Molli-Bahn: The Steam Train That Thinks It's A Pedestrian 

Oh thank you for mentioning it. I was about to comment it myself

You can tell if you look at details like the lamps etc

Ob die Lok auch die Euro 6 erfüllt? Nicht das die Lok von VW gebaut wurde und bei Feinstaubalarm nicht mehr in die Innenstadt fahren darf...

@@sylviarohge4204 Die Euro-Norm gilt nur für Kraftfahrzeuge. Ein Kraftfahrzeug ist ein "durch einen Motor angetriebenes, nicht an Schienen gebundenes Fahrzeug" (Zitat Duden). Somit hat sich die Frage erledigt. ;) Aber Spaßeshalber: Die Euro 6 würde selbst dann nicht zutreffen wenn der Zug ein Auto wäre. Die Euro-Norm legt nur Grenzwerte für benzin- und dieselbetriebene Fahrzeuge fest, nicht jedoch für Kohle, Erdgas, Flüssiggas, etc... Gebaut wurde die Lok übrigens im Dampflokwerk Meiningen, das zur DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung GmbH gehört. :)

@@NightlinerSGS Der Text war nicht ernst gemeint O_o.

Hallooo Greuningen! Groetjes, uit Utreg!

Germany has a knack of introducing orange drinks to the world, don’t they?

@@TotoDG Meanwhile in France; Orangina much? ^^

Das Getränk ist scheiße

@@mbxoc954 I'd equate it more to piss. Go see a doctor if that's what shit looks like to you.

hw is in antiquated when it was built in 2008/2009?

@@mypdf Um, according to the video the steam engines have been running since 1932. Where did you get 2008/2009?

@@the_kraken6549 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molli_railway?wprov=sfti1

@@the_kraken6549 research

In 2008, they built up a brand new steam locomotive, which is, if iam not missing something, germanys most modern steam locomotive. The older ones struggled with the work, so decidet to built a new one.

as a german I lol'd :D

I LOL'd too!

But absolutly fact.

I recall a QI fact (so not too accurate maybe), while the Germans are number 1 in putting down their towels to claim seats, guess who's number 2? The English ;)

You always should know where your towel is (Douglas Adams).

Could be a long time ago

Lucky

I lived there only one year but obviously i knew immediately but for the sake of the comment i wrote it that way @BarfyMan362

I worked in the Goethestraße for some months and I heard that train in front of our building every day every 30 minutes

@@RU-vidKautz Welche schule?

Hanoi isn't it?

@@kiereluurs1243 Hanoi is still on the list, so I couldn't say. I was refering to Bangkok where they have a whole market on the train tracks where everyone has to move their stuff and get out the way everytime a train passes. And also San Jose in Costa Rica where they planed to set up a whole train system, but never continued past the city limits. Now a giant diesel engine pulls a short passenger train on tracks running right on the city streets like a tram. Whenever it aproaches an intersection it blows its whistle and the cars will stop to let it pass...

Yeah I caught that :)

This has now become the most-liked comment on this video; how?!

Yes, you would.

@@TotoDG Because nobody likes George W. Bush. Or any American politician, for that matter, but especially the Republican ones.

@@stormlemmington8436 The channel host is British, and street running sounds like it IS incredibly rare in Europe. Street running locations in the US don't tend to be popular tourist destinations, so only railfans and locals will know about them.

Ah thanks for the extra info Holger! I'm sure the German nation will be relieved to hear that no rules are infringed :)

@@TheTimTraveller in Germany we learn all those things in Drivers Ed. So everyone technically should know 😂

Agreed 🤣

Agree 100%!!

*than

RU-vid algorithm "hold ma beer mate"

New viewer here. Don't worry, it seems the YT algorithm is pumping it lately!

And youtube couldn't agree less

Take some gum with you

The wheels are gurning very fast

Ecstasy

There's so much more possible in Mecklenburg West Pomerania than most of us might expect - I live like an hour away of it and don't knew about this special facts.

There's one in Weymouth, Dorset, UK - though it rarely runs these days.

ja mal urlaub nahe rostock machen, is echt schön dort :D

We have a bunch of trains that go through the middle of our roads in the US. But they are mainly commercial trains :(

Sicher aus dem Westen... :D

Yep, the German steam locomotives can do a lot. They have already done extraordinary things such as Passenger transport (sometimes only in one direction ...).

