@@TheDavidlloydjones I don't see analogy. Steam locomotives constitute a certain stage in railway development. They will not be returning and I am not advocating their return. All I am taking about is the visual impression.
I love everything about the steam engines and they're pretty big. I've been to the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois, and there are steam locomotives there, and it's definitely worth the trip. We had a field trip when my son was in the Cub Scouts.
Let's not forget that the steam engine only ever became a success because of one Mr. Whitworth of gun manufacturing fame. He made honing possible for the barrels of his guns. This process of honing a perfect hole in metal made the steam engine really finally usable. Before all that, the loss of steam power was just too much. Once the cylinders were perfectly honed it really worked well.
Definitely an Australian documentary. While there are some of the longest train journeys in the world in Australia , the country sadly lacks a true high speed train system.
some might say that the V-line rail Network in Victoria is a high speed rail network because it can run at up to 160 kilometers per hour or 100 miles per hour
My Grandfather was Engineer on is a class "I-1a" 2-10-4 in Texas/Pacific I got to ride with him once, a memory I'll never forget, ir is now retired in Palistine TX hall of the Giants .
When I was 10 or 11yrs old, in the early 50's, there was a big steam engine train that came to our town to pick up wheat & corn, we'd lay by the tracks & put penny's on them & when the train passed over them they'd flattened out to 3 times there size, we'd talk to the Engineer asking him questions, one day I ask him how fast the train wld go, he told me it'd do about 125 miles per hour. WOW.!! that really impressed me, cuz 125 mph was really something fast for us.
I've seen films about the American RR and British rail systems, even a few about Australia, but I have never seen one that included the Canadian RR's. Those are some tall mountains. All in all, this was a very interesting and informative video, covering a full gambit of rail systems.
@43:15-Rack and pinion middle rail is closely similar to the cog railway. In America, there are two such cog systems. One is the Mt. Washington, NH railroad and the other is the Pikes Peake railroad in Colorado Springs, CO.
New Zealand Government Railways, started losing their steam locos in the 1960's - as a kid with mum, riding the South Island Daylight Limited, to catch another steam train from Christchurch to Lyttleton, for the over night boat, then in Wellington, over the road to the station, for the next leg, starting electric, & changing engines, to steam hauled, thru to Auckland. There's next to nothing of trains in New Zealand now, & those which are here, ain't cheap, & the cartridges are second hand, instead of made in NZ.
An an American, I really envy the rail system in the UK, Europe and Japan. Our passenger rail service over here is rickety AMTRAK. This is especially so west of the Mississippi. I love riding the train.
@@stoptheinsanity2806 Hmmm are you letting it play until the end after you skip close to the end and using the restart button on that shows up in the middle of the video? I am using the app on my phone and it always works. No exactly sure if a web browser works the same or not.
Geoff Moore thx for the note. I am watching on the RU-vid app on my iPad. I did exactly that sequence on this and other videos. It does not work. It might be the app version, or macOS version. I appreciate the information though. I feel the same way with multiple ads.
I have seen the Big Boy up close and personal, in a stop in Evanston, Wyoming. Massive. Monumental. No words can do it justice. Too bad the Age of Steam is gone forever. Progress. Bah.
22:30 ...trying to act like we didn't see you just sneak a dog wearing eyeglasses lookin both dapper and logical af into the documentary...we saw...and we appreciate it. Lol 😆
I most enjoyed how this was presented from an assui point of view.. well done.. the only omission is the absence of the more powerful but flexible east coast steam traction of the 1930's and 40's that ran the much steeper grades of the Appalachian mountains..
This is because all of the record breaking trains on on the English and American railroads. I mean, is there anything like the big boy anywhere in Europe?
@@Dev-g9z6z The quality of your English is comparable to the qulity of your statement. This "documentation" is biased, totally negletting the world. When it comes to freight trains, this is decent. For passenger trains, EU and Japan laugh about the US
@@gundamator4709 this is a fair statement. Freight trains are good in America. Passenger trains are a joke there. EU and Japan does way better in these terms
@@geisterfahreruberholer2171 I understand that passenger rail in the U.S. is a joke, im just pointing out the power of our locomotives. I also dont appreciate the fact that you insult my English while making your point.
The first steam locomotives did NOT depend on high pressure. Like the deep tin mine pumps that operated on vacuum to move the piston after the steam condensed. They did not have strong enough boilers until later.
None of these, such as those of Trevithick were ever practical locomotives. By the time of steam railways the James Watt principles had greatly increased the efficiency and Robert Stephenson's revolutionary use of the multi tube boiler ensured the required amount of steam. Boiler pressure steadily increased as steel became better understood.
