Glad to see there are still men in sheds keeping these babies running. My grandparents lived in Ripley (less than 10 miles from Cromford) and we would always go to the steam engine rally from there when we were children in the 1980's and 90's.
This simultaneously the goofiest and coolest thing I have ever seen, from the comical train horn to the fact they're holding up an endless pileup of traffic behind them
@@JackieOwl94 They're amazed by why someone would spend so much money on an "autonomous environmentally friendly" vehicle causing global environmental disasters through lithium and other invasive resource extraction processes, not including disposal of the heavy metal wastes from mining or when cells need to be replaced, instead of just buying a horse.
Yea i watched nascar but really like f1. Nascar = crash. F1 = that cartoon where there is just a character left with a steering wheel going down the road. "
i love how comically powerful these things sound, the violent vibrations and overwhelming power just going like 5 mph... incredible. Watch Europa The Last Battle.
@@0SynergyThey're between 50 and 100hp, so the power output of the engine is not particularly high (though for the time, certainly impressive, it took until the 1980s before european medium size farm tractors crossed the 100hp mark afaik) Torque at the wheel axle is tremendously high, because of the very large wheels and the exceptionally slow rotation of them. You could - with the correct gearbox - hide a modern 3 cylinder turbo city car engine somewhere on the steam engine, and have it perform very similarly to the steam engine. Yes, really. The experience would suck, but it is physically possible. Gearing is the magic word here. Torque is multiplied with the gearing. So if you have a modern engine screaming along at 6000rpm versus the perhaps 200rpm of the steam engines, you gear down more than a tenfold, and get a big torque increase at the output of the gearbox. Because that's what gearboxes do. Of course, it goes without saying that it's unlikely that a modern 3 cylinder city car engine will survive for about a century, let alone be fixable a century from now. They also don't smell as interesting, and don't sound nearly as cool. For the Doble steam car, similar things are valid. The engine speed is much lower than on a modern engine, so to put out a similar amount of power, you need more torque. Torque in itself is not the big important thing. A trained cyclist can deliver as much torque as a small car at the crank, but it can't nearly put out as much work because of a lack of power. But power is power, and with a long enough lever one could move the Earth.
@@laurensvisser7623 We have a MINT one with LUGS for bad field mud that is usually at the Stampede Rodeo in Calgary, Alberta. Along with other equipment from the early days: Remington Museum and other Alberta memorabilia. CHAIN DRIVE, baby. Chain STEERING.
Fun fact that’s not a steam engine. That’s a traction engine. A steam engine runs on rails. Traction engines run on road. Like Trevor from Thomas and Friends
Fun fact, a Steam Engine is a static machine that can derive useful mechanical effort from expansion of steam. First used to pump water out of mineshafts. A Steam Locomotive propels itself on steel rails. The Road Locomotive (later traction engine, but see below) was developed during the railway age and propels itself without the need for steel rails. A Traction Engine was originally a portable steam engine (hauled by horses) that you’d set up a pair of in a field and have them pull a cable-mounted plough between them (hence the ‘traction’ in traction engine). Later models could power a variety of farm machinery (EG threshing machines) by using power-takeoff belts. As they became larger and capable of self-propulsion, the traction engine took on the form we see here and the name stayed with it. The more you know 💫 Also, Big Up to Trevor the Traction Engine!
That exact thought really messes with your head. Next time you driving down the motorway/freeway imagine your still and the road is moving. It’s a really strange sensation
Yeah, some douche woud blow up the boiler but somehow still manage to get away from the constable by Bo and Luke jumping over the Snake River Canyon with Evel Kinevel even though he's dead.
I don’t know how it took TH-cam 9 friggin years to suggest this to me but I’m so happy it finally happened. Those are absolutely beautiful machines! Even the horses in the adjacent field were fired up!
@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 My comment that i posted a year ago (So the new fast an furious movie takes place in the 1800's?) just took off with reply's the last few days no idea why.
@@Thereisnoname-_- weight doesn't limit speed... at all... it just means acceleration is slower... if you try to speed up or slow down acceleration is slower... a point object moving at C with 0 weight will stop instantaneously if it hits anything... a 5 ton train engine moving at 1km/h would not stop unless all of the energy in the system were to be stopped and the heavier a thing is the more energy it has we call this energy momentum. And momentum is always conserved.
@@jazzfeline5970 Look at 0:22 there are cars on both sides of the road, and behind them are cars queued up as far as the eye can see, unable to pass. The locomotives even have license plate numbers on them and rubberized tracks, so I assume they are grandfathered in due to their age to not require brake lights and what not.
I love the horses keeping pace in the field “Oh man! My greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandfather used to share stories about these!”
Once when I was 5 or 6 living in a small town in Virginia I was looking out a window to a road in front of my house & saw what I swear was a steam train going down the road. It must have been an antique steam tractor like these.
