Well, that’s the coaches sold out, and all in less than 3 hours too! Thank you so much for the amazing support, and sorry to anyone who sadly missed out. More 3D printed merch will be coming in the future!
Would love if u can make some n gauge large fright wagons as I not to fuss about higher quality as yours look fine also I have the same software that u ues so I could do most of the work on the design
haha but you know that wouldn't be such a bad thing... because then we'd get professionally manufactured balancing coaches... and that'd be awesome! ;)
Okay you had me, for a while I thought that it was a real thing. Could have been legit, here in France we had a somewhat mechanically similar stuff for real, the Arnoux system, with a broad gauge and coaches running on pivoting axles... that couldn't reverse! End stations were, indeed, loops. One still exists (Denfert-Rochereau, in Paris), as the only line built using these coaches was included later in Paris metropolitan railway (RER) lines. The station building and platforms are still curved... Anyway, that"s a fantastic mechanical engineering job you did here. These things runs better than some infamous vans built to carry fragile chicken byproducts... that are not 3D printed...
0:00 When you are familiar with some of the odder parts of railway history, and that anything can be possible, that backstory was so convincing it made me Google search immediately (to no avail XD).
TBH he didn't need to make a fake story to sell them either. Just took up after some sort of odd prototype built in the 1800 to 1900s. I mean it wouldn't be hard to find something like this from that era.
Finally! Hardly anyone talks about the Grimburn Railway, and even fewer ever mention the Isle of Morrowtoseis (it's so rare that I don't know if I've spelt either correctly). The history books just don't touch upon Uncle Fredrickson; their loss, it must be said! The balancing coaches, the spring powered locomotives, the station platform safety trapeze net... all works of profound genius. Thank you, Sam's Trains, for your part in trying to rectify this grave error. By the way, as someone evidently knowledgeable in this subject, can you tell me whether Uncle Fredrickson ever met Jeffery Tart before his tragic death by hypothermia?
I agree - horribly under-represented in model railway circuits... or indeed any circuits! Ahh absolutely - I didn't even cover the trapeze nets in the video, but you're absolutely right. I'm glad you appreciate my work - there are lots of other railways like the Grimburn that need to be brought to the public attention.... Uncle Fredrikson and his nephew Jeffrey Tart are just two of many great names! Thanks for watching, Sam :)
The carriage's rocking movement was quite vomit inducing for passengers on a lengthy journey. The end 'portholes' were often used in those circumstances, leading the directors to change the company's carriage livery to 'speckled' paint. :-)
such coaches actually existed on a line in the netherlands. some years ago, I found some photos on the internet but alas didn't keep track of the source and haven't been able to re-google them yet.
I’m impressed at how you came up with an in depth history for these. I mean, if it was real, google don’t know about, so I’m assuming you created the lore for these coaches. It’s rather well thought out
One thing that surprises me is how the manufacturers seem to haven't bothered with fireless steam locomotives. While they're not super glamorous, they're actually surprisingly environmentally friendly. Given that they run on compressed air, some mechanical engineers have legitimately considered bringing them back for shunting and stuff. The fact that they don't need extensive power infrastructure or environmentally-destructive lithium batteries makes them quite appealing. I would like to scratch-build one myself in OO9 scale once I have the means to do so. They often have simple body designs, so it would make for a decent beginner's project.
Fireless steam locomotives are pressurised with steam from the main boilers in an industrial plant. Works fine when the locomotive can be easily replenished, and the cost of the facility to charge the locomotive with steam is miniscule.
I really loved these mini coaches. They look great, fun and my mind went into overtime thinking of how I would decorate them. Unfortunately I don’t have my train setup anymore. Kept the Bachman command control, two engines and the GS4 freedom and a bunch of easy track. Too old to get down on the floor to set them up. Watch your channel to live vicariously through your train enthusiasm. Keep it up your videos make my day.
Honestly, I wish the mainstream manufacturers would do more goofy stuff like this. When I discuss model trains with my friends, they often take interest, but then they get horrified at the prices (for example, I had one person telling me they wouldn't pay £100 for a model train, but would pay £10 for one). Of course, it's not possible to produce an accurate scale model and sell it for those kinds of prices (unless you like losing money). However, non-rail-enthusists (like my friends) really don't care about accuracy - and they might even be attracted to these kinds of 'silly' trains! Granted, the rivet-counters would just scoff at this - but it might provide a good gateway into more serious modelling (which is probably the hobby's most pressing problem right now: the lack of a gateway)
These are quite interesting and intriguing pieces of rolling stock. I've never hard of such things until stumbling upon this video. Not even a Google search about them provided anything on these.
This is how articulated coaches & freight cars got started here then...makes since since the most common type of articulated car in the US is the Gunderson MAXI III's. The more famous types of articulated coaches ran on the Southern Pacific's Daylight's, and the worlds tallest freight car (to my knowledge) the Auto-Max Auto Rack is also articulated, coming at 60ft per half, totaling 124 feet, long 12 feet high.
