I love these attic finds, it feels like Christmas for me. I’ve just bought a small pile of Triang stuff off eBay for £35. 3 x locos 2 x coaches 5 x wagons A pile of track plus other bit and bobs. Even though it’s Triang I still get excited.

That white metal kit looks like a Patriot of a Unrebuilt Royal scot. That actually looks really nice. These metal trains can get thousands if completed. Loved the video Sam

"A cable tie, that's fun isn't it." 😂😂

29:48 Me as an American. I know what that is I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!!! Whooo!

Please restore all of these and put em on your layout. Do it for your relative and make him proud!!!!! Finish what he started and make him proud Sam!!!

i think you should do a live stream of you building the o gauge kit locos made in yugoslavia are rso i think

That must be the best birthday present ever. About 42 years ago I bought a job lot of kit built metal locos and rolling stock, all sorts some old Triang locos and wagons. i had no idea was was included. It came from someone who had recently died. I have not really done much with it all since. A couple of the metal engines run and all the Triang ones I got working. In there is the top for the water tender of a Garret loco. If you get around to refurbishing your Garrett and you want the top it is yours Sam. I can send you a photo.

That kleinbahn engine is a 1042 from the Österreichische Bundesbahnen. Kleinbahn was a manufacturer from Austria. Now it's called Klein modellbahn. Nice video Keep it up sam and greetings from Austria.

22:58 A new friend for Bullman!

The joys of attic clearing, treasures can be found amongst the tat.

Sam, as an American railfan, I'll clarify some things for you. The first is those "made is Yugoslavia" locos. They were made by an American company called AHM. You were close on the Mehano statement, though. Mehano bought some AHM tooling when they went out of business. Next is what you called those "dash-2s". Those are actually M630s built by Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW). The first is Santa Fe (obviously,) and the second one (the striped) is Canadian National. The Santa Fe and Amtrak locos are both AHM models of the Electro-Motive Division's (EMD) FP-45. Finally, that steam engine is some sort of American-based tank engine (like the S100s you Brits have). Looks to be some sort of die cast model, probably made in the 50's or 60's. Hope this helps, and greetings from 'Murica!

Quite a history there on model railway equipment. The Ks Garrett is quite a find, renovated a couple of those in the past, rebuilding the valve gear and motor was quite interesting. Worth hanging onto for a future project.

The red/beige Lima electric appears to be a Swiss Ae 6/6. I'd love to see one of the steam engine kits finished, but OK with parts missing, it's going to be hard. I'd love to see those Transcontinental A and B diesels running (or just towed) too.

Around 28:10that engine you showed I’ve seen it before one of my friends used to or may still have one! Also fantastic video as always keep up the great work and can’t wait to see what’s next. Lots of love from Hannah

The dash-2 engines are based roughly on the American Locomotive Company C-630. The red and silver Santa Fe and the silver Amtrak engines are Electro-Motive Division FP-45's. Also with getting into O-scale I recommend checking out a free online magazine called the O Scale Resource. While it does focus around North American modeling occasionally layouts from the UK are featured and there is a wealth of information in terms of how-to articles, including building a brass steam locomotive.

That's an amazing gift from you grandad. You have an amazing selection of different bit and pieces. Love the video. Take care

17:45 oh look its helljin's protype wow even that falls apart like the real things that or you could sell it for 200 quid plus sam,

29:54 I have one of those and it is...... Horrendous. It hasn't ever ran well and it can only pull around 3 cars on my layout.

that large O gauge container wagon should look fantastic with your lima O gauge electric loco, good luck with restoring these! (with some of these you will need it XD)

Really nostalgic when you look for locos in your attic and you're like, "Oh I remember this from when I was really young."

For some of the “retired”, “unserviceable”, broken model trains, try putting them on eBay?

9:24 my last name is brown!!! does that count as a shoutout?

As someone who volunteers in aircraft restoration, I understand how much joy you would get from this!

I would love to see a running session with some of these locos and wagons, ignoring all the imperfections (just push the wagons without couplings, nothing can go wrong!). Rusty wheels, half-finished kits and derailments everywhere.

Fixing, servicing trains during lockdown is awesome, I have also been doing the same for the last two weeks, I think I’m up to about 40+ ho engines cleaned lubed repaired restored. LOL, still have about 70 more to go... fun fun!