And this is why you approach blind bends expecting the unexpected 😆, rounding a bend to see that coming at you 🤣. Awesome sight to see, true vintage street racing...
Fun fact. The city i live in has an event each year called "dordt in stoom" where they bring out all kinds of steam engines including steam boats, a steam train, steam machines and many more, most of which still work. The city is called dordrecht and online you can find more about this event
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Fun fact: the darker a steam engine’s smoke is, the more fuel it will use. Steam engine owners would usually try to get their smoke as white as possible to ensure peak efficiency, this is why the last steam engine’s pistons are moving faster, because it’s not getting enough energy from the fuel it’s burning.
It’s more of a balance really. A black plume means you aren’t burning coal very efficiently as it’s leaving the firebox as soot the byproduct of incomplete combustion. However burning too hot will produce more steam than the engine is capable of using burning coal faster while the excess steam is wasted by the mandatory venting.
Doesn’t matter to me. As long as mains pressure is within spec and regulation is correct, I’ll roll coal from here to the moon and back. Better than overheating and heat cycle the riveted box and boiler by burning white hot. Gonna have to vent steam anyways….
Nealy 1k upvotes on someone that has no idea what they are talking about.... steam engines don't usually have gears, so the only reason for them to be going any faster is the steam valve is opened widere and it has enough pressure to run that fast... that's literally it. It has nothing to do with the smoke being black or not.... and yes black smoke does tend to mean unburned fuel, but that's got nothing to do with how fast the pistons are reciprocating.
I was working in the UK a few years ago and had the weekend off, so I rented a car and went tooling around the countryside. I ran across a vintage steam tractor fair in a little village. OMG, if you haven't seen and heard these behemoths up close I strongly encourage you to add this to your bucket list. Awesome.
When I was a kid in the 1950s, I watched two of these lovely old monsters passing a dredging bucket back and forth between them across a small lake. I was enthralled.
Yeah, the second one is rigged for that, the drum underneath the boiler. It was used with a reversible plough rig as well. Two machines on the headlands and run the chains and run the plough forward and back like the shuttle on a loom.
I think my favorite part about this is the fact that these things are so slow that anyone in that line of cars could easily pass these guys and get to work on time. But instead almost all of them collectively agreed. "Naw fuck work I wanna watch a steam engine"
Not sure they thought that... doesn't necessarily look like it would be safe to overtake from the angles at the filmed point, esp when you consider you'd have to overtake 3 vehicles at once.
@@RBXTrains The problem is not the 3 steam engines, it's the 20+ cars behind them. Once a few more cars hesitate to overtake, they cause a massive jam. You notice how timid drivers always have several cars behind them?
I remember being stuck behind of those machines on an A road somewhere in the UK. Took a long time before we could overtake but was nice to see the power of steam!
The most ironic one was when I was cycling LEJOG last year, on a bank holiday, I did a bit along the A303 because it was less hilly than the significantly quieter A30. (The A303 basically bypasses the A30 for 90 miles). I was fully expecting to be the slowest vehicle on the road. But, in classic A303 fashion, a wild tractor appeared... th-cam.com/video/3Ss-D0FbYKM/w-d-xo.htmlh32m09s I don't recall encountering any of these traction engines on that trip, but I did come across one last time I visited the peak district. And there's a local fair closer to home! th-cam.com/video/vtsOjxXk2ic/w-d-xo.htmlh41m31s
@@Bellezzasolo The A303 is the route from London to Devon and Cornwall, right? I've taken that road numerous times when I was on holidays in the UK. Never took the A30 tho, not on that stretch at least
@@meterspoor if you go far into Devon you've actually been on the A30. The A30 is Hounslow to Land's End. The A303 pops up at Popham, where a spur from the M3 (of course the natural driving route these days) joins the A30 and the A303 begins. The A30 rejoins in the Blackdown Hills, which is the other end of the A303. You just drive straight on and the number changes, so it's easy to miss. From there it's A30 all the way to Cornwall, except for the M5 Exeter bypass. Last August I did an overnight ride from London heading for home in Dorset, so I used the A30 instead of the M3, and then A303. After a few miles the A30 reemerges, but it's basically a local road through Salisbury and whatnot. th-cam.com/video/M837dUWWg6I/w-d-xo.html
@@Bellezzasolo Yes, we use always use the M3 and A303 to go to Devon. I've also been on the stretch through Bodmin Moor. Also, your channel looks very interesting, when I have more time I'll watch some of your videos for sure. Thank you for commenting on my comment :)
Everybody talking about how powerful they sound, but how slow they go don't realize that the torque these thing generate is far greater than most modern cars. These things could haul probably 5X the weight of what a modern pickup could.
@@blaster1185 imagine building a gearbox to be handle that torque pulling that much weight. The gears would behave like butter. The only gearing available to steam locos is the size of the wheels.
