Real Trains For Kids 2

Real Trains For Kids 2
by Lewis Bogaty

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Actor: All Kinds of Trains
Director: Lewis Bogaty
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 42 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-01
Studio: Wislew Publications

DVD Reviews of Real Trains For Kids 2

DVD Review: Choo-choo Snow
Summary: 5 Stars

My 2 year old grandson calls this DVD "Choo-choo Snow!" He seems to grasp the concept of snow even though he has never seen it. He absolutely loves watching the train plow through the huge pile of snow. It happens at the beginning of the DVD and he will stop and start it over and over. I really need to show him how to rewind. The first time I put this DVD in for him, he sat transfixed for almost the entire show. Whenever the train whistle would blow, you'd hear a little voice going, "woo woo". The adults watching with him were enlightened about how to put a train that jumped the tracks back on. We had no idea it was done like that (I won't spoil the surprise!). I think any child with an interest in trains will enjoy this DVD. My grandson hasn't watched Thomas since getting this and a couple of others. I think he prefers real trains over cartoon.

DVD Review: Real Trains For Kids DVD's
Summary: 5 Stars

My four year old grandson is HEAVILY interested in trains. When I seen these DVD's advertised, I knew I had to purchase them for him for his birthday. He thoroughly enjoys watching both DVD's (1 & 2). These videos hold his interest from the time the video starts till the end. The narrator (in the video) also is very good at describing information that even a four year old can understand. I would recommend these videos to anyone... child, grandchild or even an adult who has an interest in trains,
Thank You,
Cheryl M. Lathers

DVD Review: great movie for young children
Summary: 5 Stars

I received the movie on time, the video is exactly how it was described. Action shots of lots of different trains, with lots of train sounds. Any young child into trains will love this video.

DVD Review: Some nice videos of trains
Summary: 3 Stars

This DVD does have some interesting videos of trains, but I won't buy the other ones in this series.
The good: interesting video shots of trains crossing bridges, and lots of different kinds of American railroad trains. I liked the cover shot of the CEFX No 3131 SD40 locomotive slowly pushing through some snow, and a few other shots pretty well.
The not so good: many of the sequences are too short (a few seconds) for a very young viewer to enjoy or concentrate on, in my opinion. My son asks me what is that train doing, and before I can answer, the video cuts over to another completely unrelated train.

The voice of the narrator has a good spirit to him, but he could have a slightly better script. The script introduces some important concepts, such as the history of American railroad lines, and the consolidation of them in the late Twentieth Century, including some details, but there is not enough follow-through. This DVD could have been expanded into three DVDs: one on American freight trains and equipment doing work such as switching cars or making up trains in yards, and one on passenger trains and equipment (including history), and one on American railroad lines and their history of consolidation and the kinds of trains they run. All of these topics are introduced, but never really completed, in the one DVD.

So, if this is just for little kid filler TV-sitter entertainment, and not for serious introduction to the trains and history being presented, then it's not disappointing. But my son and I would have enjoyed learning more than we did from watching this video.

I didn't expect this to be a serious documentary, but it could have been so much better with just a little less attention paid to video scene transition effects and more attention paid to telling us what we are watching, with many more examples of trains moving slower, or longer takes on each train presented. The video of the CSX on 7th street in Hudson NY is great, but the script editors could have impressed me if it told us a bit more than simply showing the novelty of a railroad on a city street.
I only needed to google "Iron Horse Bar" and CSX to find out where it was, but why make me do that?

If the DVD were less expensive, or if we didn't like train videos so much, I wouldn't have cared or been as disappointed.

DVD Review: Awesome for kids and adults
Summary: 5 Stars

For train newbies, this is an awesome addition of train dvds, the narrator (good speaker, not boring or dull) is the same in part 1 of this dvd series, but there are more details, like putting the tracks together, or how they get all those automobiles in the car carrying part of the train! Do buy this along with part 1 of it, keeps your children engaged while you get to do the house-work or watch it yourself, you will learn something from it!

Description of Real Trains For Kids 2

The Real Trains For Kids videos take children on an adventure they'll want to repeat over and over. They'll see real trains in action and learn what they do. They'll see them in train yards and at factories, racing through beautiful countryside, and rolling along the tracks very very close. They'll see things they won't find in any other video. The action is so fast and furious they won't want to turn their heads for a moment! Real Trains For Kids 1 & 2 have entirely different material. Each is complete in itself. There is no repetition. Each has unusual footage and interesting information not found in other train videos for children. So you can feel free to buy either one first -- or buy them both. Real Trains for Kids 2 shows a variety of steam engines and diesel engines, passenger trains and freight trains. Among the highlights on Real Trains 2: See a derailed train being re-railed; watch as new track is laid; follow as a crew switches train cars at a factory; visit train yards and see the unusual locomotives that work there. Learn about the major railroad lines in the U.S. and Canada today, and see hot (super high priority) trains barrel by. You'll also see the last of the great carnival trains, a military train, and many other special trains. And lots more! Here are what just a few of our customers have said: from Karlynn R. in Kewanee, IL -- Real Trains for Kids 1 and 2 have been played so much that they are getting thin. I think I actually have them memorized forwards and backwards. My son loves them sooooo much but mommy is ready for some new ones. Could you give me an educated guess how much longer I'll have to wait?? Thanks. from Kerry T. in Kalamozoo, MI -- My three-year old boy has had the Real Trains DVD 1 and 2 since around October, and he will watch it EACH and EVERY day of the week!!! He prefers it over cartoons and never gets bored with it!!!!!! One time he was on the phone with his uncle for fifteen minutes explaining dialogue from the show. From Elaine W. in Eugene, OR -- The train video is visually wonderful. Not just for kids! My husband said he hadn't known before about how the railroad ties went in or seen trains linking together.

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