Interesting about Canada: It was not possible for western exploration was not possible because of the Laurentian Shield until the railroad was built. Having ridden the "Canadian" from Vancouver to Montreal (That segment no longer runs) I enjoyed the ride immensely!
Can you do a video on "The Golden Age of Ballooning?" I'm so excited about that, I can hardly wash! Still, what is washing when you can learn about such a great scientific breakthrough?
29:45 if it is a cart made by Mitsubishi then it would be a Double Stacked Mitsubishi. If said cart was hauling chocolate chips that would be insane. It would be a chocolate chip double stacked Mitsubishi.
Not much of a risk. How many businesses and schools still have boilers heating the water to heat the building also? I own the fabulous book “TRAIN WRECKS ..For Fun and Profit” and it documents dozens of train wrecks and even when they held exhibition spectator events where they’d build a temporary track and then set 2 steam locomotives towards each other at full throttle. The engineer would jump off once he got the machine set to full throttle, and the crowd would watch the spectacular collision. Yet, to my surprise RARELY did the boilers ever explode. It can happen, when it does, the boiler looks like a spaghetti of small pipes (from inside). The infamous “Crash at Crush”, Texas was one that did explode catastrophically, injuring many and killing a few. There’s a few awesome photos of the moment of impact and then the moment of explosion perhaps 250ms later. Many RU-vid videos on the Crash at Crush.
Not necessarily. Fire tube boilers maybe (although the flash from water to steam is self-limiting usually) but water tube boilers can handle higher pressures with little or no problem.
No you people forgot. The old Black Diamond that used to run from Buffalo all the way to down in the Philadelphia that they would go a 110 miles an hour and that. Was a custom build you know passenger passenger train?
The Beyer-Garratt is a far better machine than a Mallet, proven by every country that ran them. They never got to be as big and that's the Big Boy's only claim to fame - its physical size. Had UP, C&O, N&W or similar made (or had made) a Garratt the size of a Big Boy or an A, it would've put those in the shade.
My father was railway engine driver Mr Mohan Moklur he started his service as a Fireman on steam engine he was metric pass from North court college Solapur he was a very good English talking man so he trained many people driving steam engines when I saw this video my heart filled with love abt my father I m proud of my father I salute him thrice ❤❤
At around 4:50 it shows electric light rail trains and says no longer powered by steam. I get the point but then it is a wrong point. Where does the electricity come from??
The Danish great belt link has now been beaten in length by the Russian road and rail bridge linking to crimea at 18 kilometeres. This was an outstanding feat achieved in only 4 years and it is now the longest in Europe.
Rio Tinto should have kept the Flying Scotsman’s sister the Pendant castle here in Australia I remember it going across the flats at the highway crossing near Karratha
No one maintains the museum now and it's gone to rack and ruin. Yes, it'd be great to still have it but I'd rather see it restored and running around the UK than rotting in the Pilbara. Also, Rio has no interest in doing anything but running income-producing ore trains and the Castle would take up space on the track and get in the way of said trains.
I watched this on Via Sat History,or National geographic channel as part of the series on several topics! I know the guest experts in history that one can see in various Viasat History series of documentaries. This topic in form of historical documentary needs way more explanation and dedicated series of videos, or very long one (2part of ~2hours long at least)!
Very professional and smooth presentation but I wouldn't expect anything less cos that sounds like Mike Goldman who's Australia's number one voice-over guy he made his break on Big Brother 2003 as the late night hosts he grasped the whole imagination of Australia cos he was able to talk about nothing very well and Big Brother's big fat juicy wallet competitions😂😁
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I think with todays composite materials would in fact make for a very good little plane. There have since its conception been very many products that fit the bill, for a start i have a cannoe that the two surfaces are joined together inside by fibres and are inflated to over fifteen P.S. I. .you can starnd on it its so strong. Also the material for covering it has changed, it would now be totally waterproof and exstremely strong, and with the adition of a small compressor and drop in pressure can be kept up, boy would i like to have a go at this,,its everyones dream even if restricted to say enought hight to miss things like power lines and the like that would be fine and a chute could be incorporated if any problem turned up, in the form of a airfoil wing type chute as these are steerable, enen a hard landing the shock would be absorbed by the plane itself as the plane would effectivly be like a crash airbag as in cars. Why has this been left, its got a whole lo t of promise with todays materials
The color editing and long useless transitions make this impossible to watch. I mean your talking about steam locomotives and have this modern looking device in the transition with battery symbols that just don't match. Trying way too hard to be edgy and I hate it.
