Recently I purchased the very inexpensive EZTECH Black Canyon Express Remote Controlled G Scale Train Set. I decided to set it up outside and change the batteries to rechargeable C cell's. It's surprising how long the train runs on a single charge.

Considering I also have a Newquida garden railway layout I ran the light weight Black Canyon Express on some foreign tracks. It was interesting to see what problems started to happen. My son also tried some Thomas & Friends Take n Play trains on the large G scale tracks...choo, choo.

UPDATE, the train you see in this video died shortly after this video was produced, that strange sound coming from the locomotive was the beginning of the end. First forward movement failed then reverse. I was unable to fix whatever had happened to the train. It was given a good two weeks of hard use by my son before it developed the death rattles.

Buy cheap, buy twice.. so I did, and now I have a massive railway layout and a ton of rolling stock.

Web Links :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_tra...