Sam's Model Trains Review may be old hat to some of you gentlemen, but for your American Cousin he is a new discovery. To be honest, Sam has his detractors, if only a few, and they are quite vocal. It is de rigueur of the hobby to have dissident voices, and if one doesn't then one does not matter. It may be surmised he has a positive impact on model rail. For those of you who don't know this guy, he has 100K subscribers and over 900 videos, all of which deal with model train review in HO, OO, and O scale. He does mostly British range, but also does quite a few important American range models, particularly Bachmann. He is independent, and his reviews are fastidious, and sometimes breathtakingly harsh when he gets a piece of junk. He pulls no punches. If a piece is particularly good, he is impartially positive about its merits. Having been burned quite a few times when buying overseas models of British OO, I now will not buy any product unless I see his review first. He has never steered me wrong. I don't just get everything that scores high, I go by the aspects most important to me, such as mechanical soundness and reliability. This video is a parody of a man whom I have come to respect and enjoy immensely. I hope you get a giggle, even if you don't follow Sam.
Thanks, but seriously, this guy has something useful to say. You might want to take a peek at his Youtube channel and do a search on a specific product if you are in the market, particularly if that market is by mail, as is much of my trade. He does do American stuff, too, just not as much. He has saved me a lot of headaches and general grief.
I watched the parody, and this character seems nothing like the "Sam's Trains" channel, but that's all I could locate in a search. Do you have a direct link to any of his material?
