My Fantastic New Train - Mehano TGV Train Set Unboxing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2020
- For years Mehano sold ho scale train sets under the presidents choice name for every Christmas. Despite being entry level train sets they earned them selves a reputation for being very good quality for the price. Unfortunately Mehano filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and as far as I had known went out of business. This was my impression until fellow TH-camr: Sams Trains made a video where he unboxed one of their sets and shared that they were in fact still around. I thought it would be interesting to order one of their modern sets up and have a look my self. This set is by no means a "rivet counter" but for a budget set, I'm so far pretty impressed.
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There it is, Harrison, coincidence. Deja vu? You could not have planned it any better. Very nice set. You have your TGV, your Swedish locomotive from the Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield Steam Train Ride, the BNSF Dash 9, what more could you ask for? Seriously, what? 10K is quickly approaching.
Thanks for sharing. 👍 👍 👍
DEJA VU! HAVE I BEEN IN THIS TIME BEFORE!?!!? Lol
I watched sam's train's same video as well and was surprised
Me also
As also a lot of people here
You always feel welcome with this channel,unlike other channels where they just dive into the video he always welcomes Every viewer with "well folks" always welcomed
I am honored that you have a French TGV Duplex ! Congratulations ! I'll be riding it from Paris to Bordeaux this Summer If the pandemic gets under control. It looks like the Québec flag! 😄
Wow, I was not expecting that! That's one of the coolest train sets I've seen in a while, certainly since I saw the press release of Kato's N scale Evangelion set in an issue of Model Railroad News a couple of years back! Mehano needs to seriously think about selling these in the US market! Oddly enough, I was at one of the local hobby shops in my area and saw a Bachmann N scale TGV set in a small cardboard box in the back! Also glad you showed how to assemble the track it's easy to miss the rail joiners and getting the track out of line although track setups like Bachmann EZ track, Atlas True Track, etc have greatly reduced that issue it can still happen! Stay well and keep running those awesome trains!
Mehano has always made good, reliable trains. Still do and good value. Too much snobbery and rivet counting in the hobby driving prospective modellers away these days.
Absolutely. Personally I've found their products to be mechanically sound, decently detailed and a good price for what you get. It would be nice if they could come back to North America because I think these types of sets would be good for beginners.
@@SMTMainline They do currently have a HO Union Pacific starter set called BIG CARGO or something like that. Very good value too.
Mehano coming back is such a wonderful opportunity, I love their more practical, yet still quite detailed stuff, and this unit really looks the business. Cool that you rode the real deal, and that timing couldn't have been better!
I want them to come back to the north american market now, I'd be pretty pleased by that.
I have a Mehano GG 1 i thought it was similar to an AHM or Riverossi clone
That is really cool 😎 how much?
First, Nice one SMT! The first bullet train I experienced way back 1998 from Tokyo to Nagaoka at 275kph.
Nice. I too, thought Mehano was gone. It’s a one way train. See ya.
Great Video! That looks really good for a starter set. Its good to see that Mehano is still out there making good train sets
12:47 blends right in with the GO. Pretty nice set, definitely feels more like a starter set rather than an expansion
Honestly, visually satisfying to see that train going around ur layout, the blue and white streak going along is nice. And I’m glad u decided to get it
My parents recently purchased me a Hornby Train set from Amazon, except there was no Amazon box, just the Hornby box. What's even sadder is that they just stick my address label on the back of the box. It was supposed to be a Birthday gift I wasn't supposed to see, but o well. 😂 At least you got a box.
Train sets like these have difficulties in reverse. My ICM can not reverse too well.
*Sad ns noise*
@@pietersnackaert hi
Interesting you got a tgv train set. I never expected you to get it but good thing you did because it looks fantastic
I think your Amtrak, Daylight, and Go trains are going to be extremely jealous! Now I want one!
What a beautiful set!
That is really slick!
It looks great coming through the steel girder bridge. I would have liked to see how the articulated passenger cars connected.
