The locomotives named explicitly to annoy people - GWR Earl "Dukedogs" 

Just about every railroad in the United States up till like the 50s (possibly longer given N&W’s decision to hold onto their steam locomotives

He can ring my bell-ell-ell. Ring my bell.

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do you see, that model is very similiar to molly's model

Watch that pride sir! It WILL come back to bite you.

Scotland's 123:

We can laugh now, but the fact that they lasted into the 60s says a lot about the design and shows this wasn't some random hack-job.

To be totally fair, an LNER director had his name put on a B1. And he was happy about it, being a fairly modest Scot.

Charles Collett be like: *we do a little trolling!*

@@robertwilloughby8050 Not just that, but NINE of the A4's were named after directors or senior officers of the LNER.

@@cr10001 I know. Sickening, isn't it? If they'd all been like Samuel Strang Steel, we wouldn't be quite so annoyed at them now......

Coincidence that those are the nations that are currently in the default three TS add ons?

They do a little trolling

Welsh Trolling; *tf do you pronounce this*

They commited a act of annoyance

@@davidantoniocamposbarros7528 An*

:D

ha the B1s "Bongos"

Hehehehe..."Galloping Sausage"...

Basically most of the Norfolk and Western’s steam fleet here in the US

@@aphotographerfromcaliforni2661 thats a really good way of putting it lmao. That can be said for the Wabash and NYC as well

@@thegamingrhino5864 and basically all of the L&N (Louisville and Nashville) Fleet excluding a few carriages (for example a Combine car and a few coaches at the Kentucky Railway Museum and like One pacific class engine (which isn’t that big

One still exists.

Nope

Nah

No, they don't look bad at all, but they do not look exactly modern after 1936 standard.

I like them too!

No

No, keep going

We think of this now, but at the time they were seen as obsolete. The modern version might be naming a fleet of rusty old SD40-2s after company directors, who would rather their names be put on flashy new ES44C4s or something. SD40-2s are still great locomotives after all these years, but don't have the prestige of modernness.

Bongo is the sixth locomotive of the LNER B1 'Antelope' class, 36 of which were named after 35 different species of antelope. Pretty Polly, a Gresley A1 of April 1925, carried the name of the winner of the 1904 St. Leger stakes at Doncaster, as part of the LNER tradition of naming top-link engines after classic race-winning horses. No fewer than eight Royal Navy warships have borne the name 'HMS Terrible', in the years between 1694-1947. The GWR 'Atbara' class locomotive of that name refers to the second of the two 'Powerful' class protected cruisers built in the 1890s. The first cruiser, 'Powerful', also gave its name to a locomotive of this class. I'm at quite a loss to see why any of these categories of locomotive names should be considered either quirky or insensitive.

‘Old rich guy’ actually being the character Prince George from the sitcom ‘Blackadder’, played by Hugh Laurie.

@@technoandrew Hugh Laurie is a great actor

@@technoandrew fixed :p

And also TF2 Engineer at the beginning lmao

@@manitoba-op4jx Yes

Bongos 2: Day of the Dukedogs

​@@alexomega0622yup

Correct

Yep. Last ran in 2011. There are plans to overhaul it though.

Edward was a Furness Railway K2.

It sure is

Look at 1:10 , left side

@@Bigbigpoopi bruh what the hell

It’s duck

Yep, will second that. But for comparisions sake he ought to do the L&Y Rebuilt Hughes Dreadnoughts after it (not the original Dreadnoughts, of course, for obivous reasons 😉).

Long live Edward!!

Ah yes, the "Frankly Crustys". Possibly one of the most hated engine sub-classes of all time.

@@robertwilloughby8050 hated? How come they're hated?

@@robertwilloughby8050 I wasn't aware that they were 'hated'. The poor forward vision was unpopular. ...And, of course, no matter how many times you say 'it isn't a feed-water heater... it isn't a feed-water heater', the Franco-Crosti boiler is STILL a feed-water heater.

@@tooleyheadbang4239 Oh, I (mostly) agree with you on that last point, but the water circulation in the boiler was appalling, so bad that the Franco-Crosti's had to be fire raised first on a morning, or else they wouldn't get to their jobs. Also that nasty chemical s - usually sulphur compounds - befouled the superheater elements due to the halting of the normal steam circuit, leading to superheater failure.

i think there already was a 'frankenstein' class of engine by this time

Well there is one such example of people naming wagons after some important figure out of spite. But it is from Czechoslovakia. In 80's ČSD had ordered carriages from Eastern Germany and they are so awful to board that they are nicknamed Honecker's Revenge, or simply Honeckers, after then chancellor of East Germany.

Axle loading I think is what he was talking about. Route availability is a combination of factors including loading gauge (will it fit?), axle loading (will it break the rails?), probably coal/water range (will it be able to run this route without running out of fuel/water between depots/water towers?) and others.

@@quillmaurer6563 Correct. But he definitely doesn't mean 'light loading gauge' at 0:17

Wait…What was up with the 56xx? From what I heard it was the most successful tank engine design ever created.

@@NMCAR2006 They were. Collett wanted a machine that would derail at every opportunity. The Welshmen called them "Pigs".

@@abloogywoogywoo ohhhhhhh. I gotcha.

Nice

No

@@sirwelcome yes

@@boonie9448 If it was, I wouldn’t have said no