the M1 Garand Ping on Kans hard crash kenosha was perfect

That M1 Garand ping was hilarious! Props to Mickley for the amazing edits!!

25:22 Props to the editor for the sound effects 👏 🙌 👌 👍 😀 😄

That garand ping sound insert was a treat

This is probably my favorite episode of RO yet, I'm probably going to tell some of the other people in my cad class about this one, they normally hate how much I talk about trains, but this might interest them talking about engineering school and your experiences

I love how you guys are playing Railroads Online and sharing stories from college or whatever you two talk about. To me, it's basically a series of podcasts that is very educational that's in a very fun way. From the time I started watching your videos and I subscribed to your channel; it has been the biggest part of me to learn more about the Railroads and the trains themselves. So thank you Hyce for such an amazing work that you do.

Another episode of my favorite train video podcast!

It’s always a great day when Hyce uploads

Fun Fact for those that use glad hands on a daily whether that be on tractor trailers or trains: A little spit can help with glad hands that dont want to slip together easily. Also I didn’t notice at first around 24:31 that Kenosha was playing

We had an engineering professor who was a no-calculators guy. However, to speed things up, he also redefined key mathematical values like pi to 3, e to 2, sqrt(2) to 1, etc - which is both much better and absolutely, catastrophically terrible. Unrelated to that monstrosity, I had a calculus course. Literally the last math class I would ever have to take in my entire life. The grading breakdown was set up such that either the series of unit tests throughout the semester counted as your complete grade, or the final exam (which was actually just the final unit test - not even a cumulative one, insofar as math can not be cumulative) would count for your entire grade. Before the final exam, the prof dragged each and every person up to the front of the room, wrote down a number, and you had to decide, right there on the spot, whether you were going to take that grade as your total, or if you were going to take the final and take whatever you did on that. I walked up there after a disastrous, imploding semester where everything just got worse and worse. He showed me a "60". The minimum to count as a pass. Looked me dead straight in the eyes. I said "Sounds good to me!" and got the hell out of there.

It’s really fun seeing the slack run in and out of the cars.

The hour of engineering and college talk was fantastic and gave me college PTSD haha. (kAN’s Garand “ping!” made me breathe in my coffee. I think it’s the new Kenosha requirement!)

I'm glad Hyce piped up on the uni thing. I went to actually a fairly large school (something like 40,000 students living in dorms) in central US where like even my Operating Systems class was 30-40 people and the professors were almost always available for questions. For big stuff they might direct you to office hours, but I talked to my professors a lot more than I talked to my TAs. My average class size was probably 50-70 and professors usually taught multiple sections.

Loading 18 cordwood is a test of patience to be sure! I stopped at 12 cordwood cars just from the loading time, plus it's still small enough that it gives my Eureka something it can do.

Hyce's tender identifies as a Saturn V apparantly. Also, the 3 hour class thing isn't just an engineering thing, I went for business administration and had a few of those.

55:30: I had a math professor who went on a tangent in one lecture and explicitly said "this is a really cool thing I want to share with you. It won't be on the exam, I promise" and bulldozed through this concept at a million words a second as he always did and refusing to answer questions as per usual. Exam comes, and question 1 is about that concept that he swore wouldn't be on the exam so nobody studied it. Question 2 depended on the answer to 1, 3 on 2, 4 on 3, and then that was the end of the exam. I got an 11% on that exam. The class average was in the upper 30s, so I still failed even with the curve. When I asked the professor to sign my course withdrawal forms, he tried to extort some political quid pro quos out of me. Terrible man. And that's why I gave up on engineering and became a planner instead. In my senior year, even though I was no longer studying engineering, I still took Engineering Ethics, because it fulfilled a requirement for my major. I remember getting upset by how little the engineering students were caring or paying attention to the course and realizing that it wasn't being taught well. The instructor was great, but the course was just really poorly built. The best thing about majoring in history of technology was that I could write almost every paper about trains: Energy in America? The effects of fuel on American locomotive aesthetics. Science, Technology and Warfare? Let's compare 0-6-0Ts and 2-8-0s built by the US and UK for World War II and interview a former shedmaster in the UK who worked with all of them. There was one course where we had to propose a movie about some historical technology, so I wrote about a crash on the Great Northern Railway in England that had a massive effect on the way signalling worked. It was a fun challenge to figure out how to shove trains into almost every term paper.

