5 Of The World's WEIRDEST Locomotives! ​⁠​⁠​⁠

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  • In today's video, we take a look at 5 truly bizarre locomotives! One was created from nothing but scrap parts, another has been around for over 150 years, and some were just too problematic to be successful!
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  • @ukaszwalczak1154
    @ukaszwalczak1154 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Best part about Pat, is that he was built off of another loco's tender. Someone looked at an abandoned tender, and thought 'yep, this is shunter material'.

  • @chesapeakedproductions3009
    @chesapeakedproductions3009 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    I can definitely see one of the locomotives I suggested in the Discord server. A very well done video documenting some of the rather unique locomotives in the history of railroads and railways

    • @Southern_Plains_Railfan
      @Southern_Plains_Railfan  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Thank you!

    • @ReggieArford
      @ReggieArford 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There's a much older steam locomotive in the (American) Smithsonian Museum. The John Bull (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bull_(locomotive) ) was built in 1831, and is displayed in operable condition. The 1931 replica is also operable; I've ridden behind her.@@Southern_Plains_Railfan

  • @Southern_Plains_Railfan
    @Southern_Plains_Railfan  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Thank you to all the Discord server members who submitted locomotives for this video! If you would like to join the Discord Server, just click the link! discord.gg/TFm76w9MtW

  • @jovanweismiller7114
    @jovanweismiller7114 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I've been in the cab of the UP Big Boy. It was being transferred somewhere back in the 50s when it stopped in my hometown, a Division Pointon the UP. My uncle & my cousin both worked for the road (as had my Dad, my Granddad, and several other cousins). One of them finagled me into the cab. Quite an experience for a little boy fascinated by trains!

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Best description of the Soviet diesel/steam hybrid monster I think I've seen. The USSR, incidentally, built probably many more opposed-piston Diesels based on the Fairbanks-Morse than Fairbanks-Morse ever did in the TE3 and TE10 series. If you thought Alcos were smoky look out some videos of those!

  • @NStransit8099
    @NStransit8099 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    4:40, there was CSX #909, which had a Conrail sticker but was immediately removed.

  • @kens.3729
    @kens.3729 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    If someone wants to Find a Unique Railfan Channel with Topics you Won’t See Anywhere else, Look NO further. Thanks for your Consistent and Strong 💪 Efforts.

  • @cxmx3295
    @cxmx3295 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Interesting and cool video and congratulations and your first sponsor

    • @Southern_Plains_Railfan
      @Southern_Plains_Railfan  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you!

    • @cxmx3295
      @cxmx3295 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Southern_Plains_Railfan you’re welcome

  • @3xfaster
    @3xfaster 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I especially love the little alligator on the train clip, I’ve seen him posted on tumblr singing with his little accordion before and it was a pleasant surprise catching him riding the tail end of a Russian train.

    • @alexhajnal107
      @alexhajnal107 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's Gena from the beloved Soviet children's book (and later film series) _Gena the Crocodile and His Friends_ (which also includes the iconic Cheburashka). Its signature message, _it's not where you come from but kindness that matters,_ still resonates today.

  • @RobertCraft-re5sf
    @RobertCraft-re5sf 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    WOOOO let's go! Keep this series chuggin!

  • @barryphillips7327
    @barryphillips7327 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We have A67 built 1873 still runs ( numerous rebuilds no doubt )

  • @snerso1
    @snerso1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    It's a little uncanny seeing my work in another video, but this is a great use of it! There seems to be a lot of conflicting information on the TP1-1, and it is made no easier by the fact that the most helpful sources are translated from or are written in russian. I wonder if alot of these contradictions also come from the experimental nature of the locomotive, as the source I viewed in the creation of my model made no mention of diesel as a fuel. Instead the document implied that the coal gas was used to power the internal combustion engine. I have also just found the source you were likely referencing, which described the use of the diesel engine. Certainly an interesting rabbit hole to dive down, though it seems rife with contradictory information.

  • @bahnspotterEU
    @bahnspotterEU 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Have a look at the DR class 19 1001 from Germany. It was a streamlined express steam engine that was powered by four so-called “steam motors”, which powered the four driving axles individually, so there were no connecting rods. For an express engine it had very small driving wheels at just 1250mm or around four feet. Still, it apparently reached a top speed in testing of 186 kph (115 mph), making it one of the fastest European steam locomotives of all.

    • @harrymcandrew1447
      @harrymcandrew1447 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thats one goofy looking loco

    • @esajuhanirintamaki965
      @esajuhanirintamaki965 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was ferried to US after WW2 as an war booty. After several years 19 1001 was scrapped. It was very interesting attempt to refresh steam loco's performance, but eventually lost to the diesels and electric locos.

