Wooden Train Tracks 68 Piece Expansion Pack Accessories with Arched Bridge, Engine Barge, Dock, Stop & Go Checkpoint, Signal Pole, Cross Track Compatible with Thomas, Brio Wooden Railways ORBRIUM

Off all the toy purchases, in fact, of all the purchases I have made on Amazon, this is by far the best one in regards to affordability and quality. At this price point and for all the great pieces, this deal simply cannot be beat. I don't think you can find this set anywhere else at this price. It alone makes me happy to be a loyal Amazon Prime member year after year. There are some wonderful deals on Amazon and eBay for wooden trains and track sets. I especially search eBay for USED sales/auctions. You just have to spend some time to research and compare prices and quality. It can be frustrating, but the time spent is well worth the significant dollars saved. NOTE: When doing eBay searches, only search for USED items. The new items listed are oddly way overpriced compared to Amazon and many are knock-off items from China that do not meet quality control standards. Also, for used items, be aware of the lead paint recalls that happened some years ago for the Thomas RC2 models. 90% of them involved red paint, and some yellow paint official products. Red paint color vibrancy and durability is hard/expensive to do and lead helps it adhere it better, and thus makes it cheaper. So, be mindful of that. Ok, back to this set. The orange risers, blocks and tracks are ingenious and plentiful. THIS ALONE MAKES THE PURCHASE WORTH IT. My son loves them. They are stable and adds a unique look to the sets which we like a lot. The vast amount of pieces and unique shapes makes this set well thought out and all encompassing. It is like a 425 piece Craftsman toolbox for trains. Can't find a piece that fits? Just search a bit harder and there it is! The female/female and male/male connector pieces alone are a godsend for complex track and building designs. The plentiful 3.5" curved piece are especially critical if you are building sets on a 49" x 34" type standard train table with lots of big structures. QUALITY? Well. What do you want? Yes, you can spend more for the arguably better Official Thomas & Friends tracks. But to do so, you would realistically be paying Ferrari prices for Honda quality, to get them. Why not just simply spend your Hyundai* dollars on a purchase that is fairly close, or possibly better than Honda quality that will give you years and years of memories and fun. *I don't own a Hyundai, but a lot of friends do. They love them and so would I if they brought he Elantra wagon (i40 Estate in Europe) to the US market. :) when you can find deals like this on Amazon, just walking into Toy$RUs, makes me shudder when I see their prices, especially considering the fact they are now the official retailer of the Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends Wooden Train line, egads. Things will only get worse from now, in regards to higher retail prices. The ingenious and plentiful orange risers and unique pieces are just a joy to play with. My son is 2 years old and he loves it. The quality is very good. Not perfect, but I am very satisfied FOR THE PRICE.

I got the set specifically to use for setups on the Ikea Flisat table. Unfortunately, the IKEA tracks don't have any tight turns, so they don't work well with the table. This set is excellent! The turns are tight, the pieces are high quality, and the price is right. It combines well with all sets like Brio and other generic ones that you find online. However, like all other sets it is a tight fit for IKEA Lillabo tracks (they still work but you have to really push to make them fit -- this is not Orbrium's fault, that's how IKEA makes them). Looking forward to buying more Orbrium sets as we need to expand our track collection.

I'm a perpetual deal-hunter, so when Prime Day arrived, I was scoping out all of the things I had been meaning to buy anyway. More train tracks for my two young girls were on the list. I was excited about this set because it had a lot of basics to make a variety of track configurations. When the package arrived, I was pleased as I took out the tracks that all of the pieces were consistent in quality--you don't always get that. There is a good variety of all the different kinds of tracks you would want too. Depending on you child, you may get away with buying this and a few trains. I already had a small set and a few trains I had purchased second-hand, so this was the perfect addition to our track collection. My girls have been playing with them a few weeks now and even with a few being tight, they fit extremely well together and have withstood the constant banging/throwing/chewing that happens with young kids. I'll even plan to bring a few of these to work with me (I work in an elementary school) since they are pretty hardy. Overall, I think this is a good expansion set that functions well and is well-made. I'd definitely recommend!

