I don’t no where ferroconcrete ships are in use today, but the last time a ferroconcrete ship was constructed in Europe, was during the German occupation. The ship still exists today as church ship “Kerkschip St Josef” in the port of Antwerp (Belgium). In WW I the French built several ferroconcrete ships to be used as army transports. www.kerkschip-antwerpen.be/erfgoed.htm
@@wkruit ferrocement. It's not concrete. There are plenty of ferro vessels out there but the advantage in materials cost is outweighed by labour costs, because the system requires a lot of it. Also it can be hard to get insurance because amateur-built hulls are often less than perfect. They can be overweight because too much mortar has been used and this makes them weaker, not stronger. However a pro built ferro hull will last as well as a steel or GRP one.
I got a $10 citation from the city for leaving my trash can out to long after the truck came and emptied it. McDonalds & 6 Flags can leave a barge on the water an a Batmobile in the woods, yet nobody tells them to come pick up the trash or face a fine?
3:20 No, it does not use coal in its own engines. Like other bucket wheel excavators, it had all electrical motors and was provided electricity by a cable from the grid.
Not saying that it ran on coal was true, but it is more then possible. Most of those large excavation machines were in fact "plugged" into the grid, some used diesel generators where the mine was just to far off the grid. Could they have used a coal fired boiler and steam turbine to power a electric generator ? Sure but I can,t see some one ordering a system so much more complicated when diesel fuel at the time was like 20 cents a gallon. But on the other hand in its hayday that machine was running 24-7 and a turbine would not require nearly as much maintenance and would last much longer then a diesel -electric set up. .
We had a huge concrete boat built in my village in the late 60s early 70s. It travelled all round the world on a cruise, but don't know where it ended up. I remember the whole community came out to watch the launch at high tide. Massive impressive thing.
I collect Art Deco piece so that truck thumbnail caught my eye. It's so cool, the bulk and the front glass with the cap roof and large dropping heavy grill is so original of the era. Iam going to share this with east coast customized builder.
If you want to know more about the Herkimer Battle Jitney (used for this video's thumbnail), you can find photos, some blueprints, concept art, and videos of it, in the Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/1539262516391069/?ref=group_header
thanks. Side view looks like something you would see at a burning man festival LOL shorten and low rat rod style unpainted would also work. They say it was a air streem rv. Or 60s very similar with the round lines or even fins. About 56 -57 chevy times.
One of those trains from GM I've seen a lot at the National Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood MO. The styling of it has always intrigued me. Damn now I want to take a trip back to the museum lol.
Just one more reason that GM shouldn't get bailed ever again, all they had to do was adjust the angle of the wheel where it meets the rails and that ride would smooth right out as well as increasing the top speed. Same thing with Canada's Turbo train in the 60's through the mid 70's, it kept jumping the rails at just over 100mph for that very reason. We used to scramble to get our gear off the tracks when that thing came flying through, rail yard crew gear that is. Our train tracks are the same ones used for the steam engines, terrible ride.
Hey, "Mystery Men" was GREAT. And yeah, the Herkimer was extremely cool. Damn, I'll take it if no one else wants it ... same with that Batmobile! ...Gee, those drug lord tanks are just what we need, for modern American roads.
There's a giant electric excavator in West Mineral, Kansas named Big Brutus. It was used in the 60's and 70's for coal strip mining. It weighs 9.3 millions lbs and is now a museum that is open to the public. It ran off electricity and inside there are gigantic motors that powered everything from the tracks, to the booms and other equipment. There are stations all over the place for maintenance guys to ride along with it and just keep things oiled and lubricated at the time. It's really cool to walk around inside of it. If you ever get to Kansas, this is in the southeastern area and worth a visit.
The Miller-Meteor ghostbusters car IS a hearse. It's called a combination, the floor flips over, Landau panels go over the windows, an oxygen tank goes in place, a red light installs on top so it serves as an ambulance and a hearse.
Interesting about the McBarge. I lived in Vancouver for over a year and never realized it was there. Will have to look it up when I visit again (assuming they haven't moved it by then). The short fate of the GM AeroTrain is also interesting in that the Disneyland "mini-me" version of that same train suffered essentially the same issues and was dismantled in equally short order.
The part about burning man is inaccurate. The festival cleanup crew was the one to handle removal of the bicycles. The lazy attendees left them, but the festival management never lets the playa go tainted before packing up. It's part of our contract for being able to continue to use the playa.
Some years the cleanup crew is there for 2 weeks after the festival ends. Locals and attendees alike helped to gather and remove the bicycles left behind by the less scrupulous attendees.
