I’ll put train videos on for the kids, but there’s so much more going on with a steam train.
Steam is billowing out of everywhere, they’re just this massive piece of infrastructure, it’s like taming the elements with an unholy union of water and fire - natural enemies in the wild, and you get to feel like a hero because you’re helping people get to places.
I mean here’s possibly the first American superhero:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steam_Man_of_the_Prairies
If that doesn’t scream autism I don’t know what does. It’s really interesting.
this is incredibly interesting
Mickey McSquizzle the Irishman
Brainerd
We must retvrn to this style of names for characters
LOOK OUT ITCHY, HE’S IRISH
Oh yeah, this sounds like Master and Commander for trains
steam is a good timeIt’s always a head trip being reminded that the engines from Thomas the Tank Engine are all real
One of my favorite YouTubers is autistic and says “If you want 100% employment for people with autism, bring back steam trains.”
I saw this bad boy last year, peak “chugga chugga choo choo” (skip to 1m33s)
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Yo I heard you like trains that go through snow…
That’s a Union Pacific Rotary Snow Plow. 17 feet / 5.2 meters tall. 150 RPM. It’s not self-propelled and had to be pushed by 4 locomotives. It was used in Wyoming up into the 1990s to cut 14 foot / 4.25 meter wide paths through the snow.
what happened to it, do they just not run those routes anymore?
It was pretty old, I think from the 50s or 60s.
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This bit warms up and pushes this bit, which through some linkages synchronise a bunch of other things and then 10 tonnes of steel move at a nice clip
Steam locomotives yes electric HSR locomotives yes diesel locomotives no
I went to a tourist thing where you can ride a train up a mountain. They offered us the option to ride on one pulled by an old steam locomotive that they only run on special occasions.
It was really cool looking, but I wasn’t prepared for the amount of smoke involved. The train cars were open and I felt like I smoked the equivalent of 500 cigarettes on that short ride.
chugga chugga chugga chugga choo choo
one time I got to watch the train crew shovel coal into the boiler
I might be going to see Santa Fe 3751 next month, and I’m so jazzed about it
Book tip for Train People: Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
