It amazes me seeing the whole train crew work together like a well oiled machine to get the train back on track, spot on communication and split second decisions to salvage a life-threatening situation. I love this scene
Even more impressively, this is a track based vehicle with no steering. The engineer successfully pulled this off with zero steering capability. All he had was forward, brake, and reverse.
Well the train actually has equal weight on all sides it's basically throwing a wooden board on the ice but the pin was such a small pointed object it got lodged in the ice and broke it
This scene makes perfect sense when you acknowledge the fact that the train is magic, so of course it wont follow basic laws of physics if not needed to.
I'm just wondering what this whole situation must have been like from the kids inside the coaches. I can only guess thatr they'd be f..king traumatized and or dizzy from being bounced around in those coaches as the train kept veering left and right for that one one in a million chance of RE-railing.
@supermariof0521 I know there's no evidence for this, but I like to imagine The Hobo Ghost was in the train cars, keeping the kids calm. Notice how he constantly protects the passengers of The Polar Express? Always saving people from falling off and, later on, showing Hero Boy the emergency brake on the run away train car. Again, there's no evidence in the film that he kept the kids calm while the train was on the ice, but I just like to think that he did.
The polar express train has to make it to the other side of the ice before the ice breaks all the way through when the train is at the other side of the ice.
This scene is seared into my brain ever since I saw it as a kid. So much happening at the same time, and the little touches like one of the conductors using his hair pin to fix a crank, really makes it so enthralling.
I don't care about what people think about this scene yes its unrealistic but come on be honest with yourself this was awesome, intense, and thrilling the roller coaster and the ice scene are one of my favorite scenes in The Polar Express
One of the best scenes in movie history. As unrealistic as this is, it still shows how powerful steam locomotives are. The Polar Express is indeed a magic train and watching it power through the ice breaking onto the tracks always gives me goosebumps.
The conductor nearly fall off the train and landed on the ice again like so many years ago when the conductor was a kid and the conductor didn't fall off the train so many years ago and many years later.
Same! Seeing the massive machine slowly moving its wheels and to quickly gain pace is amazing. Despite it being pure fiction, seeing a machine work like that is a beauty. This movie is probably what got me into tanks.
There's no way. Not trying to ruin the movie for you but I just had to vent. I've been unable to brake before because my car was sliding on ice and I've fallen on ice a couple times (didn't break a bone or anything) and just seeing an animated train skid on the ice is scary to me. Also, the fact that the kid's ticket blew away so he was considered a stowaway. And then there were the creepy hobo ghost, the puppets and the annoying know-it-all kid, no thanks. I just like the scenes of the train going through the snow and the soundtrack.
so let me get this straight... first, Steamer is arguably the only person ever to pull off a J-Turn with a train. And not just a lone locomotive, but an entire, fucking, TRAIN! next he manages to throw it back into "forward" at the exact moment for it to be pointed at the tracks leading towards their original route (instead of just racing off in some random direction) when it straightens out. then with some guidance from the Conductor, he manages to not only slalom the train towards the track, but when the ice finally gives way, the entire train lands perfectly on the submerged rails, with not a single wheel being off-rail. finally, (and this concerns the locomotive more so than Steamer) it being able to pull the entire rolling stock up a 45-degree incline while the whole train - including the locomotive for a brief moment - was almost entirely underwater as if it was a leisurely hike, even as it threw up sparks from the drive wheels when it hit the hill. in short, the train was drifting
Also steamer has probably worked that train for decades and knows literally everything that can happen on the locomotive and tracks and this is 100% not the first time it happened to him
@@heyitsmegokukai I think how everyone reacted, this was 100% their first time. How steamer has a panicked face, how urgent everything is definitely a first
At the start the engineer is peeking out his head to see where the track is But later go inside and focus at the braking This shows on how much he trusted the conductor
It's literally just both of them fighting for life (credits to the fireman too) how could you not trust the conductor it's both of them die or everyone survive
The polar express has be my favorite christmas movie for a long time and i even have a lionel ho scale polar express train to play with for the rest of my life.
The engineers are trying to turn the train around and the train made it to the other side of the ice and the train had to hurry to get to the north pole on time before midnight and when the train arrived at the north pole the train was pulling 20 or 30 cars or more.
Same actually - though this was the first time I’ve ever seen it. I was just at some Christmas party recently and it was Polar Express themed so it was on in the background, and I saw this scene for the first time. I was astounded to say the least.