Jay Leno steered my attention towards steam cars when he said while driving his Stanley Steamer: “I am going 60 mph in a car made of wood and it’s on fire. It’s fantastic!” Steam engines are really amazing.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s we used to Pheasant hunt in Lancaster County Pennsylvania and there were several Farmers back then that were using steam tractors tractors . I have a 8 by 10 photograph that I took back then hanging on my wall at home
I admired more the one coming from the other direction who slowed right down and moved over without making a huge fuss. I can imagine Karen’s just stopping in the middle of the road in a fit of pique.
"Tonight, on Top Gear. James dies in a boiler explosion. Hammond contracts cholera. And I sent the police to deal with a union strike"
Amazing comment.
Underrated comment. And doomed to remain so due to it being British pop culture.
Nah that’s Bottom Gear lol
@@TheUKNutter No no
, the rest of the world loves top gear it’s the jellied eels we want you to keep over there
Severely underrated 😂
The rising gas price really took a huge hit on the street racing scene. They are now using coals.
Anyone notice the red horse?
@@Juice4L999 yes i 00:57
And also wood😂😂😂
It's probably better than owning an electric car though. 😉
Ah yes the german solution.
“Boss, I’m gonna be late..”
“…no, it’s not diarrhea… I’m stuck behind some steam traction engines.”
Boss: 👁👄👁
i love how the boss assumed its diarrhea
Well he's always full of shit @@eastofwarden
Boss probably still thinks it's diarrhoea because stuck behind steam engines seems a little out there
Yea traffic looks backed up for miles
Horses are staging a demonstration in the background yelling "you will not replace us"
Lmfao
Sounds like an antisteamitic conspiracy theory to me.
I like how the horses are faster than the steam engines
@@weemissile never ask henry ford what he thought about jewish people
My favorite part about a steam engine is how it's like 98% comprised of things that will rip your arm off if you're not careful.
Ah victorian england
Kinda makes me think the human race is getting dumber and dumber,
Back then people knew better than to stick there fingers where they shouldn't.
It forces you to be careful, if you mess up you won’t make the same mistake twice
Enlighten me, why? What’s so dangerous about them?
@@luisecheverry8617 0:42 is a prime example
So the new fast an furious movie takes place in the 1800's?
Yes
Perfect
Steam punk era
Cyberpunk 1827.
Don't give them any ideas
The Fast and the Furious prequel looks *amazing.* That's some serious street racing right there.
To be honest, I would LOVE to see "F&F: prequel" like this! 😀
Steady and gentlemanly
@@panzerofthelake506 yes, that would be perfect name 😀
@@dav1342 swift and honourable
Hella lame comment that you stole from the other comment mentioning fast and furious.
Only 1860s' kids will remember this gem
@vizomak98 Well done Miss Marple
@@mannydekhar-antipov9954 XD
had remembered 💀
@vizomak98 No s-
@vizomak98 made me laugh so hard
Imagine the horror of seeing this machine in your rear view mirror, thinking for a second that a train is thundering towards you.
_[THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE THEME INTENSIFIES]_
Can you outrun a steam engine?
@@stellviahohenheim no
I love how Jesus replied to that 💀
Even Jesus got no hope for that.
Those wheels are sick, 80 inch 3-piece ultra low profile racing wheels
Glad to see there are still men in sheds keeping these babies running. My grandparents lived in Ripley (less than 10 miles from Cromford) and we would always go to the steam engine rally from there when we were children in the 1980's and 90's.
I love how insanely fast the pistons are thrashing at, yet the engine is only moving at like 10mph
that's power for you!!!
Mhm
@@krakenpots5693 *torque
@@Tracert-mc1hu I stand corrected
I mean it would be faster on a train track
I love how the horses in the field join in the fun.
horses be like: 😀
"Holy crap, Silver ... get a load of the horsepower in that one!"
@@marshalllhiepler " holy crap, Silver " - you should write children's books. Silver and Bronco catch the jewel smugglers, I'd buy that for the twins.
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391,
"Oh Nellie, just stop it. Quit horsing around for once in your life, dammit."
That has the potential to be the greatest movie ever made!!!!!!!!
If I was in that traffic I couldn't be even mad
Would be if i was in the back so i couldnt see these things
These new "motor engines" are truly quite fascinating!!
Horses are afraid,
Cars are stuck,
But I get to see steam engine tractors overtaking each other.
Worth it.
new poetic structure just dropped
(5, 3, 17, 2)
@@heheheiamasuperstarcatgirl8485lmao i thought of the same thing
@@damy2433
Great minds think alike,
It would seem.
Thanks for your appreciation, kind stranger; your words have made me smile.
Farewell!
This may be the coolest road race I've ever seen.
Youre wrong ... inside it whas really hot ...
@@GpunktHartman good joke😂
It's the right kind of drag racing -- 1% racing, 99% dragging.
