I was trying to learn about this disaster from your channle but the state of mind where as so much to joke about . I enjoy the way you tell the story but the constant party from the peanut gallery anoys me.
@@BatAtTarkov Yeah, but most of the pinned comments are either an essay about what's "wrong," a short reply about what's "wrong" or just leftist in-fighting. It's more fun when we get bigoted comments to point and laugh at.
"The weird thing about the new concourse at Union Station is that it's the most dark and grimy place I've ever been to that's made almost entirely of glass." Sounds like they need to activate windows.
I fullscreened this one and discovered that your Activate Windows watermark is positioned around ten pixels higher than my Activate Windows watermark. I've never seen something so profoundly frustrating.
Smashed thru a stationmaster's office! Collapsed the main floor!! Fell into a basement and got walled up for the inauguration!!! Live TV mobile unit coverage!!!! *_AND NO ONE GOT KILLED!!!!!_* This gets my vote for Best Trainwreck Ever.
"I know what you want. I know what you came here for. That thing you crave more than anything else. It's a primal urge, drives men to absurd distances, and to engage in ruthless and inhuman acts. It's a high unlike any other, known only to those few who have indulged in it's un-infinite pleasures. An addiction stronger than any known narcotic, yet whose health effects are limited to occasional bouts of mild smoke inhalation. You know that of which I speak? It's TRAINS."
Just gonna say I need this after the world being on fire and everything feeling like it's going in exactly the wrong direction. Thanks for this. Thanks for being here.
@@pmcgee003 Well, there is that, but just also all the state of the Democratic primary, the political corruption, mass extinction, recession incoming, Hungary effectively becoming the first dictatorship in Europe for decades, creeping fascism elsewhere, people STILL living in dogshit conditions no one should have to endure. It all just gets to me how bad it all is and bums me out. WTYP is proving to be a good healing measure against all of that.
@@welltheresyourproblempodca1465 Can I just say that I really really appreciate this podcast, and Alice in particular? I have doubts about my gender and am considering whether to maybe transition (and I work in the legal sector - I'm semi-well known in immigration/asylum law - and British left-wing legal circles are distressingly full of TERFs). I also love trains, public housing, socialism, and nationalisation of major industries.
Also can we get a round of applause for whatever insane beamNG.train level designer built union station at the bottom of a downhill slope, and at a perfect angle so that if you get the train going fast enough you could knock the spike off the top of the capitol building.
Alice told in basically 1 minute all you needed to know about the Gare the Lyon crash, two years later and I just listened to an almost two hour episode about the whole ordeal. I love you guys
Alright, so let's get this straight, Liam does not respect fish, Alice does not respect the Seaplane Float from the 1918 Phillidelphia Warbond Parade and Justin does not respect Scottish place names. Am I missing anything?
One of my absolute favorite moments is at 9:50, when the PRR GG1 shows up and the entire crew just loses it for a hot second in appreciation of a damn fine train. That's how you know this is a podcast of VALUE. Also: I'm pretty sure this is the Deltic Prototype that Gareth was talking about, which is also a damn fine piece of train engineering: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Railways_DP1
1:04:55 sounds like someone has never read about the rampant war train vs war train combat that went on in the Russian far East during the Russian Revolution. Shit was hardcore
War train vs war train combat also happened a lot in the battle between Chinese Warlords in 1920s-1930s as well. They actually brought & hire an armored train with an entire white Russian battalion that operated it.
1:05:00 Fun fact, Soviets actually had armored trains, as well as the Germans in WWII. As in they literally were armored with tank turrets mounted to the cars. Look it up, that'd be a great episode. I don't know of any accidents with them but you guys would have a blast talking about it
And don't forget the huge rail mounted guns the Germans built and used at least once. The BIG ones. That needed two parallel tracks. I guess they worked, but damn what a waste of resources. Which is good I guess, better that the Nazis wasted resources than when they were being efficient.
@@GustavSvard The Schwerer Gustav and Dora, absolutely ludicrous machines. One of them was sent to Stalingrad, but didn't fire and had to retreat, the other one was used in the siege of Sevastapool to devastating effect.
@@acassiopeia6439 ludicrous is the right word, yeah. Extremely effective when properly used, but the cases that make for proper use of them are so few, and so the guns so hard to deploy, that they don't make sense resource-wise. Which I guess is good since it ment the Nazis wasted resources they could have spent on more effective artillery etc.
