How Fast can a Model Train Go?
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- Опубліковано 12 лют 2019
- ... Okay, that's scale speed, but you'll still be impressed!
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That last run, in scale speed, broke the sound barrier. I'm impressed.
haha yeah not too bad at all!! :D
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The massive sparks destroying the track was the sonic boom
isn't there a couple of dragsters that broke the sound barrier in the pass
@@allancoelho6905 No. The only land vehicle to break the sound barrier to date is the Thrust SSC, a supersonic jet car that set the record in 1997.
@@furioussherman7265 if you don't know the answer of something, just answer wrongly, someone on internet must correct you
-law that I forgot the name
10:56
*_Thomas had undergone a massive remodel in the past year. He was outfitted with the Doc Martin kit and ended up going back to 1885_*
hahaha!! ;D
10:56 I was surprised it didn't go back to 1885.
haha!! Me too!! xD
Mawerick77 it did disappear though haha!
Lmao😂😂😂😂😂
@RedGaming Studio Great Scott! Do you know what this means!? It means that you've not watched Back to the Future III.
Exactly my thoughts too.
10:54 - *"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 8.39 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious s___"*
haha!! xD
Great Scott!!!
That's my line I'm smart too no offense
Yeeeahaha what did i tell you! 8.39 miles per hour!
It reached 8.39 mph What year did it go to?
It is time for Thomas to leave.
He had seen everything.
haha!!
Yeah, well, Thomas must have good vision, because all I saw were blurs
@@felixfelix9062 i dont think thomas was on the high speed torture rail. "observation" my guy.
paddlesaddlelad , take a joke I was talking about how he saw everything, but the engine was so fast I only saw a blur
*everything*
Doc Brown: WHAT DID I TELL YOU?!!! 11 MILES PER HOOOUUUURRR!!!!!
haha!! xD
This is heavy!!!
GREAT SCOTT!!!!
@@SamsTrains *I'LL GET THE WORKING MINIATURE FLUX CAPACITOR*
I came looking for this comment immediately after I saw the sparks. Was not disapointed. +1
You sure it wasn't 88 Mph at 11:02🤔, cause if so,
DOC WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION
haha!! Great scott!! :O
Tissues
Doc. Emmet brown open up
This is something James May would do for SURE.
haha that's very possible! xD
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The challenge has been thrown. Come captain slow. Let’s see your response
I agree
Jeremy could have a go too. Lol
I think he already did something similar with scaletrix slot cars
“GREAT SCOTSMAN MARTY!”
-Back to the future theme intensifies.
haha! Next video will be time travel ;D
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You have created the Worlds Fastest Model Train. I’m proud of you son.
haha! I wonder if it is the worlds fastest?! It can't be!! xD
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@@SamsTrains you should pull some wagons behind it next time :)
Agreed.
so you his dad?
@@Spud607 agreed with that👍
Depends.
Bachmann freight loco: not very fast
Hornby pacific: unrealistically fast
Hornby 0-4-0: lighting speed
haha! That's very true actually!! :D
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But bachmann tries to really stick to scale and be as real as possible
@@IronhorseRailProductions Exactly why I put it in the list ;)
Smokey Joe: *ametures.*
Awesome how you put so much effort to find the limits of model trains.
haha thank you!! :D
he never found the limit
10:57 like if you saw the sparks
Ooh yeah!! :O
Which time
What do you mean
@@evilduane73 I Frickin Saw The Sparks
11:12 I think you hit 88 mph
That’s no train that’s a Delorean
haha! Great Scott!
You do realize a train has pushed the Delorean before destroying itself.
@@Jake_Josh shhh don't give it away
Guinness world records would like to know your location
haha!! I wonder if this is a record?!?
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Sam'sTrains no way, you noticed me!!! :D
Never mind Stevenson's Rocket, all hail Sam's Propeller powered Rocket 🚂
haha very well said!! ;D
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Since the Name is taken...
How about the "Whirlygig Meteor"?? 😆😂
Sam: 8.3 MPH, that is faster than anyone can sprint
Usain Bolt: *Am I a joke to you?*
haha you're right - got a little carried away there ;)
Merry Christmas,
Sam :)
Faster than I can sprint...
I’m in a wheelchair
@tacticalult😊imatum
Great fun, you need to get a Flux Capacitor now for the first model train to travel in time.
haha absolutely - I'd love to see the past ;D
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@@SamsTrains I am sure with your computer / animation skills you could make that super fast train disappear in a cloud of smoke and reappear in a different era.