Years ago, a teacher I knew was retiring and cleaning out 35 years of stored things. She gave me a large plastic tub full of HO train equipment. It was the 1776 Anniversary set from Bachmann! Apparently the young person that brought it into school was using it for a project and left it behind. I wish it had its box but the set is complete. It does appear to have either another set with it or just some additional cars. I haven't done anything with it. Eventually I will give it to my Grandson.

The little American steam locomotive is a 0-6-0t Dockside Switcher. The Canadian national and Santa Fe are Alco C630. The Santa Fe warbonnet number 1456 is a EMD FP45.

I think it would be special to see that Royal Scot completed in memory of the original owner. Maybe bring (after the pandemic) an O gauge enthusiast to help and explain things about kit builds. It could even be a multi part series over a year or so.

This solved The biggest problem right now, boredom during Quarantine! Good luck with some of this!

Get a model kit of a breakers yard. You could use some of the damaged or unsalvageable engines as part of the setting, as well as the loose parts!

Enjoyed virtually going through the boxes.

Ah I love European trains Marklin to me is the pinnacle of it all. The Märklin 3 rail system is fantastic its simplified in a good way. The switch points have zero dead spots and the early Loco cars and wheels are all made out of metal the sounds they make are unique.

lol videos like this are so relatable got my uncles box of trains out after 30 years fixed them all and now I play with them your old videos of your mainline models were used as a guide line your an inspiration and take it from a 13 year old its true keep up the good content thanks theo

The STEF wagon is from Jouef. I can see that you have a red SNCF BB 67000 in O Gauge. The first red BB 67000 in red was released by Jouef in the 1960's. And do you know what? SNCF has repainted 2 BB 67400 locomotives in red, so that's why we say in France that Father Christmas was 50 years ahead

Dear @Sam at minute 24.35 is an SBB Ae 6/6 Swiss locomotive. The Ae was the modern alternative to the Krocodrile in the Gotthard pass, specifically called the Kantonlok, yours is in the Swiss Express orange and white/beige livery.

What an amazing find! 2:48, I believe it's an LMS patriot. As for the blue pullman that's very nice! I operate my grandads model layout now and about 6 months ago I had an attic find like this. Inside was a bunch of great locos and also a full blue pullman set, lima, however I am missing the dummy car from the end and one centre car has a broken wheel set. 17:16 looks like the LMS Fury. As for that LMS garrat I have one of those to! My is a fully built kit like yours just without a motor, it's a "rosebud kitmaster plastic scale models" as I have the box here too! Also I do really like that great western mogul kit, be lovely if your could get it back on track!

You can absolutely positively fix lots of those old electric trains back into operating condition and I just love that little red 0-4-0 tank engine it's so cute!!!

Your dad was really kind! If i would get something like this, but whit old lego i would be really happy. The second box had some cool things in it. The intercity was really cool. I also liked the small red steam engine and the Santa Fe(s). They cached my eye in the thumbnail and i would enjoy seeing a video whit american locos.

That unknown O gauge loco looks a bit like the LMS patriot or something like that. I’d suggest hanging onto it because that’s a great find, even if it can’t be completed. It could always be kept around as a scrappers loco because they’re a rare thing for O gauge.

SAM......make a scrapyard for your layout with this stuff it would be AWESOME!!

These are the kinds of packages I yearn to find around my area, but we were quite rural back in the 50s and 60s and so post war Lionel and Marx trains are rare to find at garage and yard sales. But there is a box of train stuff I can see through the window of a local antiques store and I cannot wait for this quarantine to be over because I am going to go and buy it. The store always has had old trains but I am just taking notice now.

