There Goes a Train [VHS]

We have three of the "There Goes A ...." videos with Dave Hood. Our three-year old loves them all, though I would say this is not the best one. If you don't own "There Goes a Fire Truck", that one is even better and I'd recommend that instead; if, however, you are blessed with a tiny train fiend, this should be very entertaining for them (and you too).Engineer Dave does a very good job of entertaining children while he explains the workings of various locomotives, though the device of daydreaming and then messing up on the job is used too many times, and Dave is caught sleeping on the job too. Also, as another reviewer said, there's a long segment in which Dave climbs along a moving train to alert the engineer to a car stalled on the track up ahead. The bad safety example is second only to the atrocious acting! It would have been better to have spent that time showing more of these fascinating vehicles. When the film is on track (so to speak) it is excellent.

To my great joy and amazement this 18 year old video(released in 1994)is delighting yet another generation of train lovers. That's right...this was my son's all time favorite train video with all the wackiness that only engineer Dave can serve up. My son watched it endlessly from ages 2-4, or 1997-1999. He's now 17 and soon off to college. Now my sister's 2 1/2 year old twins are equally smitten with train love and on a whim I looked for this classic. Though it has not been re-released in DVD format, my sister still had a VHS player kicking around so I ordered up a used copy of "There Goes A Train." I have just heard from my sister that although she wishes to kill me for unleashing this on her, her boys are utterly delighted. She senses it is destined to be watched until the tape disintegrates. Kudos to the gang that made it.

I watched this movie when I was a child and I had watched it so much that it had actually started to wear out so much that it was on the verge of being unwatchable, and also watched it to the point that my father hated engineer Dave and his love of trains with a passion and had taken the vhs tape out to the desert and used the tape as a clay pigeon, all in all it made a great birthday gift for him, I'll never forget the look on his face.

When I reviewed this tape, I thought my train-obsessed three-year old grandson might find the technical talk boring. Not so! He sits fixated through every minute of this educational and entertaining video. He laughs at the silly things he sees as Conductor, Brakeman, Waiter, Engineer Dave works on a real train. He now knows why trains had cabooses (so do I) and lots of other facts about his fascinating trains. It's a keeper, but be prepared to hear your little engineer say, "One more time, one more time" over and over.

hours of fun

My kids like "There goes a dump truck" much more than this one. This one doesn't have much train action, and there's lots of adults talking. A much better train series for kids is the "I Love Toy Trains" series, which can also be found on Amazon. See my review for them...

This is our two-year old's current favourite. He demands it morning noon and night. Luckily his dad quite likes it too! It achieves an almost perfect balance between being entertaining and informative. Dave's clowning adds to the enjoyment because he doesn't let it take over and become annoying.

Perfect for my grandkids They love all these movies. I have purchased 10 different movies like this and they love them all