Thanks for sharing. I would love to have one of these.
Beauty! Next video: Welllllllll folks, I bought an adapter plug...
That was pretty cool that you saw that high-speed train in France
It was fun! I bought Märklin 39014 yesterday. I love Drg stuff. Weimar republic locos and wagons. And also Länderbahn stuff. So I have the period of between 1915- 1935 German trains on my railway. I bought every thing used from Tradera. SE. I live in Sveden and am from Finland. Many people here in sveden, they just want Swedish trains. Greetings from Sweden. Regina.
Beautiful set!
Nice set! I had thoughts about getting either that Duplex, the other Mehano TGVs, or even the ICE 3, but I'll wait for now. Also, riding a high speed train is a nice bucket list thing and you must be lucky that you rode the actual TGV Duplex.
Great looking set!! Mehano has been around for years. Model power, ahm , life like, ihc all have imported there stuff good to see there still going. Makes me wander where all the molds for the ihc steam and diesel locomotives arealong with the model power rs2 and rs11s that thwy made
Looks nice, that blue and silver look sharp together.
Very cool train! Years ago I got the Mehano Thalys set. The engines are the same in my set , except they are burgundy and grey. I think they should have put headlights in these trains. In the year 2000, a local grocery store called Price Chopper had Mehano train sets for Christmas. At first I wasn’t sure I wanted it, but after Christmas the sets were 50% off, so I got one!
Awsome train tgv have been my favorite since I was a kind. Love the videos
That’s awesome Harrison i’m glad it works and even more awesome that it might not be complicated for beginners and do you know what website you go from And it’s even more interesting for you to see the real one and have a model of it and have an awesome day Harrison and to be honest I’m a big fan of Mehano I think of the best ones in my opinion
Love the design of any TGV, but I'd love to find a HO scale of the original Orange&Black prototypes. About impossible to though unless you want to pay 800-900 USD
It finally arrived!!!!!
It's about damn time you bought this set.
Edit: I just noticed that some mehano TGVs don't have directional lighting, side project.
Very exiting upload been waiting for a good in depth review of the train set
This video sparked my old train nerd in motion again.
Hi SMT,
petty cool! Congratulations to your new train! ;)
Regards
Hello SMT The steel track, there could be magnets in the train for running high speeds, back in the 80sTyco did use steel track with some of their high speed trains with magnets to keep them on the track, Great train set thanks
It's funny : I'm french and running Canadian trains (in N scale, but french trains in HO) and you're canadian and running french trains ;)
But he sounds Yankee
That looks like a good starter set
It was derailed probably because the dummy car needed more weight
I just came from Sam's train channel right to you!!! Great job and have fun...
To understand the situation, I'm from Czech Republic. I've seen this on internet, the price was 20k CZK, that's about 850 dollars.
Very nice video I love the TGV keep up the good work
Fantastic train, indeed!
May we pray that the TGV is not the cursed TGV like the Acela and launch it’s self off the table like a NASA Rocket! Lol. Nice video SMT! Can’t wait to see it on the live streams!
I love that you start using music
Nice train, I have some older Mehano steamers and they are great runners.
Looks spectacular! Some of the shots of the train running fast looks very realistic. You need to paint up a little figurine and put it by the train. Stay safe and healthy. Hans ...
Nice! I've had a MEHANO starter set. It was my first model train. They gave everything with it to get started. And they were even cheaper than PIKO for example. :) Nice to see that they are still in business. These starter sets are more like toys than serious models. But MEHANO has an expert line too. For the price it's OK. :)
Nice shots, nice music, great train... Well done, from argentina!! 😀👍👍🖐️🖐️
Beautiful train set
I wonder if it’s cursed like the Acela
Cursed TGV?
The Flying Acela. A little lesson in physics: don't go full speed on curved track.