3:15. That’s such a cute LMS Loco. I quite like how cute it is

I think it would be really fun to take all the stuff that you aren't going to use in any serious capacity and try to make as many functioning locos as you can. Even just disregard gauge, O gauge body with double O mechanism. What ever ya do with it, have fun Sam and please share your fun! Thanks

I used to work at a thriftstore and love to disect boxes like this. Found some real collectables inside. And really personal stuff too. Trackplans and notes, pricelists and al kinds of small bits and pieces. :))

The STEF wagon is definitely Lima, that style of anti-sag design is typical Lima. Available in large amounts on model train fairs, also came in Interfrigo (German) and Orangina (Dutch) liveries, yours is most likely from a French starter set. The Esso tanker is also Lima, but with UK style bogies fitted. The small green one is also Lima,but i have never seen that, maybe because everyone bought the big starter sets with the German 218 or Dutch 1220 The blue locomotive at the end is a Belgian class 150 (also Lima), and starter set material. Should be completed with 2 blue and one white on blue Lima CIWL carriages.

Didn't expect to see Santa Fe and Amtrak locomotives! But Amtrak is my second favorite rail road!

Serious thing for that O gauge kit that was being built. Keep all the O gauge kit bits together, There's a Lot of the loco there. Maybe give it away to someone who will build it. It might not be complete, but that's going to be a real gem for someone who builds kit locos.

it's a great goft Sam, happened to me a few years back, when an uncle passed and I was presented with a dozen box's of OO goodies when we came to sort his flat.

The brake van is an airfix kit build and my grandad used to work on a 20 tonner likes that one

Strip the Mobil tanker down to its parts, spray the frame in a gloss black as well as the metal frame that goes on the top and the tank itself in either a matt black or matt grey. A few blasts of brown along the frame and wheels and maybe some wash to sink into the details and boom... Good as new. :)

It looks like the kind of box I buy at auctions. You almost always get some useful or interesting bits in them and the rest normally can be sold off for what you paid for the whole lot. Nice to see someone rummage through boxes, well for me at least :)

2:46 that looks like a Royal Scot or Patriot class. Might make a good flatbed load. 6:59 I agree that's something worth framing 17:36 so there is a complete garratt loco in there. 24:31 that is a Swiss loco, which you can tell by the "SBB CFF FFS" on the side 25:32 the custom livery reminds me of The Milwaukee Road livery used on their E7 and FT units (which Lionel used on their MILW F3 at the same time as this Tri-Ang was made) 26:59 that looks like an Alco c630, either a Rvarossi or Roco model, as well as Mehano. 28:32 nice to see an old CN model. 29:52 that looks like an FP45. Seeing those three big American diesels is pretty neat in any lot, but even rarer that you found them in the UK. The mixture of American and European models is quite neat! These big lots in old boxes like this always amaze me, which I have gotten two of.

The blue Santa Fe Mehano engine is an ALCo 630 which was used in heavy freight service. The Amtrak and Santa Fe engines are EMD FP45s. Those engines were based on the SDP45s which were themselves passenger versions of the existing SD45 freight locomotives. They were powerful but they had a tendency to derail during their time in passenger service. Most were refitted and downgraded to freight service where they remained until retirement.

Good stuff! That appears to be a LMS hall. Now the American power is a ATSF Alco C630, then a riverossi industrial loco, then a MLW (Alco canadian subsidiary) M630 (identical to a C630 but canadian, Dash 2 is a EMD only thing which refers to there computers with were knock off Alco Blue cards with slightly updated additions), then you have a FP45 which is correct for santa fe, then the Amtrak version too which was who bought them first than sold them to ATSF due to reliability issues with unbalanced weight from the water tank. Hope that helps you out!

you are a very lucky man! great fun and great models and parts for projects and the bits box :-) A nice glance in the past.

29:56 that is a Santa Fe FP45. They were built between 1967-68 by EMD, with 14 Being built. All 14 were ordered by the Santa Fe. That model you have is probably an IHC, as a lot of their stuff was manufactured in Yugoslavia.

I think the mystery LMS kit is a parallel boiler Patriot, the Patriots and the Scots had one "real" cab window and one dummy cut-out, and when rebuilt into the Stanier 6Ps only the Patriot received "full" cab windows.

Fantastic birthday present there Sam. Would love to see a restoration project of the wagons and locos on your channel at some point along with the final product of your current restoration!

People would be stressed about that? How could they! I once hit a gold mine of trains at my mates house, he didn’t want them so he game them to me!! I think it’s awesome! I’m with you Sam! Your Mate -Sa,

Hey Sam, I have an idea for what you could use that Bulleid tender for. Here in the US (and possibly elsewhere? I'm not entirely sure) tenders from scrapped steam locomotives were turned into canteen tenders for preserved locos. If you wanted, you could maybe do that to that one.