Congrats on releasing your own model railway product! And for selling out so quickly!! These are fascinating and whilst I now can't buy a set, as someone who builds owns and runs a LEGO railway, I simply MUST try this design!!
@@SamsTrains Had me going. There once was an American design, perhaps 1890 or so, where a prototype locomotive with a test track loop was constructed. It had one single driver, upon which it balanced, supported laterally by a catenary contrivance. The idea was that it would be ultra low friction, and thus economical and very fast. It never took off as more than a curiousity. Not sure it ever ran, either, will need to look it up.
Have you considered using rare earth magnets in your designs. They would be helpful since you don’t like glueing things. I used them a lot to swap out weapons and attachments on my Warhammer 40k kits.
If you are to sometime change the design, you should add a little folding kickstand under the chassis like on a bike to keep a single coach from falling over. Good stuff!
I've always had a soft spot for the UK steamers from Horny and Bachmann, but last weekend I finally got to mess around with one at a model railroad club/museum and OH MY GOODNESS they look even better in person! I would definitely go back but I don't know if the layout is still there.
What a brilliant concept! I wonder why it never caught on elsewhere? I can see an expansion to the range, using the same chassis with open and box wagons for freight, and even an 009 narrow gauge equivalent! As for the NEM couplers, could they see wider use (perhaps also a version with a slightly longer shaft) for rakes of "normal" rolling stock? Others have mentioned making the 3D-print files available online for a fee - a small but perhaps regular income for your channel?
I never thought I'd see the day when someone actually made single axle coaches to run a real railway, let alone in model form. Your 3d printing ideas never cease to amaze me and I hope I get a chance to pick one up before they're sold out. Keep up the great work Sam!
While selling complete 3D prints is awesome, have you ever thought about listing just the STL files for sale? Living in the US, I can't imagine it would make economical sense for me to purchase a plastic car from you, but, I'd love to print some of your designs! Just a though
I literally paused the video when he said they were for sale and ordered mine, 50 dollars for those of us in the US is a tad steep but cheap for a sams original.
haha thank you so much! Wow was it as much as that?! Did they add more for tax or something? Should be less than 50 dollars :( Thanks for watching - Sam :)
One can use either standard clear silicone caulk or a silicone like, but a little stronger adhesive called "Goop". The advantage of either is that if One changes his/her mind about them being glued down or they need to be disassembled later they can be pulled apart without damaging the parts.
I love your odd sense of humour - I nearly thought they were real. Saying that, they are a wonderful design, that could have been - and there were weirder railway items existing in the real world - have a look at the Listowel and Ballybunion monorail, if you don't believe me. Great work as always!
If only one per cent of your subscribers wanted to buy a set, that would be ~1080 orders multiplied by the rake of three is ~3240 coaches. That would have earnt you £21,600 minus the cost of production. I hope you are able and willing to produce enough of your unique 3D prints to meet demand in future. I myself would have hoped to have gotten two sets to give me a rake of six, but nevermind. There is nothing like this on the market and I think it was very creative of you to come up with this idea. Thank you for brightening all our days, and I wish you all the best. Cheers.
That’s true, but 1080 sets at 6 hours printing per set would take 270 days, day and night, to make... I don’t print in the night, or when I’m filming.., so absolutely impossible sadly :(
@@SamsTrains Yeah, it's just one of those things that can't be helped. I do think it would be good if you sold the file, though, for £5 a pop as others have suggested. It was good of you to reply. Cheers.
LOL :) In Copenhagen, we actually have single axle urban rail cars. Except that the axles are at one end of each car, and at one end of the train is a 2-axle car. For the ultimate in coal economy, we now need an electric steam locomotive. One of which the Swiss have actually built
Good to see you creating and selling unique models now Sam - that could be a nice little money-spinning side hustle for the channel. Great content as always. Must save up for one of those great little Pecketts as well!
I've been using inspiration from the video of you maintaining your Kneller Hall as I'm currently trying to revive my old Hornby GWR Holden 101, Tri-ang Jinty R52 and the Tri-ang Flying Scotman
Several years ago, at a show in Huddersfield I saw an 020 loco and tender perhaps it was modelled on the same railway system. It was a bit wobbly but perhaps it was lacking the " prototype " couplings
An addendum,please consider two very distinct locomotives! 1) a Garrett 0-2-0+0-2-0,and 2),a Mallet,0-2-2-0,either simple or compound! And if you really want do do mind stretching,a 0-2-2-0 Shay,or Climax,as geared engines,bothe had pivoted axles,on their bogies, and Leyland already had a prototype in their rail buses 🚌! Thanks again!!