One of my strangest situations in university: The guidelines for grading semester exams were, that the average of the best four students is an "A" and 50% of that average is a "D". We had one hardcore professor, who saw that rule through the end... we had four damn good students (lucky I was one of them) and the rest of the students were kind of middling. The result: 4 "A"s and the next best grade was a "D+"...

I've never vibed with a KZfaq video harder than this one. Takes me right back to my college days. With the southing sounds of trains to boot!

Red markers on the end of each train, yes. If you pulled into a siding and parked, you'd turn those red lights to green (I believe) so as to not make a following train come around the corner and crap their pants at the sight of a E.O.T.D.

The heard you mention on your livestream that you didn't enjoy RO very much. I wanted to say that I really enjoy that you and Kan make the best of it and bring us entertaining multi-player content.

Two VERY different flavors of "dudes rock" on display this episode: 1:05:22 "your final exam is 'cover my favorite led zeppelin song'" and 1:05:52 "you need to design something in CAD, at least 5 moving parts. Proceeds to design a thing with THREE HUNDRED"

With diesel electrics: most air brake set ups only charge from the "leading" unit of each consist. Although the vent to charge the train-line is a given size, the more compressors pumping help charge quicker and maintain better. But physics kicks in somewhere and adding more compressors results in dimensions returns. Manned helpers normally had their trainline brakes cut-out but their engine brakes cut-in. The lead of DP units as you guy noted can charge air but like I mentioned above the trailing units feed into the lead unit.

8:46 looks at the teleportation house "Nice"

The ping was pure genius, props to the editor.👍 Love the engineering talk.

Bro hyce’s vids are sooo awesome and informative and honestly they are what keep me into old time railroading and I can’t wait till RO gets the K37 so hyce can go all crazy about it 😂

That M1 Garand Ping wreck edit was top tier, well done!

The M1 Garand ping makes me very happy...and is totally appropriate given that Mosca's tender just went flying

I fully understand that satisfied feeling of everything coming together to make a thing. Engineers really do make the world go round. I wanna hear about the goat and kicking the band out.

Engineers really do make the world go 'round, in more ways than one. All kinds of engineers - civil, electrical, industrial, software - and the other kind of engineer as well, the railroading kind! Transportation, man!

If you guys ever get a Hysler. You should name it the Hyceler. 😅

As a ME who graduated in December 2022, that description of the ME college experience is accurate. (I think I had more lenient professors) Props to Mickely, that Garand ping was on point! Keep the videos coming!

Nothing better than tuning into the Kan and Hyce podcast while shaking cold etchant for half an hour to etch a pcb

Great times, and hoping forward to pancake keggerrs, kiddie-pools of beerr, borrowed goats, band nights, and other wonderful stories. Thanks to both of you for sharing, and luck-wishing to Leighton on his exam.

This reminded me of watching William Price videos as a kid with the Western Maryland Rwy rolling up Helmstetters with two Decapods on the front, one in the middle, and one on the back. Lots and Lots of tractive effort. Cool video

Hearing you guys talk about college takes me back to my college days. I find myself nodding along with the same challenges of studying or other aspects of college even tho I'm in a completely different field than you guys. The no homework now is definitely a plus now XD

next time that happens I need an instant replay! yeah, after a long shift its nice to not have to take trains so seriously

Garand ping caught me off guard. I'm a geological engineer, and I dont miss college the stress drove me into the ground. Ironically though, all the math and calculus we had to learn I dont even use now. We use so many derived equations for the foundation work I do for my states Dept of Trans.

Awesome and very informative. Will rewatch. I just failed engineering class last year at Lehigh University. went for structural and mechanical but got out smarter by an educated calculator. Oh well. Try again semester. Hey i got a short in my feed the other day of the accident 475 had in Strasburg. 1 of the comments said "holy es&d, give it the beans". I was gonna say "ok hyce" but the es&d is a ya know ya know thing. Good thing 475 didn't ignite cause im sure the commentator would called it a splody boy.

