The Mercury train wasn't called that because it contained the poisonous metal of the same name, it was simply named after the Roman God of traveling. As far as I know it was only phased out by newer locomotives after many years of service. They were one of the first Railroad engines to use roller bearings on the wheel axles, something that's now common on wheel or track based transportation
They did have quite a few accidents though. Although that seems more to do with bad management of the railway network as a whole rather than a problem with them specifically. Not sure entirely why they're so adamant no one wants them back. Probably just not a great idea having regular coal fired trains runing into New York any more. US city air quality is bad enough as it is these days.
@@Karagianis they probably want them back because none of them are left today, all of the mercury steam engines were scrapped, like most new york central steam engines, its a pitty but well, thats what happens on a railroad, the older the engine, the sooner the company will want to retire and replace it.
@@Karagianis With NYC specifically, it had to do with running trains into poorly ventilated tunnels that lead into Grand Central Station (not Terminal, the predecessor). A major accident with serious loss of life was caused by an engineer being unable to see a signal in a smoke-filled tunnel, so steam engines were banned from operating within most of Manhattan.
9:09 Alright, this might need explaining. To put it simply, there’s a type of freight yard called a “hump yard” that is pretty much powered by gravity. They roll from a hill and are sorted at the bottom. The “Do Not Hump” on this boxcar means to not shunt it like that.
Yeah, it's how bigger yards do their switching, the reason why it says do not hump is because it most likely has something fragile like glass or something
@@ViperZero523 in this case, it is a track geometry car which uses special equipment to check the track's condition. using it in a hump yard could damage the electronics inside.
About that train conductor hitting the man who was taking selfies, I saw the video on Reddit and if I remember correctly, he kicked him to save him so he wouldn’t get hurt by the train or killed. Take this with a grain of salt because I have not looked into the actual backstory
Yeah that's what I remember hearing back when the video went viral. Seemingly from the conductors perspective he could see the guy's head would've collided with the train, so that's why he kicked him
so people know, between 1955 and 1968, there was a huge effort to remove steam trains from the uk network, but the railway workshops couldn't handle scrapping thousands of engines, so they were sent to scrap yards, and in the case of on(barry scrapyard, barry island, south wales), they took the job in but basically didn't have time so most of them ended up being saved(over a 150)
I fell on top of a pregnant woman in the train last week. ✨story time✨ I have physical handicaps which make it hard for me to stand for long times. I was sitting in a full train and I already had someone sitting next to me. 2 pregnant women entered the train and asked if they could sit at our spot. I explained my disability and they refused to believe it. They went to the staff and I explained the staff the same. Even the staff did not believe me. I had to stand next to the seats i was just pulled out off. About 20 minutes later i collapsed onto the woman sitting next to the path. She was so mad and a staff member saw it and thought I was faking it. I was send out of the train on a station I didn’t have to go. I ended up getting too late at school for my exam and wasn’t allowed to do it that day. Worst school day ever…
Can't offer any great advice (just common advice: "doctor's note" and "tell the school", maybe crutches as a visual indicator), but it's a shame you had to go through that. Hope today was much better. Not an expert on law either, but pretty sure the train company will seek the "didn't know, no medical note" route - calling you a potential liar. (Yeah, maybe they should take your word for it but priority seating is a hassle in itself regarding hierarchies/entitlement)
4 or 8 "Chuggas" per "Choo Choo" makes sense. Each "Chugga" is one beat out of four. (Technically it is 2 out of 8 due to the two stressed beats. Each "Choo" is two beats out of four. That makes it: chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga CHOO-CHOO (Quarter notes are lowercase, half notes are caps)
@@KeVIn-pm7pu so leave your house, walk to the train station, ride the train to another station, get off, walk to the grocery store, get your groceries, walk back to the station with groceries, take another train to the first station, get off that one, and walk back to your house. with at least a weeks worth of food in hand. or take your car.
@@dennisnedry8126 I can always tell when people have never been in a livable city because you think you need a week worth of groceries in one trip. Just swing by the store and get what you need for the day. If you really insist, you could use a little cart or maybe a bicycle.
As an avid rail enthusiast, it's so fun seeing other rail enthusiasts here elaborating on certain terms and facts from the video! Also, I really enjoyed it, great job!
