The Great Model Train Race With 19 Trains
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- Stuck at home during the pandemic, I set up a racetrack for model trains to determine once and for all which of my 19 G-scale model trains are the fastest and which are the slowest. On a layout that goes inside and outside my house, each of my locomotives does a timed run through the course... captured by five different cameras, including one on top of the train.
It took a long time to test 19 different model trains, and even longer to edit the video from five cameras covering each run. It's one of my longest model train videos yet.
Featured in the video are G-scale trains from LGB, Piko, MTH, and Bachmann... including five based on the Santa Fe railroad.
To make it even more fun, I challenged myself before the race to predict the winners and losers based on everything I knew about the trains in my collection. Some of my predictions turned out to be horribly bad! Not only did I not realize which of my trains was the fastest of all, but I was also wrong about which one was the slowest.
Here's the full list of results of the competition:
Rank Jim Predicted Name or Description Road # Time
1 8 Toby 7 :37
2 1 Emily - :40
3 2 James 5 :40
4 6 Thomas 1 :46
5 7 Percy 6 :48
6 3 Amtrak 500 :50
7 14 Porter 3 :52
8 4 Santa Fe 868 :58
9 5 First Responders 911 :58
10 15 Coca Cola Train - :59
11 17 Winston - 1:03
12 9 Piko AT&SF 707 1:09
12 12 Rhaetian Railroad LD1 1:09
12 16 Santa Fe Super Chief 202 1:09
15 11 North Pole Express 25 1:11
16 10 White Pass Steam 52 1:12
16 13 Bachmann AT&SF 49 1:12
18 19 White Pass Diesel 107 1:18
19 18 Piko Clean Machine - 1:34
Let's just say that a few of my predictions ended up being right but quite a few were horribly wrong! In fact, the one thing we learned after all this is that I'm an idiot!
These model train videos are extremely expensive to make. The trains you see in this video cost in excess of $10,000. Many of the locomotives cost $1000 each, many of the rail cars were over $150, and each foot of track about $7. The cost of the cameras and production equipment is another factor. If you enjoyed this video, please consider becoming a patron of this channel to help fund the addition of even more model train equipment for future videos. Even a commitment of just $1 per month will help, if enough viewers participate. For more information on becoming a patron, go to / jimzim
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23:15 Tobias: It was exhilarating! powerful! unstoppable! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Tobias and the Half-Pariah" 2014
Porter is in the lead.
Thomas: No way a knockoff duplicate of Percy can be faster than me.
I almost missed the joke oof
@@TrajectoryT almost wooshed xd
Thomas: *I am sped*
Dat boi that's lightning McQueens line.
I love your trains!
When I was young (I am now 65) I trained as a fireman/stoker on steam engines in Cape Town South Africa.
I was paid a fortune at the time (the equivalent of around $1.65 a day in 1975, although our currency was then MUCH stronger, so probably around $16 a day!).
I just loved the way the engine “breathed” and responded to every touch.
Taking water by kicking a lever on the floor, and creating a vacuum was almost a sexual experience!
An entire train once derailed while I was illegally driving it (my driver was sleeping) but thank The Lord it was not my fault and I had done nothing wrong (the points were badly set).
But what an experience.
I relay the entire episode in my book Lesson From The Sauna which you can buy for a few cents on Kindle.
I am sure you will enjoy the one chapter called “When The Trains Roll By” which is about the derailment, and is also set in White Rock, BC Canada through which many US trains trundle every day (much to the chagrin of most Canadians).
And me.
But stupid Canada for selling the railway line right along the quaint beachfront to a foreign company!
Anyway. There is nothing like the sensual experience of a steam engine as I am sure you know well.
I can’t wait to see your trains shunt through snow in your backyard! Good luck....
Sir Topham Hatt is a proud man to see that his engines made it into the top five fastest locomotives in Jim's video. This will make Gordon very jealous indeed.