Stupid Smart-Phone if this is about the Amtrak incident in Pennsylvania a few years back, that wasnt an Acela, that was the Northeast Regional
Tencents49 He’s talking about SMT’s Acela which flew off a curve
Nice, might have to get one of those! With regards to the track, that type is still standard in Europe (but usually with brass or nickel coated rails) and when we use it on the carpet, to stop fibres we put sheets of paper under the track, or a trackmat if one is included
good job quality content as usual keep up the amazing work
Very cool! Those long cars looked so ridiculous on the round track. Much more realistic on your layout. 👍🏻
Thank you for displaying your Canadian flag 🇨🇦 as well as the American flag 🇺🇸.
Awesome! 👍
Cool, epic SPEED TRAIN
Love the go train!
I was the 100th like smt. Keep up the great work! (Love vids)
Back in 1978/9 when I was still working for Jeans mobile shop we sold those sets they were made by Bachmann and they were (“orange and white and black”) and they were originally called the (“French TGV”) ! This was a couple years before the German ICETRAIN came out ! And by 1980 I was on my way to Fort Benning !!! Oh and by the way, the main reason you have the steel track is because in order for a company to make a profit they had to use cheaper materials in this case they use steel tracks !!! The train set is called old new stock meaning it is a couple of decades old but it’s never seen the light !!! The set has been sitting probably in a old warehouse it was sitting in for a while !!! Basically meaning that set is a warehouse set for maybe a couple of decades !!!! It would also be known as a secondary sales item which they’re not supposed to text you all !!!! Governments getting tough on eBay saying that we should sell something in Texas when it’s a secondary or used item why would you charge tax on a used item that doesn’t make sense you’ve already paid tax on it once why are you going to pay tax on it twice ??? Sorry for the ranting! But you are right on one Big Prospect, it is a (“beautiful train”) !!! I may have also forgotten to mention that the “original train set” that was sold by “Bachmann for the French TGV sets” in the United States had a (“fifth car”) in the set too !!!! 🌊🐺
You know, my 1st bachmann train set was actually built by Mehano back in the 80's as everything it came with was made in Made in slovenia except for the power back, it was branded by Bachmann.
Mehano used to be called Mehanotechnika and was a plant making model trains and toys in Yugoslavia. They started up in the 1950's. Yes they are still around.
Go to Walmart, in the luggage section. They sell adapters for european plugs to north american plugs
Nice looks great
Cool man.
I have a few Loblaw's train sets. I use them but I am now getting into diesel.
Great Video. I am so happy for you! :)
Awesome video
Nice train set! I like it a lot! Do you know if it's possible to get more coaches?
Nice beautiful Train set dude and happy Memorial Day I think mehano did some products for ahm in the late 1970s because I have a ahm conrail EMD (GMD for Canada) sd40-2 that mehano did. I got that at the Underground Railroad in new castle pa USA last year I believe or the year before. I wondered how you might take it apart if it breaks down or basic maintenance like oiling the wheels?
What’s gonna happen what’s gonna happen. We all know when smt buys a high speed train and use it in a live stream we all know that we can’t get through a smt livestream without something happening
I still using a Mehano original speed controller ,i found that a plug of Bachmann power adaptor fits in a socket of original Mechano speed controller. and it works very well. Try it
It looks very nice
cool train set
I want these too!! 😍🤩🤩
That's very cool I always wanted ether a TGV bullet train or the Acela in HO because O scale is way to expensive for that and I dont think there is a TGV bullet train in O scale.
Kumata & co. produced a number of finescale O (2-rail) scale Japanese and European high speed trainsets some years ago. But their price tags were fear-inducing, well over $10,000USD for a prototypical-length train. Makes Lionel's Acela look cheap by comparison.
Really Cool
How do you not have over 100k subs you deserve more subs
Nice tgv
I remember this mehano train set,I had it when I was a kid
Mehano used to manufacturer alot of products for International Hobby Corp to be sold under IHC's name. Rivarossi used to manufacture some products for IHC also.
