As much as the Engineer is a badass controlling the train. Can we take a moment to give credit to the Stoker for not missing a beat and feeding that burner with coal. Even as the train is going for a J-Turn and he just doesn't lose his step. Can clearly see him just acting like this is normal business, lol.
He's working harder than he has to. Locomotive 1225 is equipped with a mechanical stoker that feeds the fire automatically, the fireman only has to hand shovel the thin spots and corners where the stoker has a hard time reaching. Most of the ride he'd be able to sit down, manage the water, and enjoy the cruise.
SehSevAn or maybe the water rised above the tracks when it was built then it froze over or maybe there was a bridge there was a bridge but it collapsed then the water froze
14 years after it was realised, its still making an impact, and a great meme, its pretty much the longest lasting meme I have seen from a movie! (As of 2018 cause 2019 is almost right around the corner)
@Aidan Giese I think the weight of the cars is included in the average weight, though I'm not sure. Edit: just remembered the number of cars also varies throughout the movie.
Engineer: Ya see physicists tend to work in the theoretical, while us engineers work in applied. And when you apply weight and a hot hard metal wheel you cut a groove in the low friction surface thereby making it possible to drive a train on ice.
@@duddude321 Oh. but wouldn't the hot wheels melt the ice beneath, either causing the train to fall deeper, or cause a layer of water to lubricate the surface, reducing friction more, like ice skates do?
@@erikwoodruff5643 the wheels have a lot of weight on them, the would push into the grooves and displace most of the water. There would still be slippage, but it wouldn't be enough to ruin locomotion because the train doesn't really stay over an area long enough. The train is bleeding off speed the whole time though, make no mistake. It is putting out far more energy than what it's getting back in utility, at the speed it's moving the wheels are doing more for steering and drift control than acceleration and braking.
"Look, unless you can drift a 60 ton steam powered locomotive with 6 cars attached, without rails, over cracking ice, you ain't no REAL drifter". -*edit* not my words, found this gem in another video across the vast lands of TH-cam
I for one am amazed by the skills of the one shoveling the coal. How does he keep his balance between the engine cart and the coal cart mid drift and how does he manage to accurately throw the coal into the furnace? Honestly, the entire staff of the Polar Express is insanely skilled.
The only error the editors made is that they didn’t show how the passengers were reacting when the train was drifting! So the people who what the movie on Netflix can say that the passengers where cheering, but a particular one was warning them that a drifting train means it’s off the track! So maybe it is true.
Ethpling Fun fact: if the polar express had rubber tires that would be possible Proof: The momentum of the coaches could guide the polar express left and right as well as the engineer changing the direction of the engine making it go left and right. And also this engineer is a God at driving the train, The method of changing direction of the train is to take the regulator/throttle in idle then put the automatic brakes on then put the reverser/the lever that changes the direction of locomotive to either reverse or forward and the take the regulator off Idle. And this dude is doing this every 2 seconds
*quietly says* guys I haven’t been registered with the Union Pacific for years, he’s gonna be pissed when he finds out I picked up some kids and almost killed them.
A steam train may not be able to drift, but a certain steam train from the 1920's can do a burnout. The name of this train is the "Mallard" here's a link to where it does it's burnout th-cam.com/video/Bg1yPm8TgZQ/w-d-xo.htmlm56s
The fact that it appears the train has tank controls would indicate that this is at least a predicted event, if not common. The boys in control have such a good hold of it even kinda showing off to me seems like they've done it a thousand times. I need to watch this movie again. I miss it honestly
@@bonsy246santiago4 yup... try it with car on ice... accelerate aggresively, (with manual of course) with straight wheels and then brake aggresively (but be careful and not too aggressive, C A R E F U L... practice it)
In the earlier 5-10 minutes of the film he and the fireman are shown to be bumbling idiots. And then this happens and the Engineer does a full Clark Kent with his attitude.
points to Steamer for knowing how to drift *801 and 1/4 TON* train on ICE of all things! (yes, I did the research on 1225's weight of 401 & 1/4 tons, plus the weight of the passenger cars. I for one, assumed they were Pullman Heavyweights, and those are around 80 tons, and since there is USUALLY five cars behind 1225, and the total came to the aforementioned 801 & 1/4 tons)
I slammed my head 50 times on the desk, then suddenly deja vu started to play and the whole thing replayed itself. thanks bro! now I'm in an infinite head-slamming-on-desk loop.
I dunno about hidden memes but if there's a way to go fast and sideways I usually do that. Like this. Rip good robocraft. th-cam.com/video/rdqc9j2U5LI/w-d-xo.html
Is no one going to talk about how perfectly fitting the music was in the first 30 seconds of this? They probably could've used Initial D songs throughout the whole movie and it would've been just as good
@@battlecruiserna its me, the boy who started this string of replys, im 10 now and im on my dads acc cuz i started this string of replys on my tablet and im on computer, just wanted to let u know how im doin and im gr8 ;)
If you count the revolutions of the traction rods when the train is horizontal across the screen you can calculate its speed, besides it’s an animated movie what did you expect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
After seeing this in memes over and over, I think this scene is (as unrealistic as it is) actually unironically really cool. I love how the coaches shift the engine slightly when it stopped, and I love seeing the wheels slip and change their direction.
