The fact that Sam's Trains has gone from being just the name of a model review channel, to a legitimate model trains brand is amazing. Living the modeling dream my dude!
Jumped straight on the mixed pack, and even with shipping to Australia and tax yours were $20 less than Hornby’s sheep or horse wagon packs! Very keen to put them with Lion and run her on freight and Rocket on passengers
Thank you so much - really hope you enjoy them! Apologies for the steep shipping cost - I have to pay a bit extra to send them tracked, otherwise I found things were going missing in transit! Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Great idea, great products, great follow-through. Sam, you are leading the way in how resin printing provides options for hobbyists, by hobbyists. Bravo
Sam, I'm happy to see what you're doing in the hobby by reaching out and privately producing items for the scale model trains that's exactly what more people should be doing to support the hobby as an alternative to buying brandname items. Cheers!
Well, if Sam can do it, others could follow. How about some generic 1830s/1840s coaches that aren't in Liverpool & Manchester livery (preferably with the option of NEM couplings for those of us with five thumbs!)?
Yeah absolutely - if I can do it with a couple of years practice, then really anybody can! Genuinely excited to see what comes of all this in the future :D Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Well, at the very least and just from the thumbnail, they’re far more interesting that the ones Hornby spat out with their Era 1 stuff. Bravo, Sam! You’ve definitely a talent for it and you are the face of the new generation, pretty much globally. Time for a factory, I reckon. Bring out the inner Martin…
Well, I've just ordered a pack of sheep wagons - what clinched it for me is that you've sensibly included the option to use NEM couplings, so that I can run them behind my Rapido Lion...well done, Sam! From old prints, the L&MR covered goods on the flat wagons with canvas wagon sheets, so that might be something modellers could recreate (tissue paper, perhaps?) Anthony Dawson's book on the operation of the L&MR is a fascinating read, and highly recommended.
Thank you so much Ian - I hope you really enjoy them! Yes absolutely - some sheets to cover a load would look fantastic, hopefully someone does that and posts it! Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Hats off ! As a one person business, you really did a great job here. Nice, original, very reasonable on price, that's a recipe for success you have here ! Just an idea : era 1 rolling stock is good for standard gauge in O scale in my opinion... Some prototype someday ?
Awesome job on the wagons, I can't wait to try them out. Keep up the great channel and building your next era 1 wagons. Ignore the negative comments, some people are not happy unless they complain. My slippers are nice and warm as well, lol.
You know, it's bad for the modeling business. When a single person is able to not only single-handed lead beat the model in Titan itself Not only in price but in quality
Sam, those look wonderful! You've done a spectacular job with the detail and the low prices. I would buy some, but I don't have a loco to run them with :(
Great effort, Sam! Totally outside of my interests but fascinating to watch. And excuse the child in me but I giggled when you said "you're not gonna get a stiff one"...
Hi Sam, I shall not be purchasing any of this run. Not that I would not like to, just strapped for cash at the moment. I hope others benefit from my tightness & get to enjoy some nice-looking wagons. Maybe better luck on another occasion. Good Work Sam!
Admittedly, while unapologetically, I do give Sam a hard time when (he knows) he isn’t doing his best. However when Sam does something brilliant I also have to give him the credit for that and these are just that. Sam, you’ve done a thoroughly terrific job here and this is the content you should be showing to the world. You should let your genius out more laddie!! I give Sam a hard time because he is the gold standard of this hobby in the U.K. and beyond. He doesn’t advertise (which is a massive financial loss) and he takes his job seriously. I respect the man immensely, it’s just that everyone needs a reminder that they’re not the only carrot in the soup when they’re allowing their lazy side to prevail. Fin! and might I say, “Bon!”? :)
you should start making newer and newer L&MR stock untill you eventually hit the LMS then BR then modern day, i think that would be interesting as not only are the models are getting better and better (even though they are already AMAZING) but the model stock would get more modern with it
Ha! My two wagon packs arrived today - thanks, Sam, for some very high-quality models. I can now run a proper luggage train (as the L&MR called their goods trains), and will see if I can attach a NEM coupling to a Hornby carriage so that I can run a coach train behind the Rapido Lion...
@@SamsTrains I've attached a small NEM coupling to a Hornby L&M yellow coach, and another to a blue coach - one end each. They fit neatly under the headstocks, and are at the right height for the NEM coupling on the Rapido Lion. I've also fitted a NEM loop (without the hook) to the Hornby Tiger. I'll use the Hornby chains, and your coupling bars, for the majority of the rolling stock, as they maintain a more realistic distance between vehicles. The livestock wagons look good with pigs in one, and a couple of cows in the other, on removable false floors strewn with straw...
This should be on Sam’s model shop review thread. I bought some of these models at 09:51 local time. At 18:58 message to say it had shipped. Beat that DeRails or TMC😂😂😂😂
Oooo, it isn't every day I see Era 1 models! Come to think of it, I've never seen this much Era 1 rolling stock, in any scale. I don't think many, if any, companies make such early stock with such variety. Very neat indeed!
These Era 1 stock would look neat being pulled by stuff like the Baltimore and Ohio "Tom Thumb" "Atlantic", New York Central "DeWitt Clinton" , Pennsylvania Railroad "John Bull" or the Head, Wrightson, and Co "Coffee Pots"
Maaan these look good, especially the treasure chest van, i really wanna see more of your own original stuff! Either engine's or rollingstock! Its always neat!
A suggestion for modellers buying the livestock wagons - cut a false floor from thin transparent plastic, sprinkle it with imitation straw, and glue the sheep or whatever to the false floor, which can then be placed onto the real floor. You can then run empty or full wagons as required!
