Hotwheels Railroad: The Greatest Train Toy You Never Had

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  • @Pepperknight341
    @Pepperknight341 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    I think the problem was Mattel didn't release the steam engine in the first wave.

    • @tophatgaming1873
      @tophatgaming1873 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Imagine if it survived to the present day

    • @Pepperknight341
      @Pepperknight341 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@tophatgaming1873 Thomas would be added to the line.

    • @tophatgaming1873
      @tophatgaming1873 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Pepperknight341 or more likely it would branch out into typical hotwheels designs, for better or worse

    • @Kenedien_737
      @Kenedien_737 ปีที่แล้ว

      then it would branch out into "spits" aeg which SUCKS @@tophatgaming1873

    • @dirt8822
      @dirt8822 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tophatgaming1873 this was the era when hot wheels regular cars and Desins

  • @joshuacampbell9990
    @joshuacampbell9990 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    As a late GenX, I remember seeing these as a kid. I have a couple of the Matchbox locomotives and some rolling stock myself from when I was a kid. You’re right about the Tyco and Bachman sets offering so much more for around the same money at the time as Hot Wheels sets have always been expensive even when I was a kid. Come to think of it, I think I had a Micro Machines train, but I don’t think I kept many of them unfortunately.

  • @weekendrailroader
    @weekendrailroader ปีที่แล้ว +39

    They aren't HO scale, but they are actually HO gauge. You can set them on a piece of HO code 100 track and they'll roll just fine. The wheel flange dimensions are very different though, so they're not compatible with HO scale switch frogs and diamonds.

    • @richardludwig3673
      @richardludwig3673 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep. I remember running HO trains on the Hot Wheels track.

    • @freshdoug
      @freshdoug 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The flanges are too fat. I'm surprised they didn't just source HO trucks from a train company.

  • @ShadowVFX
    @ShadowVFX ปีที่แล้ว +42

    FYI, the box car (at least mine) came with a little wooden box that fit perfectly in that opening. I don't know if you'd classify that as a play feature or not, but I remember loading it on and off of my train when it came to different stations on my playset.
    Also, the baggage car definitely had an item you could pick up with that hook. You probably don't have it, since you got your set second hand. But I had the original playset and I remember it specifically coming with an item that you could grab with that hook.

    • @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars
      @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I have both items you mention with my Santa fe "Freightyard" playset and the Amtrak "Superrails" playset.

    • @richardludwig3673
      @richardludwig3673 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yep - i remember that too. Those were some of the pieces that got lost easily (though I think the baggage pack stuck around a little longer for me due to it being secured in there).

    • @jgrafing
      @jgrafing ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes even the dumper car came with logs to dump in a loader. I think I still have those sets somewhere, they were much fun as a five year old!

    • @dhcoloniemain9358
      @dhcoloniemain9358 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think the baggage car came with a weird silver cylinder that looked like a milk container (I know, Amtrak didn't carry them). I thought the tipper car came with Pipes, and on the top of the station there was an area to unload/dump them. I still have the set in my basement, along with the Freight Yard set.

  • @bryanmoore9496
    @bryanmoore9496 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    All cars did come with loads. Boxcar had a box, tipping gondola had steel pipes and the Amtrak baggage car had a weird round silver cylinder that looked to me like a giant milk bottle. I had all of these as a kid and probably still do in storage. I had no idea they had become rare.

  • @F40M07
    @F40M07 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    I NEED THEM ALL

  • @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
    @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory ปีที่แล้ว +15

    4:36 and 5:05, this is false, both cars had special loads to carry.
    In the Superails Station Set, the Burlington Northern pipe car had five pipes which could be loaded into it via a overhead dump bin, and above that on the upper level a place to dump the pipes back into the loader. The mail car had a small mail bag that could be caught from a small mail loading area on the upper level of the Superails Station, where it could also be unloaded.