Hyce and Kan go on a tangent are the best kind of RO! video

Nice to see the RRO space program is still making great progress in terms of sending steam locomotive tenders into orbit!

I was talking with my dad about his time on the DM&IR, and he mentioned the air hose mnemonic "Siam," for Sand, independent, application, and main reservoir when connecting locomotives for MU. I can't remember if you've mentioned the sander air before.

I hope you get get well soon! Beeing sick is always a bummer even if it's not that bad. Especially respiratory diseases.

They really need to start doing Jeremy Clarkson intros, 'in this episode of RRO, kan talks about lectures, have talked about machining holes, and kan talks about engineering.'

I had no idea what I wanted to do after high school. It wasn't until my senior year that I had a new shop teacher that ended up being one of the best teachers I ever had. He introduced me to welding, and I just fell in love with it. Thanks to him, I got into one of the best college welding programs in the state. Which ended up only being 45 mins from my house at the time. I learned all sorts of things there: cad/cam, machining, laser and plasma cnc, and welding of course. It feels absolutely incredible to be able to use those skills I learned to take an idea in my head and make it real. I feel like a modern day wizard, using fire and lightning to shape metal into whatever I want 😂 Back in high-school I was toying with the idea of becoming an engineer, but I just knew that I was nowhere near smart enough. And I definitely didn't have the money for that type of school anyway. Going into the trades turned out to be perfect for me. I enjoy the work I do, it pays good, and the schooling was relatively cheap. To this day I still keep in touch with that shop teacher from high school. Honestly, if it wasn't for him, I would've had no idea what to do with my life. You guys talking about school and professors got me reflecting I guess 😅

OMG your guy's stories of college gave me so many good memories with simultaneous vietnam style flashbacks lol. I love listening to the banter between you two, it's truly fantastic! I 100% can't reiterate enough that you have to have the passion to get through engineering school. My biggest advice is to find an area you truly are passionate about. I went to school on the other side of the country because I was able to find a field I was passionate about and that's what really helped push me in the times I wanted to quite, because there will be those times. My other biggest piece of advice is to find a good solid group of people who are just as motivated as you are to get through, and to use each other to learn and solve problems that each of you individually may struggle with. Don't be afraid to ask for help and always remember that there will be someone who understands a topic better than you so having those connections is crucial.

It's always wild hearing the difference between my ITT classes and 'normal' college. Oh yeah, also neat to hear the commentary about train moves. XD

Really loving the kenosha music meme because I can play my own game and listen to you guys talk and then switch back to youtube when I hear the guitar pick up to see you have a hilarious wreck, and go back to my game and listening after the drama is over. XD

"D is for done and C is for complete." 🤣🤣 Solidworks is so much fun. My favorite thing that I made when I was in school for CNC Machining was this little 1 cylinder 2 stroke nitro engine for a model plane. The best part was I was goofing around with it and was able to animate it. I even animated it with the whole thing cut in half so you could see the piston move up and down. To this day I still have both videos saved. Also, I'm not a machinist anymore I'm not a process technician for a plastic injection molding shop. But hey, my plant manager might make me a Manufacturing Engineer because of my background. Also, remember back when we were in like elementary school and the teacher during math would say "you won't be carrying a calculator in your pocket everyday." Or something like then then they came out with cell phones then started putting calculators on the cell phones so now EVERYBODY is walking around with a calculator in their pockets. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm still thinking of "13 days stuck in the snow" on the RGS from the 3/4 Idiot show... citation needed. "Snowball Effect" would be my name suggestion for the next locomotive.

Hey man. I just wanted to say that your content always hits the spot. I recently got my wisdom teeth out, which gave me plenty of time to get caught up on episodes. Keep up the great work. :)

Love the Garand ping Mick that was glorious lmao

Hyce and kAN, could you both talk about your first days at your jobs, how it went, some weird shenanigans that happened and such stuff please?

