The intro is proof the S100s are an invasive species

The S100s have everything you want in an engine; their rugged, adaptable, and reliable. I just wish more were in preservation over here in the U.S. I think there are only two.

Yep, Rosie was certainly one of The Fat Controller's finest purchases.

Ah yes, the classic case of wartime America making the most modular things in existence

US : ya need a tank that can pretty much do anything? UK and the Allies : YES! US : alright here's a Sherman UK : got anything for railways? US : S100s here you go These engines are literally Shermans on rails

That success is certainly remarkable given how relatively rarely tank engines were used in the US. Speaking of which, in my home town, there's a saddle tank engine that's a bit of a landmark. But despite looking into the railway it (probably) once belonged to, I can't find any information on its model.

This loco also used in Thailand, a few photograph were taken on this tank engine. But this loco do exist in SEA region too, especially Thailand. Which is rare considering that Thai Steam Locos were either from Switzerland or Japan, so seing this American Tank Engine is quite special. There’s also famous loco such as Garrett Steam Locomotive in Thailand too. It now display at HuaHin station. However, it still can build up steam if someone willing to repair it for a bit.

very fitting to use "Around the world" as background music

I like how in the background he's playing some cover of "around the world"

I quite appreciate the inclusion of the stable "Around the World" melody in the background. Love it!

3:10 and countless replicas of the class was made for the hit era of Thomas and friends as Rosie (as well as the countless Bachman 00 gauge models)

(For the Thomas fans.) It's Rosie's basis.

No way! That's literally the locomotive on display at our station. I'm from Slovenia which was once a part of Yugoslavia as you mentioned.

Isn’t this engine Rosie is based of in Thomas & Friends?

Well here is little fact, one of those is preserved at Zagreb Railway Museum to stay as static display

Another interesting tank engine IMO is the Hunslet Austerity. Used in active service by the National Coal Board until the 1980s, only really being surplus to requirements when all the collieries closed down.

S100 had a big brother engine called the S160 which was also made by the USATC (United States Army Transportation Corps) during WWII. It had similar success along side it's tank engine counter part but there was a fatal flaw where the engine would catastrophicly have a boiler explosion due to the construction. (I forgot how but I think it had to do with a design oversight where after a certain ammount of total miles the boiler would severely degrade or something like that). Still, the S160 was a very successful and reliable locomotive used to haul long distance freight across the UK and Continental Europe and even saw service in Siberia in post war service, and I believe some of them are still in service today. It just goes to show the S100 and the S160 were the Pinacle of American engineering and quality (albeit with some of it's drawbacks). Too bad us yanks don't make em like we used to.

The prodigious construction of American locos of all sizes and classes is astounding during the war years. Even at home in the USA, they could produce such series as the Big Boy engines and others types.

S100 axle boxes are great for tea breaks, the Brits should be thanking us for giving them a reason to take more tea breaks.

Despite their popularity and effectiveness, these locos are a PAIN IN THE ASS to find for model railways!

This locomotive appears in Thomas and Friends as Rosie, which means that WW2 *HAD TO HAPPEN* in the Thomas and Friends universe.

The locomotive in the thumbnail is preserved in the Netherlands. Dutch state railways never purchased any of this type, but the Oranje Nassau colliery acquired one of the surplus locomotives from the USATC, the locomotive was stationed at Heerlen in SE Netherlands. It underwent some modifications on rod bearings and boiler to make things more reliable and to bring the boiler up to Dutch steam code. It was in service for the colliery until the late 1960s. The museum railway of Goes-Borsele bought the locomotive and returned it to service in 1980, since then it has been out of service a couple of times for revision and renewal of the boiler certificate. The boiler itself was replaced with a new one in 2012. Between late 1944 and august 1945 the S160 did also service in the same region (depots Heerlen and Maastricht) but these were operated by USATC personnel, when they left in august 1945 they took these locomotives with them and the WD 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 would take over when Dutch railways resumed their operations.

There are some S100s at the US and some runs on the Scenic railroads like Granite Rock No.10 at Nyle's Canyon.

I'm sure I'm not the first one to think this, but the s100 looks like an outside driven, slightly more "bad ass" version of Thomas.

Some of my favorite tank engines of all time. I have a big interest in Army locomotives. This video is top of my list from Train of thought.

Yay Rosie gets some love. Although it kinda sucks that they replace the LBSCR E2.

