THE CLIMAX! We can take more LOADS uphill than ever before! 

Hyce: "I wasn't even going that fast!" Also Hyce: 100% Regulator on one of the fastest engines in the game

2:36 "it's not going fast that kills you, its suddenly becoming stationary" i love that you ised Jeremy's quote there

I love seeing the Climax’s piston rod screaming away in blur and the Glenbrook’s just behind putting along without a care

Hyce *definitely* knew what he was doing when he put “climax” and “loads” in the title.

Kan: * asks serious question * R.O.: here, have some doors and the front of the locomotive

Speaking of sand, one of my favorite railway preservation stories from Talyllyn Adventure is when they had to use beach sand. This was very early preservation, like the early 50s, and the railway was out of sand, so a bunch of dirty, sweaty, coal covered railway enthusiasts went down to the welsh tourist beach with buckets, shovels, and sivs, and were just digging up beach sand, which they then dried out and put in the engines.

I love how there are still floating train parts in the game. You think they would have fixed that already. Keep the good work boys love these videos.

Hyce:gets pulled over in steam engine Yardmaster: "Sir you realize how fast you were going?! Hyce: "I'm sorry officer, I couldn't have my hand on the break I was too busy playing freebird.

Thanks for the edit Mick. May ye remain spider-free

You guys should use the shay to push cars up the hump in ur yard it would work well for tractive effort and you won’t need to go to fast plus then there’s a reason to have one 12:06

I'm finally starting to pick up on the earlier bits of Smells Like Kenosha, the resulting anticipation of wondering what's gonna go wrong is hilarious. XD

I know y’all probably don’t care, but I’m about to go in for an interview at a railyard, super exited

Are we just going to ignore the doors and other various train bits just casually floating in the air at around 46:30? XD

For your next train technical video on trackage, while I have a question I think a lot of others would like some of your nice animations from Nick (I think it was?) showcasing why. The question is: "Why does narrow gauge allow for sharper curves compared to wider gauges?" I did try Googling it, and everybody were busy arguing that it was cheaper because it cut on BOM (Bill Of Materials) costs, but that can't be it, definitely a Hyce technical video.

The best use for the shay is as a switcher at the smelters to shove the heavy loads of rails and raw iron. Shays are good for slow speed switching, as they can control many cars without the need to jockey the throttle. Also, while slow, two can take up pusher duties and helper duties. Also, the shay isn't made for speed, but for torque, so she's able to pull the earth around the sun. That and her brakes are like titanium bricks, able to stop her and a train of loaded cars dead from 15 mph. As for all the geared locomotives, all three engines in game move at 15 mph, so they aren't made for the speed to do a Hyce and send it full reg. Even if you were to notch 8 a heisler with 39 cars, you could literally catch up to them. However, it is good to get the train moving as it kicks in slack from the back end of the train, near the caboose, allowing the point (head end) locomotive to pick the train up one slack car at a time, which will allow the train to speed up faster without trying to deadlift a train from stop. As for Geared engines in helper service, it is not only possible, but is often times more practical than a non geared loco, as the gearing allows the engines to put all their torque and power down to move the heavy loads up hills and act as a giant stopblock down the same hill if the load is heavy going down. As for speeding up, you need speed and open the throttle to 25% before having to jockey it around to get the engine to grip and haul. As for the sand, pop the sanders when you're at the base of the grade to ensure traction and grip.

Over an hour of cozy train goodness! This is the perfect start to my weekend.