So interesting to hear about your guys' university experiences. I went to university in the UK to do aerospace engineering and my experience was very similar to Kan's. I ended up leaving after 2 years as it was soul-destroying! In the end I went back to university 10 years later to study nursing. Now I'm a PICU nurse with an excellent understanding of ventilation pressures and the flow dynamics of ventilator tubing! Thanks for the great content guys.

I listen to this on my drive to college every day! It was funny listening to you guys talk about engineering schools. I'm currently a sophomore in Mechanical Engineering. It's super interesting, but yeah, it can be quite the handful

This episode has been great for me, i'm looking to go to university for mechanical engineering and your guys' stories have been informative. Thanks guys.

The comments about anti-social behavior in STEM workers reminds me of one from work. I work in IT for a bank, and happened to be meeting with my boss when a lady from HR came by to let him know they're doing a meet and greet in like two weeks at the main campus building for people to be able to meet people from other departments, and she wanted to know if we could include our team. He said yeah, we have to keep people in reserve to run the service desk, but we could do a rotating shift to give everyone like a half hour to go talk to people, grab some food, and then get back. She says "Well, I think they're going to need a bit more than a half hour to actually talk to people." I interjected and said "Ma'am, have you actually *met* any of us? We're nerds. A half hour with people is about all we can take."

2:49 kAN casually getting left behind.

I have my P.E. I took the E.I.T. test while still in college. I took the 8 hour P.E. test at Fort Belvior. You now need continuing education credits for every renewal. I'm not sure it was worth all the effort for as little as I ended up using it, but I still recommend taking the E.I.T as soon as you can before you start forgetting stuff.

A good addition to the track plan would be to put in a switch after both 90° crossings in the sawmill to go back to the freight depot without going through the mess of switches. Also straighten out the track from the freight depot.

garand ping was an amazing edit

I learned more about math and engineering from this hour and a quarter video on youtube with a multiplayer train game, then I did in my entire first semester in algebra 1 at high school. Great job, keep the content coming.

Vail resorts is also a big company that self insures. it just means that from a legal standpoint, they hold a certain percentage of money in an account that can only be used for insurance purposes. While working for one of vails resorts in the summer we had a huge storm wash out a bunch of our mt bike trails. Vail pulled money from its insurance fund to pay for the trails to be rebuilt.

Retired BNSF carman, worked out of Spokane and Pasco WA. One cold (sub zero) night they( the railroad) built a 100 car train of crappy old B2 box cars ( forty plus years old). They wanted it gone by 1 am. The air pressure at the rear of the train never got over 60 pounds (started at 90) even after working all night on it. Changed every hose gasket, tightened every joint in the train line still no go. Only way to get the pressure at the rear to within 15 psi of the head end was to reduce the length of the train to 40 cars. Train was still there when the shift ended. Train was able to leave when the temperature go close to 32F (at 10am).

Amazing as always how different railway operations are across the pond. As always with my comments it's based on Germany, but in this topic I'm not aware of major differences in any European railway system I've occupied myself with. If you have to split a train up, for any reason (tonnage, technical problems, maximum train length for the given route, whatever), that's two (or how many you might have) trains. They both (all) have their own train number and timetable, they all get their own movement authority and so on. The only case when you'd end up with sections is if something goes really wrong en route, meaning a coupler breaking (which it'd seem is way less common on our side of the big water) or similar major faults. I'll spare you the details, for what do you want with them, but roughly: - controller has to be informed and agree - **no** end signals are added anywhere; with multiple units you make sure they're off. Only the last section has the (original) train end signal (two reds) - the sections go to the next station one after the other - after all sections are off the route, a vehicle list check is done to make absolutely sure there is nothing left on the route, which is an additional safety feature to the end of train signal - and still the first train to go across this stretch of route will get an on-sight order. And at the next station every section that continues to go becomes a fully fledged train of own rights.

Glad to have you back Hyce!

Whenever I play Garry's Mod with younger kids, I have what feels like Grandpa moments. Between having at least 10 years on most of them in life and y10 years of experience in Garry's Mod too, I feel like so many of them look up to me like I'm some sort of demi-god to them. It makes me feel good, but also makes me feel older than I am.

