The US president has a bulletproof railcar

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US Car Number 1, the Ferdinand Magellan, sits in the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami. It's 120 tonnes of bulletproof, armoured railcar: a train carriage designed to move the President of the United States around the country in safety and style. At least, it was, until other transport came along to do a better job.
Thanks to all the team at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum: they're at www.gcrm.org/, or on Facebook at / goldcoastrailroad ! [looks like their main site's down at the moment!]
Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin)
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@TomScottGo 6 лет назад

I realise I said "railway" instead of "railroad" at the end. Apparently I haven't picked up too many American dialect words yet...!

@OneiroHare 6 лет назад

Tom Scott hey tom

@nowionlywantatriumph 6 лет назад

IMO, that’s probably for the best. There’s something innately off to my ear about hearing people with British accents use Americanisms and vice versa.

@EvanRoden 6 лет назад

Realize* 😂

@JoshDoesTravel 6 лет назад

Some places do call themselves “railway” museums, but usually it’s “railroad” museum (for example, the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore)

@Zestyclose-Big3127 6 лет назад

The description still says railway (intentionally or otherwise)

@jonas1015119 6 лет назад

that guy looks exactly like what I would imagine someone working in a train museum would look like

@prototype23ify 6 лет назад

he's so american too. I don't even mean that as an insult, but you look at him and you feel "yep he's from the us"

@0Genus0 6 лет назад

jonas1015119 Hahaha, I had this exact same thought. He's like fig.1.1 beside the dictionary entry for "train enthusiast".

@juststeve5542 6 лет назад

It's the hat that does it. Apart from that he looks way too small to be an American!

@passthebutterrobot2600 6 лет назад

I imagine they took one look at him in the job interview and said "Yep, you've got the job"

@freeman9586 6 лет назад

Unhealthy Life Decisions I assume he means width/big, not tall.

@thestudentofficial5483 6 лет назад

"still wont give up my phone" i love that guy. american museum guides are hilarious

@Alex632 6 лет назад

No, he was hilarious. There was no need to generalize smh

@jack-er5bz 5 лет назад

yo Alex Typical person to take offense at someones opinion

@flatbastard9645 4 года назад

@@Alex632 Did you just get offended by a compliment

@Brandon-sr3uk 4 года назад

MR ANONYMOUS ok make me laugh

@justanextraaccount2465 4 года назад

That guy is an anti-Ok boomer

@catfish552 6 лет назад

Not only is Mr Waggoner a great guide and presenter, he has the perfect name for working in a railway museum.

@RickrollFoot Год назад

4 years

@Liwet. Год назад

@@RickrollFoot I too had this video recommended to me recently.

@itsmie523 Год назад

@@Liwet. indeed🤝

@RickrollFoot Год назад

@@itsmie523 indeed

@FriedHam Год назад

@@RickrollFoot indeed

@jonathanbrandt8044 2 года назад

Sorry if this has been mentioned before: According to Margaret Truman, the President requested that the train slow down to 80 MPH; it was running about 100MPH at the time (there is a speedometer in the car), and Harry was afraid the super-heavy railcar would cause catastrophic damage if it were to derail at that high a speed.

@s6th795 6 лет назад

I prefer the green honestly. I think a train car in red white and blue would be gauche. That glass is impressive!

@Cythil 6 лет назад

Yeah. It looks nice in green

@snaaail 6 лет назад

Marine One is still green, at least we have that

@davidlazarus67 6 лет назад

The whole car is impressive. Considering that this is around 80 years old and still looks good even if dated by the furnishings.

@hedgehog3180 6 лет назад

Green is by far the best railway colour. The Flying Scotsman is also green and it looks grest.

@JMKnoetze 6 лет назад

British Racing Green FTW!!!

@icecreamgecko 6 лет назад

This was great and the gentleman presenting was very pleasant to listen to. Just the right amount of humour mixed into the presenting talk.

@pseudogenesis 5 лет назад

I audibly laughed at the cellphone joke at the end

@punnequraq 2 года назад

His voice is also strangely calming

@DannySullivanMusic 2 года назад

indeed. totally right

@stequis Год назад

also, made me want to listen to some Allman Brothers Band..