Whell I did this back in the 50 in Russias winters with my boys and conductor, he was fired, but he got the train anyways because it was so broken that it was unuseble. But we did crak a cold one with the boys.
What they don't show you is that the sick ass drifting caused him to instantly lose weight and materialized 12 hot chicks to bang him. Also, that music wasn't added for the video, Eurobeat just happens to play whenever he's at the wheel.
@@Kafj302 The biggest problem would be designing a train where the two sets of wheels can be turned independently of each other. All trains have fixed axles, where the wheels on one side move at the same speed and direction as those on the other. There's no differential, which is why train wheels are conical, as they effectively allow you to change the size of the wheel depending on if it slides to the side, allowing the inside wheels to become "smaller" than the outside ones on a curve. I suppose it's not totally impossible for someone to design such a thing, but it would be a fiendishly difficult thing to try and pull off. Plus, even if it could... good luck getting any kind of traction, LOL.
@@raptor2265 well what if there were a set of that could come down, or usually sit in the center of track that could be steerable. So a switch power system. Hmm an assembly like a bike yoke then add in something like airplane landing gear, now you could deployable steerable tires, heck just use an assembly like a plane. Like those trucks that you see that can hop onto the train tracks but in reverse. Like these tires wouldn't be for long driving they are just meant to take abuse like the above scene and get replaced. Now it being a magical train, why didn't they have a contingency plan for this, like deployment inner tubes around all the carriages.
Wife: so honey how’s your day been? Engineer: I well I drifted a Train on ice and pat it on half it’s wheels as saved about 50 kids (after getting hit with a shovel to cough up the pin for the trains throttle never mind the fact I flawlessly controlled the train as it was on half of its wheels ya know casually) why how’s your day been? Wife: ... goooooodddddddd My most liked comments thanks everyone ( ) where the edited bit is
Why isitso satisfying to watch a steam locomototiveturn its wheels? Theres a certain kind of energy, power and just... might to that! Add to that the rhythmic huffing and puffing of steam. And you even geta feeling of life, effort and determination,that you just dont get from other engines. Idk. But i love seeing Steam Locomotives drive for that reason!
Steam is the closest we've ever come to creating life as far as i'm concerned. If you've ever been on a footplate, you know that those things breathe, have a beating heart and know anger. Steam uber allis.
Mom- "How did you sleep honey?:" boy- *Gets traumatic flashbacks s deja vu plays in the background* Also does ANYONE bear in mind that the flux capacitor is doing its job right now.
Memes, and jokes aside, this has always been one of my favorite scenes. I mean what’s there not to like about it? You’ve got a frigging steam engine drifting like the king of trains
A steam engine represents our mastery over the primal forces of nature, the same could be said about drifting, so when you get this fiery steam pumping behemoth going sideways over a lake at the command of your fellow man, you get some serious neuron activation. Also, whomever animated this did a really good job conveying the sheer weight and impact of the train, there are a lot of little things here that make it amazing. All I did was piece it together in a way that fits to eurobeat in order to change the narrative/perspective to match the one I had in my head.
@@battlecruiserna speaking of little details, I noticed when it zooms in on the wheels when the engine is steering, you can see the 2 wheels in front of the driving wheels steer a little bit. So yeah, the people animating the engine did an amazing job, plus this movie is from 2004, and the cgi still looks pretty good I’d say
Description is flippin amazing, just like this video and the movie are. Going on 16 years old and STILL watch The Polar Express every year, about 40 times per season..
I like Running in the 90's more, It's the one I ultimately picked over others but people have asked for the deja vu version and I had fun doing it so why not.
The actual weight of this engine is about 400 tons. That makes it even more badass to think about even with the train behind him that makes it alot heavier.
In reality that train would go down before it even made it a few feet onto that lake. Ice 15 inches thick can handle up to 11 thousand pounds. A hypothetical 4-8-4 steam locomotive weighs about 400,000 lbs without the tender. Nearly 36 times the weight. *_They're all dead_*
That's only assuming 15 inch thick ice. Judging by some example formulas that scale with thickness squared, ice that 6 - 9 feet (72 - 108 in) would easily support the entire train. If the climate is cold enough to freeze the entire lake, it isn't unrealistic to believe that amount of ice would occur. After research, it appears that ice thickness increases roughly with the square root of time allotted, with a month to reach 3 feet of ice at -20 degrees Fahrenheit.