Hey,the Big cole excevator is not Bild from Lauchhammer,it is build in Lauchhammer...east Germany...the Firma that him build is TAKRAF!!!! Very nice Video,greets from Germany!!!
I've been on that boat many times, it was still attached to the fishing pier at Sea cliff beach in Aptos. The last time I was there the pier had been cut off of it as the boat had pretty much broken apart and was no longer safe.
@@petergambier boats are the kind of thing that eventually become outdated and more costly to maintain than to get a new one, and nobody likes shipbreaking.
@@blockstacker5614 I agree, you could sell it off to be a houseboat where all that should concern you is the hull and so long as that's good it'll last for years, especially if it's aluminium or completely plastic. So, with all that plastic waste floating in the oceans it's time we got into boat building.
Interesting fact - the Cadillac "Miller Meteor" ambulances are INCREDIBLY rare and valuable. Think hundreds of thousands of dollars valuable. They were for the film like using the Delorean for back to the future - though orders of magnitude rarer. Excluding the ECTO-1 hack-ups, there are something like 50-60 known to still exist. Exceedingly rare. It would be absurd if Sony sold that car, and it's even more absurd they haven't restored it. Even as the prop car, it'd easily fetch 200 grand for private sale. My former ambulance company still has one in its original 1950's/60's baby blue and white livery, in absolutely pristine, fully restored condition. We use it for parades and at funerals for fallen medics. One of our oldest medics passed away a few years ago, he was the last one at the company that remembered driving those old boats for real in the 60's and 70's. He said that they were staggeringly comfortable and smooth compared to our modern rigs with the massive V8 and cadillac ride. Also interesting fact - if you never let the ambulance certification lapse, they could be grandfathered in despite meeting no modern standards. As long as they had the minimum required equipment of a modern rig, they can be kept as functional service ambulances. Ours isn't, but I think there are something like five of the old caddy ambulances in America that are still legally registered as ambulances.
THANK YOU!!! You found my Wife's Car. She ran away last year to become one of those Van Lifer Hippies. Maybe I can scrap it to help pay for her loosing at the Casino.
Wow, the correct use of the word 'unique' to mean 'one of a kind' rather than the far more common usage of it to simply mean 'rare'. Mind you, I'm not sure if screen accurate one-off _replicas_ of a unique item exactly count, but I'll let that slide...
Since both Aerotrains are in museums - Green Bay and St. Louis - they really aren't "abandoned". And they were not "back in the warehouse barely a year after their 1956 launch". Both were retired in 1966 - after 10 years of use.
If I'm not mistaken that batmobile is the 1 from a 1989 MTV "steal the batmobile" contest giveaway. The car came with no engine. The guy who won it had to sign an agreement with WB not to use it for financial purposes (he couldnt charge people to see it on display) after he got it the IRS hit I'm with taxes on it. He was forced to sell it.
Bagger 258 (and Bagger 1473 that is often confused with it) were both powered by electricity supplied by external power cable. NOT BY COAL. This is also true for the later Bagger models, like the 288 and 293 that are counted as the largest (by most measures) land vehicles of all time.
In 2020, it was reported that there were plans to refit the barge into a seafood restaurant, though a location had not been secured. Later in 2021 it was reported that an undisclosed site had been selected but was awaiting government approval.
This is not Bagger 258, it is still in use in West Germany. This is SRs 1500 and it used to work until 2002 in Meuro, East Germany. It was made by VVB TAKRAF, Lauchhammerwerk is a part of it. Furthermore, all of these are powered by high-voltage electricity and can not run on coal. Which also would not make sense because this one was used to dig overburden, not coal.
that was an interesting video. i used to golf at a course in sterling massachusetts that had a huge caterpillar bulldozer abandoned and left on one of the golf holes. i think it was a model D-9 maybe.
I had a trainee on my ambulance the other day and he said that he goes to burning man with his old schoolbus and collects the nicest bicycles after the event and resells them. I got my bike, a rare and classic schwinn traveler chromoly that way. I also used to work at a hot rod shop, we bought an 1970's chevy pickup as a parts-getter for like $400, and the bed was filled with old bicycles. I dug through them and saw one was a 1950's schwinn california beach cruiser with its original badges (big money) so we cleaned it up, powder coated the frame, rebuilt the coaster brake, new grips and cables, and I resold the thing for $5000 in 2007
That's because burning man is full of spoiled hippie wannabes on rich parents dime, people with every opportunity afforded to them that instead go off and live like bums doing drugs then discard garbage and even expensive ideas when the hangover comes and run home to mommy and daddy
Hey! Check out the 1971 Dodge Charger at 5:50 ! Now picture it with a Super Bee Charger hood (w/ power bulge and fiberglass insert), a Go Wing spoiler, and gleaming like black glass. That's what mine looked like. (she's gone now:( )
@@jesseturner9865 Thank you for your comment. The aerospace companies usually made such backups for practice and other reasons. Thirty years ago, some aerospace companies in the LA area had surplus sales on Saturdays, where they sold all sorts of space items large and small.
