MicroMachines Trains: Flawed but lovable 

What was that hate crime in the beginning, mixing energy drink with milk must be on some form of international law

Honey, I shrunk the Marklin Z scale

My dad has a box of Micro Machines sitting around our house. Among the collection is the yellow GP38 freight set. If Micro Machines ever does bring back trains, I’d welcome them warmly.

Power Trains City? Now where have I seen that before… *Nostalgic flashback to the video Leokimvideo made on customising the PEZ Thomas & Friends dispensers to run on that thing ensues* I can now live at peace knowing what that is

I had a ton of these when I was a kid, including the power city set. The power city had a large cogged rubber belt that pulled the train along via those small tabs. I wouldn't be surprised to find most, if not all existing example's belts dry rotted and inoperable. It was also pretty noisy when operating, and you could not use an sidings if the tabs were engaged. I also found the steam locos would not stay on the newer style track, the drivers did not fit well, despite, as I recall, one set being offered with the new track and the sound cattle car.

Great video! Very thorough. I've got most of what was make including the power train city. I didn't get them as a kid though, I got them as an adult. I'm a Z scale model railroader and converted many of the cars for Z scale trains, like some of the passenger cars, tank car, ore hopper, covered hopper and 40' boxcar. The "baggage car" is actually a railway post office car, and the bi-level cars aren't SuperLiners but actually the pre-Amtrak Santa Fe Hi-Level cars. I've heard an unconfirmed rumor that these micromachines train were designed by the guy who went on to become the Design Engineer for Micro Trains Line (MTL) N and Z scale model trains.

You should do Geotrax. They were a huge part of my childhood playtimes and I had a ton of them. One day we got rid of them and I wish we didnt.

MT you're putting the work in and uploading! That's more than a lot of us can say for ourselves. Great work on your attention to detail and thoroughness. The history of these toys makes it fun to watch.

I had the blue diesel passenger train. Only had the included track. Had hours of fun with it. I remember getting it for Christmas in '89 or '90 and being overjoyed to see it. Lots of happy memories there. Thanks for sharing your collection.

I found one of the sound equipped livestock cars in a yard sale box a very long time ago and never had any clue what on earth it was, nor was able to read the decals on the sides due to wear. Seeing the stock car come up in the video was a hell of a blast from the past. Thanks! Comrail forever

Nostalgia unlocked. I had that red yellow and silver F unit as a kid. Good video on something forgotten and I had no idea was part of a larger series

I only knew one person who had just the santa fe diesel locomotive in an old type case. I asked them if they had any more and they said they most likely don't. I saw one set being used as a model railway within a model railway. Hasbro should make some sort of toy train series, especially since Mattel, Spin Master, and Jazwares aren't very realistic like the toy car series we see still being sold today.

I remember getting these in my stocking probably in 89…. I played with them constantly

I had the yellow one, I'm really surprised they only lasted that long since I thought they were so popular. I think around that time people started to think they were overpriced for what you got.

I was born after this line came out, but I got some trains from this line from as a hand me down. I had the TGV trains as well as some other trains that weren’t featured in this video. I have fond memories of them, but watching this video reminded me of how janky they were.

There's something so satisfying seeing the siderods move on them

Thank you for mentioning them being used in Home Alone. I originally thought that they were actual model trains.

I had the Santa Fe Freight Set one growing up, was fun to toy with

There was another toy train line that looked very similar to these, they were battery powered and the track sections were modular. I cannot remember for the life of me what they were called but I had a ton of them as a kid.

I’m genuinely surprised by the amount of detail thrown into these, especially those under frames!

The goat is back

Up next: maiso railroad

I still have my original Santa Fe and TGV sets. I had no idea they were discontinued so early.

Honey, wake UP! Maybe uploaded!!

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Literally one of my earliest childhood memories (I think I was 3 or 4) is playing with some of these trains. I had two of the steam train ones (one with a black locomotive, the other being the one with the sound boxcar and the blue loco), the TGV set, and two of the silver Santa Fe freight ones (with the orange livestock car, yellow boxcar, and green hopper car). One of the freight trains came with the motorized playset thing. I absolutely loved these trains and played with them until some of them broke (sadly the rest ended up sold in a yard sale or something, I don't remember). Trackwise I never had the switches but I knew they existed, and I had some of both track types. Thanks for the reminder of simpler times!

Iirc combining the Vista Dome Observation Car with a 40s streamlined bagge and bilevel cars was a thing that they did at some point, either early on when Amtrak was formed (in the Rainbow Era) or maybe sooner

IIRC, I had the silver, black and orange TGV back in the day. Man, I wish I still had my Micro Machines collection

I never knew these even existed, I really like the Sud-est TGV

This makes me think that micro machines took the tooling from Bachman's n scale trains The fact that the 4-4-0 Looks very similar to their N scale one saying with the coaches

Here's a really challenging train collection for you to track down: in the very early 90s there was this supermarket gumball style dispenser machine with tiny plastic trains. A streamlined diesel, coaches, tender, tank car... I don't know what the full collection was but you would have had to feed a lot of coins to get them all.