Very nice, Sam, especially the covered van. That loading from the top looks like my RNAD covered van, which has 'doors' in the roof to allow naval shels to be loaded vertically, though it does also have conventional doors in the side for less dangerous freight...!!
Lovely mixed wagons . Next challenge go older ! Treasure van with small motor (rubber band round axle ?) , a horse riding on adapted NEM bar . amputate legs & put pins through thighs so they waggle . Beat Hornby again , pre LMR and Stockton & Darlington . Motorised horse !
I am rather in Era V, but I like your rolling stock of Era I, a fine design and very detailed. It would have been interesting to show each of them together with its current counterpart to see how big modern railways has been made. But now we have to become nasty and demand more: On drawings of early railway stations (at least in Germany) we can see many tracks, but rarely points. They inserted little turntables suitable for one of these tiny coaches instead, often next to another on parallel tracks to move the waggons from one to another track manually. Even bends to narrow for tracks and axles had been substituted by those turntables. The tracks of terminal stations culminated often in a turntable suitable for steam locomotives like the "Rocket" of George Stephenson, perhaps a bit longer.
Fantastic, ive been thunking of what i can run behind my rapido lion and these will fit brilliantly. Ordered some and cant wait for them to arrive. Great job Sam.
one Sam operation, yet making fairly solid run of railway vehicles... i am quite happy to see ear I as well for that was a thing Mr. Sam's trains did mention frequently as lacking in propper big releases. Also Era I come on its great stuffs!
Thank you so much - I was just desperate for some better era 1 rolling stock, so assumed others would be too... such a fun project to make! Thanks for watching, Sam :)
I really like the appropriate music you had playing in the background by an American black composer Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 - April 1, 1917). He was dubbed the "King of Ragtime", and he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces. He was very famous in his time but had a resurgence after the 1973 movie, "The Sting", with the song, "The Entertainer". The cars are amazing, and I have decided to add you to my extensive list of manufacturers. I can see a warehouse full of 3D printers in your future. Great stuff, Jersey Bill
Thanks very much Bill - I love Joplin, he did so much for music and was a real forefather of jazz… a very sad end too of course. Thanks so much for the kind words, glad you like them! Cheers, Sam :)
So we could have products from someone who puts their heart and soul into producing their products at a limited run or hornby, and with Sam showing hornby how it should be done i know who i would choose
Too late to suggest it now Sam but cutting blocks of polystyrene foam to fit inside the the sheep wagons would give better support than the peanuts. Maybe some of your supporters would do the job for a suitable consideration. ;)
Such a shame....I model 0e scale Austrian narrow gauge. I always enjoy your videos and the home produced Era 1 vehicles look great. Maybe I should change scales!!!!!!!
Very nice, do you think you could do some stockton & darlington style chaldrons at some poing? While the accurascale ones are good, they dont have any proper stockton and darlington style chaldrons which had a unique shape to other ones from the time, usually being a bit stubbier
2024 Sam'sTrains releases Era one Train stuff 2050 Sam'sTrains releases a video revealing the first building in his business empire that could revive the model hobby the building itself a building with loads of the most modern 3d printers going at it 24/7
Hi, I can't seem to find the link to buy the rolling stock. I would like to get the mixed pack and the extra barrels. I think I have a couple of ie\tems in my trunk which could be shipped at the same time. Thanks
Hi Robert - yeah that's right they don't launch until tomorrow, but I will be posting the listings to the community tab early for members at 4:30pm tomorrow - if you're still interested in the wagons, you should be able to get them before the rush! Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Hi Sam. Do your “stiff” couplings work on the Hornby Era-1 wagons in place of their “chain” couplings? Also - just out of curiosity - how much resin does it take you to make the barrels? Are they hollow or solid? Also, wooden barrels like this are useful in other scales as well; you should consider printing a few more and place them at freight stations and line side industries! Also, resin 3D printed wooden crates are also useful. You should consider printing some of those instead of, or in addition to, the barrels for the assorted pack of wagons you have there! In fact, wood crates in various sizes can be used for multiple scales; a medium-sized crate in OO-scale would appear slightly larger in HO-scale, really big in TT or N scale, but small in O-scale, and tiny in G-scale. Just a recommendation. 😅
I would _not_ be surprised if wagons much like those "treasure chest" vans were, if not actually built (at least as a prototype), at least thrown around as an idea to transport certain types of cargo on early railroads. I mean, they DID exist as horse-drawn road versions...
Thank you! Yeah that's what I was going for - I tried to make them as close to what they would have been like if they had existed! Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Come on, Sam. When are you going to release these wagons in TT:120 and/or N gauge? I would have liked to have seen the draw bar couplings positioned a little lower (although I admit it might make coupling to Lion a little more difficult).
The full train looks supurb. Very clever work there Sam. Perhaps to increase production you could talk ro one of the manufacturers like Dapol, but maybe that is not the direction you want to take. Would such trains have had a brake van?
Thanks Piers - I have thought about it, but it'd be really hard to let go of the production... I love doing it so much! I can't remember seeing a brake in any of the images - I suspect that's something that came in later, but could be wrong! Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Sam I bought the livestock wagons, not so keen on the mixed wagons, wish you had the coal wagons separate, but it is what it is. You don't even have to assemble my order, as it would be much easier for me to paint them and assemble them after. Should this be possible please do so? Anyway thanks for making them.
The livestock pack is £39.99, and the freight pack is £49.99. The numbers are quite limited unfortunately, though I'm not making them "limited edition" with a set number, as I might do another future run if the demand is there! Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Homemade they maybe but it looks like they are built with more care than a 'proper' manufacturers. From a non-model railway person they look better than the Hornby offering and good value for money. 3D printing is changing a lot of markets. When you see what Hornby are producing and charging it is surprising the quality and value of kits that are coming out of Airfix. How two brands under the same roof act so differently.