@VideoSage 5 лет назад

Oh, no special thanks for Cully Waggoner at the end. The guy did a good job showing you, & us, around the train.

@mrsprucenoose3181 3 года назад

Never expected to see you here Sage.

@user-xf6ox6zx4w 3 года назад

@TheInfiniteFish 3 года назад

In crediting, special thanks is often for people who aren't explicitly mentioned onscreen - people or organisations you might not otherwise know were involved

@claws811 3 года назад

shut up

@DanS044 2 года назад

@@claws811 balls

@torvasdh 4 года назад

That tour guide is really cool. Explained everything clearly and loved the joke at the end haha

@edgedg 3 года назад

Casually gave a tour to as many people as in 10 years of normal tours.

@bengrace8808 6 лет назад

"Bulletproof Railcar" sounds like a great band name.

@sohamsengupta6470 4 года назад

Sounds kinda hardcore punk-y to me

@user-uo2wn8zx5b 3 года назад

Dildo Baggins no.

@jacobwingers5206 3 года назад

Dildo Baggins just shush

@enmiyuu 3 года назад

@Dildo Baggins username checks out

@Satikal 3 года назад

Damn now I wanna know what dildo Baggins said

@CokaKoala 6 лет назад

This museum is awesome but sadly it shares the same entrance as the Zoo and gets less recognition nowadays.

@jackkraken3888 6 лет назад

Show everyone this video and that may change!

@speedybill47 6 лет назад

I Love both places. Miami is a golden egg in a relatively bland batch that is Florida cities (Though we have some the best non western national and state parks too)

@christopherstarnes9933 6 лет назад

Yeah it is really nice, and sucks that the zoo is there now. But now there’s a military museum opening up there too.

@kyotra 6 лет назад

Miami is definitely more interesting than most of Florida combined, but I could never stomach how the glamour and money could sit so close to all the poverty and yet people would act like the poor didn't exist. You could drive two blocks and go straight from Lambos to homeless people sleeping under trees. Too often the place felt like a shallow party town.

@officialunicorn4516 6 лет назад

I’ve been going to this museum and the zoo since I was a year old and I can say that the museum is way better than the zoo.

@ishashka 4 года назад

I'm dying at the idea of an American president smoking in the toilet like a high schooler trying to hide it from the teachers.

@ThePizzaGoblin 2 года назад

I agree with this guy, the US needs more rail infrastructure

@WaffleCake Год назад

I agree. In reality though it's kind of a non-issue. Our streets are just the easiest and fastest way to transport goods, and Trucks/Cars are already very efficient in the grand scheme of total carbon emissions.

@XantheFIN Год назад

I would want go just sit in train to travel if they go i would want to go and work!

@thepokemondusknoir Год назад

@@WaffleCake You know trains are the main way to transport goods right?

@WaffleCake Год назад

@@thepokemondusknoir In what way and according to who? Seems to me like Semi-Trucks do 90% of it. I've literally only seen a handful of railroads in my entire life.

@DerpyPossum Год назад

With all due respect, you might wanna get out more ;) @@WaffleCake

@gaafts 6 лет назад

Damnit Scott, This is the third time time you've been in a place just a month after I was there. That's just infuriating.

@ryanjcole 6 лет назад

Come to the Minnesota State Fair. I've tried to convince him to come on his own :)

@jumbo6498 6 лет назад

Look on your calendar and figure out where you will be in a month. Now skip the wait and travel there today. You will see him, it's a fool proof plan

@Ludwig1625 6 лет назад

Ham III Wouldn't he have to wait 2 months since he was a month before?

@jumbo6498 6 лет назад

Shhh...

@anarchyantz1564 6 лет назад

Gaafts - You need to work harder at your Tom Scott stalking! :)

@StaticImage 6 лет назад

Such a refreshingly light topic video. Nothing too serious, but still seriously interesting. Thanks, Tom!

@whiteknightcat 6 лет назад

"The railcar is the heaviest US railcar ever built." Correction: At 285,000 pounds, the presidential modifications made it the heaviest PASSENGER railcar ever used in the US.

