That time a train decided to go swimming
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 เม.ย. 2023
- In todays video, we take a look at that time an Italian steam locomotive decided to jump tracks and take a trip to the beach
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No train that's the sea, you're not supposed to be there
Train : but why I want to play in the sand
Train on the water boat on the tracks
Tell that to Ivor, he goes regularly to swim with the choir
"Fuck you, that's what."
Imagon you go to the beach and see a train making a sand castle
"Water's nothing to an engine with determination" said Percy. And he ran off singing, once an engine attached to a train, was afraid of a few drops of rain
@bena.k.athewantedraccoon4360🤣🤣
"hm waters nothing to an engine with determination" Henry mocked Percy, pulling out of the yard with Percy on a flatbed for the works
I was thinking along the lines of Something in the Air
Percy was determined there won't be a next time.
What about Ivor he went for a dip.
"Engines don't swim, Henry. You were meant to deliver fish, not swim with them. You should know that by now."
"Yes sir, I'm sorry sir"
"What about you sir"
"..."
"I know whales can swim though"
@@brandxmacz2431 Alec Baldwin: When Henry arrived at the docks, Cranky the Crane looked down on him.
Cranky: My, my, Henry. I expect you'll have some fishy tales to tell. But take my advice, have a long hose down first.
Henry: Pah! (Michael Angelis: Hissed Henry.)
Alec Baldwin: But there was worse to come.
Boy 1: Look! They've caught all this fish and a green whale, too.
Boy 2: It's not a whale, it's a monster.
Alec Baldwin: Henry was most upset.
Who knew there was a real-life parallel to Henry’s plunge into the sea?
“You were meant to deliver fish not swim with them!”
Lmao.
Almost all of the original Railway Series stories were based on true events
@@ModernGameArmy True, there are two instances of engines falling into mines.
@@ModernGameArmy Yep - even such hijynx as James' turntable spin in Tenders and Turntables was based on a real event!
Why did I think this was a Revenge of the Sith reference for a moment
Glad to hear the engine was preserved.
A happy ending well deserved.
Only now I'm realising that rhymes.
It really must be a sign of the times.
Times indeed.
I don't know how to rhyme.
Hydrogen trains are cool.
OK Zecora
What is this? A Dr. Seuss book?
Sharon Miller? Is that you?
3:33 "Strong Ropes were fastened to his back end, and James and Henry, pulling hard, managed to bring him to safety"
The first comment I saw compared it to Percy, but as soon as I heard 3:33, this is exactly what I was thinking.
Damn it, Gordon XD
Should've just pulled his damn goods train
@@thedarkdevil1661 Gordon had one job.
"Waters Nothing to an Engine with Determination"
~ Percy ~
- 1956
What a interesting story. Glad to hear the engine involved in the accident is still around. I can only imagine what the people on the beach thought of this.
"Well well, 038. Did you like the water?"
"No..."
"I am surprised. You must need more determination. 'Water's nothing to an engine with determination,' you know."
Percy was quite determined that there wouldn't be a next time.
It I had a penny for every Thomas story where an engine plunges into water....
I'd actually have quite a few pennies, and that's surprising.
A certain reference of that line from Phineas & Ferb.
**Crashes onto the beach** “Ooooooh! Get me out! Get me out!”
“Not a hope, your stuck”
Coo, doesn't he look silly
They began to sing.
_Silly old Gordan fell in a ditch~_
_Fell in a ditch~_
_Fell in a ditch~_
_Silly old Gordan fell in a ditch~_
_All on a Monday morning~_
@@tgtterrorizor3407 *""So Gordon didn't want to take the special train and ran into a ditch? What's that you say? The special's waiting? Tell Edward to take it please, and Gordon? Oh, leave him where he is. We haven't time to bother with him now, we'll get him out later."*
I love when these lil stories end with "The engine is preserved and awaiting restoration." Just fills me with so much joy
"you're supposed to deliver fish Henry, not swim with them"
I think he couldn’t find a water tower, so he just went for a drink
This sounds like the kind of story that would fit in perfectly with the Railway Series. Please tell me Awdry wrote this into one of his books.
He didn't, but he did write a story based on a similar incident involving a tank engine that went off the end of a pier.
Percy Takes The Plunge, and Off The Rails are somewhat similar
As tales from sodor pointed out, the rws did have two somewhat similar stories of a similar concept. However, this has the most similarities with a classic tv series episode "Something in the Air" where the engine named Henry takes a coastal fish train, and derails when the track is washed out.
Edit: spelling
You may like to see Ivor the engine
This was probably based off in the episode in season five “something in the air” where Henry literally drives into the sea but cause of different factors.