Even if we are taking into account this is in fact 3 feet of ice, it would still only be able to handle a little over 64,458 pounds. If we go with 6 feet, it would be able to handle 258,066 pounds. Surely anything above would support the *_engine_* (My reference weight is 400k lbs minus the tender) but what about the rest? The entirety of the train weighing down on the ice would surely affect our formula.
Thing is, the train in it's entirety was moving in different directions almost as soon as it touched the ice. Assuming real physics apply here which judging from some of the scenes before the lake scene they might not. The distribution of weight would probably be good enough to support the train provided it continued in constant motion and as long as it was moving faster than the ice could break. But I mean this is a magical train headed to the north pole in order to take kids to see Santa Claus.
*TRUST ME I'M AN ENGINEER!* *I THINK WE'LL PUT THIS THING RIGHT HERE!* *TRUST ME I'M AN ENGINEER!* *WHAT THE heck DID JUST HAPPEN HERE!* *TRUST ME I'M AN ENGINEER WITH EPIC SKILL AND EPIC GEAR!* *OH no I THINK I'M OUTTA HERE!*
No one seems to be mentioning that this is a massive lake, which implies that even when there's no ice there's still probably metres of water over the tracks anyway, so this might be the only way to get to the other side with a train
“One thing about trains, it doesn’t matter where you’re going, but what matters is the siding you get on.” Well said Drift Express Conductor, well said indeed.
As much as the Engineer is a badass controlling the train. Can we take a moment to give credit to the Stoker for not missing a beat and feeding that burner with coal. Even as the train is going for a J-Turn and he just doesn't lose his step. Can clearly see him just acting like this is normal business, lol.
He's working harder than he has to. Locomotive 1225 is equipped with a mechanical stoker that feeds the fire automatically, the fireman only has to hand shovel the thin spots and corners where the stoker has a hard time reaching. Most of the ride he'd be able to sit down, manage the water, and enjoy the cruise.
@@renegadeoflife87 Well, he was clearly working throughout these scenes. Making sure that firebox was hotter than the sun. lol.
Hi
didnt see a stoker pot but i cant believe that one fireman could be walloping that much coal
Looks better than most of what they make now
As a train conductor in Canada I can’t confirm this happens but I can confirm every Canadian Conductor wants to do this.
Well, there ought to be frozen lakes everywhere in Canada, no?
I think every conductor would want to do this...
What is the Canadian citizen and I want to do this
Of course, you should try it! XD
You need some serious balls to do this
I'm surprised that it took me this long to realize how much of a badass this engineer is
Spazman2 he's done this a few times.... it ain't his first rodeo
I knew that this just happened to be the first one I watched
Dizzyshroom8 question is why would they build a track under a fucking lake when it will just be frozen over when they start the trip?
George the Templar probably built it over a frozen lake and assumed it would never melt lul
SehSevAn or maybe the water rised above the tracks when it was built then it froze over or maybe there was a bridge there was a bridge but it collapsed then the water froze
A thousand pounds of fire, water, steam and pure iron doing extraordinary things no normal locomotive can do is the greatest thing from this movie
agree
(ﾉ_-;)…
I swear if this was a trailer I would be very interested to seeing the movie
Bro if this is IRL it literally would have exploded at this point
@@therandompineapple3805It's a magic train, I think we can give it a pass
can we just take a minute to appreciate the quality of animation this 2004 movie has?
This was my first present on my first Christmas ever
I was born in 2004...
@@AlexGNR cool
14 years after it was realised, its still making an impact, and a great meme, its pretty much the longest lasting meme I have seen from a movie! (As of 2018 cause 2019 is almost right around the corner)
@@bluefoxy6478 it 2019 now yeaaah
The Polar Express saw Multi-Track drifting and asked itself,
"Who needs tracks?"
Neo Machine too bad there was no witness sweating his ass off watching it drift
*MULTI-GLACIER DRIFTING*
NO TORAKU DORIFUTO!!!
MULTI-ICE DRIFTING!
Michael SHADI-lay down that fire son.
Childhood me: I like this movie
Present me: This conductor is a badass
***And engineers
The engineer is the one driving the thing
The entire team are 3 badasses
@@southernrailwayfan1338 the conductor dabs at 0:50
We also need to appreciate the drivers, they turned a steam locomotive like a tank, and also managed to somehow put it in rails at 100 km/h!
i bet this shit happens every year and the engineer just trains all year for this moment
Captain Crunchy LMAO
Captain Crunchy LoL. Very funny. I bet this is an every day activity for him.
Get it? “Trains” everyday
This is the reason why they ride it only on Christmas.
*no pun intended*
me when I was a kid: I love this Christmas movie.
me now: *HE WAS DRIFTING A 60 TON TRAIN! IN ICE! WHY DID I JUST NOTICED THAT???*
steam locomotives can actually go up to 600 tons (1.2 million lbs) in weight, so it's even more impressive.
@Aidan Giese I think the weight of the cars is included in the average weight, though I'm not sure. Edit: just remembered the number of cars also varies throughout the movie.