For anyone not knowing this, one of the various reasons the polar express was able to drift was because it has built in mechanical parts into the wheels suggesting that this isn’t the first time this has happened
Just noticed that when Smokey (the engineer) leans out the window trying to direct the train to the tracks, the locomotive’s wheels aren’t turning. Look at the running gear
I've noticed that there are multiple scenes where the wagons are either not animated and following a straight line or that only a few are animated, making the others disconnect temporarily.
My younger self would be relishing in the moment of how awesome this scene is (unrealistic or not still goes hard to this day), ill be making sure my kids and grandkids watch this movie! Love the polar express
I cannot for the life of me imagine the sheer levels of inner "ohfuckohfuckohfuck" the engineer had that entire time. That and the editing combined with the music is bonkers! Which is why this scene always puts me at the edge of my seat, even after all these years and despite knowing much better about realism than kid me did when I basically broke every year from watching it during christmas!
Smokey used his hairpin to repair the throttle. “What in the name of Mike?” The conductor yells “Get us the blazes out of here!” I love the music as the train goes straight again. I love some sounds the wheels make. He advises: “Keep up with me!” Chris and Holly each grab her ticket. They work together to get the train back on track, before the ice gives way, and manage just as the ice cracks under them. He overhears Chris & Holly & finally punches Holly’s ticket. LE.
2:50 The conductor doesn't give up and continues to stay with the engineer to keep the train still as the locomotive makes it up to the tracks on its final approach to it while a different final approach is the cracks closing in fast to the back side of the train due to the wheels creating prints and scratches and marks and trails of the wheels draw shapes, causing more fractures and cracks and punctures of the frozen lake.
The wheels keep on slipping when the train was changing slices when the train was trying to get across the ice before the ice collapse under the train and the water was cold when the train was landing in the water and made it back onto the tracks.
When the conductor started calling out different words other than left and right, for the longest time I thought he was calling left and right in different languages.
1:40 I’m pretty sure that 100% throttle to 0% in half a second; and then the slamming into full forward and full reverse to “steer” the train over the tracks underwater just put a ton of wear and stress on the running gear.
The glacier gulch is a rollercoaster ride in the polar express movie and the kids and the conductor are still at the front of the train when the train is going across the bridge and then go on a roller coaster ride and the train was going way to fast and the kids and the conductor was trying to hold on tightly to the train and was trying not to fall off the front of the train.
For anyone who says "Its completely unrealistic" for this to happen: According to real train engineers, this is technically physically possible, as long as the ice is thick enough and can support the train's weight. Let that sink in for a moment.
OTHER THAN TOM HANK'S VERSION OF A TALL SKINNY SANTA, THIS MOVIE IS GREAT. JUST THE WAY SANTA'S CITY IS SET UP IN SUCH AN ENVIRONMENT IS GREAT FOR CONSTRUCTING SUCH A PLACE HERE. PUTTING THOSE KIDS THROUGH SUCH DANGEROUS SITUATIONS IS WEIRD!!
This scene sold the movie to a lot of us. What's cooler than a free-moving train on solid ice trying to escape from drowning/freezing at the bottom of a lake?
Think of it as putting a balloon on 100 tacs vs 1 tac: ice=balloon, train=100 tacs, pin= 1 tac if you push a balloon on a 100 tacs it won't pop and when you put it on one tac it pops
Because the 100 are close(ish) in proximity the surface area of them would just be like pushing a board on the balloon but one tac pinpoints a spot on the balloon and breaks it at the one point
We need to give the engineer props, guys. Even with years of experience that couldn't have been easy
It amazes me seeing the whole train crew work together like a well oiled machine to get the train back on track, spot on communication and split second decisions to salvage a life-threatening situation. I love this scene
The polar express is one of the greatest christmas movies ever made for the holiday season of christmas and christmas is my favorite holiday.
@@AllenHayes-tk8koexactly! I loved this movie as a kid and its a tradition for me to watch it again every Christmas eve
Engineer is so cracked at his job, he can drive a train left to right and back again!
Even more impressively, this is a track based vehicle with no steering. The engineer successfully pulled this off with zero steering capability. All he had was forward, brake, and reverse.