Hyce missed the perfect oportunity to quote the amazing Patrick Star at 24:53 when kAN asked if they lived like 1901 at the R.M. by saying: Wait kAN, we're not caveman! We have technology! 🤣

The first practical steam engine is typically said to be the Newcomen Atmospheric Engine which was invented in 1712. As the name implies, it’s not actually the *steam* that’s doing the work. With metallurgy being what it was, these earliest boilers, pistons, and so on were, like, 5 psi or something else ridiculously low. Which was part of the reason they were also really large because more surface area=more force. Anyway, the steam pressure was enough to raise the piston, but the working stroke was the _downstroke_-IIRC they basically squirted water onto the piston to condense the steam, and the force of the atmosphere push down on the piston and made it move. There was a *_reason_* the earliest steam engines and locomotives were at _coal_ mines (namely that they were so ridiculously inefficient that only a coal mine who needed to pump water out and had a lot of coal on hand would find it cheaper to use a machine to do it instead of people or animals. It would be another 50 or 60 years before they improved enough to be used to power other machines, mainly textile stuff.)

I ran a Huber traction engine at Penngrove Power and Implement Museum. First wood fired steam equipment I ever fired. I'd add a photo, but can't seem to add it to comments. Fun video.

57:50 the B&O RR was the first commercial railroad in the US (chartered 1827), and built the first American steam locomotive (Tom Thumb) in 1829. As I understand it, previous railroads existed but they were horse-drawn. By 1831 the B&O had phased out horses entirely. If you're ever in Baltimore I highly suggest visiting the B&O Railroad Museum, we have a lot of really cool stuff! I'm a member and can get you in for free 😉

Oh, dude. Talking about wet sand and going up the grade with a steam engine brings me back to a trip to Silverton I made as a brakeman as we were battling the grade. It was the first train of the day towards the end of the season and the roundhouse decided to put in wet sand. There was a little dry sand in the bottom of the dome. But we used that up really quickly and I believe it was somewhere beyond tall timber but short of needleton that we were stalling out. The wet, leaf covered rails in the cold were not making it easy. I had to get off the train and I was able to locate some old telegraph wire that we used to help clear the sand tubes and thunder up the grade. Unfortunately we lost like 2 hours getting up the grade. 3.5 hours up took us 5.5 hours.

In England we had an engine which torn itself apart by slipping this engine was a Peppercorn A1 called blue Peter

If we want to get truly technical about it, the first steam engine was a spinning toy built in the 100s by Heron ofAlexandria called an Aeolipile, followed by a nifty sacrifice-powered automatic temple door. After that, there wasn't much, unless you count improvements to steam baths in ancient Rome, until the 17th century, when they figured out that steam as a working fluid could be used to do things, like coax water out of mines, power fountains, or make coffee. But the steam engine became a Thing in 1712 when Thomas Newcomen invented his mechanical steam-driven pumps that became pretty common in mines. James Watt is famous for basically improving the Newcomen engine and making it practical for other, non-pumping purposes. The first steam locomotive that we know for sure that ran on rails was Trevithick's Penydarren tramroad engine in 1804. He invented the term "locomotive" to mean any self-propelled steam-powered machine, so going by his definition, the first locomotive was probably Nicholas Cugnot's steam truck from 1769/1770. Trevithick built two road locomotives in 1801 (the Puffing Devil, basically a tractor) and 1802 (a road carriage, basically a bus) before moving to rails. All three of these road vehicles are known to have crashed, so the world's first car crash technically occurred in Paris in 1771 when Cugnot's machine knocked over a fence. I believe fences were involved in the 1802 carriage crash as well. Check out Anthony Dawson's channel for really good content on early steam/railway history. He focuses primarily on the north of England, but he goes far and wide. Fun fact about terminology: the word for locomotive was almost "Dilly," at least as far as the Wylam Colliery was concerned

Hearing Hyce talk about wheelslip just seems like magic to me. Like... I can understand the practical "okay, more load means less wheelslip, got it" but I can't wrap my head around how or why.

The UP around where I live go around with a helicopter and saw blade cutter attachment hanging from it to trim trees. We have a place next to the tracks with huge cottonwood trees that they cut.

Hey Hyce! Loving the RO videos and the history you go over during them. I'd love to hear about early steam engine cylinder lubrication systems sometime! You tend to explain things in a more comprehensible way as opposed to random internet sites haha!

