My Fantastic New Train - Mehano TGV Train Set Unboxing

For years Mehano sold ho scale train sets under the presidents choice name for every Christmas. Despite being entry level train sets they earned them selves a reputation for being very good quality for the price. Unfortunately Mehano filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and as far as I had known went out of business. This was my impression until fellow Youtuber: Sams Trains made a video where he unboxed one of their sets and shared that they were in fact still around. I thought it would be interesting to order one of their modern sets up and have a look my self. This set is by no means a "rivet counter" but for a budget set, I'm so far pretty impressed.

[davidztog]

There it is, Harrison, coincidence. Deja vu? You could not have planned it any better. Very nice set. You have your TGV, your Swedish locomotive from the Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield Steam Train Ride, the BNSF Dash 9, what more could you ask for? Seriously, what? 10K is quickly approaching.
Thanks for sharing. 👍 👍 👍

[SouthTexasGaming]

You always feel welcome with this channel, unlike other channels where they just dive into the video he always welcomes Every viewer with "well folks" always welcomed

[randallellison]

Wow, I was not expecting that! That's one of the coolest train sets I've seen in a while, certainly since I saw the press release of Kato's N scale Evangelion set in an issue of Model Railroad News a couple of years back! Mehano needs to seriously think about selling these in the US market! Oddly enough, I was at one of the local hobby shops in my area and saw a Bachmann N scale TGV set in a small cardboard box in the back! Also glad you showed how to assemble the track it's easy to miss the rail joiners and getting the track out of line although track setups like Bachmann EZ track, Atlas True Track, etc have greatly reduced that issue it can still happen! Stay well and keep running those awesome trains!

[frankishknight]

I am honored that you have a French TGV Duplex ! Congratulations ! I'll be riding it from Paris to Bordeaux this Summer If the pandemic gets under control. It looks like the Québec flag! 😄

[RockyRailroadProductions_BSS]

Mehano coming back is such a wonderful opportunity, I love their more practical, yet still quite detailed stuff, and this unit really looks the business. Cool that you rode the real deal, and that timing couldn't have been better!

[ArcadiaJunctionHobbies]

Mehano has always made good, reliable trains. Still do and good value. Too much snobbery and rivet counting in the hobby driving prospective modellers away these days.

[sfm_ferguson]

Honestly, visually satisfying to see that train going around ur layout, the blue and white streak going along is nice. And I’m glad u decided to get it

[OttawaModelRailFan]

Great Video! That looks really good for a starter set. Its good to see that Mehano is still out there making good train sets

[oldschool]

First, Nice one SMT! The first bullet train I experienced way back 1998 from Tokyo to Nagaoka at 275kph.

[Ronnymikkonen]

It was fun! I bought Märklin 39014 yesterday. I love Drg stuff. Weimar republic locos and wagons. And also Länderbahn stuff. So I have the period of between 1915- 1935 German trains on my railway. I bought every thing used from Tradera. SE. I live in Sveden and am from Finland. Many people here in sveden, they just want Swedish trains. Greetings from Sweden. Regina.

[rrrailservicehoscalemodelr]

That is really slick!
It looks great coming through the steel girder bridge. I would have liked to see how the articulated passenger cars connected.
Thanks for sharing. I would love to have one of these.

[crsrdash-b]

I think your Amtrak, Daylight, and Go trains are going to be extremely jealous! Now I want one!

[normanrowe]

Nice. I too, thought Mehano was gone. It’s a one way train. See ya.

[LordBorok]

This video sparked my old train nerd in motion again.

[jacojasso]

Interesting you got a tgv train set. I never expected you to get it but good thing you did because it looks fantastic

[LukeLovesTrains-Mr.RailYard]

That was pretty cool that you saw that high-speed train in France

[LaZeRJET]

Very nice video I love the TGV keep up the good work

[justinbuilt]

My parents recently purchased me a Hornby Train set from Amazon, except there was no Amazon box, just the Hornby box. What's even sadder is that they just stick my address label on the back of the box. It was supposed to be a Birthday gift I wasn't supposed to see, but o well. 😂 At least you got a box.

[MMRails]

Beauty! Next video: folks, I bought an adapter plug...

[Cyklozmrd]

To understand the situation, I'm from Czech Republic. I've seen this on internet, the price was 20k CZK, that's about 850 dollars.