I have both and he made a good choice. Both are great trains, and really fun to build. My son chose the cargo train with money he saved plus birthday money. A few weeks later I bought the passenger train to add to the new train table I built in the meantime.
That is fantastic. What material is the green underlayment? My first post here! Building a table this weekend with my son to accomodate our, oops, I mean his, new Cargo train(60052.