    • @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars
      @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes true. I have the complete Amtrak superrails set and does exactly as you mentioned 👍

    • @boxcar69
      @boxcar69 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The boxcar had a pallet of boxes that cud be pushed into it with the forklift in the freight yard set, ( it's on the front cover art- look closely) and yes their also were pipes, and a mail sac - that looked like a giant milk can.
      I think he got jipped from the used sets he got or hes making comment bait.😊

  • @NERRP2017
    @NERRP2017 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Legit I have the rio Grande locomotive and i don’t know where it is but it came from one of my cousins, and its pretty cool because im rio grande guy, id love to get the freight cars just to go behind my drgw gp38 and maybe ill find the other engines and stuff later on the road.
    Also fav hot wheels?
    Camero, corvette and Mustangs all years and make variations their a good chunk of my hot wheels fleet backbone

  • @randallellison6421
    @randallellison6421 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I've never heard of this line before, very cool! Shame it didn't work out for Hot Wheels, this would have made an excellent set for young children wanting to get into trains. On a side note, I heard Hot Wheels' parent company, Mattel, currently owns the Tyco name, makes me wonder why they haven't attempted to resurrect the brand, especially with the prices of higher end models skyrocketing! They could really capture the budget minded market who just want something reliable and fun to play with!

    • @cobramerciless
      @cobramerciless  ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I would love for Mattel to bring the tyco name back for trains, but tyco train tooling fell under Mantua, who was bought out by MRC, who is now owned by uggh, Lionel

  • @TristanMorrow
    @TristanMorrow ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Yep! Mattel also had a refinery switching base (same size as the freight yard). It had streets for cars and the track was an oval mainline with half a figure eight through the middle and two sidings: you'd take the tank car the oil siding, around the tracks, and to the unloading spur where it would transfer your imagination to the Hotwheels tank truck, lather, rinse, repeat -- good fun!
    I'd bought it with my own money, loved the set so much, but could never find any other components after that :-( I typed (typed!) several letters to Mattel asking if there were any other parts I could buy; they were very polite but the answer was no it seems...
    Haven't seen the exact base I had, tried Googling it recently out of nostalgia but will try again! (Good video!)

    • @TristanMorrow
      @TristanMorrow ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I had the 1985 Hot Wheels Railroad Trains-To-Go Playset 9430 HTF -- nostalgia activated!

  • @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
    @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This video was fantastic, I liked it a lot. The detail and info you put into the equipment was awesome, and I loved the Mattel headquarters part.
    I actually had these as a kid, I still have all three of the playsets. My favorite trains were the Chessie System GP38, it was the first one I got
    (Sadly I haven't seen it since 2017)
    And the other being the Amtrak F40PH and baggage. Wish I had the stesm locomotive though.

  • @NotGavin
    @NotGavin ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow, i never even knew this existed! Excellent video covering this topic! Very informative.

  • @cobramerciless
    @cobramerciless  ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Quick amendment, curtesy of a friend, the tipper car and baggage car did have loads to dump, I couldn’t find any photos of them online, but the back of the original box of the super rails station confirms the tipper would dump pipes, and the baggage would kick a box out. And I forgot to mention that bringing this line back would be incredibly expensive since hotwheels used to destroy their old molds after producing the toy enough times.

  • @Sunglass_Man
    @Sunglass_Man ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I surprisingly have a decent amount of hot wheels rapid transit cars, I’m surprised that the product line for them only lasted 2 years.

  • @clockwork3494
    @clockwork3494 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I came across a few of these some years ago and got hooked, though I've never purchased any.. yet.
    They're really niche, sure, but they're just so cool.

  • @Shortline819
    @Shortline819 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    These things are absolutely delightful! I remember watching videos on these when I was a kid. I always wanted the Sto and Go set. The idea of a train layout you can take along with you is genius. Too bad these didn't take off...

    • @MilwaukeeF40C
      @MilwaukeeF40C ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember seeing in a KB Toys outlet, in the 90s, some off brand plastic train layout. It looked like it had a lot of features.

    • @scottthewaterwarrior
      @scottthewaterwarrior ปีที่แล้ว

      I have a bunch of these little battery trains called XTS (Expandable Train System) that, while they don't fold up like Sto and Go, are quite easy to throw into a shoebox and take places. They even are gauged to run on N-Scale track, though I haven't tested them with switches.

  • @norfolksouthern37
    @norfolksouthern37 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I have some of these too from when I was a kid stored away someplace or places, though not near as many as I once had. At one point I had 12 of the Chessie gp40s (This body better represents a gp39). I had several sets including the station and it did have some pipes that diffco dump car could dump from the top level. The baggage car could actually catch the mail capsule off the platform when it went by as well so they did have loads for them. I enjoyed these very much as a kid.