I can comment. Problem solved. Sam had learned a new skill: the fine art of 3D printing and painting with an airbrush. Of course, he was no expert, but I know he's getting good at it for a beginner. The little balancing coaches were his newest 3D project, but I'm a bit scared of them. However, Sam went on creating new 3D printed models and painting them. At one stage of the game, he created a pair of 4-plank open wagons and coal loads to go inside them for a first. He painted the coal loads black, yet was unsure of what colour to use for the wagons. There were a number of different colours in his paint-box kit. Which to use? It was hard to choose. "Always the hard part," he muttered to himself. The little grey W4 Peckett Saddle Tank Engine was watching from her shelf with interest. "You don't have to paint them," she observed. "Just leave them unpainted. I'd love a pair of unpainted wagons to pull along, with a light grey LNER Guard's Van at the back." Sam happily agreed. He hadn't played trains for some time. He gave his little friend a run with the wagons and Guard's Van, on his railway. Somehow, like magic, he found himself knocking the light switch and in semi darkness. Creepy. Sam shivered, pretending to be frightened. He might be scared of a model ghost train, yet he was good at braving his terror when playing with one. "AAH!" he screamed in mock alarm. He and his Peckett Engine friend laughed it off with each other. Better to laugh than to cry, I always say.😂👻
Hi Sam I just received my Fredrickson coaches which I love. I can’t wait to get them running! I can’t find any info about them on line at all and I would be grateful if you could let me know where you found your information for the construction of your coaches please?
Well you kind of reinvented the VB141, which together with the ski rack van of the Swiss railways was one of the few one axled goods vans. But that concept only works with the lower platform heights of mainland Europe
Fantastic video as always. Watching this again and it just hit me....... They way they can wiggle side to side and bounce up and down reminds me of the later cgi thomas series where the trucks bounce about
I don't catch every video and I don't even have a layout... that said I really enjoyed the story behind these and you've done a great job making them - they'll look great going round the tree when I get the Christmas trainset out ;-)
They look fun, just ordered my set. Hopefully you will see them going around a garden layout in France when I move (eventually). In the meantime I wonder who is going to be the first person to do a review parody on them..... lol
can you do a vid or something to let us know when these will be available again? also will they be up on your merch site (im assuming so but i wanna be sure).
Those are pretty cool. I'm a truck driver in America and we often see double/triple trailers being pulled around. We are not able to reverse them either because they would fold into each other. Is that anything like what happens to the balancing coaches?
Thanks very much Trent - that's a very educated guess! Yes basically... but the wheel flanges do something interesting as a result! ;D Thanks for watching, Sam :)
You should sell those couplings stand alone, they would be great for permanent consists and consists in general! Much better of a connection than other couplings meaning you can have a more realistic coupling, it's also much more discreet than the massive NEM ones.
I'm surprised these things were for sale, and they already sold out in three hours! I didn't even have enough time to come home from work and order one if I wanted one! You should make a series of balancing coal wagons sometime. I wonder if one of these cars can run in a train with all the other cars just being normal rolling stock? These things remind me of something I once envisioned for a mountain railway in that each compartment forms a stair-step when going uphill, but is a flat, normal train on flat track
Don't forget, because of the high coal prices, small branch lines used custom built 0-4-0 locomotives which ran on compressed air instead of steam, like many mining locomotives at the time. (New personal head canon)
@@SamsTrains It would be interesting to know how long they would last (how many miles you would get out of them). Imagine an LNER A4 or a LMS Coronation class with the entire boiler full of compressed air: No firebox or smoke box or tubes and flues, just a completely open space for compressed air...
How about a double-deck version to increase capacity on the Morrowtoseis Rly - that would be really scary! On 3D printing, is it possible to create transparent prints and so create your own flush glazing?
What a Great Idea Sam. Your a Legend they look 'Kooky' but Producing Something that No One else does..!? I don't think I would have wanted to have Ridden in them. They look like a 'Disaster Waiting to Happen..!' But what do I know..! No Wonder they Sold out before I even Heard about it..! And at such a Price. Bargain..! Well Done Sir..! Cheers Kim in Oz.😎
Will we ever get the rebuilt bogie-coach version, or the 4 seater First-Class version? The period I model for the Grimburn Railroad is the 1920’s, so having bogies would be nice.
6.10 The 'electric light' on the roof is actually a ventilator, of the type known as a 'torpedo ventilator' -- the Grimburn Railway seems not to have run after dark for most of its life, and anyway electric lighting was rare on railways world-wide until years into the twentieth century. Apparently 'mains' electricity was only introduced to Morotoki when the Council acquired a third-hand hot-bulb compression-ignition engine in 1899, running it on raw coconut oil to power a generator of dubious origin. Nowadays they use a Hitachi genset donated by UNESCO, so all five lightbulbs on the island can be run simultaneously, and at the same time as a power-tool. Coconut-oil lamps are still popular, though, because the oil can readily be perfumed with an extract of the tongi-tongi tree, which grows profusely and uniquely on Morotoki. This perfumed oil is also said to have some rather 'interesting' effects, whether burned in a lamp or rubbed gently on a friend, which is perhaps another reason why the railway wasn't allowed to run at night. D P Tolerant's fascinating history of the island includes an eyewitness account of the coaches being floated ashore upside-down one by one, towed by native canoes, from a freighter anchored precariously outside the reef. It seems that Charles Roberts, who are said to have built the carriages, found the whole episode so embarrassing that they erased all mention of the order from their books as soon as they decently could. Really excellent and amusing stuff. Thanks for this. Perhaps you might like to consider adapting one -- or more -- of Rowland Emett's locomotive designs to pull these coaches, too.