Mad max in the 1800s ?
@@Chowbizful "Steampunk" original!
This simultaneously the goofiest and coolest thing I have ever seen, from the comical train horn to the fact they're holding up an endless pileup of traffic behind them
Exactly! And nice pfp
My favourite part is that they’re in public streets, so other people are seeing this madness happening infront of their eyes
Every train needs its cars
And I bet the drivers were pretty amazed
Reminds me of driving my Tesla through an Amish community on a road trip. I was so happy.
@@JackieOwl94 They're amazed by why someone would spend so much money on an "autonomous environmentally friendly" vehicle causing global environmental disasters through lithium and other invasive resource extraction processes, not including disposal of the heavy metal wastes from mining or when cells need to be replaced, instead of just buying a horse.
The scene was so spectacular, even the horses wanted in on the action😂
as a person who never watched f1, i can confirm this is the most epic overtake i've ever seen
As a person who has, this is still pretty close to the top
THROUGH GOES HAMILTON!
ALONSO GOES RIGHT THROUGH THE ALLEY TO 6TH PLACE
You probably watch Nascar
Yea i watched nascar but really like f1. Nascar = crash.
F1 = that cartoon where there is just a character left with a steering wheel going down the road. "
Time traveller: moves a chair.
The world 2000 years later:
now you know why steam cars are no longer a thing on the road they were to slow🤣
This meme was never funny.
Stop regurgitating it, zoomer.
@@yosefshekelberg5433 it's hilarious
@@briansteele3592 I'm sure it is, if you're barely sentient worm shit.
@@yosefshekelberg5433 Careful, you'll cut yourself with that edge
Men will never get old.
Plus the horses running in background , give the vibes of Black beauty ❤
One of the best videos I've ever enjoyed in 20 years on youtube. 10/10, five stars, and tea and biscuits to these fine gentlemen.
i love how comically powerful these things sound, the violent vibrations and overwhelming power just going like 5 mph... incredible.
Watch Europa The Last Battle.
Thats because they are comically powerful, the torque they make is FUCKED. Jay Lenos 1925 Doble E-20 Steam Car makes 1000 pound-feet of torque.
@@0SynergyThey're between 50 and 100hp, so the power output of the engine is not particularly high (though for the time, certainly impressive, it took until the 1980s before european medium size farm tractors crossed the 100hp mark afaik)
Torque at the wheel axle is tremendously high, because of the very large wheels and the exceptionally slow rotation of them.
You could - with the correct gearbox - hide a modern 3 cylinder turbo city car engine somewhere on the steam engine, and have it perform very similarly to the steam engine. Yes, really. The experience would suck, but it is physically possible.
Gearing is the magic word here. Torque is multiplied with the gearing. So if you have a modern engine screaming along at 6000rpm versus the perhaps 200rpm of the steam engines, you gear down more than a tenfold, and get a big torque increase at the output of the gearbox. Because that's what gearboxes do.
Of course, it goes without saying that it's unlikely that a modern 3 cylinder city car engine will survive for about a century, let alone be fixable a century from now. They also don't smell as interesting, and don't sound nearly as cool.
For the Doble steam car, similar things are valid. The engine speed is much lower than on a modern engine, so to put out a similar amount of power, you need more torque. Torque in itself is not the big important thing. A trained cyclist can deliver as much torque as a small car at the crank, but it can't nearly put out as much work because of a lack of power.
But power is power, and with a long enough lever one could move the Earth.
@@laurensvisser7623 We have a MINT one with LUGS for bad field mud that is usually at the Stampede Rodeo in Calgary, Alberta. Along with other equipment from the early days: Remington Museum and other Alberta memorabilia. CHAIN DRIVE, baby. Chain STEERING.
So many huge exposed moving bits moving way faster than they look like they should, way too close to soft squishy humans
@@HakureiReimuOfficial thats what makes me chuckle too. its just so silly.
When this baby hits 8mph, you're gonna see a helluva show! 🔥🔥
**cough** or maybe **cough** you won't, with all that smoke...
@@legendaryra3590 why does everything need to be a reference? It’s a joke
@@legendaryra3590 it's just a joke...
"we're just getting started"
@@legendaryra3590 gen z at its finest
Fun fact that’s not a steam engine. That’s a traction engine. A steam engine runs on rails. Traction engines run on road.
Like Trevor from Thomas and Friends
Fun fact, a Steam Engine is a static machine that can derive useful mechanical effort from expansion of steam. First used to pump water out of mineshafts.
A Steam Locomotive propels itself on steel rails.
The Road Locomotive (later traction engine, but see below) was developed during the railway age and propels itself without the need for steel rails.
A Traction Engine was originally a portable steam engine (hauled by horses) that you’d set up a pair of in a field and have them pull a cable-mounted plough between them (hence the ‘traction’ in traction engine). Later models could power a variety of farm machinery (EG threshing machines) by using power-takeoff belts.