2:22 it is called walking assuming that your city is not car dependent poohole like for example LA, than you can walk to store under 10 minites on a nice wide sidewalk with a nice shade from trees between you and the road.
10:20 The sad part is that's probably a Model railway meme, not someone literally buying a full sized locomotive instead of a house. It's literally that size compared to him.
7:55 I looked it up, and the train didn't actually have an engine that used mercury. It seems that it was named after the Roman god of transit. It went out of commission due to better trains being developed.
8:40 technically its a metro but it runs both above and underground 18:05 this was the Thalys a dutch/belgian version of the French TGV(Train a Grande Vitesse, Highspeed Train) its used for the Amsterdam-Paris service with stopovers at Schiphol, Rotterdam, Antwerp Brussel and Paris(also Disneyland Paris). its now merged together with Eurostar(which already operated highspeed trains from British rail from London to Paris and Amsterdam. Thalys also operated in Germany and that branch also falls under Eurostar as of now
British Rainfan here 👍 A decent few outdated memes but I don't expect someone to fact check their train memes (e.g. 5:22, that train hasn't been used by Northern for years now)
The train pictured for Germany at 5:22 isn't a german train. The German train kinda looks like the "russian" one, but white with one red big Stripe along the Sides
I can identify if any of these memes are British or not other countries, not at all. My brain keeps seeing stuff like 9:46 and just thinking "oh that's on a Class 390"
As a person who’s been obsessed with steam locomotives and trains since I was like 2, this is the moment I have been waiting for even since I start watching this channel Also If your confused on any of the memes I’ll probably be able to clear it up cuz I’m a massive nerd
2:25 I actually do get a train to the grocery store. The next nearest large grocery shop to me is a 40 minute walk from my flat (a pain to do with heavy groceries) but a 15 minute walk + train + walk again. There's no barriers on either stop, but that's a moot point since I have a season ticket for the same line to get to university and back each day. With a good train network, you too can take a train to the grocery store real quick.
18:21 The lore actually historically accurate, as in the 1950s (When most of the show takes place) Britain started scraping all steam engines to replace them with diesel engines
18:22 Bonus fun fact: This is especially common in the Railway Series (A series of children's books, which is where Thomas the Tank engine originates) and multiple characters (Oliver and Douglas, who are both major characters to the setting) have origin stories that involve escaping scrapping.
The Portugal to Vietnam rail journey is no longer possible because there is no way anymore to get via train from the main part of Europe into Russia, which is an essential part of that journey. It is however possible to travel all the way from Portugal to Bangladesh via train, which is probably the new longest train journey.
If you’re wondering, that Russian train at 0:43 had its front end cut off in 2008 and placed as a memorial to the workshops it was built at. It currently resides as such today.
6:11 that is devious. If both choose the same then everyone on both trolleys die, if only one pulls the lever and the other refuses, everyone on both trolleys die. Both need to take no action or have opposing choices in the trolley problem.
It was the books. I admit it was a weird story. Don't worry, he didn't starve to death and he was let out the next story... but only because the publisher told the author he had to write a happy ending.
im from Wisconsin and i can confirm that i prefer driving over flying because when u fly u skip all of the other stuff u see while driving and plus i love road trips sooo.
7:53 I remember that post and it had nothing to do with the element Mercury. It's cropped out but the final commenter goes on a rant about how the engines are secretly eldritch beasts encased in metal. (For those wondering why he would say this, see his username)
SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE! I DID THIS FOR THE TRAIN LOVERS!
As a train lover, thank you.
trains rule
Foamers assemble!!
heheh i got more likes then you
Please make more of these. You made my day in my deppresive life :)
This is just such an obscure and out of context category for memes
I like train :)
@@rufisesstupidlife5369 we like train :))
us like train :)
All like train :)
We must convert Vazkll to train
The Mercury train wasn't called that because it contained the poisonous metal of the same name, it was simply named after the Roman God of traveling. As far as I know it was only phased out by newer locomotives after many years of service. They were one of the first Railroad engines to use roller bearings on the wheel axles, something that's now common on wheel or track based transportation
It was just a regular coal fired locomotive in streamlining
They did have quite a few accidents though. Although that seems more to do with bad management of the railway network as a whole rather than a problem with them specifically. Not sure entirely why they're so adamant no one wants them back. Probably just not a great idea having regular coal fired trains runing into New York any more. US city air quality is bad enough as it is these days.