Those sparks from the wheels made me think it was going to go back in time. What an exciting video, very impressed with the speeds reached.
haha! I thought it was too, lol! Thanks a lot mate, glad you liked it! :D
Cheers,
Sam :)
Sam, stop putting your trains on steroids
jk but I dare you to put a body and proper couplers on the propeller loco and use it on the layout (not at full throttle)
haha this certainly was steroids! That would be great actually, to turn it into a proper engine! ;D
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Marklin cat.no. 3477
Need to see more of that really fast train - perhaps do some load tests and see how quick it would go on the normal layout? Great video as always Sam :)
haha yeah! I will be doing that at some point! Really glad you enjoyed it anyway mate!
Cheers,
Sam :)
Just a cover scheme for Sam to obtain a fleet of super fast model zeppelin railcars
haha absolutely!! It was just an excuse to build one ;D
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10:03 that sudden cut in power got me laughing lmfao
Engine was like : BRRRRR *hits wall* BR- i sleep
Sorry sam but usain bolt can run at 22.3 mph. That fact makes the 8 mph look like nothing! XD
Ooh yeah!! Looks like I got a bit carried away then! ;D
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The average person can sprint at about 15mph. If you run a lot it is probably closer to 20mph. Usain Bolts top speed in a single moment I believe was 28mph.
I feel puny that a toy trains faster than me...
haha!! Although you could probably run over 10mph if you tried ;D
Thanks very much for
I love how so many of us had the same idea from 10:55 :D
haha I know!! ;D
this challenge: *exists*
electrical engineers: I am about to destroy this man's whole carrier
They'll use custom track, wheels, wires, and motors, as well as a dramatically more expansive stopping mechanism.
haha I know - I had hoped for more crazy creations to be honest! ;D
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"YOU can't Arc Weld with a Model Train"
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Sam: *"HOLD MY BEER!!!"* 😜
haha!! ;D
That was flipping epic! I love it when you make content like this and I hope to see more like it in the future. :-)
Thanks so much!! I'll be doing more challenges soon! :D
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Imagine a normal train going supersonic 😂😂😂
haha that'd be crazy!! xD
I really enjoy your videos Sam I’m so happy I subscribed. You have inspired me to try and collect model trains and I’ll do it all for you dude!!! It means so much to be able to see someone who can inspire me to embrace my love for trains
Thanks so much for that mate, that's really lovely to hear! Hope you have a lot of fun in the hobby!! :D
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*The last one would break the sound barrier on a big scale!*
haha I think so!! :O
Gordon be like: I WANT THIS CHASSIS
haha absolutely!! :D
Bruv that's NOTHING compared to the super class 47!!! Like if u no wat I meen
haha I'll look that up! :D
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haha! It doesn't count if it's in a video game ;)
Never gonna like this
You could try how many coaches can a model train pull? We got up to about 40 ua-cam.com/video/nLAgJPAYvpc/v-deo.html
That would be fun to try - I'll give it a go some time! :D
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I can tell you were having way to much fun with this! Great video
haha I don't deny it - it was an awful lot of fun ;D
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Are you familiar with the triang battle space turbo car?? A brilliant fan powered OO gauge car from late 60s early 70s
Yes I am!! I suppose that's what gave me the idea to make this! :D
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7:50 and Sam’s trains presents..
THE WORLD’S FIRST FLYING MODEL TRAIN!
haha!! I wonder if this is the world's fastest?! :O
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If I was asked how fast a loco could go, id drop it off something high and point at it and say "That's how fast it can go"
[Footage of APT-E tests at Derby Technical Centre, 1974, restored]
That railcar setup is really interesting, a bit like the German Schienenzeppelin railcar, or the Bennie Railplane!
Amazing just how quick these models can go, though!
haha thanks mate! I wasn't expecting to see it go that fast - but I'm glad it did! ;D
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My dad did something like this many many years a go he had an old 101 DMU Power car model painted it in a A brown yellow colour and put a mini rocket on the back of it you can imagine what happened next
It crashed?
Ooh wow - I've been considering rocket power - that sounds pretty crazy! How did it end?! ;D
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jedimaster cookie flew off and crashed more like lol
No,It went back to 1885 and I think it's still there.
