Thomas tank engine sets

I have just started to buy some of this for my son I could not believe how confusing it is they have different types of track some plastic some timber and certain trains only work on the certain types of track. You would think they would make it universal for kids. Secondly wow I could not believe how expensive it is $30 for an expansion pack which contains 10 small pieces of timber track! If there are any dads on here with timber track there kids no longer use I would look at buying it off you. LMK

I did find a cheap shop that sold a huge full track and set that is apparently compatible with the Thomas engines maybe that would be the better way to go.

hi thats what we did with our young bloke took a thomas train to check if worked on cheaper set ,all good save a bit of money .but just a hint don,t take them past the toy section the young bloke goes straight to thomas section and grabs more trains