@@Karagianis they probably want them back because none of them are left today, all of the mercury steam engines were scrapped, like most new york central steam engines, its a pitty but well, thats what happens on a railroad, the older the engine, the sooner the company will want to retire and replace it.
@@Karagianis With NYC specifically, it had to do with running trains into poorly ventilated tunnels that lead into Grand Central Station (not Terminal, the predecessor). A major accident with serious loss of life was caused by an engineer being unable to see a signal in a smoke-filled tunnel, so steam engines were banned from operating within most of Manhattan.
damn oopsie thanks though for correction
9:09 Alright, this might need explaining.
To put it simply, there’s a type of freight yard called a “hump yard” that is pretty much powered by gravity. They roll from a hill and are sorted at the bottom. The “Do Not Hump” on this boxcar means to not shunt it like that.
🐙💨 ahahaha!!
Yeah, it's how bigger yards do their switching, the reason why it says do not hump is because it most likely has something fragile like glass or something
Yea
@@ViperZero523 in this case, it is a track geometry car which uses special equipment to check the track's condition. using it in a hump yard could damage the electronics inside.
@@ViperZero523 or explosive materials that may be sensitive to vibrations and go off
“I like trains”
Oh wait wait wai- HONNNNNNKKKK
But They Always Come late.
Me too man
Nyeyoooooom
VWOOOOOOOOO*oof*MMMMM
11:30 as a fish keeper who's used to see people abuse their fish this moment really shows humanity has hope
A fish will probably not survive long in the cup of water it will run out of oxygen
MUST SAVE FISHY
@@elbarto4069 knowing how they handled it, they probably got a straw and solved that problem.
I'm concerned about the caffeine residues
About that train conductor hitting the man who was taking selfies, I saw the video on Reddit and if I remember correctly, he kicked him to save him so he wouldn’t get hurt by the train or killed. Take this with a grain of salt because I have not looked into the actual backstory
Yeah that's what I remember hearing back when the video went viral.
Seemingly from the conductors perspective he could see the guy's head would've collided with the train, so that's why he kicked him
1:42 Odin is that you?
That's definitely Odin.
3:29 I do it in cycles of eight chuggas, and then a choo choo. Any amount of cycles of chuggas is acceptable
8:37 The train alone is already a piece of art
The island of Sodor being a safe haven is more headcanon than Canon to my knowledge. It's not "post apocalyptic" it's just post-steam age
The Fat Controller never scrapped an engine and has gone out of his way t preserve them even if it would be cheaper not too
Don't ask about literally any character we haven't seen in 15+ years
Your god damn right
I see no difference in post apocalyptic and post steam age
so people know, between 1955 and 1968, there was a huge effort to remove steam trains from the uk network, but the railway workshops couldn't handle scrapping thousands of engines, so they were sent to scrap yards, and in the case of on(barry scrapyard, barry island, south wales), they took the job in but basically didn't have time so most of them ended up being saved(over a 150)
10:57 “Follow that damn train CJ!”
3:41 its 4
Chugga chugga chugga chugga choo-choo
* chugga chugga choo-choo
I do "Chuggas" until I lose my energy and then do a "Choo Choo"
Correct answer.
If I'm in a rush (?) I will do 2 chuggas, but if not I will do 12 (making a full stanza when combined with the choo choo, like a music sheet)
Imo 2 sounds better but idk someone should make a poll
I fell on top of a pregnant woman in the train last week.
✨story time✨
I have physical handicaps which make it hard for me to stand for long times. I was sitting in a full train and I already had someone sitting next to me. 2 pregnant women entered the train and asked if they could sit at our spot. I explained my disability and they refused to believe it. They went to the staff and I explained the staff the same. Even the staff did not believe me.
I had to stand next to the seats i was just pulled out off. About 20 minutes later i collapsed onto the woman sitting next to the path. She was so mad and a staff member saw it and thought I was faking it. I was send out of the train on a station I didn’t have to go.
