This Failed Propeller Powered TRAIN Was Actually Ahead Of Its Time... SO I BUILT ONE!

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2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to another episode of Scrap Mechanic! Today I am recreating the propeller-powered train known as the Bennie Railplane. It was a train that had a lot of plane-like design elements to enable to go faster, and traverse a wider variety of terrain elements. Despite having a relatively successful test version, it was unable to get funding to make it into the mainstream. Yet, with the exception of the propellors, a lot of modern trains don't seem that different than this one.
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@xX_Fighter_Xx 2 жыл бұрын

If you would like to make a longer track I have made monorail terrain assets. There are a couple of tiles with them but you could also make a tile yourself. And yes I know this isn't a monorail lol.

@tobawoobossam7198 2 жыл бұрын

I think the torque from the propellers is affecting the way the wheels tilt and that's why one way works better than the other

@Woolyu 2 жыл бұрын

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@nixyndixy9431 2 жыл бұрын

I hear in the USA that americans don't do well on this... here in Canada, the highest I've gotten is 40:30:2 the highest I've seen someone get is 180:70:29 They were running for 8 hours :> also 20meter? I always ran 60.... goes to show how different the USA is than Canada!a either way **the protogen mafia has been angered by your abuse of our turn on code. we will be sending "Our regards"**

@Woolyu 2 жыл бұрын

I dont know how to respond to that one

@Der_Yoloist 2 жыл бұрын

5:25 That sneeze caughed me of guard and gave me a spike of laughter xD

@fengq7394 2 жыл бұрын

On multi player Monday you should do a relay race where you start on foot or a simple sled. Each checkpoint has chest you can pick with an assortment of things to add to your vehicle. See who can make the best and fastest vehicle on the fly.

@jackobunniegoexplore4390 2 жыл бұрын

I agreed 👍👌

@knightbeforedawn 2 жыл бұрын

Yes this is a great idea (it's like challenge mode evolution)

@FerrowTheFox 2 жыл бұрын

Kinda reminds me of the German experimental railcar called "Schienenzeppelin" (rail zeppelin) from around the same time. It only had one prop in the back, but the front was pretty close to today's bullet trains, very aerodynamic and sleek looking. It set a land speed crecord of 230 km/h back then. Pretty interesting thing imo.

@himenaaa3565 2 жыл бұрын

Damn reading the Rail Zepplin, causing my brain to remember Fate Series,

@Yoshi-wt4lg Жыл бұрын

oh that's like the french aerotrain, its cruising speed was 400km/h

@FoshizzleMaMan 2 жыл бұрын

This way of showing the building process is so much more enjoyable than the timelaps!

@SapioiT 2 жыл бұрын

Man, you need to make more videos on similar subjects to videos Found And Explained made. Including the Arctic Land Train, which used electric engines with power from a generator wagon, and could go on any kind of sneaking/snaking/snake-ing road. And this also works well with the Scrap Mechanic physics.

@thevenatorproject7269 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, that opening went from whimsical and fantastic to painfully realistic so quickly. Cool invention regaurdless!!

@Apersonl0l 2 жыл бұрын

i think the bounciness is due to Scrap Mechanics hates having a giant thing made of the same material (maybe it calculates collision on one giant object), try alternating materials when making the rail (so it maybe calculate the collisions on only a few blocks at a time), Kan and kosmo did this on their rail systems over on their coop multiplayer or it may just be scrap jank

@Crummieboi56 2 жыл бұрын

Moonbo? You meant kosmo right?

@1mariomaniac 2 жыл бұрын

I think they figured out that even painting them different colors will fix the issue

@aircraftcarrierwo-class 2 жыл бұрын

Truly before his time, this was the first "bullet train". I'm sure Mr Bennie would be proud to see the European and Japanese bullet trains scooting around these days. Though he'd probably be disappointed that they have yet to catch on in the USA.

@gerrard1144 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah pretty much. Although Britain had it's own sort of bullet train with the Class A4 Pacifics and the LMS Coronation, until they were taken out of service because the diesel's were taking over.

@aircraftcarrierwo-class 2 жыл бұрын

@@gerrard1144 ah, I didn't know about those. I'll have to look them up. I find trains and train history fascinating but have precious little knowledge about them.

@gerrard1144 2 жыл бұрын

@@aircraftcarrierwo-class i believe on the mainline they go as fast as 90-100mph, but the A4 Mallard reached 126mph on the stokes' bank, beating the previous record for fastest train of 124mph by the Germans. It is now the world's fastest steam locomotive ever to run, although it's middle bearing melted lol. They stuck to 90 since then, when diesels took over, steam trains are only allowed to go 75mph on the mainline, but that was lifted i think. Trains are amazing pieces of engineering.