If power supply says 110/12V 60 hz you only need a plug adapter. If not, go to local electronics store with that power supply. Get N American Power supply with same output voltage, current and connector, Then the awesome Mehano controller will work! From the specs printed on it it only needs a 16v transformer , AC
Looks nice
Wow😱nice bro
All you need now are another 6 coaches 😁
Maybe the "overdrive"on the control unit is so you can crank it up from the regularly timetabled 350kph to its world record speed of 574.8kph (SNCF TGV : "JR Shinkansen, hold my beer")
Edit: looks great going round your layout. What a pity Mehano don't market extra 1st and 2nd class coaches and the bar car so you could run a full set? or even set up a multiple unit pair. I had a mate in the uk who made up a full Intercity 125 set with two power cars. It looked amazing.
Funny coincidence there. About the time you had your photo taken (Gare de Lyon? Marseille St Charles?) I was racking up the kilometers in these twice a week from Valence to my job at SNCF in Paris. Seems a long time ago now.
pretty nice
Yes new video
oooooooo Niiiice!
I find it funny how the industrial side of the layout looks mostly unfinished, yet the other side is nearly complete. Also why not place the Swedish loco on the trolley track rather than next to it when not in use? Looks like it had a derailment that wasn't cleared up! :P
I figured Mehano was still around but they just didn't make any American stuff.
But they still have cabooses (woodsided and tyco-style), gondolas, hoppers, container flatcars, ore hoppers, plow gondolas, reefers,
4-6-4 hudsons, 4-4-0s, 2-8-0s, C628s, SD40-2s, GP18s, F45s, GG1s in multiple roadnames as well as some American N scale. Each freight car goes between 10-15 euros while a loco can go for 54 euros to 169 euros. Some roadnames are more expensive than others
Hi SMT !
I'm French and live in Québec since last august, so I'm glad to see you bought a TGV, a nice one !
Could you please tell us what musics do you use in your videos, please ! They are pretty cool !
I'm from Québec as well, hope you like the place. All the music was from this playlist th-cam.com/video/pWAP7fIwGnI/w-d-xo.html
Thank you !
Even if I miss French food and the TGV, I like Québec yeah !
Its great seeing a European train on your channel I can't wait to see more will this be the acela replacement?
Not so much a replacement as it is an addition although I'm sure it will be requested a fair amount.
You should be able to use the set's controller in 1 of 2 ways. Get a North American plug from most electronics departments or online.
Or get a plug adapter to fit on the end of the original. Before I left Europe I made sure to stock up on plug converters. There's one called Travel Smart by Conair can adapt plugs from Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, UK, and US all on one device. Your train power pack should work on as low as 110v even though continental Europe is around 220v. But monitor it at all times just in case.
Oh, and never go full throttle. Unless you laid pillows around the corners. That was a hard lesson in physics. Too bad Acela wasn't caught in slowmo.
Track laying tip:
Connect track together on a hard surface then it can’t really go together wrong
I love the train
Viewer 1888... Very cool SMT/Harrison. A cool blue... You could say it an anniversary trainset.
And power adapters are available.
John BC
Nice video i bought a ahm light ursa pacific in the Daylight Colors but the Paint scheme was terrible so i reppainted it in black and added a DCC decoder. cherrs from France mate
A mini Harrison! That's a cool train! Now you need to run it twice as fast, 100 or 200 kph?
I like your channel keep it up👍
Wow! No motor growl, no shorts, no sparks. Are you sure that belongs on your layout? Lol. Great vid. I thought Mehano was gone also.
The one that looks the coolest is either the thayls one or the ougi one
Nice...
Bonjour /hi This is the train from my country, great train TGV duplex, very fast train with a Nice look (world record speed 500 km /h 9 on tracks) vitesse record sur trails.
Have a good day / passes une bonne journée
If you’re into high speed trains, you should check out PIKO’s ICE 3 starter set. They usually retail for ~$180 USD and the quality is something you’d expect to see on medium-high end model.