I've had the red & silver F-unit since I was a little kid... no clue where I got it. Me and my siblings had a bunch of used micro machines cars too (and we still have a bunch of them- not the playsets we got them with though, rip) but I never made the connection they were related. I remember the kindergarten I went to had the blue & white passenger set, and it had the track too! Except that one curve was missing. Drove me mad. I wished I had a whole train for my little engine. maybe 10 years ago at a train show I found a small bag of some random MircoMachines trains for cheap- I could tell they were the same product line as my little childhood loco. Naturally, I bought em! The baggage car and non-observation superliner in blue & white, the green tank car, the stock car with sound, the blue steam engine (missing the front axle, no tender), and both caboose types (both in red livery). None of them have couplers except my original childhood F unit, it wasn't until this video I learned how exactly the coupler system even worked. I'd love to own all the trains one day, I'm a big fan of their charming designs, and I guess they remind me of my childhood (even if the MicroMachines I grew up with were all hand-me-downs, and I only actually owned one engine).

I had my uncle's hand me downs growing up in the 90s. I think the blue one was complete and I had a few cars from the red one. I'm pretty sure it's still at my grandma's house, I've been trying to find it for a few years.

Dang, was this a great video. The intro was unhinged and hilarious. I had my eye on Cannonball #9 for a long time and my local retro toy store had an unboxed one. I rushed out and got it and I am happy that I did. It has a lot of the same issues that you brought up in your video, like derailing, but I love it anyway. I only have 2 straight track and I guess I didn’t know it was supposed to come with 4. I’ll have to track down some more… well track. Thanks for showing that the couplers detach. I didn’t know that was something you could do. I wonder how difficult it would be to CAD model and 3D print some new ones. Maybe knuckle couplers that you can put magnets into? Maybe I’ll try playing around with that. Come to think of it, I’ll bet 3D printed track would work too. That was a bit of a ramble, but again thanks for the great video. Super informative and fun.

Thank you for this video. I had the Steam and my brother the TGV sets as kids. I recall a neighbor having one of the passenger sets as well.

I had some of these. Not sure which ones but it might have been the TVG bullet train. Although some of those freight cars look familiar, but I don't remember having a steam engine. I might still have some of them floating around in some boxes somewhere. The track system with whe wheels sitting outside the rails was very odd indeed. Maybe the fact the tracks, couplers, and wheels didn't work very well is what caused them to be discontinued haha.

Whenever I get the steam engine for Christmas I’m going to see if I can make a ramp or hill

Great video. I remember having quite the collection of these when I was a kid with only the army and special edition micro machine passenger set out of my collection. It's a shame I don't have them anymore and yes, I did have the same track issues with them too.

THE SCRUNKLES

Honestly there videos are pretty high quailty! Keep up the HO stuff man!

I still have a few cars of the Sud-Est TGV, I think including the one with two pins. No track, but never really thought they needed it. Never knew about the set, so never knew what the clip was for. I might find 80 worth the cost for new moments with an old memory.

I think between my younger brother and I we had the entire Micro Machines train collection. They may still be in a box somewhere in Mom and Dad's basement.

Hi, I really enjoyed watching this because yes, I grew up with micro machines and was in the mid of the hype. Coming from Germany, we often had a mixed bag in the EU to where what was sold to? I only saw the power layout in the magazines but not in stores. I only had the Rio Grande and would have loved to buy the Steamengine back then. But for some reason I could never find it. The TGV on the other hand was easy to find and I guess they thought we were less into the american trains, so we got tons of TGVs. I still have my Rio Grande and in some box also a small trainstation that could fit the tracks. So yes, thanks for the video and seeing all the trains in action again.

I have a few of the Micro Machines Trains myself, and the track that doesn't have a central guiderail has a recessed crevasse that the trains ride in, and it seems to work better with the longer cars

I wish i had these

These Micromachines trains remind me of the Plarail Advanced trains seen today :3

Talking about the hotwheels raolroad line I have to Santa fe f40s and the iron horse the iron horse I bought on mercari for like $120 if I remember that right the tender coupling coupling was missing so I took one off my spare santa fe caboose for it

I had these! Crazy that they only lasted for two years, but I somehow had almost every set you had in the video!

I just wish they would bring back the HO scale models that Shell was producing, unpowered diecast models that are fairly detailed. I have three of the engines with only two tenders, five tank cars, and two complete caboose with a third in need of a truck and all 4 axels, and have been building my own set of tracks out of popsicle sticks to display them on, these would be huge in a world where a single powered engine goes for $400+ and each car runs at a higher price than I paid for a complete set of the engine, tender, tank car, and caboose.