  • @johnd8892
    @johnd8892 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    There was a predessor to these in the UK dating from the fifties. Included track and buildings in the range.
    The Lone Star Treble O system of close to N scale.
    The success had them make a powered versions.
    By 1963 Lone Star started selling a motorised version using rubber band drive. Likely inspired by Athearn.
    The much more expensive motorised version was called the Lone Star Treble O Lectric system that has sone vids on TH-cam. This was so early that N scale was more commonly called OOO.
    The paperwork of a Kadee wheel cleaning brush around 1990 still stated on the paperwork instructions that it was suitable for OOO.
    Lone Star made a mix of UK and US models like an F7 for the US market.
    German makers soon after called their much superior models N scale and the pioneering Lone Star system faded out after not making much impact.

    • @survivingworldsteam
      @survivingworldsteam ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I attended the NMRA 2023 train show this past weekend, and someone had a complete small Lone Star layout on display.

  • @frank1371
    @frank1371 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The boxcars actually came with a small plastic box that was used on the freight rail yard set (the small forklift in the one of the stations, you can see it poking out over the boxcar in the picture of the Canadian version of the set but both the box and forklift came on the American version) but was sold with every boxcar. If you can get your hands on any maybe you should do a video on the matchbox toy trains that where made in the 1970s they have some sets as well as a piece of rare rolling stock in the form of a caboose that came in only one gift pack.

    • @baxter22071990
      @baxter22071990 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The matchbox trains were brilliant
      Even though tecnically its range comprised of 2 steam engines 1 diesel and like 3 maybe 4 diff wagon types

  • @leverettrailfan5414
    @leverettrailfan5414 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    When I was a kid, someone left one of the sets at our town dump and I was able to persuade my parents to let me take it home... under the condition that it would be going back where I got it in a week or two. From what I remember the box was blue and showed the Rio Grande GP40, a boxcar, and the bulkhead flatcar. Unfortunately it was missing the actual trains I think, as well as one section of track. I understand why my parents weren't big on it, but looking back now... I wish I still had it!

  • @seymoarsalvage
    @seymoarsalvage ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have two of the Chessie engines that my parents got me from a gift shop in 1998. I never knew they were hotwheels brand or there were others! I did play with them alot, those couplers sure are tough, they never did break! I still have both of the engines, intact lol

  • @sopmodsenior1980
    @sopmodsenior1980 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The box car came with a little box that the forklift in the stow and go playset could push onto a platform. The BN tipper car came with a with a load of pipes that you could dump into the hopper on the top track of the station playset and then load on the lower track. The baggage car came with a silver mail bag that the hook could pick up. To be honest I feel these were better than the average Tyco train set of the day, the track connections had a tendency to break but Tyco motors were complete trash as were the power packs. Always wanted the tanker car and the Rio Grande loco.

  • @idxluaviation
    @idxluaviation ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I just had an outstanding flashback to that chessie system GP40 that I have the slightest memory of possibly owning.
    I belive that (according to my faded memory) that was my favorite train when I was little, I have no idea what happened to it or if it had any cars to go along with it but I remember carrying just it around. Wow, didn't realize it was so rare.

  • @omegafalconoriginal
    @omegafalconoriginal ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had freight yard. Amtrak station and portable playset. The steam locomotive was only one I never had.

  • @patchcoatgrey3434
    @patchcoatgrey3434 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ... I heard of them, and had most of them. Sold them off back after college when I was unemployed. Used to make layouts that would run though every one of the display sets, and through my bedroom. Kind of regret selling them, but I had nowhere in my small apartment for them...

  • @joelankeny6277
    @joelankeny6277 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I had these growing up when I little. I had no idea these were Hot Wheels. I clearly remember having the F40PH and I loved that locomotive. This video brought back so many memories!

  • @stanleepatterson95
    @stanleepatterson95 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I had it all except the steam engine. That tipper car is called a side dump car on the prototype. That rpo car did grab a mail contianer in one of the sets. It was a silver tube like thing. Was pretty cool.