The commentary sells it for me. He could of just stayed quiet and just showed the times but he was being interactive and interesting.
i like the amtrak train thats my favorite it is the fastest oh and there also a train in amtrak are is the acela express is the fastest amtrak train i have seen so far but toby is fast you should put toby in first place dude zim
All the Sodor engines are in the top five. And that just made me smile
This was great fun! My all time favorite and, apparently, many others, is the ATCHISON TOPEKA & SANTA FE SUPERCHIEF!. I took a ride on the real one a few decades ago & never forgot the experience.Thank you!
Your voice is so calming yet so engaging, I love it! Keep up the good work!
my kids love your channel. it's one of the few things we let them watch. we live in KENNESAW, GA. we love the train named "the general" famous for its being stolen and then dramatically recaptured during the Civil War. it's fully restored here in a museum.
when my kids are old enough to run their own trains I plan to get them a model of it
I love videos like this where it has Thomas engines and real engines.
“We got an A4 2-6-2 at 30 seconds, and Thomas at about 34
It makes sense Toby runs fast. Despite not being arrow dynamic the engine is most likely pretty light and has a bigger motor than some of the smaller engines that are light.
The Santa Fe Super Chief that you owned are actually EMD F7 A-B units. The F7 is a 1,500 horsepower Diesel-electric locomotive built by EMD between 1949 & 1953. A total of 2,393 cab-equipped lead A units and 1,463 cabless-booster units would be built. The 3 railroads that had the most orders of the F7 is Southern Pacific (250 A units & 220 B units), the New York Central (238 A units & 56 B units), and the Santa Fe (215 A units & 247 B units).
Toby: Now who's the fastest engine on Sodor, Gordon!
Gordon: (annoyed) I hate that tram now. He's not even electric.
Toby: Whoosh!
Edward: Shush Gordon, You’ve offended him!
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Toby: *GAS GAS GAS IN GONNA STEP ON THE GAS*
Hehehe
I always chuckle when for some reason I don't get a commercial when you say "we'll be right back."
Back when you first start G scale trains
I really love the Coco Cola trains and the Super Chief!
Which is the strongest Engine out of All of them.
Thanks, my 2 year old loves your channel and you have helped cultivate an even deeper and richer appreciation for the rails. I’ll capitalize on that and teach him rail history as he gets older. All the best to you!
You're welcome! I've got well over 100 model train videos on my channel... so, there's lot of material for your kid to enjoy.
Hi Jim, my son loves watching your train videos. He's obsessed with Trains. Thank you for making these great videos.
I've been a fan of your train videos I've ever since I've been three
1:15 That is why there is an episode of Thomas called, "The fastest red engine on Sodor"
Thanks for sharing your trains. My 3 year old enjoyed this video. I did as well. 👍👍👍
This was fabulous! Very entertaining and the commentary was perfect. This is the most excitement I’ve had since Spring Training baseball! Thank you Jim!
Ironically, Toby is one of the slowest engines in the Thomas & Friends series.
Thomas was very fast, and he didn't even have his jet engine attached to him. I am amazed.
Haha lol. It's funny how one of the SLOWEST and OLDEST engines on the show would WIN a race, where there are Amtrak diesels that'll get up to 65 mph!
Well done Thomas, well done Percy.
This guy is so cool I have the same sort of thing in my room but with HO scale trains
34 minutes of my life not waisted than you Sr love the videos and the commentary
Watching this definitely brought out the kid in me. Now you should run the time trials again, but with all the locomotives pulling the same consist. It would be interesting to see if your engines are just as fast, relative to the others, with cars as without.
All of the Thomas the Tank Engine trains are the top 5! CONGRATS!!
JKJ Bus Photographs winston: am i a joke to you?
you spoiled it for me!!!! >:(
@@erinhart4802 don’t read the comments then
2:46: So without further ado, let's go go go!