@@sylviarohge4204 🤦‍♂️ Always this topic.

@@Der_Fuchs_ Es gibt halt dinge die wir besonders gut können XD.

@@sylviarohge4204 Ach. Du bist deutsch. Ich finde das nicht lustig weil das ne andere Zeit war und somit jeder normal denkende deutsche nicht dafür ist. Man braucht sich meiner Meinung nach dafür auch nicht mehr entschuldigen weil das Vergangenheit ist. Werden den USA Oft Kriege angekreidet?

According to the top comment, this is a *new* German steam locomotive.

Have they reinstated the train right to the passenger terminal then?! I hope so : )

See also the Chur-Arosa Line in Switzerland, where street running is a daily occurrence for the RhaetischeBahn!

Sadly non of it is a daily steam train.

well mist towns especialy the touristic ones have People that clean the CIty . Its actually a job you can have. and in generell we dont throw our trasch around who would like to walk through trash litered streats?......right no one

@@YukiTheOkami most of East Germany is clean

@Hallison Michel I live there how you can imagine. And it is dirty in bigger cities, especially the western german ones. Multicultural and dirty. I have not been in the exact city in the video yet but I can tell you that most smaller cities are clean.

@@ragnarostbrok1254 Where I live in the state of Rhineland Palatinate (west), there is very few litter. Probably that's also because we don't have those automatic trash trucks that spill garbage everywhere when lifting up a trash can. Our county also hosts an event every now and so often where the community is invited to pick up trash to make their cities a nicer place. Lots of people participate, which is nice to see. However, just about 50 kilometres away, in Frankfurt, HE, the state of some streets is appalling. Cardboard and old TVs stinking of piss are sitting on the side of the street and overflowing dumpsters and trash cans even in 'touristy' parts. I actually was able to see mice living in a McDonald's plant pot next to where you eat. Disgusting! Frankfurt might be the dirtiest city I know of, but given how many people visit it each and every day, I guess it's not possible to keep it spotless. Cologne, NW (about 200 kilometres north of Mainz, RP (where I basically live) is way cleaner tho.

@@Trizo yes, Frankfurt is a shithole.

Yes, but the Rhätische Bahn trains are not pulled by steam engines, and the streets that the trains run along are wider than the ones in Bad Doberan. (I've travelled on both and I prefer the Molli).

Also HSB runs in the street to leave Wernigrode, the RHB runs in the street (and stops at two bus stops en route) leaving Chur, Switzerland.....

Ah thanks Abhishek!

All of them? How long did that tak

@@ilovenoodles7483 umm roughly around 2 to 2:30 hours

I was wondering if those meant the same thing in Europe as they do in N/A.

The train may be slow but getting your wheel stuck in a rail is never fun. (There's a purple 'white bike' at 4:49 so hopefully more decoration than commemoration)

No its only for decoration there. These bikes are everywhere in bad doberan

@@DanielBrotherston Usually they do, at least in Germany. Which is why I'm wondering why anyone would install one as decoration. Pink bikes, okay. But the white ones seem a little macabre.

@@ninetales4220 the first white bike also has a bunch of floweres behind it under the tree, that looks like a memorial, though I have never seen a white bike memorial (in the Netherlands)

Ah cheers Thane!

Blaring their horns at 2 am, because the town was too poor to have crossing arms. -freight hopper memories.

Sounds dangerous. I suppose the EU likes its health and safety.

But it’s special when it has steam engines on it.

@Jonathan Williams Throw the phrase "street running train" into a RU-vid search and you'll find quite a lot, mostly American.

And here's a brief bit of street running in Ireland: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cQko5prGu5A.html.

All German narrow-gauge locomotives are called BR 99.

The BR 99 on the HSB are not the same as the Molli's locos. For one thing the Molli is a 900mm gauge line, and the Harz network is metre gauge :) All is revealed here de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baureihe_99 (you might need Google translate).

@Steroumel The narrow gauge locomotives were of a large number of different types, and, there were only a few of each type built for each of the smallish narrow gauge railways. When the German Reichsbahn introduced a common numbering scheme, they sorted these odd types into the "99" class. You can basically read the 99 in the number as "misc., narrow gauge".