  • @chadmickelsen3906
    @chadmickelsen3906 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I know I still have the Rio Grande engine and believe the Soo Line bulk-head car.
    Got to love Hot Wheels in the late 70's and early 80's. Dodge Aries, Mirada the Ford Grand Torino, Fairmont were my favorites

  • @IndianaNorthWestern
    @IndianaNorthWestern ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My preschool had this, I remember when it was out for playtime, but all they had was an oval, the rio grande loco, and the BN geep that only had the lead truck lol, I always wondered what it was, and now I know, and now I can sleep easy, and just get the same stuff in HO.

    • @IndianaNorthWestern
      @IndianaNorthWestern ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe it was something different, idk, but this looks familiar to it, so we're saying this is what it was.

  • @AndrewBurian-t9n
    @AndrewBurian-t9n ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another example of a toy I wish I kept. I literally had the whole HotWheels railroad collection. Its now someplace in a landfill now, next to my complete Voltron. :(

  • @rivitedrailfan
    @rivitedrailfan ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great video! I didn’t know too much about these, but I do have an incomplete Sto-and-Go Truck and Train set. It’s missing the trucks, and every train part except a Conrail flatcar. As a fan of both trains and Hotwheels (My channel is named after one) as well though, I’d definitely like to get more!

    • @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars
      @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pending on which version of the "Trucks & Trains" you have... You might be missing signs, lightpoles and short stubby sections of race track. I have both versions. Not sure if i have them both posted on my channel. I know i have the complete "freight yard" posted

    • @rivitedrailfan
      @rivitedrailfan ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@johnnygshotrainsanslotcars it probably is. I got it for like 3 bucks at a goodwill lol.

    • @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars
      @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rivitedrailfan oh wow you struck gold then.
      I have one of the two sets with the pictured instructions showing the signs an such.

  • @unclebenz7
    @unclebenz7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had the 2 larger sets my sister had the smaller set that came with the Rio grand loco. The tipper car came with a pipe load the could be dumped on the top and released back into the car below. The baggage car had iirc a cylinder that could be grabbed as the train goes by. My parents still have the one set that the amtrac came with that my kids now play with when they go over to visit

  • @MK-of7qw
    @MK-of7qw ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember seeing them in the stores and thought they were cool. Never got them because I wasn't a kid with money.

  • @GuretoSefirosu
    @GuretoSefirosu ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My brother and I had a trainset that came in a red suitcase. It had a track (circle, switch, a few straights) and an engine in there. Maybe it was Matchbox? A neighbor had a TON of rolling stock and extra tracks.

  • @Marklin15
    @Marklin15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A version of the power express train was made before 2001. It is very similar but the locomotive was more realistic and looked like an F unit or E unit. I got it sometime in late 90s and still have it.

  • @modelrailpreservation
    @modelrailpreservation ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These bring back a lot of fond memories for me. I had the smaller playset that had the orange girder bridge, came with the Rio Grande GP-38 and the Soo Line flatcar with logs, I remember my uncle giving it to me when I was four years old. Dad and I picked up, secondhand, the Stow-and-go folding set with a bunch of rolling stock. and lastly, the Chessie System GP-38 that was a prize a kid could win at our school's 'fun night'. I remember having to win a LOT of games to get that! The Stow-and-go set did have a working forklift that popped out of a building and could load a box into the boxcar. I still have that box. Over the years it has migrated as scenery to every single HO and O gauge layout I have ever built for myself. One downside of these trains, is the couplers broke easily. Most of mine ended up missing all their couplers but I used short pieces of steel wire rod from my grandfather's workbench to make new hook and eye style couplers. Hardly elegant, but it worked.

    • @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars
      @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have the same sets. An as you mentioned a few broken couplers as well.
      I used cut pieces of paperclips for hooks to connect the train cars lol when needed

  • @perfectharvestmlpstudios9152
    @perfectharvestmlpstudios9152 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’m nearly 27 and have been collecting HW since I was little and continue to do so. I’ve never heard of this line before, but that probably is because I live in England, but these things have never popped up when I search HW online. I’m definitely going to have to see if I can pick some up.

    • @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars
      @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The complete sets are hard to find. They are sometimes missing pieces, decals missing, broken track ends, couplers broken.
      I have some posted on my channel way down on earlier posts for you to look at. If you have questions feel free to ask.
      Good luck on your search.

