Engine Disasters During Steam Train Race | Railroad Australia 

The manufacted crisis on these shows does get over the top.

Match2100 why?

@@dejulesb7063 Because they're treating their engines like crap. Improper maintenance, and over stoking. It would be like you never changing the oil in you car, and driving everywhere with the accelerator mashed to the floor.

@@dejulesb7063 And also because they're treating the audience like they have no fucking clue what they're watching, while that maybe the case, just say "The Boiler Will Explode because they overstoked" instead of the retardedly vague "Losing the race will be the least of their problems!" Didn't know that BBC's treatment of Railways was the same in Australia.

@Martin Turner that's good, it would break my heart to see a loco suffer in agony.

Its awful isn't it.

really? i was scared anything happen :/

I’m sure you can hear the driver say “mines not picking up either”

I doubt they would slow down/speed on purpose. It does happen on these races: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5TPdhWTlFlU.html Still, some of it seems too dramatic.

It was all dramatised, I was working the train that day

Aidyn R761 Thank you for clarifying. I was just curious what was going on.

He did at one point in 1988

-"Look out f*cktards!" Flying Scotsman,1988.

It did in 1989 : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8PP01Ci2E5Y.html And also : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7naevtuP2Og.html Lots more of Flying Scotsman in Australia on RU-vid.

can't flying Scotsman is on a different track gauge so it will derail if it tried, the track next too them shown in some scenes is the SG track which is the same track gauge as Scotsman

This is in NSW, which also runs standard gauge.

That would have been amazing!

Hmmmm Imagine that but with a literally supercharged firebox

they did tho

I've always wanted to see someone restore the biggest steamers of each country and basically having an olympics for them: Fastest acceleration, fastest top speed, heaviest hauling capacity, etc. Lots of people think that some of the larger/faster steamers of other countries could have beaten the Mallard had the companies cared more about setting records.

@@TheDemocrab well the biggest we have here down under is VR H220 "heavy harry" thugh our most famous is NSWGR 3801

Yeah I agree, they also say in the clip that if they don't get the injector from being un-jammed that the boiler would explode, which is fucking stupid since there's 2 injectors on basically all locomotives.

Yep....basic tool of Victorian Railway enginemen. Hammer, big shifting spanner and cold chisel.

Ssshhh! Don't say that too loudly! You'll scare away the idiots!

They do but both weren't working!

Almost every steam locomotive has a fireman and engineers injector

@@Dat-Mudkip It's most likely all for added drama, there is after all a "camera crew" on board too, and in any case as it's in NSW can't have a ex Victorian Railways Hudson beating a local engine on their own line.

Yeah, but the drivers ones don't often get used and can be pretty unreliable as a result. I dare say this was pretty well all staged garbage anyway, probably all that needed to be done was poor some cold water on the fireman's side one to get it to work, always one of the first things to do when they start to play up. Yes i have even operated that particular injector on that particular loco, all be it many years ago. Shes a lovely old girl and can really get up and go!

You would want to use anything you can get your hands on, an overheated engine can explode dramatically.

Dude most of the smaller problems on a steam engine can be solved by a hammer

Over here, in Pommie-land we often used to refer to the said hammer as a 'Brummagem screwdriver'. As in 'If 'er wae 'ave it the fust toim, yose a bigger 'ommer'. (If 'she' - the precision made item under repair will not accept the replacement part, use a heavier hammer.....)

More like lets see who can burst a safety valve.

Some engines were fitted with mechanical stokers, which would move the bulk of the coal required by the fire and were much easier on the fireman's back as it was only necessary to manually fire the corners and fill in any holes. It was common practice to fit them after the 1920s when the screw feed and steam jet table system was perfected. And every boiler larger than a tabletop model should have at least 2 methods of adding water, sometimes 3 or more.

it still has manual shoving

VR short bell 5 chime

Specificly victorians, these are victorian trains in victoria

R761 Hudson built by North British, product of U.K

If they can get permission from track control. we had to shut down all Up direction trains for this race

Why do you think they were quick on fixing it?

I think the D³ did win due the R class slowing down for the approach into Geelong

This is from 'Railroad Australia' currently being shown on 7plus I think

@@garyb7075 do you know what episode? i couldnt find the reace on it? but thank you!

@VR Sofa sorry no I don't

We have the A4 Mallard !

@@theflyingscotsman9902 I know that

@@theflyingscotsman9902 The Fastest Steam loco in the world THATS NOT EVEN OPERATIONAL AT THE NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM

@@theflyingscotsman9902 if you didn't know the R class is from the UK (Glasgow, Scotland) R704 was put on static in Glasgow, but the Rs never run services in England because they were built only for Australia

Hi, The hats shown are mostly versions of the standard Victorian Railways drivers cap from the steam days. Finding them can be a bit difficult. Occasionally they appear on ebay, or you could try contacting Steamrail who are the preservation group for a lot of the mainline steam locos in Victoria. They have a drivers cap listed on their souvenirs page but I dont know exactly what that one looks like. Go to steamrail.com.au and they should be able to assist a bit more.

We have them made by the wife of a driver here, I don't know of anywhere to buy them. They are simply called an engineman's cap.

Thank you very much for your help. Look at the page provided by you. Thank you!

Every one wants to see the Broadway limited with A K4 and the 20th century limited with a J3A race into Chicago one more time.

Yep...the fitters where never out of a job when they returned to the depot.

Don't know

Railroad Australia

they said it wasn't working

Buzzy Gaming as someone who works on steam locos, this wasn’t faked, you can have runs where nothing goes wrong but your far more likely to have a run like this where you have a lot of small problems which is what these are, these issues were probably in a time space of about 3 hours, but for dramatisation they would have removed the time where nothing exciting went on

Maybe it's like how you drive in the other lane in Britain.

On the GWR in Britain the driver goes on the right, as he should so you can keep an eye on both tracks.

You need to realise that there are other countries in the world besides the USA.

@@smedleyfarnsworth263 oh ya cause you guys are upside down

Australian rail track remains in the ownership of the people (State Governments). Public rail transport is State Government owned but some freight trains are private companies. All signal control is also government owned and operated.

to make it look like it's really how drivers worked on steam locomotives

Kisha De D

I love that manga/game.

Is this true?

Probably not

@@Combes_ yeah lol

Same bro no way

Yo head built like clickbait

yeah how can you driving a fake steam locomotive?

Did It Really?In What Episode?

t16205 you do realised that it was a joke