@@roderickjoyce6716 Building the same Locomotive with two Gauges different by just 100 mm wouldn't be a big Deal, although they would definitely be classed different because Germany. But the Harzbahn Locomotives have to climb steep Slopes, while the Molli-Bahn is completely flat. And that's a huge Difference in building any Locomotive, especially notoriously weak Steam Locomotives. Sorry to say that, but they are wimpy compared to Diesels and especially Electrics.

And the Molli is a lot cheaper! It cost me 53 euros to travel from Wernigerode to the Brocken this June. Is someone making exorbitant profits or is somebody heavily subsidised? The West Somerset Railway is the longest steam railway in the UK. (22 miles). An adult return fare costs £30 (about 35 euros). I'd like to know how the HSB justifies 53 euros.

They're not usually called railroads here in my experience, but Trolley lines.

in Germany these are in fact very rare; Trams are common, in one city they also have a freight tram, but road running railroads are super rare

@@DFX2KX No, I mean railroads. We have trolleys too, but we also have plenty of double-stacked container freight trains with diesel (or, rarely, steam) that street run through towns. Trolleys are very different, and we only have them in a few cities - Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, San Diego, Minneapolis, Charlotte, Tacoma, Tuscon, Cincinnati, Memphis, El Paso, Atlanta, Norfolk, Washington, Camden, Trenton, Newark, Philadelphia (major network of proper trolleys), Boston (major network of proper trolleys), Buffalo, & Sacramento. Basically everywhere else where we talk about street running we mean this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8tQy49yJyvc.html

That was a good one^^

Oh you so funny sir.....not

Rudi #23 Rudi? Rudi aus Buddeln?

*uses spray bottle*

the historic steam locomotive still runs though the center of Frankfurt, you can find videos of that on youtube

The Trafford Park railway there are a few youtube videos on it.

Yeah when I was researching this video I found exactly that - this kind of thing is way more common in the US. In Europe it's become extremely rare to see full size trains going down a street.

@@TheTimTraveller I wonder how much of that has to do with most of Europe getting the chance to rebuild from scratch about 70 years ago, and plan things out.

@@c182SkylaneRG more like EU rules putting their boot up our asses and saying no!

Yeah, theres a cargo train that runs through downtown Tampa, FL as few times a day too,

Inception - quite a lot of it filmed at Cardington Hangars.

I've seen video of something like that in India: the awnings nearly touch each other from either side, completely covering the street, and as the train approaches, the shop owners have to clear their merchandise off the tracks and pull their awnings back to make room.

@@c182SkylaneRG By chance a story about Hanoi has appeared in this morning's paper. Here's a link: www.traveller.com.au/train-street-hanoi-cafes-closes-as-selfieseeking-tourists-cause-safety-problems-h1iqus

I can confirm it

Yes! I remember seeing it when I was tiny. I think there are still a couple of places in the UK - one near Preston and another in north Wales - where a heritage line goes along a road for a short stretch

it was a great tourist attraction. I remember all the troops on those trains, getting off with all their kit etc.

@@TheTimTraveller The one near Preston it's because it has to cross the shared swing bridge, it's also the UKs only Level Crossing - Swinging Bridge combination.

I have fond memories of it on on the way to and back from a family holiday in Guernsey around '66. At the time we had no idea the train did this to get to the ferry terminal.

@@TheTimTraveller There's always the Porthmadog one on the Welsh Highland Railway. It only travels on the street for about 100m or so but the cross town link does actually run on the road.

Yes, because it was named after a (male) dog.

es gibt noch den rasenden Roland

It’s cool train

We did try it - sadly, on the day, it was not running as there was an Ironman triathlon going on, and the dreaded words "Replacement bus service" were on the noticeboard. Very disappointing, as we were only there that one day.

@@AnnabelSmyth :( Very unlucky

@@AnnabelSmyth i'm sorry for you. Hope you get another chance one time

No - I'd love to! I did a tiny bit of the Glacier Express when I was a teenager, but that's it. I may be visiting Switzerland next spring, so I'll see if I can fit it in...

