I Built the World's Strongest Model Train! (+ Hill Climb!) 

8:01- “Let’s pull out one or two coaches...” *pulls out 56 coaches*

PETE is short for: P - Powerful E - Electric T - Train E - Engine

“I think the results might shock you.” Well, looks like BuzzFeed’s hired Sam.

I like how this channel is slowly becoming an empirical physics channel.

i dont really have something with trains but im hella jealous of your room

"lets grab 2 or 3 coaches." * processeds to grab every coach in his collection *

This is fascinating stuff. If you can just make the chassis a little bit narrower, you could probably get someone to 3D print a body for it, and you could add a new mountainside railway to your attic, akin to culdee fell or Snowdon.

Today on Sam's Trains: Sam builds his own variant of a Cog/Rack engine and tests the pants off of it! In all seriousness great vid! Cool concept and I look forward to the (eventual) version 2! Cheers, The Duke of Rawsome

You should shorten the chain so the chain was tight.

Nice one Sam, Rack traction is very hard to pull off in guages less than 0 guage. Give yerself a slap on the back Jon

Sam is the Mythbuster of the model train community

I absolutely love how you got all this set out on the floor. The way we all remember Christmas morning looked like

So the title says: I built the world strongest model train! Sam: “So this actually isn’t a model Me: I have been ripped off

This has to be one of the funniest videos you have ever made Sam! Even Gordon's Hill, the Evening Star loco and a 45 degree plank had to succumb to Speedy Pete! Poor Bullman too! Keep going Sam!

Look up cog railroad. They can go up some pretty steep angles. There's one at Pike's Peak in Colorado. That's basically what you've built but they have a third cog rail which meshes with a drive gear on the locomotive.

No bullmans were harmed in the making of this video, Sams neck looking majestic

I love the wacky projects Good video sam

Ohhhh this got be the cool thing ever That Gives me an idea what if you fast strong train It can take like50 coaches faster than an average train pulling nothing

R.I.P speedy pete 2019-2019 only one day old

Was it the Airfix 31 or the Mainline 56 set a record years back , traction tyres though. Also track on carpet , disclaimer about furring up locos , as a student I used to fix so many friends trains that were furred up. Surprised over the Heljan comment. Yes the Clayton's were a disaster but with over 150 Heljan locos I have found then robust and reliable , unlike Vitrains!

These ideas just keep getting crazier and better. Awesome video Sam :)

sam, you are an absolute mad lad!!! something could have gone wrong! train could have exploded but thats absolutley crazy!!! amazing homemade "locomotive"!!!

Based on the Rack & pinion systems seen on some of the World's steepest gradients Sam. Congratulations on achieving such an immensely powerful 00 Gauge loco..Full marks to your ingenuity on this one.

If it's possible you should make one that has real brakes and see how much of a slope the brakes can handle great video and I loved the crashes

6 newtons is around 0,6 kg of weight you could pull vertically (including the loco weight) and you could measure how much drag your couches procuce by pulling on them with that newton force scale by hand untill the last one moves i am interested in how much force it actually takes to pull all of those on video

Guinness world records: I’ll have to see it to believe it I’ll be contacting you soon

10:03 absolutely amazing and mindblowing when you recognize what actually happens at this moment in the entire room.

I suppose that this officially means that the layout now is too small. I'd recommend expanding outdoors 😉

Sam: the strongest most powerful and most grippy locomotive ever. Turns: hold my beer

For a second I thought you were gonna do an upgraded version of Gordon's hill but its just a steep climb for your experiment for how strong Speedy Pete is pulling Bullman around. I loved the name Speedy Pete BTW Lol. XD

Before watching, how many bottles of liquid gravity did you use?

Now make a nuclear powered flying bomber train.

If it can win a tug a war vs a tractor or a real train, then thats what you call HORSE POWER (Im American so I don't know if thats what they say in the UK) Also can I just say 13:00 is a bit insane

You have just demonstrated why Rack Railways were developed and used successfully around the world and even today they are still used. And even the 45 degree attempt would have worked if you had a better system for keeping the chain from popping up out of the track.

This is pretty awesome. Be cool if Pete had a shell or some kind of aesthetic.

Today, model trains. Tomorrow, the world! Sam, maybe you should make a video called “A Day With Patchwork Locos.” I call the engines that have those propellers and the cog engine featured in this video patchwork because they’re made from other parts to patch up pieces when the train is in the works. -railracer222

you need to make these experements into a series

The brave engineer of model trains

Hi Sam, that is a very clever thought aswell as the concept itself. 👍

This video has inspired me to build my own train out of train parts! Thanks for the good video.

0:16 Cow be like "Sam that's a lot of coaches you got there!" MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Hi Sam, love the video Would it be possible to add a rack and pinion style twist on speedy Pete? This could vastly improve the pulling power, especially uphill. It would also add stability as you could add wheels back on as rollers. Just an idea. :)

A idea for a train build, make a fully solar powered train. Might need a cheap DMU of some sort possibly the budget Hitachi high speed train hornby made which was in the blue rapier set.

I'm surprised you haven't use the newton metres on the coaches to see how much you can pull before it move.

