South Africa's Diesel busting Steam Locomotive - SAR "Red Devil" 

"Nice reference, I also love star trek"

Heyyy shadow the hedgehog fandub reference 😂

Pole stream when?

@@tha_tram_man I was wondering the exact same thing

Insanely unexpected reference, and I am so very here for it

LONG LIVE THE BOER !!!! 🇿🇦

Same here

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Me neither

Same love 3450

It takes 8 hours to start up steam engine, it takes one turn of the key to start up a diesel. Maintaince and operation vise there was no competition, technology was doomed.

@@randomnickify I understand/know all that, but I always wondered about efficiency, and he seamed to make huge improvements by himself so I can only imagine if real money and minds were thrown at it how efficient steam could be.... I'm sure they know and have more effiicient engines that have never made news, and I know it still wouldn't be as efficient as other power sources, but this was a cool video.

@@randomnickify Much of the maintenance can be avoided. It was menial shit like sweeping tubes, cleaning fires, and lubrication. GPCS eliminated boiler wear, allowed the use of low quality coal (when implemented correctly as on the RFIRT 2-10-2's), and reduced particulate emissions. Roller bearings reduced lubrication needs, as did different valve gear mechanisms like poppet or rotary valves. Piston rings and gland seals could also be made to be entirely maintenance-free. Boiler water treatments and metal coatings greatly reduce the need for boiler washouts or even blowdowns. Self-cleaning smokeboxes and ashpans, mechanical stokers, and automatic fire and boiler controls could make steam locomotives one-mannable (so long as the cab is sensibly placed) Operationally, steam locomotives were kept hot. They didn't let them cool down unless they needed work. Otherwise a fire was to be kept in them at all times to keep the boilers hot, even if it wasn't hot enough to generate much (if any) steam. Then when they were needed for use a proper fire could be put in and you'd have steam within the hour. Operationally today this wouldn't be an issue, especially not with computer fire control that's already on some minimum-gauge locomotives. But even without it at my railway locomotives are usually ready for trains hours before the train is ready, so they sit (ideally) idling in the ready roads until we need them. Usually they get shut down because the railway's all about saving fuel to hell with the 50 year old prime movers in its locomotives.

It's kind of a bummer that building locomotives is not an artform or science experiment but something one has to do for commercial reasons, otherwise I agree that indeed so many more innovative designs would've been possible that could really push railroading technology to its limits... It'd never beat out diesel for operational cost effectiveness but it'd be the most fascinating engineering.

@@Julia_and_the_City other technoilogies could also be pearred with it. A ultra light steam engine with airpressure tanks powering all wheels (while the steam pressure rose) would help with powering steam engines and allowing them to be more efficient... I'm sure other technologies (some they had back in the day also (air pressure)) could make them better than they were.

Would love to see a video on tge 16e.

Going "like a Boeing" sadly doesn't sound like a compliment at this point... orz

@@WillowEpp bwahahaha! To be fare, the Class 25 Condensers sounded like Boeing or jet engines.

So the doors would fly off? LOL.

@@bryancosby2262 check all the pics - no doors 😜

Porta and Chapelon really don't get the credit they deserve among railfans

Holy shit hi dan

@@Joseph_InTheDark oh hey joe, that's a fun coincidence, how are you?

Agreed. Some of his designs were applied to many locomotives in South America, where he is still held in high regard. Steam traction from these countries in general is unfortunately not highlighted internationally. Hope this changes some day. Greetings from Argentina.

@@francora4763el es el que hizo la Argentina no? si no me equivoco, termino sus dias en los talleres ferroviarios de Tafi Viejo en Tucuman, y carneada como chatarra por la gente. Lo ultimo que vi que dejaron sin vender o poder robar fue la chimenea😢 saludos desde Tucuman

Broken couplers.

And still exist

Heschel built.

I'm sorry man, you guys did good (American here ) 😢🚂

Fortunately not all of them.. Quite a few still around in museums and a few still running around the country like Umgeni Steam Railway where I voulenteer at 🙂

@@BradvT13 fortunately indeed, you're doing good work man. Cherish them with all your heart just as we will cherish ours over here 🙂☺️🚂

​@@JAdg75oo00 I saw a video on an American locomotive that runs on the same gauge as ours but it is absolutely tiny! You could hardly sit in it. Is there any history of such a gauge being used commercially in America?

@@jaidenvandeventerSometiems amusement parks will have small 2ft or 3ft trains, but there are many narrow gage railroad in the U.S.. Such as the Durango and Silverton, once owned and operated by the Durango & Rio Grande railroad. They had a lot of narrow gage

Hi Michael, not under their ownership, they are working on being allowed to restore and run the loco but TFR has tons of bureaucracy to get past.

Running a diesel or electric train is also So much easier. You only need one person at the cab. It starts with one push on the button and it doesn’t spray everyone around in layers of sud. The steam locomotive was already out of date in the early 1900s when cities started to run the first electric metros

I second this opinion.

and I third this option ;) @@foxxojones4757

Fancy seeing you here 👍

@@forrestrobin2712 surprise surprise 😊

The obsession with primary airflow was a problem. You reached the state where 50% of the fuel fired was expelled through the chimney in unburnt form. You need to minimise the disturbance of the firebed and also make sure that all particles of fuel are consumed within the firebox hence the use and control of secondary air above the fire. You had to know how to use the stoker because the distribution needed to be even (a bit more development work needed here maybe) and the rocking grate system needed looking into.

Big Boy can out pull almost any Diesel loco given its 138,240 Lb tractive effort.

That would be cool, but is physically impossible as the red devil uses a different track gauge

@@fatpigeon008 It was a joke about the song "The Devil Went Down To Georgia".

Eh, a wood-gas powered external combustion engine might see some interest if it becomes absolutely necessary to wean US supply chains off of fossil fuel.

Wait until you learn about the Swiss Steam-Electrics 😀

We had the Kitson-stil diesel-Steam hybrid in the UK. The diesel was a direct drive to the wheels using the front 1/2 of the cylinders and the exhaust was used to make the steam. the Engine was started on steam and the diesel was started at around 20R.P.M.

@@railwayjade They should really be called "Electric-Steam" given there were some actual Coal fired "Steam-Electrics" made for the French railways.

@@railwayjadeI do know of their existence

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Maybe because original gasworks were relying on carbonization while this process seems rather like gasification which was later invention. on the other hand it seems bit strange that they did not try to use it earlier, given the fact that small scale coal gas generators for internal combustion engines were already made during late 19th century.