Thanks a lot for sharing David - those just seem to appear on electric coaches though? Yeah absolutely - they had crude electricity way back in the 1800s on Morrowtowseas! Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Very good Sam - never heard of these b4 - Carriages going down from 8 to 6, then 6 to 4, then 4 down to 2!!! - What ever next - just having the 1 wheel in the centre??? 🤔🚂🚂🚂
Well, that’s the coaches sold out, and all in less than 3 hours too! Thank you so much for the amazing support, and sorry to anyone who sadly missed out. More 3D printed merch will be coming in the future!
Jack will like it if you unbox the Bachmann Skarloey
Ok
They sold out fast! I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get a set, but did just when there was only three left in stock!
Would love if u can make some n gauge large fright wagons as I not to fuss about higher quality as yours look fine also I have the same software that u ues so I could do most of the work on the design
The coaches indeed sold out fast. I'm far too late to be able to buy them.
Just waiting for Hornby to announce their conveniently timed version :P
Brilliant, love this comment. All the best.
Can the words Hornby and balanced be in the same sentence presently?
@@David-ci1vn no if you built a air fix kit nope
haha but you know that wouldn't be such a bad thing... because then we'd get professionally manufactured balancing coaches... and that'd be awesome! ;)
For a near 120$ each
Okay you had me, for a while I thought that it was a real thing. Could have been legit, here in France we had a somewhat mechanically similar stuff for real, the Arnoux system, with a broad gauge and coaches running on pivoting axles... that couldn't reverse! End stations were, indeed, loops. One still exists (Denfert-Rochereau, in Paris), as the only line built using these coaches was included later in Paris metropolitan railway (RER) lines. The station building and platforms are still curved...
Anyway, that"s a fantastic mechanical engineering job you did here. These things runs better than some infamous vans built to carry fragile chicken byproducts... that are not 3D printed...
haha got you Damien! That sounds absolutely fascinating - are there photos of that still around?!?
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
I thought this was real too
0:00 When you are familiar with some of the odder parts of railway history, and that anything can be possible, that backstory was so convincing it made me Google search immediately (to no avail XD).
TBH he didn't need to make a fake story to sell them either. Just took up after some sort of odd prototype built in the 1800 to 1900s. I mean it wouldn't be hard to find something like this from that era.
Lmao
Finally! Hardly anyone talks about the Grimburn Railway, and even fewer ever mention the Isle of Morrowtoseis (it's so rare that I don't know if I've spelt either correctly). The history books just don't touch upon Uncle Fredrickson; their loss, it must be said! The balancing coaches, the spring powered locomotives, the station platform safety trapeze net... all works of profound genius. Thank you, Sam's Trains, for your part in trying to rectify this grave error.
By the way, as someone evidently knowledgeable in this subject, can you tell me whether Uncle Fredrickson ever met Jeffery Tart before his tragic death by hypothermia?
I agree - horribly under-represented in model railway circuits... or indeed any circuits! Ahh absolutely - I didn't even cover the trapeze nets in the video, but you're absolutely right. I'm glad you appreciate my work - there are lots of other railways like the Grimburn that need to be brought to the public attention.... Uncle Fredrikson and his nephew Jeffrey Tart are just two of many great names!
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Uncle Fredrickson sounds like one of those eccentric inventors whose wacky designs actually end up being ingenious.
wait what?
Is there a hidden meaning behind "Morrowtoseis?" I thought maybe it was backwards for something but I can't tell.
Could you explain the spring-powered engines?
The carriage's rocking movement was quite vomit inducing for passengers on a lengthy journey. The end 'portholes' were often used in those circumstances, leading the directors to change the company's carriage livery to 'speckled' paint. :-)
😄
haha yeah - I've heard horror stories... and the lower class cabins stank of bile supposedly!
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
such coaches actually existed on a line in the netherlands. some years ago, I found some photos on the internet but alas didn't keep track of the source and haven't been able to re-google them yet.
I love this idea! 😂 very well designed too, especially those couplings!
haha thanks Richard - the couplings were a fun challenge! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
I’m impressed at how you came up with an in depth history for these. I mean, if it was real, google don’t know about, so I’m assuming you created the lore for these coaches. It’s rather well thought out
haha thank you!! I won't give the truth away ;)
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
One thing that surprises me is how the manufacturers seem to haven't bothered with fireless steam locomotives. While they're not super glamorous, they're actually surprisingly environmentally friendly. Given that they run on compressed air, some mechanical engineers have legitimately considered bringing them back for shunting and stuff. The fact that they don't need extensive power infrastructure or environmentally-destructive lithium batteries makes them quite appealing.