*60 ton*
Bruh wat
same thing
3 feet of ice for an ✈️! It must be able to hold up at that thickness!
Physicists: "You can't just drive a train on a frictionless surface!"
Engineers: "Ha Ha train go Brrrrrr!"
Engineer: Ya see physicists tend to work in the theoretical, while us engineers work in applied. And when you apply weight and a hot hard metal wheel you cut a groove in the low friction surface thereby making it possible to drive a train on ice.
@@duddude321 Oh. but wouldn't the hot wheels melt the ice beneath, either causing the train to fall deeper, or cause a layer of water to lubricate the surface, reducing friction more, like ice skates do?
@@erikwoodruff5643 the wheels have a lot of weight on them, the would push into the grooves and displace most of the water. There would still be slippage, but it wouldn't be enough to ruin locomotion because the train doesn't really stay over an area long enough. The train is bleeding off speed the whole time though, make no mistake. It is putting out far more energy than what it's getting back in utility, at the speed it's moving the wheels are doing more for steering and drift control than acceleration and braking.
Ice isn't frictionless you dunce. If you try to something across a frozen lake, it's going to stop before it gets to the other side.
NOOOOOOOOO YOU CANT JUST DRIFT A 2-8-4 BERKSHIRE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ON ICE!!!!
haha locomotive go choo choo
"Look, unless you can drift a 60 ton steam powered locomotive with 6 cars attached, without rails, over cracking ice, you ain't no REAL drifter".
-*edit* not my words, found this gem in another video across the vast lands of TH-cam
facts
While going terminal velocity of over 100,000 miles per hour
@@AmmyWulf It is 6 if you count the coal car, though that is pretty necessary for operation of a steam locomotive.
And no steering wheel to even manage the drifting mid way
Stolen
I for one am amazed by the skills of the one shoveling the coal. How does he keep his balance between the engine cart and the coal cart mid drift and how does he manage to accurately throw the coal into the furnace? Honestly, the entire staff of the Polar Express is insanely skilled.
that conductor is dabbing
When the train you're working on travels to the frickin North Pole every year, you're bound to pick up some sick skills along the way.
Im sure everyone in the passenger cars were enjoying the drifting
jakop
Those concussions are minor inconveniences.
They pukes
I LOVE TO DRIFT IN TRAIN SIT BELT ON JACOB I LIKE YOUR COMMENT
VX
The only error the editors made is that they didn’t show how the passengers were reacting when the train was drifting! So the people who what the movie on Netflix can say that the passengers where cheering, but a particular one was warning them that a drifting train means it’s off the track! So maybe it is true.
"Tracks? Where we're going we don't need tracks..."
I C E
C E
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Back to the future reference ?😅
Ethpling Fun fact: if the polar express had rubber tires that would be possible
Proof: The momentum of the coaches could guide the polar express left and right as well as the engineer changing the direction of the engine making it go left and right. And also this engineer is a God at driving the train, The method of changing direction of the train is to take the regulator/throttle in idle then put the automatic brakes on then put the reverser/the lever that changes the direction of locomotive to either reverse or forward and the take the regulator off Idle. And this dude is doing this every 2 seconds
0:50 The craziest and the most ambitious dab in the universe.
Lmao
Falcon Fury tho
XD i agree
They predict dab
Which over the course of this clip we see 5 times.
I can’t imagine them making a live action version
A real Train in the ice XD
I WANT IT
Dont give disney any ideas
I would NEED to see that
Why would u say something so controversial yet so brave
ae86: trains can't drift
polar express: *hold my water*
You mean hot chocolate.
Magnus the Red you mean steam
yes trains can drift
Hold my Coal
Aian9597 You can’t hold steam
Man’s was balancing on a train on ice possibly going super damn fast and was still able to somewhat keep his balance.
GIVE MY MAN A RAISE!
@Tinted Terminator my boy risking his life for them kids give this man a raise😂🤣
We can consider his chief was...Santa? Maybe. I rise from Santa, that would be great
1974: people in 2018 have flying cars
2004: Berkshire steam locomotive drifting
The future is weirder than anyone expected lol no complaints though
2004 dumbass
1904: in a hundred years we will have flying cars
2004: 2-8-4 berkshire steam locomotive drifting on cracking ice at how fast now
*E V E N B E T T E R*
*quietly says* guys I haven’t been registered with the Union Pacific for years, he’s gonna be pissed when he finds out I picked up some kids and almost killed them.
Friend: You can't drift a train
Me : Hold my beer
Lil Lemonade
Friend: You can't drift a train
Me: Hold my hot chocolate
FTFY ;3
A steam train may not be able to drift, but a certain steam train from the 1920's can do a burnout. The name of this train is the "Mallard" here's a link to where it does it's burnout th-cam.com/video/Bg1yPm8TgZQ/w-d-xo.htmlm56s
Blender Bach NEEEEEEERD
Friend: you can’t drift a tank
Me: hold my beer
I may be a Nerd but It won't change the fact that I know many interesting things.
