Plarail advance

[HankAmericanEngine]

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I have a couple of the Plarail Advance Trains that came in a Yahoo lot. They are great but I wouldn't recommend them especially if kids will be involved. My son really want to enjoyplaying with the plarail advance trains. He gets them out only to put them away again because he gets upset when they don't work properly.

I (and my sone more so) find them quite difficult to locate on the track and they are much more susceptible to problems from misaligned tracks. They work best when the track is flat and on hard flooring so everything aligns correctly. Old or warped tracks can bring the train to a stand still with traction problems or derailing. They don't work on any regular junctions or just about all other 'special' tracks and climbing an incline (straight or curved) is almost impossible. Some of these problems are overcome with the special plarail advance tracks available for inclines, junctions and stations.

If you are able to buy appropriate tracks, make a layout on a hard surface and watch rather than play they would make for a great layout. Otherwise I wouldn't get too excited or you might be let down.

Dale.

Hello Mr. Dale,

Thank you for the information and advice regarding the Plarail Advance line; again, I probably wouldn't get too into it, as I've plenty of locomotives from both TAKARA TOMY Plarail and TrackMaster, both HiT Toys and Fisher-Price, that I enjoy running on layouts that I can create. The C57 is probably the one and only one thus far that I will actually purchase due to my interest in said locomotive, but I will definitely keep your advice in mind regarding the sets; some of those straight upward slope incline tracks would look great to modeling a hill for the regular Plarail engines to charge up on.