Finally, a channel that showcases the wonderful world of all the cheapo, weird, one-off, and sometimes surprisingly rare toy trains out there. I've got probably as many cheapo battery powered trains as I do scale models and collectible toy trains. New Bright, Scientific Toys, Toystate, New Ray, and some more obscure ones. I like to kitbash, repaint, and weather them to make them into more respectable looking trains.
3:11 I think I might have solved the mystery of why that Santa Fe train set is hideously long. Proportion wise, that intercity train doesn’t look too unusual. What I believe is that the company was lazy, and reused the intercity train chassis, but changed the shells.
I had the full Santa Fe set with a figure-8 track when I was younger, and I must say that I thought it was the coolest thing 😂😂 Kinda mind-blowing to see that there were so many other variants
It is amazing how detailed the toys that were coming from China were in the late nineties, early 2000s and how inexpensive they were at the time. Nice toys stores at that time had beautifully detailed battery operated and mechanical tin toys in the ten to twenty five dollar range. It was it little, late, golden age of tin lithography.
I would totally suggest a puff puff loco in the future. My grandma got me once as a kid and it drove my mom nuts. And she eventually got rid of it.. Knowing grandma, it probably was done on purpose. Lol but I love those and would like to get another one someday.
I had two Peterkin technic 9 sets as a kid, the Intercity was my first & I got the Narita later on. Curiously in that picture of the back of the box, a random 00 gauge Hornby LNER J83 in the lineup lol, tension lock couplings & all
There was one more variant for that shell set another nascar had a tanker caboose as like the shell but nascar theme how do i know this i found one in my basement 2 years back its still has its original box and everything
New Ray also made some HO Scale trains (trains were mainly based on European designs with a few American ones like the UP GP38-2 and a tenderless 4-4-0 American type
Another series of toy trains you should take look at is the New Ray battery operated N scale train sets. I remember seeing a few in man cave catalogs as a kid.
They’re so expensive now though. If I find them at a train show for cheap I’ll gladly cover them but for now I just can’t say I’d find them worth covering
You should check out the Hallmark Lionel Great American Railways series. It's a series of limited edition diecast metal locomotives that come with their own display case, and they have lots of detail, including moving wheels and side rods.
So there’s a seemingly obscure train toy I had when I was little, and you seem like the type who could help me identify it. I think it was about N scale in size give or take, ran on channel track, and was basically a set that folded up. It had a black steamer, I think a grey or black tender, green hopper car with a little lever that opened a hole on the bottom, and a red caboose. The whole gimmick was that you could unload the hopper through the hole into a special section of track that dumped a fake rock into a bin to be reloaded again. I got it when I was about 3 or 4 sometime around 97-98 at a KB toys. I looked up Carrera and Tecnic 9, and it doesn’t seem to be one of those, Do you know what I’m talking about?
I have the Lionel N-scale General which came as a pack-in with the Lionel Trans-Con CD-ROM game box set. I never got the game to work on my computer at the time but I still have the locomotive.
I remember that. I too got that exact tin set. I too, could never get the game to function, and pretty much everything from that thing has scattered to the wimds.
A lot of us share you interest in the odd and unusual train toys like these. I have the Shell Train as well. I am also building up a collection of HO Scale clockwork (wind-up) trains as well.
The Midgetoy sets seem to be an evergreen toy train. IIRC the old west train, the steam freight train,the streamliner and the SW type switch engine freight set. Might have been more but those are all I remember. Give you an idea how evergreen I'm 62 years old and can remember running that switcher set on the livingroom carpet while watch Star Trek on NBC as a tiny little sprout. Another one from that era was Lonestar toys had a bunch of die-cast N scale trains. Had a British steam engine probably a 4 6 2, a blue US style boxcar,red offset cupola US style caboose, a European passenger coach and some European looking diesel. They weren't a set but came as individual pieces on a blister card and was limited to what the toy section at the local Ben Franklin had and what grandpa ( always an easy touch for us grandkids)or dad let me get on trips to the Ben Franklin. Apparently Lonestar either had a separate line of actual electric N scale trains or another company produced the floor toy non powered ones I had because in my late teens went to a flea market and saw a box of those same die-cast Lonestar type trains and picked one up to check it out and noticed a bit more heft and brass wheels and clearly a drive train of some sort and track other than the plastic molded rails, ties and roadbed that came with the floor toys
Number 3134 From the Santa Clarita Railroad was surely you identify, The engine was featured in the Movie called “Hijack” was originally a fictional railroad “WestRail” and now apparently make a cameo appearance, though the scene was reversed the number due to rotate wrong. Luckily it was just a surprised that locomotive was appear of Two films. It says was somehow original belong by the former ex-railroad of Rio Grande. As of now? It now’s currently in the Southwestern Railroad where is now as lease in Horizon Rail. Which he? *It’s a miracle that the short-lived cameo star survives!*
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![[SFS] This is a boxcar that ruined our week.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/F-Jb1L8ShrY/mqdefault.jpg)
Oh God he has an army of tiny trains
Nice pfp. Lmao
@@thetoontrain6073 I can say the same thing about your's lol
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It's MTE's own version of "The Island Of Misfit Toys"!