  • @ZaksMuscleMotors
    @ZaksMuscleMotors ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I actually had some when I was a kid. Wish I still had them

  • @racingraptor4758
    @racingraptor4758 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I do not have those locos (but i would love to have). Im not from US and not old enought to even remember them. But i have still a nice colection of rapid transit locos. Its sad those rail series dont sell well

  • @jo2n847
    @jo2n847 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Going to sound weird but, the rio grande engine looks shockingly similar to the engines from team fortress 2 (mainly due to their slightly cartoonish appearance).

  • @davidzdziarek-zl8cu
    @davidzdziarek-zl8cu ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There was a bullet train Hot Wheels variant just ten years before in 1972 that was made to work with its' own set of tracks.

  • @Wilbern-cq8lz
    @Wilbern-cq8lz ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for the video. I had the Trains-to-go set. I had wondered where the tracks that went off the layout were supposed to go. I had never seen the accessories or the other sets. Toy departments at major retail stores were not as big then as they are now and I don't remember the stores in my town stocking these except perhaps at Christmastime.

  • @joshuahudson2170
    @joshuahudson2170 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My grandpa had these as a kid and I loved them. If you had the set with the dipper car intact, it had six pipes, and they interacted with the receiver/loader in the set it came in.

  • @BurlingtonBuck
    @BurlingtonBuck ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Younger me stumbled upon a reposted commercial for these trains on TH-cam. Even though I didn’t have the knowledge back then, I was still blown away at how “detailed” they were.

  • @varnerdiecastfilms1327
    @varnerdiecastfilms1327 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awe they looks so cool!!😮 I swear hotwheels made some cool stuff before I was born and not gonna lie but I might need to attempt to find some of them and now I'm slowly wanting to buy old Hotwheels things

  • @elfnetdesigns702
    @elfnetdesigns702 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They also had a GP38/40 Santa Fe in the blue and yellow paint scheme for that train set, I'm pretty sure it was a 3rd party bootleg as it was only obtainable through carnival and state fair gaming as prizes. I hate to admit but I spent way too much on one in a coin pusher when I was a kid. I had quite a few if not all official trains stock and 3rd party bits for that set, well all that I could find anyways.
    I think the main selling point intended for this train set was the fact it did not require batteries or the AC mains power that a traditional electric train does so in the logic young kids were safe from live electrical current from metal track that would introduce not only a shock hazard but a possible fire hazard if the cheap electric train was run on the living room carpet on Christmas morning.
    Parents that were over cautious would opt for the Hot Wheels or other un powered trains however they never even considered the more realistic choking hazard of such toys with small removable or easily broken off parts vs small kids that put everything in their mouths.\
    Tyco Lifelike and Bachmann were the affordible train sets and can be considered as entry level to model railroading but due to things like internet and such the train hobbies lost the eye of kids and was replaced by train simulator games and social media platforms we have now. Today only Bachmann survives from the old days to join the ranks of model railroad companies by setting their quality higher to match the likes of Walthers mainline series in some aspects today. No more 3 pole pancake motors and rubber bans for tractive grip on plastic wheels, horn hook coupl;ers are left in the past and replaced with knuckle type couplers as stock. Their locomotives now have all metal wheels and 5 pole central drive motors and most are adaptable for DCC upgrades

  • @Sigil_Firebrand
    @Sigil_Firebrand ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Never saw the hot wheels trains before your video, but a personal favourite car is the Twin Mill, such a ridiculous design and then I vaguely remember them building a real one for some unholy but amazing reason!

  • @kenjones2312
    @kenjones2312 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've been looking for these pieces whenever I can. Managed to find the Amtrak, Rio Grande and european electric locomotives, plus the BN box car and Soo flat (loads missing). I would love to find the Sto N Go set, I had all the non railroad ones. Thanks for going through the pieces that are available.

  • @MilwaukeeF40C
    @MilwaukeeF40C ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1970s era Matchbox had some decent train pieces of English aesthetic. In the 2000s Maisto made many lower quality, roughly N scale sized trains with small HO scale style horn-hook couplers. Micro Machines and the Hot Wheels line of Micro Machines sized vehicles also had trains.

