Model Train Manufacturer Awards 2024 | Final Sam'sTrains Video of 2024

[@TheEndlessBlade00]

This channel got me back into the model train hobby. I got so many childhood flashbacks of my old layouts i made with my old man as a kid and i figured why not try it again. Definitely my favourite channel discovery of the tear.

[@johnboy423]

Sam, I find your reviews fascinating and certainly thorough. I'm in my 70s and operated Hornby Dublo trains as a child...and still do as it happens! Some of my items are way over 60 years old and still work well. They were made for children to use as toys, so were rugged and lacked the detail seen today - but they have lasted well. Today's products are really for adults and wouldn't last long as 'toys'. Keep on doing what you do. Happy New Year!

[@billybobbassman]

Hi Sam, another great year on your channel. I still love the detail, honesty, enthusiasm, professionalism and pure fun that goes into your content. I know you get some critics who do not enjoy your presentation style or opinions; I have to admit I don't always agree with your review conclusions, but that's the fun of it, we all have different opinions and experiences with the hobby we love and everyone is entitled to their opinion and I am always happy to hear yours. In my opinion you are a great ambassador for our hobby and I appreciate everything you do. (As well as everything the lovely Chloe does to assist) So here's to you and a great 2025.

[@SteamTeamRedubUK]

I have to say, Sam. Your videos have been some of the most entertaining and informative when it comes to model railways. The amount of money, time, and effort you put towards your reviews, experiments, and rankings never goes unappreciated. In fact, having gotten back into the hobby not too long ago, quite a number of your reviews have been helpful in how I’m going about working on and improving my own layout. And for those who can’t afford the hobby, just being given the opportunity to see your locomotives in action and getting a glimpse into your train world makes it a real treat for rail enthusiasts of all ages. So thank you, Sam, for delivering outstanding content for all of us and here’s to a happy and productive 2025. Cheers and happy new year! 🥂

[@johnbaker6208]

Well done Sam. I'm a regular viewer. I appreciate your thorough ,detailed reviews. They are quite enlightening. Keep it up. Happy new year.

[@a2020vision_official]

It's been another great year, Sam! I hope you have a good couple week's change of pace and look forward to 2025

[@robertsparks3685]

Thanks for all the videos. Happy New Year to you.

[@JeffBoyle-zw8xh]

You were my first model railroad subscription when I got back into the hobby this year. Your Bachmann American 4-4-0 review of all things. Thanks for a lot of info and entertainment. Happy New Year!

[@macnavi]

Your tests are very good and I’m impressed how you’ve created your own business. Keep up the good work.

[@SamsTrains]

Thank you so so much for this - that’s extremely kind of you!

[@kenjimaurerfromdisneyland2001]

@@SamsTrainsI’ll see you January 15th.

[@jamesdunloptrains]

Awesome video today Sam you’re videos have helped me a lot this year I have been through a tough year

[@Cape_Cod_Steve]

🙏 🙏 🙏

[@Mallard1938]

Cheers! Have a happy new year Sam!

[@forrestrobin2712]

Hello Sam. Well done mate, I haven't watched all the vidéos, but I have watched all the loco reviews. It would be really fun to see you do "vintage" video reviews of old locos from the 50's to 2000's, but judging them both by the standards of their time, but also a score compared to today. I think some of the results could be surprising, especially as far as ease of maintenance and quality are concerned ! Forget about DCC fitting and features though 😂😂😂. Thanks for 2024 and looking forward to 2025. All the best to you and Chloe from Western France. Rob

[@SevenDaysToNoon]

Since I discovered your channel a few weeks ago. You have kept me thoroughly entertained and relaxed. Despite my hospital stays and recovery at home soaking my damaged hands in a hot bath. Whilst I watch your videos on my iPad. I find your enthusiasm and knowledge and most of all your perfect delivery very - like I said - entertaining and relaxing. Thank you. A happy new year to you and your girlfriend. 👍👍👍

[@colorscope423]

Happy New Year, hope your hands get better.