The fact that it appears the train has tank controls would indicate that this is at least a predicted event, if not common. The boys in control have such a good hold of it even kinda showing off to me seems like they've done it a thousand times. I need to watch this movie again. I miss it honestly
Tank controls? What do you mean?
@@WinterGamesYT the wheels on each side rotate independently
@@amandaandrade7777 so your saying, if we put a browning m2 and a 130mm cannon on that bad boy engine it'd be a tank?
@@The_Raptoryes
Yeah no they switch between going forward an backward to go left or right not whatever this tank control business is
That Engineer is a beast. He can steer the train so well considering trains cannot steer!
i know right!
Zak-Z-Ninja ! Its hard af but possibly due to the weight and the going back and fourth possibly made it steer ?
@@bonsy246santiago4 yup... try it with car on ice... accelerate aggresively, (with manual of course) with straight wheels and then brake aggresively (but be careful and not too aggressive, C A R E F U L... practice it)
In the earlier 5-10 minutes of the film he and the fireman are shown to be bumbling idiots. And then this happens and the Engineer does a full Clark Kent with his attitude.
bonsy246 Santiago the only way this is possible is that each side of the train can turn independently making the train turn like a tank
I didn't realize why the video was repeated until I remembered the title.
Henry Ly Deja vu
I have been drift in this ice before
Higher on the freeze, and I know where’s the place to go~
Teacher: so what did you guys do over winter break?
"I want skiing"
"I went to Canada to celebrate Christmas with my family"
Me:
Engineers: Well there's ice on the tracks there's no way we can continue
The Fat Controller laughed, "You are wrong"
The polar express engineer: “dont try this at home” *gets his game face on* “we are meeting that deadline”
I now know why they never missed a deadline.
“And luckily,no one was hurt “
Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer.
FrenchiestSpy That means I solve problems
Not problems like what is drifting
I solve practical problems
For instance, how am I gonna get across a giant lake frozen over tracks getting me to the north pole?
The answer?
use a train and if that don't work use more carriages
"One thing about trains. It doesn't matter where you're going. But matters is deciding who get on"
Polar Express forever😭❤️
You did it.
This is the greatest thing in the entire world.
Dio Brando greatest in ZA WARUDO
*Checkmate atheists!*
look up "Drift Express" And the date
true beauty
Dio Brando yep
Bro this engineer has no right being this much of a fucking badass
Next morning, scientists wonder why our alien neighbors engraved a message on ice.
LMAO so True ngl.
Ice broke idiot
@@irulz3609 ok rude, we were just playing around
@@irulz3609 you missed the joke
@@irulz3609 your lucky there arent any redditors around
The conductor: IS ALL THIS DRIFTING REALLY NESSISARY?
train driver: yes.
Drifting? What is this drifting? Did you mean driving?
points to Steamer for knowing how to drift *801 and 1/4 TON* train on ICE of all things! (yes, I did the research on 1225's weight of 401 & 1/4 tons, plus the weight of the passenger cars. I for one, assumed they were Pullman Heavyweights, and those are around 80 tons, and since there is USUALLY five cars behind 1225, and the total came to the aforementioned 801 & 1/4 tons)
Get it? Every time it says "Deja Vu", the same clip plays again.
I only just realized that
NoHomeLike 192.168.8.1 don't forget the conductor is standing on his feet when he's trying to be him, yeeeeeeahh~
It somehow took me two years to realize it, and the third g that clips it to my head, is this comment... GG TO ALL
I was wondering why I kept on seeing that guy dab
I slammed my head 50 times on the desk, then suddenly deja vu started to play and the whole thing replayed itself.
thanks bro! now I'm in an infinite head-slamming-on-desk loop.
You could say...
...Christmas came early this year. :^))))
Lel
Did not expect to see you here lol
I dunno about hidden memes but if there's a way to go fast and sideways I usually do that. Like this. Rip good robocraft. th-cam.com/video/rdqc9j2U5LI/w-d-xo.html
you play robocraft nice
robocraft used to be nice
"you can't just drift a train"
Polar express engineer: "Hold my hot chocolate"
_"Hey guise: let's build these railroad tracks _*_straight into this frozen-ass lake_*_!"_
its not frozen all the time but considering when this M A G I C T R A I N goes through here you kind of wonder
Don't forget the -179 degree gradient where they're going down like a damn roller coaster, lmao.
