OMFG DINOSAURS AND TRAINS!!!!! (with TierZoo)
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
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A few months ago we took a train trip to 3 different countries to visit three different natural history museums, and it was great!! Well, except when we tried to get to Germany ... 😬
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-- References & Further Reading --
The Man in Seat Sixty-One
www.seat61.com/
Dinosaur facts sourced from these places:
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news.berkeley.edu/2021/04/15/...
www.businessinsider.com/over-...
www.usgs.gov/faqs/when-did-di...
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-i...
amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaur...
www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12...
www.diffen.com/difference/Spi...
Allosaurus was predominantly a scavenger
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Bahnhofsgebäude Hatzenport
By Joschi71 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
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Thanks to TylerMascola for the Surprised Pikachu meme!
Even though he said no credit was necessary, I want to credit him:
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Development of Transport Infrastructure in Europe:
Exploring the shrinking and expansion of railways, motorways and airports.
greenpeace.at/uploads/2023/09...
European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building, report finds
www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Deutsche Bahn punctuality drops to record low
www.railtech.com/all/2023/12/...
Punctuality - Deutsche Bahn
zbir.deutschebahn.com/2023/en...
Erläuterung Pünktlichkeitswerte für den Januar 2024
www.deutschebahn.com/de/konze...
Deutsche Bahn and German Government launch infrastructure programme on unprecedented scale
www.railtech.com/infrastructu...
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction & TierZoo
1:00 The Plan
2:24 The Eurostar to London
3:30 King Cross & Surrounding Area
4:56 The Natural History Museum
8:43 The Eurostar to Brussels
9:19 All about Brussels
9:56 Le Muséum des sciences naturelles
12:24 Sleeper trains are awesome!
13:27 Problems happen ...
15:07 WE NEED MORE FUNDING FOR TRAINS!
18:02 The Urbanist Agenda Podcast
18:25 Getting to Berlin
18:57 das Museum für Naturkunde
21:10 Trains, a love story
24:07 TierZoo & Nebula
25:44 Patreon shout-out
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The only hate I allow in my comments is towards car dependency.
Trains, Trams, and Trans rights! 🏳⚧
You are awesome
18:00 - Yes! By voting for the green party! Now people started doing so, and look, what the car lobby did! Through media campaigns they radicalized the boomers, rednecks and hillbillys and now Nazis are sitting in our parliament again... If you are frustrated by the "service" DB offers, go ask me, a german in his 30s, how frustrated I am, living here, paying taxes for billions to be pushed into road infrastructure for the boomers, who will be around here for another ten to twenty years, so I will have to drive by car in my 50s, when it becomes increasingly hard to concentrate and stay awake, due to a lack of rail infrastructure... I'm so fed up with my own people... 🤦♂
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Man, your channel is a gem. I'll probably move from a flawed yet walkable city (Bogotá) to a car dependent us town (chapel hill) and i am afraid of intolerance and food deserts. I hope to find nice people there.
Thanks for the content and being a decent human being and spreading it.
You are so fucking amazing I love you
Personally I like to commute on a dinosaur while learning about the history of extinct trains.
The American version of this video
For your dinosaur, would you prefer the '57 or '59 Cadillac?
"And on Sundays, on a mastodon"
Well there's your problem podcast has got you covered.
I'd like to be more pro dinosaur transit, but they still run on fossil fuels.
"That is, until we tried to get to Germany" As a German, I feel the pain
Wasn't exactly expecting it, but we somewhat deserved it.
Thank you for travelling with Deutsche Bahn
How did i kew that this will come
The unexpected twist was, that Deutsche Bahn in the end worked better than the private service by European Sleeper.
To be fair, the sleeper train is not offered by Deutsche Bahn. And even if it would, if something on the train broke and disabled it, there wouldn't be a replacement easily.
The fact that trains are competitive on so many routes DESPITE chronic under funding is honestly all the endorsement they should need
Yup. Amtrak was literally designed to failed within a few years, but the fact that it has operated somewhat successfully for decades, and nearly became profitable pre-pandemic shows how powerful rail actually is.
@@jamalgibson8139Amtrak is not very profitable and also I believe they make most of their money from transporting items I believe. The govt requires them to offer passenger rides too I think, or the trains get access to the item rails for free or something like that.
In reality they aren't. Eurostar is actually very expensive.