  • @davevan8864
    @davevan8864 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OK....I was a Hot Wheels tester before the cars hit the market. I was paid for my work in Hot Wheels when they went into production. I have all the US sold HW Trains and sets. My Baggage car came with a cylinder that you could pick up or drop off via a pin on top of it.
    I am sure you know about Hot Trains HW line......it was part of the Sizzler line....I have all those too.
    Well done story on a rare HW line! Thanks

  • @garysprandel1817
    @garysprandel1817 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not the first HW foray into railroad subjects. Around 1973ish Mattel expanded the HW Sizzlers line to include a futuristic looking train that ran on HW track in a silver color with railroad track graphics.
    Best description from memory is engine and passenger cars ( did come in a freight set as well) that looked a like the angular, futuristic looking Super Train from the series that'd come out 5ish years later and molded in that metal flake gold plastic popular in the 70s.

  • @microbusss
    @microbusss ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yes I had these trains but never got the playsets or the tracks
    these have N scale bodies with trucks/bogies that fit HO tracks!
    I kinda wish they made Amtrak passenger cars!
    they had CN versions exclusively for the Canada markets! !
    I wanna find a HO version of that BN electric loco!
    that Peterbilt tanker came in blue & Yellow too
    I found 3 Rio Grande locos 1 matching caboose & 2 Pennzoil tankers at a train show for $2 each & the seller had zero clue they were even Hot Wheels!
    sold them later on the same year

  • @tehangrybird345
    @tehangrybird345 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can’t believe I’ve never heard of these. The DB BR 111 in Burlington Northern livery is certainly something

    • @ET44AC
      @ET44AC ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep. This ist a 111

  • @arthuridis
    @arthuridis ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had the freight yard set with the Santa Fe engine. Blue Conrail car, Yellow RailBox car and Caboose 1984. Fun time to be a kid. Let me tell ya. We had it made.

  • @AWVRisthebestrailroadever
    @AWVRisthebestrailroadever 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They should've made F units like micro machines, also that BN tipper car and the baggage (mail) car in the amtrak set are pointless

  • @OSDevon
    @OSDevon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had no idea that was a thing!
    I'm not really even a train guy but holy cow those are so fun!! (P.S. great vid, mate. Glad YT decided to share you on my wall!)

  • @jameschamplin1742
    @jameschamplin1742 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had them when I was a kid... in the 80s! I was way into trains and my mom would pick them up whenever she saw then in closeout stores, usually cheap cheap cheap. Pretty sure I had all but the BN electric loco and the Iron Horse. I wish I knew where all that stuff was now 40 years later.

  • @CoopStrasburgfan
    @CoopStrasburgfan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I own the rio grande engine 2 santa fe f40ph engines and the iron horse, I custom painted the bell on the iron horse bronze, I have the freightyard set 1 regular santa fe caboose and the black roof one and I also own the soo lines flat car and 1 railbox box car.

  • @reginald_the_craeb2510
    @reginald_the_craeb2510 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    what about the Thomas The Tank Engine hotwheels collab?

    • @cobramerciless
      @cobramerciless  ปีที่แล้ว

      That was a thing?

    • @BB_GreenTheE
      @BB_GreenTheE ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cobramercilessyes. i have seen it

    • @thet00nedl00n
      @thet00nedl00n ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cobramercilessIt used the Loco-Motorin model funnily enough.

  • @epicrailfannersproductions551
    @epicrailfannersproductions551 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The trains I own of these hot wheels railroad is the BN tipper car, the Chessie System GP 40 the Santa Fe F40, two Santa Fe cabooses a TTX boxcar, the Soo Line bulkhead flat car, The BN electric Locomotive, the Rio Grande GP 40 and my rarest one is the CP Rail (Canadian Release) GP 40.

  • @MrWolfSnack
    @MrWolfSnack ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For one reason or another these were a major flop. Next to nobody bought them, I suspect Mattel swiped the idea from TOMY who had a city playset with train and car roads integration.

    • @cobramerciless
      @cobramerciless  ปีที่แล้ว

      I really don't believe that, the success of brands like Tyco is what I believe the idea sprang from, and was killed by

  • @bigbuffersproductions
    @bigbuffersproductions ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I need these so bad also I recommend the matchbox train line that ended up taking off and was pretty cool

  • @josephyohanis
    @josephyohanis ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is a very well-made video, well done my man! 🔥

  • @Shunn3d
    @Shunn3d ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had a HW trainset that had a RxR piece connected to the 1997-2012 two lane wide Hotwheels/Matchbox tracksets. I assume the dimensions were different than the 80's version, then in the 2010's they had those car scaled HW trains that ran on the orange race track they claimed could make the loops.