@old_bayrailfan5312 2 года назад

Laughs in Schnabel

@phantomaviator1318 2 года назад

whats the heaviest

@old_bayrailfan5312 2 года назад

@@phantomaviator1318 Schnabel

@2Cerealbox 6 лет назад

Was there ever a horseforce one?

@Tevildo 6 лет назад

Ryan - According to Wikipedia, Studebaker built carriages specifically for Grant, Harrison, Lincoln, and McKinley. I don't know if they were reinforced in any way.

@phillipparkinson-shanley2031 6 лет назад

More to the point could they get a bulletproof unicorn so the presidents can have an airhorse one?

@carolynmmitchell2240 6 лет назад

Phillip Parkinson-shanley that would be a Pegasus, unicorns don't fly.

@carolynmmitchell2240 6 лет назад

Phillip Parkinson-shanley unicorns have just a single horn and no wings, Pegasus had wings but no horn. I personally would rather be fly then horny.

@carolynmmitchell2240 6 лет назад

Phillip Parkinson-shanley I wonder if it would be possible to get a Pegasus and a unicorn to breed.. then you would have a flying horny horse.

@docsigma 6 лет назад

Totally misread the title as "The US President's Bulletproof Racecar" when this popped into my email. I must admit though, the reality is even more interesting!

@JohnDoe-ys1vb 6 лет назад

Is it though?

@sydssolanumsamsys 2 года назад

it took me 3 tries to figure out you didn't just type the video title

@yeahBradley 2 года назад

This tour guide steals the show. He's amazing.

@nervun8097 2 года назад

4:42 this dude just spoke plain facts

@Gladysthehomunculus 6 лет назад

Bulletproof railcar sounds rad.

@AceSkates 6 лет назад

Glady sounds like the name of a metal band

@carolynmmitchell2240 6 лет назад

Ariff Ishak normally it's bullet proof up to a certain caliber.

@oskarobertson5513 6 лет назад

carolyn mmitchell and what caliber is that? An artillery shell?

@StringerNews1 6 лет назад

Considering that no Axis artillery units made it into the US during WWII, the level of protection need only be against an infantry rifle at most. Back then, .30 caliber was the norm.

@javierpowell4705 6 лет назад

Bullets would be a waste of metal as well as the artillery shell, explosives would be a LOT easier to take down the car afterall, Trains cant run without rails or wheels

@parthpujari9471 6 лет назад

The guy explaining is really chill I like it haha

@yetanother9127 Год назад

Fun fact: a similar type of laminated bulletproof glass was used to protect the pilots of WWII fighter planes from the front. If you've ever wondered why, say, a Spitfire has that small window in the very front of the cockpit that seems to have a blueish tint, that's the bulletproof glass. That, plus a steel plate in the pilot's seat back and a thin firewall behind the engine, would often be the only actual armor found on a fighter plane.

@GadgetAddict 2 года назад

I like how the camera zooms out as you walk towards the lens. It's so smooth that you probably wouldn't notice it until you wonder why your body isn't getting much bigger after getting closer and closer to the camera.

@iyatemu 6 лет назад

I live about 20 miles from the museum, and it’s one of my favorite places to go! Sadly, it doesn’t seem like public interest is high enough to keep it going, but it’s never had any signs of closing for as long as I’ve been alive.

@cpufreak101 6 лет назад

ImATrackMan wonder if it's publically funded due to the artifacts it holds?

@jesusgonzalez6715 6 лет назад

You can get a surprising amount of mileage out of volunteer work and simply owning the ground you operate on rather than renting. And don't underestimate the number of railfans in the U.S.

@dwellspompano 6 лет назад

ImATrackMan before it ( the museum) was in its current location... It was in Ft Lauderdale near the airport. When I-595 was constructed they had to move to their current location.

@joehackney1376 4 года назад

During the week days, several school field trips are run through the museum.

@Tom5TomEntertainment 6 лет назад

Was it resistant to banana peels on the rails too?