Please do more US rail disasters with Gareth as a guest. I absolutely love his take on American railroading. Will subscribe to the Patreon at some point when I remember.
Yay, finally an episode featuring my city! Union station itself has been a disaster since the railroads collapsed in the 70's. First they tried to make it into a bicentennial visitors center, then it was severely neglected and almost demolished, then they built a woefully undersized waiting area and messed up the passenger flow just for some extra retail revenue, and the ceiling was half destroyed in an earthquake. Such embarrassment for one of the most powerful cities in the world.
@@CODMarioWarfare I'm talking about Washington union station but the story was similar for many Amtrak stations so I wouldn't be surprised if Hartford was in a similar situation now
As a keen watcher of Justin's videos since Franklin I, I must say that I absolutely love what you've become during the last year or so. How much more secure you feel doing this. The character development and chemistry between you three. Fantastic stuff. Keep it up guys! You keep us going in these crazy times. Also train good despite Ep21
16:10 Yes!! This happened to me on my first visit to Scotland. Love the Caledonian Sleeper (and the late 70s stock which you're SLANDERING - it was great).
I love the transfer of cars for through passengers. I took Amtrak once from Cleveland through DC to Jacksonville, and since I was a long distance passenger they put us on the last car in the train, with plenty of spacing between the seats, and at DC they just took the car from the end of one train to the end of another, you didn't have to move your stuff or change cars or anything, it was seamless and lovely. I've taken 2 long trips on the "ride then fly" plan, you ride the train on the way out then fly home, it's great.
Y'know, rewatching this for the upteenth time, it occurs to me it was probably a really good thing that the runaway train was coming down the track that led directly to the stationmaster's office. When the call from K Tower came in that there was a runaway, there was zero delay between the office getting that message and the people at the end of the platform being told to evacuate -- because they were the same group of people. If it had been coming in on a track at the opposite side of the station, there would've been some degree of delay for the office to get that warning over to the area which needed to evacuate, and every second counted.
tangentially; hey, remember that time GE stabbed Alco in the back and thereby sent Schenectady on a slow industrial decline toward oblivion? good times.
This is the epitome of "I let it rust out, for weight reduction." In general this episode is basically about the ricing trains. Next step is plasti-dipping the train lights.
1:05:00 much of the Russian Civil War was fought with armored trains. I'm pretty sure they saw some use in World War II as well - in Russia. Once you got far enough west in Europe the gauge narrowed and Soviet armored trains wouldn't run on the track. And as the war went on that threshold crept east as the Germans narrowed Soviet track for their own use. Mostly for boring goods trains rather than armored trains, too.
Two days ago, a train engineer at the Port of Los Angeles intentionally derailed his train near the USNS Mercy, the Navy medical ship docked to provide hospital relief here in Los Angeles. He believed the ship was part of a large conspiracy; gov't takeover or something relating to COVID-19. No injuries, no deaths, train barely got 250 feet away from the ship after smashing through concrete and steel barriers, a parking lot, a gravel lot, and a few chain linked fences.
This was fun. My temp is 99.5°F and an attendant at the busiest gas station in town was just diagnosed, but I feel fine, this was fine. Everything is fine.
Cheers fellow! Take care of yourself and hope that fellow at the gas station is ok. Try and see the best of things as you can and while you're recovering!
I've been zapped by 110V and 220V currents, but never any DC current larger than the classic lick a 9V battery thing. When I accidentally touched the 110V, I had just gotten up and my mom told me to test the outlet in my room. Since I was exhausted, I stupidly touched the sides of the damn outlet and walked my head on the underside of my desk. On the bright side, I was awake instantly and no longer needed a cup of coffee. The time I accidentally touched the 220V was when I lived in Peru and they have these weird water heaters that you attach just before the shower head in the shower. In this case, the power going to the shower water heating unit was inexplicably grounded using the iron security bars on the nearby window, which also happened to be where they put the shampoo. I reached for the shampoo and touched the bars a little bit. The next thing I know, I'm stark naked, out of the shower stall, and literally on the other side of the bathroom because that's how far the 220V blasted me. For a moment, I considered getting dressed really fast because I was concerned that I was going to die naked. lol But my heart slowed down before I had a chance to do anything about it, so I just got back in the shower stall and finished my shower.