I've recently started watching your older videos and catching the new ones, you must lead some kind of charmed life to live the best of both worlds, gaming and railroading! I'm sure people suggest train themed movies for you, so here's one you could possibly do a live review of: EMPEROR of the North, 1973, starring Lee Marvin as a famous Hobo, and Ernest Borgnine as the evil Conductor of a short freight line in 1933... Hope you enjoy!

Glad I came back and watched it from from Hyces perspective, I didn't realise how quick that was when I watched Kans video

I will come to Hyce' defense and say the cars DO explode. Yesterday I had set of stake flats with Betsy at the end dragged out onto the main and we were intending to kick Betsy without any fire in the firebox into the engine depot. As soon as the client (I was the host) got into Betsy's cockpit there was a massive explosion at the back of the train that launched Betsy and a couple of cars. And we were at a dead stop...

25:40 One organization, I don't remember which, used to use reenacted train robberies for fund raising. It sounded quite a bit more fun than a PBS pledge drive.

I'm loving this series it's relaxing, educational and absolutely bonkers

Shays actually run pretty smooth. So smooth, in fact, that you can put wide double flanged wheels on it and drive it on logs instead of rails.

i think you guys should bring the montezuma up the 10% so that it can be a sand supply for the climax, that or an engine thats usefull in the climb

Hi Hyce, Hi to Kan as well. I watch you guys' videos all the time. Was reading the Steam updates for Railroads Online and see we are getting coal burning.

The first railway locomotive would be Richard Trevithick's Coalbrookdale Locomotive built in 1802. Previously only steam wagons had been built: His Puffing Devil built in 1801 and Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's two fardier à vapeur built in 1769 and 1770.

You know something terrifically horrible is coming when you suddenly hear Kenosha in the background

Steam engines where invented in the early 1700’s as pumps for keeping water out of the mine shafts. The first steam railway locomotive was built around 1804 or 1805 in England.

Hey Hyce could you please send a link to the rock trains documentary ? Also it’s nice to learn your family founded the Marion steam shovel company

So fun fact we have one of the few running Climax's here in Australia down in Victoria. Planning on going down to see it some time this year.

I just learned of Fireless Locomotives... looked them up and I love them. they are adorable.

21:01 discussing having cars exploding, I was in playing with a second engineer and the train exploded twice. We had a loaded coal train, 20 cars, realistic, with two Class 70s running tender to tender on the head end. Coming down the lower valley line, the train split between cars 5 & 6, causing 7 more to crash off the line. A little further down the line, the second 70 and the other 5 hoppers all derailed on a bridge. Took the best part of 20 mins to find and rerail the train.

The Shay is perfect for delivering small loads of chord wood to firewood depots.

It’s been 15+ years since I lived in the town the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad was in and volunteered there, but I think they had converted all of their locos to oil burning. Their bridge was washed out by (I think) the Hanukkah Storm and it took Tacoma rail forever to fix it - they ran a lumber train to Morton because they were contractually obligated to but really didn’t want to. But the loss of the bridge made it much harder to attract tourists because they couldn’t get across the Nisqually River to the road everyone took to Mount Rainier (in Elbe). The bridge was eventually fixed, but I don’t think the MRSR ever really recovered. Oh, and if you’ve ever bought cedar from Home Depot, at least at some point it was milled at the Morton Tubafor mill. Dunno if it still is all done there, but driving into that town smelled SO GOOD when they were milling.

"Red 5 Standing By", I love it!!