One person's junk is another person's treasure no matter what it is. Duct Tape for Duckman to keep him quiet from saying any more of his innuendos... LOL.

Hope you enjoy restoring the different locomotive and rolling stock that you have. I think that the O gauge locomotive is Royal Scot because the shape is the same as the HO model.

So that's where that Jubilee came from. It was certainly fun to watch. My best guess is that the O Gauge Loco that was unfinished is a LMS Patriot or (Based off the name plates) Royal Scot. Good luck with your restorations Sam.

There are some very simple techniques for removing rust, i have a japanese saw (i know how it ended up in Brazil) that was very rusty. I removed the rust by immersing it in weak acid, leaving it there for a few hours and then cleaning it. I used very cheap vinegar to do it. Maybe it would work for rusty wheels.

You've hit the jackpot big time, Sammy boy. Hopefully some are salvageable. Maybe you could use some of the broken parts as scrap metal for open wagons to carry, or to use for display. You could use some of the less important ones for various experiment.

The CN train 28:38 mins , I had that at 14 yrs bought on holiday in Toronto. That was 42yrs ago , I think it’s still in the loft.

A sale receipt from 1989! You should gently iron it, frame it and put up proudly on display, on one of the attic walls!

Idea: Make a scrap yard for your layout using old train parts.

Hey, I have that VCR down in the basement! 9:28 I was also thinking it was sad. The day that someone's going thru my boxes of junk that I considered treasure doesn't seem that far off these days.

Hi Sam! The Santa Fe and Canadian National locos are American Locomotive Company (ALCO) Century 628's. In the states they were sold by AHM.

I just came across your channel a few days ago, I run both O and HO so I thank you for some Of the tips and tricks you have taught me so far. I hope you restore some of these items, I’m quite interested in some of the older trains from the 80s and 90s so I hope to see them on the track soon!

In those boxes you got alot of old model railway stuff, mabye you could do an old model running session, to make use of the older items that you wouldn't often use?

The Amtrak and the Santa Fe before it are EMD FP-45 units. Kleinbahn is an brand from Austria, focussing on HO scale OBB models, and Austrian narrow track. The Stef refrigerator car is made by Jouef, France.

The Giant O gauge LMS locomotive you found it is a Royal Scott before they will rebuilt I think would be amazing to see a video of you trying to “finish it”(I know that Will be difficult with the parts missing) but it will still make for an interesting video or I could do a video of restoring the trucks #stayathome and stay safe Sam

28:00 That tank engine is a H. K. Porter, Inc 0-6-0ST, also known as a dockside switcher saddle tank. It was used in the US mainly for dockside shunting and mining work (as the name implies). Fun fact about that type of tank engine: One of the engines, Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal #15 (B.E.D.T. #15), was bought by the Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania in 1998 and was converted into the first, and so far only, real steaming replica of Thomas the Tank Engine in the United States. For a while, this engine would go around the entire country and participate in the "A Day Out with Thomas" events before the dummy engines were built and used in its place. Even though its nationwide service has ended, Strasburg still brings it out for its own "A Day Out with Thomas" event, as well as other events hosted for the kids throughout the year.

I always like these type of videos you make, it’s really interesting to look at!

Great video Sam! By the way, that dummy LMS tank engine is actually quite rare- they are around OO gauge and were made as push along toys for children, can't remember the company that made them though.

At 29.37 is an old kleinbahn, in German, small locomotive. The real model is an Austrian obb 1042, the model is from one of two brothers who split their manufacture, Klein modellbahn and kleinbahn. In any event, Klein modelbahn was recently (2018-2019) bought by Roco.

I have to repair/ clean some of my Grandfather's locomotives I need to find light bulbs for vintage flieschmann locomotives. Hard to find in western Canada. I hate having to modify vintage trains. Nice to see you have been gifted with a treasure. I also enjoy doing research for old trains when try to fix them . The santa fe might be a fp 45 from the quick glance could be wrong.