I remember when my family went to Europe and we were on a train that flushed the toilet right out onto the tracks. We happened to be in the last car on the train and, since I was 16 and my brother was 12, we took turns flushing the toilet while the other one looked out the back of the train to see it come out onto the tracks and laugh. Of course, since we live near the train tracks in the US, we had to ask my mom if that's what happens near us too, which apparently it doesn't. We mostly have freight trains passing by but the Amtrak Sunset Limited also passes by the house.
12:29: As a British person who spent a year in America, I really liked whoopie pies. (You will be relieved to know that, as I know much less about rail engineering than I do about the history of Christianity, I won't be leaving 10,000 pedantic comments on this episode.)
They seem pretty similar to what I’d call in Canada a Jo Louis. Two bits of chocolate cake with vanilla icing in the middle, and an optional chocolate glaze.
Apparently one of the goals of the New Haven EP-5 was to have it operate non-stop from New Haven to DC but in testing there was severe doubt over whether the locomotive would survive the run without self-immolating. The Park Avenue Tunnel Fire that permanently put the EP-5s out of passenger service is a great story for a future episode because the New Haven's motive power (including the DL-109!) was nothing but hilarious failure after hilarious failure.
Their choices of diesels were certainly odd, as was the EP5 and the Washobards, but all the prior electrics and EMU's were honestly pretty great. The GG1 was based off of a NH EP3.
I love slapstick train episodes; it distracts me from the fact I work retail in a (former 10th busiest national rail) train station and am probably going to get plague'd before this is all over
I'm absolutely mad for this long form banter content with SUBSTANCE!!!! Bless you brothers & sister for sharing your views on these, in hindsight, preventable foibles that we are destined to repeat in the future.
LOL the picture starting at 19:27 is at Union Station in Springfield MA. I live in Springfield. They just re-did that station a couple of years ago. Back when this picture was taken, the interior of the station had these beautiful scrolled wooden benches, but thieves stole most of them right before the current renovations, so now they've got the one scrolled bench that didn't get stolen, a replica on the other side of the room to make it symmetrical, and a bunch of ugly plastic row chairs.
I forgot all about this show, need to listen to it while working. BTW the point of stripes on a racing car was it made it easier to identify when the car is acting up at speed.
My favorite thing about the idea of a British moon landing is a couple of guys did actually draw up some plans for such a thing. Their space suit design looked like a suit of armor and came with a shooting stick that folded out into a camp chair in case the astronauts got tired
That cartoon running reminded me of a recurring dream I used to have. I'd be trying to run away from various adversaries depending on the dream, but I could never run fast enough to actually get anywhere. The dream would end when I would look down to see what was wrong with my feet and see that I was running on a treadmill. That's when I would wake up. It wasn't a particularly bad dream but it was one of those ones that has you waking up with a decent bit of adrenalin. I would always chuckle a little bit when I would have that dream. It definitely has some existential meaning that one could put on it but that meaning is always one a person puts on it. The dream is just ridiculous on its face and that's dreams for you.
I hate to say it, but 4876 wasnt put back together. According to some people on various PRR groups who were around when it happened, 4876 was scrapped and the 4876 we have today is a replacement.
Always excellent, enjoyed that a lot, thank you for a fun hour and twenty. Also thank you to your guest Gareth, who I'm a fan of too, and was very pleasantly surprised when you teamed up.
Hurrah! A new episode! I follow Gareth on twitter rather closely so you can imagine I was overjoyed I was for him to feature in one of my favourite podcasts. Another top notch episode guys, keep it up!
There was also a train collision at Back Bay Station in Boston, MA, in 1990. An AMTRAK train heading to South Station in Boston took a curve into Back Bay way too fast, causing it to derail and crash into a local Boston commuter rail train. One locomotive crashed up through the street (Dartmouth Street, I believe). While it caused a huge amount of damage, luckily no one ended up dead, though there were many injuries. I've never seen a deep dive into that one; it seems to have disappeared from history.
13:47 beagle 2 actually landed safely on the surface of mars, the problem seems to be that one of solar panels failed to deploy so the radio antenna failed to deploy
I can confirm literally everything they say about CT. You keep going northeast up though Durham or Terryville and you'll swear on any higher power that will listen that you just crossed the Mason Dixon line by going north.
I remember this from a 1980s coffee table book I had as a kid on great rail disasters. I don't remember the exact name of the book and I wish I still had it and hadn't sold it to a used book shop during a futile fit of de-clutterization.