When the locomotives talk at night, they roll their eyes as 038 starts to tell the story of his beach trip again- but they all listen avidly because it is the best story!
"He's fallen in the water!"
Every time I think that Classic Thomas was a bit too unrealistic, I learn about incidents like these
Great video 💙
Does are imitate life, or does life imitate art? The world will never know...
@@HustleMuscleGhias It goes both ways
Time to go watch Percy takes the plunge and something in the air again
"Loco on the beach" sounds like an interesting cocktail.
“Late because the engine wanted to go skinny dipping. Again.” Was a sentence I didn’t think I’d need to hear today XD
That sentence makes me laugh every single time
This brightened my day, hearing about a train who possibly could have wanted to go to the beach again.
This reminds me of a story. Somewhere in the Canadian Rockies a diesel/ or electric train was making its way along the side of a icy river when it burst its banks and completely flooded that section of track trapping everyone on board. They managed to get someone out of the train and to a nearby emergency telephone/telegraph machine that was on a nearby power pole. The only engine that could go through the water was a steam engine. The engine came and pushed the diesel/electric engine to a safer spot until the river went down.
Fascinating - I've seen some videos of diesel-electric or electric locomotives plowing through flood waters, always wondered how the traction motors don't get shorted out. Steam locomotive would certainly be less susceptible, their "wading limit" (more often an off-road vehicle consideration) would be flooding the firebox, which would probably be a good bit deeper than a diesel-electric's traction motors. I recall a scene from one of the Thomas the Tank Engine episodes where Percy's firebox got dunked in a flood and they had to burn the brake van's floor boards to get out. I'd imagine the deepest wading ability would be by a diesel-hydraulic or diesel-mechanical, which could probably go as deep as the engine air intakes, but those are not at all common. I wonder if some flood-prone areas design locomotives with waterproofing in mind? Or do they just elevate the tracks higher?
@@quillmaurer6563
Thanks for the comment. It is also important to note that this story is somewhat old (1920s 1930s. Possibly 1940s) and even though I remember the story, I can't remember all the details. So if anyone knows anything about this story, please share it. I haven't been able to find any information on it.
@@jnabors1254 If it was at a time when both steam and diesel-electric were in use, it probably would have been between the late '40s to the mid-60s. Though I believe electric (from overhead wire or third rail) were in use earlier than that.
@quillmaurer6563
There is just one problem. I don't know if the diesel electric engine in this story is correct. What I mean is I don't know if the engine that got stuck was a diesel electric or if it was an electric engine that ran on overhead wires.
(it might also be important to note that the steam engine that came to the rescue had either been retired from work on the line or was going to be retired from work and be used for shunting and other purposes.)
@@jnabors1254 Sounds like transition era, when steam locomotives were being phased out and used in secondary duties. Though it could have been earlier I suppose, that just being an earlier steam locomotive, but that seems less likely if there weren't mainline locomotives around.
Honestly, the way the recovery of the locomotive went, honestly sounds like this incident is partial inspiration for Gordon Takes a Dip.
And Percy Takes A Plunge, Right?
And Something In The Air, right?
@@SlantTrimreal Oh Crap, I Forget About That
@@Dead_Channel_Pretty_Much I don't remember that Thomas episode, "I Forgot About That".
@@concept5631I Meant I Forgot About "Something In The Air"
Here's a little silly rhyme I made for this story.
Once, an engine attached to a train
Was in a track of a single lane
It went into a tunnel
And with a squeak of its funnel
Jumped the rails away at the landslide
The engine came to immediate halt
Where it stuck on the beaches salt
Luckily no one was hurt
But the situation was alert
Claimed the crash was assualt
Workers inspected the engine
The plan did bring some tension
Twas to rerail the loco to shore
Soon temp rails were erected anew
But water and sand challenged the crew
The tide continued to have its way
"But build a barrier around" they say
They did so to make it work
Soon the pulled out the tender
With said barrier to defend her
With the valve gear ruined
They still had those rails smoothened
There it goes up that ramp
Despite its so very serious cramps
It was finally back on track
Today the engine is as good as new
With the engine on display, its true
So there she will stay
Glad to hear the engine was preserved
And happy ending well deserved, don't you?
And here I thought Henry, Percy and Gordon were the only ones to take a dip
Henry?
