Thomas is available with and without the remote control. It depends which you want. 30069 has a CW-80 and runs the old fashioned way. The other has the remote. The Thomas loco in either set looks the same, but will run only in its particular control environment - the one requires the remote to run, the other runs only with conventional control. I think the rolling stock and track are identical except for the one straight piece of track for the power ocnnection, which differs between the sets.