I was trying to learn about this disaster from your channle but the state of mind where as so much to joke about . I enjoy the way you tell the story but the constant party from the peanut gallery anoys me.
It took almost two years, but we finally got a pin-able comment!
@@TuckerWhite94 yeaaa ? I think . My mind is very warped and i have no clue ..
@@TuckerWhite94 Go to the MS Estonia episode and enjoy that pinned essay
@@BatAtTarkov Yeah, but most of the pinned comments are either an essay about what's "wrong," a short reply about what's "wrong" or just leftist in-fighting. It's more fun when we get bigoted comments to point and laugh at.
@@TuckerWhite94 The leftist infighting is always a treat too
"The weird thing about the new concourse at Union Station is that it's the most dark and grimy place I've ever been to that's made almost entirely of glass." Sounds like they need to activate windows.
That is a magnificent play on words.
holy shit
it would be a tv, not a computer
I fullscreened this one and discovered that your Activate Windows watermark is positioned around ten pixels higher than my Activate Windows watermark. I've never seen something so profoundly frustrating.
video is 16:9, monitors are 16:10
@@Quills64 yikes
@@Quills64 speak for yourself
It coincided with mine tho. Which is funny considering i run BSD
@@Quills64 I know this is 10 months old but I can't abide by it. Most monitors are 16:9! 1080p is a 16:9 resolution!
Tried to get on a ghost train, fell through the train onto 3rd rail. Can now get on the ghost train.
did you try suplexing it?
@@synthgal1090 😎👍
😂
"HON HON HON JE NE HAVE NO BRAKES... PAS."
alice i love you
I busted out at the one lol
Smashed thru a stationmaster's office! Collapsed the main floor!! Fell into a basement and got walled up for the inauguration!!! Live TV mobile unit coverage!!!! *_AND NO ONE GOT KILLED!!!!!_*
This gets my vote for Best Trainwreck Ever.
"I know what you want. I know what you came here for. That thing you crave more than anything else. It's a primal urge, drives men to absurd distances, and to engage in ruthless and inhuman acts. It's a high unlike any other, known only to those few who have indulged in it's un-infinite pleasures. An addiction stronger than any known narcotic, yet whose health effects are limited to occasional bouts of mild smoke inhalation. You know that of which I speak? It's TRAINS."
I love Alice's Laugh. It's so cute and it makes me happy
Best Girl Alice
I love when she goes wild with a bit and starts building on it until a bit becomes its own little weird narrative.
Just gonna say I need this after the world being on fire and everything feeling like it's going in exactly the wrong direction. Thanks for this. Thanks for being here.
You got it bud. Thanks for listening.
I'm gunna say you'd think the world being on fire would be helpful in reducing virus-hell ... but Oz says nope, it's still here.
@@pmcgee003 Well, there is that, but just also all the state of the Democratic primary, the political corruption, mass extinction, recession incoming, Hungary effectively becoming the first dictatorship in Europe for decades, creeping fascism elsewhere, people STILL living in dogshit conditions no one should have to endure. It all just gets to me how bad it all is and bums me out. WTYP is proving to be a good healing measure against all of that.
@@welltheresyourproblempodca1465 Can I just say that I really really appreciate this podcast, and Alice in particular? I have doubts about my gender and am considering whether to maybe transition (and I work in the legal sector - I'm semi-well known in immigration/asylum law - and British left-wing legal circles are distressingly full of TERFs). I also love trains, public housing, socialism, and nationalisation of major industries.
@@ClaudiaNW TERFs are scum
Thanks for having me on! Charcuterie-style track material specification is now my grind.
Also can we get a round of applause for whatever insane beamNG.train level designer built union station at the bottom of a downhill slope, and at a perfect angle so that if you get the train going fast enough you could knock the spike off the top of the capitol building.
Alice told in basically 1 minute all you needed to know about the Gare the Lyon crash, two years later and I just listened to an almost two hour episode about the whole ordeal.
I love you guys
"No Healthcare On The Moon" would be a great shirt idea. Hell, even a sticker to throw on your laptop.
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The Wreck of the Federal Express is one of Gordon Lightfoot's lesser known classics.
Alice's, "Stain! Less-steel" joke was top notch
Alright, so let's get this straight, Liam does not respect fish, Alice does not respect the Seaplane Float from the 1918 Phillidelphia Warbond Parade and Justin does not respect Scottish place names. Am I missing anything?