  • @PCMan8922
    @PCMan8922 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Amazingly Weird. XD

  • @rfirtfan2809
    @rfirtfan2809 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    FCCA is at least part owned by Henry Posner's group, and he worked for Conrail so that might also be a reason.

  • @josepantoja5033
    @josepantoja5033 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Finally, a new video

  • @PeterStrange-oy9ev
    @PeterStrange-oy9ev 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You included 4chan in context and your coupon is for a product I actually want. I like you guys.

  • @SoCalOCRailfan
    @SoCalOCRailfan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This is an interesting video to learn about some weird locomotives. A lot of facts I didn’t learn but some I knew.

  • @JNRC62fan
    @JNRC62fan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Fairy Queen aka #22 is a very beautiful steam engine, hope she will keep on running

    • @Trainguy457
      @Trainguy457 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Indian’s Steam Queen would run on her Wheels
      😮

  • @RobertCraft-re5sf
    @RobertCraft-re5sf 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Of course the fairt queen was made in England

  • @MSwolfdog158
    @MSwolfdog158 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rajiv Was based on real life steam locomotive "The Fairy Queen", also known as the East Indian Railway No. 22, is a steam locomotive which was built in 1855. It was restored by Loco Works Perambur, Chennai in 1997, and housed at the Rewari Railway Heritage Museum.

  • @asteroidrules
    @asteroidrules 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My favorite bizarre locomotives are the steam-electric and electric-steam, and yes those are two different things. A steam-electric is basically the same principle as a diesel-electric, except with a steam turbine instead of a diesel engine, this was attempted in Chesapeake and Ohio's M-1 streamliner, an absolutely gigantic loco that had a single steam turbine powering four electric generators, which in turn powered eight electric traction motors. Just because they thought it wasn't weird enough, the M-1 was also a tender-tank with a front mounted coal bunker, it still has a water tender in the rear, but the coal is entirely contained in the front third of the locomotive with the cab immediately behind it, which I guess also makes it a cab-forward since the boiler is all behind the cab.
    Meanwhile the electric-steam is an entirely different beast, it's a steam locomotive that uses an electric boiler instead of combustible fuel to generate steam, essentially the same as the steam generators on some electric passenger locos, but for traction purposes rather than heating. Basically it's just a very inefficient method of building an electric locomotive but it was done for some very specific circumstances. During World War 2, Swiss Federal Railways were continuing their railway electrification program, and while they'd already gotten over 75% of their rails electrified, they didn't have enough electric locos to do all the work, because there was a war on all the heavy industries they would normally contract for locomotives were busy making tanks, and to make matters worse coal prices were skyrocketing. As a stop-gap measure they comverted a couple of 0-6-0 shunters to use electric boilers powered by overhead wires. It worked, but after the war they were rapidly replaced by "true" electrics. Funnily enough more recently the electric-steam concept was revived in model trains, someone figured out that you can build an extremely tiny steam engine into a model train that uses an electric heating element and draws power from the track just like a standard model train.

    • @trainguy2155
      @trainguy2155 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what about the French heilmann steam electrical locomotives

  • @Routeofthe400productions
    @Routeofthe400productions 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When I saw PAT I died of laughter

  • @GrahamsGarage
    @GrahamsGarage 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The intro gets me amped up every time, keep it up man great stuff!

  • @pokemontrainermichael5551
    @pokemontrainermichael5551 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    all locomotives are perfect to me no matter what, and the pink Santa Fe Diesel looks good

  • @FallenFlagRailfan
    @FallenFlagRailfan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yay! New video outtt!
    Edit: PAT MADE IT LETS GO!

  • @SP4449Fan
    @SP4449Fan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video! ❤️❤️❤️

  • @danielmkubacki
    @danielmkubacki 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So cool!

  • @Kagemori-Michiru
    @Kagemori-Michiru 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Those guys are talented to do that

  • @CSXEK
    @CSXEK 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A 170 year old locomotive and there’s 2 conrail locomotives in originaly paint works on a short line in Michigan it’s the ELS railroad

  • @gamerfan8445
    @gamerfan8445 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    4:41 should we count the CSX one?

    • @alexhajnal107
      @alexhajnal107 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bad choice of shots. CSX has controversially chosen to paint the heritage liveries only on the rear halves of the locomotives.

  • @yakacm
    @yakacm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Fairy Queen is nearly as old as the B-52, lol.