God damn, y'all had a better time at engineering college than I did. We had to design hypersonic vehicles for our senior projects.

joys of finishing a video a day later, 32:08 when i worked at Dish network they also self insured. theres a special insurance card they had from the state i believe, looks like a normal insurance card but it states theyre self insured. when a company gets so big its actually more cost effective to just pay damages when they occur rather than a monthly fee per vehicle. large fleets are typically self insured. imagine the insurance bill on a 100car fleet

Yay... Time for more Gremanized American Locomotives Online. Makes me wonder... Hey Bupkis, when railroader?!

I watch to get away from work, not more. Love these videos.

If you want to make a betsy with a tender. Buy a montezuema and delete the egine oly and attach the tender to the betsy for more fuel capacity

About died laughing when the tender blew off.

Thanks for the college advise, guys :D

I hope you feel better soon hyce

It gets exciting when you start hearing the smell of Kenosha

there is a video on KZfaq of a Delaware & Hudson train in 1952 climbing the Ararat grade with one early generation Alco challenger on the head end and two challengers on the rear end shoving

I really love these engineering podcasts.

I currently work for my state's department of transportation and I am going through the process of getting my PE. Luckily for me, they offer classes that prep you for taking the PE (and FE) exams that are incredibly helpful. But yea. FE exam is basically all of engineering degree on 1 6 hour test while the PE (form what ive heard) is an 8 hour test of here is how you apply it and here is the ramifications of it all

Hyce could you do a video explaining class lights through the eras? Some of my models use class lights in the 90s but idk how to run the class lights correctly!

Farmers are the ultimate engineer some of the things that they have made out of nothing is just incredible

Newspaper and bootlace works too!

24:00 CN have boxcars with air compressors in them that talk over the DPU system so they don't need to cut in extra loocs. senior year of college right now and theres 100% more things to do than hours in the day to get them done. I have had a number of 2-3 hour lectures and its ether early morning till lunch or dinner to late at night both of which suck. I thankfully mostly have small classes with 20-35 students but I've had a few over 100 which are crazy.

What a convenience it's Tuesday and it's strike day and I'm under the weather well that happens but a Huce video makes it better

the Advanced Route Activation of the American Railroad Association or the ARA ARA~

I enjoyed the engineering talk... I didn't understand it all, but it was entertaining😁

I live in Hungary in Europe and when they said Calculus III and integrating surfaces... the flashback. Green's thm. Stokes's thm. differential geometry, but nice to see it is the same for you on the other side of the planet.

So the way companies insure themselves is that states require certain minimum coverages, and if you are a large enough company $20 million net worth in my state, the state will accept in lieu of an active insurance policy you putting down enough money to meet the minimum coverage in a surety bond, plus additional amounts depending on the number of vehicles registered.

Hyce awesome Vid bro and also the reason why they put a locomotive in the middle is cuz the front ones cant pull that much weight sometimes when full and it helps them to arrive on time

Get well soon Hyce

Hey Hyce how do you test the safety valves to ensure that they work like they should?

At 8:43 look on top of the telegraph booth at the logging camp.

Great dialogue as always, Auto load has made a big difference on the cordwood.

The garand ping scared the living hell out of me

8:45 The "I like trains" guy is on the right side of the screen on the shed, for the people who missed it

TIP: to patch a leaky brake hose use bootlaces and newspaper!

I can't imagine going to a school with those huge classes. At Colorado Tech (started when it was CTC) my largest class was maybe 30 people, most were 15-20.

i love listening to yall talk about stuff like this. back in like2002.... i was somewhat interested in engineering but the school around me were.... not good im 34 and know what i wanna do but took time to get the supplies.... and one of my things is failing -_-!! so yea.. back to draw one

as drafter/designer love listening engineer talk. 20 years doing autocad do ever type of drafting. glad never became engineer PE. to much stress. more fun to draw pretty lines

Indeed, that's basically how self-insurance works. If insurance is a legal requirement, like with car insurance, it becomes a bit more complicated because you need to (depending on jurisdiction) demonstrate a certain amount of solvency, among with some other requirements which I cannot name off the top of my head.

Love the new credits, much cleaner