I would like to scratch-build one myself in OO9 scale once I have the means to do so. They often have simple body designs, so it would make for a decent beginner's project.
Fireless steam locomotives are pressurised with steam from the main boilers in an industrial plant. Works fine when the locomotive can be easily replenished, and the cost of the facility to charge the locomotive with steam is miniscule.
Excellent job Sam, just bought myself a set and can’t wait to run them on my layout
Thank you so much for the support - I really hope you enjoy them! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
I really loved these mini coaches. They look great, fun and my mind went into overtime thinking of how I would decorate them.
Unfortunately I don’t have my train setup anymore. Kept the Bachman command control, two engines and the GS4 freedom and a bunch of easy track. Too old to get down on the floor to set them up.
Watch your channel to live vicariously through your train enthusiasm.
Keep it up your videos make my day.
Thanks so much John - ahh no problem... you're always welcome here at the videos! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Can you please review HO gauge Japanese models? 😊
You sure like to ask that question!! And I'll keep answering... yes hopefully one day! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@@SamsTrains I hope he/she (the OP) will send you some Japanese models to review!
Or a Bandai Shorty, a hilarious approach to miniature N gauge modelling. I bought one in Japan, but having moved, I can't find it.
@@brucekercher45 love bandai for there gunpla didn't know if they had model trains i do love both so if they really have some i have to check it out
Ingenious idea, cleverly brought into reality. Well done sir!.
Honestly, I wish the mainstream manufacturers would do more goofy stuff like this.
When I discuss model trains with my friends, they often take interest, but then they get horrified at the prices (for example, I had one person telling me they wouldn't pay £100 for a model train, but would pay £10 for one). Of course, it's not possible to produce an accurate scale model and sell it for those kinds of prices (unless you like losing money). However, non-rail-enthusists (like my friends) really don't care about accuracy - and they might even be attracted to these kinds of 'silly' trains!
Granted, the rivet-counters would just scoff at this - but it might provide a good gateway into more serious modelling (which is probably the hobby's most pressing problem right now: the lack of a gateway)
These are quite interesting and intriguing pieces of rolling stock. I've never hard of such things until stumbling upon this video. Not even a Google search about them provided anything on these.
Just saw your fantastic ‘Balancing Coaches’. Is there even a remote chance you might produce a few more? I’d really love a set.
This is how articulated coaches & freight cars got started here then...makes since since the most common type of articulated car in the US is the Gunderson MAXI III's. The more famous types of articulated coaches ran on the Southern Pacific's Daylight's, and the worlds tallest freight car (to my knowledge) the Auto-Max Auto Rack is also articulated, coming at 60ft per half, totaling 124 feet, long 12 feet high.
Congrats on releasing your own model railway product! And for selling out so quickly!! These are fascinating and whilst I now can't buy a set, as someone who builds owns and runs a LEGO railway, I simply MUST try this design!!
Good to see your inventions are as crazy as ever, love the fact you even invented a back story and history for them.👍🏻
haha thanks a lot Rob! How dare you accuse me of inventing the story?!?
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@@SamsTrains Had me going. There once was an American design, perhaps 1890 or so, where a prototype locomotive with a test track loop was constructed. It had one single driver, upon which it balanced, supported laterally by a catenary contrivance. The idea was that it would be ultra low friction, and thus economical and very fast. It never took off as more than a curiousity. Not sure it ever ran, either, will need to look it up.
Really neat coaches . I did not know you are a story writer are you trying to give the Rev. W. Awdry competition.
you also need to build the 0-2-0 locomotive to go with it
haha to go with these? Amazing idea!! xD
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@@SamsTrains That’s an Amazing idea !
It already exists, check out EST Modeles 010T Locomotive
Have you considered using rare earth magnets in your designs. They would be helpful since you don’t like glueing things. I used them a lot to swap out weapons and attachments on my Warhammer 40k kits.
I strongly recommend that you look into taking out a patent on those couplers if applicable!
If you are to sometime change the design, you should add a little folding kickstand under the chassis like on a bike to keep a single coach from falling over. Good stuff!
I love the creativity in these videos. The backstory was enough to hook me for the rest of the video.
Great stuff! Being able to quickly model the unique and obscure examples from history is why 3D printing is so awesome!
I've always had a soft spot for the UK steamers from Horny and Bachmann, but last weekend I finally got to mess around with one at a model railroad club/museum and OH MY GOODNESS they look even better in person! I would definitely go back but I don't know if the layout is still there.
What a brilliant concept! I wonder why it never caught on elsewhere? I can see an expansion to the range, using the same chassis with open and box wagons for freight, and even an 009 narrow gauge equivalent! As for the NEM couplers, could they see wider use (perhaps also a version with a slightly longer shaft) for rakes of "normal" rolling stock? Others have mentioned making the 3D-print files available online for a fee - a small but perhaps regular income for your channel?