@jesusgonzalez6715 6 лет назад

Contrary to popular belief, banana peels are not magical slippery things... It'd just squash them like nobody's business.

@itaybron 6 лет назад

Yes but what about coins on the track?

@jesusgonzalez6715 6 лет назад

They get flattened. I actually once tried that with a cent coin on a streetcar track...

@carolynmmitchell2240 6 лет назад

Jesus Gonzalez yeah I tried it when i was a kid with real railroads, the trains are meant to be able to handle way more then a coin on the track.

@zarsasilver 6 лет назад

Jesus Gonzalez Alright, Mr. Literal we get it..

@manolocampos6884 3 года назад

I find it funny that Tom wears a hoodie in a Miami Florida spring where the temperature rarely gets below 85 F

@pattygq 2 года назад

4:30 I totally agree with this guy

@rendivious 6 лет назад

That's so fascinating. I never thought about the previous transportation methods that presidents of the past may have used. Thanks for this video Tom! I'm going to make sure I go see this train in person some day.

@jesusgonzalez6715 6 лет назад

Abraham Lincoln "sneaked into" DC for his inauguration as there was an alleged plot by people in Baltimore to kill him (Maryland was a slave-holding state back then). It's a fascinating story how they did some switcheroo and announced him being on a different train than he actually was to keep Lincoln save.

@holden5478 3 года назад

I'd like to see the boats.

@kempshott 6 лет назад

"Air Force One" featured in this week's "West Wing Weekly" podcast. It's actually a call-sign allocated to any USAF plane the president happens to be in; not (necessarily) *that* 747.

@cpufreak101 6 лет назад

And if I remember right, there is a special callsign designated to any civilian aircraft the president flies on, but it was never really used (I think only in one situation it was used, but I don't remember specifics)

@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis 6 лет назад

Justin Noker Edit: It’s Executive One.

@cpufreak101 6 лет назад

John George Bauer-Buis ah thanks for that EDIT: also looked into the history, it was only used during Nixon's presidency when he was setting an example to the world to conserve energy during the energy crisis by flying on a Delta DC-10. And Executive two (the callsign for vice president aboard) was used in the 70's for vice president Rockefeller who owned his own private plane that he preferred to take, and it was almost used in 2000 when Al Gore almost had to fly in to cast a tiebreaking vote, as a U.S. Airways shuttle flight was the fastest way to D.C. at the time, though his vote was not needed

@Alex632 6 лет назад

We obviously know that.

@Nomystery22 4 года назад

Does that mean the plane is NOT "Air Force One" if for some reasons it has to fly without the president onboard?

@linuxbegginer361 6 лет назад

tour videos are awesome Tom,thank You for sharing

@xxCanUDigIt88xx Год назад

Loved the museum as a child and my now kids still love going their. I was lucky enough to tour this train car as a kid. Thank you for sharing this hidden gem in Miami.

@Zizzily 6 лет назад

I like how Cully doesn't want to give up his cell phone.

@MrCulldog 3 года назад

These comments are super strange to me because I have never run into anyone else with the same name

@amefuraggamuffin 6 лет назад

aw, the museum guy is a sweet heart. bless him

@davekirwin 6 лет назад

Very interesting, thanks Tom. Cully seems like a nice relaxed chap and if I ever go to America, I think I should make the trip to Miami and the museum.

@ickballgaming6611 2 года назад

These videos are so well edited.Thank you for that.

@jeremyzorek 6 лет назад

Excellent video, Tom! I'm a sucker for anything rail-related so this video was super cool to see.

@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot 6 лет назад

For a second I read that guy's title as "Doctor of Training", which sounds simply amazing I wish it was a real doctorate you could get.

@uyuman1 6 лет назад

Isn't that a fancy way of saying teacher/professor?

@TAP7a 6 лет назад

That guide is so cool. The passion and knowledge coming from him is so infectious. What a fascinating video!

@dangeredwolf 6 лет назад

Fascinating. Glad to have you back exploring fascinating places!!

@Unai_asdf 6 лет назад

That Nick Offerman / Ron Swanson laugh at the end.