I ended up getting too late at school for my exam and wasn’t allowed to do it that day.
Worst school day ever…
You might be able to get the law on your side, but take that with a grain of salt, I’m not an expert.
Can't offer any great advice (just common advice: "doctor's note" and "tell the school", maybe crutches as a visual indicator), but it's a shame you had to go through that.
Hope today was much better.
Not an expert on law either, but pretty sure the train company will seek the "didn't know, no medical note" route - calling you a potential liar.
(Yeah, maybe they should take your word for it but priority seating is a hassle in itself regarding hierarchies/entitlement)
14:10 translation: "oopsie whoopsie! The train is stucky wucky! We're working vewy hard to fix dis. Maybe u should take a bike instead owo
4 or 8 "Chuggas" per "Choo Choo" makes sense.
Each "Chugga" is one beat out of four.
(Technically it is 2 out of 8 due to the two stressed beats.
Each "Choo" is two beats out of four.
That makes it:
chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga
chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga
CHOO-CHOO
(Quarter notes are lowercase, half notes are caps)
1:06 but that is our therapy tho
Yeah man agreed
Real
truer words have never been said
2:28 in a good city a grocery store is a WALK away
Yes or just walk from the train Station to the grocery store
@@KeVIn-pm7puyou expect people here to walk more than 1 foot ?
@@KeVIn-pm7pu so leave your house, walk to the train station, ride the train to another station, get off, walk to the grocery store, get your groceries, walk back to the station with groceries, take another train to the first station, get off that one, and walk back to your house. with at least a weeks worth of food in hand.
or take your car.
@@dennisnedry8126 I can always tell when people have never been in a livable city because you think you need a week worth of groceries in one trip.
Just swing by the store and get what you need for the day.
If you really insist, you could use a little cart or maybe a bicycle.
4:31 Again with this.
It's Thomas the TANK ENGINE!!!
No , its Thomas the Termonuclear Bomb !!!
No, it’s Thomas the Shunter Locomotive
Na I think it tom the choo I'm not sure though....
No, it’s Thomas the e2 class tank engine from the london brighton southcoast railway!
5:22 ah yes the invincible pacer
yes!
As an avid rail enthusiast, it's so fun seeing other rail enthusiasts here elaborating on certain terms and facts from the video! Also, I really enjoyed it, great job!
2:22 it is called walking assuming that your city is not car dependent poohole like for example LA, than you can walk to store under 10 minites on a nice wide sidewalk with a nice shade from trees between you and the road.
As a transit nerd and trains enjoyer I’m here for this video. In fact I am watching it after getting off of a train from my uni
Hes not wrong
10:20 The sad part is that's probably a Model railway meme, not someone literally buying a full sized locomotive instead of a house. It's literally that size compared to him.
7:55 I looked it up, and the train didn't actually have an engine that used mercury. It seems that it was named after the Roman god of transit. It went out of commission due to better trains being developed.
And yet we call them “upside down bathtubs” 💀
@@SouthernMaineFoamerEarly streamlining was wack.
8:40 technically its a metro but it runs both above and underground
18:05 this was the Thalys a dutch/belgian version of the French TGV(Train a Grande Vitesse, Highspeed Train) its used for the Amsterdam-Paris service with stopovers at Schiphol, Rotterdam, Antwerp Brussel and Paris(also Disneyland Paris). its now merged together with Eurostar(which already operated highspeed trains from British rail from London to Paris and Amsterdam.
Thalys also operated in Germany and that branch also falls under Eurostar as of now
British Rainfan here 👍
A decent few outdated memes but I don't expect someone to fact check their train memes (e.g. 5:22, that train hasn't been used by Northern for years now)
The train pictured for Germany at 5:22 isn't a german train. The German train kinda looks like the "russian" one, but white with one red big Stripe along the Sides
I can identify if any of these memes are British or not
other countries, not at all.
My brain keeps seeing stuff like 9:46 and just thinking "oh that's on a Class 390"
12:03 thats a german regional train, just fyi
13:27 the white train in the bottom is a german high speed train, which should be at 5:22 for Germany
0:50 i had a dream i was fishing out of a flying train with some freaking rabbids and it was just like that 💀
Wtf 😂
You know it’s bouta be a banger when vaazkl drops a video on a really obscure and out of context topic
I do 8 chuggas before a choo choo
thats at least 4 to many...