10:54 almost sounds like a tornado siren lol
haha yeah!!! ;D
too me it sounded like my fpv race quad taking off . Speaking of which , why not use high kv brushless motors next time for the train. I'm sure bangood has such things available
This is brilliant! Got some Photonicinduction vibes from it with the cranking up of the voltage to see what happens
haha absolutely - and I did pop it ;)
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That was just brilliant!!!! And I INTEND to take up your challenge when I have got a couple of but and pieces!!!!! Just brilliant Sam, well done mate!
haha that's great to hear William - good luck!! :D
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Great video! You made a 'model train' travel at Mach 1.1 :)
haha thank you!! Blimey - so it broke the 00 sound barrier! :D
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I clicked watch faster than the train! : D
Ooh blimey! Hope you enjoy it!! :D
Thats pretty damn fast
Amazing video Sam I love these types of videos! I would love to see more. Where did you get the railway chopper from?
Thanks very much Ned, glad you enjoyed it! I made the chopper myself! :D
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Some people may make fun of model railroading (very few Nowadays) but they obviously don’t appreciate the math and stuff that goes into it. This video was so big brain
I agree with that!! And glad you thought so, haha! ;D
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We got an LGB Furtuna Flyer up to 60 actual mph
Wow really? That's pretty crazy!! ;D
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Look up rail zeppelin on Wikipedia and the George bennie rail car
Yeah!! I've seen those - they look pretty crazy!! :O
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I wish the george bennie took off as it was a great invention and maintanence would of been less
An outstanding test, Sam. I was indeed impressed how you made the system of the speed, the resistence of the locos, and I'm happy that the little Pocket Rocket didn't burned up. I was also surprised how much volts you putted on the rail chopper, and it got quite scary when the sperks were sparks flew out of the model, and when it almost ruined the track and its wheels, that was just crazy and somehow it didn't went back in time. It was just astonishing how it managed to go more that 10 miles per hour, and that the chopper didn't exploded, and it would be interesting if you once do an autopsy with the engines, like you did with Miles. Anyways, I hope you're having a good day and I'll se you next time!
Thanks very much mate - I was quite amazed by it too!! I thought I'd see more burn-outs than that!!
Have a great day,
Sam :)
That was crazy cool!!! I really like how you did that experiment! All the trains were going at an extremely tremendous speeds! Amazing job.
Thanks so much, it really was a fun experiment, glad you enjoyed it!
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Frightening! I don't think I've ever been so frightened in my life. At one point it hit a bit of foam and flew over 3inches! Truly petrifying!!
Steady!!
You said that 8 mph is faster than anyone can sprint I can sprint 11 mph and I’m 12
haha yeah! I admit I got a little carried away there ;D
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Sam'sTrains Yea I enjoyed the video
Hi Sam, Loved the time trials sooner you than me, glad to see John back with his new Dog , All the Best Brian 🤗
Thanks very much Brian, glad you liked that! Who's John?! haha!
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You are very thorough. Your dedication is most commendable.
Many thanks, that's very kind of you! :D
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this is an amazing video. have you got any vids yet of other fast locos?
Thank you! Hopefully more coming soon! :D
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upgraded rail chopper: hits 850 mph
Thomas in hero of the rails: ARE YOU CHALLENGING ME!
You could make a Rail Zeppelin with those propellers!
haha you certainly could!! xD
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Great fun vid very entertaining to watch... Thanks also for entertaining my grandson this past year too... Happy New Year...
Thanks very much mate, really glad you both enjoyed these - appreciate it! :D
Happy New Year,
Sam :)
This was really entertaining. Great stuff!😊
Thanks so much David, really glad you enjoyed it! :D
Cheers,
Sam :)
you just gotta push the voltage to 1.21 "jiga"watts
Great Scott!!
@@SamsTrains one of my favorite lines in movies- "What the hell is a jiga-watt?" Marty McFly, 1955
Yes, but Doc
It's 2019, where you going to find
1.21 Jiga Watts... unless...
I love how the train just sounds like it's screaming
Dear god that was crazy Sam. Especially with all those sparks coming out like that, I’d be scared to death. I’d hate to do an experiment like this, especially since your track is laying on carpet, but I did see you outsmarted the system, and put Jenga bricks in for supports to the track. I’ve never seen anything the track, and the wheels looking really bad in my entire life like that. Probably the most craziest thing you’ve ever done by far dude. XD
Thanks mate! Those sparks certainly were quite scary! It wasn't anything too aggressive though - there's no way a spark from that would cause a fire within the time it'd take me to stamp on it! ;)
Yeah the state of those wheels and the track was crazy - never seen anything like that either!! :O
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Slow start. Fast speed. That is awesome either way Sam! Keep up the good work!
Thanks very much Andrew - really glad you liked it! :D
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Hi Sam, can I ask, is the purpose of the capacitor to smooth out the PWM or noisy supply voltage? Glad I found this video - I was trying to achieve the same thing but I don’t think the motors I have are too happy with the PWM from the Hornby R8250. They make a horrible electrical buzzing sound. Andrew
Haahahah Good onya Sam haha ,, & I thought us ozzies were the only ones to see if we could break the speed record in a billy cart down hill with no brakes hahah.
