid hants railway james now?