Life Like Trains Rail Master Electric Train Set #8608
- F40PH Sante Fe locomotive + 3 cars
- 47″ x 38″ oval track layout
- Great Starter Set
- 100 pieces includes utility poles, railroad and street signs
Product Description
Get started in the world’s greatest hobby with the Life-Like Rail Master train set. 12 pieces of side-locking Power-Loc track click together instantly to form a 36″ x 48″ oval that’s up and running in minutes. The HO-scale F40PH low-nose diesel locomotive pulls a refrigerator car, a coal car, and a caboose around the track. Create a complete railroad scene with the included highway signs and street lamps.
* F40PH locomotive with working headlight
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Life Like Trains Rail Master Electric Train Set #8608
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The railroad was very hard to put together because the tracks keep getting undone and the diagram for elevating the tracks was not clear. Also, unlike the Thomas the Train type of a wooden track, the design is inflexible. You need to have all your pieces in a particular order, otherwise, you won’t be able to close the loop. It is also very difficult to properly position the locomotive onto the tracks (it’s got 8 wheels which don’t appear to be well aligned) and once you finally get it on, it derails easily. We ended up spending 2-3 times more time on getting the train back on track than actually seeing the train run.
Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this train for my six-year old grandson. He fell in love with my husband’s old N Gauge train, one that had the tracks that had to fit together perfectly, and one that gave a small shock from the transformer if it wasn’t together properly. I worried that he would end up hurt on the thing, plus I wasn’t thrilled at putting it together all the time – really hard to get the track to work. So when I saw this one that had an easy-put-together track and yet still had all the capability of our older electric train I thought why not?
Well, the train is awesome. The track goes together easily (however it is a little more difficult to get apart – more on that later). It took about 10 minutes to get the train up and going. My grandson had no problems working it and going both forward and backward. He did have a little bit of difficulty getting the train cars to stick together, but once we got that figured out all was well.
Taking the track apart turned out to be tricky – you have to slightly twist one section to get it apart. Once we got that figured out it was easy, but it took a number of minutes to get it to work, so be prepared for that.
Otherwise, great train and track – definitely recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
The locomotive didn’t work when we opened it, but I called the 1-800 number and they sent a new one ASAP (no cost) and now it works great!!! The back trains need some weight in them or they will derail on high. We just added some from the arts/craft store. It’s interchangable with other HO Scale models.
Rating: 5 / 5