The Railway so Bad it Exploded - Bradford & Forster Brook Monorail

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The Railway so Bad it Exploded - Bradford & Forster Brook Monorail

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2 ай бұрын

In today's video, we take a look at the Bradford & Foster Brook Monorail, a railway that was so bad, an accident was reported almost daily and it exploded after 1 year
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@TrainFactGuy 2 ай бұрын

Lets build a railway! *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it

@DangerAngelous 2 ай бұрын

Derails Aw dang it

@AlexKivikoski 2 ай бұрын

@@DangerAngelous Explodes Aw shit

@yeoldeseawitch 2 ай бұрын

TOT trying to build anything in RR Online with mike & river:

@ivanthevaluable2559 2 ай бұрын

Hyce in a nutshell

@marcusthetenderengine699 2 ай бұрын

*Derails* A W D A N G I T

@G-Cole-01 2 ай бұрын

Bradford & Foster Brook Make "Worst Railway Ever," Asked To Leave Reality Itself

@thomasandladyfriend 2 ай бұрын

i thought the title meant UK bradford for a second and i was like "yeh, that sounds right"

@dieseldragon6756 2 ай бұрын

The UK had its own version built at Aldershot about five years prior, and - By all accounts - That was quite a bit more successful than the Bradford/Forster railway shown here! 😇

@JohnDavies-cn3ro 2 ай бұрын

@@dieseldragon6756 There were other 'monorail' ideas in the late 1890s, mostly for military and agricultural use which were also successful - indeed the idea has never gone away, as you can still find them in European vine yards on steep sloping hills.

@paulkornbluh6303 2 ай бұрын

Penn Central: Finally! A worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!

@dieseldragon6756 2 ай бұрын

I watched a reactions vid before this one and that made me chuckle, but your comment just made me laugh the house down! 🚂🇺🇸💯🤣 (I will have to apologise to my neighbours, though. Local time here is about 05:00... 🕔🇬🇧😳)

@xela4183 2 ай бұрын

Did you just say "Booming business?" Well, booming railway for a booming business...

@protogenxl 2 ай бұрын

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, bona fide Electrified, six-car monorail What'd I say?

@justinwilliam6534 2 ай бұрын

I get it this real life event is almost like in the monorail episode of the Simpsons.

@ConstantlyDamaged 2 ай бұрын

_Monorail! Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!_

@Jemental 2 ай бұрын

Mono..... D'oh!

@antonio4ballondor30 2 ай бұрын

Wonder if that Simpsons episode took some light inspiration from this story

@ivanthevaluable2559 2 ай бұрын

Monorail! What's it called? Monorail! That's right! Monorail!

@mattskey1 2 ай бұрын

"it isn't wrong, but we just don't do it."

@cleanerben9636 2 ай бұрын

yeah but Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook had a monorail and by gum it put them on the map!

@Jeff_Faust 2 ай бұрын

There was a lot of oil-boom money in northern Pennsylvania in the 1870s. Some of it got spent on stupid ideas.

@dieseldragon6756 2 ай бұрын

Oil boom money made a _coal_ boom when that boiler ran dry... 🚂💥😉

@G-Cole-01 Ай бұрын

they did the persian gulf petrostate thing before it was cool

@Arkay315 2 ай бұрын

Moral of the story - monorails suck

@Mike_Wahousekey 2 ай бұрын

Correction, Steam monorails suck

@Elliottblancher 2 ай бұрын

Well the Disney Monorail is actually good

@TheFinalFrontiersman 2 ай бұрын

basic comment

@Damien.D 2 ай бұрын

in fact a Lartigue monorail was pretty successful in Algeria, on a 90km long line, the load being more easily spread on the sandy ground with large wooden beams than what was possible with regular railway sleepers. Another desert Lartigue monorail was the short lived Epsom Salts Monorail, in California. It ran successfully until the magnesium sulfate mine it was built for depleted, which sadly happened only two years after the line had opened. The Lartigue system has proven itself to be a good solution for laying tracks in soft, unprepared grounds.

@iankemp1131 2 ай бұрын

The strange thing is that this looks quite a promising idea. The explosion was due to letting the boiler run dry which is a basic operating error which could happen on any railway. The Baldwin engine shown at the end with a single large central boiler should be better than the two mini-boilers if the track can take the weight. Both this and the Lartigue system were certainly quick and cheap to build, though it sounds as if this one had too lightly constructed rails - a problem dating back to Trevithick (but solved in the 1820s).

@AdamHinckley 2 ай бұрын

2:35 those trains looks like the ones that are in ireland that The Tim Traveller made an video on

@iankemp1131 2 ай бұрын

Yes, that's the Lartigue system mentioned a couple of times in this video - the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway. That was rather more successful, with the original lasting for 36 years (1888-1924).

@AdamHinckley 2 ай бұрын

@@iankemp1131 it was at Listowel that The Tim Traveller went to, you just reminded me about it to look where Tim went on his video

@iankemp1131 2 ай бұрын

@@AdamHinckley Exactly. I remember reading about the Listowel line many years ago and thinking what a pity it was that it hadn't preserved, it would have made a great tourist attraction. Well the locals clearly thought the same and recreated the line from scratch on part of its original route, building new engines and rolling stock. Kudos to them! I hope to visit it some day.

@tremensdelirious 2 ай бұрын

What’s it called? monorail, once again! Monorail! Monorail!!

