The Sam'sTrains Model Train Scrapyard | 2021 

I love repairing old and destroyed locos and giving them a new lease of life.

10:38 - That is an SDP40F in a slightly off Phase I livery (it's also known as the "bloody nose" for obvious reasons). That was Amtrak's first locomotives that they took delivery of after they were formed in 1971. Until then they were using the locomotives and rolling stock of the other railroads they took over passenger services from. They were also infamously bad running locomotives because they couldn't handle running at high speeds very well. It would be cool if you could get a hold of a modern model from the Athearn Genesis line and take a look at them. Something that you may like is they ran with trains of mixed liveries in the very beginning, and for that reason this time was known as Amtrak's rainbow era. You can still see footage online of trains with Orange, Blue, Green, Yellow and Silver cars throughout their network.

I'd honestly watch a livestream of you just fixing O guage wagons

28:23 that Triang Chassis would make for an interesting kitbashed 2-6-6-4, or even a kitbashed 4-6-6-4 locomotive with 3D printed bodies

Sam : "People love to see broken trains" Heljan : "That's what we are selling" Yes I'm harsh...

Sam: I don't throw anything anyway Dapol Egg Vans: *Sigh of relief*

I’m really enjoying the scrap stuff. Keep up the good vids!

You need to make a video going through your raking of every model. I would love to see that.

Great video Sam! Wow, I was literally watching the original video of your Loco graveyard yesterday, didn’t expect this, I was wondering how much it would have grown in that time! Unsurprisingly it’s grown a lot, wow... -TheImperialDiamondSpinosaurus

19:15 3D print a tender for it and use it as a 'dummy loco' for double/triple headers

An interesting video and a suggestion, I know you already have the cheap see through clip lid containers and that these are readily available at Bargain Stores. Segregate all of the spares into sections i.e. Track, Locomotives, Carriages, Wagons, Electrical etc. It would make life so much easier. Repairing the damaged items is a series on its own and of great help to up and coming aspiring modellers.

A note from Canada. I love watching you fix engines. Everybody with a layout has a few engines that do not run properly. Some are noisy, some jerky, some slow, some won't crawl, etc etc. Why not make a video on what the most common causes of these problems are? David Nunney

10:36 That body is from a Amtrak SDP40F. Great video!

I love the salvage or scrap series please keep it going would love to see it done with the hornby 37

This was a trip down memory lane for you! You need to have an online yard sale,or sell these pieces as merch! Lol.

that Amtrak body you pulled out is the SDP40F. I think you also pulled out its chassis not long after. It was built by Electro-Motive Division from 1973 - 1974. 150 of them were built. They were one of Amtrak's first new passenger locomotives as by this time they were primarily using old F and E units from other railroads. However they were plagued with issues. The six axle bogies, steam heaters and having a heavy locomotive pull lightweight coaches caused the very heavy locomotives to ride roughly. And given, Amtrak's rails weren't in the best of shape at this time. The SDP40F's were often caught up in wrecks. Much of them were traded for ATSF engines and switchers (we call shunters, switchers here in the states) where they actually rode a lot better on the ATSF. Only of them are left today over in Nevada where it even operates.

I also have a use for syringes. Bought some LEDs of the correct scale and fitted an LED to one of Casper's used Insulin syringes. Treat my cat's medical condition twice a day, and get the basis for a lamp post. Hey presto, a street lamp. Can also downscale some NBC timetables to stick on a piece of plasticard and attach to the post. Fitted some LEDs to the inside of a 1:72 Leyland National. Experimenting with fitting a pickup and using Scalextric track as a power source on my diorama of Brynmawr Bus Station.

4:30 I hope those are being added to the normal roster now - they're some really beautiful coaches and I might just have to put in a request for them on the next livestream :))

Wow that's a lot of stuff! Great video. I just have a draw tray of old bits and bobs, when you left the mic on was funny.