  • @Donir100
    @Donir100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I knew they existed, a few years ago (most likely 2009) i saw a video of a guy reviewing them, i loved them and i wanted to get them, to bad i didht knew at the time that they were really old and that hot wheels didnt made them anymore, thx for the video, i felt nostalgic.

  • @davidbliss3220
    @davidbliss3220 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember getting this set for Christmas as a kid. Wish I still had it

  • @TheOdst219
    @TheOdst219 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I did have the battery HotWheels train. It was awesome.

  • @DeathMetalViking
    @DeathMetalViking ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I knew a kid who had this when I was young. He also had sets with tracks you could play these on. I was so jealous cus they were hard to find

  • @NoWhereToReal69
    @NoWhereToReal69 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I Think Need Matchbox Garbage King Xl Red One

  • @FathhRailz20
    @FathhRailz20 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I WANT THESEEE
    But sadly....
    Im from Indonesia :(

  • @trainlover74
    @trainlover74 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I actually do own the yellow box car and the red caboose and I think I own the flatcar

  • @juliannaudimanche1094
    @juliannaudimanche1094 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hold on, you only 19?

  • @c44-9w9
    @c44-9w9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Since the hot wheels, Railroad GP 40 had to be shortened and it only has two radiators on the back instead of the third one technically it would be a GP38

  • @FortheloveofThomas84
    @FortheloveofThomas84 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I only had the Rio Grande locomotive and the soo line freight car and to my surprise they are compatible with Jakks Pacific Power Trains locomotives Rolling Stock and train track

  • @klipsfilmsmelbourne
    @klipsfilmsmelbourne ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Matchbox realism base
    Hot wheels modern toys not much exciting

  • @henkbarnard1553
    @henkbarnard1553 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a Boomer, the build quality was a factor.

  • @WasatchWind
    @WasatchWind ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man I wish they'd bring these back. Yeah, you can get powered sets, but if these got popular, you'd feel like you could be more rough with them.

    • @jayo1212
      @jayo1212 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hear ya!

  • @michaelmcwhorter8707
    @michaelmcwhorter8707 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I got the stow and go freight yard for Christmas 1983 or 1984. I still have it along with the Santa Fe, Chessie, and BN engines and most of the rolling stock. Never had the Amtrak vehicles, tipper car, or steam engine. The box cars were made to work with the freight yard set. There was a fork truck that pushed a box/crate into the open sides. And the lumber and logs could be unloaded with the crane on the second level. Hours of fun back in the day linking the freight yard playset with my other Hot Wheels stow and go playsets and Hot Wheels City USA. Even my kids enjoyed them 25 years later.

  • @NKP723
    @NKP723 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There was actually another Hot Wheels train set. It had a hot rod painted locomotive, three carriages, and black plastic track. I had it as a kid and I loved it because of the car loading crane. From the late 90s I think

    • @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars
      @johnnygshotrainsanslotcars ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was it battery operated?
      I have something that sounds like what you mentioned. Mine was remote controlled, was yours?

  • @lnerj50productions32
    @lnerj50productions32 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cool video

  • @MichaelVenezia-m3u
    @MichaelVenezia-m3u ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I still have all of my hotwheels engines except the steam locomotive. The rolling stock, expansion tracks, the main train set that folds up, a smaller one that also folds together, and a single platform with a bridge and a building. All of which can have the expansion track connected to them. Sadly, some of the decals have faded or peeled off. But what can you expect after 40 years. They also put out a construction site set that was similar to the large train set, in that it folded up into a case. Also, have that one still.

  • @johnd8892
    @johnd8892 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Any measurements to establish what scale these are roughly?
    While standard Hot Wheels cars are usually 1/64 or S scale, these trains look closer to N 1/160 or TT at 1/120 or somewhere in between.

    • @cobramerciless
      @cobramerciless  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As I showed in the video they’re ever so slightly larger than TT in width and height, so I’d assume they’re around 1/100 roughly

    • @MilwaukeeF40C
      @MilwaukeeF40C ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Almost all diecast cars are actually fit the package scale, with width, length, and height usually being adjusted independently to fit the size outline they want. Two and three axle trucks sometimes end up close to 1/87, for HO use.