[@johnpalmer5873]

Best wishes to you, hope better times are ahead

[@jackowens4371]

British and American railways is back. You gave me a shoutout a few years ago when I donated on a livestream, Just got back into my model trains and had to come back to the channel. Thank you for all the amazing content Sam🙏🏻

[@WendyFunnell]

Happy new year for tomorrow!

[@georgebottarini1788]

Happy New Year and thank you for all the great vidoes.

[@johnchild5246]

Thanks Sam fora great year from Australia . My mates at our train club discuss the reviews and are a source of wonder at your abilities . once again thank you cheers John Child

[@Tankdestryer1]

Sam, you always make great videos and lots of people come here to see your reviews because you are the most thorough there is. I have no doubt you help a lot of people get into the hobby and choose their first locos and bring to light lesser known models and manufacturers. So thank you for all you do and heres to another amazing year!

[@tenparkdrive]

I haven’t even got a model train and I’ve been a fan for years. Thanks for doing these 🎉

[@tonylarkin7564]

Gday Sam & Chloe Have a Great 2025🎉🎉🎉I finally got my Conners carpet shipment .😮😮😅😅 Thanks for your help choosing the colours. I Will be watching again next year. Regards Tony 🇦🇺.

[@timbervalleyproductions]

Great video Sam, I've really enjoyed all of your videos this year, the hard work and time you put into them is evident! Happy new year, and enjoy your break!

[@JerseyBill-x9r]

This video must have taken a day two to put together with all the snippets from previous content so hats off to you. You are in my top 5 of 60 sites I monitor but unlike you I will keep the mystery of my grading system just that, lol. I hope you and Chloe have a wonderful New Year plus have a good little vacation from all this and see you mid-January. Thanks for the journey, Jersey Bill

[@Damien.D]

Happy new year to you and Chloe, thanks for your hard work.

[@shona1578]

Happy New Year, Sam! I've been enjoying your videos for ages but just realised I hadn't subscribed, so I have now corrected that oversight! I don't have any model trains and know nothing about them other than what I've learnt from your channel, but I find your content, your presentation, your creativity, your sense of humour... just so relaxing. In a scary world with so much serious stuff going on your channel's just a lovely break from it all. Thank you Sam, and all the best for 2025! 🥳

[@CyanShock]

Hey Sam, not sure if I caught every video this year but I rarely miss one. Every time there's a new upload I generally watch that to wind down after a long day at work. Your content is always honest and genuine and always something interesting whether it's experiments, railways visits, and of course reviews. I think the highlight of the year for me was watching you eat the Bachmann catalogue advertisement card. (I sometimes wish I could see people's reactions the first time they see you shred one of those haha). Been a subscriber for years and always looking forward to more. Have a great break and wishing you and Chloe a very happy new year. Cheers mate.

[@MooseRailfanProductions]

This channel is the reason why i got my first hornby locomotive from ebay that runs like butter

[@robfrith103]

Have a great new year Sam. Your videos have always been a great way to relax after a hard days work.

[@lewiscarty5517]

Hi, Sam. Your videos have always been great. I have been a long time subscriber for around eight years, as I came across your channel from IC82’s channel, and I have loved almost everything you put out. I usually watch your videos most evenings after my work before bed, or sometimes after dinner at home, and try to catch your livestreams when I can, and I loved your livestream with Jess, and some of your funny videos are great too. I hope you bring Salvage Or Scrap back, and I sometimes laugh when you do goofs in your videos, example, when a box of coaches falls off your pile of boxes, and that makes me laugh, and I have interest in model trains and railways too, and that’s why I watch your videos and I am thankful to watch them, and having Chloe on board (see? Get it?) for some of the videos is a great laugh too, and it’s amazing and hopefully you had a wonderful Christmas and a have a fantastic New Year and hopefully I will see you for a new video in the new year. Definitely do some more reviews and other projects, and you do you, with what you do. I would be happy if you post a video on my birthday again like you did this year, and I appreciate that, and thank you. Have a fantastic New Year and see you again soon.