@@holygooffWdym? If you book in advance a ticket from London to Amsterdam goes as cheap as 72€ that is comparable to driving if you factor in wear and it gets you from city centre to city centre in a little more than half the time. Or are you referring to something other than ticket cost?
I like traveling by train but if I have to spontaneously travel somewhere in Europe like a couple of weeks in advance, Eurostar is very expensive, well over $100 one way depending on the route and time. That $30 Ryanair flight starts to look real appealing even if I hate flying and incur additional transportation costs from city center to city center. I would take the Eurostar if I bought tickets 3 months out though.
“You pay nothing, the same the British paid for these artifacts” 😂😂
Best line in the video
I'm from Egypt and the only reason the pyramids are still in Egypt because they are so heavy
that line sent me man lmao
@@voidtechnology8236 Same for Mexican pyramids too lol
*screams in greek*
I felt a bit targeted when I am watching this on a train in seat 61. What a coincidence
YOU TOOK HIS SEAT!? GIVE IT BACK!
@@NotJustBikes 😆
what if every train just had a little spot that said "reserved"
I'm just on a fair in Köln-Deutz.
Arrived Monday by train fully in time and very comfortable.
Train drivers - oh no, this can't be, lets us go on strike
😅
38 seconds into the video: Oh nein, I see this one coming.... 54 seconds: and there it is.
yeah, as soon as I heard that he was going to berlin i knew what was about to come
lol yeah, germany is collapsing ever since they rejected nuclear power lol
That is correct. Our infrastructure crumbles not because of constant underfunding for decades by new labour social democrats and conservatives. It crumbles because we abandoned something that seems to mean a lot to you some ten years ago (without a sustainable replacement, I give you that).
@@deVryzNuclear reactors have almost nothing to do with the train infrastructure. Except for providing electricity.
So how does your comment stack up to correlation, much less causation?
I’m at 0:58 and guessing that their ICE service to Cologne was cancelled.
UK Parliament is also a great place to spot dinosaurs...
Especially the antiquated and non-democratic House of Lords.
Why does the UK need Lords?
The US presidential race is another good place to see them.
@@garryferrington811 it’s just an advisory body. If they really want to they can delay a bill by up to a year (except on matters of government manifesto, taxation or referenda in which they aren’t allowed to delay and suspending parliament which they are allowed to stop) but it is rare that they will do that as A: it makes the government look bad for ignoring the lords advice and B: it makes the lords look bad for interfering with the commons. Also, hereditary peers are all but removed (a selection of the most competent remain) and most are selected based on their experience. It’s definitely antiquated but they have improved bills in the past and they know that if they try and get too powerful they will be abolished (I.e. if they’d attempted to delay brexit there would have been massive outrage)
The "Human for Scale" on the sign is for people with vision disabilities. People can feel the size of the little figure next to the dinosaur reference because both are embossed on the placard!
That's what I thought but I couldn't tell whether it was actually embossed or not.
Deutsch Bahn cancelations are my favorite recurring character in Jet Lag, happy to see it referenced here to prove the point.
This season they played in Switzerland to be safe. 😉
Gee, thanks, the thought of Jet Lagged in this context now makes me want to see NJB as the next guest on it
@@bosstowndynamics5488 The next guest will be Toby again, and Season 10 is Jetlag Australia. They posted a picture on X.
Would be fun for season 11 though.
I'm from the city in Germany with the port that transfers US army vehicles and gear onto the railroad. I watch them. Those transports are responsible for a lot of schedule confusion because they have priority. The second thing is sabotage, because there are enough idiots stealing metal. The third problem is that it happens far too often that a person chooses to end their life by trying to get run over. Minus these points, trains would be punctual in Germany.
As a German without a car, this was not surprising in the least. Always plan a backup route! The previous government (which was in government for 16 years) really did us dirty, I hope the investments of the current one can fix the mess. One thing they already did and is awesome is the Deutschland-ticket. For just 49EUR a month, you can take any bus and train in Germany except for ICE and IC trains. It makes it much less frustrating if a train is cancelled if you didn't pay for it.
but it also means that you don't have a dedicated ticket and cant upgrade for free to a ICE train. With the deutschlandticket missed and canceled traines are much more of a disappointment. i used to bet on cancellations and the subsequent upgrade.
@@eragonbaffel9518 But that's a greed problem, not a real one. Personally, I super like it that I don't have to bother with local ticket services any more. Everyone having their own app made that one a lot easier, but knowing that you already have your valid ticket on you and just need to hop in is a big feel-good upgrade. Also a financial one, since I already pay for the Deutschland-Ticket.
