I first saw this as a kid around 20 years ago. You have no idea how ecstatic that little boy would be to know that he'd be working at a giant construction company, working with these machines on a daily basis.
I find it neat that TM Books and Video managed to incorproate trains into their non-train programs. Especially EMD locomotives which Caterpillar acquired ten years after this video was released
JoePlanes7378 you aren’t kidding, I remember being 4-5 and my grandmas house and every time I’d go over there if watch this, now about 12-13 years later I finally found it again
FYI: The black-and-white footage at 20:02 was taken from a 1930s movie called "Earthworm Tractors." I believe it was in the public domain when this home video was produced. What TM Books & Video did here was priceless, and to this day, it still is!
Yeah, when I first saw those clips from that movie, I didn't know what its title was. Then one day, while I was a bit older, I was browsing through IMCDB (Internet Movie Cars Data Base), and while researching the Caterpillar Inc. models, and when I clicked on the Caterpillar RD-8, I remembered seeing that type of tractor, but when I saw the movie's title, I was astonished to find out what the movie clips featured on I Love CAT Machines are that I've been dying to find out for a long time. Now I wish that movie was released to the public's eye on either VHS and/or DVD.
@@KeeferJ My parents and I never knew its name at first either. Somehow, I discovered it on the web back in 2015, and watching its footage there brought back memories! It has an interesting plot. There are actually VHS and DVD releases of "Earthworm Tractors," and they are available on Amazon and eBay. In fact, I have always been intending to purchase the DVD release, but I haven't done so yet. Hopefully I will one day.
@@KeeferJ Thanks! The DVD version isn't even rare as you can find a lot of copies of it for decent prices. It will be great for me and my dad to watch the whole movie together since he and I are interested in heavy equipment.
Me too. My grandpa owned a construction company with all Cat machines, so this is a great way to bring Cat to life for me. Especially while I'm at college and away from my family's farm. It was also a good way for my grandpa to see Cats even after he sold a majority of his machinery. We still do have a D7 dozer, as well as two D8s kicking around the farm.
I've been searching for this video for so long, the model train segment is so viscerally nostalgic. I thought I was experiencing the Mandela effect when I couldn't find any trace of it.
Cat was also king in the on highway truck engine market for years with the legendary 3406 series, the C7, C10, C11, C12, C13, and the crown jewel the C15 with its offspring monster the C16 and the V8, the 3408 back in the 70s throughout the 80s. However, due to the EPA setting tougher emission standards, they quit making the engines. It really sucks cause especially the C15 was such an iconic and well respected motor.
with Cat being such a big company, their Highway engines only made up about 10% of their company. their issue with the EPA regs was that they didn't have the time to make a reliable engine with those emissions requirements. now they can and they have begun to make new castings of older blocks so they can continue selling high quality remans (a Cat reman is just as good as a new engine but you can only reman a block so many times)
This is one of my favorite home videos about heavy equipment! But I actually uploaded this home video as separate parts on my Dailymotion back in 2015 (the quality looks exactly the same), so please give credit to me as CEO100able/ChristianGuy1 whenever you use my stuff. Thanks!
There was an audio cassette tape that contains all songs from Parts 1 and 2 of this home video series, but was released exclusively with the Ultimate I Love Cat Machines set, which also included the I Love Cat Machines VHS tapes or DVDs, a t-shirt and a cap, and it's unfortunately extremely rare. It really should've been released separately and re-released on CD. I sadly never had it. Does anyone have it at all?
I know your comment is approaching a year old, but do you know if said cassette had any of the instrumental tracks on it? Some of them in my opinion are REALLY awesome, such as the factory scene song. (also heard in I Love Big Machines Part 1)
@@TheCarson116 No problem! I don't think the cassette release I mentioned has any instrumental music on it at all. But I agree that the instrumental music tracks in this home video, I Love Cat Machines Part 2 and I Love Big Machines Part 1 are amazing! By the way, sorry for the late reply, but oddly, I wasn't notified about your response.