First up today, a train that Jim Zim's TH-cam viewers including me really seemed to love. Jim Zim have got a lot of great comments about the Santa Fe Super Chief diesel locomotive #202 from LGB. It is a classic from an era that is long gone when passenger trains carried more passengers than airplanes.
There are five different cameras to capture these time trails.
A GoPro camera captures the start and finish of the time trials.
Another GoPro camera for the waterfall fountain view before the G scale model trains head under the orange tree.
Third GoPro camera mounted on the G scale model trains for the POV which by the way stands for Point Of View shots at ground track level.
Fourth camera which is the cell phone camera in the garage where it captures the halfway times of the 25 of 26 G scale model trains and also the halfway sign. The halfway sign was 6 and/or 10 feet short where it really should have been.
Back to camera number three mounted on the G scale model trains from Bachmann, LGB, MTH Electric Trains and Piko as we go through the laundry room and in to the kitchen before reaching the dining room.
And the Dining Room Cam which is the big Canon DSLR 80D camera, which explains why the picture quality is so much better than the other cameras.
Once the G scale model trains reach the dining room, they have the start and finish line in sight and we will see the fast and slow runs on the layout.
Holy Cow we don't believe what we have just saw!
Toby the #7 0-6-0 brown steam Tram Engine from Thomas and Friends manufactured by Bachmann ran the layout in 37 seconds and the halfway time of 17 seconds beating all of the G scale model trains in the race!
You will do another race with 26 G scale analog, battery powered and DCC locomotives in your G scale model train collection sometime someday in the future!
This shall be the last video I watch or am watching before going to bed.
Hey Jim, I heard that Bachmann will be releasing a Large Scale Diesel from the Thomas and Friends range, he’ll be nice in your collection
Would be his only 08 shunter
I got the train today
@@Mr.11.114 you got my hopes up, it’s not available yet
**The fastest shed in the west**
White pass railways be like
This is my childhood. Thank you, JimZim
I love that narrow gauge lcomomotive
The steam trains are me favorite no matter how fast or slow but i just love them and your videos
I LOVE TRAINS MORE TRAIN VIDS OH MAN IVE ROAD TRAINS FROM 2013 TO 2020 YEARS OF TRAINS
I feel like I was listening to Casey Kasem doing his Top 40's ..we see these train videos about 5xs aweek..my son!! Lol.
Emily is number 12 in the series now, but Idk if they’d update her model
+JBPlayz 64 Whether or not Mattel decides to update Emily's models, I am planning to customize my fully painted Wood Emily to have a 12 on her tender.
My 3 Favorite Engines: No.3 [White Pass 52], No.2 [Stream Porter] No.1[The North Pole Express]
Toby be doing the fast vroom vroom ngl
Wow, I remember when the number of trains was just 4
The porter said “you think I’m coming in last place? Ha! I’ll show you!”
A race?!!? That sounds amazing!!!🤩 Game on!!
when I went to the description I thought "north pole express", meant he was referring to the polar express
Can you make a two track layout for a race on two engines against each other and some races will be Thomas vs Percy ,James vs Emily , Toby vs Winston, coca cola vs Santa Fe steam engine and Amtrak vs first responders
I feel like this guy would be a great dad
Hello Jim, that was a smashing video you created.
I love seeing your G Scale Model Locomotives running at full speed.
I thought Thomas the Tank Engine, who is my No.1 favourite character & locomotive is going to win until Toby the Tram Engine beaten his time & that surprised me.
As what Thomas said, "Little Engines Can Do Big Things."
Thomas is now the fastest tank engine in your collection, beating Percy, the Porter & Swiss Locomotive.
Onces again, a smashing video, well done Jim.
You have awesome g scale trains my friend.
You have the best model trains I have ever seen
I'm subscribing, this narration is unlike anything I've seen
wow, I love races! beautiful, sir!