As they became larger and capable of self-propulsion, the traction engine took on the form we see here and the name stayed with it.
The more you know 💫
Also, Big Up to Trevor the Traction Engine!
fun fact. a traction engine is powered by a steam engine.
"Is your car gasoline or diesel?"
"Steam."
I think you mean "coal"
@@scobeyrowley5115 Maybe. :D
The horses running toward the street acting like they remember hearing stories of these machines from their grandparents is everything
😂😂 or terrified from the noise and bolting away
@@johnshipley1389 Horses are easily frightened but they will be back and in greater numbers.
@@skull9674 We must leave before nightfall, or these hill with be swarming with ponies.
More like scared
why the horse red
What's fascinating is that the tractors aren't actually moving, they're just pulling the road towards them with the monstrous torque
nah they're spinning the entire planet towards them
Lol that one got me goin
What tractors? all i see is race cars in this video!
I hate that you're technically not wrong.
That exact thought really messes with your head. Next time you driving down the motorway/freeway imagine your still and the road is moving. It’s a really strange sensation
Fast and Furious prequel looking fire.
Santa has been real quiet since the naughty kids got creative
You just triggered some 200 year old memories in those horses that they never knew they had
fr i thought i was the only one that thought that
I have sad news. Horses do not live that long.
@@Sorin2120 genetic pass-downs
@@Sorin2120 their genes do
Memories are not inherited. Please go back to school to learn how genetics actually work
I can imagine another Fast and Furious movie with only steam powered cars.
A steampunk flavored racing movie would be dope.
Sentinel stream lorry ftw
That runway scene in F&F 6 might have actually been correct if they did ;)
FF producer: slower guys, I need to write down this one
Yeah, some douche woud blow up the boiler but somehow still manage to get away from the constable by Bo and Luke jumping over the Snake River Canyon with Evel Kinevel even though he's dead.
this put a huge smile on my face
Those horses 🐎 in the background were running for dear life at the end when that whistle was blowing!🫵😂
It's almost comical watching the contrast between how freaking fast those rods are pumping, and how slowly the wheels are turning.
and now think about what torque these things must have
Only to realise cars do the exact same thing
@@1earedwolf Reminds me of when I had a crappy bicycle that barely moved despite my roadrunner antics.
@@scintillam_dei good for going up hills 🙂
@@scintillam_dei then switch gears if it was a mountain bike and not a BMX
I don’t know how it took TH-cam 9 friggin years to suggest this to me but I’m so happy it finally happened. Those are absolutely beautiful machines! Even the horses in the adjacent field were fired up!
I'm thinking they may have been spooked more so than enthusiastically fired up lol
@@100GTAGUY
I’m sure you are correct but it’s fun to pretend.
Widziałem takiego na drodze w Lincolnshire niedaleko Bostonu.
Same here. Execpt, I just got this recommended today.
@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 My comment that i posted a year ago (So the new fast an furious movie takes place in the 1800's?)
just took off with reply's the last few days no idea why.
Even if this was 10 years ago, this is amazing!
Imagine just watching TV, then hearing a steam engine come down your street
Might be slow but the amount of torque this makes is on another level
Talk about rollin mass
It can probably go faster, but it would be dangerous.
@@Thereisnoname-_- If it went faster, it would probably blow up if it had to stop.
@@Thereisnoname-_- weight doesn't limit speed... at all... it just means acceleration is slower... if you try to speed up or slow down acceleration is slower... a point object moving at C with 0 weight will stop instantaneously if it hits anything... a 5 ton train engine moving at 1km/h would not stop unless all of the energy in the system were to be stopped and the heavier a thing is the more energy it has we call this energy momentum.
And momentum is always conserved.
@@livedandletdie What's C?
Imagine being overtaken by two Fowler BB1 Ploughing Engines.
Better than being run over by a Z7.
Chief isn't a BB1
Back in the 19th century... Likely it would've impress the many.
That couldn't be me
The pain would be so slow.
I WOKE UP IN A NEW BUGATTI 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
The steam engines. The outfits. The whistles. The location. The horses. Everything about this video is perfect.
Those horses running with the train are cool.
I can imagine how shocked the motorists passing by were, and indeed all the eyewitnesses😂
Not to speak of those stuck in the line behind them.
@@user-pc5sc7zi9j long line
It's pretty normal for the English countryside
And the horses
I imagine it's less shocked and more "Not *those* guys again."
lets be real, owning one of these is a bigger flex then owning a Ferrari
Quite a bit less practical tho .. & that’s saying something
@@Sam3532 have you seen the price of fuel?
@@Sam3532, Ferrari's are pretty much the antithesis of practicality. With a steam traction engine you can pull the entirety of Europe.