@FastForwardPlans 2 жыл бұрын

Trains are actually fairly extensively used in the usa, you can spot rails all over the place, like a lot a lot, like the usa has the longest rail network in the world, with china coming in second. Not a close second though, its a solid 150,000 km extra of track over China. The US totaling 250,000 km, china 100,000 km, and russia sitting at 85,500 km. The assumption that the us does not use them is because they are not a popular means of transport for people. For good reason really, the issue is quite simply that setting them up as a means of public transport would be too inconvenient, the USA isn't like Europe where towns and housing was set up around horse and foot travel. A lot of US development was thanks to the goldrush, followed by the rise of cars, thousands of people settled along the long path from east to west and started to spread out rapidly once there was a fast long distance means of personal travel. Convenience and price is mostly why things ended up the way they are. Say for example I did want to go somewhere a track exist and was planned for, maybe a trip from new york to chicago. That would cost me, 215.69, and 1-2 days. For that same price, I can get on a plane and get there in a few hours. For that same amount of time, but cheaper, I could just drive there. If I am instead visiting family, somewhere outside of a major city, even if there is a track that crosses there, as its not a major line but a similar distance away, that would likely cost me 300-400 dollars, would require me moving between multiple trains, take a few more days, and that is only one way, the price would double if I wanted to take the train back home. It's just not worth it when cheaper and faster options exist.

@aircraftcarrierwo-class 2 жыл бұрын

@@FastForwardPlans Yeah I know the USA uses trains to move lots of freight. I was more referring to people-movers being unpopular.

@anthonyvargo7109 2 жыл бұрын

5:25 that sneeze killed me😂😂

@DragonSirenHITOMI 2 жыл бұрын

I would love to see this in trail makers lol Hoped you have a good day scrap man! My daughter gets so excited to see your videos she is gonna love this one too

@FoundAndExplained 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for linking me in for the original video.

@scrapman 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to!

@squoshi307 2 жыл бұрын

Man, I really love the new editing style. Especially the bloopers. Good man.

@diyshah8861 2 жыл бұрын

He's not Good man, he's scrapman (terrible dad joke even though I'm not a parent yet)

@phasmick8797 2 жыл бұрын

Love this series. Keep the great work up!

@paucc 2 жыл бұрын

I love your new editing format of jump cuts and keeping the building sounds (with a jazzy song in the background). 👌

@warlordish 2 жыл бұрын

That sneeze was hilarious. Bless you!

@QuebecGamer20 2 жыл бұрын

Now you just absolutely have to recreate the 1970's French Aerotrain

@JangoF12b 2 жыл бұрын

Won't lie, I watched Found's video before yours and I was really questioning when I saw yours come out, wondering if you watched his video lol. Either way, I love both channels. You are honestly an expert with Scrap Mechanic, keep up the great work man

@mechan1c132 2 жыл бұрын

I'm on my bus going to school and I see this new video, love it.

@DanB-0 2 жыл бұрын

This is a pretty neat train design and reminds me of a more modern idea variant I saw on tv years and years ago the High Speed Tubular Rail, there are a few videos of the animation of it here on youtube, but basically the train has rail top and bottom and the "track" is towers with wheels in the top and bottom for it to slip through which the towers would shoot it through them with powered wheels.

@deoghritlahare1938 2 жыл бұрын

Love your content scrapman

@Firegaming-lc8ep 2 жыл бұрын

Great vid 👍

@notachannel1173 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos!!

@Relemsis 2 жыл бұрын

5:25 bless you scrapman

@rustycactus1174 2 жыл бұрын

I loved how you showed your progression in this I guess Timelapse 5:16. It’s funny and enjoyable 🌹. it also doesn’t make me skip the Timelapses. Well done love your content 🌹🌹

@wojciechikropka.4316 2 жыл бұрын

Great series and I love those random sneezes xD

@s.s.j5046 2 жыл бұрын

Your sneezes always gets me..!

@animalmango6499 2 жыл бұрын

I really liked that build montage in the first part

@RichardNicolasJones 2 жыл бұрын

From what I saw from a monorail build on Kan's channel if you alternate materials after every drag length the rail is much more stable and doesnt glitch nearly as bad. He had a rail that stretched rather far that proformed very well.

@flyingmunk8956 2 жыл бұрын

I like this kind of montage editing better than the usually just fast forward montages

@Audjem1 Жыл бұрын

Only scrapman can make a time lapse funny

@bobbyhill3535 2 жыл бұрын

Hey scrapman you should do the watermans arrowbile I think me and a whole lot of people would love to see this

@threeforthsstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Nice monorail system. I'm gonna have to try this in my survival world.