I never thought I'd see the day when someone actually made single axle coaches to run a real railway, let alone in model form. Your 3d printing ideas never cease to amaze me and I hope I get a chance to pick one up before they're sold out.
Keep up the great work Sam!
haha I know - I thought it had to be done!! Thanks so much for your kind words! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Easy winners! Love it, up among the very best, thanks!
Oh, and great story, thanks again!!
haha it sure is - got to love Joplin! Appreciate it,
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@@SamsTrains Ever a pleasure!
Very intuitive if I do say so myself. You actually inspired me to want to 3D print my own custom sets of coaches.
haha awesome! Do it - it's so much fun! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
While selling complete 3D prints is awesome, have you ever thought about listing just the STL files for sale? Living in the US, I can't imagine it would make economical sense for me to purchase a plastic car from you, but, I'd love to print some of your designs! Just a though
I literally paused the video when he said they were for sale and ordered mine, 50 dollars for those of us in the US is a tad steep but cheap for a sams original.
haha thank you so much! Wow was it as much as that?! Did they add more for tax or something? Should be less than 50 dollars :(
Thanks for watching - Sam :)
@@SamsTrains they were 27 dollars and some odd cents with $11 and some cents shipping bringing my total to $44 even before tax.
I second big boy, it was a tad more for shipping for me at $12 and then tax, for three of sams original products.
One can use either standard clear silicone caulk or a silicone like, but a little stronger adhesive called "Goop". The advantage of either is that if One changes his/her mind about them being glued down or they need to be disassembled later they can be pulled apart without damaging the parts.
Nice and original idea ! For my own, I have though about a 0-10-4 tank engine for banking, that might be a 3D printed project someday.
I love your odd sense of humour - I nearly thought they were real. Saying that, they are a wonderful design, that could have been - and there were weirder railway items existing in the real world - have a look at the Listowel and Ballybunion monorail, if you don't believe me.
Great work as always!
Thanks for the shout, I thought you were having me on there for a moment - Ballybunion Monorail, my word. xD
If only one per cent of your subscribers wanted to buy a set, that would be ~1080 orders multiplied by the rake of three is ~3240 coaches. That would have earnt you £21,600 minus the cost of production.
I hope you are able and willing to produce enough of your unique 3D prints to meet demand in future. I myself would have hoped to have gotten two sets to give me a rake of six, but nevermind. There is nothing like this on the market and I think it was very creative of you to come up with this idea.
Thank you for brightening all our days, and I wish you all the best.
Cheers.
That’s true, but 1080 sets at 6 hours printing per set would take 270 days, day and night, to make... I don’t print in the night, or when I’m filming.., so absolutely impossible sadly :(
@@SamsTrains Yeah, it's just one of those things that can't be helped. I do think it would be good if you sold the file, though, for £5 a pop as others have suggested.
It was good of you to reply.
Cheers.
Superb work Sam. Really enjoy this video and superb watching a rake go around the layout ☺️👏🏻
LOL :) In Copenhagen, we actually have single axle urban rail cars. Except that the axles are at one end of each car, and at one end of the train is a 2-axle car.
For the ultimate in coal economy, we now need an electric steam locomotive. One of which the Swiss have actually built
What a great idea and another super video.
Good luck with your venture :)
Good to see you creating and selling unique models now Sam - that could be a nice little money-spinning side hustle for the channel. Great content as always. Must save up for one of those great little Pecketts as well!
haha thank you!! Yes it'll sure pay for more videos in the future!! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Haha Sam selling more 3D printed stuff? I wonder if these will be related to the Halloween video.
haha nope - not related to the Halloween video! ;D
Super-Santa Sam - The "sandwich and flask" portholes for passing stuff between carriages are just the best - !
Love the idea! I've been wondering about single axle rolling stock for a while. What happens if you put a normal brake wagon at the back?
Thank you so much! Yeah that'd work just fine! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
I've been using inspiration from the video of you maintaining your Kneller Hall as I'm currently trying to revive my old Hornby GWR Holden 101, Tri-ang Jinty R52 and the Tri-ang Flying Scotman
Ooh awesome - good luck with that, I'm sure you'll fix them easily! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@@SamsTrains I personally avoid stripping the whole thing down as I have no instructions for them
You need to patent or copyright the design before model railroad companies use it.
A wonderfully whimsical idea, love it!
Several years ago, at a show in Huddersfield I saw an 020 loco and tender perhaps it was modelled on the same railway system. It was a bit wobbly but perhaps it was lacking the " prototype " couplings
I reckon that’s pretty cool! Very different indeed! Glad to see it’s been a success.
An addendum,please consider two very distinct locomotives! 1) a Garrett 0-2-0+0-2-0,and 2),a Mallet,0-2-2-0,either simple or compound! And if you really want do do mind stretching,a 0-2-2-0 Shay,or Climax,as geared engines,bothe had pivoted axles,on their bogies, and Leyland already had a prototype in their rail buses 🚌! Thanks again!!
