In this file photo from May 30, 2009, Ryan Steiner, 4, left, and his twin brothers Zach and Cole, 6, have their photograph taken by their father, Chad Steiner, of Overland Park, in front of Thomas the ...

Thomas the Tank Engine has been steaming into town in Strasburg for years. Now the popular children's entertainer has a new friend joining the party. Strasburg will debut Percy, another train, at the ...

When I was a child, I could spend all day at Shining Time Station, the fictive train depot with its own eponymous TV show, where Thomas the Tank Engine and all his plate-faced locomotive friends ...

Thomas -- that famous little blue tank engine -- hits retirement age this year, but the plucky, imaginary locomotive shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. Thomas the Tank Engine had humble ...

As a young child, I never much cared for Thomas the Tank Engine, who struck me as creepy and coercive (though I believe the word I used at the time was “yucky.”) The book I adored was “The Three ...