R e n t C o n t r o l
they all _do_ respect women
All of them don't respect TERFs 'cuz fuck TERFs
(they/them)
They have respect for each other 😎
@@scarylion1roar Well obviously, TERFs aren't people.
a quietly uttered "trains all the way down" is my political philosophy
One of my absolute favorite moments is at 9:50, when the PRR GG1 shows up and the entire crew just loses it for a hot second in appreciation of a damn fine train.
That's how you know this is a podcast of VALUE.
Also: I'm pretty sure this is the Deltic Prototype that Gareth was talking about, which is also a damn fine piece of train engineering: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Railways_DP1
That's it! Also, look up the story of DP2 if you want more disaster action.
That is a gorgeous locomotive.
1:04:55 sounds like someone has never read about the rampant war train vs war train combat that went on in the Russian far East during the Russian Revolution.
Shit was hardcore
Whole cities on the tracks. Russia's civil war was on some mad max shit.
War train vs war train combat also happened a lot in the battle between Chinese Warlords in 1920s-1930s as well. They actually brought & hire an armored train with an entire white Russian battalion that operated it.
I want the anime adaption of this.
@@dr.velious5411 you know what, that's exactly what we need
"In addition to the whole thing being shit" is probably one of the best moments of this episode.
Thank God, I have an essay due in 3 hours and I had nothing to procrastinate to.
The very worst thing about York station is the plaque commemorating Thatcher. It's covered in dirt though, much like herself.
1:05:00
Fun fact, Soviets actually had armored trains, as well as the Germans in WWII. As in they literally were armored with tank turrets mounted to the cars. Look it up, that'd be a great episode. I don't know of any accidents with them but you guys would have a blast talking about it
They used them during the Russian Civil War, too.
And don't forget the huge rail mounted guns the Germans built and used at least once. The BIG ones. That needed two parallel tracks. I guess they worked, but damn what a waste of resources. Which is good I guess, better that the Nazis wasted resources than when they were being efficient.
@@GustavSvard
The Schwerer Gustav and Dora, absolutely ludicrous machines. One of them was sent to Stalingrad, but didn't fire and had to retreat, the other one was used in the siege of Sevastapool to devastating effect.
@@acassiopeia6439 ludicrous is the right word, yeah. Extremely effective when properly used, but the cases that make for proper use of them are so few, and so the guns so hard to deploy, that they don't make sense resource-wise. Which I guess is good since it ment the Nazis wasted resources they could have spent on more effective artillery etc.
not sure now, but in the soviet times Nuclear-Missile-Armed-Trains formed a major part of the Nuclear deterrent.
I don't know about the monster energy sponsorship for the locomotive, but I think Kool-Aid would be pretty interested
Ralph "Pennsylvania Railroad" Wiggum:
"I choo-choo-choo-choose bad engineering."
Please do more US rail disasters with Gareth as a guest. I absolutely love his take on American railroading. Will subscribe to the Patreon at some point when I remember.
Yay, finally an episode featuring my city! Union station itself has been a disaster since the railroads collapsed in the 70's. First they tried to make it into a bicentennial visitors center, then it was severely neglected and almost demolished, then they built a woefully undersized waiting area and messed up the passenger flow just for some extra retail revenue, and the ceiling was half destroyed in an earthquake. Such embarrassment for one of the most powerful cities in the world.
Andrew Heare Well, at least it still exists, unlike other main stations.
Didn’t they rebuild it for the Hartford Line, or did I imagine that
@@CODMarioWarfare I'm talking about Washington union station but the story was similar for many Amtrak stations so I wouldn't be surprised if Hartford was in a similar situation now
As a keen watcher of Justin's videos since Franklin I, I must say that I absolutely love what you've become during the last year or so. How much more secure you feel doing this. The character development and chemistry between you three. Fantastic stuff. Keep it up guys! You keep us going in these crazy times.
Also train good despite Ep21
This had better have a whole section detailing the involvement of the Pennsylvania Secret Service.
No man, it was Mike, Mike and Mike, who done it.
bigdog everyone in the Pennsylvania Secret Secret service is named Mike. Even the women are named Mike. It’s Mikes all the way down.
pennsylvania is the only thing in pennsylvania that is not called mike
40:50 Google knows to highlight all the good breweries and dive bars in DC on donoteat's Google Maps.
seeing the MBTA commuter rail sent a shiver down my spine, more than any telling of any disaster ever could.