I’m new to this channel, but this feels like the Jay Leno of Model trains😂
First responders is a GE Dash 9 modeled after a real NS tribute unit aswel as the Warbonnet. The Amtrack is a Dash 8
On the boxes for all three of those G-scale models, they are listed as Dash 8.
The real Norfolk Southern First Responders locomotive is actually a EMD SD60E, I believe.
It's ironic that Toby was the fastest of all the engines in your collection, considering that in "Hasty Hannah", he told Hannah that he wasn't built for high speeds.
Have you ever watch tobias
I love the Santa Fe train more than any other.
Enjoyed the video, Jim! Its always fun to see which locomotive in a collection is the real hot rod of the bunch! A member of the club I'm in and myself decided to pit a pair of my Scaletrains Rivet Counter ET44AC locomotives against a pair of Walthers Mainline locomotives, all dcc/sound equipped (check out the video when you get a chance) and see which pair could outrun the other. Unfortunately, with one loop being dcc and the other straight dc, it wasn't the best way to see which pair could outrun the other but it was loads of fun anyway! Take care buddy!
Do you know what I find cool?
1.Toby's half way time was 17 seconds.
2.Toby's finish time was 37 seconds.
3.Toby's number is (obviously) 7.
4.if you add the numbers of his end time, you get 10.
5.Then you add Toby's number to the 10 and you get his
half way time.
To put it more simply, if you add Toby's NO.7 and the ending time, you'll get 17 which is his half way time!
I am dissapointed my gal Emily didn't make 1rst place. But still, she set and impressive time with that speed of hers!
Train race: *involves 19 trains
Also going on: Covid-19 pandemic lockdown
Is this a coincidence?
I think not....
I've ridden on a real Amtrak passenger train pulled by a diesel locomotive. There is an Amtrak station in Randolph, Vermont, right near my house.
Hi Jim. Hats off to you for a fun idea. Unfortunately, I don't think it settled the question of which loco was the fastest because - to use a horse racing analogy - it should have been a handicap race (do you use that expression in the US?). I wasn't a fair comparison as you had battery/DC/DCC locos and also they were of different weights. It is beyond my small brain to come up with a method of handicapping, but it would have been nice to see one.
How convenient, that locomotive is a, brace your ears, a P32-8BWH locomotive designed for switching and backup power to work alongside the GP40TC. Now, if any of you are curious about which engine I am talking about, the link to the time of video is right here: 21:50
i love how fast the amtrak locomotive is
My daddy loves Toby he was happy when I told him that Toby was the fastest 👍🏽🤪
You should consider doing another kid friendly hour long video of your trains, my kids love watching your other one.
Love your trains and great video. That mic looks huge.
Toby: woah! Who are you?
Me: The fastest train in sodor
Edward and Gorden: holy crap
Toby: I am speed
Clean machine: I’m so slow whyyyyyyy
LOL
Preety cool video now i wanna race my lionel and see wich one is the fastest ,,,,thanks so much for sharing. And stay safe,,,Ken
Great video, I loved it.
Very creative way to run trains during this time, i think the Amtrak was faster than the two other diesels because its modified to be a passenger engine, whereas Santa Fe and 911 are freight engines, now if you had Gordon in the fleet I wonder if he'd beat Toby because he's an express engine
Holy Cow! I don't believe what we just saw!
Wow Jim, This Video is Really Amazing!, Your Trains are So Cool., Everyone's a Winner😄❤👍
I love James, Emily and Toby as well.
Great show!
The lil engine that Did! 👍
perfectly timed ad break. Bravo.
Thanks! I consider it a matter of professionalism to do it that way, and I am always shocked when I see big-time TH-camrs who don't give it any thought at all and let ads just drop in randomly in the middle of their videos, totally interrupting the content. It is totally up to the individual video owner to decide if ads will be placed during the video, and they always have the option to specify the exact moment when ads should appear. It seems like most TH-camrs are just too lazy to take the time to do it the way I do it. I think my way makes the ads much less annoying for viewers. I'm glad you noticed that I put a little more effort in to it than most TH-camrs do!