@@CEO100able I emailed Tom McComas the producer of the series some months back, and he told me that Phil Ambrose, the fellow who composed the "sung" music (the songs with spoken lyrics) for the first two "I Love CAT Machines" videos passed away about 10 years ago. He also had no idea where the instrumentals came from either.
@@TheCarson116 Whoa! I never knew that happened. Phil Ambrose was a good singer/songwriter, alongside James Coffey. Speaking of which, my mom sadly passed away from leukemia in early March of this year. She and my dad always enjoyed purchasing lots of VHS tapes and DVDs for me and our family when my mom was alive. I will always continue to enjoy the things they bought for me particularly over the years. It's odd that Tom McComas doesn't remember the source(s) of the instrumental music tracks since usually, producers always remember the products they used stock audio from. However, below the description, the music that plays during Earthworm Tractor's footage in this home video is called "Silent Movie Dixie," which is from a production music library named Slapstick Salad. Very interesting.
@@CEO100able Yeah, I still listen to the songs he made for those videos. So sorry to hear that. Well it HAS been over 20 years since they produced those first two episodes. Yeah, CZcams's music identification system failed me yet again, only identifying one song, one that I'm not even INTERESTED in finding. All the time that happens: I hear an awesome track in a video...and when I check the description there's no "Music in this video" section.
Question: anyone known anything about the background instrumentals? I know the actual sung songs were composed and sung by the late Phil Ambrose, who is listed in the credits, but just like Hard Hat Harry, Mighty Machines, and a select few episodes of Dave Hood's "Real Wheels/There Goes A" series, I don't have any info at all on the background instrumentals. If anyone has any info at all about this matter, please tell me. I know the track heard during the Caterpillar factory scene can also be heard in I Love Big Machines Part 1, but that's basically all I know.
@@itzradman5632 None of us has any idea so far, only thing I know at least is that it was also used in I Love Big Machines Part 1, during the concrete factory scene.
Presenting Circus World Flatcar #65's Reconstruction in 1994: its Newer Green Paint-job + its Newer W. H. Harris Nickel Plate Shows! 4 The Next Big Show, & Circus Parade 4 The 23rd Anniversary of The I Love Cat Machines VHS Series! in no Time!
@@KeeferJ Thomas Barnett says things that don't make sense. He basically tries to make a TM Crossover with MLP or some other crap I don’t care for, but it always fails since TM's content is reality and MLP is obviously a cartoon
I first saw this as a kid around 20 years ago. You have no idea how ecstatic that little boy would be to know that he'd be working at a giant construction company, working with these machines on a daily basis.
I find it neat that TM Books and Video managed to incorproate trains into their non-train programs. Especially EMD locomotives which Caterpillar acquired ten years after this video was released
Words can’t describe the feelings of nostalgia flowing through my body right now
"Never play around or try to climb up on any kind of big machine."
Too late... I have already broke that rule many times in my life.
Me too I have done so with a cat 657g scraper once 🚧🪝
The nostalgia!! I used to watch these when I was about four years old!
JoePlanes7378 Me too!
SAME
Oml the memories are so nostalgic. I watched this from like 4-8 years old
JoePlanes7378 you aren’t kidding, I remember being 4-5 and my grandmas house and every time I’d go over there if watch this, now about 12-13 years later I finally found it again
Same
God I loved this movie when I was a little kid. I havent heard that song if forever ago. I'm now 29 years old and probably watched this when I was 5
Fun fact: This alongside Toy Train Revue 12, was Joe Stachler’s first video assignment at TM, despite it being an uncredited voice role.
6:02 "I know! I know! Caterpillar doesn't make a roller coaster!" XD
FYI: The black-and-white footage at 20:02 was taken from a 1930s movie called "Earthworm Tractors." I believe it was in the public domain when this home video was produced. What TM Books & Video did here was priceless, and to this day, it still is!
Yeah, when I first saw those clips from that movie, I didn't know what its title was. Then one day, while I was a bit older, I was browsing through IMCDB (Internet Movie Cars Data Base), and while researching the Caterpillar Inc. models, and when I clicked on the Caterpillar RD-8, I remembered seeing that type of tractor, but when I saw the movie's title, I was astonished to find out what the movie clips featured on I Love CAT Machines are that I've been dying to find out for a long time. Now I wish that movie was released to the public's eye on either VHS and/or DVD.