Next time:submarine drifting in desert
A plane drifting underground
@@GM-12 A ship drifting in spase
a car drifting in the ocean
A Japanese space battleship drifting on an artificial continent locating in the Red Spot on Jupiter
@@phucphangiatoan4873 true
Is no one going to talk about how perfectly fitting the music was in the first 30 seconds of this? They probably could've used Initial D songs throughout the whole movie and it would've been just as good
Is no one gonna talk about when the polar express got back on track the symbol crash was cinked?
it takes a keen ear to uncover how truly autistic i really am
Idk why but the ice scene is my favorite it's just so cool
I'm finding more moments like the end
@@battlecruiserna and a keen eye ;)
@@battlecruiserna its me, the boy who started this string of replys, im 10 now and im on my dads acc cuz i started this string of replys on my tablet and im on computer, just wanted to let u know how im doin and im gr8 ;)
Man, i really want to race that engineer.
Nani ?! Kansai dorifto ?
Man I fucking love initial d.
I know right.
Takumi Fujiwara has anyone made initial d vaporwave yet?
Yes, look it up.
Everyone: Drifting a train is impossible. Conductor: *Hold my hot chocolate.*
*_Physics has left the server_*
Quantum physics has entered the server. 😂😂
I did the math and that train is going about 185 mph
@@Smoothyoda i thougt you had to go around 250 to defy friction if your a 2 ton car( sorry im not that educated in this)
If you count the revolutions of the traction rods when the train is horizontal across the screen you can calculate its speed, besides it’s an animated movie what did you expect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Stephen Mcgregor Its an animated movie about a train taking kids to santa, your right I couldn’t have expected more
probably my most favorite scene from this movie
Spazman2 which movie is this?
The Polar Express
Spazman2 thanks!
a great movie
Spazman2 me too
After seeing this in memes over and over, I think this scene is (as unrealistic as it is) actually unironically really cool. I love how the coaches shift the engine slightly when it stopped, and I love seeing the wheels slip and change their direction.
This is the only way i will remember polar express, and this will be the only way i will listen to this song. Thank you.
I used to do this back on the roads of Akina. Me and the conductor...good times. Miss the guy.
Downysiff sparkle sparkle
Whell I did this back in the 50 in Russias winters with my boys and conductor, he was fired, but he got the train anyways because it was so broken that it was unuseble. But we did crak a cold one with the boys.
John Lorimer l
cool! was it fun?
Did you guys really do that? Isn't that a joke?
This scene in the move perfectly describes what it feels like when you are riding your bike away from a rainstorm behind you.
that engineer should have a platinum medal FOR DRIVING A FUCKING 400,000 POUND TRAIN EXPRESS ACROSS AN ICE GLACIER LAKE
*Friend: You can't drift 100 ton train on ice*
*Me: **_O B S E R V E_*
friend: ok fine you cant drift a plane tho
air canada flight 143: i think you might be wrong about that one
No, your friend is right cuz this train is 440 tons
Actually 8000 Tons
@@robbie5629 the ice is extra *T H I C C*
Nobody:
Engineer: *shows godmode 60 ton steam engine drifting skills*
Conductor: 1:13 *_*dabs*_*
Me: "Tell me about the Polar Express."
*Shows this*
Me: "Oh."
This and Hot Chocolate number
What they don't show you is that the sick ass drifting caused him to instantly lose weight and materialized 12 hot chicks to bang him. Also, that music wasn't added for the video, Eurobeat just happens to play whenever he's at the wheel.
Wrong. It's 30 chicks, and also another 10 billion dollars are added to his bank account whenever he lays a finger on one of the train's levers.
This is the best comment of all time
Your Average Adam Taurus WRONG its 72 virgins
But who is "he?!"
Oh you mean controls
The most badass scenes in movies are often the most scientifically impossible.
This is definitely one of those scenes.
it would be fun to try to do a scale model of this, and actually see if it was impossible.
@@Kafj302 The biggest problem would be designing a train where the two sets of wheels can be turned independently of each other. All trains have fixed axles, where the wheels on one side move at the same speed and direction as those on the other. There's no differential, which is why train wheels are conical, as they effectively allow you to change the size of the wheel depending on if it slides to the side, allowing the inside wheels to become "smaller" than the outside ones on a curve.
I suppose it's not totally impossible for someone to design such a thing, but it would be a fiendishly difficult thing to try and pull off. Plus, even if it could... good luck getting any kind of traction, LOL.
@@raptor2265 well what if there were a set of that could come down, or usually sit in the center of track that could be steerable. So a switch power system. Hmm an assembly like a bike yoke then add in something like airplane landing gear, now you could deployable steerable tires, heck just use an assembly like a plane. Like those trucks that you see that can hop onto the train tracks but in reverse. Like these tires wouldn't be for long driving they are just meant to take abuse like the above scene and get replaced.
Now it being a magical train, why didn't they have a contingency plan for this, like deployment inner tubes around all the carriages.
So is your channel just Polar Express memes because if it is I'll donate.
George Jones jeremy! watch where you're spending your money!
I think that's money well spent
Natu Craves Video Games I know that's money well spent
Wife: so honey how’s your day been?
Engineer: I well I drifted a Train on ice and pat it on half it’s wheels as saved about 50 kids (after getting hit with a shovel to cough up the pin for the trains throttle never mind the fact I flawlessly controlled the train as it was on half of its wheels ya know casually) why how’s your day been?
