File:TOMY Plarail K-01 DD51 851 Diesel Unboxing review and first run with Mr.Motorman

Hey Guys and Gals (yes thats right almost 50% of viewers are Gals, good to see this hobby is wide reaching hehe), we have here today TOMY Plarail DD51 number 851. I bought this locomotive on ebay and have had it for a few days waiting to see what else would arrive so i could film some vids together but no luck so here we this small but mighty Diesel.

It is nicely detailed with numbers, handrails and head lamps/rear lamps painted on and the color is a redish orange that looks quite nice against the grey also featured on this diesel. The quality of the plastic is also very good and vents and roof fans are cast into the plastic flawlessly. My only complaint is that this is very short and stumpy compared to the real life version but it is kind of cute where the real life one is not.

It features a large C battery powered drive unit the same as the one in Duck, Boco, Diesel 10 etc. It runs very quietly and fairly smoothly and had no derailments at all when filming, it ran very well with Mr. Motorman and provided excellent control in stopping but his starts were quite jerky. I think it would have no problem pulling a fairly large train with a C size battery fitted for extra traction (mr.motorman is 1/2 the weight of a C size).

All in all I give this Diesel a score of 9/10 it runs very well and multiple of these could pull an unbelievable amount of cars/trucks/coaches/carriages. I intend to perhaps buy a another and there is even a differently numbered variation i saw on ebay as well as the modernized refurbished blue colored version.

Much Thomas and friends stuff coming in the next couple of weeks as well as a vintage Plarail twilight express!! So make sure you subscribe to keep up to date :)

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