This whole thing is sick! Im so glad this showed up on my feed 11 years later 😂
Road trains..... Serious pieces of mechanical art.
Imagine being the cars behind the last two thinking "these guys are going so SLOW" then witnessing them begin an overtake. 🤣
It's like watching sloths fight
@@Ryan-op7yd intriguing, continue.
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This is the most environmental friendly air I ever seen.
That's what I'm thinking, is cool. But is coal too
what
thats what big oil would say
Just like China
Coughing, black puffs from their mouth. “Ya, that’s some good air.” Cooughing.
I love the sound of those steam whistles.
The guy standing behind that piston doing 10 million RPM really puts his faith in 200 yo mechanics.
That's great to see those old machines running like that.
You can hear how powerful they are. The piston gets going so fast lol.
Not to the 93 cars queued up behind them that are frustrated driving 18mph.
DumbDuck44 I'm guessing this is on a closed-off section of road for some special event. There's no way those things are street legal.
@@jazzfeline5970 Look at 0:22 there are cars on both sides of the road, and behind them are cars queued up as far as the eye can see, unable to pass. The locomotives even have license plate numbers on them and rubberized tracks, so I assume they are grandfathered in due to their age to not require brake lights and what not.
@@jazzfeline5970 These are road legal in the UK
I absolutely loved the green English country side and the grey sky, perfectly blending with a time memorial machine. Phenomenal.
do you also absolutely love the fact that its made with stolen Indian wealth?
@@sipsofhell9018 the industrial revolution happened quite some time before the indian raj
@@sipsofhell9018 It's not though, that's English steel and design right there, stay salty
@@sipsofhell9018 You drunk too much of an anti-British propaganda kool-aid spread by the enemies of the Anglo-Saxon world order.
@@sipsofhell9018 no one asked
imagine casually driving and seeing 3 steam engines racing eachother
Doc Brown really outdone himself.
I love the horses keeping pace in the field
“Oh man! My greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandfather used to share stories about these!”
Lol.
I bet your great great great great grandfather was around for this age, the one you mentioned is in the bible i believe. Cool man
@@timoarrg i dont know how long horses live but i think they did put a little too many greats
so that is about 300 years ago. He had a traction engine in 1720..... WOW, Mr Newcomen would have been impressed.
@@timoarrgq😂se
no need for that many greats
*That thing looks incredibly powerful!*
yea probably 10 hp maybe 15 xD
@@frankmartel3428 This thing will shatter your bones and liquefy your flesh.
@@frankmartel3428 Yeah but prob enough torque to take down a building
@@patrioticwhitemail9119 like 10 hourse would lmao
@@frankmartel3428 It's not about horse power. It's about torque.
Once when I was 5 or 6 living in a small town in Virginia I was looking out a window to a road in front of my house & saw what I swear was a steam train going down the road. It must have been an antique steam tractor like these.
"Man, this is gonna be a long drive. I sure hope I don't stuck behind anyone too slow"
The semis:
And this is why you approach blind bends expecting the unexpected 😆, rounding a bend to see that coming at you 🤣. Awesome sight to see, true vintage street racing...
And you bet a car would definitely come off worst in this case.
Especially when they're overtaking as the road signs say to pull in. A classic country road feature.
@@CoolSteve08 pretty sure it would just drive right over the car in the case of a collision lmao
Really idiots doing the overtake
Could you imagine the insurance claim.
Imagine seeing these guys a mile behind you in a race: "They're going to pass us in 2 hours! Faster! Faster!"
"Hang on, I'm gonna accelerate this baby into high gear!"
_[accelerates from 10 to 12 km/h]_
"They'll never catch us now!"
@@Klabbity_Kloots time to shift into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!
0-60 : Never
@@bimisikocheng 0-60: 20 minutes going down mount everest
Me and the bois when California bans internal combustion engines:
Hey, look! It’s Trevor! From Thomas the Tank Engine!
Toke the words out of my mouth
That's actually quite quick for a traction engine
no just looks quick cause hes passing a single
@@johnsmith-nl3js I meant in reference to the landscape
@@aaronwestley3239 Put it in 0.25x and it's still faster than that Honda at 3am
Breakneck speed. Great, great, great grandpappy would be telling them to slow down because he wants to get there ALIVE !
They create incredible amounts of torque
Fun fact. The city i live in has an event each year called "dordt in stoom" where they bring out all kinds of steam engines including steam boats, a steam train, steam machines and many more, most of which still work. The city is called dordrecht and online you can find more about this event
Hoe vaker in Dordt, hoe mooier het word!
@@daanwillemsen223 inderdaad.
150 year old Stoomer
@@daanwillemsen223 hoe dichter bij dordt hoe rotter het wordt 💀
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What a marvelous machine!👍👍 Insert Trevor the Traction Engine theme here
I love how it led to an insane traffic !