I like how the train that weighs hundreds of tons doesn’t break the ice but a tiny piece of metal does
Well the train actually has equal weight on all sides it's basically throwing a wooden board on the ice but the pin was such a small pointed object it got lodged in the ice and broke it
Think of this if you put a balloon on 100 tacs nothing happens but if you put a balloon on 1 tac it pops
Think of the ice as the balloon the train as 100 tacs and the pin as one tac
@@heyitsmegokukai
Thank you for the explanation kind stranger.
Plus it’s a magic train.
This scene makes perfect sense when you acknowledge the fact that the train is magic, so of course it wont follow basic laws of physics if not needed to.
I'm just wondering what this whole situation must have been like from the kids inside the coaches. I can only guess thatr they'd be f..king traumatized and or dizzy from being bounced around in those coaches as the train kept veering left and right for that one one in a million chance of RE-railing.
@supermariof0521 I know there's no evidence for this, but I like to imagine The Hobo Ghost was in the train cars, keeping the kids calm. Notice how he constantly protects the passengers of The Polar Express? Always saving people from falling off and, later on, showing Hero Boy the emergency brake on the run away train car. Again, there's no evidence in the film that he kept the kids calm while the train was on the ice, but I just like to think that he did.
@@supermariof0521That’s exactly what I would have felt
@@supermariof0521 You shoulda seen how they got there.
@@ninjabunnywholivesinsideaw8216 He makes me feel the opposite of calm, ghosts tend to have that effect.
This was without a doubt the dopest (albeit most nonsensical) thing kid me had ever seen. And it still goes extremely hard.
The polar express train has to make it to the other side of the ice before the ice breaks all the way through when the train is at the other side of the ice.
Kinda like how the one ultra sharp piece of a spark plug is enough to shatter a cars window.
Can we talk about how great the sound design is?
It was done by the one and only Skywalker Sound.
The film won an award for its sound design.
I want to talk about how amazing the train driver drives on ice with a freaking steam train.
Some of the metal/ice scraping sounds were also used in Titanic during the iceberg scene.
Can we talk about how fire that scene was?
This scene is seared into my brain ever since I saw it as a kid. So much happening at the same time, and the little touches like one of the conductors using his hair pin to fix a crank, really makes it so enthralling.
well that's the engineer, the conductor would be the one telling the engineers to go left or right in the scene
@@Tr0llTh3W0rldthe one with the hair would be the fireman as he is not the one driving or giving orders; he'd be shoveling coal.
I don't care about what people think about this scene yes its unrealistic but come on be honest with yourself this was awesome, intense, and thrilling the roller coaster and the ice scene are one of my favorite scenes in The Polar Express
I'm just wondering what this whole situation must have been like from the kids inside the coaches.
It’s magic just don’t question it you’ll never get an answer
I agree
One of the best scenes in movie history. As unrealistic as this is, it still shows how powerful steam locomotives are. The Polar Express is indeed a magic train and watching it power through the ice breaking onto the tracks always gives me goosebumps.
What's remarkable is no matter how unrealistic it is, it's still believable, it doesnt look off, props to the filmmakers for that
Anyone noticed how the conductor held onto the train with only his feet the whole time
The conductor is a Chad, nothing else to be said about him.
@@KuroHebi He even does a beastly dab at 1:41
Tom Hanks doest skip leg day
The conductor nearly fall off the train and landed on the ice again like so many years ago when the conductor was a kid and the conductor didn't fall off the train so many years ago and many years later.
Santa got him those anti grav boots for Christmas😂
1:27 is my favorite part. I would ALWAYS rewind it when I was younger.
Same dude
I love the way the wheels turn it's what got me into loving steam trains
@@heyitsmegokukai Heck, Yeah!
Same the wheels
Same!
Seeing the massive machine slowly moving its wheels and to quickly gain pace is amazing. Despite it being pure fiction, seeing a machine work like that is a beauty.
This movie is probably what got me into tanks.
Let's face it, as kids, we all would've wanted to be on this crazy ride.
I was 11 when this movie came out. And I would feel the same way almost as I would if I was invited on the Hogwarts Express
There's no way. Not trying to ruin the movie for you but I just had to vent. I've been unable to brake before because my car was sliding on ice and I've fallen on ice a couple times (didn't break a bone or anything) and just seeing an animated train skid on the ice is scary to me.