[@parzival_3597]

thanks for the inspiring content. ive been watching for years and will continue to watch years to come. great work and happy new year

[@miniroll32]

17:40 This is the closest we'll ever get to a Sam's Trains RPG

[@Beaglington]

Happy New Year! Thanks for all the videos, looking forward to more in 2025 and to more of your own models. Have you considered restoring a Triang Transcontinental diesel of some sort? I'd imagine the paintwork would present a challenge, not sure about the wheel flanges though.

[@gregscally5119]

Well done and thank you, Sam, for another year of quality model train hobby reporting and analysis.

[@chrisjubb-hearnborough]

Thanks for everything this year Sam. I have to say my fav videos have been with both you and Chloe as they show how much you bounce off each other and it's all natural. The others are such like the 0-4-0 challenge. Here's wishing both yourself and Chloe a happy New Year and all the best for 2025!

[@darreno9874]

Love the reviews and the repair videos. I'm looking forward to seeing the first video of 2025, but enjoy your time off it's well earned. Happy New year to you both. God bless

[@MickBoddon]

Sam, love your channel and your reviews. My go to channel. Wishing you a very happy new year. Please keep up the good work. Thank you.

[@temy4895]

Happy New Year Sam & Chloe. Here's to another year, and enjoy your break.

[@ianmacpherson8611]

Sam, another excellent professional video, I love the enthusiastic way you go about presenting your channel, all the content that you provide and the honesty that you show, really makes this channel a true delight to watch and it's all of this that has me getting back into model trains, and am now currently building a layout in my garage. Thankyou again for providing such an entertaining, honest, informative channel.

[@lindaoffenbach]

Thank you for doing all this stuff Sam. A mix of seriousness and hilarity in your particular style is always such a joy for unwinding the day, and it keeps us informed about OO as well. We do hope you will be doing some new mad and bonkers experiments again any time soon. They are the most of fun hahah. You'll think of new ideas surely. Had we been in OO, in all fairness, we'd be going for Bachmann. The reason simply being that they always come out flawlessly RTR; always the highest consistent quality and reliable. For us those are our main concerns tbh. The rest is nice to have. Of course, it comes at a price but we are used to that in the Continental European H0 world. Thank you so much again, and a great 2025 for you Cloe and your families 🎄✨🎍

[@kennethbrunt9682]

Another entertaining and learning year from your KZbin videos. Also thanks for all the time and effort put into making the videos and also the designing and producing your rolling stock which I found amazing and different . They look great on my indoor part of the layout. (the weather to bad to try outdoors) Wishing you and Chloe all the best for 2025. Its so good to see another young lady with an interest in model railways.

[@thestocktonflyer4059]

All the very best for the new year sam 👏 keep up the great work 👍

[@poppystrains]

Thanks for a good year of videos. Have a great New Year.

[@Braystrains]

I’ve been subscribed for a few years now and Sam you’ve absolutely out done yourself!! I’ve enjoyed all of the videos and content you’ve made!! I hope you have a great new year!! ❤❤❤

[@briandesens144]

Awesome video Sam have a wonderful new year

[@mattponcini3037]

Happy new year Sam and thank you for the wonderful content this year!! Also Sam, I need to contact you about a model manufacturer that could reach next year’s number 1 spot! I have a few samples I can show you, or check out Auscision models. Super crisp paint, seperately fitted parts and no visible glue, etched grilles, painted detailed cabs with crews, DCC ready or fitted with sound, knuckle couplings, and super super detailed diagrams and instructions for care and settings for the decoders. I think you might appreciate their attention to detail, however they are all Australian trains, and can be slightly on the more pricey side, but I think that it’s reflected in the product.

