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I'm second! This came out 5 min ago! It's thunder storming and 6:07am
How about covering the Bugatti railcar?
Cool
The Barry scrapyard is by far my favorite
Ah yes, whenever i hear minecraft music i'll always know that rails break when the blocks beneath it are gone.
fourth somehow? idk, nice video!
As unlikely as it would be, I would love to see the day someone unearths Furness Railway No. 115. It would be even more exciting if it was in good enough condition to be restored, if only for static display.
There is a funny train preservation story.
The Colorado Railroad Museum had a train that was ding dong ditched. The CRRM had mostly 3 foot gauge Denver and Rio Grande engines with the exception of D&RGW number 683 a standard gauge engine. The railroad built a temporary line over the highway without the law knowing and moved it to the museum without anyone knowing.
YouTuber Hyce has a video about it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx_E4SMzN_Q
That first story was referenced by the Rev. W. Awdry in his forward for the Railway Series book "Duke the Lost Engine."
He apologizes for mispronouncing in the Finland part but not the Brazilian?! Lol
As strategic reserve steam locomotives goes Sweden and Austria also had steamlocomotives preserved in case of WW3
In the 60's Swedens military heavily preserved ,cocooned and stored freshly very recent overhauled steam locomotives and placed them in sheds all over Sweden.
When they realised in the 90's nobody at the railway companies and military couldn't drive them anymore and also the infrastructure to coal water and recondition them wasn't availbale anymore they were pulled out of strategic reserve and sold of.
The irony is that in the Netherlands there are now strategic reserve locomtives from both sides of the cold war in preservation.
Sweden (2 B, 1 E and 1 E2 class), Austria OBB 52 3879 (ex DRB 52 3879) and a soviet union strategic locomotive TE-5933 (ex DRB 52 5933) TE-5933
Fantastic competition video man I like it 0:41
The USA was fully aware of the Soviet plan to stockpile steam engines and kept steam engine training in its MOS 60 category up until at least 2000
Poor old 5629 😢.
Considering that steam locomotives were comparatively cheap it is surprising more didn't survive thanks to people just ditching them where they broke down.
Furness 115 though is definitely a rare instance. Although not unique. At least one other happened near Preston with an industrial tank.
That is the best Chanel for me to go to sleep. I like to like 3:00 watching
ToT you need to make a video about the batshit insane railroad that was the Porterfield & Ellis RR
They ran 1870's 4-4-0s up and down 20% grades doing 100mph
Pretty unique concept of "banking engines" in New Zealand
3:15 🤔 Hmmmm… Now where have I seen this before?
I can't even begin to imagine how the railway preservation scene would look like if the Woodham brothers weren't so 'accommodating' to preservation groups.
Great compilation ToT. Fascinating info.
There's a CNR Consolidation 'preserved' in a bog on the Manitouwadge branchline after it rolled off the tracks due to subsidence while the line was under construction. When officials rode along the newly completed track it was covered with a big green tarpaulin to hide it. As far as anyone knows it's still there, having slowly sank into the muskeg over the decades.
lol i just read about the kiwi river trains
for the riverbank engines both K88 and K92 are restored to running order
Unique and interesting stories!
5:40 – 5:43 Well if they did plan to retrieve this engine in future (hypothetically speaking), I wonder if Gordon would pull it out?
It would be nice if they could save Furness 115 one day, and have its reunion with 3, 20, and 25.
Double upvote (if I could) for the mentioning of my homeland, the Isle of Man.
If you don't already know, we still have an original Victorian & Edwardian railway network with original steam & electric rolling stock running to timetables.
Its beautiful. I bet you already have a video covering it .
Dai Woodham must have had a solid relationship with his bank manager; all that financial outlay to purchase the locos and have them sitting there without generating a monetary return.
Thanks for another fascinating video.