Also, the fact that the kid's ticket blew away so he was considered a stowaway. And then there were the creepy hobo ghost, the puppets and the annoying know-it-all kid, no thanks. I just like the scenes of the train going through the snow and the soundtrack.
so let me get this straight...
first, Steamer is arguably the only person ever to pull off a J-Turn with a train. And not just a lone locomotive, but an entire, fucking, TRAIN!
next he manages to throw it back into "forward" at the exact moment for it to be pointed at the tracks leading towards their original route (instead of just racing off in some random direction) when it straightens out. then with some guidance from the Conductor, he manages to not only slalom the train towards the track, but when the ice finally gives way, the entire train lands perfectly on the submerged rails, with not a single wheel being off-rail.
finally, (and this concerns the locomotive more so than Steamer) it being able to pull the entire rolling stock up a 45-degree incline while the whole train - including the locomotive for a brief moment - was almost entirely underwater as if it was a leisurely hike, even as it threw up sparks from the drive wheels when it hit the hill.
in short, the train was drifting
And if none of that happened then we wouldn't have the rest of the movie would we?
Also steamer has probably worked that train for decades and knows literally everything that can happen on the locomotive and tracks and this is 100% not the first time it happened to him
IDK about literally every single wheel being put back on track though... Probably the best luck in the world
@@heyitsmegokukai I think how everyone reacted, this was 100% their first time. How steamer has a panicked face, how urgent everything is definitely a first
@@personal9146well if someone was yelling at me to back an entire train up with no explanation i would also be panicking
Honestly one of the best scenes and soundtracks in this amazing cristmas movie.
The polar express has been slipping on the ice and try to make it to the other side before the ice breaks when the train makes it to the other side.
At the start the engineer is peeking out his head to see where the track is
But later go inside and focus at the braking
This shows on how much he trusted the conductor
You mean steamer or Smokey?
It's literally just both of them fighting for life (credits to the fireman too) how could you not trust the conductor it's both of them die or everyone survive
@@Fb1_agent-b2oSteamer. Smokey’s the fireman. He used his hairpin to repair the throttle.
1:38 The driver literally does a 180 with a train on ice to avoid sinking, badass.
And complete with the Thomas The Tank Engine brake sound!
Anyone who can drift a train is badass this scene is so cool 🆒
@@DerekBackofen I'm gonna go try to do that
The Polar Express always be my favorite moving no matter how old I get one of the best Christmas movie ever in my opinion. I love that movie so much.
The polar express has be my favorite christmas movie for a long time and i even have a lionel ho scale polar express train to play with for the rest of my life.
first the conductor was an ex Tokyo drifter second the kids in the carriages were like: everything is fine.
The polar express engine and carriages was slipping and sliding across the ice.
Still a guy who can drift a train on ice is really cool 😎
No doubt the engineer was working under intense pressure in this scene.
Mental and steam?
@@LegoWormNoah101 I think mental in this case.
Get us the "blazes" out of here. They must have recorded an adult version of that line 😂
The engineers are trying to turn the train around and the train made it to the other side of the ice and the train had to hurry to get to the north pole on time before midnight and when the train arrived at the north pole the train was pulling 20 or 30 cars or more.
Man... 2000s Christmas vibes watching this as a kid in school... I'll never feel those again. take me back 😭
I was in 5th grade when it came out
I wasn’t even 1 when it came out
One of my favourite movies of all time
The polar express is the best Christmas movie to watch at Christmas time each year.
This is Warner Bros.' Magnum Opus of Christmas movies.
Watched this for the first time since I was a kid (I'm 18 now). I still felt the goosebumps once they landed on the rail.
Same actually - though this was the first time I’ve ever seen it. I was just at some Christmas party recently and it was Polar Express themed so it was on in the background, and I saw this scene for the first time. I was astounded to say the least.
I'm 19 now.
This has to be the most badass "hold my beer" scene in any scene in any movie in history😂
bro locked in so hard 😭🙏
A Christmas movie did not need to go this hard
It is Robert Zemekis
Although you can watch it any season like summer winter fall and uhhhhh ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmjmmmmmmm idk…..
This scene makes literally zero sense but it's still cool as hell
Which a lot of movies could stand to take inspiration from. Random shit for the sake of fun.
Its a magic train :3
@@jas4541ye ;3
It’s magic just don’t question it
For anyone not knowing this, one of the various reasons the polar express was able to drift was because it has built in mechanical parts into the wheels suggesting that this isn’t the first time this has happened
i know its probably the most unrealistic scene in the movie, but man its so awesome
Just noticed that when Smokey (the engineer) leans out the window trying to direct the train to the tracks, the locomotive’s wheels aren’t turning. Look at the running gear
I’ve noticed that too!