I've been at the Bagger, it's truly and amazing machine and a sight to behold. But it doesn't feed coal into itself, it feeds the coal into the power plant that feeds electricity to the Bagger
I saw some similar abandoned excavators in Ukraine, in a TH-cam video by some Dutch urban explorers (Exploring the Unbeaten Path). What made it especially eerie is that the mine they were in had flooded, so all that was showing was the upper portion. On top of that it was winter, so they were frozen in ice...
The bagger newer dug for coal, but removed the covering earth layers for later open-pit mining. It never burned coal itself, but ran on electricity, supplied by 6kV cables. Just sayin'
Not true for the Bagger - the cost to restore it then transport it somewhere it COULD be used would be higher than building a newer, more modern version.
The Aerotrains were operated by Rock Island railroad into the late 1960's, punishing their commuter passengers for many years. They were not returned to a warehouse after a year, but wer rejected for use by the Pennsylvania, Union Pacific, and New York Central railroads because they were so rough riding. The light weight was not the problem with propulsion, it was the fact that the engine only powered 2 axles, with a 1200 HP diesel engine, not enough for a bunch of cars. Not a problem in the flat midwest.
The ekranoplan mentioned in the video is the Spasatel, or Rescue, off-shoot of the Lun-class Soviet missile-carrier. The plane is in the 2018-2025 defense budget, so, it is very likely they'll succeed. As long, of course, as the government doesn't change their mind.
I have a picture standing in front of the Batmobile a Six Flags over Texas in Dallas. It used to sit in front of the rollercoaster. Maybe it’s the same one?
OK for people that do not know this. Ecto-1 the one that was in disrepair at the time is in a collector's hands and was restored. The batmobile was also restored five years ago. A person did see it that is also a collector of cars restored it and it does function today. That picture was over a decade old.
I beg to differ. My vehicle is very unique. It has a 15 speed transmission, ten headlights, stainless steel bumpers filled with concrete, it is hazard yellow, the ignition system is completely unique. I do not even have to lock it. Nobody would know how to start it. I will be adding a pickup truck bed to it next year.
11:18, go to see this aero train, go to Wisconsin railroad mueseum and u can see it…. U can also go inside if the train and look at the cabs and the skylight car…my favorite part is going inside the cab
Were I live I see people living on house boats so that Mac Donald boat could be turned into a giant house boat. me and my dad could go fishing every day and the battle crosser could be turned into a camper van.
There is a strange story about a batmobile that 'disappeared'. A motor enthusiast in Sweden built a replica of the 1989 Tim Burton batmobile in the 1990's. It was referenced from an airfix model (or equivalent) and by many accounts it was a really well-made replica, fully driveable and road-worthy. (I actually saw out in traffic once as a child) The ownerr/builder and his batmobile naturally got a lot of attention and appeared in a lot of car shows, magazines and tv-shows. This wasn't that clever, because it turned out the guy had massive tax debts. The tax agency decided the car was worth a lot of money, but before they could force him to sell it and pay his debts, the car was mysteriously gone. The batmobile was never reported as stolen but it wasn't filed as sold, exported or scrapped either. So, as the story goes: somewhere there is a fully functional, unregistered batmobile in hiding... I don't remember how the story ended and I might be wrong on some of the details. It is a fun story nonetheless. Could this be the same one?
The amount in each bucket 3:11 is incorrect. For a start it should be measured in cubic feet (volume) not square feet (Area). Even the figure of 5,000 cubic feet incorrect. Most reports put the volume of each bucket at 6.6 cubic metres or 6,600 litres, which is 233 cubic feet.
@@motosnape Even on that basis It doesn’t pan out as there are 18 buckets with a total capacity of about 4200 cubic feet. Also, each bucket doesn’t start loading up until it’s at the bottom of the wheel & empties just after top dead centre, so at any one time it could only logically hold about 2,100 cubic feet. People may think I’m pedantic but it seems to me that if one produces a video, time and care should be taken to explain things more clearly & relevantly & above all, correctly.
Please do updated research before blindly posting. The "McBarge" (Friendship 500) hasn't been abandoned for *5* *years* ! Even a cursory Wikipedia search would have shown you that. In fact, @ 1:22 you even show the vessel being towed from its formerly abandoned location on Burrard Inlet to the Fraser River way back in 2015! Although not in use today, it is being maintained and is at a private moorage on the river awaiting a new life.