I can comment. Problem solved.
Sam had learned a new skill: the fine art of 3D printing and painting with an airbrush. Of course, he was no expert, but I know he's getting good at it for a beginner.
The little balancing coaches were his newest 3D project, but I'm a bit scared of them. However, Sam went on creating new 3D printed models and painting them. At one stage of the game, he created a pair of 4-plank open wagons and coal loads to go inside them for a first. He painted the coal loads black, yet was unsure of what colour to use for the wagons. There were a number of different colours in his paint-box kit. Which to use? It was hard to choose.
"Always the hard part," he muttered to himself. The little grey W4 Peckett Saddle Tank Engine was watching from her shelf with interest.
"You don't have to paint them," she observed. "Just leave them unpainted. I'd love a pair of unpainted wagons to pull along, with a light grey LNER Guard's Van at the back." Sam happily agreed. He hadn't played trains for some time. He gave his little friend a run with the wagons and Guard's Van, on his railway. Somehow, like magic, he found himself knocking the light switch and in semi darkness. Creepy.
Sam shivered, pretending to be frightened. He might be scared of a model ghost train, yet he was good at braving his terror when playing with one.
"AAH!" he screamed in mock alarm. He and his Peckett Engine friend laughed it off with each other. Better to laugh than to cry, I always say.😂👻
That’s the most coolest thing I’ve seen from you!
haha thank you so much!! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Fear I'm dead broke at the moment, and have nothing to run them on. Still, neat. Any plans on selling the STL?
The custom swivel couplings look like they'd be great for getting a more realistic close couple on standard coaches!
Sam's trains is always great Saturday viewing . . . Cheers Sam!
Thank you so much Dilwich! :D
Thanks for watching - Sam :)
Hi Sam I just received my Fredrickson coaches which I love. I can’t wait to get them running! I can’t find any info about them on line at all and I would be grateful if you could let me know where you found your information for the construction of your coaches please?
Sam you made me start a little lay out I have got some of it from christmas
Wow nice to see the Hornby pen put in good use, Frank's spirit will be on those cards, which is a great plus for your customers... :D
haha absolutely... hopefully no horrible drawings will be born this time! D:
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Wow! This is brilliant! Well done.
These are so cool I wish I could get these good job Sam.
Thank you so much!! Really sorry that they went so fast :(
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Thanks Sam I still didn’t have money to buy a model train because I just bought another freight car thanks tho these are cool.
I was dying with these, I can imagine someone modding these to Annie and Clarabel, then putting these with the windup 0-4-0 Thomas XD
Well you kind of reinvented the VB141, which together with the ski rack van of the Swiss railways was one of the few one axled goods vans.
But that concept only works with the lower platform heights of mainland Europe
Sam this is so cool. What a great idea. Big fan of your work 👏👏👏
Hi Sam, Nice one. Had a lot of spare time on your hands, good luck, All the Best Brian 🤗
Thanks so much Brian - appreciate it! :D
Thanks for watching - Sam :)
Fantastic video as always. Watching this again and it just hit me....... They way they can wiggle side to side and bounce up and down reminds me of the later cgi thomas series where the trucks bounce about
Quite the wacky carriage! If the balancing coaches "survived" into preservation, I'd imagine they'd run on a seaside line as a tourist attraction!
Oh yeah definitely - they'd be perfect for that! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Definitly love this design!!!
Fascinating project, I fell for the historical description 😂
Would you ever consider releasing the 3d printer files so anyone who missed out could print their own
Hurray my Sam's Train's Halloween candy car arrived in the mail today!!!! Thank you for the treat Sam! Didn't take to long getting to the USA.
Ooh wow these are amazing. Great video. I bet no other manufacturer has thought of this
I don't catch every video and I don't even have a layout... that said I really enjoyed the story behind these and you've done a great job making them - they'll look great going round the tree when I get the Christmas trainset out ;-)
haha thanks very much Jon - glad you liked this one at least! You managed to get a set before they all went then? :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
You should design a Grimburn Railway locomotive to go with these! I'd like to see one.
They look fun, just ordered my set. Hopefully you will see them going around a garden layout in France when I move (eventually). In the meantime I wonder who is going to be the first person to do a review parody on them..... lol
Thank you so much for the support - hope you enjoy them! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
This has Far Tottering & Oyster Creek vibes all over it, I dig it.
Well done Sam ,a lot of work to do them ,i can imagine . Very cool .
I remember an 0-2-0 locomotive on a comedy layout in Railway Modeller some 50 years ago.
haha amazing - will have to see if I can make that happen! ;D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Goodness! I wasn't even aware that these tiny little coaches existed, and I'm charmed by them already. I'll definitely try to pick up a set or two
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I would bet those single axle coaches could follow a Hornby Peckett around the sharpest corners you could create with flexitrack!!