Figuring out needed boiler capacity is pretty easy. You know the piston size and travel, which gives you the swept volume. That is the maximum amount of steam that the engine (minus appliances) can consume per revolution of the drivers. At a given design speed and bar setting and boiler pressure, that means you're going to ideally consume whatever swept volumes per second that is, and then you can figure how many pounds of steam per hour that is, add some overhead, and simply design your boiler to generate that many pounds per hour using standard boiler calcs. What gets tricky for particularly powerful locomotives is fitting all of that boiler into the loading gauge, which means longer and longer boilers, which is why you end up with stuff like the challenger and big boy. Gotta get those long boilers around corners somehow. How much water is in the boiler doesn't really make a difference provided you aren't filling the boiler so quickly that you're chilling it. That is why having more water in the boiler helps when working hard, since the cold injected water is proportionally less than the total amount of water in the boiler that is ready to flash to steam at any given time. That is why I never really bought the whole "less water = more steam" dogma that a lot of firemen seem to have lol

Nice Star Wars reference with the name... Lock S-Foils in attack position!

thank you for making me smile while watching this, hyce makes people happy

Ya railroads online lol. Instant Kenosha. Also at knots berry farm they had bandits that would board the train and some people thought they were real bandits and beat some of them up. So ya actors go to hospital and ya. I also remember the Turbo and being like no. It’s not a turbo! Now we joke about these things lol

\*Me hearing Hyce mention Marion, Oh\* I KNOW THAT PLACE! I'm actually from Johnstown, Oh; which wasn't exactly that far form there (been there a few times, didn't know about monument or anything though!) \*Insert Bender 'Neat' Meme\*

I tried asking ChatGPT about gear trains, this is what it came up with after i corrected it. =) The Climax steam engine was a geared steam locomotive that featured a unique gear shifting system which allowed the engineer to change the gear ratio while the engine was in motion. This allowed the engine to operate at a wider range of speeds and on steeper grades than traditional steam locomotives. The Climax gear system was invented by the Climax Manufacturing Company in Corry, Pennsylvania, and was used primarily in logging and mining operations. The engine was built between 1884-1928 and more than 400 units were produced.

52:14 *Smells like Kenosha creeps in* *Warlike flashbacks play to the sounds of a derailing train*

Marion? THE Marion? Holy christ that is AWESOME!

There is train robbery footage filmed at the CSRM with the #346 in "Ridin' the Rails: The Great American Train Story" with Johnny Cash. Some decent footage too.

Well at least you don't have to worry about client desync/ fart in real life at the museum or the tune of K E N O S H A playing there either

2 things 1. Welcome to the C.R.A.P. SB you seem more patient and sensable then your brother on Misty Island. 2. 39:16 I wonder if this Thomas reference will make it into kAN's video.

I somehow get nostalgia feelings with this music and I dont know why. Please never stop this series...

I remember being at Cass and hearing and seeing Shay #5 break loose and slip while going through the steep S curve. It was a wild experience.

It's actually fairly easy to slip the wheels with a geared engine, especially when starting a heavy load, but it's primarily because of the handling, pretty much like any other locomotive. On our Shay here in Jamestown, the throttle was very sensitive, so if you're starting up and take too much throttle, she would do a burn out. I think there's even a video of it on youtube somewhere. But yeah, even on a geared locomotive one should be careful with the throttle.

Hooray for content! also Carl didn't mess up, and cool intro!

First railway in Canada was the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad and it opened officially July 21 1836

Ok, the earliest actual steam-powered device goes all the way back to the classical era, around 20 BCE, with the Greek Aeolipile. However it had no practical use - it was a spinning ball on a post mount powered by what could best be described as a pair of steam rockets. The earliest practically used steam-powered device was a steam turbine used to spin a rotisserie spit, recorded in 1551 in Ottoman Egypt. Reciprocating steam power dates back to the late 1600s, with the first practical steam cylinder powered device being Newcomen's "Atmospheric Engine", which was used as part of a water pump.

10:28 I don't know if it's because C.S.R.S.P. no. 6 is bigger than every other 3 Truck Shay I've ever seen and/or the fact that it's a fully functional replica built in 1945, or if the ratios are such that it's not really any different, but it was supposedly going 15 mph.