@plopfish 6 лет назад

Really interesting subject and Cully did a great job.

@OrigamiMarie 6 лет назад

plopfish Yes! He is good on camera.

@davidvaldez9670 6 лет назад

I was thinking the same thing.

@themightychickens 6 лет назад

He was incredibly interesting to listen to. Great video as always Tom!

@KoenvanDommelen 2 года назад

We visited this museum (before your video) and it is realy a hidden gem :) Great to see this railway car!

@sebastianorre4762 6 лет назад

This channel is awesome all around. Kudos, Tom Scott, for bringing us along on your fascinating travels and showing us new and interesting things and places. I would like to see some longer segments. Episodes in the 20-40 minute ballpark are great for sitting down with a cup of coffee (and, incidentally, so are the Citation Needed episodes!). Though that is a general complaint that goes for just about any RU-vid channel.

@hmmm9658 6 лет назад

They should campaign like this again

@nathanpolak8635 6 лет назад

I scored almost the same place on the compass haha

@DaWolf805 6 лет назад

Reagan actually used it for a one-day trip during which he campaigned at several whistle stops, much like Truman did.

@Reddsoldier 6 лет назад

Agreed. the Presidential race would be FAR more interesting if they all had a limited budget (no donations) and had to travel by train. Bring the candidates back down to earth.. literally. They could even do the debates from the back of their respective railcars.. or is that too much wishful thinking?

@hedgehog3180 6 лет назад

That would require a significant upgrade and expansion of the US rail network. And that would be great but that's also never gonna happen. It's a way too practical thing to spend money on.

@jesusgonzalez6715 6 лет назад

Actually the German social democrats used a train in 1998 (That's the latest I found it attested in not at all thorough searchs; they may have used it later still) and Merkel used Adenauer's old train in 2009 or 2013 to suggest/show (depending on your partisan leanings) continuity from Adenauer to Merkel. But then again, the biggest city in Germany without passenger rail service has some 60 000 people. The biggest city in the US without intercity passenger rail service is Phoenix, Arizona.

@dark0films 6 лет назад

That's one thicc rail car

@inactive2458 6 лет назад

But most importantly, it goes on a tracc

@Her_Imperious_Condescension 5 лет назад

Except it isn't, because that isn't even a real word.

@konigstiger5529 5 лет назад

Atomic Charme yo boring boi. and yes ist such a thicc rail tracc car - the color for the train is nice too

@Her_Imperious_Condescension 5 лет назад

+KönigsTiger The letter K called. It wants to be used more often,

@neurofiedyamato8763 4 года назад

No one really decides what a 'real' word is though. Language is entirely cultural and continually evolve. You think airplane was a word 500 years ago? Do you think the modern English language was written the same way 1000 years ago? Languages evolve, grammar changes, and what is socially accepted changes. Considering majority of the English-speaking world have started to recognize 'thicc' it have gained 'word' status. It is certainly not considered formal, but it is a word as much as the thousands of other informal words are.

@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762 3 года назад

Such a cool video, the times were so different. Its amazing to see and allows one to imagine how things were in those days im an 80-90s kid so I can remember when things weren't so different, my great grandparents help raise me and it allowed me different perspectives and to see some really old things. Thanks!!!

@LifeInMontana Год назад

Time was slow…compared to now. Nostalgia overcomes my modern mind. Thank you for sharing!

@sshep86 6 лет назад

Absolutely loved this one. Love learning about quirky history.

@guieguima 6 лет назад

What a nice tour, congratulations to the guy, the video was great! :D

@SuperHuscarl 2 года назад

I used to give tours of the Ferdinand Magellan back in the 2010’s at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum. What memories.

@MrCulldog 3 года назад

Happy to see that the other Cully is up to some super cool stuff! Great video and excellent tour!

@genericgreensquid6669 6 лет назад

Very interesting that you can stand in the very same place where that picture was taken today! Thank you for showing this, Scott!

@jesusgonzalez6715 6 лет назад

Unfortunately the train station where it was taken while still extant as a building is not served by passenger trains any more.