It’s like the Batman theme
I only do chuggas before conroys.
I do ten thousand chuggas
I stick to 4 but 8 is also valid
im thoroughly amazed so many actual railfanning memes got in here
As a person who’s been obsessed with steam locomotives and trains since I was like 2, this is the moment I have been waiting for even since I start watching this channel
Also If your confused on any of the memes I’ll probably be able to clear it up cuz I’m a massive nerd
🐙my great grandfather was a hostler on the Nickel Plate RR. Is the correct term hostler or ostler? Thank you
Ostridge.
Kids this is what I call a ttte fan
6:07 she sounds like trains run through her 24/7
1:06 that's Aleast better than going therapy.
0:02 “To women!”
What?
@@TheTrueSlowCuber I think this person is emphasizing how he made his voice louder when he said "to women!"
@@Evan-tl1do Oh sry
1:06 it's not just steam engines it's a whole railway and that includes stations, track, coaches and diesel engines as well as well the steam engines
8:37 No biggie, just the opening to the Incredibles 2
Crow eyepath and spear ?
Dude met Odin and didnt even realize he was being judged to fight in Valhall.
12:49 ok that’s amazing. All for getting gifted the expensive freight rolling stock models
make another car video
this was the last of my money
@@TheOneAndOnlyChocoMilkyeah but idk if he will see it ☹
thank you bro, i will do another cars memes video in the future please keep your money next time though but a very nice thought❤️
@@VaazkLShorts WAIT HE ACTUALLY SAW IT 😨
@@VaazkLShorts anyways love your videos
Oh heck I’ve always done 8 chuggas. You telling me Two is the norm?
Yo, same!
2:25 I actually do get a train to the grocery store. The next nearest large grocery shop to me is a 40 minute walk from my flat (a pain to do with heavy groceries) but a 15 minute walk + train + walk again. There's no barriers on either stop, but that's a moot point since I have a season ticket for the same line to get to university and back each day. With a good train network, you too can take a train to the grocery store real quick.
17:33 That train station was operated for 69 years noice.
5:22 The train showed for Germany is a Japanese N700 S Series Shinkansen 😂.
Did the meme creator not do their research XD
3:05 that dog is about as amused about this as I was expecting, which only makes it funnier.
18:21
The lore actually historically accurate, as in the 1950s (When most of the show takes place) Britain started scraping all steam engines to replace them with diesel engines
It's 2 chuggs before choo choo doing one chugg and the 2 choos is absurd
1:06 hey thats just what herritege railways are for! to experience the past of the railway age!
My autism brought me hear
Same
im autistic and just happen to be here because i watch all the vaazkl videos
@@dallaswinston8260I just gave u ten subs :)
Same
Here* (just FYI)
9:19 the LIRR was formed in 1834, the MNR was formed in 1983. Rail Road was most likely the spelling during 1834, and Railroad in 1983.
Yep because the word railroad hadn’t been invented yet.
3:28 I do 8.
Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga Choo choo!
so close!!! its 6
Me also. The only correct feeling amount to me
I do 4 usually
@Avgeek-ml4rd and that's exactly why too!
@@PhoenixHeartCure same
15:53 Happy Birthday! 🎉
12:40 Bulgaria 💪💪💪
12:06 Fun fact: Steam engines were still in use in china as late as 2005. This is comparatively late compared to other countries.
18:22 Bonus fun fact: This is especially common in the Railway Series (A series of children's books, which is where Thomas the Tank engine originates) and multiple characters (Oliver and Douglas, who are both major characters to the setting) have origin stories that involve escaping scrapping.
3:01 I am from Hungary and I can confirm, railway traffic is so slow and constantly delayed that you're better off following the tracks on foot
"yeah lemme just take a train to the grocery store"
Bruh that's called a tram
4:16 12 Chuggas for me. Three cycles, with 4 in each.
That train be challenging commercial airliners to a drag race
8:04 The dog looks so scared-
7:47 I'm pretty sure that the use of quotation marks means that they didn't literally run on mercury.
