I am a big fan of trains, from N Gauge to Japan’s Plarail and what caught my eye recently was BRIO World’s trains.
BRIO World creates wooden railway sets and trains with wheels to ride on those wooden sets. The company, which was founded in Sweden way back in 1884 and is a company with a tradition of selling wooden toy trains to generations in Europe and now globally (the company is now owned by German toy and puzzle company, Ravensburger AG).
They have released trains such as the London Underground Train, Travel Train, TGB-High Speed Train, Battery-operated Steaming Trian, Turbo Train and much more! And for over a 140 years, this tradition is ongoing, attracting people of all ages who are train lovers or group up with trains for wooden railway tracks.
The train that I am reviewing is the BRIO World – 36089 Trains of The World Santa Fe – Wooden Toy Train.
So, what is the Santa Fe? This is the train often seen on railways on the Santa Fe Railroad.
As for this toy, it’s the #98, based on the Santa Fe FP45 98 (courtesy of BNSF Railway, which has been around for over 175 years) back in 1967, a cargo train which many people saw through the ’90s and was taken out of service in late 1997 due to low oil pressure and low compression and donated to the Orange Empire’s Railway Museum in Perris, CA.
It made a brief return a few years later but a lot of people love looking at this classic train, especially for its red and silver “warbonnet” livery and now it has been released as a BRIO train. Two of the train cars carry cargo which are removable.
But overall, this is a wonderful train to have in your train collection and whether young or older (young at heart), it’s a BRIO train worth owning!