The Deutschland-Ticket is a mess. I bought mine directly in the Deutsche Bahn Navigator App on my smartphone. Then it showed only one ticket for one month. So I had to log into my Computer each month into my Deutsche Bahn account on their website to get my Info and see, if my ticket - a subscription! - was still valid and had to work arround, how to have access to my ticket on my smartphone.
This worked all the time somehow, until a time ago it just didn't work anymore, because I'm using a Huawai smartphone and somehow now need to get the 'new' Deutsche Bahn App directly in the Huawai Appstore, which I can't access because I got my smartphone years ago used from someone I knew back then and I don't have the password to enter that store (which I never needed in more than 3-4 years having that phone!).
Deutsche Bahn is giving me NO CHANCE to have my ticket - that I paid for! - in a print out version or at least as a PDF. I'm totally pissed, because their solution to my problem with their software is that I have to buy a new smartphone - because it's my problem, because it can't be their problem, because their system is perfectly working.
And the funny thing is - my girlfriend bought her Deutschland-Ticket directly at the website deutschlandticket.de and there she is - of course - able to have a print out version of her ticket, which is always at least a good backup, when you travel over a long time, because we like to hear some music or watch some movies on our phones, when we are travelling and you never know, if you can recharge the batteries in a train in Germany.
@@eragonbaffel9518
The „D-ticket“ is primarily for using short routes and commuting (even in all metros, trams or buses) in every german city or village.
If you select an „long distance“, you usually ride by IC- or bullet- trains (ICE). Of course, you pay separate to the „D-ticket“, but it is possible to get „discounts“ and if you use it regularly, you can join in for an „BahnCard“ for every ride from 25% or half- price.
Agree with both of you. The Deutschlandticket is a good step, but overhyped. You have a flat rate, that's good. But a canceled train doesn't give you free faster alternative train (unless you are in NRW, check Mobilitätsgarantie). Besides that, the Deutschlandticket is not a set-and-forget ticket like the 9€ Ticket was. For the 9€ Ticket, you would just subscribe and forget about it. If I wasn't a student, I wouldn't book the Deutschlandticket on a regular basis - it's just too expensive for that. As a student, I pay 29,40€ which is somewhat ok, but even that is not an all-time no-brainer like we had before with the 9€ Ticket
Thank you for not blaming Deutsche Bahn for all the problems, and correctly saying that it's due to decades of ignorance towards rail quality.
Isn't DB responsible for that as well? They manage the rails as well AFAIK. Yes they'd need more funding so we're back to your point but many decisions they made were simply bad.
@@YannickBoIn theory they are a private corporation... 100% owned by the government because they didn't make it to the stock market.
So if DB would yield positive revenue, it would probably go to the taxpayer, but they don't. And instead of admitting train operations cannot be self sustainable economically, because their benefit cannot be measured in money, and even if, nobody would like that to be included in the ticket price.
Train network is part of the infrastructure building the foundation of our modern society. If we want to have modern life benefits, we should pay for the infrastructure to keep it reasonably healthy.
@@hb-man That's why I said if they received funding we'd be back to the original point
@@davids.1126 Basically, legalese at its finest to allow the German govenment back from the day to 'legally' release the stock, thus offering sales of stock, which then can be taxed and charged against other taxes. Totally bonkers, obviously, but nontheless, they did it. And it resulted in the sorry state of affairs of today.
My understanding is that DB is generally decent at running the train system. We have them coming to run Toronto's train system, so I hope it all goes well.
As a german who relies on public transportation for 15 years, when you said "until we tried to get to germany", I started laughing und then I started crying
On trains, “you’ve got mobile service all the time…”. Yes, but please stick to messaging, email and chat if you’re at your seat. Don’t be that guy who thinks it’s cool to hold a conference call at full voice in the midst of a quiet railway carriage full of people silently working or chilling. In France this will get you a swift reminder to make calls from the vestibule at the end of the carriage or in the bar car. The same is announced regularly on SNCF, SNCF Lyria and Eurostar at least.
The one I saw the most was people watching video without headphones. No efs given that they're disrupting the entire cabin.
@@gmanjapan I would politely interrupt their malignant narcissism and suggest headphones or that they find their way to the bar car. This cannot be tolerated.
@@lours6993 "Don’t be that guy who thinks it’s cool to hold a conference call at full voice in the midst of a quiet railway carriage full of people silently working or chilling."