Someone should make a cog railway steam engine.

Two engines that might be stronger is the hejang Garrat and also the HO big boy

It would be worth trying with some of the old triang locomotives. They weigh a bit and some are also fitted with magnetic tyres! Be interesting to compare against their modern counterparts.

The most unusual loco :-P

You’ve made one of those Swiss leaning cow train that go up the alps. That’s great

13:55 Poor cow or bullman. He's probably in a lot of pain right now. He needs some bandages. Also Sam I didn't know this cow had a name which is Bullman. That's a cool name for him.

SAM YOU LEGEND But on a more serious note, who would win in a fight.. Thomas the tank engine or 1401 from Titfield Thunderbolt?

Move the motor up front to tip the balance in its favor and you'll pull even steeper hills. What's happening now is the torque is exceeding the weight of the nose. Moving the center of gravity forward will improve traction and ability to pull up hills like that. Also, adding more nose weight will do, which is why I suggest moving the motor up front. Also, take some of that chain slack out. Interesting build.

"Scared something will poke me in the eye" THEN WEAR SAFETY GLASSES 😭

That bull isn't in scale, you know ;-) I'm trying to think of a use for a Speedy Pete; maybe a sloped small space layout with a concealed steep spiral return where Pete is used as a banker. Not sure how well Pete will cope with curves though... Maybe some wheels for guidance and pick-up would help?

Haha nice loco Sam you might consider producing them commercially, build up a franchise whahahah! ;-) Cheers, Joachim

Whoa that’s SUPER strong!! Perhaps give the engine a body and make a mountain railway!

If you were to ever reapproach this experiment, I think something worth trying to solve the issue of how finicky the pickups are for power would be to put the pickups on the inside of the track (so between the rails), another option would be to use a set of wheels with pickups from a preexisting model and attach them to Pete, but that also creates a problem of how would the chain work if its being obstructed by wheel. Nevertheless, a very interesting experiment!

Sam, at this point you are building your own steam team. Let's have a video where you make a layout for your experimental team, for instance, there could be a really long siding for the endurance engine, an underwater section for the southern engine that you put in water, a steep hill for speedy pete, and banked curves for the propeller engine, adding another feature for every experiment video.

First the dual-fanned monster, now this?! Sam, you’re an absolute madlad.

Maybe you should model Swiss Railways? Go up any hill no matter how steep and remain true to scale and gauge! Get Fleischmann 481702 Swiss Rack & Pinion Railway Analogue Starter Set III from Gaugemaster for £229.95.

Speedy Pete needed more weight on the nose when climbing an incline

I love all these reviews ❤ and fun tests! Always have fun outthere mike

When Pete fell, you sounded like a sheep! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

You really should have went to university for engineering.

You have done a chain train, now how about a upside down train. You will need a length of steel track mounted upside down, a loco and coaches with steel wheels with strong magnets between the wheels in the fashion of triangs magnadesion, has this been tried before? If it hasn't I'll be looking forward to your video.

I don't know how strong this is compared to yours but Heljan did for Hattons a couple of years ago a LMS Garrett and I believe it has 2 motors and 2 sets of gears

You know, you should try and add to your layout some sort of hill. Something a bit close to Gordon's hill!!

Time for a refit (add more pins, guide wheels/contacts, chain guide / no snags and move motor forward of center or flip 180, motor in front?). ;-)

Great video sam! I think you should try to get a loco to run upside down as in flip the track and loco over :D

I know this is an old video, but do UP Big Boy in Ho Scale. You can pre-order one from Hornby/UK because Hornby/US kind of sucks. But it is a company from the Uk

Cheater, Speedy Pete is clearly getting help from bullman

Wow Sam That is one Of The Best things i have ever seen you Do Keep doing amzaing work have i wish you all the Best From one RU-vidr to Another ;)

The voice doesn't match the face and why is this in my recommendations

I loved that time-laps shot.

Do a Sam's trains frankinstin run with all your engines that you made

Awesome video today Sam very interesting what are those meters called they could help me

Question: If the motor and traction are what makes it powerful, can’t you just put a really powerful motor in an already really powerful locomotive?

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Sam.... You've illustrated in one way, the IGNORANCE of us Yanks!!! 😜😆😂😆 NO IDEA what Newton Meters IS, or what to compare it to! 😖 *ALL THOSE COACHES* certainly cleared it up. Thank you! You said at the start: "Certainly not Steam" referring to Strength. Here in Arizona at our Club, we pulled *138 50 foot Boxcars (Coaches),* with an Athearn 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Steam Locomotive!! 😳😎 "Speedy Pete" is QUITE a bit of kit!! Creative. And a BEAST. 😳 Carmine ✈🚂🚙

"Arrived, the Clone Wars have."

