Train of Thought COMPILATION - Unusual Experimental Engines

A binge compilation of some weird, one of a kind engines for you to study, sleep or otherwise enjoy yourself to

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[PyeongTeug]

Alright, here’s timeline for y’all

0:00 Fairlie Locomotives
3:34 The “Hush-Hush”
5:51 GER A50 “Decapod”
8:05 Big “Emma” Bertha
10:58 LNER U1
15:02 Fontaine Locomotives
17:43 Kitson Still Engine
22:07 Volks Electric Railway
26:27 Plane Powered Trains
33:05 TurboJet Trains
38:09 Fowler’s Ghost
41:52 SR Leader Class

[cloudedarctrooper]

The decapod and big Bertha are just examples when the Brits unknowingly built steam locomotives with the same philosophy as us Americans. Absolutely Fantastic.

[AlyxForest]

I like how Fairlie basically reinvented the tank engine, made it worse, and somehow didn't notice that he did precisely these things.

[joshslater]

I wish all four prototypical locos of the big four were preserved. Hush Hush, Fury, the Great Bear and the Leader would be very unique museum pieces or a good sight for heritage tours.

[terryhaines]

It would normally be considered a rather long documentary, but I'm a big fan of long documentaries, especially where they have true pictures and facts. I enjoyed it very much. Keep up the good work!

[Dallen]

Fowler's Ghost is a fun side journey to go down. The problem with the engine was a back injector. The Fire bricks have been postulated to not get hotter than the melting point of crown sheets so the theory is the Fire bricks prevented the crown sheet from failing due to low water.

[Donir]

Compilation of your best videos, obscure experimental engines are underrated.

[marvwatkins]

Big Bertha deserved a better end: such as retiring to a heritage museum or a place of honor at the NRM.

[nielsleenknegt]

OOohh Thats an hour of my life that is gonna be well spent :)

[advorak]

Fowler’s Ghost also had other issues. The firebricks were a bad choice to retain heat, low heat capacity. Meaning they may get really hot, but they do store much heat energy…

Fireless steam engines work much better — they use the superheated water as the heat storage. As steam is drawn from the boiler, some of the water flashes into steam, lowering the temperature of the water a tiny bit (and thus causing the pressure to drop a little bit), a cycle that can be repeated many times until the steam pressure is too low to use.

To charge, they have a pipe with holes in the bottom of a cylindrical pressure vessel — no firebox, no flues etc —where hot, fresh steam is pumped into the boiler. Starting with a boiler half-full with cold water, they get to about 3/4 full (I understand) with steam and really hot water, and that allows them to work for ~2 hours. If you have onsite steam anyway, …

[honderdzeventien]

Yeah Thanx man, this really was a nice doc. I'm very much on your train-of-thoughts. 1st class;-)

Some of the stuff featured I already knew, either from your vids or others, but it didn't matter cause this summary is well compiled, and produced, like the elements of the compilation already were. Also, I think you have a good narrating voice.

I know the subject's an era apart, but I'd like to see some similar comp's on e-locs and diesels maybe? Idk, just do your thing man. Thx

[clyneheretic]

The 'Hush-hush' was also known as the 'Ghost' or 'Un-named' Streak. ('Streak' was the colloquial name for A4 Pacifics.) I actually saw it, in the engine shed at Stevenage in the 1950s. It was like coming face to face with a Unicorn.

[theshadowkingreign]

The fact that sonic music notably oil ocean, is playing in the background while he talks about the experimental locos. A man of both cultures I can stand by

[capt.bart.roberts]

I grew up with Magnus Volk's grandonson. We were both obsessed with radio control models.

[ScarlettStunningSpace]

I wish we could see a modern version of a steam engine, even if it's not a locomotive. Great video! I've loved trains for as long as I can remember so it's cool to see what could have been!

[DeCasoU]

There is a file held in the National Railway Museum in York which contains the North Road works documentation about 10000. The single item which caused serious problems for the locomotive was a pipe. This pipe was supposed to supply the steam to the auxiliary equipment fitted to the engine. And it was too small at 1.5" i.d. and two pipes were recommended a; single 1.5" pipe for the injector and a 1.25" pipe for the combination ejector and other fittings. As originally built the auxiliary supply could not meet the demand of the injector which meant that the boiler would not steam well because it could not be supplied with sufficient water. It took a long time to identify this problem which proved to be a serious setback. As an experimental machine it was supposed to equal the power output of an A1 Pacific and design started in 1926 but it was Sept 1932 before it was proved that the engine consistently produced a full head of steam. So the boiler worked well and the records held show that this boiler gave little trouble, so quite where some writers obtained their material from we can only guess.

The big issue was finding out how to work the engine as a compound and the LNER never quite got there because early 20th century testing results gave rise to incorrect conclusions. It was believed that the L.P. cut off should be fixed and the H.P. cut off adjusted to meet the demand and this was proved by Chapelon to be wrong and to be fair their was a school of thought (a minority) that also believed this to be the case. The H.P. cut off should be long (as much as 90%) with the L.P. cut off being adjusted to meet demand. 10000 was fitted with a Kylchap exhaust and data collected from the setting up tests for this shows that the idea of this machine being limited by design to equal the A1s was very mistaken. One engineer came up with a figure slightly under 4, 000 hp. using the 90% H.P. cut off.

[akioasakura]

THANK YOU. Fantastic. No auto play, just raw compilation. Thank u sir big up love ur channel man

[hichampiggy]

Puttin the bad piggies theme on the aero wagon part is a brilliant idea

[Zy]

M-497 was never intended for passenger service. It was a test mule much like its Soviet counterpart. It did develop good data on running at high speeds on track that was not specially prepared. The conclusion was that, so long as the track was in reasonably good condition, and had been well-built to begin with (ie-with the much heavier load factors found in the US), there was no reason why a lightweight train couldn't safely run at high speeds without damaging itself or the track. The ride comfort, on the other hand, left a bit to be desired.

[TomPrickVixen]

Imagine if Bulleid's "Leader" loco would have simply built with an oil burning boiler...