sip a water each time he said "powaaah"......

The old steam locomotives may have been less efficient than today's diesels and electric, but they certainly did have PRESENCE.

Let's not forget that the steam engine only ever became a success because of one Mr. Whitworth of gun manufacturing fame. He made honing possible for the barrels of his guns. This process of honing a perfect hole in metal made the steam engine really finally usable. Before all that, the loss of steam power was just too much. Once the cylinders were perfectly honed it really worked well.

I love the enthusiasm of the speaker. Especially at 19:46. He really enjoys trains, and wants everyone else to, too.

Definitely an Australian documentary. While there are some of the longest train journeys in the world in Australia , the country sadly lacks a true high speed train system.

And the 4014 just came back to life last year or year before I should say it was awesome to see it run down the track again

My Grandfather was Engineer on is a class "I-1a" 2-10-4 in Texas/Pacific I got to ride with him once, a memory I'll never forget, ir is now retired in Palistine TX hall of the Giants .

Fantastic documentary. I enjoyed watching this so much.

The first rack and pinion railroad in history was built on Mt Washington, NH, USA. Great engineering.

I got as far as 2:32 & couldn't stand the whiplash speed-changing any more. Enough already.

12:12 the monsters of the rails. Still suprised they got 4014 running after all they put on.

When I was 10 or 11yrs old, in the early 50's, there was a big steam engine train that came to our town to pick up wheat & corn, we'd lay by the tracks & put penny's on them & when the train passed over them they'd flattened out to 3 times there size, we'd talk to the Engineer asking him questions, one day I ask him how fast the train wld go, he told me it'd do about 125 miles per hour. WOW.!! that really impressed me, cuz 125 mph was really something fast for us.

This is a great video and I enjoyed watching it!! It's got something for everyone that likes trains...

I thoroughly enjoyed this program.

I absolutly love travelling on the rails

this was an amazing video

"rail powah" wow STONKS

Super,many thanks.

Well done... very informative and enjoyable to watch

My late father Donald Anders (electrician) spent some time maintaining the Santa Fe rotatory snow plow.

This is an absolutely fascinating video.

Great docu

These trains did my hobo heart good.😁

I've seen films about the American RR and British rail systems, even a few about Australia, but I have never seen one that included the Canadian RR's. Those are some tall mountains. All in all, this was a very interesting and informative video, covering a full gambit of rail systems.

Big boy breaths fire 🔥

Very informative and interesting, could you please make a video on the Kenya-Uganda railway

I enjoyed this Trip 😊

Good day from California! This is a good documentary because it includes rail history from other countries, not just the US or UK.

11:45 YES. Go big. ;) Love the way how they say it too. Big boy.

Interesting and informative.

Nice little footage at 5:45 of the 150th anniversary of the Rainhill trials with the reproduction "Rocket". Type 4 "Peak" diesel in the background of that shot too.

Technology is improving rapidly

An an American, I really envy the rail system in the UK, Europe and Japan. Our passenger rail service over here is rickety AMTRAK. This is especially so west of the Mississippi. I love riding the train.

Speed and Powah!

That Mallard was nice.

@43:15-Rack and pinion middle rail is closely similar to the cog railway. In America, there are two such cog systems. One is the Mt. Washington, NH railroad and the other is the Pikes Peake railroad in Colorado Springs, CO.

10:10 hits me a bit hard when u remember that that time will never come again, sadly I may never get to experience it

The little engines that could.

@48:55: Was it least formerly Electric Motive Division of GM.

2:40 what's up with that guy's ONE HUGE TOOTH lol

Flying Scotsman got me hooked for the rest of the episode

super doc

Here in the philipphines they melted old steam locomotive and replace it with diesel im lucky to get a steam wistle as a souviner

New Zealand Government Railways, started losing their steam locos in the 1960's - as a kid with mum, riding the South Island Daylight Limited, to catch another steam train from Christchurch to Lyttleton, for the over night boat, then in Wellington, over the road to the station, for the next leg, starting electric, & changing engines, to steam hauled, thru to Auckland. There's next to nothing of trains in New Zealand now, & those which are here, ain't cheap, & the cartridges are second hand, instead of made in NZ.

I have seen the Big Boy up close and personal, in a stop in Evanston, Wyoming. Massive. Monumental. No words can do it justice. Too bad the Age of Steam is gone forever. Progress. Bah.

Is that Leigh Diffey doing the narration, Mans usually commentating racing hahahaha

2mins in and wat was said is spot. even now the rare times i hear a steamtrain i still drop everything to go look

I most enjoyed how this was presented from an assui point of view.. well done.. the only omission is the absence of the more powerful but flexible east coast steam traction of the 1930's and 40's that ran the much steeper grades of the Appalachian mountains..