Wife: ... goooooodddddddd
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The norm
"After getting hit by a shovel to cough up a pin that goes to the trains throttle"
Cue panty drop
Poorly Animates oh i forgot to add that lol
Wife:that's wonderful, sweetie. You want pancakes for breakfast when you get home?
This loop like video is QUALITY. The reuse of scenes and their smooth transitions to fill the song’s duration is BEAUTIFUL. Kudos.
Tracks? We dont need tracks? *pushes throttle to maximum speed*
Carlos Molina , is that a bttf reference
Where were going we don't need "tracks"
tracks? where we are going we don't need. tracks
Hell yeah
WHO NEEDS OUR MODERN TRAINS WE COULD JUST USE THIS BEAST
Im sure the polar exspress gets upgraded every 10 years or so.
But imagine a drifting Shinkansen 700 series!
@@张桓瑜 Imagine a mile long train drifting
Why isitso satisfying to watch a steam locomototiveturn its wheels?
Theres a certain kind of energy, power and just... might to that!
Add to that the rhythmic huffing and puffing of steam. And you even geta feeling of life, effort and determination,that you just dont get from other engines.
Idk. But i love seeing Steam Locomotives drive for that reason!
Why 12 hours before also can be pined?
Steam is the closest we've ever come to creating life as far as i'm concerned. If you've ever been on a footplate, you know that those things breathe, have a beating heart and know anger. Steam uber allis.
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รรรนนๆนรๆๆรรไ
Sorry I was distracted by some of your grammar
Mom- "How did you sleep honey?:"
boy- *Gets traumatic flashbacks s deja vu plays in the background*
Also does ANYONE bear in mind that the flux capacitor is doing its job right now.
That's right kids this is how they did it back in the 40s
when you realize the movie takes place in 1956 not 1940-1949
@@Union4014 Running in the 50s
@Jon Victor Min Yun Tham no, the movie takes place in 1956. the movie was RELEASED in 2004
WW2
@@kimtonginn747 no it’s1956
Memes, and jokes aside, this has always been one of my favorite scenes. I mean what’s there not to like about it? You’ve got a frigging steam engine drifting like the king of trains
A steam engine represents our mastery over the primal forces of nature, the same could be said about drifting, so when you get this fiery steam pumping behemoth going sideways over a lake at the command of your fellow man, you get some serious neuron activation. Also, whomever animated this did a really good job conveying the sheer weight and impact of the train, there are a lot of little things here that make it amazing. All I did was piece it together in a way that fits to eurobeat in order to change the narrative/perspective to match the one I had in my head.
@@battlecruiserna speaking of little details, I noticed when it zooms in on the wheels when the engine is steering, you can see the 2 wheels in front of the driving wheels steer a little bit. So yeah, the people animating the engine did an amazing job, plus this movie is from 2004, and the cgi still looks pretty good I’d say
Description is flippin amazing, just like this video and the movie are.
Going on 16 years old and STILL watch The Polar Express every year, about 40 times per season..
That one Fat Kid , same tradition since I was a baby
That one Fat Kid the trains moving too fast to fall through the ice
Love it that the conductor keeps dabbing! 😂
Oh yeah on the drift 😂😂
He dabbed before i existed lmao
The most epic scene with train in all of existing films. (facts)
True
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Damn the ninties one was pretty Damn good but Aight .
I like Running in the 90's more, It's the one I ultimately picked over others but people have asked for the deja vu version and I had fun doing it so why not.
Ye I understand that and it Turned out to Be good and epic. Just saying i kinda like the 90s one abit more :3
Wrong vid
friendsANDsuch350 ???
Battlecruiser Plays i prefer Deja vu over running in the 90s any day
Mom: dinners ready come home
Me: but there's a frozen lake in front of me how do I get home
Mom: just go around it
Me: ok
Me:
Modern problems require modern solutions
This is a more heartwarming version of the "come home i'm alone" meme. I guess because here they are all children.
I just love how a 100 ton steam train with 5 cars attached to it doesn’t break the ice but a small, narrow connector pin does.
*MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING!*
DAB BOI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Iron Horse Studios that's cancer mate
So are you.
Iron Horse Studios well... FUCK.
Polar Express: "Who needs tracks?"
If you watch frame by frame, at 0:50 the conductor dabs
Yess
What the!!!
He does
That dab is respectable
Cosporcos lmao
Props to the train driver for being this badass to drift a 60 ton locomotive on this ice lake
The actual weight of this engine is about 400 tons. That makes it even more badass to think about even with the train behind him that makes it alot heavier.
Multi-track drifting?!
Tracks? Where we're going, we don't need tracks.
HELL YEAH! TRACKS ARE FOR WUSSIES!
This scene was so fucking cool
The conductor throwing the train into another drift after lining up to the train tracks to keep sync with the music will always me laugh.
