In today’s video, we take a look at the Bradford & Foster Brook Monorail, a railway that was so bad, an accident was reported almost daily and it exploded after 1 year
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Picture & Information References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_and_Foster_Brook_Railway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Monorail
https://web.archive.org/web/20080804191635/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/allegany/RailroadsAlleg/LastOfthePegLeg.htm
https://www.portville-ny.com/files/monorail-originating-history-20141222-0945.pdf
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/bradford/bradford.htm
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/centen/centen.htm
https://www.buch-der-synergie.de/c_neu_html/c_11_12_neu_mobile_prt_05_monorail.htm
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Lets build a railway!
Derails Aw dang it
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2:35 those trains looks like the ones that are in ireland that The Tim Traveller made an video on
Engerth-Locomotive
They should have really thought about their mud first.
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Monorail, Monorail, MONORAAAAAAIL!!
Mono-Doh!
temu ahh railway💀
This has Lyle Lanley written all over it.
I never heard about this railway until now, worse than Penn Central?
Moral of the story – monorails suck
Did you just say "Booming business?"
Well, booming railway for a booming business…
TOT MADE A MINOR SPELLING MISTAKE AGAIN RAAAAAHHHH
Nice work my friend 4:48
Bradford and Foster Brook Monorail.
Camp McCarren Monorail.
Nihil novi sub sole.
What’s it called? monorail, once again! Monorail! Monorail!!
On an unrelated note, Brigadier General Roy Stone had been removed from command during the Battle of the Wilderness after his horse fell on him. However, many presumed he was drunk during the battle.
This would not be the first nor the last time a Union Brigadier General would be drunk during a battle.
This is 1800s Northfolk southern Lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There was a lot of oil-boom money in northern Pennsylvania in the 1870s. Some of it got spent on stupid ideas.
0:15 Bradford County is not where the town of Bradford itself is located, Bradford itself is actually in McKean County.
Monorail. MONORAIL. *MONORAIL*.
yeah but Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook had a monorail and by gum it put them on the map!
This Is Bad Ideas
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How were the engines transported from the manufacturer to the Bradford line?
Demonstration Line?
Sometimes, doing things as cheaply as possible doesn't work out.
Where'd you find all these pictures? I've been mildly obsessed with finding out more about this weird contraption for years and could never find more than the same three pictures over and over.
I’m guessing the Bradford and Forster Brook railway just weren’t ready to tackle the monorail line concept.
is there a chance the track could bend
This was a bad idea
From what I can find, a steam rotary engine was like a Wankel. making the creator of this railroad a bit of a wanker.
Believe it or not, this might have been inspired by a similar (Albeit lesser known) system that was installed at Aldershot in 1872 for appraisal by the British Army (See Wikipedia: Aldershot narrow-gauge suspension railway ) and so far as I can tell was the Worlds first passenger-carrying suspended railway, predating the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn by about 30 years. 🚟🇬🇧🥇
In the Aldershot system two rails were employed at a 12" gauge, and this probably contributed to the Aldershot system proving more stable and less problematic than the Bradford/Foster system you document here. 🚂🇬🇧⚖😇
Sadly, the Aldershot system was deconstructed at some later point (At a guess the timbers and rails were requisitioned for the war effort in WWI) and no trace of it remains to this day, but it was documented in The Engineer (1872-11-01) and more can be found at the above referenced Wikipedia page. 😇
Finally: Many thanks for the awesome video! Absolutely amazing to hear that there was a U.S. cousin to the similar British
system that had been created shortly before! 👍
@ 3:45 = a treat! We get a stereoscopic picture as well!
"This is more of a Shelbyville idea…" The promoters, trying to get funding.
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Fascinating – I for one had never heard of this little railway before. The Irish line is legendary over here in GB – indeed, part of it has been recreated, and a sister railway (near enough) was built in France. Unfortunately that one disgraced itself before being opened, and so never ran. I wonder if Mr Latrigue had heard of this US line at all?
Guess gadgetbahns aren't as new a phenomenon as we might think.
The strange thing is that this looks quite a promising idea. The explosion was due to letting the boiler run dry which is a basic operating error which could happen on any railway. The Baldwin engine shown at the end with a single large central boiler should be better than the two mini-boilers if the track can take the weight. Both this and the Lartigue system were certainly quick and cheap to build, though it sounds as if this one had too lightly constructed rails – a problem dating back to Trevithick (but solved in the 1820s).
I got an Idea for a Video about an interesting engine: the german 19 1001. The steam engine with a V8 Motor, or rather four V2s. Interesting story and loco for sure.