Correct. It was a normal, coal-fired steam locomotive. The train it pulled was called the Mercury, hence "Mercury locomotive."
14:16 no sorry needed, he's 100% right
2:30 lol
0:31 yeah, the deutsche bahn has this. i promise (im german btw)
4:26 *NOT THE BERLINER U-BAHN* X,D
0:05 bro missed the Polar Express 😭😭
The Portugal to Vietnam rail journey is no longer possible because there is no way anymore to get via train from the main part of Europe into Russia, which is an essential part of that journey.
It is however possible to travel all the way from Portugal to Bangladesh via train, which is probably the new longest train journey.
"Chugga chugga chugga choo choo"
Me saying 4 "chugga" instead of 3:
1:18 real asf right there
3:23 "You're covers been blown agent 47"
7:44 funny had me dead
8:03 im so jealous
10:45 Deception levels off the chart
The way you pronounced "albeit" at 15:10 flashbanged my brain
13:00 yea i left that
13:47 rip Conrail
chugga chugga choo choo but if youre far away then you do more than 2 chuggas
2:51 Not when I know a train at that platform would be traveling towards the camera. Ah, the curse of knowledge.
5:24 what did Germany do to get a Japanese bullet train? Also the train on Northern's is just a bus body on train wheels
If you’re wondering, that Russian train at 0:43 had its front end cut off in 2008 and placed as a memorial to the workshops it was built at. It currently resides as such today.
Which of course would be rather an Inspiration or a copy of the New York Central jet train.
12:50 I didn't expect Pippa to show up here.
The thumbnail: exists. Me: ye no shit Sherlock
8:45 remind me of that scene in Incredibles 2
3:42 Three chuggas? Two? Just one? I can't imagine it else than sixteen chuggas + double choo
17:41 "I know what we're doing today Ferb. We are tirning a phone or laptop into an extension/transformer so I can plug my microwave in on the train."
Is your profile picture Elone Musk wearing a long blond wig?
I just realized I replied to the wrong comment...
I didn't even know this was a train meme video, my brain just accepted each meme and thought nothing
6:11 that is devious. If both choose the same then everyone on both trolleys die, if only one pulls the lever and the other refuses, everyone on both trolleys die. Both need to take no action or have opposing choices in the trolley problem.
1:44 Odin confirmed!?!
Staff chase it down on motorbike. “All you had to do was follow the damn train”
11:50 That was horrifying for a kids show, like, really traumatizing, villain or not.
It was the books. I admit it was a weird story. Don't worry, he didn't starve to death and he was let out the next story... but only because the publisher told the author he had to write a happy ending.
I know he was let out, but it doesn't undo a 5 year old seeing someone get "Poe'd".@@EndTH-camShorts_
@@EndTH-camShorts_to be fair he never planned on publishing the book
*they weren’t even meant to be on the same railway*
@@Damon_Drawings Yeah, I know
1:42 that may have been oden mascarading as a human and that crow was either huginn or muninn (thought or memory) and that spear was probably gungnir
1:44 Well good to see odins still doing his thing.
6:10 he should have said "Trains don't go home"😂
5:20 I've also seen a lot of weird stuff like that on the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission)
1:25 I just realized this is a Tekken reference(the one with Leroy on the left)
Those trains will be the villains of Cars 4.
"Hey what things do you like?"
"I like trains."
"Oh coo- WAIT N-" (Impact)
"I like trains"is really that impossible world
3:44 United States: in this nation, we have highly developed humor
Any non American nation with internet: America Bad, ha ha ha ha ha
im from Wisconsin and i can confirm that i prefer driving over flying because when u fly u skip all of the other stuff u see while driving and plus i love road trips sooo.
17:21 you forgot about captain America the first avenger, that has a train.
That first meme is kinda true, especially in movies.
3:01 MÁV do be like that sometimes.
7:53 I remember that post and it had nothing to do with the element Mercury. It's cropped out but the final commenter goes on a rant about how the engines are secretly eldritch beasts encased in metal. (For those wondering why he would say this, see his username)
8:24 train doors aren’t like elevator doors where they open back up when something is in the way
1:06 alr its just heritage railways its what they do!
10:57 "all you had to do was follow the damn train CJ"