When i was a kid i fitted a slotcar motor into a failed jeouff 4601 class nsw engine i had here and it was literaly the fastest engine i ever had and could pull every carriage i had on my track that used to run around my whole floor and got it going so fast the last cariages used to fall off and constatina'd until the engine finally rolled. Even my sad cranky uncle jim got a laugh out of it... keep up the gr8 vid's m8.
Cheers from John in Australia.
Model railroader turned mad scientist. Good man.
haha absolutely! Thanks a lot for watching!
Cheers,
Sam :)
10:55 Reminds me of Back to the Future part 3 with those sparks on the track at the end.
haha me too!! xD
I had to like this video... Nice one Sam! ..and I can't resist having a go at beating your record.
Thanks very much Adam - and awesome, good luck!! :D
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So Scale Speed, You broke the Sound Barrier ! Brilliant!
So crazily fast it beggars belief. Well done you Maverick. Cheers, Rick the Bulldog
I thought it was going back in time with the sparks on that run wow brilliant stuff mate
haha I know!! Maybe time travel will be the next project?!? :O
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Atlas Trains made an HO Gauge speeder back in the 1960s and in the late '70s I found one new-old-stock in an old hobby shop. It was a de-geared switcher frame with a big motor and a propeller. They gave it a plastic rocket sled body. It was challenging railroading! On an oval with 6 foot straightaways and 18" radius curves you were lucky to go around twice before it tipped going around a curve. In the end the crashes destroyed the thing (wish I still had it!)
Isaac Newton says if you make your straight track long enough, you can basically go as fast as air and rolling resistance let you!
Ooh did they?! I'd love to get something like that - fan trains are so much fun! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
I seem to recall LGB also sold one, and not very long ago!
-just in that case make sure you know the locations of pets and small children first!
WOW! Sam, I've never seen model 'anything' go that fast. And, as a 1 1/2 inch to the foot live steamer, I've been asked, to many times, how fast with this thing go? I heard you say that at the start of this video, and I started to laugh to myself. I run a coal fired 4-4-2, with 10 inch drivers(scale for 80inch). What I usually tell people is this, "It will go fast enough to scare the hell out of you"! "And thats with you on it"! Great video.
hanks a lot Bruce - haha I bet that is pretty scary at speed too!! ;D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Wow Sam! What fun! Loved this video. Can I say though, I really think you should be careful welding with model railways using nice burny plastic on nice dry wood and nice burny carpet in the middle of your fantastic burny layout haha! Great video. So much fun to watch. Nice work mate
haha thanks very much Chris! No worries - I took the proper precautions - and the raised track meant that no hot sparks would get to the carpet ;D
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Very true but heat plastic wood and carpet can all spontaneously combust as you know. Living life on the edge so early in the year Sam! What is going on !? 😂. Also. The new range of t shirts are pretty cool I must say. I recently bought the 121 dmu you reviewed also and I’m very very pleased with it. “Model junction bury st Edmunds” brilliant model shop for railways. Take care mate. Keep it up
Was going to make a back to the future joke but other people already beat me to it lol, As always fantastic video and very entertaining.
haha absolutely - thanks for not telling another back to the future joke, haha!! xD
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(loco one) "hey you've got to come back with me"
(loco two) "were?"
(loco one) "back to the future!"
haha! Great Scott!!
*Puts two Rocket motors in the tender of my HO scale NYCRR J3 Hudson.*
haha!! ;D
@@SamsTrains Yeah, you should see the Rocket Rail Sleds we got on stock in the 🇺🇸.
Can I ask how are you calculating these scale speeds. I thought you could just multiply by the scale the loco is made to, but if it's something could you elaborate please?
Hi, yes you can indeed just multiply by the scale! At least, I hope so!! :O
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"I've never seen anything like that before"
I have. On the welding table. You got the voltage so high the wheels and the track started to weld together. If the railcar hadn't been going so fast the wheels would have stuck to the track.
Yeah you're right - there were little spot welds all over the track! Certainly never seen a model do that before ;)
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I like the Southern locomotive used in the beginning. In America, my late grandfather retired from Southern Railways. He had an HO scale model railway hobby too, I wonder what he would think of these experiments :)
Thanks a lot mate, I love that engine too! Sounds lovely too - I wonder what he would have thought!
