Columbia Tristar Home Video, about 85 minutes, for ages 2 to 6, VHS $22.46, DVD $24.95. “Thomas and the Magic Railroad” is the first attempt of “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends,” a PBS ...

Ride the rails to adventure with “THOMAS AND THE MAGIC RAILROAD,” when it celebrates its 20th ... Lily teams up with Mr. C and Thomas and sets out to get Sodor back on track in this ...

It's just as well the Rev. Wilbert Awdry's name is nowhere to be found on the credits of "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," as the author of the '40s British kidtomes from which this is a feature ...

Unfortunately for Thomas, the magic railroad comes out on a cliff, and he falls off it (after dropping Lily off), and into another weird portal thing. This is never explained. Ad ...

It's sad in the extreme to see a behind-the-scenes cast of thousands, well hundreds, combining in an attempt to turn visual effects and animation into pure, innocent magic, and failing miserably.

Another film intended for the very young is Thomas and the Magic Railroad based on the books written by the Rev. W. Awdry for his son about talking steam engines, one of which is Thomas who in ...