4:00 the herkimer (however you spell it) there is one like it off the 215 freeway in California. Drive by it everyday and always wanted to stop and ask about it
That is SO weird! I was just wondering if the prop for Mystery Men got bought up by somebody. Was watching a video on Aliens hardware included the APC . Cool to know! Thanks.
My town where I born used to have a great recollection of dumped scrap so many items there are more likely to revive your reminiscence in case if u have exceeded 70 years
In a museum is not the same as abandoned, y'know. The Batmobile and a few others on your list are indeed abandoned, but the submarine and the Aerotrains are not abandoned. They're still being maintained to some degree.
@@davidhennen7045 "Abandoned" means "left to rot away because no one is caring for them." Being in a museum collection is not the same as being abandoned, although of course it's also not the same as still being used for their original purposes.
The Fordson tractor with the big drums seem to able to float on water if it cracked trough to the ice. Even could get along in the water by the screw design of the drums. But it is just a guess
Most of those deserves to be in a museum!
The cement boat is right outside my window. We're growing old together!
That's so cool. I love stuff like that, someday I'm taking a vacation out there to check it out.
Seen it many times.. I swear he kept calling it the Padoalto... oh, then there is the old Aptoes vs Aptahs debate.
I thought that Batmobile had been rescued years ago and restored on a TV show.
@@robdude1969 Aptose if you're fancy, Aptoss if you're partying! And we call it the cement boat, not the concrete ship, most locals.
Nice!!!!
The "Concrete" boat/ship was actually built from Ferrocement and the material/technique is still in use today.
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I don’t no where ferroconcrete ships are in use today, but the last time a ferroconcrete ship was constructed in Europe, was during the German occupation. The ship still exists today as church ship “Kerkschip St Josef” in the port of Antwerp (Belgium). In WW I the French built several ferroconcrete ships to be used as army transports.
www.kerkschip-antwerpen.be/erfgoed.htm
@@wkruit ferrocement. It's not concrete. There are plenty of ferro vessels out there but the advantage in materials cost is outweighed by labour costs, because the system requires a lot of it. Also it can be hard to get insurance because amateur-built hulls are often less than perfect. They can be overweight because too much mortar has been used and this makes them weaker, not stronger. However a pro built ferro hull will last as well as a steel or GRP one.
The "concrete" ships were the Library ships (part of them) in WW II.
I got a $10 citation from the city for leaving my trash can out to long after the truck came and emptied it. McDonalds & 6 Flags can leave a barge on the water an a Batmobile in the woods, yet nobody tells them to come pick up the trash or face a fine?
… but some animals are more equal …
Isnt government over reach amazong
Yup,living the dream,just not my dream. I totally conclude you pay a high end lawyer or you pay high end fines,and it's on your record.
3:20 No, it does not use coal in its own engines. Like other bucket wheel excavators, it had all electrical motors and was provided electricity by a cable from the grid.
plus it only cleared the overburden
No, it's true. It was a steam punk excavator.
Not saying that it ran on coal was true, but it is more then possible. Most of those large excavation machines were in fact "plugged" into the grid, some used diesel generators where the mine was just to far off the grid. Could they have used a coal fired boiler and steam turbine to power a electric generator ? Sure but I can,t see some one ordering a system so much more complicated when diesel fuel at the time was like 20 cents a gallon. But on the other hand in its hayday that machine was running 24-7 and a turbine would not require nearly as much maintenance and would last much longer then a diesel -electric set up. .
And at a much lower operating cost ( coal fueled )
Awesome vid
Hippies - sAvE tHe PlaNut
Also Hippies - Leaves thousands of bikes behind
That is truly pathetic.
@@tyrssen1 lol
7:33 that Ecto-1's fate has finally been determined: its been repurposed as the star car of Ghostbusters: Afterlife!
Yes!
We had a huge concrete boat built in my village in the late 60s early 70s. It travelled all round the world on a cruise, but don't know where it ended up. I remember the whole community came out to watch the launch at high tide. Massive impressive thing.
"concrete boat..."
Sorry, what?!
@@LordSandwichII ikr
you are dutch right?? je videos zijn cool
Interesting. Thanks.
Very interesting. I've surely subscribed
I collect Art Deco piece so that truck thumbnail caught my eye. It's so cool, the bulk and the front glass with the cap roof and large dropping heavy grill is so original of the era. Iam going to share this with east coast customized builder.