The big boy is huge and so famous

Thank you so much I appreciate your work I will ask my kids to watch this amazing documentaries instead of watching stupid tiktoks ❤

1:10 *LAUGHS IN 6700 HORSEPOWER*

Nice

This is a great video, but I feel there is a colour/ contrast issue. Non the less still a great film!

He's never make it as a pirate, he can't say ARRRRR. Luv ta OZ,

Love

I love this guy's Aussie accent

I watched this on Via Sat History,or National geographic channel as part of the series on several topics! I know the guest experts in history that one can see in various Viasat History series of documentaries. This topic in form of historical documentary needs way more explanation and dedicated series of videos, or very long one (2part of ~2hours long at least)!

Don't forget the saturn 5 rocket for power.

This was such a good documentary I watched all your painful 1 minute ads

29:45 if it is a cart made by Mitsubishi then it would be a Double Stacked Mitsubishi. If said cart was hauling chocolate chips that would be insane. It would be a chocolate chip double stacked Mitsubishi.

Good

22:30 ...trying to act like we didn't see you just sneak a dog wearing eyeglasses lookin both dapper and logical af into the documentary...we saw...and we appreciate it. Lol 😆

I know every steam locomotive I see in the video.

Can you do a video on "The Golden Age of Ballooning?" I'm so excited about that, I can hardly wash! Still, what is washing when you can learn about such a great scientific breakthrough?

No you people forgot. The old Black Diamond that used to run from Buffalo all the way to down in the Philadelphia that they would go a 110 miles an hour and that. Was a custom build you know passenger passenger train?

And flying scotsmen is still in operation

I just love Mr. McGregor.

1:59 thats how was first train xD

Steam tenoligy is now putting out a tremendous amount of power.

The first steam locomotives did NOT depend on high pressure. Like the deep tin mine pumps that operated on vacuum to move the piston after the steam condensed. They did not have strong enough boilers until later.

Interesting about Canada: It was not possible for western exploration was not possible because of the Laurentian Shield until the railroad was built. Having ridden the "Canadian" from Vancouver to Montreal (That segment no longer runs) I enjoyed the ride immensely!

The Danish great belt link has now been beaten in length by the Russian road and rail bridge linking to crimea at 18 kilometeres. This was an outstanding feat achieved in only 4 years and it is now the longest in Europe.

21:36 “Canadian Pacific”, shows a Canadian National

Our muscles, a ship sails with the wind and animals were before steam.

trains are so fucking COOL

Trains didnt die in usa the personal train travel died sadly but freight i think will always move by trains

Rio Tinto should have kept the Flying Scotsman’s sister the Pendant castle here in Australia I remember it going across the flats at the highway crossing near Karratha

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Many warehouses, factorys in the USA had disconnected they rail lines from the mainline. some still use them but many had blocked the rail offf for good.

6:29 the last generation of steam locos were oil powered.

I think with todays composite materials would in fact make for a very good little plane. There have since its conception been very many products that fit the bill, for a start i have a cannoe that the two surfaces are joined together inside by fibres and are inflated to over fifteen P.S. I. .you can starnd on it its so strong. Also the material for covering it has changed, it would now be totally waterproof and exstremely strong, and with the adition of a small compressor and drop in pressure can be kept up, boy would i like to have a go at this,,its everyones dream even if restricted to say enought hight to miss things like power lines and the like that would be fine and a chute could be incorporated if any problem turned up, in the form of a airfoil wing type chute as these are steerable, enen a hard landing the shock would be absorbed by the plane itself as the plane would effectivly be like a crash airbag as in cars. Why has this been left, its got a whole lo t of promise with todays materials

A steam locomotive is potentially a big bomb too.

This documentary is longer than a train......

As a young kid with nothing better to do. Id love to walk the tracks and pick up the chunks of sulfar and burn them lol

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A question I have had for many years------How do the bend train rails AROUND CURVES?

Electricity mostly is generated by steam. Nuclear plants and coal plants are genereting steam which drive the generator turbines!

0:45 Copenhagen main station?

At around 4:50 it shows electric light rail trains and says no longer powered by steam. I get the point but then it is a wrong point. Where does the electricity come from??

0:42 hehehehehe

Very professional and smooth presentation but I wouldn't expect anything less cos that sounds like Mike Goldman who's Australia's number one voice-over guy he made his break on Big Brother 2003 as the late night hosts he grasped the whole imagination of Australia cos he was able to talk about nothing very well and Big Brother's big fat juicy wallet competitions😂😁

garret is interesting but she can't beat UPRR 4014 or DMIR M3/M4 class

the only romance trains

No. The Train Engines That Revolutionised The World

28.00 WHERE is this electrification in North America? (Or is this from a rail simulator like Trainz?)

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This is way too focused on English and North-American trains. All of the echievements by Germans, Japanesen, French, Italians...not even mentioned.

From 41:50 music name please

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I created some new original Thomas & Friends characters who are modeled after some of the real life trains in this video.