Also, it might be good form to talk about your employer's business secrets such that other people on the train can hear them.
Phone conversations are a major problem on Norwegian trains, too. No consideration for other people. I really like the idea of a designated phone area on the trains.
Put on "heavy, loud" classic music. Bach, Mozart, some Chopin if you like modern. It will ruin the experience for the "loud people" and nobody will complain if you stop when they leave (also works with anybody with loud music on aged 0-100, excpetions may apply when already playing loud classical music).
No politician in Germany wants to invest in the train system as half the country lives of the car industry. Its so frustrating
*Certain politicians
Others want, but can't because they chose less relevant ministeries or other jobs during the coalition talks in order to appease party members, instead of taking transport into their hands. That's why we are stuck with Wissing and the FDP, who are not just a lobby group in practice, but also have connections to groups who deny climate change.
Car *industry* is NOT the same as car as a *transportation mode*.
Well maybe in US, which is its own thing, bit not in Europe which is diverse and interconnected.
Germany itself is important but not the only target audience for the German car industry.
That is - if you increase viable transportation options car production won't go down by much.
I really really hope German politicians understand that.
Though with the whole nuclear shutdown fiasco I'm not expecting much smarts from them...
What is really threatening German car industry is dirt-cheap Chinese electric cars.
You laugh at them now, but in a few decades they are going to gradually displace German cars as they did fully displace German electronics and house appliance production.
I'm not a fan or cheap Chinese cars but they are the reality.
Unless Germany moves to make cars much less relevant altogether - they DO retain control over their trains and they ARE competitive when not that underfunded!
You could be the dealers who sell the good but not take them. Just because you produce lots of cars it doesn't mean you have to sell all of them at home
Hopefully that gets turned around before they end up like us in America.
Same in sweden unfortunantly
"People Prefer cars". Meanwhile, every kid everywhere: "Dinosaurs and Trains!"
my original transformers was beast wars, it was kinda disapoiting seeing the car version after that, too bad the movie shoehorned then into the car franchise instead of making a spin off
I'm in the UK, in the North of England. Today my friend had to travel 23 miles from my place to his place. He chose to do this by train. It should have taken 49 minutes.
The train was supposed to come at 12:55 and get him to his station by 13:44 but due to engineering works it had been cancelled and replaced with a bus service.
The bus service was supposed to come at 13:21. It was late by 15 minutes and didn't come til 13:36. Instead of taking him the full way, it only took him to the next train station. It was late to that train station and missed the train he needed to get on to get to his station, meaning he eventually got on that train at around 15:30 and wasn't home until after 16:00.
A 23 mile journey took my friend over 3 hours.
This is not an uncommon occurrence. This is almost every weekend and has been like this for as long as I can remember.
Not only that, but the ticket cost over £8... to take a journey that would have been quicker by bicycle (but there's 0 bike infrastructure)
Outside of London, and especially in the North, the UK is screwed when it comes to public transport and nobody is talking about it.
Seconded, the difference between train travel in the north and the south is insane in the UK
Brexit didn't fix everything?
yeah this is a budgeting issue
They should make a sleeper train to Scandinavia. It now requires changing trains twice just to get to Copenhagen. The length of the trip is ideal for a sleeper train which requires no changes.
*Bring* *back* sleeper train to Scandinavia. I took it between Copenhagen and Amsterdam, and Cologne in 2010 and 2013. Great use of time, but the cars at the time were getting a little old.
What arw you talking about there is ever heard of euronight and snälltåget which both take you to stockholm and one is opererad by swedens national company and one by a private company
@@moon-moth1 There is one from Hamburg to Stockholm, if you plan to go to sweden that helps.
There is two that go from Hamburg/Berlin to Stockholm with Snälltåget and SJ Euronight.
not the collab we expected, but the collab we needed
As a note of information, Britain didn’t pay Egypt nothing for the Egyptian artefacts in the British Museum. We paid the French nothing for them. It was the French, specifically Napoleon Bonaparte. who paid the Egyptians nothing for them.
So handling stolen goods then. Not exactly better eh.
@@SystemParanoia more confiscating them during a bust and then forgetting to locate the original owners
In the end they still didn't pay egypt either way, although that is still interesting to note
@@davidwright7193 Not that it would make a difference though. With stolen artifacts from Greece it also worked without the French in between.
@@sagichnicht6748 stolen from the Greeks? Do you mean the decorative freeze from the Athens powder magazine that Lord Elgin bought from the Ottomans?