@cookaracha6272 2 жыл бұрын

5:25 never mind the random sneeze I cant stop laughing

@mr.person5209 2 жыл бұрын

Whenever you have a long track, occasionally paint lines of a different colour in it to separate the different parts

@durp3226 2 жыл бұрын

I have 2 different ideas for multiplayer monday Challenge 1 "not my build" you build vheicals for your opponent to use in a race so the crappyer you make it the better chance you have...let the sabotage commence Challenge 2 "dont spill" a race where you have to carry an extremely awkwardly shaped object limitations being the object has to be free floating and not fully encased. Add obstacles as you see fit

@StrakanDocrusReakal 2 жыл бұрын

I think the real reason that this didn't take off was because it didn't have any wings to provide lift.

@BBAMblog 2 жыл бұрын

Its so crazy to think about, the guy who designed this would not have had even the slightest concept of computers, much less video games. And now, decades and decades later after he and his idea died, its getting seen by tens of thousands of people on a medium he never could have imagined

@anonymouscoward7559 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the reason this era had so many crazy inventions is because there were so many great inventions form inventing greats like Westinghouse and Tesla. You never know what silly idea will be the inspiration of the next great idea.

@JonahDyer 2 жыл бұрын

Been waiting for the Found & Explained shoutout since the nutcracker video. What a weird coincidence of video timing.

@that_one_guy0997 Жыл бұрын

Your top middle supports should have been a low friction box. I think that added to the jumpyness with the wheels rubbing on each one.

@franciskurian9392 2 жыл бұрын

Scrapman, I got an idea. Make a beyblade and surround it with magnets facing outwards and use thrusters to rotate it. Use a swivel to cancel out the beys rotation and place another swivel on top of it and place some thrusters to use for changing directions (in instruments of destruction)

@moroblizniak4457 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, building montages are so nice now!

@hfpewe7872 2 жыл бұрын

Scrapman's sneeze is so funny idk why

@kaltsonboyett9256 2 жыл бұрын

It's also extremely sad how Mr Bennie never achieved his dream and I like how well all can see this now. I never originally knew the story but now if you take into context about someone's dream becoming a fail it's actually depressing.

@Shitballs69420 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, you should build a 'Hulett ore extractor' its a very interesting piece of shipping related equipment history.

@spinoxy7185 2 жыл бұрын

You're ny favorite youtuber!😊

@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug 2 жыл бұрын

The big problem with this and all elevated train ideas (monorail etc); is that unless there's water below or extremely rough terrain; it's much cheaper to just flatten the terrain and put normal rails on the ground. And even if the terrain is rough or covered with water etc, it's much easier to just build a normal rail bridge over it than an entirely incompatible mono-rail system.

@arnarmar7038 2 жыл бұрын

Allso wery nice build

@corykountz9760 2 жыл бұрын

So for every one wondering why it was only going good in one direction is because the propellers pitch is the wrong way, he needs a prop that can change propeller angles.

@jackmagnium6115 2 жыл бұрын

that sneeze LOL

@WoH9Shadow 2 жыл бұрын

@Scrapman the bouncing can be avoided by alternating materials in about 10-15 blocks each... so 15 block metal 15 blocks wood and repeat. ask Kan and cosmo about it!

@Theattacsnek 2 жыл бұрын

The guy: let’s make a flying train with a come face! People now:LETS MAKE A UNDERGROUND TRAIN

@drakrtar Жыл бұрын

honestly looking at it the only difference for each direction seems to be where the control chair and pilot is

@ayushkumar-dh7ef 2 жыл бұрын

You should do a lift jumping race

@mommyjardinedeleon8064 Жыл бұрын

Finally I found a Scrapman vid w/ intro

@henrystickmin8812 2 жыл бұрын

This guy: Lets put the tracks in the AIR! Some other guy: Lets create a train... with no train tracks!

@divy9474 2 жыл бұрын

you can paint in-between the segments and it will change the structure calculation without adding extra supports.

@roelieboy204 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, very big object can glitch out the game. I build a very big bridge to an island in my survival world and when i walk or drive over it you can randomly fly up into the air.

@stevepittman3770 2 жыл бұрын

I think the reason this failed is because even if you have to blast mountainsides and carve tunnels for regular rail, it's still less expensive than doing that and then building a huge bulky structure on it. Also there's the safety concern of if your train breaks or catches fire or whatever in the middle of nowhere you can't just get off of it without falling.

@industrial-tech191 2 жыл бұрын

it looks like it is inspired by the Schwebebahn. Basically a flying bus in my hometown Wuppertal, Germany. It was invented around 1900 and is a monorail but the rail is above the waggon.

@maximk9964 2 жыл бұрын

"We're back on track" I see what you did there

@kaltsonboyett9256 2 жыл бұрын

" They had one pesky issue, they had to put the rails on the ground." Agreed gravity can screw you up even I have to deal with it to.