My good sir i hope you are able to save the HERK its truly beautiful and needs to be saved. The thumbnail caught me to good luck
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@@edwardtupper6374 thank you
If you want to know more about the Herkimer Battle Jitney (used for this video's thumbnail), you can find photos, some blueprints, concept art, and videos of it, in the Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/1539262516391069/?ref=group_header
thanks. Side view looks like something you would see at a burning man festival LOL shorten and low rat rod style unpainted would also work. They say it was a air streem rv. Or 60s very similar with the round lines or even fins. About 56 -57 chevy times.
One of those trains from GM I've seen a lot at the National Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood MO. The styling of it has always intrigued me. Damn now I want to take a trip back to the museum lol.
Mystery Men is an underrated classic
The Free Bike Giveaway at the end of Burning Man was part of the reason we would go.
Hmmm. . .. How can a train be "highly maneuverable?"
Now there is an interesting question
Means it can take tighter bends without falling off the tracks. Bit like a city tram
Maneuverable around tracks meaning it can take a tight corner better than most trains
Just one more reason that GM shouldn't get bailed ever again, all they had to do was adjust the angle of the wheel where it meets the rails and that ride would smooth right out as well as increasing the top speed. Same thing with Canada's Turbo train in the 60's through the mid 70's, it kept jumping the rails at just over 100mph for that very reason. We used to scramble to get our gear off the tracks when that thing came flying through, rail yard crew gear that is. Our train tracks are the same ones used for the steam engines, terrible ride.
Sure as you can't steer a train
You can't change your fate
Hey, "Mystery Men" was GREAT. And yeah, the Herkimer was extremely cool. Damn, I'll take it if no one else wants it ... same with that Batmobile! ...Gee, those drug lord tanks are just what we need, for modern American roads.
Yes.
JUNK IT!!
First! A pleasant walk through time when you could make mistakes and still survive.
Haha
That Herkimer looks so cool
It breaks my heart to see these vehicles abandoned
That Herkimer Vehicle would make the Coolest Resto or RestoMod . Astonishing that No-One has .
McBarge sure make a great home, have a nice kitchen built in
Excellent video! Very interesting I really like it thanks for sharing it 👍
There's a giant electric excavator in West Mineral, Kansas named Big Brutus. It was used in the 60's and 70's for coal strip mining. It weighs 9.3 millions lbs and is now a museum that is open to the public. It ran off electricity and inside there are gigantic motors that powered everything from the tracks, to the booms and other equipment. There are stations all over the place for maintenance guys to ride along with it and just keep things oiled and lubricated at the time. It's really cool to walk around inside of it. If you ever get to Kansas, this is in the southeastern area and worth a visit.
The Miller-Meteor ghostbusters car IS a hearse. It's called a combination, the floor flips over, Landau panels go over the windows, an oxygen tank goes in place, a red light installs on top so it serves as an ambulance and a hearse.
Interesting about the McBarge. I lived in Vancouver for over a year and never realized it was there. Will have to look it up when I visit again (assuming they haven't moved it by then). The short fate of the GM AeroTrain is also interesting in that the Disneyland "mini-me" version of that same train suffered essentially the same issues and was dismantled in equally short order.
The part about burning man is inaccurate. The festival cleanup crew was the one to handle removal of the bicycles. The lazy attendees left them, but the festival management never lets the playa go tainted before packing up. It's part of our contract for being able to continue to use the playa.
Some years the cleanup crew is there for 2 weeks after the festival ends. Locals and attendees alike helped to gather and remove the bicycles left behind by the less scrupulous attendees.
Hey,the Big cole excevator is not Bild from Lauchhammer,it is build in Lauchhammer...east Germany...the Firma that him build is TAKRAF!!!!
Very nice Video,greets from Germany!!!
So the Herkimer Battle Jitney is sitting in a junk yard with the possibility of a manager yelling at an employee to "junk it!"... that's awesome.
Maybe if you gave me some proper tools...
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya Prayers
OMG, i just leaned something new today, my car was mass produced!
Loved the Fordson Snow Devil and a sad end for the concrete boat.
I've been on that boat many times, it was still attached to the fishing pier at Sea cliff beach in Aptos. The last time I was there the pier had been cut off of it as the boat had pretty much broken apart and was no longer safe.
Thanks for the update OldB, where's Aptos and why was a costly item like that boat abandoned in the first place?
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@@petergambier boats are the kind of thing that eventually become outdated and more costly to maintain than to get a new one, and nobody likes shipbreaking.
@@blockstacker5614 I agree, you could sell it off to be a houseboat where all that should concern you is the hull and so long as that's good it'll last for years, especially if it's aluminium or completely plastic. So, with all that plastic waste floating in the oceans it's time we got into boat building.