You don't see a ploughing engine overtake a traction engine very much. Just shows the power they have
They have power not speed
@@welsh_Witch That's what I was saying!
@@welsh_Witch gear them differently and they will go 30mph+ easily
Torque*
Technically they're all Traction Engines. But I guess it goes to show even traction engines had some diversity depending on the job.
Fun fact: the darker a steam engine’s smoke is, the more fuel it will use. Steam engine owners would usually try to get their smoke as white as possible to ensure peak efficiency, this is why the last steam engine’s pistons are moving faster, because it’s not getting enough energy from the fuel it’s burning.
It’s more of a balance really. A black plume means you aren’t burning coal very efficiently as it’s leaving the firebox as soot the byproduct of incomplete combustion. However burning too hot will produce more steam than the engine is capable of using burning coal faster while the excess steam is wasted by the mandatory venting.
It's the Victoria Era Coal Rolling...literally
Doesn’t matter to me. As long as mains pressure is within spec and regulation is correct, I’ll roll coal from here to the moon and back. Better than overheating and heat cycle the riveted box and boiler by burning white hot. Gonna have to vent steam anyways….
They should have bought Premium Coal not that cheap Brown Coal.
Nealy 1k upvotes on someone that has no idea what they are talking about.... steam engines don't usually have gears, so the only reason for them to be going any faster is the steam valve is opened widere and it has enough pressure to run that fast... that's literally it. It has nothing to do with the smoke being black or not.... and yes black smoke does tend to mean unburned fuel, but that's got nothing to do with how fast the pistons are reciprocating.
Awesome !! We haven’t clocked our miniature 4” Garretts top speed yet, but this could be a growing trend 😀👍🏼
Great stuff, didn’t indicate mind!😂 Love the flappy box on the front of the second engine, yap,yap, c’mon man!!!
I was working in the UK a few years ago and had the weekend off, so I rented a car and went tooling around the countryside. I ran across a vintage steam tractor fair in a little village. OMG, if you haven't seen and heard these behemoths up close I strongly encourage you to add this to your bucket list. Awesome.
Oh yes definitely! If I can find one nearby
I hear them every weekend in the summer, They seem alive.
i used to go to a place called bressingham all the time as a kid, the smell of steam and smoke is as good as the sounds steam locomotives make
Midwest Threshers Reunion. Mt Pleasant, IA. Labor Day weekend. These, trains, hit and miss engines, and so much more old stuff.
They cause a lot of air pollution though.
When I was a kid in the 1950s, I watched two of these lovely old monsters passing a dredging bucket back and forth between them across a small lake. I was enthralled.
1950's street racing
Yeah
Wow you must be in your 70s
@@dhirajkamath4057 DOB 1941. Do the math
Yeah, the second one is rigged for that, the drum underneath the boiler. It was used with a reversible plough rig as well. Two machines on the headlands and run the chains and run the plough forward and back like the shuttle on a loom.
This is pretty freaking cool!
honestly if i was stuck behind these dudes i wouldn't even be mad
I think my favorite part about this is the fact that these things are so slow that anyone in that line of cars could easily pass these guys and get to work on time. But instead almost all of them collectively agreed. "Naw fuck work I wanna watch a steam engine"
Honestly I'd have probably done the same thing. And I'd have to take a picture or video of it happening just to prove it to my boss.
Not sure they thought that... doesn't necessarily look like it would be safe to overtake from the angles at the filmed point, esp when you consider you'd have to overtake 3 vehicles at once.
@@RBXTrains The problem is not the 3 steam engines, it's the 20+ cars behind them. Once a few more cars hesitate to overtake, they cause a massive jam. You notice how timid drivers always have several cars behind them?
Everyone I work with would be pissed if I didn't get a video. They would probably leave work to come watch a steam tractor race.
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I remember being stuck behind of those machines on an A road somewhere in the UK. Took a long time before we could overtake but was nice to see the power of steam!
The most ironic one was when I was cycling LEJOG last year, on a bank holiday, I did a bit along the A303 because it was less hilly than the significantly quieter A30. (The A303 basically bypasses the A30 for 90 miles). I was fully expecting to be the slowest vehicle on the road. But, in classic A303 fashion, a wild tractor appeared... th-cam.com/video/3Ss-D0FbYKM/w-d-xo.htmlh32m09s
I don't recall encountering any of these traction engines on that trip, but I did come across one last time I visited the peak district. And there's a local fair closer to home! th-cam.com/video/vtsOjxXk2ic/w-d-xo.htmlh41m31s
@@Bellezzasolo The A303 is the route from London to Devon and Cornwall, right? I've taken that road numerous times when I was on holidays in the UK. Never took the A30 tho, not on that stretch at least
@@meterspoor if you go far into Devon you've actually been on the A30. The A30 is Hounslow to Land's End. The A303 pops up at Popham, where a spur from the M3 (of course the natural driving route these days) joins the A30 and the A303 begins. The A30 rejoins in the Blackdown Hills, which is the other end of the A303. You just drive straight on and the number changes, so it's easy to miss. From there it's A30 all the way to Cornwall, except for the M5 Exeter bypass.