@@JimZim For sure, when i saw that edit, i was like, that is not timing. I never knew content creators could choose where to put their adds, and plan, and record...accoringly. And honestly, haveing a break, right before the ad, makes the difference. I dont feel like im roped into watching an ad, this felt like it was part of the program. All too often, as you stated, many content creators drop them mid sent...*buy our car buy our soap* ...ence, and it gets annoying every 4-5 minutes on longer videos.
Cheers, have a wonderful week, stay safe, stay healthy, and as they say on WNTW with Ken Paterson, "We share the best hobby in the world, so rock-n-roll, lets go run some trains!"
I like how willing you are to run Thomas equipment. The club I run at doesn't allow them at all because they are "toys"
Hey Jim I grew up watching Thomas I'm shocked by his speed love the super cheif
It was either just the reflection from the sun or the lights but I saw something light up in the trains cab in the lionel Santa Fe super chief. They also have G scale plastic train and another little mini ho scale plastic train. And ready to run Lionel polar express train
The Super Chief definitely has interior lighting. So does my Amtrak train. They both look cool when they run in the evening, but it's basically impossible to catch on video because a video camera needs light to get a good picture... so trying to shoot model train videos at night doesn't work well!
@@JimZim oh cool thx and btw The G scale plastic train is my new bright same with the little HO scale plastic train it’s not really each of steel though it doesn’t really fit
All I ever wanted a electric thomas all my life
I love your videos since I was 5
I never saw Toby go so fast
I want to go to the house
Awesome!!!
I love your videos!!
I really love it
i love your videos!
Loved it
Sth: ( sir topem hat) what is your name
Toby: Toby. Sir topem hat's grandkids: what is that engine? Sth: that is a tram engine. Sth kids: is it electric? Toby:( i m t r I g g e r d!)whooosh
Thomas was going sooooooooo Fast!
I love trains
Same
Thomas is sooooooooooooooooo 💨 fast,whooosh
Toby is faster then thomas though guys there's noooooo way Emily is gotta beat Toby
I love the silver red yellow passenger train
i like your predictions
Love your video 👍, I'm going with Amtrak
They have 2 other white pass trains running 190 at tweetsie railroad and 192 at Dollywood
Also, The Piko Clean Machine Looks like A Diesel Locomotive, but at 33:35, it was listed as a Steam Locomotive.
Little engines can do big things!
I agree
Me too
Me three.
Although Toby the #7 0-6-0 Brown Steam Tram Engine is faster than Emily, James, Percy, Thomas the #1 0-6-0 Blue E2 Tank Engine, Winston the red track inspection car with the Lego version of Sir Topham Hatt aka The Fat Controller in the driver's seat, the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway ALCO diesel locomotive #107, the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway steam locomotive #52, the Santa Fe Railway General Electric Dash 8-40CW diesel locomotive #868, the North Pole Express Christmas steam locomotive #2 or #25, the Christmas Coca Cola steam train #1, the Valvoline steam train #49, the Santa Fe Super Chief diesel locomotive #202, the Norfolk Southern Railway Honoring Our First Responders Train #911, the Amtrak diesel locomotive #500, the Euro-German Porter #3, the Piko Clean Machine, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway steam locomotive #707, and the Swiss RhB Rhaetian Railroad steam locomotive #LD1.
Applejack and her husband, Caramel Cobbler will be so proud of their engine friend, Toby the #7 0-6-0 Brown Steam Tram Engine from Thomas and Friends manufactured by Bachmann.
And Jim Zim will soon have Devious Diesel and Paxton from Thomas and Friends manufactured by Bachmann in his G scale model train collection and that will make 24 G scale model trains in all!
With you’re good mic you’re voice is soothing you should be on like a sleep podcast or something
I love your videos