@@SlantTrimreal Ah right
You forgot thomas in "down the mine"
@@GABRIEL-du4uy that’s down a mine, not taking a dip into water
@@GABRIEL-du4uyhe has an ep of the sinkholes that inspired that ep
Yes, it's an Italian tradition that every summer trains go swim
More like, a Thomas and Friends tradition
Nah, trust me. An Italian engine gived percy the idea
"Silly old GORDON fell int the ditch"
Was it bill and ben who were making a joke about gordon, cant remember why, but i remember one saying we should take it to scrap, and the other saying "this lots useless for scrap, we'll take it to the harbor and dump it in the sea" 😂
@@Colt45hatchback Wrong Road is the funniest T&F story of all time
@@brandontan2335 thanks for telling me the ep name, id not seen that episode since i was about 6 years old haha, was good to re watch it. Also of note, gordon is mildly derailed in the last scene 😂
"Do you know what I smell? It's ditch water!" XD
All on a Monday morning!
Locomotive 746 🇮🇹 was the largest and heaviest Italian locomotive in existence. After the accident the 746 038 was restored and is now visible in Pistoia, Tuscany... Greetings from Italy! 🇮🇹
"Oooooosh!" He hissed. "Get me out! Get me out!"
“Not a hope.” Said his driver and fireman. “Your stuck you silly great engine, don’t you understand that?”
Train on the water, boat on the track.
Love how so many of the comments are Thomas the Tank Engine references. I do wonder if this - possibly along with other incidents - inspired "Something in the Air" (which might have just been a TV episode, not original book story). But in that one high tides had washed out the soil under the track, which collapsed into the water under Henry's weight (but they were able to hold Thomas). I'm sure there have been similar real-life incidents.
It’s literally people saying:
*I’ve seen this one before it’s a classic* 😏
The train just wanted a vacation
Finally a steam locomotive goes swimming on the beach!
Sir Tophamm Hat: “Engines don’t go swimming Henry. You were meant to deliver fish, not swim with them. You should know that by now”.
Henry: “Yes sir. I’m sorry sir.”
I found this incredibly funny as I never knew this happened and yet it did and the engine in question had a happy ending, contrary to most engines that experience interesting derailments like this. I believe this is the first time you covered a story in Italy. I've been wanting to go to the beach recently as my home has been experiencing incredibly warm weather for April. Since you uploaded this, I think I'll look into going to an Italian beach. What else is appropriate about this video is that the FS 746 Class were first built in 1922-1923 so 746.038 is roughly 100 years old.
having the delfino plaza theme playing fits this so well
“Engines don’t swim Henry, you’re suppose to deliver fish not swim with them. You should know that by now!” - The Fat Controller
“Yes sir… I’m sorry sir.”
And Henry once went into the sea due to high tides.
Very nice work, gald to see my suggestion came to fruition ! I was impressed that you managed to find more pictures as well as the ones i sent, i didn't think any more existed ! Only one correction i thought i'd point out is: after the engine was retrieved from the sea (as far as my research showed) it never went back into service, it was just towed around from works to works, before finally ending up at Pistoia. Of course it may be your research says different, in which case, fair enough !
"Well well well" chuckled Henry, "did you like the water?"
"No" said Percy
Later that night Gordon crawled home a sadder and wiser engine
When your granddady was an oceangoing steamship
Its genetic
"Well, well, well, did you like the water?"
"No"
"I am surprised. You need more determination, Percy. 'Water's nothing to an engine with determination' you know"
"Can't park there mate" - The Sea 1956
the real reason why henry was scared of rain
I would love to see someone try to make a story about this and have the actual engine tell it in his old age.
"I went to the beach once!"
"Okay grampa, let's get you to bed."
Gordon Takes Dip inspiration.
That's very good news 038 is still around 😌 I'm sure it probably has a ton of stories to tell about it's time on the beach
Basically that one episode of the show "Ivor the Engine" where rails are laid down for Ivor to chug down into the beach, but with real trains!
"the engine decided to go skinny dipping" -I'm dead lol
You're saying Ivor wasn't real? What did Jones the steam do all day? How did he make his tea? How did Idris hatch out his egg?
What kind of conspiracy theory is this!
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 I mean that it happened in real life, not in an animated children's show like Ivor.
The steam engine that wanted to be an ocean liner.
Lol.
the fact it's an Italian Incident i just can help but laughing harder
Oh that might be the inspiration for Gordon takes a dip, or the episode where Percy goes over which I actually can’t remember the episode name.
Percy Takes The Plunge.
Cant forger Something In The Air
Super Mario Sunshine works perfectly for the background music! 😊
Reminds me of when Gordon went into a ditch, Percy plunged into water, and when Henry swam with fishes
"Engines Don't Swim Henry. You Were Meant To Deliver Fish, Not Swim With Them. You Should Know That By Now"
“Yes sir… I’m sorry sir”
"In fair Verona, where we lay our scene"
. . . of locomotive repair.