The wagon at 9:12 looks like one of those Slaters ones with the pre-printed livery.

I actually enjoy watching the salvage or scrap videos and these damaged locomotives and wagons do deserve a second chance of life either on your layout or someone else's layout?

For the dublo coach you can buy wheels that work on 2 rail. I’ve done the same with my dublo wagons

I used to have a Lone Star Treble O train set that had rubber band drive. Not a huge seller to my knowledge. Cheers Sam

You should try to make a museum of all the fixable trains and first attempts at things.

The tornado chassis you had in there, is in there because you took the motor for your tts p2 as it had a 3 pole in originally so you swapped for tornados.

Well blimey Sam, I thought I was bad for hoarding scrappy bits n pieces 😜 Funny what you find though. I did similar in Spring when I literally had a Spring Clean and realised I had a load of things I didn’t even remember even having let alone remember where I got them 🤣😂😅 On the flip side, I realised I have quite a lot more items to use once we move and I can build my “proper” railway as opposed to my glorified outdoor test track! 👍 Cheers Sam, have a great weekend mate 🍻🍀

I haven't seen a scrapyard video and a longtime this is a good one man need to do another one I always say if you have to take some parts from other locomotives and get them run right that's the way they do it man I've been doing it for a long time almost 20 years for me

for years I had four old locos that I used as spares. proud to say the last one is being rebuilt now with new drive gears. now I have a whole rake of others I'm looking for parts for like a rovex princess and a trix TTR 0-4-0

Some of these scrap locos, would make great dioramas displays for a book shelf. You could make a 3D copy of a David Shepherd painting for example. A lots of old locos in a scrap yard, rusting away.

Please do more salvage or scrap, it is really cool seeing you work on the models. If you do, could you please work on the Flying Scotsman model?

I see all sorts of great items that you could use for future projects.Thanks again for another great video.

The Sam's trains train scrapyard where locos fear to go great video sam

We live in a throw away world. I’m glad you save this stuff cause it would end up in a landfill otherwise. Great video Sam! Love to see more form the scrap yard or maybe even some Frankenstein loco builds.

14:23 that’s a Swiss train, looks to be one of the earlier RE 4/4’s

Airfix made steam locos for display only, and there are lots of display locos glued to tracks as well, ideal for dioramas.

Heh, I've got a 12-wheel Low Loader wagon too. Tri-Ang, of course. Yes, we must all have even a boxful like that, never mind a cupboard full! Good going with the 3D Printing though. Thanks Sam, I'm not the only one with such relics. Keep Well, chap Cheers!

That Amtrak locomotive was an stp40f in phase one, I think I already mentioned this in one of your older videos but yeah I'd like to see that guy up and running again I'd also like to see you a bunch of your old engine bodies as scrap dressing, I'd love to see that stp40f restored and honestly I enjoyed this video a lot

Great video Sam

This is amazing! I would love to see more!

You could use the O gauge brass body as a display piece like a scrapped locomotive or a restoration in progress

Question: Could you please, please add the new pantographs to the Salvage or Scrap Belgian electric. It would be so amazing to see the old gal running using them!

The red and white loco are model of the loco class from the swiss railways. And i like the swiss locos they are so nice. Intresting video. 👍👍👍🇸🇪✨✨✨✨✨

Hey Sam @ 3:54 - I've also got an old Tri-ang Princess Victoria (Black colour - No. 46205 (no box)) &it works (just - it sparks a lot!!!) @ 6:05 - I've also got that Green GWR Pannier Tank - sparks also!!! @ 17:42 - I also got a "Hornby Rubbish Train Set Controller" which I use for my long Test Track!!! @ 21:07 - Also got a Britannia but it broken 🙁🚂🚂🚂

For some reason I have the feeling that Sam and James may would get on well

I have come to realize every longtime modeller has the "donor parts pile". Modeling bits and boxes they keep expressly for the "might need this later" purpose XD

This sounds interesting sam can’t wait to watch it

Good to see you're another "just in case" hoarder! Here's an idea - why don't you do your unboxing videos on that table instead of the floor? You'd be much more comfortable, too.