There is a cog railway system from Fleischmann with a couple of loco models, I used to have that when I started out on the hobby. I remember that it could do really stupid angles as well, but used a 1:2 gradient, which is 22,5° or a 50% gradient. A cog engine is always suposed to push the coaches up the hill for safety reasons, but that didn't really work in model as my curves were too tight and buffers catched. So I had my cog loco pulling the train and sometimes it did uncouple, leaving the train running down the incline, derailing and smacking against the rock face just off the tunnel portal. So I wrecked several quite expensive Fleischman coaches, and on the next layout there never has been a cog railway. I have some continental Roco Co-Co locomotives which have good pulling power, equal to the Vitrains, but my strongest loco I once built was a Garratt steam loco in Ho which could pull over 150 wagons, which was full circle on a large club layout. it finaly pulled one of the blades from a point when the train derailed and got stuck behind the platform end

Great video sam i would say water power but its dangerous but how about using a animal like a hamster. Many thanks Harry

Yes SAM, what an amazing video. You are so good at presenting model railways, that you should be on TV to mesmerise the people of this world. You are a true engineer and inventor, and a true HERO of model railways. I SALUTE YOU. Keep them coming, please.

Maybe you could try putting a model rocket on the back of an engine.

"Typical of the poor quality of Heljan" what a foolish comment. Just because you haven't had one of their better locomotives/units is no indication on their quality as a whole. I suggest you desist from future statements.

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Good luck putting the coach's away how long did it take you?

Love the channel. Don't try the wall or upside down, as Tyco and others have you beat, however, I did find out that I have 6 locomotives,(Out of 23.), that will run through an HO lake. All but one are modern HO models with high efficiency motors, the other locomotives are old school Athearn, Mantua, Bachmann, Model Power, Rivarossi, Atlas, etc. The one exception was a Lionel GP-9 which has a high efficiency 5 Pole GE motor, all gear drive, and all wheels are driven and pick up power.(Not all of my locomotives are so well equipped.). The 50 year old model Geep, in normal daily service, ran through the water like it wasn't there, while 3/4 of my fleet stalled and made bubbles from the wheels and funny noises from the locomotive. I also have to give kudos to my treasured Atlas SD-24,(Original.), as I thought it was stalling, it was actually still moving, just slowly, and made it across the lake also. P.S. I think you should make either the infamous 0-2-0 (0-1-0 for you.) steam switcher locomotive, or the mighty 2-4+6+8-0 steam road locomotive.(1-2+3+4-0) or (1-Bo+Co+Do-0). This might be the contender you need to challenge Speedy Pete. P.S. My most powerful model, no traction tires, (Or chains!), has 6 ounces of pull.(Newtons please, probably a lot like your mid level diesel locomotives you tested.). I also run my trains outside, which gives them some nice, effective, realistic weathering. Keep up on the excellent train videos and "Goot jop, mi poy." ♡ T.E.N.

Maybe if you put wheels on peat and some magnets it will go up that 45 angel

I wish i could have a big space and as many trains as you have because i like trains a lot, from the age of..... like 4 or 5? I knew how to talk at the age when i started to like trains

I'm not arguing with you with your idea, but you should check out the concept of our American Locos. For example, the geared Chay locomotive

It honestly wouldn't be that difficult to make this work better. First off, you'd need to make the chain fit better, right now it could cause some problems(but mainly I'm just OCDing this), secondly you'd need to put some weights on the front to avoid flipping it, since the main weight, the motor, sits on the back. Thirdly, the chain should be better made, with more reliable hooks and measured distance in between hooks to match the distance of the sleepers. You could also add real wheels, to give the locomotive a constant level. It would also make for a better power source, really. Or, you could drop the chain altogether and simply attach a gear to one of the locomotives' shafts and boom! It should work.

Speedy Pete! What a name! Well done as always sam, may I suggest that you could do a review (when it comes out) The new Rails of Sheffield LNWR loco. Froggot the name but it is on hornby magazine channel, Thanks and have a good one!

Did Pete have any wheels at all? i didnt see any, maybe mounting the setup on a small chassis but using the same method of propulsion would aid it's pulling/ climbing power. Its a good idea though using a kind of Rack rail similar to mountain railways, i think with a little tweaking Pete could make that 45 angle.Maybe you could make a smaller version and mount it inside the body of a model, so it would look like a normal loco (ish) but with far increased pulling power. Maybe you could do a short video on Pete and how to make one?

The strongest commercialised locomotives in HO might be the HOm ( HO for 1:87 and m for 1 meter gauge ) rack locomotives ( if you use the rack system ). I have a section of rack railway on my layout and it’s very impressive to see a long rack of coach going uphill with only one locomotive on a slope that normal locomotives in HO wouldn’t be able to manage

I used a San Francisco cable car Bachmann and mounted a neodymium 20 mm x 15 mm x 5 mm, placed it onto the an ho track with a metal ruler under the ties . It climbed easily up to 25 degrees but then started to slip, perhaps another magnet would improve the attraction and would increase the angle but I only need max 15 degrees.

Great Video Sam And Also I Do Say Goodbye In Italian Which Is One Of My Favorite Languages

[American English] This Video Made My Day [Scottish English] This Video Made Me Day

Are you shore this isn't April you now have a fleet of tarts guests I'll ring Sam's of rails to order mine I like this new tart range I wonder if a rack and pinion tart could be made

Pete would be an excellent shunting engine, I reckon. Sir Sam T. Rains of the Loft Railway's third class of locomotive if I'm correct. Also this sound: 14:48 I live for this sound now.