"Thank you for calling TrainPhone. All of our representatives are currently assisting other doomed rail clients..."
16:10 Yes!! This happened to me on my first visit to Scotland. Love the Caledonian Sleeper (and the late 70s stock which you're SLANDERING - it was great).
God I love this channel
Listening to this, 48 minutes in, in January of 2021...hoo boy.
Exactly my thoughts as I was listening to this!
I love the transfer of cars for through passengers. I took Amtrak once from Cleveland through DC to Jacksonville, and since I was a long distance passenger they put us on the last car in the train, with plenty of spacing between the seats, and at DC they just took the car from the end of one train to the end of another, you didn't have to move your stuff or change cars or anything, it was seamless and lovely. I've taken 2 long trips on the "ride then fly" plan, you ride the train on the way out then fly home, it's great.
Y'know, rewatching this for the upteenth time, it occurs to me it was probably a really good thing that the runaway train was coming down the track that led directly to the stationmaster's office. When the call from K Tower came in that there was a runaway, there was zero delay between the office getting that message and the people at the end of the platform being told to evacuate -- because they were the same group of people. If it had been coming in on a track at the opposite side of the station, there would've been some degree of delay for the office to get that warning over to the area which needed to evacuate, and every second counted.
"I have to say 100% of the audience of this, will be into that" Already subscribed before Alice finished that sentence.
A lithobraking maneuver is still a landing 🤣
I was just a child back then and was on this train with my Mother -- in the last car ( as i recall ). I remember this as if it were yesterday.
SPOILER
I can't believe this accident essentially had a Thomas the Tank Engine "luckily, no one was hurt" moment
tangentially; hey, remember that time GE stabbed Alco in the back and thereby sent Schenectady on a slow industrial decline toward oblivion? good times.
ah yes, i too love how that the alco facility is now a casino...
I remember visiting it before it was fucked over into casino hell. Poor Schenectady.
This is the epitome of "I let it rust out, for weight reduction."
In general this episode is basically about the ricing trains. Next step is plasti-dipping the train lights.
1:05:00 much of the Russian Civil War was fought with armored trains. I'm pretty sure they saw some use in World War II as well - in Russia. Once you got far enough west in Europe the gauge narrowed and Soviet armored trains wouldn't run on the track. And as the war went on that threshold crept east as the Germans narrowed Soviet track for their own use. Mostly for boring goods trains rather than armored trains, too.
Oh hell yeah. Another story about Comrade Train, 10/10 perfect content.
And when it was all over, everyone on the train texted "GG"
Two days ago, a train engineer at the Port of Los Angeles intentionally derailed his train near the USNS Mercy, the Navy medical ship docked to provide hospital relief here in Los Angeles. He believed the ship was part of a large conspiracy; gov't takeover or something relating to COVID-19. No injuries, no deaths, train barely got 250 feet away from the ship after smashing through concrete and steel barriers, a parking lot, a gravel lot, and a few chain linked fences.
One of those times you really have to ask yourself, just what was he thinking?
@@frank6842 very little worth recording/repeating, im guessing....
I HAV BEEN PLAYING RAILWAY EMPIRE FOR 2 WEEKS NON STOP I AM READY
WEEK 3 OF QUARANTINE I AM FINE
Going strong brother
That's the kind of discipline we need right now. Good job, buddy.
Reading "WEEK 3 OF QUARANTINE I AM FINE" several lifetimes later in September 2020 is a trip.
@@Pfhreak think of how I must feel in late Apr 21'
It seems that you were correct that it is surprisingly easy to do a terrorism at the Capitol
These days yes.
As a Chicagoan, thank you Liam for mentioning the Dave Matthews Band poop bus incident
This was fun.
My temp is 99.5°F and an attendant at the busiest gas station in town was just diagnosed, but I feel fine, this was fine. Everything is fine.
Cheers fellow! Take care of yourself and hope that fellow at the gas station is ok. Try and see the best of things as you can and while you're recovering!
@@Skulljack17 TY. My temp came back down so I think it was just a fluke.
12:28 - 12:50 if you want to hear Liam and Alice keeping that good ol' Brit-Yank animosity alive
I've been zapped by 110V and 220V currents, but never any DC current larger than the classic lick a 9V battery thing. When I accidentally touched the 110V, I had just gotten up and my mom told me to test the outlet in my room. Since I was exhausted, I stupidly touched the sides of the damn outlet and walked my head on the underside of my desk. On the bright side, I was awake instantly and no longer needed a cup of coffee.