@croman478 4 года назад

This is so cool. I’m happy this showed up on my feed

@jamessatterfield5705 Год назад

You are doing a great job! Thanks for sharing history with us.

@jgederschicago 6 лет назад

Thanks for sharing this video! This car is on my bucket list! According to David McCullough's biography of Truman, for security, the route ahead of the President's train had all of the switches spiked to prevent sabotage. Talk about "right of way"!

@JockMcBile 6 лет назад

Very cool, thank you Mr. Scott.

@JoshDoesTravel 6 лет назад

Such a great piece of preserved American history. Thanks Tom!

@tunecloudeditsco2867 2 года назад

Im glad I stayed up for this this is a treat

@BlancSal 3 года назад

Seeing old relics like this preserved is like a time capsule to the past but only being able to see a glimpse of it

@mattforbes7833 3 года назад

I love how they knew enough to make an armoured rail car for the president..... then put JFK in a convertible.

@jakemckee1923 2 года назад

Although it did have a bullet proof top. JFK wanted to take it down for a bit when some supporters were nearby…oops. My favorite president (being a space nerd) made a big mistake.

@antonymitchell3385 6 лет назад

I wonder if you could wangle a tour of the Royal Train in the UK...

@RoulinBrooks 6 лет назад

Leave the UK train stuff to Geoff and Vicki. ;-)

@antonymitchell3385 6 лет назад

Good point!

@TheBespectacledN00b 6 лет назад

Antony Mitchell National Railway Museum in York has Queen Victoria's royal railway coach if I remember correctly.

@dannysulyma6273 6 лет назад

who?

@simonwest9450 6 лет назад

It has a few carriages belonging to different monarchs, I believe it has the Queen Mother's bulletproof carriage from World War 2, the Severn Valley Railway has George VI's armored carriage.

@user-pq4gx5dd2u 5 лет назад

The guy that was giving the tour is the kind of person ppl from the past would imagine. Love it!

@skroot7975 6 лет назад

You travel to the most interesting places. I love it. Thank you Tom for giving us this. :)

@Erik_The_Viking 6 лет назад

Nice piece of history. I saw some other documentary about it a while ago, but they didn't show as much as you did. People forget that it was a time before modern media, the Interstate system, etc. and getting around on trains was the way to reach out to the American people.

@cpufreak101 6 лет назад

reimann4 yeah, in fact didn't the interstate pop up around when this fell out of use?

@jesusgonzalez6715 6 лет назад

Trains are still a good way to see the "real America". Nobody gives a second thought which "face" they are presenting to train tracks. And Amtrak seats you with strangers in the dining car. Better opportunities to get to talk with Americans and visitors of all stripes barely exist.

@Erik_The_Viking 6 лет назад

Yes - that came later.

@jesusgonzalez6715 6 лет назад

Actually the Interstate Highway Act as well as the gargantuan subsidies for aviation are among the main reasons for the decline of America's railroads...

@jasongoodacre 4 года назад

That guy made a good point. Railways are a great way to relax and slow down a little. Flying is far too stressful.

@thing. 4 года назад

I dont see flying as stressfull, You get what you pay for, paying for a decent flight and having to relax is easy as hell.

@rrai1999 3 года назад

I want to put this into practice, but in the entirety of the southeast USA there is almost no passenger rail travel available at all.

@lydiahanke Год назад

Such a cool glimpse into a museum I will probably never get to visit, thanks!!!

@sgtpayne777 4 года назад

Absolutely love your channel. Keep up the great content!!!!

@Solidcancer07 3 года назад

Would love to see a next President advocate for rail travel as a means of modernising America's railways to high speed, and also encouraging the environmental benefits. And advocate for this by re-introducing a 'RailForce One' as their primary mode of transportation across the country. I think that would be fantastic to see.

@moondust2365 3 года назад

It would be nice. High-speed trains for intercontinental travel, and airplanes for everywhere else. Of course, they'd have to make a new modern train, one that had references and similarities to the old train, but of course more modern and even better, maybe even futuristic.