[@dannyvanstraelen3273]

Like always Sam, you got a very good channel and I'm a huge fan of your loco reviews, to me one of the best on the internet. Don't care much about the grading system, it's just the overview on the loco where you always try to do your best to be subjective in a constant mannor, and this I appreciate very much. Also you know I like your era 1 productions, but I do hope you consider in the future also the possibility of an unassembled version? What I also like Is your view how to repair or revive something that is broken, or is a bad design, like the exchange for a better motor like the Oxford motor, and charing the 3d prints with us for it for free. So I wish you and Chloe a happy new year, and looking forward to a new release of Era 1 stock. cheers, Danny

[@ciaranburke3243]

Cheers sam for many years of entertainment, looking forward to the next, happy new year 🎉👍

[@geobrower3069]

Great job again, don't always agree with you but to each his own. Would be luvely to see you do the odd video on a North American loco. Fantastic to see our Canadian company, Rapido as #2!! And with this last show of 2024, that Bob Hope lyric closes this comment "Thanks for the memories" All the best for the season and the New Year to you and Chloe from Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Cheers, Geoff

[@NWRJ_WStudios]

Happy New Sam, 2024 was a very interesting year for new Model, and announcements. Let hope 2025 will be even better. Happy New from Jasper & Willow

[@Ethan_m_m]

Happy new year Sam and Chloe!! 🎉

[@adamwilliams192]

Thanks for another fantastic year of content Sam and was nice to meet you and Chloe in person. I am one of those people who has watched every single video you did….well except half of the AI generated one. That crossed the cringe threshold for me (and believe me some of the “Worst train punishments” came close!), but I know why you made that video and that it wasn’t you writing it! I look forward to 2025 with continued news coverage, hopefully with some more N gauge sneaking in there if possible and look forward to your first proper N gauge diesel review (which I know you said is coming). Very best to you and Chloe, Happy New Year 🎉

[@patricksmodels]

Happy New Year Sam and thanks for all your videos.

[@pauls-train-asylum-581]

Thanks for another year of great content Sam. Been watching the channel for several years now and am always impressed by your presentation style and consistently high production values. As for the train reviews, always fun but perhaps more importantly always useful in terms of helping us determine which products are right for us. Keep it up. And Happy New Year from the west coast of Canada!

[@paulrb894]

Good videos , can we have a new series of salvage or scrap And can you review the Bachmann class 411. Cheers

[@garywest9819]

Love your channel and reviews and find them entertaining and informative. Being an N scale modeller I really apricated you starting to do some more reviews in this scale. Would love to see you do more of these for 2025. Have a great new year.

[@1471SirFrederickBanbury]

happy new year Sam!

[@WilliamDillon-b1g]

Bill from Virginia, USA. Really enjoy the channel. Keep it up, and thank you.

[@AlexHardtAnimation]

Happy New Years dude! Love the videos and can't wait to see what the following year brings with model railroading. I really enjoy when you get a chance to review some American locos. We have a good selection over here in the sates with some pretty good hobbyists. Will you ever come to the US and do a rail road tour? I would love to see more behind the scenes stuff of reviews!

[@Lamp_2155]

Just got to the point of the 0-4-0 battle mention, perhaps we could see similar for different wheel configurations or for similar locomotives from different manufacturers.

[@jeffreysmith156]

Well done for producing so much and taking so much trouble to be as methodical and scientific as you are.

[@davidhinks8384]

Hi Sam, been great following you in 2024. We've had a great year with loads of new models to enjoy. You bring a unique, fun (and sometimes disturbing) vibe which I enjoy. I'm sure Chloe is the unsung hero for the channel. I wonder, if you put all of your locos and rolling stock end to end, how long would the rake be - maybe something for 2025. Cheers keep up the good work and every blessing for 2025.

[@MrBnsftrain]

I do hope you take a look at more N gauge models next year. Especially Kato, Bachmann/Graham Farish, Revolution Trains, EFE Rail Austerity Tanks, and the Rapido Class 28 Co-Bo. I also recall you were given a Tomix Japanese N gauge set you haven't done a video on yet. Hattons closing down finally made me bite the bullet and order a bunch of used models from them to beef up my OO scale collection! I spent a little over $100 on used models and them trunk shipped to America. I hope I do find an online model shop that sells used models at a good price + International shipping

[@christopherclarke9316]

You and Chloe are nuts! Enjoying every moment of it. Regards.💥👍👏

[@SKY7AR]

Happy new year Sam! It's been a great year watching your channel once again and I can't wait to see what's to come in 2025! :D

[@michaelwhite8031]

Well, we made to the end of 2024. Let's hope 2025 won't have to many bad surprises. Thank you for a year of good, wholesome entertainment 😊

[@gordonmcillroy455]

Happy New Year Sam and Chloe.