  • @richardludwig3673
    @richardludwig3673 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh yes! I had all three sets! The Amtrak was my favorite and I wish they had more passenger cards. I had all of the trains, including the Burlington North - except the Steam Engine. I only had seen the Steam Engine in the wild ONCE and BEGGED my parents for it but they said “maybe another time” and it was never seen again. These things were SO MUCH FUN!!!!

  • @trevorgwelch7412
    @trevorgwelch7412 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I use to have Hot Byrds , 1968 , Air Planes

  • @alexg91_ssr5
    @alexg91_ssr5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that gp40 Rio Grande is super cool looking!

  • @danielwalton9012
    @danielwalton9012 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Conrail 1994! Southern Pacific 1992!

  • @CarsSimplified
    @CarsSimplified ปีที่แล้ว

    These seem... Weirdly familiar. I don't think I had any, but I feel like I've handled that Shell tanker and Santa Fe engine.

  • @Over3900
    @Over3900 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Are you familiar with the Maisto On Track series? The Hot Wheels series reminded a lot of them, in that a toy car company tried to branch out into model trains. The series was short lived and it’s hard to info on, but they were pretty realistic looking for being a push along train

    • @modelrailpreservation
      @modelrailpreservation ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A friend and I were just talking about those Maisto trains the other day, but neither of us could think of the company or what the line was called. Thanks for the reminder! As I remember, the Maiso trains were slightly shrunk Bachmann cones, Body style, paint schemes, everything.

    • @cobramerciless
      @cobramerciless  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am, and I find it quite amusing that micromachines, hotwheels, and Maitso all included a USRA 0-6-0 in their lines

    • @MilwaukeeF40C
      @MilwaukeeF40C ปีที่แล้ว

      I definitely think they were all copying and scaling down toy train lines of Bachmann and Tyco. The steam switcher was probably selected for already being a staple of toy train sets, as well as being a simple design for diecast production and fitting the size requirements.

  • @KorraDaTrainBuff
    @KorraDaTrainBuff ปีที่แล้ว

    I almost wonder if this range would be more successful if it had been released today, given Tyco doesn’t exist anymore, and Bachmann’s starter sets are a lot more basic than they used to be

  • @danielwalton9012
    @danielwalton9012 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    But in 1993! CP Rail Picked it up!

  • @OwenConcorde
    @OwenConcorde ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had a few from a flea market when I was a kid. I didn’t know Hot Wheels made a DB loco since I’m a fan of German trains for over a decade now.

  • @themistakeisintentional-dn5df
    @themistakeisintentional-dn5df 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hotwheels' EMD GP40 model would actually make a great basis to make a replica of the Northern Express train from Team Fortress 2. The in-game model is also an EMD GP with exaggerated cartoonish proportions that are nearly identical.

  • @matthew_natividad
    @matthew_natividad ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think I’ve seen these as a kid I wish I got them

  • @potatohead5910
    @potatohead5910 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a lie. I had these

  • @kadenrobinson7067
    @kadenrobinson7067 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't believe I'm 20 minutes away from touching those things

  • @augustopinochet2495
    @augustopinochet2495 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    10:15 need a freebird edit

  • @KenjiTee-d6d
    @KenjiTee-d6d หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I really like it

  • @edward002gaming
    @edward002gaming ปีที่แล้ว +1

    they should release them again but this time they actually have a purpose like that mail- I mean baggage car that can actually pick up mail instead of the arm being a display

  • @greggabel7238
    @greggabel7238 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A push along/non-electric powered train would be the ideal toy ( train wise ) if you were stuck in a State Mental Hospital as a child 449 miles away from home and away from your 1/87 scale electric train set

  • @aaronprewitt344
    @aaronprewitt344 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I collected a large portion of the Hot wheels railroad back in 2017, and I still have it all 7 years later. Never selling it, they’re too rare now. I have: 2 Freight yard sets, one smaller freight yard set, super rails station, 3 Santa Fe F40s, 3 Chessie system GP 38s, 2 Burlington Northern Class 111 electrics, Rio Grande GP 38, Amtrak F40, 3 Santa Fe cabooses, 2 Conrail flatcars, Burlington Northern tip car, 3 Railbox boxcars, 2 shell tank cars, Amtrak RPO/baggage car, and a Soo line flat car.