A flatcar for rolling stock (with rails, kinda like MOW flatcars) could be neat, I imagine that’s a way the Climax would have been moved irl

First. All of them start with smells with kenosa

All guns can shoot blanks. All blanks are, are bullet casings full of gunpowder and crimped with wax to keep the powder in. But depending on what era reenactor we are depends on what we use. I'm a former pirate reenactor and we used real black powder rifles and pistols but only loaded with powder

2:35 love the Jeremy Clarkson moment

This is a Message to Hyce and Khan: Ya both soon need to invite more people into your game. Ya know, people who can help operate the other locomotives.

Runaway climax, crash at beginning of video, sounds like a good Hyce video

2:31 is that a jeremy clarkson quote I heard Another quote you might like hyce is "if your not scared your not going fast enough" ken block 1967-2023

I can't wait til we get the locomotives from the Colorado Railroad Museum in game, I dunno why but I absolutely adore RGS 20. Great video as always m8!

Earliest steam locomotive was 1804, but technically some stationary engines were used to operate coal mine cable cars

I havent even watched the full video but I have to say, excellent job on that opening sequence Mickley!

At 26:29 kAN mentions paint ball there is something called simuniton that is just pains ball rounds for modern firearms.

That was great Mark and Kan, congrats on getting the Climax (giggles). A fab choo choo for sure! As usual I learn so much from you Mark as you answer Kan’s great questions. I have a non choo choo question. What happened to the Huber mansion? Does it still stand or is it gone? Again, so many thanks Mark for sharing your expert knowledge. These episodes make my day.

The equipment list for the CR&P grows ever more! Excited to see what comes next!

Davenport geared engines were '2 speed' like the Climax Class A, but much more conventional in appearance.

Can confirm the use of locomotives for tree trimming. I've moved one of our switchers around and stood on the walkway and trimmed what I needed to before. Actually have a couple of spots where I need to do that again now....

Hyce Unless you use sand the best you can run the Climax at is 100% reverser and 93% reg, or vise versa

I've learned that standard and narrow gauge geared engines are often COMPLETELY different animals. Like you talk about how bad shays are, but standard gauge shays/Willamette I've been on have always ridden like Cadillacs. I'm starting to realize just how much geared engines were a standard gauge design that were probably just cobbled together for narrow gauge customers.

The climax hyce is referencing is the Hillcrest lumber company #10

Memes and piss-cups aside, Smells Like Kenosha is such a good song

one of my favorite sayings is "the best maintenance is differed maintenance"

24:35 now I want a caboose with buzz saws attached on one end

We need a class C Willamette/West coast shay with the improvements. Something in the 30,000 lbf tractive effort range, for those small jobs...

i bought a Shay long ago, it lives on top of Depot on 2 bumpers as a decorative piece i used it for a load just once - now its only used as a MoW platform when i want to cut trees

Now I really want a climax in my game, that thing pulls so much stuff! Also you should have named yours with a pun or a reference to the fact they shake so bad, missed opertunity right There.

Railroader with a drinking problem ✋️😒 Drinker with a railroading problem 👍😉

Seeing as the shay is so slow could be a track team train and just leave it run down the track as you're cutting trees and then wait for it to catch up to you 🤣

a typical session for Hyce = crash the train, then crash the Game! take the porter and a flatcar and go clean up the right of way to improve visibility and prevent weird derailments

Mickely, your editing skills are great!!! Keep up the good work!

They announced Coal burning Trains i think its nice to have both

Kan, I also had the spider thing. Cost me 120 USD for a qtip swab of my injector. $1 for the swab, $119 to know where the spider was at. Lol

11:40 best quote by Kan ever.

I love this series!!

There should be a day-night cycle. It would be horrible, but it's kind of weird that it always looks like early morning or late afternoon.

The climax was mimicking peaches, and went for a ride on its own.

paintball and as you shoot at each other you will paint the train. It's genius(ish).

You can TAKE MORE LOADS with that CLIMAX

I’ve got dibs on “Cow Obliterator” as a band name

i think you guys should rope in Dapper and Kosmo to run the last 2 engines and show them the insanity of this map.