The underframe from the "salvageable" box looks like it matches with the gray body and underframe details from the "graveyard" box. I think you might have most, if not everything you need to actually turn it into a complete wagon! Or, maybe, just slap the gray body on the Lima frame if too many things are missing. Looks like it might fit

Shame you had a problem with your lima class 33 ,these motors are usually reliable 😮. The lima pannier and the prairie tanks are great ,something I've been looking out for . Maybe that spider 🕷 doesn't like cows😅. Great video Carl.

Your grandad sounds very nice! First some o gauge now this! 😀

If someone's not said already then I'd guess at that unfinished kit being a Royal Scot in original un-rebuilt condition as they were when delivered in the late 1920's. I'd love to have a go at finishing that off! Cheers, entertaining video as always.

The red and silver Santa Fe looks like my Lima HO. Was my second loco

Hi Sam ,, Always love the unboxing of the bulk lots as they come with some very interesting and handy items to use or keep for spares in the future ,, the best part i like is getting some bits and pieces i have needed for other projects.. You mentioned the made in yugoslavia you said they could be mecanno or was it mehano made. Keep up the gr8 vids and thanks for the gr8 vids. Cheers from John in Australia. PS .. SORRY SAM THIS COMMENT WAS MEANT FOR THE VIDEO I WATCHED PREVIOUSLY WHICH 2 BOXES OF ODD BITS AND PIECES AND WAS A COUPLE OF OLD YUGOSLAVIAN ENGINES. CHEERS MATE.

Loved the Blue circle cement wagon Sam. Classic Hornby/Triang 🤩🚄🚅

I use to work with someone who retired from BN & SF RR he told me that an engine has everything that a vehicle has except a steering wheel. So I asked him, "When you go around a curved section of track, do you use your turn signals?". LOL

The red Santa fe loco is a Santa Fe EMD FP45

It's good to know that a person collection has gone to you sam.

Sam, Interesting video. In the "worth keeping" box, I think the wagon with the "square" tank on it is a "Tar tank" wagon. I have some Lima "0" gauge PO wagons on my railway, fitted with Peco 3 link couplings and a bogie tank wagon underframe converted into a utility van with a hand made body made out of thin marine ply etc. Regards, Alan.

The stickers (Bosch and ferodo) are from old school scalextric. They went on the plastic safety barriers. You got a lot of Lima. Perfectly serviceable and good detail for RTR in the day. Main line did what I thought was good quality at the time. All pile of sh#% compared with the awesome detail now. Even the Mohano is probably better quality! Lol. Although I got a lot of mileage out of a Lima Deltic train set back in the late seventies early eighties. The o gauge loco kit looks most like a patriot or un rebuilt Scot just going on the firebox shape. In the eighties you could only get the Beyer-Garrett as a kit. I think there was two or so makers of them.

Would love to see the restoration of some of these! (perhaps a bulk restoration for similar items?) Can't wait to see any follow-ups.

for any rolling stock you want to scrap, each piece should have one last run on the layout as part of a Funeral Train destined for the scrapper.

The blue Lima electric is a Belgian (SNCB-NMBS) class 125. The screw on the roof is to switch from rail to pantograph current pick-up.

The Mobil tank and Ford wagons are HO scale, 1:87 or 3.5mm:foot. these were part of Lima's range of British HO scale models in the 1970s. The Hornby intermediate carriage which you described as being one of the cleanest models in this collection is an interesting item. While the height and width of this carriage are 00 scale the length is actually HO scale. This was because so these carriages could more easily negotiate Hornby curves. I presume but have yet to check if the power car is also HO scale length. I have several of these Hornby mark 3 carriages which are in the process of being converted to true HO scale carriages so these can operate with Lima HO scale mark 2s.

Nice score of some cool old trains. I think the Dash-2's are Alco locomotives. And the Santa Fe one is an FP-45. I Could be wrong, going by memory here haha.

Looks like you’ve had fun today ;) loved the video -Ollie

Just a heads ups for your American Railroading lingo. We don't refer to SD40s as dash 2. We say SD40. Dash 2 can be applied to any EMD locomotive. SD20-2 SD50-2 etc. The dash 2 indicates a digital engine computer vs an analog one. Also that is a Alco C623

Lol that’s a lotta trains and lots of American and British trains there sam Glad to see they are in good condition.

See American locos in the thumb nail, I already like it.