Interesting fact - the Cadillac "Miller Meteor" ambulances are INCREDIBLY rare and valuable. Think hundreds of thousands of dollars valuable. They were for the film like using the Delorean for back to the future - though orders of magnitude rarer. Excluding the ECTO-1 hack-ups, there are something like 50-60 known to still exist. Exceedingly rare. It would be absurd if Sony sold that car, and it's even more absurd they haven't restored it. Even as the prop car, it'd easily fetch 200 grand for private sale.
My former ambulance company still has one in its original 1950's/60's baby blue and white livery, in absolutely pristine, fully restored condition. We use it for parades and at funerals for fallen medics. One of our oldest medics passed away a few years ago, he was the last one at the company that remembered driving those old boats for real in the 60's and 70's. He said that they were staggeringly comfortable and smooth compared to our modern rigs with the massive V8 and cadillac ride.
Also interesting fact - if you never let the ambulance certification lapse, they could be grandfathered in despite meeting no modern standards. As long as they had the minimum required equipment of a modern rig, they can be kept as functional service ambulances. Ours isn't, but I think there are something like five of the old caddy ambulances in America that are still legally registered as ambulances.
THANK YOU!!! You found my Wife's Car. She ran away last year to become one of those Van Lifer Hippies. Maybe I can scrap it to help pay for her loosing at the Casino.
Wow, the correct use of the word 'unique' to mean 'one of a kind' rather than the far more common usage of it to simply mean 'rare'. Mind you, I'm not sure if screen accurate one-off _replicas_ of a unique item exactly count, but I'll let that slide...
Nothing sounds more romantic than a Big Mac on the waters. 👌
The red Peterbilt used in the first "Pet Cemetery" sits on the side of US Rt 1 in Princeton Maine.
No way! Any idea how to get ahold of the owner?
@@eligebrown8998 If you do a web search do it there is plenty of information about it. I'm on my phone for a bit and not good at posting links well.
Not to be confused with the thousands of other truck abandoned on the side of the road in Maine.
@@ericwsmith7722 True. But this one is well documented.
Since both Aerotrains are in museums - Green Bay and St. Louis - they really aren't "abandoned". And they were not "back in the warehouse barely a year after their 1956 launch". Both were retired in 1966 - after 10 years of use.
Thanks. That's good to know. I really liked the design. I might take a ride up to Green Bay to check one out😎
If I'm not mistaken that batmobile is the 1 from a 1989 MTV "steal the batmobile" contest giveaway.
The car came with no engine.
The guy who won it had to sign an agreement with WB not to use it for financial purposes (he couldnt charge people to see it on display) after he got it the IRS hit I'm with taxes on it. He was forced to sell it.
damn that really sucks
the battle jitney is in a junkyard? WHERE?
*MUST HAVE BATTLE JITNEY!!!!*
Krispy Bacon it’s actually off the 215 fwy in Devore,California now
@@GWENZDADDY yes, I took a picture of it just last week.
Bagger 258 (and Bagger 1473 that is often confused with it) were both powered by electricity supplied by external power cable.
NOT BY COAL.
This is also true for the later Bagger models, like the 288 and 293 that are counted as the largest (by most measures) land vehicles of all time.
In 2020, it was reported that there were plans to refit the barge into a seafood restaurant, though a location had not been secured. Later in 2021 it was reported that an undisclosed site had been selected but was awaiting government approval.
A very interesting video.
Wow!!! classic we see different vehicle everyday
This is not Bagger 258, it is still in use in West Germany. This is SRs 1500 and it used to work until 2002 in Meuro, East Germany. It was made by VVB TAKRAF, Lauchhammerwerk is a part of it. Furthermore, all of these are powered by high-voltage electricity and can not run on coal. Which also would not make sense because this one was used to dig overburden, not coal.
that was an interesting video. i used to golf at a course in sterling massachusetts that had a huge caterpillar bulldozer abandoned and left on one of the golf holes. i think it was a model D-9 maybe.
What is it that makes trains highly maneuverable? The only ones that I’ve seen are on tracks, that pretty much rules out the maneuverable concept.
The Train looks like something out of Fallout
4:12 is it just me or does that look like the helmet of the t-51 power armor from Fallout? 😂
Yes it does good eye
@@Ty-47 thx
I had a trainee on my ambulance the other day and he said that he goes to burning man with his old schoolbus and collects the nicest bicycles after the event and resells them. I got my bike, a rare and classic schwinn traveler chromoly that way.