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FPV pilot here, Use bldc motors with an esc, they will have drasticly better performance with fraction of voltage. A 2S quadcopter (2S batteries have 7,4 nominal voltage) with 2,5 inch diameter propellers can cruise faster than irl 60 mph
GREAT SCOTT.! Imagine the double sonic BOOM!! at 850 mph... brilliant
haha, that'd be interesting in the loft ;)
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@@SamsTrains if you can get a full size train going 850mph in your loft.?...... Damn I think you'll need a bigger loft
The sparks or electricity or whatever made it look like the delorian from back to the future
haha I know!! xD
Amazing video! At the end, I thought it was going to explode!
haha! So did I!! :O
I think calling it a pocket rocket is an understatement
haha agreed, lol! ;D
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Whats the max current on your controller. Im thinking just go to town on quad motors in parallel. Point them slight down to keep it on the track.
1amp is the limit at 12v - tricky stuff! ;D
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brings a whole new meaning to rail welding.
haha absolutely!! ;D
The sound of the engine on the propeller driven one reminds me of a WWII siren starting up. Would you think about putting a body on it if you get it fixed up?
haha yeah it does sound like that!! The only problem with a body is that it'd stop the air flowing between the propellers - that's quite important for the higher speeds!
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Well done! I know I’m probably thinking in the wrong frame of mind but with some coach work that could make an epic looking locomotive.
Might give your challenge a go - we will have to see.
All the best
-Harry
Thanks Harry! I have now tried it with coaches - it was very interesting! :D
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This reminds me of the 25v train power supply hooked to the 12v slot cars with high speed gearing. They liked to do burnout and fly off the track
haha that must have been crazy - an awesome idea!! :D
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OMG! Sam. Given that train so much speed with big sparks from track and train I thought that thing was going to explode!
haha I thought it was going to explode too - pretty scary stuff!! ;D
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I don’t know why this is recommended to me, but I love it!! ❤️
haha thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it! :D
Cheers,
Sam :)
Sam’s model: 850 mph
Sonic: You’re too slow!
haha! Sorry Sonic! ;D
Sam'sTrains What would be Gordon & Spencer’s reactions? 😂😂
In my misspent youth I fitted a "Jetex" rocket motor to a Hornby railway wagon,. After just a few feet the wagon left the track and bounced across the lawn in a cloud of smoke.
haha that sounds awesome.... don't go giving me ideas!! ;D
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@@SamsTrains Have you come across slot car racing (Scalextric) ? One branch of the sport/hobby is slot "Drag Racing" the top speed of the fastest 1:24 scale cars is an actual 140+ MPH at the end of a scale 1/4 mile. Thats zero to 140 MPH in just 55 feet. I wonder just what sort of speed could be reached at the end of a longer track. www.hotrod.com/articles/hot-rod-anything-140-mph-slot-car-drag-racing/
That was...AWESOME!!! Reminds me of Back To The Future.
haha thank you!! I'm getting quite a lot of back to the future comments, haha! ;D
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Sam... The endurance run Video was Brilliant. 👍👍
BACK in the 70's.... It seemed like many N Scale Locomotives went at least HALF that fast, bog standard!!!
Even in old Model Railroader Magazine Reviews, many N Scale Locomotives were tested OVER 300 SMPH!! 😳😳😆
Love your sense of adventure and humour!!
Carmine ✈🚂🚙
Thanks very much mate - wow that's crazy stuff, was that because they weren't gearing them down enough due to their size??
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Well that, and the Slot Car Motors that Arnold and Trix used were incredibly FAST. There was no room and no brains, so they simply fixed the Worm Gear from the Motor STRAIGHT to the Axle - with no thought of reduction. 😖
It finally took the Japanese (KATO) to finally sort how to make a N Scale Locomotive run properly. They used 35v Motors, so NO Hobby Transformer could ever reach its top speed!
Oh and even in the late 80's, they ran like fine Watches.
Skewed Poles, Precision Can and Coreless Motors really revolutionised N Scale!! 👍👍
I don't think there necessarily is a limit to how fast they can go, it all depends on the type of motor combine with it's gear ratio and the amount of power available. In James may's "The great train race" they build a locomotive with an electric jet powerful enough to push a skate board, much damage followed when they tried to see what it's top speed was.
Yeah that's very true - I saw that on James May - I wonder how fast it actually went?!
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This was a great video. I do have one question though, why did you lift the track up a bit using blocks?
I don't see anything wrong with that, its just that I think putting on the floor would be fine unless it has something to do with fire which I completely understand.
It allowed me to keep the track level - since the carpet has a few bumps in it - and it also keeps the sparks away from the carpet ;)
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