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

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  • @ukaszwalczak1154
    @ukaszwalczak1154 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    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  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you!

    • @ReggieArford
      @ReggieArford ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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!

  • @jovanweismiller7114
    @jovanweismiller7114 ปีที่แล้ว +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!

  • @NStransit8099
    @NStransit8099 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @Southern_Plains_Railfan
    @Southern_Plains_Railfan  ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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

  • @kens.3729
    @kens.3729 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

  • @snerso1
    @snerso1 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thats one goofy looking loco

    • @esajuhanirintamaki965
      @esajuhanirintamaki965 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @RobertCraft-re5sf
    @RobertCraft-re5sf ปีที่แล้ว +3

    WOOOO let's go! Keep this series chuggin!

  • @3xfaster
    @3xfaster ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @JNRC62fan
    @JNRC62fan ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @barryphillips7327
    @barryphillips7327 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @cxmx3295
    @cxmx3295 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Interesting and cool video and congratulations and your first sponsor

  • @SoCalOCRailfan
    @SoCalOCRailfan ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @asteroidrules
    @asteroidrules ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      what about the French heilmann steam electrical locomotives

  • @PeterStrange-oy9ev
    @PeterStrange-oy9ev ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @rfirtfan2809
    @rfirtfan2809 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @RobertCraft-re5sf
    @RobertCraft-re5sf ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Of course the fairt queen was made in England

  • @josepantoja5033
    @josepantoja5033 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Finally, a new video

  • @pokemontrainermichael5551
    @pokemontrainermichael5551 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @gamerfan8445
    @gamerfan8445 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    4:41 should we count the CSX one?

    • @alexhajnal107
      @alexhajnal107 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @PCMan8922
    @PCMan8922 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazingly Weird. XD

  • @CSXEK
    @CSXEK ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @ReggieArford
    @ReggieArford ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

    • @Cooked154
      @Cooked154 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There is no ad for me

  • @GrahamsGarage
    @GrahamsGarage ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @alcarez_z
    @alcarez_z ปีที่แล้ว +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. 🥲

  • @MSwolfdog158
    @MSwolfdog158 8 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.

  • @Metra167Productions
    @Metra167Productions ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When I saw PAT I died of laughter

  • @Amakasu-Hisone
    @Amakasu-Hisone ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those guys are talented to do that

  • @SPRailfan4449
    @SPRailfan4449 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video! ❤️❤️❤️

  • @GTech_builds
    @GTech_builds ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @johnsmith-de9wv
    @johnsmith-de9wv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @FalbertForester
    @FalbertForester 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @FallenFlagRailfan
    @FallenFlagRailfan ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @CBrailfan
    @CBrailfan ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @yourfellowpancake6335
    @yourfellowpancake6335 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @nicowolters8959
    @nicowolters8959 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And what is with the belgian hexaplex steam engine?

  • @yomuno2511
    @yomuno2511 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love that Soviet crocodile.

  • @NW-gi1cp
    @NW-gi1cp ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Brass modelers: ❤️👄❤️

  • @danielmkubacki
    @danielmkubacki 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So cool!

  • @yakacm
    @yakacm 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @OldIron2188
    @OldIron2188 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @АлексейБелов-у5г
    @АлексейБелов-у5г 11 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)

  • @victorcontreras3368
    @victorcontreras3368 7 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!😢

  • @mjc8281
    @mjc8281 11 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.

  • @theromanorder
    @theromanorder ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hopefully

    • @theromanorder
      @theromanorder ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @theromanorder
      @theromanorder ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @AndrewJohnson-ur3lw
    @AndrewJohnson-ur3lw ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @jozefbubez6116
    @jozefbubez6116 11 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!"

  • @vovalikuha5291
    @vovalikuha5291 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    За крокодила Гену респект и лайк!

  • @ctwentysevenj6531
    @ctwentysevenj6531 11 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.

  • @LANouveau
    @LANouveau 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what is that stop motion called?

  • @AuroraPerformance
    @AuroraPerformance ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @captaincaveman177
    @captaincaveman177 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Ilikesteamtrains_4449
    @Ilikesteamtrains_4449 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pat is one weird switcher

  • @mijicalmagiemance8014
    @mijicalmagiemance8014 ปีที่แล้ว

    When will the next vid come and great vid

  • @jakubkopecky9878
    @jakubkopecky9878 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @cxmx3295
    @cxmx3295 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    On your first sponsor

  • @JohnRowsell
    @JohnRowsell 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @benediktmorak4409
    @benediktmorak4409 ปีที่แล้ว

    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?

  • @ΝικολαςΧελιδωνης
    @ΝικολαςΧελιδωνης 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @BNSFguy_YT
    @BNSFguy_YT ปีที่แล้ว +3

    cool

  • @littlemanwithnosanity3035
    @littlemanwithnosanity3035 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mount Washington no. 4: Pathetic

  • @alexander1485
    @alexander1485 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @enginediy_team
    @enginediy_team ปีที่แล้ว

    nice vie

  • @beambyte4902
    @beambyte4902 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @WONGWAIHANGHAINES2A23-mx7sh
    @WONGWAIHANGHAINES2A23-mx7sh ปีที่แล้ว

    Toot - big boy

  • @rdallas81
    @rdallas81 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love Soviet locomotives

  • @frananmar1
    @frananmar1 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @enochbooher6509
    @enochbooher6509 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @TheAllMightyGodofCod
    @TheAllMightyGodofCod ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @karlrovey
      @karlrovey ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @yomuno2511
      @yomuno2511 ปีที่แล้ว

      You got Camilla.

    • @TheAllMightyGodofCod
      @TheAllMightyGodofCod ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @chrisstevens463
      @chrisstevens463 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chrisstevens463 ok. Nice to know that. Thanks

  • @philleasthouse3791
    @philleasthouse3791 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @cloudy7937
      @cloudy7937 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Wild West circa 1840

  • @NothernMountainTrainHater
    @NothernMountainTrainHater 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I HATE this video!

  • @xaviernavar8133
    @xaviernavar8133 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Now I have to kitbash a Pat!