@XA_GAMER 2 жыл бұрын

I love you r videos

@memeberfunk2731 2 жыл бұрын

The directional issue is the top support bars holding the guide rail. The wheels pull away in one direction making a smooth glide. In the other direction they push in smashing into that guide bar support ever slightly

@nikolaskuklis5925 6 ай бұрын

One obvious issues seems to be the amount of additional iron needed to build the frame and probably the propeller is less fuel efficient

@whizkidbricks9740 2 жыл бұрын

Can you build the Rutan Boomerang in trailmakers?

@PumpkinKing-ruler-of-pumpkins Жыл бұрын

problem: train tracks arent smooth and hard to maintain and have to move from hills solution: flying train reality:creates a train with propeller that has all the problems a normal train has and more

@mystlcgreatness 2 жыл бұрын

Found and explained did a lot of videos on strange prototypes and stuff of the past. You shld build more of his stuff

@abdulazizafaizal7448 2 жыл бұрын

we need more satisfying builds scrapman

@kopow4320 2 жыл бұрын

i love the montage

@akhtardanishm21 2 жыл бұрын

there is always "SO I BUILT ONE" in scrapman's videos now

@Hiro_blee3292 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah your right he's really on a ride

@piersmundy 2 жыл бұрын

This makes me want to see a multiplayer Monday monorail race

@Phant0mBr8k 2 жыл бұрын

Bless you

@dongqingwei5286 2 жыл бұрын

ScrapMan you should rebuild a One-Wheel Tank/Ball Tank

@TheDartFrog 2 жыл бұрын

humans: hmm making way for trains is too expensive... also humans: underground train in a giant tunnel go brrr

@ft3917 2 жыл бұрын

you have magnets .. i think you could try and make a megnet train rail.. a maglev type train. it could be a fantastic fast train

@Galopolyrim 2 жыл бұрын

Your next multiplayer Monday should be propeller powered vehicles.

@fikrierdogan8525 2 жыл бұрын

Scrapman when building long tracks if you change block types every 20-30 blocks (wood-meatal-wood-metal) you dont have any of those weird collision issues

@torham 2 жыл бұрын

I really like this design in Scrap Mechanic, shame about the weird bouncing, I'd love to find a workaround for that. In real life I think this is actually a worse idea than you let on for the simple reason that it would be WAY more expensive to build the track due to material cost and weight vs train, and cost is critical for any transportation design. Speaking of dumb and impractical designs, maybe you can make a hyperloop?

@moorcum 2 жыл бұрын

i liked your previous outro song more, but this one is still good

@nathanielhill8156 2 жыл бұрын

The train might be torquing due to the propellers. If it is, the tires might be hitting the rail supports. Double blades (one clockwise, one counterclockwise) on the propellers might have a better time with staying straight and might even be faster.

@frayziedaisy 2 жыл бұрын

i mean it’s a nice thing and a very good idea but it’s just too expensive in building so much steel is needed the new building timelapse’s are lit xD

@TheTechAdmin 2 жыл бұрын

I noticed it worked depending on which seat you were in.

@oliver_beres 2 жыл бұрын

Suggestion for video: Perpetual motion machine

@huey2026 2 жыл бұрын

The smooth direction has the torque of the propellers push the top wheels away from the top rail "wall". The not smooth direction has the propellers torque pushing the top wheels into top rail "wall" possibly causing them to try to ride up and off.

@axisrespawn4557 2 жыл бұрын

First hi scrapman love the vids I've been watching since 2016

@notanagger4861 2 жыл бұрын

To combat the bounciness u should divide the rail into chunks or either different colors or different material all together

@thundergamerz2449 2 жыл бұрын

It is due to the weight distribution on the train. The engine is on one side which comprises one side and runs smoothly on one side than others and make that issue

@LindenF 2 жыл бұрын

We need to be using these irl.

@johnkim5854 2 жыл бұрын

The one direction being weird might be cause by the Axial forces caused by the propellers both spinning in the same directions, causing the wheel just after the bump to collide with the pillars that hold up the top rail.

@dalvyx8170 2 жыл бұрын

Its been so long since the last workshop hunters please do one of those.

@jsherwood3577 2 жыл бұрын

i have heard of this, i saw a video on you tube about it and it was cool.

@RlCHIE 2 жыл бұрын

bless you (you sneezed at the start of the video)

@egornick9206 Жыл бұрын

14:05 Scrap Mechanic physics in one sentence.

@blackoak4978 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the difference in performance depending on direction is due to the torque of the propellers. Since the attachment point isn't symmetrical it would experience friction differently between the two

@-that_one_guy 2 жыл бұрын

You should try making a train that makes or places it’s tracks

@LegoTrainBoy 2 жыл бұрын

If you find this comment, PLEASE read it!!! I recall KAN in a soap box game that he'd made a track with a secret short cut and tested his friends if they could figure out how to get on it. And maybe you can add seats to this "plane train" you have and see what they think.