The time I accidentally touched the 220V was when I lived in Peru and they have these weird water heaters that you attach just before the shower head in the shower. In this case, the power going to the shower water heating unit was inexplicably grounded using the iron security bars on the nearby window, which also happened to be where they put the shampoo. I reached for the shampoo and touched the bars a little bit. The next thing I know, I'm stark naked, out of the shower stall, and literally on the other side of the bathroom because that's how far the 220V blasted me. For a moment, I considered getting dressed really fast because I was concerned that I was going to die naked. lol But my heart slowed down before I had a chance to do anything about it, so I just got back in the shower stall and finished my shower.
I remember when my family went to Europe and we were on a train that flushed the toilet right out onto the tracks. We happened to be in the last car on the train and, since I was 16 and my brother was 12, we took turns flushing the toilet while the other one looked out the back of the train to see it come out onto the tracks and laugh. Of course, since we live near the train tracks in the US, we had to ask my mom if that's what happens near us too, which apparently it doesn't. We mostly have freight trains passing by but the Amtrak Sunset Limited also passes by the house.
12:29: As a British person who spent a year in America, I really liked whoopie pies.
(You will be relieved to know that, as I know much less about rail engineering than I do about the history of Christianity, I won't be leaving 10,000 pedantic comments on this episode.)
As a nation, America has truly mastered junk food. 👍
They seem pretty similar to what I’d call in Canada a Jo Louis. Two bits of chocolate cake with vanilla icing in the middle, and an optional chocolate glaze.
Apparently one of the goals of the New Haven EP-5 was to have it operate non-stop from New Haven to DC but in testing there was severe doubt over whether the locomotive would survive the run without self-immolating.
The Park Avenue Tunnel Fire that permanently put the EP-5s out of passenger service is a great story for a future episode because the New Haven's motive power (including the DL-109!) was nothing but hilarious failure after hilarious failure.
Their choices of diesels were certainly odd, as was the EP5 and the Washobards, but all the prior electrics and EMU's were honestly pretty great. The GG1 was based off of a NH EP3.
I love slapstick train episodes; it distracts me from the fact I work retail in a (former 10th busiest national rail) train station and am probably going to get plague'd before this is all over
I'm absolutely mad for this long form banter content with SUBSTANCE!!!! Bless you brothers & sister for sharing your views on these, in hindsight, preventable foibles that we are destined to repeat in the future.
Thank you for providing the train content we all crave
LOL the picture starting at 19:27 is at Union Station in Springfield MA. I live in Springfield. They just re-did that station a couple of years ago. Back when this picture was taken, the interior of the station had these beautiful scrolled wooden benches, but thieves stole most of them right before the current renovations, so now they've got the one scrolled bench that didn't get stolen, a replica on the other side of the room to make it symmetrical, and a bunch of ugly plastic row chairs.
What would thieves do with antique wooden train station benches. Sad
@@yrobtsvt sell them
'Je ne have no brakes' is the Frenchiest thing that's ever been Frenched.
After hearing you swoon over the GG1 I want you to talk about its predecessor the FF1, which is as terrifying as the GG1 is pretty
FedEx: "When it absolutely, positively has to get wrecked overnight!" 🤣
I stumbled on this podcast on UA-cam and this is now what I exercise to ❤️
This was sweet. So much whit and hilarity between you all. Its never been more fun to learn railroad engineering and history. Thank you!
Thank for this guys. I need it for the situation that’s currently happening. The world is a bit on fire but It will go out. Stay safe y’all.
I forgot all about this show, need to listen to it while working.
BTW the point of stripes on a racing car was it made it easier to identify when the car is acting up at speed.
Thank you for keeping me sane while my trans arse has to be quarantined with family members I'm not out to. Choo choo go crash
i just imagine the korma at the beginning to be a tesco value microwave korma tray
It probably was
Re: Nuking the Moon. There is a novel about this called Seveneves. You won't be worrying about the tides.
Thanks for mentioning that. As I recall, nothing bad at all happened to the Earth. Nothing at all. Well, for the first couple of years.
My favorite thing about the idea of a British moon landing is a couple of guys did actually draw up some plans for such a thing. Their space suit design looked like a suit of armor and came with a shooting stick that folded out into a camp chair in case the astronauts got tired
This show started great and has been strength-to-strength throughout, but this time you legitimately hurt me through laughing.