Awesome video today Sam some really interesting stuff

One of the first comments The underground Ernie train looks completely disturbing

Every modeller should have a train graveyard box like Sam's it's like a time capsule . . .

My five-year-old is obsessed with Garratts, trying to find one on the cheap is impossible, if you ever want to get rid of the one in your graveyard box, I will give it a good home!

An 'ugly' challenge. If you have an old GWR Castle perhaps you could use your 3d printer to recreate no. 5005 Manorbier Castle with her 'streamlining' attached! Just a thought. Enjoyed your rummage through your 'spares' boxes. Perhaps at some future date you could, if you have any other such boxes hidden away, go through one or two of those.

For a experiment you could probably use the spare body from that Frankenstein loco you could make it loco driven and 3-D print a new tender and chassis for it so you could run it

Interesting scrapyard stuff

10:38 Its either a amtrak F45 or sdf40f (which where very unsuccessful)

great video as always and I have one of those pannier tanks he has his own show too Dan the pannier away keep up the great work and can't wait to see what's next from Erika

I think you could use that for a fun little video of one of your southern steam locomotives finding it in a siding and taking it to its heritage railway to be restored

You should try making a diorama with the broken chassis and body’s. you could paint them in a rusty brown colour and use on gauge trees and scenery to create the natural landscape. I would love to see you have a go at that.

If you want some ideas for what to do with some of that junk, you could use the body of the 3D printed coach and paint and weather it up to make it look like a grounded coach body used by a farmer or something. That would be a good video, to see you make some scenery items.

Sam, I think I know about your tornado chassis. I remember in a video you bought a tornado for parts and you used the motor in the P2 I think. Great video

Another idea for your scrap box, make a " Ivor the Engine", forget that silly " Thomas the Engine", create Ivor from scrap.

Lovely video Sam.

10:37 The model is of an FP45 locomotive. Amtrak never owned them but they owed a similar class in the 1970's called the SDP40F. Incorrect liveries are common on US train set locos. I'd love to see you review a more recently produced model of a North American diesel. The prototype doesn't need to be modern, just the model itself. I guess they're harder to come by and are more expensive in the UK.

Congrats, Sam! You have reached the critical mass of spare parts. Keep on hoarding!

Hi Sam, why am I watching this..? But to me, there is a Few projects for the 3D printer, in that mess..! And, I was almost tempted to Suggest, Separating 00 gauge & 0 into a couple of Decent Storage boxes. But maybe I won't..!? I make 1/35 model's a fair amount of time, when not in 00 world..!! And have Storage boxes for All the leftover Bits n Pieces that may come spare with a kit. The amount of times a Part has Pinged off into Orbit. Than those Boxes are a magic lifesaver.!! "Organise young man." And loose the Carboard boxes. They Fall apart or over..!! But thanx for the Odd entertainment...!! Cheers kim in Oz..!😎

Great video Sam very interesting.

Take the tender driven unpowered loco and convert to a battery-operated powered unit that works via radio control! Then your rails can be as dirty as they can get and it’ll still run. Might be a fair bit of work involved tho. 😀

7:06 maybe use that as the base for a 3D printed O gauge wagon body 7:30 that's a good load for your O gauge warwell 8:48 Bullman's friend 10:00 if you ever need a salvage or scrap episode with the Scrapman ending, that's a good choice for one 10:38 might be a Mehano SDP40F, judging by the chassis you pulled out later 11:22 a good thing to do with old steel track that isn't any good is to use it as scenic spare rails and ties 12:13 that might have axles that don't work on 2-rail track. I got an old Marklin coach a few years ago and its wheels shorted out the track 17:15 that thing should've been an oddity you just kept on the shelf as an easter egg for the viewers 19:11 turn that thing into scrap dressing or a park engine on your layout 20:52 paint that thing up like it's been turned into a camping cabin. If you ever build a table layout, you have plenty of pieces to make a scrap yard 27:26 I have one similar to that, but lettered "NE" 28:11 I would like you to make a 3D printed replacement for it. the one I own had sever warp, and I ended up breaking it trying to correct it (made a cardboard replacement) 29:12 maybe just sell that on eBay