@@KeeferJ My parents and I never knew its name at first either. Somehow, I discovered it on the web back in 2015, and watching its footage there brought back memories! It has an interesting plot. There are actually VHS and DVD releases of "Earthworm Tractors," and they are available on Amazon and eBay. In fact, I have always been intending to purchase the DVD release, but I haven't done so yet. Hopefully I will one day.
@@CEO100able Good luck buying that old movie, buddy!
@@KeeferJ Thanks! The DVD version isn't even rare as you can find a lot of copies of it for decent prices. It will be great for me and my dad to watch the whole movie together since he and I are interested in heavy equipment.
I Like That Movie.
I have all 4 dvds. I loved this as a kid and still do. I have a baby cousin who liked watching it.
I almost cried at the end because this was my childhood right here
Core memories here, I grew up and bought a few cat machines myself now.
Used to love this program in my childhood! Still watching at age 24!
Me too. My grandpa owned a construction company with all Cat machines, so this is a great way to bring Cat to life for me. Especially while I'm at college and away from my family's farm. It was also a good way for my grandpa to see Cats even after he sold a majority of his machinery. We still do have a D7 dozer, as well as two D8s kicking around the farm.
I Love Lionel Caterpillar Train Set too.
There used to be a video featuring the full I love cat machines 2, but I can’t find it anymore.
Joe Scruggs The New Voice of Clifford!
The Toy Train Museum in Des Moines, Iowa is Closed in 1997.
Shame. Would've been neat to visit.
The warning screen always scared me as a kid lol 😂
I've been searching for this video for so long, the model train segment is so viscerally nostalgic. I thought I was experiencing the Mandela effect when I couldn't find any trace of it.
Cat was also king in the on highway truck engine market for years with the legendary 3406 series, the C7, C10, C11, C12, C13, and the crown jewel the C15 with its offspring monster the C16 and the V8, the 3408 back in the 70s throughout the 80s. However, due to the EPA setting tougher emission standards, they quit making the engines. It really sucks cause especially the C15 was such an iconic and well respected motor.
with Cat being such a big company, their Highway engines only made up about 10% of their company. their issue with the EPA regs was that they didn't have the time to make a reliable engine with those emissions requirements. now they can and they have begun to make new castings of older blocks so they can continue selling high quality remans (a Cat reman is just as good as a new engine but you can only reman a block so many times)
This was my favorite tape as a kid. Now I'm an operator
This is one of my favorite home videos about heavy equipment! But I actually uploaded this home video as separate parts on my Dailymotion back in 2015 (the quality looks exactly the same), so please give credit to me as CEO100able/ChristianGuy1 whenever you use my stuff. Thanks!
I fucking loved this video!!
im tearing up rn, i watched this so much when i was little
I LIKE THE WAY THEY CREEP
And I don't like the circus either.
And I Love Big Machines, too!
Wow. Very similar to I Love Toy Trains.
Bro I watch this 47 times when I was 2-8 and I still love the old cat videos
Also I hate to be the guy in the bulldozer at 14:25
Lionel Caterpillar Heavy Iron Express and Toy Train Museum in Iowa was feature some clips for I Love Toy Trains 3.
In 1997 - Present.
Well The Remake that is! Hi I'm Susan! Today on The Alphabet Factory Along With my Friends Garth, & Newton!
There was an audio cassette tape that contains all songs from Parts 1 and 2 of this home video series, but was released exclusively with the Ultimate I Love Cat Machines set, which also included the I Love Cat Machines VHS tapes or DVDs, a t-shirt and a cap, and it's unfortunately extremely rare. It really should've been released separately and re-released on CD. I sadly never had it. Does anyone have it at all?