I also used to work at a hot rod shop, we bought an 1970's chevy pickup as a parts-getter for like $400, and the bed was filled with old bicycles. I dug through them and saw one was a 1950's schwinn california beach cruiser with its original badges (big money) so we cleaned it up, powder coated the frame, rebuilt the coaster brake, new grips and cables, and I resold the thing for $5000 in 2007
That's because burning man is full of spoiled hippie wannabes on rich parents dime, people with every opportunity afforded to them that instead go off and live like bums doing drugs then discard garbage and even expensive ideas when the hangover comes and run home to mommy and daddy
Amazing content. Is this narrated by Seth Rogan? If it is, or if it isn't, it's a great job either way.
The McDonald's water restaurant would make a killer nightclub.
3:50 It you came for the thumbnail
Epic!!!
Love the Herkimer Battle Jitney in the thumbnail.
What's that thing in the water at 13:48??
I wouldn't mind having one of those bikes. Could use it run a few errands and get some exercise since I'm retired.
Hey! Check out the 1971 Dodge Charger at 5:50 ! Now picture it with a Super Bee Charger hood (w/ power bulge and fiberglass insert), a Go Wing spoiler, and gleaming like black glass. That's what mine looked like. (she's gone now:( )
Interesting video. An Apollo capsule is at a desert museum in New Mexico.
Meteor crater just off of I-40. The capsule is there because the astronaughts did a lot of training there.
@@westsidetrucker7943 Thank you for your comment.
not an actual capsule but a boiler plate. scale model to practice in.
@@jesseturner9865 Thank you for your comment. The aerospace companies usually made such backups for practice and other reasons. Thirty years ago, some aerospace companies in the LA area had surplus sales on Saturdays, where they sold all sorts of space items large and small.
I've been at the Bagger, it's truly and amazing machine and a sight to behold.
But it doesn't feed coal into itself, it feeds the coal into the power plant that feeds electricity to the Bagger
I saw some similar abandoned excavators in Ukraine, in a TH-cam video by some Dutch urban explorers (Exploring the Unbeaten Path). What made it especially eerie is that the mine they were in had flooded, so all that was showing was the upper portion. On top of that it was winter, so they were frozen in ice...
The bagger newer dug for coal, but removed the covering earth layers for later open-pit mining. It never burned coal itself, but ran on electricity, supplied by 6kV cables. Just sayin'
@@alittailfar Thats basically what I said... It feeds coal into power plant that then gives electricity to the machine...
It's sad that these vehicles are no longer used. It can serve other purpose if it can be restored.
Not true for the Bagger - the cost to restore it then transport it somewhere it COULD be used would be higher than building a newer, more modern version.
The Aerotrains were operated by Rock Island railroad into the late 1960's, punishing their commuter passengers for many years. They were not returned to a warehouse after a year, but wer rejected for use by the Pennsylvania, Union Pacific, and New York Central railroads because they were so rough riding. The light weight was not the problem with propulsion, it was the fact that the engine only powered 2 axles, with a 1200 HP diesel engine, not enough for a bunch of cars. Not a problem in the flat midwest.
i think one of those is in a museum
@@davewallace8219 St Louis Museum of Transportation. One of the Rock Island sets
Unique idea, excellent content. Well done!
someone should make a nasty techno club out of that mcdonalds boat
Cheap housing for the homeless?
Technically it is a barge .
@Caroline Balkon sorry but malls to buy more shit you dont need is the last thing humanity needs...
Aathis was so great to see all of this. Thank you for the information and entertainment.
Great video! What's the nice chill song used in the transitions throughout??
The ekranoplan mentioned in the video is the Spasatel, or Rescue, off-shoot of the Lun-class Soviet missile-carrier. The plane is in the 2018-2025 defense budget, so, it is very likely they'll succeed. As long, of course, as the government doesn't change their mind.
12:10 Kinda like the forefather of Sherp ATV =) At least basic idea is pretty close.
Mystery men! Confirmed!
I have a picture standing in front of the Batmobile a Six Flags over Texas in Dallas. It used to sit in front of the rollercoaster. Maybe it’s the same one?
Wow!
Nice music.
OK for people that do not know this.
Ecto-1 the one that was in disrepair at the time is in a collector's hands and was restored.
The batmobile was also restored five years ago. A person did see it that is also a collector of cars restored it and it does function today. That picture was over a decade old.
Not gonna lie when I first saw the Narco tanks I thought they were some sort of reject TIV (tornado intercept vehicle)!
I beg to differ. My vehicle is very unique. It has a 15 speed transmission, ten headlights, stainless steel bumpers filled with concrete, it is hazard yellow, the ignition system is completely unique. I do not even have to lock it. Nobody would know how to start it. I will be adding a pickup truck bed to it next year.
11:18, go to see this aero train, go to Wisconsin railroad mueseum and u can see it…. U can also go inside if the train and look at the cabs and the skylight car…my favorite part is going inside the cab
I thought volume is expressed in cubic feet, not square feet.
