Ah yes, whenever i hear minecraft music i'll always know that rails break when the blocks beneath it are gone.

As unlikely as it would be, I would love to see the day someone unearths Furness Railway No. 115. It would be even more exciting if it was in good enough condition to be restored, if only for static display.

The USA was fully aware of the Soviet plan to stockpile steam engines and kept steam engine training in its MOS 60 category up until at least 2000

I can't even begin to imagine how the railway preservation scene would look like if the Woodham brothers weren't so 'accommodating' to preservation groups.

The Barry scrapyard is by far my favorite

That first story was referenced by the Rev. W. Awdry in his forward for the Railway Series book "Duke the Lost Engine."

As strategic reserve steam locomotives goes Sweden and Austria also had steamlocomotives preserved in case of WW3 In the 60's Swedens military heavily preserved ,cocooned and stored freshly very recent overhauled steam locomotives and placed them in sheds all over Sweden. When they realised in the 90's nobody at the railway companies and military couldn't drive them anymore and also the infrastructure to coal water and recondition them wasn't availbale anymore they were pulled out of strategic reserve and sold of. The irony is that in the Netherlands there are now strategic reserve locomtives from both sides of the cold war in preservation. Sweden (2 B, 1 E and 1 E2 class), Austria OBB 52 3879 (ex DRB 52 3879) and a soviet union strategic locomotive TE-5933 (ex DRB 52 5933) TE-5933

Considering that steam locomotives were comparatively cheap it is surprising more didn't survive thanks to people just ditching them where they broke down. Furness 115 though is definitely a rare instance. Although not unique. At least one other happened near Preston with an industrial tank.

Double upvote (if I could) for the mentioning of my homeland, the Isle of Man. If you don't already know, we still have an original Victorian & Edwardian railway network with original steam & electric rolling stock running to timetables. Its beautiful. I bet you already have a video covering it .

ToT you need to make a video about the batshit insane railroad that was the Porterfield & Ellis RR They ran 1870's 4-4-0s up and down 20% grades doing 100mph

There's a CNR Consolidation 'preserved' in a bog on the Manitouwadge branchline after it rolled off the tracks due to subsidence while the line was under construction. When officials rode along the newly completed track it was covered with a big green tarpaulin to hide it. As far as anyone knows it's still there, having slowly sank into the muskeg over the decades.

Dai Woodham must have had a solid relationship with his bank manager; all that financial outlay to purchase the locos and have them sitting there without generating a monetary return. Thanks for another fascinating video.

Great compilation ToT. Fascinating info.

That is the best Chanel for me to go to sleep. I like to like 3:00 watching

Pretty unique concept of "banking engines" in New Zealand

I'm second! This came out 5 min ago! It's thunder storming and 6:07am

How about covering the Bugatti railcar?

3:15 🤔 Hmmmm... Now where have I seen this before?

Unique and interesting stories!

Fantastic competition video man I like it 0:41

for the riverbank engines both K88 and K92 are restored to running order

5:40 - 5:43 Well if they did plan to retrieve this engine in future (hypothetically speaking), I wonder if Gordon would pull it out?

It would be nice if they could save Furness 115 one day, and have its reunion with 3, 20, and 25.

Cool

Poor old 5629 😢.

lol i just read about the kiwi river trains

fourth somehow? idk, nice video!

He apologizes for mispronouncing in the Finland part but not the Brazilian?! Lol

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