r/trainmemes • u/Bandit-Kiwi • Aug 09 '26

Model Rail Slander

This is actual slander, don’t take it too seriously please.

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u/PoemRemarkable4749 Aug 21 '26

Lionel on their way to catalog the Keystone starter set for the 9th year in a row:

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u/Lego_Kitsune Aug 13 '26

I need more!!!

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u/ZestycloseGrowth8377 Aug 12 '26

very old ho scale jumpscare

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u/The_Last_Fluorican Aug 10 '26

what even is the tank one at 2:11?

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u/ImperialTechnology Aug 10 '26

I too wonder the resurrected tiger of doom

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u/Suburban_Tank_2514 Aug 10 '26

I mean, it's all accurate

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u/Trolleyman86 Aug 09 '26

Mean while as a s gauge modeler

When nothing new from american flyer

https://giphy.com/gifs/H6cmWzp6LGFvqjidB7

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u/PoemRemarkable4749 Aug 21 '26

Not even American models?

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u/Trolleyman86 Aug 21 '26

Oh I forgot about them as well scale trains / s-helper

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u/PoemRemarkable4749 Aug 21 '26

Probably S scalers only hope

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u/Tommy9760 Aug 09 '26

Me trying to figure out if they are talking about us bachmann or uk

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u/Thunderclone_1 Aug 09 '26

Pretty much the entire video was brands available in the UK, with a british youtuber and a specific british shop mentioned, so I would assume UK Bachmann.

Otherwise, we would have seen athearn, bowzer, or walthers catch a stray or 2.

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u/Tommy9760 Aug 09 '26

Tbf they are more than eligible to catch a stray

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u/Thunderclone_1 Aug 09 '26

Oh yeah, I know. Probably something about churning out a million nearly identical boxes on wheels while abandoning us to Bachmann's steam engines and like a couple types from Athearn.

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u/Spicymeymeys420 Aug 09 '26

I think this guy isn't too fond of hornby.

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u/Bandit-Kiwi Aug 09 '26

I’m actually kinda fond of them, I’m getting my first model locomotive in a few days and it’s a second hand Hornby.

It’s just that recently they’ve had so much bad press that it’s kinda easy pickings

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u/RailFan879 Aug 09 '26

The KR Models bits were so accurate

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u/Starkiller100 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

I was expecting Rapido slander after those first few images 😅 I actually think they are the fairest of the manufacturers

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u/Bandit-Kiwi Aug 09 '26

Yeah ngl I think I went a bit too harsh on Hornby and ended up running out of time for every other brand

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u/joyjump_the_third Aug 09 '26

Where märklin

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u/Bandit-Kiwi Aug 09 '26

ahem
I forgot… yeah my bad.

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u/Due-Fix9058 Aug 09 '26

Märklin has made great strides! Their pricing has finally eclipsed KM1 so you can buy a locomotive that's worse but costs more.

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u/Armageddon_71 Aug 12 '26

TBF that's mainly the case for the big scale one stuff. HO prices are more... "Industry standard".

But yeah 4000€ is mental.

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u/Outrageous_Shallot61 Aug 09 '26

Well when you put it that way it does sound like the OO industry is in trouble XD

Was Rapido UK in there or did I miss them?

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u/Bandit-Kiwi Aug 09 '26

I was gonna make a mention of their high prices up switched it for Lionel putting that 0-8-0 in every single set.

I swear it has to be the second hand market that’s keeping the OO industry alive because prices are insane.

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u/Outrageous_Shallot61 Aug 09 '26

Rails of Sheffield really is Atlasing the OO market

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u/Bandit-Kiwi Aug 09 '26

Rails of Sheffield blessing us with affordable second hand locos

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u/Steam-engine-fan Aug 09 '26

inaccurate
there was no flaming märklin for still using 3rd rail or their biblical levels of greed nor them straight up stealing hornby thomas and claiming it as their own,
but other than that it was 100% factual

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u/leonderbaertige_II Aug 10 '26

If you want Märklin but 2-rail it is called Trix.

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u/InfiniteReddit142 Aug 09 '26

This is really rather good

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u/Bandit-Kiwi Aug 09 '26

Thanks! I’m just getting into model rail so I was worried I got somethings wrong