I watch this everyday ever since i found this video I Need My Daily Dose Deja Vu Express.
Cosmo Nunez everybody needs it
Cosmo Nunez I know how that feels 🤪
Sqme
Conductor: “How do we cross over train on frozen lake with no tracks?”
Engineer: “..Yes”
It’s so absurd and epic, I love humanity
In reality that train would go down before it even made it a few feet onto that lake. Ice 15 inches thick can handle up to 11 thousand pounds. A hypothetical 4-8-4 steam locomotive weighs about 400,000 lbs without the tender. Nearly 36 times the weight.
*_They're all dead_*
Nick Gardner The polar express cant be stopped.
Its the literal unstopable force.
THIS IS THE END
That's only assuming 15 inch thick ice. Judging by some example formulas that scale with thickness squared, ice that 6 - 9 feet (72 - 108 in) would easily support the entire train. If the climate is cold enough to freeze the entire lake, it isn't unrealistic to believe that amount of ice would occur. After research, it appears that ice thickness increases roughly with the square root of time allotted, with a month to reach 3 feet of ice at -20 degrees Fahrenheit.
Even if we are taking into account this is in fact 3 feet of ice, it would still only be able to handle a little over 64,458 pounds. If we go with 6 feet, it would be able to handle 258,066 pounds. Surely anything above would support the *_engine_* (My reference weight is 400k lbs minus the tender) but what about the rest? The entirety of the train weighing down on the ice would surely affect our formula.
Thing is, the train in it's entirety was moving in different directions almost as soon as it touched the ice. Assuming real physics apply here which judging from some of the scenes before the lake scene they might not. The distribution of weight would probably be good enough to support the train provided it continued in constant motion and as long as it was moving faster than the ice could break. But I mean this is a magical train headed to the north pole in order to take kids to see Santa Claus.
the conductors dab at 0:50 is legendary
To this day this is one of the most legendary memes I've seen, calling it a meme feels like an understatement
Trust me, I'm an engineer. Drifting a 7 ton train with kids on it on ice while it collapses?
Hold. My. Bobby pin.
I believe you
440 ton
*TRUST ME I'M AN ENGINEER!*
*I THINK WE'LL PUT THIS THING RIGHT HERE!*
*TRUST ME I'M AN ENGINEER!*
*WHAT THE heck DID JUST HAPPEN HERE!*
*TRUST ME I'M AN ENGINEER WITH EPIC SKILL AND EPIC GEAR!*
*OH no I THINK I'M OUTTA HERE!*
And coaches made it almost 1,450 tons
someones getting a raise!
No one seems to be mentioning that this is a massive lake, which implies that even when there's no ice there's still probably metres of water over the tracks anyway, so this might be the only way to get to the other side with a train
The engineer is Takumi in disguise! >;3
#blaimtakumi2016
Nah man. that's Bunta.
Bunta confirmed
Fr'instance...
...How am I going to stop some big mean mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind?
KORE DA SERUO-TURAKTO DORIFTO? BAKANA!
M-M-M-MASAKAA!?!?!?!
HACHIROKU DA !
NANI??!!!
what the fuck are you saying?
*Says random Japanese words to show that I indeed know Japanese*
This earned the right to be watched in 1080p.
This meme will never ever get so old.
Do you even train drift bro?
Yes I do.
It's more like. "Do you even trift bro?"
Trift - the amazing word for train drifting... Nothing else
0:49 the deja vu kicking in with the train drifting in reverse is sick
I wonder why they haven't thought of installing a bridge
JeeperCreeperMC why go straight across when you can drift across? It's faster to go in a straight line, but more fun to go sideways~ =P
elves ran out of bridge materials constructing those sick drops, they told steamer to just wing it.
JeeperCreeperMC there was a bridge, in the original movie the conductor says "look the ice has frozen all over the tracks"
id be like o drift my axle off boy!!
I’m wondering why there were train tracks going into a lake.
*Multi-track drifting.*
Multi-Track DRIFTING!!???
*Multi-track drifting.*
MASAKA!!!!!
trackless drifting
Engineer: Tracks? What tracks?
Driver and Fireman be putting A Class work.
Underrated video is underrated.
Why is 0:14 so Satisfying?
“One thing about trains, it doesn’t matter where you’re going, but what matters is the siding you get on.”
Well said Drift Express Conductor, well said indeed.
this is my favorite part of the movie
Sir Queso Agreed, *nothing stops da DRIFT KINGS*
Same!
Thank you for mixing the best parts of my childhood together.
I just love how you kept redoing the scenes but I’m not complaining I actually think it was more cool
1920: Flying cars will be a thing.
2018: 0:51
hello pallbearer
2004*
The movie was released on October 30 2004
The Movie quality looks like it's 2018, but its from 2004
*_Who need _**_-fast cars-_**_ when you have a train and some eurobeat_*