@ntantwan 2 года назад

It’s very exciting that the newly passed infrastructure bill includes funds for railroads. But a president definitely should not travel by rail in today’s day and age. Recipe for disaster

@nonyafkinbznes1420 Год назад

Yes, convince the elites to lead by example and personally adopt the "green goals" they want to force on everyone else. Let me know how that goes.

@HaasGrotesk 6 лет назад

Tom Scott you're the best! Love your videos!

@colinporter514 3 года назад

Tom Scott you have a brilliant voice for presenting. Well done on how you conduct your presentations.

@Youngstown529 4 года назад

What a wonderful look at a very special train. Great to see that it's been preserved.

@mpitt79 6 лет назад

I like trains!

@JJRicks 6 лет назад

Michele Pittoni If you do, I have a ton of train videos :D

@zalsader 6 лет назад

ASDF reference? 😂

@anzival1192 6 лет назад

Well you had a good life RIP

@VarvasNukka 6 лет назад

That takes me back.

@steviecandtheplace2b 6 лет назад

Hello!

@esyew 3 года назад

Be kind of fun (but sadly never going to happen) if Biden brought this back given his love of trains and Amtrak

@adamajluni7781 3 года назад

His election tour was literally on a train because of COVID

@coloradostrong 2 года назад

@@adamajluni7781 Mr. Potato Head was in his basement due to dementia.

@nonyafkinbznes1420 Год назад

@@adamajluni7781 Before he had access to Air Force One.

@RBkaj 3 года назад

I had no idea this existed. I truly love your channel. Please, never quit your brilliance.

@thedeputyofnascar14 6 лет назад

Love the quality of the video Tom

@JAzzWoods-ik4vv 6 лет назад

_Becomes President_ "I said I want to travel on the fancy train so we WILL travel on the fancy train"

@MisterAppleEsq 6 лет назад

Bulletproof Railcar is a good band name.

@desia.brimou 6 лет назад

Mister Apple Oh HELL yes.

@ZiddersRooFurry 6 лет назад

Yes!

@desia.brimou 6 лет назад

Honestly, bulletproof _anything_ is a good band name.

@MisterAppleEsq 6 лет назад

+rosemary I was trying to think of a counter-example to that, and I couldn't.

@OneiroHare 6 лет назад

I agree

@tomdiffley5578 3 года назад

Great video - FDR stopped his train at Allamuchy NJ to visit Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at her home nearby - photos of the train car at the depot are fantastic to see.

@kadafi4lyf 6 лет назад

this is awesome thanks for uploading!

@1kain3 6 лет назад

During the introduction, I honestly expected Tom to go off on a bit of a tangent about the history of the site on which the museum sits (it was the site of three hangers for US Navy blimps back in WW2... can you imagine if Presidential blimp tours were a thing?). Anyhow, the Gold Coast Railroad Museum was always fun to visit (they even do a haunted train during the Halloween season).

@gman_0277 4 года назад

Why does cully Waggoner seem like such an appropriate name for the tour guide😂

@FishingwithCristina 3 года назад

I will be going there on Saturday to be able to ride a piece of History can't wait to go.

@Salkinmusic 2 года назад

I love seeing old stuff and how things where before our time! 😄

@cableyoutuber 4 года назад

Seems like some kind of DLC for Red Dead Online...

@tiko4621 3 года назад

Rockstar let everyone down with that online hahaha

@Goofballhero 2 года назад

It seems to me that you have better ideas than the entire team behind Red Dead Online.

@izaicslinux6961 6 лет назад

I'm curious about the train engine that pulled the cars, was it steam? Was it a civilian train, or a military one? Did it have armor?

@WhiteCamry 6 лет назад

That depended on whose tracks they were running. If going to and from Warm Springs, Georgia, then a Southern Railway steam locomotive would pull it. If going to and from New York then a Pennsylvania RR loco - an electric GG1, to be exact - would pull it. If going from New York to his home in Hyde Park then a New York Central steam locomotive would pull it. But the US had no armored locomotives.

@agimasoschandir 5 лет назад

Nice info. I understand some locomotives had been reinforced during the American Civil War

@bryanpelton6646 2 года назад

That was a fantastic tour! Thanks!

