The Kansas Children’s Discovery Center has opened the national traveling exhibit, “Thomas and Friends: Explore the Rails,” ...

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Britt Allcroft, the creative force behind the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends television series, has passed away at the age of 81. Her daughter, Holly Wright, confirmed that Allcroft ...

I only had to stop and take pictures every few feet to catch my breath. Thankfully, they pretended not to notice. The midnight sunset view from the top was worth every minute of the struggle.

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica at 81. Thomas started out as a ...

She was 81. She was responsible for bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive, to television and starting a popular and successful franchise. Holly Wright, Allcroft's daughter ...

The New Year's Day event, which killed one and injured seven, garnered reactions online ridiculing CEO Elon Musk and ...

Awdry's Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine. After forming the Britt Allcroft Company with her husband, fellow TV producer Angus Wright, she spent four years raising the ...

A repurposed green cooling fin serves as a rotation indicator for the engine. A Russian team of inventors, known online as “Garage 54,” has constructed a working car engine using 50 power drills.

(Or possibly, psychosis.) Nearly every night and twice on Wednesdays and Saturdays, through Feb. 2, Woodley dons holiday pajamas, sings carols and sits for slow-cooked lamb. Growing up outside Los ...