Finally, a channel that showcases the wonderful world of all the cheapo, weird, one-off, and sometimes surprisingly rare toy trains out there.
I've got probably as many cheapo battery powered trains as I do scale models and collectible toy trains. New Bright, Scientific Toys, Toystate, New Ray, and some more obscure ones. I like to kitbash, repaint, and weather them to make them into more respectable looking trains.
He’s back.
3:11 I think I might have solved the mystery of why that Santa Fe train set is hideously long. Proportion wise, that intercity train doesn’t look too unusual.
What I believe is that the company was lazy, and reused the intercity train chassis, but changed the shells.
I had the full Santa Fe set with a figure-8 track when I was younger, and I must say that I thought it was the coolest thing 😂😂 Kinda mind-blowing to see that there were so many other variants
It is amazing how detailed the toys that were coming from China were in the late nineties, early 2000s and how inexpensive they were at the time. Nice toys stores at that time had beautifully detailed battery operated and mechanical tin toys in the ten to twenty five dollar range. It was it little, late, golden age of tin lithography.
Why is this my whole childhood in one video?
THE S H E L L T R A I N
I would totally suggest a puff puff loco in the future. My grandma got me once as a kid and it drove my mom nuts. And she eventually got rid of it..
Knowing grandma, it probably was done on purpose. Lol but I love those and would like to get another one someday.
I had two Peterkin technic 9 sets as a kid, the Intercity was my first & I got the Narita later on. Curiously in that picture of the back of the box, a random 00 gauge Hornby LNER J83 in the lineup lol, tension lock couplings & all
You should try out the maisto on track trains.
I’ve got them on hand. Stay tuned ;)
@@cobramercilessthank you
Now you can paint them all Conrail
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I like your videos
There was one more variant for that shell set another nascar had a tanker caboose as like the shell but nascar theme how do i know this i found one in my basement 2 years back its still has its original box and everything
I have that metal Hudson in my room.
Do you have any New Ray trains? They had a series of N gauge battery charged trains I find quite interesting.
I’ve seen those and I’d love to cover them some day, but man I’m not paying $60 a set for them lol
New Ray also made some HO Scale trains (trains were mainly based on European designs with a few American ones like the UP GP38-2 and a tenderless 4-4-0 American type
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Another series of toy trains you should take look at is the New Ray battery operated N scale train sets. I remember seeing a few in man cave catalogs as a kid.
I had one as a kid! Pieces of the set survive. If only I'd been nicer to it...
(it was the blue & yellow BNSF SD40-2 set with covered hopper cars)
They’re so expensive now though. If I find them at a train show for cheap I’ll gladly cover them but for now I just can’t say I’d find them worth covering
@@cobramerciless yeah no, have noticed that a lot with these train toys that were around for a few years and then gone. People just want too much.
Nice collection all the same
You should check out the Hallmark Lionel Great American Railways series. It's a series of limited edition diecast metal locomotives that come with their own display case, and they have lots of detail, including moving wheels and side rods.
Can confirm. I have 2 myself. The Gold Turbine, and the J class.
They also run on HO Scale Track too
7:05 in this scene you can see the cab of the gp40 is not accurate to the real things as it looks like a old high speed train
Oh I have this sp train that's about the size of a set of Hallmark ornaments only they're all plastic, better detailed and the bogeys don't turn
6:57 Where did you get that?
Do a video About trains from family dollar and dollar general and Walmart
The lionel classic had a ho butttttt the one i saw on ebay got sold
So there’s a seemingly obscure train toy I had when I was little, and you seem like the type who could help me identify it.