I've noticed that there are multiple scenes where the wagons are either not animated and following a straight line or that only a few are animated, making the others disconnect temporarily.
It's a small animation mistake that anyone not paying attention would miss
either way, they did put many small details into the movie that I think not many others would have pur
Time?
One of the most epic escenes I saw in my childhood
I swear one of things I loved most when watching this movie was hearing all the sounds the train made. This scene is a great example.
Seeing the train navigating through a frozen lake is impressive. This was my absolute favorite scene as a kid!
This scene has NO BUSINESS going so hard 🔥🔥
1:24- I still end up quoting that to this day…
Gotta love how the combined multi hundred tonne locomotives and carriages don’t go thought the ice but that tiny pin shatters it
My younger self would be relishing in the moment of how awesome this scene is (unrealistic or not still goes hard to this day), ill be making sure my kids and grandkids watch this movie! Love the polar express
If this happened in real life I don’t think the train would've made it to the other side in time.
I don’t think it would’ve made it through the roller coaster scene 🤣
They almost didn’t, actually. They managed to get the train back on track, literally, just as the ice collapsed.
@@olivijastrandjord ik
It's magic 👌👌
Ice can be dangerous and really slippery but the polar express made it through without any troubles crossing the ice.
I cannot for the life of me imagine the sheer levels of inner "ohfuckohfuckohfuck" the engineer had that entire time. That and the editing combined with the music is bonkers! Which is why this scene always puts me at the edge of my seat, even after all these years and despite knowing much better about realism than kid me did when I basically broke every year from watching it during christmas!
This is (and always will be) my favorite Polar Express scene
My Whole Family Loved This Scene
For some reason, I always like the fact that the conductor uses multiple words for right and left
This is the best scene in the movie for me because the animations on the train are so good and the music in the background!
Smokey used his hairpin to repair the throttle. “What in the name of Mike?” The conductor yells “Get us the blazes out of here!” I love the music as the train goes straight again. I love some sounds the wheels make. He advises: “Keep up with me!” Chris and Holly each grab her ticket. They work together to get the train back on track, before the ice gives way, and manage just as the ice cracks under them. He overhears Chris & Holly & finally punches Holly’s ticket. LE.
Imagine being 10 and seeing this in theaters I’d lose my mind
I was 11 when it came out and I know how you feel. I didn’t know entirely the kind of Christmas movie I was in for.
This the hardest shit ever to be put out on cinema
Engineers have to give the medal for this
2:50 The conductor doesn't give up and continues to stay with the engineer to keep the train still as the locomotive makes it up to the tracks on its final approach to it while a different final approach is the cracks closing in fast to the back side of the train due to the wheels creating prints and scratches and marks and trails of the wheels draw shapes, causing more fractures and cracks and punctures of the frozen lake.
How the hell did i not realize this was animated til 18 years later lmao
I always thought it was live action
To be fair, it was Motion-Capture. That’s about as close as you get to merging the lines between Live Action and Animation.
They used the locomotive's wheels as ice skates. There's why i love this scene.
This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. It always gives me goosebumps.
This is one of the most eventful and badass movie scenes I’ve ever seen so far
1:38 1:47 2:06 2:12 2:19 2:25 2:30 2:34 The sounds, the wheels, everything in these moments are amazing! This is why I especially love steam trains today!
I do too!
My favorite scene in the whole movie
Even thinking about this movie makes me remember Christmas Day and I miss Christmas Day
This was the coolest shit my childhood has ever witnessed
I love how everyone else on the train was completely fine after all this
Car drivers: Trains can't drift.
Smokey (Engineer): Hold my coal.
Actually Steamer is the engineer. Smokey is the fireman. I looked their names up on Wikipedia.
🤓👆
GET US THE BLAZES OUTTA HERE!!!
This scene has no right to go this hard.
0:02 As the train hits the icy surface, it completely and unstably bends off.
They really just dropped the hardest drift scene in cinema history
I assumed I would find this super cringe rewatching it like 10 years after I first did but it still goes so hard
While this scene is bonkers! Its still pretty damn awesome. The engineer drifted a train for christ sake.