Wow - this train set is awesome! So many pieces that my 3-year-old is not yet able to use them all at the same time. (Actually, we covered over half the living room floor with these, and there were still more pieces!) Particularly helpful are the rising tracks and the bridge supports - you can build some very intricate structures with this set. In terms of quality, this isn't quite as good as I've seen with Thomas wooden tracks, but it is fully compatible. A few of the track pieces are slightly thicker than others, and the curves are at a slightly different angle than other sets, so there are a few more "derailments" when my son plays with this set. He finds it a bit frustrating, but the overall size of the set and the generally good quality of the pieces more than makes up for this. So if your child loves trains, I highly recommend this as a major expansion - it's the cheapest per-piece set I could find, and it easily provides four or five times more track pieces than one of the medium-sized Thomas sets we purchased before. Granted, there are no "extras" (or trains, for that matter), but what I really wanted my son to have was the vast expanse of tracks. We can make signs and buildings out of Legos or cardboard, but you can't substitute the tracks.

great addition to any train set, allows you to create any type of track you want. plenty of smaller pieces & transition pieces. 5/5 - highly recommended

Bottom line: i think the trade off between cost and quality is worth it. You are getting a good deal, but the quality will suffer a bit compared to Brio. With my small sample size, you are getting ~1% error rate. The rest are pretty good and hard to distinguish. Example: -of the ~100 pieces, I had one that was unusable. The female connection was not cut all the way through. The hole was there, but you could see how the saws did not go all the way through to connect the hole to the edge of the piece. It was fixable, but I had to use a a small hand saw. -other issues are mild: groves not perfect. The density of the wood also seems to vary. That said, with this expansion, you get to build so many cool tracks with multiple levels. The bridges and supports are a huge sell. The green arched bridge is a huge fave. Some of the yellow overpasses seem a bit cheap, but the bridges seem good. My biggest hang up occurred when I unboxed them. This is when I saw the flaws, but 2 days later when they mixed with other pieces, I can't see them anymore. My kid never noticed. He just had so much fun building bigger tracks. So, I think it was totally worth it. I would recommend it to expand out the track some.

We purchased this set to expand the KidKraft Figure 8 Train Set my 2 1/2 year old son was gifted with over Christmas. Those small sets are practically ruined if you lose just one piece and there is little to no flexibility on what type of track your child can build. In this 56 piece set, the curved pieces are tracks on both sides so flipping them is easy to build your set. The male/male and female/female pieces the set comes with are a life saver for when you use the junctions. The male portion of the junction pieces is a ball rather than a flat tongue, but I haven't come across any problems related to this difference. The tunnel is large enough to accommodate for the Chuggington Wooden Railway Chuggineer Tyne Vehicle unlike the Kidcraft tunnel which the larger engine doesn't fit through. My son loves that the tunnel is see through. The female pieces tongue inset in this set are carved slightly bigger than the male pieces tongue. This makes the track more flexible and to be honest, much easier to piece together. Though I can tell the difference between the Kidcraft and the expansion pack pieces, I wouldn't say that the differences are too noticeable. The wood seems to be of high quality though it is a bit lighter in color. Overall, I would say buy this set if you are looking for any type of wooden train set. It gives you enough pieces for your child to create their own track without having to plan every piece ahead of time. And if you lose a piece, it's not the end of the world. You can always buy the train engines individually and get better trains than the magnetically challenged Kidcraft trains. I've had the set for several weeks now and haven't figured out why the name brand sets are so much more expensive.

This track set is perfect! For very young train enthusiasts starting out with their first trains, I would recommend getting this track set and some trains instead of a ready made set. This same company offers a 12 piece train set for a very reasonable price, together you will have many more options and much more fun than a regular starter set, and all for a much better total price for what you get. The pieces in this set offer so many layout possibilities. For very young children, I do not recommend elevated ramps, they will get knocked over too easily. This set does include a small see through tunnel that young children will enjoy. Also, sets that include extraneous pieces like houses, trees, etc. aren't going to be appreciated by the youngest kids, they just want to push trains around the track! These tracks are very well made from quality wood, no flaws, very consistent connections. This great assortment of pieces will allow you to create simple to complicated interconnected railroad layouts. As your child grows you can buy more track to allow your railroads to grow accordingly. These tracks should offer years of fun!

My grandson loved this

These are well made and durable. They work well with our other wooden tracks including Brio

Good product

The quality and workmanship of this set is shockingly poor and make it very difficult to combine the other tracks like Brio and IKEA which trains tend to derail due to the track’s profile.

A nice set made of real wood, great if you're tired of cheap plastic toys. As expected this set operates well with Brio and other pieces. There are many blocks to rise up the track so you can have a track over another track and over another track. Kid loves it of course. Unlike some other sets, these pieces are sometimes a tight fit but not too much. There are several 3 way pieces which are not so common. Also as expected the track across pieces are not exactly perfect for each other, so motorized trains will go off track especially in corners. I have yet to find a set that doesn't do this. This is due manufacturing tolerances probably. Btw brio has a Rechargeable Engine that will save you buying tons of batteries.