Very good and amusing idea, I have ordered two sets. Thanks Sam
can you do a vid or something to let us know when these will be available again? also will they be up on your merch site (im assuming so but i wanna be sure).
Sup, sam. Where do you recommend for affordable but good model trains?
hi Sam you should try to design and print a tender for the hornby 0-4-0 pug locomotive ;-)
I love this idea so much. I really hope you do something like this again in future
Thank you so much! I probably will do knowing me! ;D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Those are pretty cool. I'm a truck driver in America and we often see double/triple trailers being pulled around. We are not able to reverse them either because they would fold into each other. Is that anything like what happens to the balancing coaches?
Thanks very much Trent - that's a very educated guess! Yes basically... but the wheel flanges do something interesting as a result! ;D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Hi Sam maybe you could look into making a vapour bath for your 3d prints it will completely smooth put all the layer lines
You'll have to 3d print a small single axle driven tank engine to go with them like a 2-2-0 wheel configuration, great job 👍
haha I know! Such a cool idea! :@D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@Sam'sTrains , is your freight wagon design available to download onto the 3D shaping app?
You should sell those couplings stand alone, they would be great for permanent consists and consists in general! Much better of a connection than other couplings meaning you can have a more realistic coupling, it's also much more discreet than the massive NEM ones.
I'm surprised these things were for sale, and they already sold out in three hours! I didn't even have enough time to come home from work and order one if I wanted one!
You should make a series of balancing coal wagons sometime. I wonder if one of these cars can run in a train with all the other cars just being normal rolling stock?
These things remind me of something I once envisioned for a mountain railway in that each compartment forms a stair-step when going uphill, but is a flat, normal train on flat track
Don't forget, because of the high coal prices, small branch lines used custom built 0-4-0 locomotives which ran on compressed air instead of steam, like many mining locomotives at the time. (New personal head canon)
Yeah they did! For the shorter journeys that was fine, but it didn't work on the express services!
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@@SamsTrains It would be interesting to know how long they would last (how many miles you would get out of them). Imagine an LNER A4 or a LMS Coronation class with the entire boiler full of compressed air: No firebox or smoke box or tubes and flues, just a completely open space for compressed air...
How about a double-deck version to increase capacity on the Morrowtoseis Rly - that would be really scary! On 3D printing, is it possible to create transparent prints and so create your own flush glazing?
What a Great Idea Sam. Your a Legend they look 'Kooky' but Producing Something that No One else does..!?
I don't think I would have wanted to have Ridden in them. They look like a 'Disaster Waiting to Happen..!' But what do I know..!
No Wonder they Sold out before I even Heard about it..!
And at such a Price. Bargain..!
Well Done Sir..!
Cheers Kim in Oz.😎
Will we ever get the rebuilt bogie-coach version, or the 4 seater First-Class version?
The period I model for the Grimburn Railroad is the 1920’s, so having bogies would be nice.
As always your industriousness is beaten only by your comedy. Good on you! :D
haha thanks a lot mate, appreciate it! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
6.10 The 'electric light' on the roof is actually a ventilator, of the type known as a 'torpedo ventilator' -- the Grimburn Railway seems not to have run after dark for most of its life, and anyway electric lighting was rare on railways world-wide until years into the twentieth century. Apparently 'mains' electricity was only introduced to Morotoki when the Council acquired a third-hand hot-bulb compression-ignition engine in 1899, running it on raw coconut oil to power a generator of dubious origin. Nowadays they use a Hitachi genset donated by UNESCO, so all five lightbulbs on the island can be run simultaneously, and at the same time as a power-tool. Coconut-oil lamps are still popular, though, because the oil can readily be perfumed with an extract of the tongi-tongi tree, which grows profusely and uniquely on Morotoki. This perfumed oil is also said to have some rather 'interesting' effects, whether burned in a lamp or rubbed gently on a friend, which is perhaps another reason why the railway wasn't allowed to run at night.
D P Tolerant's fascinating history of the island includes an eyewitness account of the coaches being floated ashore upside-down one by one, towed by native canoes, from a freighter anchored precariously outside the reef. It seems that Charles Roberts, who are said to have built the carriages, found the whole episode so embarrassing that they erased all mention of the order from their books as soon as they decently could.
Really excellent and amusing stuff. Thanks for this. Perhaps you might like to consider adapting one -- or more -- of Rowland Emett's locomotive designs to pull these coaches, too.
Thanks a lot for sharing David - those just seem to appear on electric coaches though? Yeah absolutely - they had crude electricity way back in the 1800s on Morrowtowseas!
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Don't forget the diesel powered vehicles that use coconut oil as a fuel.
Darn, i missed out. They look fantastic sam,nicely done :)
I bought a set of these, I am so excited for them to arrive! - Nathan
Very good Sam - never heard of these b4 - Carriages going down from 8 to 6, then 6 to 4, then 4 down to 2!!! - What ever next - just having the 1 wheel in the centre??? 🤔🚂🚂🚂