1:02 The trio of the boy, girl and conductor go to the left side so they can keep the train normally standing.
I love these goofy methed up conductors so much 😂
As a kid I always thought “toss a ritchie!” Was “toss it with chili!”
You keep ordering left and right, and you'll send the wheels flying off!!!
Guess the engine's axles, wheels and piston rods are made to endure all these stuff.😅😂
This comment made me laugh. Thanks.
@@olivijastrandjord 🤣
The wheels keep on slipping when the train was changing slices when the train was trying to get across the ice before the ice collapse under the train and the water was cold when the train was landing in the water and made it back onto the tracks.
0:12 this part always made me laugh.
When the conductor started calling out different words other than left and right, for the longest time I thought he was calling left and right in different languages.
Conductor: Get Us The Blazes Out Of Here! One of the lines I like
1:40 I’m pretty sure that 100% throttle to 0% in half a second; and then the slamming into full forward and full reverse to “steer” the train over the tracks underwater just put a ton of wear and stress on the running gear.
Unfortunately yes, this movie does not do a lot of justice for genuine train mechanics.
Can we have a moment of silence for the flanges?
1:24
Conductor: GET US THE BLAZES OUT OF HERE!!!!
I love how the creators broke the laws of physics to create such a great scene
Always wondered if it was. Possible to control a steam locomotive’s wheels independently on each side like a tank
No you can't 😅
There's only only three switches for driver to control the train:
Throttle, Brake, and reverse switch
The axels and Axel rods would literally never let that happen
This is the scene that reminds you this movie was directed by Robert Zemeckis. It has the exact same energy as the lightning strike scene form BTTF
And this movie introduced me to his creative genius!
I remember this since in 2022
0:12 BATTER UP THEN HOME RUN
Best movie ever
Sorry but that J turn was just perfection
The best drifter of the universe!
Best scene of the whole movie
They were lucky to have landed on the underwater tracks just before they reached the other side.
The Train is Awesome and the movie shows how cool the train is!
This just reminds me of Twister 🤣 LEFT! RIGHT!
YES!
THIS SCENE STILL REMINDS ME OF THE POLAR EXPRESS GLACIER GULCH ROLLERCOASTER SCENE AND THE RIDE. IF THEME PARKS HAD ONE LIKE THIS.
The glacier gulch is a rollercoaster ride in the polar express movie and the kids and the conductor are still at the front of the train when the train is going across the bridge and then go on a roller coaster ride and the train was going way to fast and the kids and the conductor was trying to hold on tightly to the train and was trying not to fall off the front of the train.
For anyone who says "Its completely unrealistic" for this to happen:
According to real train engineers, this is technically physically possible, as long as the ice is thick enough and can support the train's weight.
Let that sink in for a moment.
OTHER THAN TOM HANK'S VERSION OF A TALL SKINNY SANTA, THIS MOVIE IS GREAT. JUST THE WAY SANTA'S CITY IS SET UP IN SUCH AN ENVIRONMENT IS GREAT FOR CONSTRUCTING SUCH A PLACE HERE. PUTTING THOSE KIDS THROUGH SUCH DANGEROUS SITUATIONS IS WEIRD!!
Makes me wonder how the kids in the train cars reacted to the sick drifting
Just hearing the train shift from fowerd into reverse. it makes me happy that I was born to see this movie
I LIKE THE POLAR EXPRESS
BRO
always thought the engineer was a total badass in this scene, even as a little kid
This was my favorite scene
Still one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen
This movie combined the christmas spirit and wholesomeness with action somehow
I was obsessed with this scene of the escape.
This scene sold the movie to a lot of us. What's cooler than a free-moving train on solid ice trying to escape from drowning/freezing at the bottom of a lake?
If they ever did a live action remake of this movie, you think they would either:
A.) Use Pere Marquette 1225 on a stunt set or
B.) use CGI
2:03 The light from the train seen from the other side of the iced up lake.
The adventure our parents took every day when going to school 😂
HOW the ice breaks omg 😭😭😭
Think of it as putting a balloon on 100 tacs vs 1 tac: ice=balloon, train=100 tacs, pin= 1 tac if you push a balloon on a 100 tacs it won't pop and when you put it on one tac it pops
Because the 100 are close(ish) in proximity the surface area of them would just be like pushing a board on the balloon but one tac pinpoints a spot on the balloon and breaks it at the one point
Engineer has some fast reflexes