  • @alcarez_z
    @alcarez_z 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There are two honorable mentions from the German ‚Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft‘. One is 05 003, a cab-forward version of the 05 series high-speed engines (05 002 holds the speedrecord for steamengines until today with 201 km/h, no discussion!) which was powered by coledust and didn’t work really well.
    The other one is 19 001, a steam-motor powered engine with 4 V2 steam-motors, also quite fast, 186 km/h. It was taken to the US after the war, as Deutsche Bundesbahn didn’t want to buy it back it was scrapped. 🥲

  • @victorcontreras3368
    @victorcontreras3368 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's unfortunate that the Soviet Union didn't give a hoot about preserving unique locomotives for future display so that the public could view and learn about these scarce treasures!😢

  • @GTech_builds
    @GTech_builds 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i would love to see another video about the other two soviet cotraptions

  • @yomuno2511
    @yomuno2511 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love that Soviet crocodile.

  • @CBrailfan
    @CBrailfan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a nice and interesting video and I have actually been to the Canadian railway museum and I have a picture of 77

  • @Bigbigpoopi
    @Bigbigpoopi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    11:23 Tobias and the Half Pariah was real

    • @DIDYOUDO5778
      @DIDYOUDO5778 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about Pat and the Half Pariah

  • @vovalikuha5291
    @vovalikuha5291 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    За крокодила Гену респект и лайк!

  • @FalbertForester
    @FalbertForester 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm fond of the compressed air powered locomotives. Great big riveted tanks of air - dirigibles squeezed down really, really tiny!

  • @Ilikesteamtrains_4449
    @Ilikesteamtrains_4449 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pat is one weird switcher

  • @mijicalmagiemance8014
    @mijicalmagiemance8014 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When will the next vid come and great vid

  • @user-il8qo1kj1d
    @user-il8qo1kj1d 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    An interesting movie! Especially about the Soviet locomotive. There's a picture from a magazine «Техника - молодёжи», from the article about ТП1. The picture actually shows steam diesel hybrid Locomotive ТП1 (from Kolomna Locomotive Works), but the number (8000) is from a steam diesel hybrid locomotive from another factory (Voroshilovgrad Locomotive Works). I have this magazine (with error on the picture)

  • @cxmx3295
    @cxmx3295 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    On your first sponsor

  • @NW-gi1cp
    @NW-gi1cp 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Brass modelers: ❤️👄❤️

  • @Cowl_5544
    @Cowl_5544 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The stalins made my Russian friend laugh

    • @Cowl_5544
      @Cowl_5544 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Also he said if you covered the AA-20 he would’ve been happy

  • @johnsmith-de9wv
    @johnsmith-de9wv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You missed the biggest strongest and strangest of all you missed the trick ",Beyer Peacock"!!!

  • @mjc8281
    @mjc8281 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    While not a locomotive, I'm not sure any list of this type is complete without the M497 rail car. In all seriousness though, I think what most people that look at the history of the railways miss is that for half of its lifetime railways where the cutting edge of technology, as an engineer, inventor, this is what was pushing the edge of our understanding not just of trains, but of many other areas of research, so the amount of dead-ends are actually to be expected.

  • @AndrewJohnson-ur3lw
    @AndrewJohnson-ur3lw 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you think that Russian loco was interesting see the Kitson-Still loco built by the same maker as Fairy Queen.

  • @yourfellowpancake6335
    @yourfellowpancake6335 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Could you provide the link/info for the version of the Wellerman you used in the video?

  • @jozefbubez6116
    @jozefbubez6116 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can't see that anything we make today can last half that long! "Oh, sorry, doesn't work with the latest software etc!"

  • @LANouveau
    @LANouveau 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what is that stop motion called?

  • @xaviernavar8133
    @xaviernavar8133 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Now I have to kitbash a Pat!

  • @AuroraPerformance
    @AuroraPerformance 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I want that toy so bad I just can’t afford it 😭

  • @ctwentysevenj6531
    @ctwentysevenj6531 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Austrian electric locomotive BBO 1082 class built in 1931, although an electric locomotive, it looked like a steam locomotive. Only one built. Scrapped during WW2.

  • @littlemanwithnosanity3035
    @littlemanwithnosanity3035 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mount Washington no. 4: Pathetic

  • @JohnRowsell
    @JohnRowsell 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How about the "Leader" of the UK Southern Railway.

  • @nicowolters8959
    @nicowolters8959 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And what is with the belgian hexaplex steam engine?

  • @benediktmorak4409
    @benediktmorak4409 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    maybe not weird, but definitely interesting.
    On many a CHINESE steam loco i saw
    The the exhaust steam from the pistons was lead up to the funnel.
    Suppose this would -dilute- the smoke?
    But also helped to extinguish any sparks that begun many a fire on the sides of the rail tracks?

  • @jakubkopecky9878
    @jakubkopecky9878 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Something similar as that Irish "Pat" locomotive is pictured in Hajao Mijazaki anime movie Castle in the sky.