I know your comment is approaching a year old, but do you know if said cassette had any of the instrumental tracks on it? Some of them in my opinion are REALLY awesome, such as the factory scene song. (also heard in I Love Big Machines Part 1)
@@TheCarson116 No problem! I don't think the cassette release I mentioned has any instrumental music on it at all. But I agree that the instrumental music tracks in this home video, I Love Cat Machines Part 2 and I Love Big Machines Part 1 are amazing!
By the way, sorry for the late reply, but oddly, I wasn't notified about your response.
@@CEO100able I emailed Tom McComas the producer of the series some months back, and he told me that Phil Ambrose, the fellow who composed the "sung" music (the songs with spoken lyrics) for the first two "I Love CAT Machines" videos passed away about 10 years ago. He also had no idea where the instrumentals came from either.
@@TheCarson116 Whoa! I never knew that happened. Phil Ambrose was a good singer/songwriter, alongside James Coffey.
Speaking of which, my mom sadly passed away from leukemia in early March of this year. She and my dad always enjoyed purchasing lots of VHS tapes and DVDs for me and our family when my mom was alive. I will always continue to enjoy the things they bought for me particularly over the years.
It's odd that Tom McComas doesn't remember the source(s) of the instrumental music tracks since usually, producers always remember the products they used stock audio from. However, below the description, the music that plays during Earthworm Tractor's footage in this home video is called "Silent Movie Dixie," which is from a production music library named Slapstick Salad. Very interesting.
@@CEO100able Yeah, I still listen to the songs he made for those videos.
So sorry to hear that.
Well it HAS been over 20 years since they produced those first two episodes. Yeah, CZcams's music identification system failed me yet again, only identifying one song, one that I'm not even INTERESTED in finding. All the time that happens: I hear an awesome track in a video...and when I check the description there's no "Music in this video" section.
I used to watch this all the time
6:59, is that the spy vs spy theme from mad?
Now that you mention it, it DOES sound like the Spy VS Spy theme, though I'm sure it's not, it's just a coincidence that it sounds like it.
Do you happen to have part 2? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
CHILDHOOD. TAKE ME BACK.
Lionel Doug Dubay's Toy Train Museum.
I Love Lionel Heavy Iron Express.
Question: anyone known anything about the background instrumentals? I know the actual sung songs were composed and sung by the late Phil Ambrose, who is listed in the credits, but just like Hard Hat Harry, Mighty Machines, and a select few episodes of Dave Hood's "Real Wheels/There Goes A" series, I don't have any info at all on the background instrumentals. If anyone has any info at all about this matter, please tell me. I know the track heard during the Caterpillar factory scene can also be heard in I Love Big Machines Part 1, but that's basically all I know.
What’s the track for the Caterpillar Factory ?
@@itzradman5632 None of us has any idea so far, only thing I know at least is that it was also used in I Love Big Machines Part 1, during the concrete factory scene.
29:47 like if u saw Mickey Mouse on a white shirt
I Love Circus World in Baraboo, WI's Very Own Stars, & Stripes Forever!
this was the shit when i was young
Ha-cha!
I ❤️the cat 5230B
we own this show about long time ago
The hell I put my poor dad through.
Valley Junction Layout 1992.
Presenting Circus World Flatcar #65's Reconstruction in 1994: its Newer Green Paint-job + its Newer W. H. Harris Nickel Plate Shows! 4 The Next Big Show, & Circus Parade 4 The 23rd Anniversary of The I Love Cat Machines VHS Series! in no Time!
Tonka Trucks Is Made For Hasbro, That Is For Twilight Sparkle & Rarity!
What's that supposed to mean?
@@KeeferJ Thomas Barnett says things that don't make sense. He basically tries to make a TM Crossover with MLP or some other crap I don’t care for, but it always fails since TM's content is reality and MLP is obviously a cartoon
Awesome awesome
3:15, 30:07, 30:36, and 30:42 What kind of bulldozer is that?
I remember this tape
Cincinnati Holiday Junction From Cincinnati Ohio Valley Junction Layout.
NO WAY
Dancing
Dance
& Now You're a Grand ole Flag Playing at Baraboo's Big Show!
what music is used at 0:45?
I don’t know
Rohan
29:30
I don't like the roller coaster at all.