Episode 60 is far, far better. This pod just gets better and better.
This is a great way to pass the time during the lockdown/quarantine.
That cartoon running reminded me of a recurring dream I used to have. I'd be trying to run away from various adversaries depending on the dream, but I could never run fast enough to actually get anywhere. The dream would end when I would look down to see what was wrong with my feet and see that I was running on a treadmill. That's when I would wake up. It wasn't a particularly bad dream but it was one of those ones that has you waking up with a decent bit of adrenalin. I would always chuckle a little bit when I would have that dream. It definitely has some existential meaning that one could put on it but that meaning is always one a person puts on it. The dream is just ridiculous on its face and that's dreams for you.
Every time someone says honk I think of geese. "Train is coming in hot, sparks flying, and it's honking like a bird"
The content I didn't know I needed just at the time when I really fucking needed it. Thanks all, and great to hear Gareth as the guest!
I hate to say it, but 4876 wasnt put back together. According to some people on various PRR groups who were around when it happened, 4876 was scrapped and the 4876 we have today is a replacement.
Alice will never understand what losing a Bojangles means
Before I moved to Chicago, I searched to see if Bojangles had a location there and I was crushed to find out there wasn't one
Fuck yeah, Gareth Dennis! His tweets were one of the best parts of my Twitter experience!
crap i want to stop watching and go binge his channel instead
Always excellent, enjoyed that a lot, thank you for a fun hour and twenty. Also thank you to your guest Gareth, who I'm a fan of too, and was very pleasantly surprised when you teamed up.
You had me at blowing up the moon, but you won me with the 17776 reference
as a masshole, can confirm Springfield station is MUCH worse than the photo
Well isnt the photo quite old? :P
Have you been since the renovation?
"Why is it made of cheese?"
Asking the real questions.
Hurrah! A new episode! I follow Gareth on twitter rather closely so you can imagine I was overjoyed I was for him to feature in one of my favourite podcasts. Another top notch episode guys, keep it up!
Glad you enjoyed it Tommy!
That's honestly the best pronunciation of Machynlleth I've heard outside of Wales!
I resisted getting Llanfair PG out.
There was also a train collision at Back Bay Station in Boston, MA, in 1990. An AMTRAK train heading to South Station in Boston took a curve into Back Bay way too fast, causing it to derail and crash into a local Boston commuter rail train. One locomotive crashed up through the street (Dartmouth Street, I believe). While it caused a huge amount of damage, luckily no one ended up dead, though there were many injuries. I've never seen a deep dive into that one; it seems to have disappeared from history.
Train good, except when it clips through the l̶e̶v̶e̶l̶ station
13:47 beagle 2 actually landed safely on the surface of mars, the problem seems to be that one of solar panels failed to deploy so the radio antenna failed to deploy
Beagle landed! upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/PIA19107-Beagle2-Found-MRO-20140629.jpg
It was the Americans who got their units mixed up and yeeted their spacecraft into the surface.
i had to cover the reopening of Cortland Station in the Mall on Ground zero. It feels tasteless to put an Apple Store where 3000 people died.
1:13:07 its the massachusetts bay transportation authority, dammit (build the north-south rail link you cowards)
Me: *Climbs into bed at 1am ready to get an early night*
WTYP: *Upload a new episode*
Me: "Fuck."
I can confirm literally everything they say about CT. You keep going northeast up though Durham or Terryville and you'll swear on any higher power that will listen that you just crossed the Mason Dixon line by going north.
But where are guest stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor?
I remember this from a 1980s coffee table book I had as a kid on great rail disasters. I don't remember the exact name of the book and I wish I still had it and hadn't sold it to a used book shop during a futile fit of de-clutterization.
The LMS Coronation class steam locomotives had The Aesthetic with their streamlining
Good point.
1:16:27: After the fire alarm has been going off for long enough, I think you are within your rights to go ahead and light the building on fire.
So much of this one is worthy of a camstonisland animatic
I know this is an old episode, but as of 2023, the most Northern Bojangles is now located in Quakertown, PA
There's nothing better than listening to nerds talk about trains.
JK guys, you're not nerds. You're all really cool. Love youuuuu.
Omg when they first showed the train car I thought "that looks exactly like an MBTA commuter rail car." Dun dun DUNNNN
Can't wait for next time for the Tacoma Narrows bridge disaster!