[@MikeFisher-q1b]

Thanks Sam and Chloe. I hope you have a great new year..

[@joshmason6177]

Thanks for another year of great content Sam, glad to hear the stats and that the channel is going strong. You really are a KZbinr I feel I truly can get behind and support which is something that only happens once in a blue moon. Hope you have a happy new year and I look forward to all the content in 2025.

[@petrikokko1441]

Happy New Year, both of you🥳

[@MaxwellTheTrainFan]

Sam 7 years ago you reviewed your first ever bachmann Thomas and friends character of the bachmann HO scale emily . But now that you have began N scale back last year … I have came to inform you bachmann have made a little tiny N scale Emily in that rainge and she has released in the USA and you I recon can get her on totally Thomas or someplace else that gets her to the uk . And from the video you never got the bachmann Emily’s coaches in the OO/HO line you never got her composite or brake coaches Well in N scale bachmann have a emily and her two coaches to go with her . I’d recommend them all for a review . And since you did Thomas and James . It’s only fair emily gets a video eventually as a N scale model . Happy new year sam ! And bye !

[@reconphil]

I watch quite a few review videos. Some are good, some aren't. Yours are the most thorough, thoughtful & entertaining. I endeavour to watch every video you produce, though, I model US trains in the US. I look forward to your videos in 2025; Happy New Year.

[@jwd8964]

Thanks for your work this year Sam! I don't collect British OO stock however I've always enjoyed your content. Keep up the great work!

[@jetbee1106]

Thank you for all the time and effort you put into making your videos. Just a suggestion- I would like for you to do a comparison video, ie comparing an HO scale locomotive made by Hornby under one of their subsidiaries Rivarossi, or Jouef, to one of Hornby’s OO gauge locomotives, or even rolling stock. I think the outcome would be very interesting. With that, I would Just like to wish you continued success with your channel and all the best for you and yours in the coming new year. Happy New Year. Cheers!

[@HendrickFan5]

Those log book entries are like entries into NASCAR's Daytona 500. A lot of cars trying to make the field.

[@PatGilliland]

Scaletrix in 2025?

[@RonWheeler-no6bd]

Happy New Year Sam and Chloe 🎉 Hope 2025 is another awesome chuffing year of new releases

[@Nebarus]

Clicked at "published 7 seconds ago"! Happy new year to Sam, his family and all viewers ;)

[@MikeL0ck]

well done Sam and Chloe, always fun and informative watching your videos. Some locos I have bought from your reviews and others I have avoided so they do work. You must be a busy chap doing all this, so thanks again

[@jimbrown2769]

Please stand up the figures and fences. Keep doing good work. Happy New Year.

[@johnpalmer5873]

Thanks Sam for your videos. Thanks for your cheery greeting, your smile, your honesty, your humour, your presentation and your ability to say what you think. It's great to see a younger person presenting their model railway views and experiences in such a refreshingly unique way.

[@going2thedogs]

Happy New Year Sam. Keep the content coming…. Colin.

[@dliles773]

Thank you sam Have new year to you and your family.

[@andreworton2132]

Looking forward to all the reviewed in 25 , keep the channel format as it is Sam , because it simply works sam

[@karlyoung3275]

A very happy new year to you Sam thanks for entertaining me and little boy again for a whole year. He has a suggestion because time put into your videos means nothing he thinks your a train wizard and it just magically happens, he missed your story's alot this year it may be that he's just 7 and bits like that are purely amazing. At any rate your definitely his and my favourite KZbinr.