Don't know if you ever heard of it, but there was a toy train line from the mid-2000s called XTS (Expandable Train System) that I have a bunch of. Might make an interesting video.

I wish they would bring these back!

I have a TON of the freight sets but no passenger sets. I didn’t realize they were so short lived.

I think that Micro Machines also made a T-1, but it was extremely rare if it was made.

I have 32 trains from galoob and I have Santa Fe gp38 up gp38 the two f7 tgv and I love micro machines 😊

I had the blue and white passenger set, the TGV, and both of the steam engine sets (one was with the guide rail track, the other was the blank track, with the bridge that had the orange side pieces) I didn't have derailment issues with the guide rail track, but the blank track was useless. I also had the, I think it was called the Highways and Biways Railroad Station? Where you could run the track through one side. I never saw the power train set. I always hoped there would be more, but I never saw any anywhere for sale. I guess they never made any more from what you say. Wow :/ Bit sad.

I used to have a bunch of them. I wonder where they ended up...

I still have some of those trains.

I have the orange TGV set but I lost one of the curve tracks so I didn’t really play with it!

man i wish that 4-4-0 was made

I only have a few of the original Micro Machines and use them on my N scale train layout despite the scale difference. I never knew they made trains like Hot Wheels. As someone who grew up playing trains, I would buy them if they would bring em back, particularly steam locomotives. I find them cute and quite nice to display them in my office room.

Do you have any Lionel learning curve trains/sets? If so, I’d love to see them in the next video!

I have one of the sound cars with a purple gp38

You should do a video on power trains they were a large part of my child hood

Man, i remember playing with micro machines when i was a kid

as a teen who loves tiny things because I collect the world's smallest line i can eat this stuff up

I had or still have rather, the orange TGV and the blue n white diesel passenger sets, my younger bro had the red "Highways n Byways" station and I had a straight platformed station with a large canopy and smaller freight plaform that attached to it with a little building on it. BTW, the TGV is not the "bullet train".

I have the rio grand passenger set and the UP freight train!

Some of the micromachine cars look pretty good on my n scale set as background vehicles.

I've got quite a few of the complete trains, and picked up an in box Power City set a few yrs back for $40! Both of my sound cars still work as well, but yeah, the track is a pain. And ŵhy are there turnouts on the Power City set if you can't use them!?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! ITS SO AWESOME! I WANT THE SET AND THE STEAM TRAIN!

Oh that was MILK in the beginning, we use those shaped bottles for bleach and dishwashing detergent here!

I know how to make your power sound trains work if they’re not working try looking inside there might be some green stuff on where the battery touches like dirty stuff so just scrub it off with screwdriver. The same thing happened to me when I got it started when I got done rubbing it, so try it

Have you head of Maisto On Track, the maisto brand of dicast toy trains?

Ever seen or heard of maisto on track? I've probably seen them at a train show and a goodwill long ago. You should probably review them in the future.

I had the TGV set.

These are powertrains before powertrains

CONRAIL QUALITY 💯

I found a new species of train brand that you probably didn’t know about

5:02 and 5:04 look like the shame

5:07 I love that blue one it’s like Casey jr from dumbo

As a Transformers fan, Hasbro producing any kind of train set would be a great thing... yet implausible at the best of times. They wrote off one of the best Transformers Combiner teams, saying they will never tackle Bullet Trains again because of poor sales in 2001. Japanese partner company Takara making HO scaled Transformers Masterpiece trains is probably a fluke, since those are poorly designed with loads of fragile translucent plastic for key structural parts. Looking at this, I fear they will not touch Micro Machines trains in any large capacity in the near future. The only train they will most likely sell is Astrotrain, one that also turns into a space shuttle.

could you do a power trains video please? thoes lil trains made me more intrested into model trains and trains in general and made my childhood. Also I hop you the best with your YT channel amigo

Healthiest american breakfast Also the soda can is CONRAIL (blue)

where can i get that conrail shirt

I have the rio grande baggage car 1 of the doubledecker rio grande car and the end car and then i have a chicogo and northwestern boxcar then a great northern hopper car no track no locomotives sadly but its still really cool

I misread the thumbnail and thought it said “Microwavable trains”

i have got all ov them

Ah. We seem to have the same tape measure

I have this train city but never have the all stuff

You should do power trains the first one's.

I got TGV one

Very nice video, likes from me

can you 3d print these at a larger scale?

Where can I get these if they are still buyable

I have iron man no. 1. But no track whatsoever. No idea where I got it but I have it and all the cars.

I own a whole box of them but unfortunately only one train Ben g the blue and white diesel locomotive

Looks like I dodged a cannon shell there, by not buying any (I bought some Mega Force toys instead). I do NOT like trains with the rails INSIDE the wheels.

iv got cannon ball and santa fe

Doug says hi back

Make the Micro Machine into a Hot Wheels Train!