  • @WONGWAIHANGHAINES2A23-mx7sh
    @WONGWAIHANGHAINES2A23-mx7sh 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Toot - big boy

  • @DominicThePlotagon-tl7hz
    @DominicThePlotagon-tl7hz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What train is that the green one 0:16

  • @beambyte4902
    @beambyte4902 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    fairy queen is not the train that i dont know it is the most british engines i've ever seen

  • @captaincaveman177
    @captaincaveman177 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what is that giant loco at the start of the vid?

  • @ReggieArford
    @ReggieArford 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There's an electric bicycle ad before this video that's 8:29 long, with no way to skip it. Not the way I'd want to show my product - just saying.

  • @user-iv9qj7ys3y
    @user-iv9qj7ys3y 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There is actually a video of a steam diesel hybrid locomotive in you tube. Just type теплопаровоз

  • @theromanorder
    @theromanorder 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    please do a video on
    the porters steam loco
    the Japanese class d5,
    the Chinese QJ 2,10,2
    or just exsamples of asian trains
    how do gear trains work
    something on saddle bolier and side tanks (like the big water boxes) tank engines
    double ended diesel trains (and electric)
    eletric trains
    American and European switches other then the British class 07-09
    what to do if the train stalls
    one talking about the different types of steam funnles and there uses,
    a video on steam locomotive combination breaks (steam and vacuum brakes)
    a short video on how a Armstrong turn table works
    what did train flagman do
    what did trains (mostly steam) do when going in tunnels, ive heard of gas masks or just useing a wet cloth, or did they bring in other engines like later on they used electric trains, or were there no bigv tunnels.
    evaluation of electric trains
    why are some trains wagion tops (the stream lining thing to boilers)
    railway terms abd slang
    one on the meaning of flag and lantern colors like green on rear engine means theres another one coming soon,
    the different types of cut offs/reversers/Johnson bar
    some are a big lever, some are a big valve wheel, and ive also seen some that are like rods, one exsample is train sim world 3 and im not sure where to find the other reverser
    and how much water do steam trains take usually, and how much would the crew drink

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hopefully

    • @theromanorder
      @theromanorder 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@rdallas81 probably not but im going to keep asking people for this

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@theromanorder some trains used to have water scoops to pick up water from between the tracks, and even other ways too.

    • @theromanorder
      @theromanorder 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@rdallas81 im aware of that and thank you for trying to help,
      But wich question were you trying to answer sorry?

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@theromanorder seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you

  • @BNSFguy_YT
    @BNSFguy_YT 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    cool

  • @alexander1485
    @alexander1485 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I want him to do a video with his natural voice.

  • @OldIron2188
    @OldIron2188 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:32 i just noticed these are the the same pair of geeps my dad filmed back in July (the bnsf geep was 3013 in the unedited version): th-cam.com/users/shortsq9azV2_iUDQ?feature=share

  • @enginediy_team
    @enginediy_team 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    nice vie

  • @enochbooher6509
    @enochbooher6509 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    TH-cam would be a better place with more southern accents

  • @TheAllMightyGodofCod
    @TheAllMightyGodofCod 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    England has no queen except the one used in a chess board, that is.
    England has a King. King Charles III

    • @karlrovey
      @karlrovey 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm guessing this is a re-upload of an old video.

    • @yomuno2511
      @yomuno2511 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You got Camilla.

    • @TheAllMightyGodofCod
      @TheAllMightyGodofCod 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yomuno2511 ok. Fair enough.
      She seems nice, I will accept that.

    • @chrisstevens463
      @chrisstevens463 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The last queen of England was Anne until 1707, the title then changes to the Queen of the United Kingdom, King Charles is the king of the United Kingdom and its Commonwealth countries.

    • @TheAllMightyGodofCod
      @TheAllMightyGodofCod 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@chrisstevens463 ok. Nice to know that. Thanks

  • @rdallas81
    @rdallas81 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love Soviet locomotives

  • @frananmar1
    @frananmar1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Queen of Great Britain........

  • @philleasthouse3791
    @philleasthouse3791 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm going to get on my hobby horse: something cannot be very unique. Unique is "unlike anything else" and has no superlative. More unique, most unique or very unique are nonsensical statements!!!! Like being dead: you cannot be deader than dead. Or pregnant: you are or you are not!!! You can't be pregnanter than pregnant!! If you're going to go public, make sure your grammar is correct.

  • @stylusfantasticus
    @stylusfantasticus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    what kind of english do you speak , just in case....?

    • @cloudy7937
      @cloudy7937 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Wild West circa 1840

  • @NothernMountainTrainHater
    @NothernMountainTrainHater 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I HATE this video!