[@blob5880]

I would love to see more scrap or salvage. It’s really handy to follow along with. I’ve definitely used it a few times to help me repair my own engines

[@blob5880]

Have a happy new year Sam

[@kclassproductions]

It’s been another fantastic year Sam and I. And wait for more amazing content!

[@johnwinter6061]

Oh and seasons greetings to you, Chole and all viewers! May Sam keep going!

[@dretety1]

May you, Chloe and family enjoy a super new year.

[@WendyFunnell]

That's how I found Sam's videos existed.

[@stephendavies6949]

Nobody does reviews better than you, Sam. I very much like your forensic/scientific approach. Interesting to hear your comments on ranking & scoring. I'd not fully understood it, so from now on I will focus any (polite) differences of opinion on the scores, and not the overall grade. Thanks for another year packed full of top quality content. You have built - and continue to build - a strong brand. I wish you a Happy New Year, sir. PS: Your AI video was truly, well, remarkable!

[@DGHodgson-o8z]

Hi Sam, i always look forward to your video's, they help me get through the craziness we call life each week, I've been a subscriber for a few years now but this is the first year that I've been able to comment which i enjoy doing😁. Anyway, Happy New year 2025 and i look forward to next years video's and comedy sketches.👍

[@DavidSheriff-f7o]

Keep going Sam, same Chloe....do the right thing....I'm into 009 Battery trains now, no excessive spending 12.50 ! Happy & Healthy New Year to you both...

[@SamsTrains]

Thanks David that sounds fascinating - where do you get these??

[@DavidSheriff-f7o]

@@SamsTrains Sam, I left UK in 2008 and live in SE Brasil. Toy battery trains are available from China with many types. Ferrorama etc. We have Frateschi electric HO here which is dirt cheap compared to rip off in UK and elsewhere for a plastic moulding with the same motor. I have 4 trains complete and will develop into 2 layouts 009 style oval and Ho style two large circles. My buildings are I use photo paper to print off from website Kraft as it's free and then paste onto thicker carboard and I use straws and paper clips, barbecue skewers and ice lolly sticks etc for modelling. PS marry Chloe - you've a diamond of a lass there. regards David 78

[@modelrailfan37]

Thanks for a great year of content Sam! One question I have had for a while is wether you saved the file for the new motor mounts for your Hornby H Class. I just thought of this the other day as my motor finally arrived with me (same coreless one you used), and I thought I’d use your files I& they are accessible to public. I didn’t see them on Thingiverse which is why I am asking. Happy new year, and I hope you enjoy your break over the next few weeks!!

[@rubenmortimore5401]

Well done sam very proud for getting through another year! As an idea maybe you could do a test to see which of your models gets around your layout the fastest? Wish you the best :)

[@marshallthomas5691]

Sam, you’re a legend! Many thanks for what you do. Best Wishes to you and Chloe for ‘25❤

[@AQuietNight]

Have a good New Year Sam.

[@garyshearer25]

It's always a good day when a new Sam's Trains video drops, I find them a perfect antidote to the mad world we're currently living in! Have a great 2025.

[@Louie-WanKenobi-og4rk]

Hi Sam! I have been a subscriber for a few months, and I want to say that it is an absolute BLESSING that I have stumbled upon your channel. I consider you one of my favorite KZbinrs, and I absolutely enjoy watching your older reviews from way back. (I just watched your splendid Oxford Rail N7 review😄) So, Happy New Year, Sam, and God bless you in what you do! Cheers, Louie😁

[@tigerex5]

Happy New Year Sam.

[@ronnronn55]

I would love to see more excursions to RR sites with you and Chloe. Obviously this is more a summer activity than rainy/winter time. Thanks, Ronn

[@SprattyHeath]

All the best Sam, happy new year!

[@LincolnshireTrainSpotter225]

Something fun for a video to do may be the big 200 year anniversary of the railways, around August they are having a big collection event at Derby in the various depots such as the railway technical centre and other locations showing a mass variety of stock from steam, to diesel to electric and all sorts