@andrewschulzsd 6 лет назад

The attention to detail is amazing

@MrTomtomtest 6 лет назад

That's the train you wanna be on when the zombies come ^^'

@cpufreak101 6 лет назад

Iamtop yeah just hook it up behind a Genesis unit and you're sailing through the apocalypse perfectly safe at 100 miles an hour... Until you run outta diesel.

@CadillacJak 4 года назад

Or a group of psychopaths build a massive steal barrier to derail the train and kill everyone Inside

@balyeet6479 4 года назад

Imagine if the president held an intercontinental horse race and watching that said race in this train

@kmsprinzeugen1304 4 года назад

Imagine if the president had back scars that form the american flag.

@g10101010101 6 лет назад

i hope you enjoy south florida weather. great video

@aidanwansbrough7495 6 лет назад

Thank you for the video!

@Kori114 6 лет назад

I'm surprised this isn't in the Smithsonian or something. Instead of just some random train museum in Miami....

@bw4t 5 лет назад

IIRC, the Smithsonian was very much interested in it, but the acquisition process was quite complicated and time-consuming, with committees and board meetings and all manner of approvals going up various chains of command. The Miami Railroad Historical Society (as it was know at the time) simply had to meet once, approve it, and write a check to acquire this bit of government surplus.

@BobMcCoy 6 лет назад

*Must be a better experience to ride in that thing than Air Force One*

@DoctorX149 6 лет назад

Air force one is a large, luxurious plane on the inside, look up some pictures. Maybe, _maybe_ if they re-modeled the train car to be more modern, this would be true, but in its current state no.

@dubsy1026 6 лет назад

Also no turbulence

@japzone 6 лет назад

Buck Sexton, What are you talking about? It's on tracks all the time.

@rashkavar 6 лет назад

Buck Sexton: Depends on how much of your tracking method relies on radar. Satellite photography picks up trains a lot more easily than it does airplanes, and in days when rail use was more common, you could often figure out where the secret trains were running by looking for suspicious gaps in the train schedule. (There's really only one reason to not run a train at a given time period: because there's another train there.) Dubsy 102: Constant turbulence. We're talking the US rail system here, not one of those snazzy European ones. (Before anyone accuses me of being anti-American, I know the ones up here in Canada are just as bad. Nobody in North America has trains that come close to Europe's network.)

@dubsy1026 6 лет назад

rashkavar One solution could be to attach the cartridge on to the back of another train, though obviously that has its problems. In the modern day American network, I gather trains also tend to be a bit more sparse, so in that context a secret train could work. Also radar is a bit more consistent, instant, and easily accessible than up to date satellite photography. You would either need access to a tremendously expensive and important geo-stationary satellite, which would probably be to far away to take good pictures, or an entire network of closer ones, because their orbit outruns the earth's rotation. Radar is obviously a bit easier to get your hands on. Fair enough on the turbulence, I'm from Europe myself and I hadn't really considered that.

@frankbiz 4 года назад

Thanks Tom, awesome information. I would love to see it in person. Just subscribed. 👍🏻

@heckyeahscience4763 2 года назад

4:19 agree kinda sad we don't embrace railing as much.

@miloanderson5694 6 лет назад

Hey Tom , Great video - the link in the vid description leads to an unregistered domain though

@RudyBleeker 6 лет назад

Actually the domain is registered to a Thomas Flanary of the Gold Coast Railroad Museum. However it's not properly configured somehow, either the DNS doesn't point to a webserver or the webserver itself is misconfigured. Not something Tom can do anything about though.

@fa.h. 6 лет назад

Norwegian king family have a armored Railcar that they sometimes still use today :)

@koninkrijkdernederlanden8711 6 лет назад

F. H. The same for the Dutch royal family. They even have 3 of them.

@iainwalker8701 4 года назад

Fantastic presentation skills by the railroad guy. Great video

@swampfuel20 4 года назад

Simple=easily understood.Presenting no difficulty. To see how the president traveled in those days seems so much more logical, connected to the people of the country. Wonderful vid, short and sweet. Cheers...