On the subject of the "copy" variant of the S100, two of the Yugoslavian builds, were actually brought to the UK and modified into a actual S100 variant and numbered 30075 and 30076. At the present moment, is based at the North Dorset Railway and 30076 has yet to be converted.

The one on the thumbnail is currently steaming in my area. Goes-Borssele Netherlands.

Rosie = S100 S100 = adaptable anywhere (besides snow but) Conclusion: Rosie (chad S100) > Thomas (virgin e2

Truly, these were Really Useful Engines!

I can actually imagine, if there there were a Thomas and Friends series that takes place in America, this engine would be a lock for Thomas's basis.

I love this video as it answers my biggest question. Watching your video on Thomas the Tank Engine and other similar videos left me confused as to if the USA tanks were American machines in Britain or British machines named after America.

They also replaced for the most part, the LBSC E2s and LSWR B4s at Southampton Docks

The Polish TKh-Ferrum that you've erroneously shown as based on the S100 is actually a postwar copy/derivative of a pre-war Polish design called the TKh29, from 1929. I don't want to post links not get flagged as spam, but you can look it up. This is a pet peeve of mine as someone who works on one of these locomotives, for some reason brits often see it as an S100 derivative, and it irritates me to no end.

no tender , no articulation ... these are my favorite type of steam locomotives

Around the World is pretty fitting for this video, nice music choice lol

Always love your content. Another great video.

At least one of the Yugoslav clones is still in use on an industrial railway in Bosnia. Those particular copies are almost identical to the original S100 (to the point where Yugoslav State Railways designated them both as the same class JZ 62) save for some minor changes to make it easier to produce locally. A few of the Yugoslav ones have also been sent to the UK as they're easier to come by than wartime originals but maintain the S100's reliability and appearance. The S100 really does epitomize American WW2 gear: versatile, dependable, and sent absolutely everywhere.

Loved the video as always. The daft punk cover music was perfect

I've never seen a tank engine like this, it's like an American locomotive was shrunk down to a tank engine. I love it!!

I grew up in the Sacramento area, so Granite Rock 10 holds a special place in my heart.

Awesome video!

Great touch with the music choice haha!

daft punk's "around the world" is quite the fitting soundtrack for an engine that did get around the world

You're right when you say they thrived everywhere. They're in games now! Including scrap mechanic, brick rigs, and derail valley! And that's why the s100 is my favorite tank engine.

This show is that America knows how to build locomotives they're fast beautiful And they can get the job done Also there is a rumor going around that an E7 Atlantic aka 7002 beat mallard speed record before the mallard was even built

On British rail their class was renamed the USA class nicknamed dock tanks by rail staff

An underrated part of this channel is the subtle music choices. Took me a while to clock, then identify, the song in the background being Around the World - Daft Punk.

i always loved US locos in european service. im part of a society in Switzerland and we run a 2-8-2 US Light Mikado :)

I had the privilege of working on the granite rock 10 at the california state railroad museum back in the early 2010s. Such a small neat locomotive.

The S100 is amazing!

I found your puffing noises for your intro, you clever man! The whistle and heavy puffing of the Southern Railways, Merchant Navy Class from nonother than the movie "Titfield Thunderbolt".

Recently did my own video on these, lovely little engines, especially the bark of their exhaust beat, one of the best I know

That outro is amazing and so fitting

....was that an Around the World remix playing? This channel is the best 😂

Great work ToT! Please do more vids on wartime locos!

0:15 Fun fact .This steam engine is Polish . It is Kp4 loco still in service on forest railway in Bieszczady. The railway is located near Poland's Ukraine's an Slovakia's borders touching point.

It makes sense they're so adaptable though. Think about it, it's meant to be a wartime aid engine. I.E. There's no predictability "where" it will be in the slightest. So a competent engineer looked at that factor and knew the engine HAD TO BE as adaptable as possible.

Me is from Southampton so I like seeing these lil beasts

ToT literally used the prrfect song for this theme. "Around The World" from the album Homework by Daft Punk.

It took me until the outro to realize you'd given this a version of daft punk's around the world. Excellent choice

"Around the world" at the end of the video was a nice touch! XD

the widespread success of the S100's is a bit of a miracle considering their drawings allegedly were conceived by one man with little experience designing engines, and were not checked over or revised before entering production. This is a little bit of a hearsay story, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was the case, considering the US's aversion to tank engines

Nice cover of Daft Punk's 'Around the World' for background music! I approve 😄👌

Now do the US army s160s. They are much more interesting than many would think. There’s even a type two s160 in Chattanooga Tennessee, and it’s the only one of its class. It’s slightly different from the standard design. The type 2 s160 had larger diameter boiler than the type 1 s160. It also excluded the dome casing that the standard version had between the steam and sand dome.