Some people should never be given cool stuff. The Ghost Buster car is way more or just as iconic as the Batmobile
Maybe regarding the Michael Keating Batmobile, but definitely not the Adam West Batmobile.
Not by a long shot.
Were I live I see people living on house boats so that Mac Donald boat could be turned into a giant house boat. me and my dad could go fishing every day and the battle crosser could be turned into a camper van.
I liked the Mystery Men movie :(
Loved that movie
There is a strange story about a batmobile that 'disappeared'. A motor enthusiast in Sweden built a replica of the 1989 Tim Burton batmobile in the 1990's. It was referenced from an airfix model (or equivalent) and by many accounts it was a really well-made replica, fully driveable and road-worthy. (I actually saw out in traffic once as a child) The ownerr/builder and his batmobile naturally got a lot of attention and appeared in a lot of car shows, magazines and tv-shows. This wasn't that clever, because it turned out the guy had massive tax debts. The tax agency decided the car was worth a lot of money, but before they could force him to sell it and pay his debts, the car was mysteriously gone. The batmobile was never reported as stolen but it wasn't filed as sold, exported or scrapped either. So, as the story goes: somewhere there is a fully functional, unregistered batmobile in hiding...
I don't remember how the story ended and I might be wrong on some of the details. It is a fun story nonetheless. Could this be the same one?
It's in the bat cave silly, lol!😱😱😎😎😂🦇🦇
The commissioner of Gotham City knows all about it but he's not talking.
When a vehicle that goes missing isn’t possessed, it’s more than likely some old man has had it locked in his garage somewhere for the past few eons
6:23 (on the right) if Elon musk was in mad max
Happyneko03 uwu u right it’s the cybertruck
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The amount in each bucket 3:11 is incorrect. For a start it should be measured in cubic feet (volume) not square feet (Area). Even the figure of 5,000 cubic feet incorrect. Most reports put the volume of each bucket at 6.6 cubic metres or 6,600 litres, which is 233 cubic feet.
Ian Canty. To be fair, he’d didn’t refer to individual buckets, but how much the entire apparatus could theoretically hold at any given time.
@@motosnape Even on that basis It doesn’t pan out as there are 18 buckets with a total capacity of about 4200 cubic feet. Also, each bucket doesn’t start loading up until it’s at the bottom of the wheel & empties just after top dead centre, so at any one time it could only logically hold about 2,100 cubic feet. People may think I’m pedantic but it seems to me that if one produces a video, time and care should be taken to explain things more clearly & relevantly & above all, correctly.
Please do updated research before blindly posting. The "McBarge" (Friendship 500) hasn't been abandoned for *5* *years* ! Even a cursory Wikipedia search would have shown you that. In fact, @ 1:22 you even show the vessel being towed from its formerly abandoned location on Burrard Inlet to the Fraser River way back in 2015! Although not in use today, it is being maintained and is at a private moorage on the river awaiting a new life.
4:00 the herkimer (however you spell it) there is one like it off the 215 freeway in California. Drive by it everyday and always wanted to stop and ask about it
Where is it off the 215?
Doofensmirtz made one of them.
That Herkimer thing looked like a BAD CHAD nightmare!
THe GM train definitely has 57 Chevy styling.
That is SO weird! I was just wondering if the prop for Mystery Men got bought up by somebody. Was watching a video on Aliens hardware included the APC . Cool to know! Thanks.
My town where I born used to have a great recollection of dumped scrap so many items there are more likely to revive your reminiscence in case if u have exceeded 70 years
Planes are produced by handworkers not robots; even car manufacturing uses handworkers for final assembly.
I wonder if that Batmobile was the one that was on display at thr Batman ride at Sixflags Astroworld in Houston.
It was torn down in 2005
I want the Herkimer. It would be my everyday commute car. In this crazy town I need it.
In a museum is not the same as abandoned, y'know. The Batmobile and a few others on your list are indeed abandoned, but the submarine and the Aerotrains are not abandoned. They're still being maintained to some degree.
You can abandoned a project by just giving it away...
@@davidhennen7045 "Abandoned" means "left to rot away because no one is caring for them." Being in a museum collection is not the same as being abandoned, although of course it's also not the same as still being used for their original purposes.
Trucks are cool
I have always wanted a 1959 Cadillac
Me too
The screw tank was ahead of it's time.
The Fordson tractor with the big drums seem to able to float on water if it cracked trough to the ice. Even could get along in the water by the screw design of the drums. But it is just a guess
Wait. The Herkimer battle jitney was real?? That thing was the best part of mystery Men. I too wish it had gotten more screen time.