I think it was about N scale in size give or take, ran on channel track, and was basically a set that folded up. It had a black steamer, I think a grey or black tender, green hopper car with a little lever that opened a hole on the bottom, and a red caboose.
The whole gimmick was that you could unload the hopper through the hole into a special section of track that dumped a fake rock into a bin to be reloaded again. I got it when I was about 3 or 4 sometime around 97-98 at a KB toys.
I looked up Carrera and Tecnic 9, and it doesn’t seem to be one of those,
Do you know what I’m talking about?
What was the set made out of? I googled and I think i'm getting close.
@@_RandomPerson_ I think the engine and cars were diecast but everything else was plastic.
I know it wasn’t micro machines, I’ve checked
@@bladeobrian2144 Hotwheels made something like what you talking about. You sure its not it?
@@_RandomPerson_ I’ve googled hot wheels trains and none of their sets are what it was, though I can check again
@@bladeobrian2144 I looked up KB, their was a set called the forty niner, but its spelled "Kay Bee", and it isn't a fold up set.
I have the tin Hudson
It sits on my shelf
Review the technic trains
What do you mean the Technic trains
Just once I would like to see a comment from you that isn’t “review (item)”
@@cobramerciless alright
Those trains are so cool
6:20 New York central j3a streamlined.❤😊😊😊❤
Oh god it’s you again
@@Whoasked-bc5ui 😍it’s me Ethan Myer trains I like, keep on the channel and subscribe if very exciting is that okay?😍
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@@Ethanmyertrains100 On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your attention span and mental health?
6:52 Yoooo!!! I just got that set 3 days ago in Target!! What a coincidence!
i have the shell steamer
I have the Lionel N-scale General which came as a pack-in with the Lionel Trans-Con CD-ROM game box set. I never got the game to work on my computer at the time but I still have the locomotive.
I remember that. I too got that exact tin set. I too, could never get the game to function, and pretty much everything from that thing has scattered to the wimds.
@@trainfan4449 Glad to hear it wasn't just me or my family's crappy computer!
I had shell train one and a zig zag train
I've had that Midgetoy steam set since I was five years old or so.
Where gp30 toy
Why is this video doing so well
There are more "warped individuals" out loose than you want to imagine!
A lot of us share you interest in the odd and unusual train toys like these. I have the Shell Train as well. I am also building up a collection of HO Scale clockwork (wind-up) trains as well.
The Midgetoy sets seem to be an evergreen toy train. IIRC the old west train, the steam freight train,the streamliner and the SW type switch engine freight set. Might have been more but those are all I remember. Give you an idea how evergreen I'm 62 years old and can remember running that switcher set on the livingroom carpet while watch Star Trek on NBC as a tiny little sprout. Another one from that era was Lonestar toys had a bunch of die-cast N scale trains. Had a British steam engine probably a 4 6 2, a blue US style boxcar,red offset cupola US style caboose, a European passenger coach and some European looking diesel. They weren't a set but came as individual pieces on a blister card and was limited to what the toy section at the local Ben Franklin had and what grandpa ( always an easy touch for us grandkids)or dad let me get on trips to the Ben Franklin. Apparently Lonestar either had a separate line of actual electric N scale trains or another company produced the floor toy non powered ones I had because in my late teens went to a flea market and saw a box of those same die-cast Lonestar type trains and picked one up to check it out and noticed a bit more heft and brass wheels and clearly a drive train of some sort and track other than the plastic molded rails, ties and roadbed that came with the floor toys
You forgot the rear DRGW stripes and number was also missing from the engine in the Fast and Furious set
Number 3134 From the Santa Clarita Railroad was surely you identify, The engine was featured in the Movie called “Hijack” was originally a fictional railroad “WestRail” and now apparently make a cameo appearance, though the scene was reversed the number due to rotate wrong. Luckily it was just a surprised that locomotive was appear of Two films.
It says was somehow original belong by the former ex-railroad of Rio Grande.
As of now? It now’s currently in the Southwestern Railroad where is now as lease in Horizon Rail.
Which he? *It’s a miracle that the short-lived cameo star survives!*
3:49
Looking at that LNER tank… Did they literally just buy the old Triang/Hornby model for that photo? 😂
3:48 one of them looks like a d51
MY GOD DUDE WHERE DO YOU PUT THE LIMIT ON THESE😭🙏