@MatthewChenault 2 ай бұрын

On an unrelated note, Brigadier General Roy Stone had been removed from command during the Battle of the Wilderness after his horse fell on him. However, many presumed he was drunk during the battle. This would not be the first nor the last time a Union Brigadier General would be drunk during a battle.

@connormclernon26 2 ай бұрын

Ledley at the Battle of the Crater?

@MatthewChenault 2 ай бұрын

@@connormclernon26, also at North Anna.

@David_Mattox 2 ай бұрын

Monorail, Monorail, MONORAAAAAAIL!! Mono-Doh!

@Handyman1199 2 ай бұрын

Cue the Simpsons Monorail song

@xxxggthyf 2 ай бұрын

My faith in humanity is maintained by the fact that about 10% of the comments are Simpson references.

@ErickC 2 ай бұрын

Was it worse than the one in North Haverbrook?

@ivanthevaluable2559 2 ай бұрын

Perhaps the one in Ogdenville?

@RobSchofield 2 ай бұрын

@ 3:45 = a treat! We get a stereoscopic picture as well!

@lukechristmas3951 Ай бұрын

If a railway is only going to exist for a year, then visual aids of it will be extremely hard to come by. Man, I don't think saying it was all bad luck will cut it some slack here. Your channel highlights the many drawbacks of monorails throughout history but this one is borderline ridiculous.

@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933 2 ай бұрын

0:15 Bradford County is not where the town of Bradford itself is located, Bradford itself is actually in McKean County.

@JohnDavies-cn3ro 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating - I for one had never heard of this little railway before. The Irish line is legendary over here in GB - indeed, part of it has been recreated, and a sister railway (near enough) was built in France. Unfortunately that one disgraced itself before being opened, and so never ran. I wonder if Mr Latrigue had heard of this US line at all?

@iankemp1131 2 ай бұрын

Lartigue came about 10 years later so maybe learnt from this line's mistakes. The supports look more robustly constructed on his system.

@vincentberkan605 2 ай бұрын

This has Lyle Lanley written all over it.

@TankISU-152 2 ай бұрын

One of the best train explaining guy.

@garryferrington811 2 ай бұрын

Sometimes, doing things as cheaply as possible doesn't work out.

@joshuabessire9169 2 ай бұрын

"This is more of a Shelbyville idea..." The promoters, trying to get funding.

@dieseldragon6756 2 ай бұрын

Believe it or not, this might have been inspired by a similar (Albeit lesser known) system that was installed at Aldershot in 1872 for appraisal by the British Army (See Wikipedia: _Aldershot narrow-gauge suspension railway_ ) and so far as I can tell was the Worlds first passenger-carrying suspended railway, predating the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn by about 30 years. 🚟🇬🇧🥇 In the Aldershot system *two* rails were employed at a 12" gauge, and this probably contributed to the Aldershot system proving more stable and less problematic than the Bradford/Foster system you document here. 🚂🇬🇧⚖😇 Sadly, the Aldershot system was deconstructed at some later point (At a guess the timbers and rails were requisitioned for the war effort in WWI) and no trace of it remains to this day, but it was documented in _The Engineer_ (1872-11-01) and more can be found at the above referenced Wikipedia page. 😇 Finally: Many thanks for the awesome video! Absolutely *amazing* to hear that there was a U.S. cousin to the similar British system that had been created shortly before! 👍

@wes1243 2 ай бұрын

I never heard about this railway until now, worse than Penn Central?

@DennisLora2001 2 ай бұрын

Nice work my friend 4:48

@skovner 2 ай бұрын

From what I can find, a steam rotary engine was like a Wankel. making the creator of this railroad a bit of a wanker.

@TheFinalFrontiersman 2 ай бұрын

Where'd you find all these pictures? I've been mildly obsessed with finding out more about this weird contraption for years and could never find more than the same three pictures over and over.

@harrisonallen651 2 ай бұрын

I’m guessing the Bradford and Forster Brook railway just weren’t ready to tackle the monorail line concept.

@thesledgehammerblog 2 ай бұрын

Guess gadgetbahns aren't as new a phenomenon as we might think.

@christianshields4164 2 ай бұрын

*is there a chance the track could bend*

@edtheshed23 Ай бұрын

I was very much expecting this to be Bradford, UK given firstly Bradford here is pretty dodgy and secondly one of the two mainline stations is Bradford Forster Square, that's a massive coincidence between the similarities in the names.

@mortman200 2 ай бұрын

Is there a chance the track could bend?

@vincentberkan605 2 ай бұрын

"He cut corners everywhere! Bad wiring, faulty brakes, and the celebrity on the maiden voyage was Gallagher!"

@joshuabessire9169 2 ай бұрын

Quite likely, my KZfaq friend.

@retroflashbackdude 2 ай бұрын

@@vincentberkan605”This is all that’s left of one of the crappiest trains ever built”

@jed-henrywitkowski6470 2 ай бұрын

How were the engines transported from the manufacturer to the Bradford line?

@JohnDavies-cn3ro 2 ай бұрын

Most probably on flat cars, with supporting tracks. Narrow gauge engines were often delivered in that way - so were trams (trolleys or street cars), Here in GB a couple of railways had special well wagons specifically for carrying trams, which were disassembled into their main parts - truck, lower deck saloon and upper saloon, for reassembly after delivery.