One of my favorite things about trains is the train station: it's central (contrary to airports or car parking) and it's beautiful. It's a great greeting ticket for tourists and businessmen.
Train stations are not appreciated enough.
I like their central location, but most are not great places. Better than airports in most ways, but often less clean, less safe, and much noisier. Wish they were all like Tokyo Station 😍
i agree with you on most points, but the one about train stations being beautiful really depends on the station.
most of the big stations are indeed good looking.
but most stations only the locals see are often generic (at best), especially the ones build between 1960 and 1990, those can be real eyesores.
i know, my city used to have a real nice 19th century station building. they destroyed that one and build a new one decades ago, and it was the ugliest building in town.
luckily about a decade ago they finally undid their mistake, and now we have a modern one. but if we could get the original (the 19th century one) back it would be even better.
Train stations are indeed great.
They also blend old with new very well can have a old part of the station and then a new structure added on like with kings cross and it looks nice.
We have a very beautiful station in San Bernardino, California. Not many trains, though!
@@ChristiaanHW True in a lot of cases, but the stations „only the locals see“ are usually in smaller towns. There won‘t be an airport anyway.
The collab we never knew we needed.
LITERALLY SAME!
Said no girl ever 😆
We didn't. It like 26 minute Nebula ad.
17:50 They already cut the budget down to 27 billion Euros. :D
Even before they did this, about one year ago, they changed the target for the Swizz-like "Deutschlandtakt" from 2030 to 20270.
We have the Green Party in the Government but unfortunately the traffic part is owned by people from the other side.
@@Ulrich.Bierwisch We shouldn't expect much from a minister of transportation whose "novel" idea is to put people en mass in -helicopters- "Flugtaxis" instead of building out public transportation... It also annoys me how much the Green's and SPD are rolling over for a party who will likely not even be a part of the next parliament.
@@Ulrich.Bierwisch 20270 I think there's an additional 2 but that goal is probably more realistic if we're even around till then
@@Ulrich.Bierwisch See also the r /Gekte post "Haben wir nicht eine Grüne Regierung?" If that is Actual Existing Green Politics then im no environmentalist💀💀
@@aturchomicz821 We don't have a green government. One out of three parties is green. One of the others is the FDP and this party define itself as the party that has to prevent as much green/left policies as possible.
The alternative would have been continuing with the SPD/CDU/CSU coalition under a chancellor Laschet.
I love how the video goes immediately from Dinosaurs to Trains with no transition whatsoever. It's epic!
I was really struck by a time I was on a train and saw a family playing boardgames together across the aisle from me. Family holidays by car tend to involve exhausted drivers, physical discomfort from sitting still so long, frustrated children. On a train it's just family time.
That British Museum joke made me squirt my beer from the nose
Sassy Jason is best Jason.
Because of the cut off point of each line on my phone this comment looked a lot more dirtier before I read the second line.
@@Alex-cw3rz SAME 😂😂😂
I was going to make it myself if Jason hadn't. "Of course it's free; they got the stuff in the exhibit for free!" was my immediate thought.
I'm from Egypt and the only reason the pyramids are still in Egypt because they are so heavy
@NotJustBikes I just wanted to say thank you for your winter cycling video. I am currently in Oulu, having met up with Timo from the Winter Cycling Federation earlier today. Your video is what put Oulu on the map for me, thank you!
To be fair, if you had left London you would have found our train system to be quite terrible too! After cancelling HS2, London gets a new road tunnel costing £8.2bn. We aren't any better than Germany, at least they have national high speed rail!
its quite poetic that the only high speed train in the uk is the one that gets you out.
You'd also find next to no cycling infrastructure in most towns - if you're lucky, a bit of shared pavement where you take your life in your hands at every minor crossroad.
Just we shut down most of our railways in the 60's and 80's... and a bit in the 90's.
aand there was an attempt to make the chunnel a road tunnel because well thatcher.
@@frankhooper7871 except Cambridge (and possibly a few other cities that im not aware of, unlike Cambridge i don't live in those places). It's not perfect by any means, though I have seen some significant improvements such as new separated bike lanes, a protected roundabout (possibly more), raised pedestrian crossings, closing some streets during certain times of the day (usually in the city centre or near schools), and even some plans to completely cut off a major road to car travel.