How fascinating!

could you maybe review the small miniature trains that worked during world war 1 i always thought they were kind of cute and interesting its cool how such small engines made such a impact .

Also just got added to Derail Valley a train sim dope to see this in my recommendations finally lol

During the war, US engineers followed the KISS principle: Keep it Simple, Stupid. It was a good practice.

When it comes to their performance, I guess you could say… Everything’s Rosie?

I do like the choice of "Around the word" for the music

amazing locomotive

A very fascinating locomotive in my opinion.

Commonly known in the UK as 'The USA Tanks' or 'The Southern USA Class'.They were also nicknamed 'Yank Tanks' by SR staff. Six of them can be found in preservation on British heritage railways. 30064 Bluebell Railway - (left in 2022 being restored by private owner) 30065 Kent and East Sussex Railway - (Under overhaul) 30070 Kent and East Sussex Railway - (Operational) 30072 Ribble Steam Railway - (Undergoing major boiler repairs) *30075 (formerly 62-669 built 1960- (Undergoing overhaul) Shillingstone Rly *30076 (formerly 62-521 built 1954- Stored) Shillingstone Rly [* Yugoslavian built]

It's not known well in the West but how about the Russian E class, the most produced steam locomotive of all time?

I never knew we had tank engines like this. I also I never knew they were sent across the pond being used and still having them around

Remember me? We met at Chris' screening event :D

A very versatile class for all countries indeed

That's really incredible.

Heh. The Around The World bit for the credits was a nice touch.

The use of an “Around the World” remix is a nice touch

Fine machines! Spoke to a heritage line driver once who said that once he’d gotten used to it, a Southern example he once worked on was one of his favourites. Didn’t know so many had been preserved across their different nations, must be one of the most preserved steam designs!

a video on one of my favorite locomotives day after my birthday? don't mind if I do :D

@Train Of Thought I’d like to see a video where you are talking about Australia’s iconic steam engine called ‘Newcastle Flyer’ 3801, if you haven’t done so already.

These guys put the TANK in tank engine.

Interesting I hope to make something like this one day

Amazing locomotives

Fun fact the Yugoslavian knock off engines are still in service in Bosnia at several diffrent coal mines across the country.

1:40 Cool , Beautiful, Elegant, Awsome Steam Engine

Nice photo of the 4389 “Enter” from the SGB in the Netherlands

One of these but for narrow gauge and fitted with front and rear pony trucks survives on a plinth on Vancouver Island from a logging road.

Rosie was the really useful Engine.

And their simple rustic design made them the darling of model railway makers like in France the JeP or Hornby H0 rendition of the SNCF 030 TU and TX...

Showing the amazing ability of the US manufacturing base. You can almost see into FDR's office with this one. 'Okay, Kaiser is going to build 100 escort carriers. How many locomotives, freight cars, miles of railroad track, and thousands of sleepers will we need in Europe? And the far East? Have somebody check into the gauge of the Japanese railways cause we are going to have to rebuild those after we bomb out everything they have now. 'Make sure an adequate supply of freighters are designed able to carry locomotives and have them ready by mid 44 and we need to whip up a couple hundred for the soviets'. It is really neat how they manage to run the logistics system. It always seems that people are going on about supply difficulties or shortages of this or that thing. In reality, none of the axis powers had any real idea of the huge machine that was coming down on them and if they had they probably would have quit.

What a surprise video this one is. Here in Slovenia are a lot of these engines preserved (you've shown three at 0:25, 2:04, 2:40 and 3:00) known as JŽ class 62

these would be good in towns to transport tourists on tram lines

I would argue that it exactly fits the bill. It was designed to do what it was designed to do and it did it very well.

Since no one's mentioning it. And cause I know Thomas fans watch this channel. The s100 is the basis for Rosie. Making her one of the very few US designs in the show.

You need to make a Discord server for your Community :D

I love this one because here the United States has gifted the world our own locomotives that where pretty useful engines! The S100s and the S160s are two of my favorites as they were built in wartime and where distributed all over the world once the war was over.