@@TheTimTraveller it is fun but don't do it in October which we did as the fog descended and in the alpine views we saw nothing LOL

The short street running bit is in Tirano itself. Also well worth it is to get off at Alp Grum station, wander around for an hour or so and see some incredible scenic views looking back down into the valley, and then catch the next train. Possibly the most spectacularly located railway station in the world, even allowing for the station-inside-the-mountain at Jungfraujoch.

But that's another thing. We have loads of tram lines in germany (or maybe in europe in general) but this is not a tram but a regional train which connects cities or rather villages

@@antonb9459 yes the main difference between a tram and a train is that the driver is lower down and has no blind spots in front of the vehicle. I think in Amsterdam there were numerous collisions and possibly even deaths. So they had to change it.

Trams are just domesticated trains, right?

@@b4n4n46 I had a look online and I think it's right that trams have only ever been horse driven or electric. There's never been a steam tram. This one is close.

It's basically just half coke, half fanta, so you can make it yourself!

@@Lolwutfordawin I'm aware, but I wish we just got bottles of Mezzo Mix here. There's something great about it coming in a bottle itself, perfectly mixed.

​@@Thoomas2001 idk why but mezzo mix tastest pretty different than mixing it yourself.

@@btox571 I feel the exact same, and it's better!

Yes The Chocolate Train among others, does it Emerald Zebra.

@@MrHeesbeen Not familiar with that one, but the RHB network has a few points with long street sections / long level crossings.

Standard gauge steam engines run rights through Germany’s 5th largest town.

r.i.p. alte eisenbahnbrücke 😔✌️

@@airenyah7243 Yeah, I also loved that bridge

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By law it is a tram.

@@srenba_1 More of a train.

@@srenba_1 actually no. To be a tram it have to have under roaling protection. If it dont have, the speed is limited to walking speed (at least in most of europe... Might be exception. Road side trains is really not that uncommon. Where i grew up in helsingborg they use to have a south and a north harbour station. The only way for trains to go between was via the road. In norrköping where i studed they also have a track over a bridge sharing space with a normal road. Just 100 meter or so... Its still in use.

@@matsv201 the Route 51 metro line in Amsterdam (that I mention elsewhere) was definitely a train and not limited to walking speed.

​@@hairyairey A train can be a tram. It can be both. To be a tram is about underroaling protection. TEN-T regulation regulate non Tram trains to run with spotters at low speed. Local exceptions is possible, Trains in regular service often get that. Freight train don´t. Freight train running in streets is actually fairly common. Nowdays they often have the spotter running the train via remote control.

Virginia Lover Productions to be fair trams do exist worldwide. Particularly in Europe. Only street running normal trains are uncommon.

@@ala0284 I was talking about normal street running trains.

@@virginialoverproductions in Germany this is a super rare thing to see; I know another city where a steam train pulls passenger cars through the city streets but only due to special events, and in another place you might see plain normal trains going down the street, but that's the track to some kind of service facility, so you see all kinds of trains but none of them running on a line there

@@EnjoyFirefighting that's cool

@@virginialoverproductions I found the videos, the one service track is from a Bombardier production or maintenance facility: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NUsUwi5d-QQ.html and the other one is the steam train in Frankfurt: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gi52Zk_OAjs.html

No idea how that happened 😇

Darauf jetzt erstmal einen Sangria ausm Eimer mit Strohhalm!

The poo is out. I repead: the poo is out. This was a tough one.

Russ Crawford we have a rail line going through an intersection on the busiest east west street in my city

@@spikethompson2000 The smelll was victorious.

@@spikethompson2000 Interesting, but before WW II we had way more railways in our cities too, like Leipzig.

The tracks run down the street and Augusta Georgia and I think in Sandersville or Tennille Georgia I could be wrong

That’s more the thing in the Frankfurt am Main, Germany’s 5th largest city. Standard gauge steam engines run through the town there.

Where?

@@Flooriij Pengok, Yogyakarta, near Lempuyangan Station

@@Flooriij in Solo, Slamet Riyadi Street

@@Flooriij pengok yogkarta too

@@baguskusumaloka thank you! I was in Jogja in march, but I didn't see it. I will have a look when im back :)

Glory to the pointless people mover! Our beautiful molli