You should have pre warned that you were going to show under ground Ernie. I jumped a mile. Great video as always. Cheers Paul.

love this video, please do a part 2!

that wagon chassis. my first o gauge 3d print would be a good and fitting episode. at the end of the day filament does not cost much and the trains pay for their keep (add renevue : ) )

My class 28 Co bo still works a treat.none of my engines have failed apart from Bachmanns

That Amtrak engine shell is an SDP40F diesel locomotive

what track do you use on your layout?

You've got more salvageable scrap than I've got working engines

Old video I know - but I’d love to see more salvage or scrap episodes.

8:48 Bullmans got a new friend.

"In case of...", "this could work for an experiment..."... Sam we are just like you, collectors never throw away stuff

He turned a video of going thru his junk bin and finding what he should throw away. And I still watched it

Even if you can't restore some of those engines to operation, it'd be interesting to do a cosmetic restoration. Or in the case of the 8F body, you may not be able to use it for anything other than wreckage or scrapyard layout decoration, but it's intact enough, you have something that can be measured and recreated for 3D printing. Hey, there's an idea - since you're all about separately fitted parts, maybe you can recreate that body with even more detail. Of course, no one should HAVE to do that (except the manufacturer), but I dunno, anything for a good excuse to play with the 3D printer again. :P

Hi Sam. You have some better stuff in your scrap box than I have on my layout.

Maybe you could make a small portion of your layout around the one locomotive that you stole the tender from as it being a display piece

fixing up some your old O scale models that in the scrapyard... or turn a OO/HO tender driven engine in to a non tender driven engine( where the motor is in the boiler.

Now this is something you could try with that Schools Class. It could just stay as a dummy loco that’s pushed or pulled around for fun. How about trying to 3D print a tender? That’ll be a challenge! If you think this is a good idea, then write it down, Sam!

Hey Sam! How about a Frankenstein Train, made with all sorts from the scrapyard? Not just a loco, but a load of rolling stock to go with it! :-)

Hi Sam great video as usual. Please restore those first few models you got out of box 1 they really are great and you should buy that schools class a new tender and get her running again.

Tornado chassis must be quite modern as it is DCC ready. Wonder why you threw it away?

I bought a broken locomotive once. I haven't managed to do anything with it yet, but the tender and body are intact... I just need to find a new wheel pair, and maybe a new motor if I feel like it

Do you know who made the Ford box wagon? That is the first time I have seen one, but would love to add one to my layout. I searched the web for one to no avail.

where did you get the idea for the scrap yard serise?

Hi Sam how about converting a old hornby or bachmann even triang to dcc with sound and headlamps and just all round bringing it in to 2021 would be a good watch or build a makeshift largest model railway bridge with huge inclines see which locos can do it.

The School's Class at 19:10 looks great. If you could find a working tender for it then it would be a great running engine. Or find a tender without the Motor then it would make an impressive display piece at least.

Here is what you do with that Schools class loco from the two tender monster: Motorize it and couple it in front of the monster for MORE POWER!

Trains are so cool

A little bit of weathering and some paint on some of those could possibly add afew extra bits to a layout

SALVAGE OR SCRAP HELL YEAH WE LOVE THAT. please Sam

Underground Ernie chassis' I used to power Lisbon Tram bodies, or Keil Craft 4-wheel tram kits!

Hello Sam - I was given a load of old railway odd and ends last week - ain't it fun having a dig ?

Would love to see the horse become a friend for Bullman

Some your scrap trains feel better than my running trains...