Last August I did an overnight ride from London heading for home in Dorset, so I used the A30 instead of the M3, and then A303. After a few miles the A30 reemerges, but it's basically a local road through Salisbury and whatnot. th-cam.com/video/M837dUWWg6I/w-d-xo.html
@@Bellezzasolo Yes, we use always use the M3 and A303 to go to Devon. I've also been on the stretch through Bodmin Moor. Also, your channel looks very interesting, when I have more time I'll watch some of your videos for sure. Thank you for commenting on my comment :)
the power of acid rain, deforestation, and smog 🙏
Traction engines were a beautiful sign on roads like horses and coachs.
It’s even a little scary when you see such a monster approaching you from behind!
Everybody talking about how powerful they sound, but how slow they go don't realize that the torque these thing generate is far greater than most modern cars. These things could haul probably 5X the weight of what a modern pickup could.
Why aren't they using gears to make the rpm faster?
They also weigh about 50X the weight of a modern pickup and are about twice the size
@@blaster1185 The purpose of these machines isn’t speed. They’re more like really old tractors than really old cars
@@blaster1185 imagine building a gearbox to be handle that torque pulling that much weight.
The gears would behave like butter.
The only gearing available to steam locos is the size of the wheels.
@@johanbuis1369 wdym like really old tractors? That’s literally what they are
Jay Leno steered my attention towards steam cars when he said while driving his Stanley Steamer:
“I am going 60 mph in a car made of wood and it’s on fire. It’s fantastic!”
Steam engines are really amazing.
steam engines could’ve been developed further, imagine where we would be if that route had been taken
@@protocetid boats
@@imthemrblue I mean automobiles, there were steam engine cars that weren't whatever these are (custom? restomods?)
@@protocetid Except steam engines had a TERRIBLE efficiency percentage of fuel consumed to power being made. Compared to ICEs, definetly.
@@JagiUGG I'm no engineer but couldn't that have been fixed with the trillions of dollars and the 100+ years of R&D that ICE got?
"Why are you late?"
"You are not gonna believe this..."
Back in the 1960s and 1970s we used to Pheasant hunt in Lancaster County Pennsylvania and there were several Farmers back then that were using steam tractors tractors . I have a 8 by 10 photograph that I took back then hanging on my wall at home
The Age of Steam never dies!
it did in fact die
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@@lemau8458 Nope, we still use steam to generate electricity :)
@@theremixer4959 and not on the roads, which has nothing to do with what I was talking about
Everybody gangsta until Trevor the Traction Engine rolls up to the car meet
" dam, that cars low " , guy with steam roller "oh, I cam make it a lot lower than that "
Hear them coming from miles away
Aw shit
*He here*
Ah" exclained trevor "A harbour, the seaside, Children. That would be lovely"
@@Gameboy_1992 "You know what I say?" Asked Edward. "Fuck the children. Fuck 'em! They're getting entirely too much attention."
This got recommended to me 10 years later... HOW
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The horses running from the loud sounds at the end was a nice touch.
I admire the patience of drivers in all those cars
they have no choice
I admired more the one coming from the other direction who slowed right down and moved over without making a huge fuss. I can imagine Karen’s just stopping in the middle of the road in a fit of pique.
@@CycolacFanBut they're not really being slowed down. They just get by and move along. The traffic behind the steam engines is just stuck there
@@hamzerpanzer during the overtake the oncoming car had to pull right over to the kerb.
perfect simulation of 2 old people passing eachother with traffic backed up in both lanes. lmao.
What impresses me the most is, that no one thought: "hmmm, pretty slow for that amount of power, let's build another kind of power transmission"
I love how you can hear the second engine really rev up...followed by one of the slowest overtakes ever.
Good thing it has whistle it might sneak up on you.
Underrated comment lol.
Lmao yeah i feel bad for the drivers ears
That thing couldn't sneak up on Helen Keller. She'd feel the ground vibrating.
Those of some nice tractors 🤌
Those horses in the background are freaking out.😂
"Scotty, I need 5 miles per hour!"
"Ach, Captain, she cannae take it! She'll blow up!!"
scotty jettison the boiler into the sinkhole.
"Just haven't got the power"
Me and the boys commencing our steam engine global domination
I would join if I could
Yes, steam engine supremacy all the way!
@@tanto64 indeed!
Doesn’t matter where in the world you are, you’ll find guys being dudes.
@@nicksurfs1 and dudes being guys.
Whenever I think of traction engines like these, I am inclined to think of Trevor the Traction Engine.
Actual passing speed of my 94 Ranger