Motor Road and Rail

Motor Road and Rail is a battery-operated toy train system manufactured by TOMY. The engines run on plastic blue track and the roadway vehicles run on a grey road. Motor Road and Rail is not fully compatible with other Thomas toy brands, although the vehicles in the range are the same gauge as and fit well on Wooden Railway track and vice-versa.

Outside Asia, HiT Toy Company bought the licence for the range in 2007 and replaced it with the TrackMaster range.

Ringing Tekoro Engines
All of the engines in this range are unmotorised.

2015

 * Thomas
 * James
 * Percy

2016

 * Gordon
 * Paint covered Thomas
 * Chocolate covered Percy

2017

 * Philip
 * Ashima
 * Streamlined Thomas
 * Harold
 * Journey Beyond Sodor Thomas

2018

 * Silver Thomas
 * Theo
 * Lexi

2019

 * Rajiv

Talk 'n' Action Engines
In 2000, Talk 'n' Action engines were released with the ability to "talk" using special green pieces of track. The engines' first car is connected to them and cannot be uncoupled. Three of them were released outside of Japan.

2000

 * Talk 'n' Action Thomas with Annie and Clarabel
 * Talk 'n' Action Henry with fish van and log car
 * Talk 'n' Action Gordon with green express coach
 * Talk 'n' Action James with cattle truck and brake van
 * Talk 'n' Action Percy with fuel tanker and mail van

2001

 * Talk 'n' Action Toby with Henrietta and truck
 * Talk 'n' Action Diesel 10 with Splatter and Dodge

Plarail Talking Engines
In Japan, a line of engines that talk in Japanese were released in 2004.
 * Thomas with Annie and Clarabel
 * Percy with works coach and fuel tanker
 * James with red Express coach
 * Gordon with green Express coach
 * Henry with green Express coach
 * Edward with mail van

In 2010, the talking engines were discontinued but in 2013, some of the engines were brought back with updated cars and new voices from the ninth series-present voice cast.


 * Thomas with Annie and Clarabel
 * Percy with a mail coach and brown wagon
 * James with a blue express coach
 * Hiro with a red open car
 * Gordon with an express coach

Pullback Engines
These engines were chunky plastic toys created and distributed by TOMY in 2004. There was a set that was released that contained all three engines.
 * Thomas
 * James
 * Percy

2002

 * Diesel expansion pack - Diesel with a milk wagon, fuel tanker and tracks
 * Talking Percy expansion pack - Talk 'n' Action Percy and tracks

2005

 * Railway expansion 1 - fuel tanker, truck, brake van and oval of track with sidings

2006

 * Railway expansion 2 - milk wagon, boxcar, truck and oval of track
 * Track expansion pack
 * Thomas Track Expansion Pack
 * Station Crossing Accessory Kit

Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
In 2022, the Plarail range was expanded to include new toys based on Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go. These toys run alongside the classic Thomas & Friends range.

Trivia

 * Takara Tomy released Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James and Percy again in Plarail, but with more detail such as a white running plate and black lamp irons. They also removed some detail, as Henry and Gordon's connecting rods are now standard and Edward now uses the standard 0-6-0 chassis instead of the 4-4-0 one.
 * Elsbridge Station was made twice as "Thomas Crossing Station".
 * The Talk 'n' Action Toby, Henry and Gordon were originally planned to be released to English-speaking territories, but due to the Talk 'n' Action range being discontinued, they were cancelled.
 * In 2014, James received a separately coupled tender and in 2015, Gordon received the same modification. In 2018, Edward and Henry also received the same treatment. Each engine also received an updated CGI style face.
 * In 2018, Thomas and Percy received some minor updates, along with CGI faces.
 * Edward's redesign inaccurately portrays him as a 2-6-0, much like his TrackMaster (2014-onwards) counterpart.
 * Donald and Douglas were the first tender engines not to have their tenders permanently attached.
 * Ashima was first released as an unmotorised ringing engine before getting a motorized variant.
 * Henry's models use the BR Class C Headcodes.
 * Winston and Marion are unmotorised and have a front coupler, hinting that they could be used as rolling stock.
 * Rosie's red livery incorrectly has her boiler bands in white instead of gold.
 * Rebecca's model incorrectly has her navy colours in black.
 * Emily and Toby are the only Steam Team members without CGI faces.
 * The wheels on Theo's model are all exactly the same size.
 * The pre-2018 models for James, Gordon and Henry were the only ones with six functional wheels.
 * Edward's pre-2018 model, Molly and Mighty Mac are the only engines with eight working wheels.
 * Murdoch's model has the most working wheels of any model, with a total of ten.
 * Hong-Mei's model reuses the chassis of Rosie's models, though the upper body shell was a new sculpt.
 * Skiff's models are oversized.
 * Beppe's roof is unpainted, his wheels are grey, and he is larger than his actual size.
 * Since the late 2010s, the models received less paint applications as cost-cutting measures, which is more evident with the buffers.
 * Kenji's model is differently designed from the existing Plarail 0 Series, and features a pullback motor instead of being battery powered like his Motorized model. Kenji also has a rear bumper to allow another engine to push him, rather than the usual rear coupling loop.
 * Much like all current Thomas toy lines, the models aim to reproduce a design aesthetic based on the CGI series despite running alongside the reboot, especially since the late 2010s. Despite this, models based on the reboot designs were released in 2023, though unlike the Motorized and TrackMaster Push Along ranges, the reboot designs are released in a separate range rather than replacing the main range.