_"Engines don't go fishing!"_
It's too uncomfortable
Loving that delfino plaza theme
For me and many Thai railfans, This reminds me of an accident that happened on the night of August 31st, 2006. An express train no.52 from Chiang Mai to Bangkok, hauled by an Alsthom AD24C diesel locomotive number 4218, collided with a pile of fallen rocks shortly after it passed Kaeng Luang station in the province of Phrae, 545 kilometers north of Bangkok. The locomotive derailed, broke free from the rest of the train, and plunged into the deep, muddy, and rapidly-flowing currents of the Yom River that run alongside the tracks. It took 5 days to retrieve the locomotive from the river and three more years for the locomotive to be repaired by the State Railway of Thailand workshop and put back into service. The locomotive is currently still in service with the State Railway of Thailand. But unfortunately, both the driver and the mechanic passed away from drowning. May their souls rest in peace.
P.S.: 1. The accident took place around here (18.014495, 99.955801) in the remote, mountainous river valley during the monsoon, making it difficult to bring heavy machinery like cranes to the site.
2. The track is the only rail line connecting Bangkok to Chiang Mai, making any major accidents equal the temporary closure of the line. And rescue trains can't do the job consistently because they had to move back and forth between the site and the Kaeng Luang station in order to clear the track for other trains to pass.
3. Thai diesel locomotives and DMUs always have two operators on board. The driver, who drives the train. And the mechanic, who acts as the driver's wingman, assists the driver and repairs the train when it breaks down. (The word "repair" in this case means to repair the train just enough for it to move on its own power to the nearest station around and calls for help, usually for replacement locomotives, but many repairs are minor that could be done on the fly or in a short halt.)
Glug Glug help me
That engine looks he really said “Oy! Let me check if the water’s right!”
I forget what the episode was called, but this reminds me of when Henry went "swimming"
Something In The Air
Great work, I'm sure glad the water didn't get into the boiler. A very interesting story, sub'd.
"You're late! And that smell is making me ill."
Thanks for that.
“Ooosshhhh,” he hissed! “Get me out! Get me out!”
Nice to know the engine is still with us.
The recovery effort was really quite impressive. Much credit to the workers who designed and executed it.
I shall make you drink 56 gallons of milk next stream.
Beutiful. I know a lot of story from Italian railways, but thisone is new to me
Oh, the Mario Sunshine music :)
Amazing!
Mmm, yes! I love my Italian State Railways class 746. It loves swimbing!
Super video like.
038 isn't the only locomotive to go paddling in the sea, either. Two engines of the old Cambrian Railways came to grief at Friog in central Wales, one in about 1910 and the other in the 30's. Sadly neither case had so happy an ending as this story, as both engine crews were killed in the falls. The second incident resulted in the building of an avalanche shelter over the track, which is still there today. (And possibly small pieces of the engines, on the rocks below.) Doubtless there are other such incidents, and - yes - Awdry would most surely have known of them!
thanks man !
"Noo let me stay a few more years pls" -038
Shit glad the tide wasnt in, imagine if it fell over in the sea an cold water went down the funnel and in the firebox... Hms barham on a small scale 😯 certainly glad it was recovered and it still exists, nice looking loco
I live in Dover. I can think of a lot of things better than going to the beach, especially on holiday. Serious brain trauma being one of them.
Silly old Gordon fell in a ditch,
Fell in a ditch, fell in a ditch.
Silly old Gordon fell in a ditch,
All on a Monday morning.
Engine really said “Ima do a swim. Blub blub”
When a locomotive _"makes a splash."_ 😊
“He’s fallen in the water!”
So cool the engine still exist, and might even run again
Quite fortunate the chill shock didn't crack the cylinder castings or the damage the tube sheet at the smoke box.
What an incredible interesting story.
I was expecting an Ivor the Engine reference in this ;)
In New Zealand we had something similar a couple years back when a train rolled into and sunk into Picton Harbour
“Ah, finally. Now I ca. take a brake.”
The choo-choo train went for a beach holiday! 😀
A MAN HAS FALLEN INTO THE RIVER IN LEGO CITY
This sounds like an Episode of Ivor The Engine when Ivor is lifted onto temporary tracks on a beach so he can go swimming
Like the song "go to fishin"
Reminds me when Henry was pulling the flying kipper and fell into the sea
O38: Oh come on, I needed a break. XD
What’s funny is that we had this exact same thing happen in Oregon with SP&S 700 some years ago.
Nice to see something I know about here😂❤
I'm wondering about damage from the temperature gradients (spatial and temporal).
"Beached engine", that's a new one.
"I want to go swimming!"
But they all said the same thing
"Engines don't go swimming!"
Wow, what a bizarre story!