Not to mention there's already a lot of pedestrianized/low traffic flow areas that i cycle through. There's only two traffic lights I go through on my 20 minute ride to school, both of which are pedestrian traffic lights, and there's surprisingly little interaction with cars on almost all my journeys, not just between home and school. Granted, some journeys, especially on the outskirts, do get pretty bad with busy roads and on-street car parking and there's still a lot of work to be done, but I'm somewhat glad I only have to go through that occasionally and not all the time.
I have no idea about other cities in the UK. I remember reading from somewhere that Cambridge had some of the highest percentages of daily journeys being done on bike out of any other city in the country, so what I'm living with is probably not representative of the country as a whole. I've also heard Stevenage had decent bike infrastructure, though not many people ever use it because driving wasn't discouraged as much as it should've been. I don't know entirely because I've never really been there besides the train station, though I wouldn't be surprised if this was true because I feel like many other places here have the same problem of making it too easy to drive.
Don't know why I felt like dropping a shit ton of information, I just have way too much free time on my hands :Þ
@@TheMortalKombatent And they even waste capacity on that shuttling long trains full of private vehicles back and forth!
I think this is one of the best you've put out. Perfectly capturing why train travel is such a fantastic mode of transport. Not once did you mention finding parking, sitting in traffic, speed limits, etc. Minus the cancelled train blunder, you showcased how efficient and easy train travel is and why it's so important to make it ubiquitous and accessible to everyone.
Using dinosaurs and museums as an example travel destination/trip is a great way to show people who haven't really been convinced about train travel, why they should be
DINOSAUR TRAIN 🚂 my favourite childhood show
Otherwise called tomas the coal fired tankengine.🙃
Once upon a time, there was a mom, her name was Mrs. Pteranadon
HOLY SHIT YOU JUST UNLOCKED MEMORIES FOR ME the whole dinosaur train theme played in my head like i knew it from the heart
THANK YOU. I wasn’t sure if anyone else made that connection as well
Exactly my thought
HUGE fan of Seat 61, I've planned my own holidays using the site.
Massive thanks to Mark for pulling it all together, and so glad you gave him a shout out!
Oh yeah, my trip on the Dutchflyer would have been messy without his guidance. His website is essential and covers most eventualities (and even has information about your rights should things go wrong)
I strongly support your call to fund train infrastructure. Here in Greece we just had the one-year memorial after the worst train accident in Greece's history with 57 dead. And it wouldn't have happened for less than a million euros in safety equipment.
We do have constantly over 700 dead per year from car accidents, so I believe better trains will also help reduce these deaths.
Several years ago, I used Amtrak for the first time to get to Seattle instead of driving.
To Seattle, the train was just as fast as driving with no traffic.
From Seattle, the train was 2 hours faster than driving due to rush hour traffic.
I read the first sentence of the description before even clicking on the video and I just thought "ugh". I was already mentally preparing for the usual DB rant. So I was pleasantly surprised when you mentioned and criticised the actual problems instead of the symptoms. So thank you. It will get better over here eventually, but it will take time and vigilance to hold those in power accountable, should they try to cut funding again. But again, thank you. My colleagues and me are trying every day to make the best out of this mess. Sorry, this was sort-of off topic and not about dinosaurs but well...
Danke für den Kommentar - und die Arbeit, die mich reisen lässt :)
Viel Erfolg bei den Tarifverhandlungen.
Of course … the „german railways“ is an old „t-rex“, that is sponsored by the ‚car- industry‘ 🤣🤣🤣
Trains and Dinosaurs in the same video!? what kind of sorcery is this?
real autism trap :DD
LOL clearly not the Hogwarts variety.
Imagine having parents this awesome. Going on an international trip just because you're into something. My little brother used to be crazy about trains when he was a kid. Every time we were in the car and he saw a train go by he'd loudly scream TRAIN!! Yet my parents never even considered taking a train trip with him. Even though there is an old locomotive train that still runs as an attraction in the city right next to us that would've been perfect.
My parents just dragged me during my childhood all the way to rural fucking Sterkowiec, Poland per Train every month or so to do Gardening work on our property (in a house that in 2013 was already way overvalued when its Living Room didnt even have flooring put in, it still doesnt btw.) or to visit Brzesko to stamp some documents- That kind of pointless travel really sets you up for the adult world ngl😩😩
TierZoo will tell you, the reason T-Rexes were modded to be bipedal was so they could ride bikes. But that vehicle expansion never got added until way later.
So when do we get Tier Zoo to break from character for one video to rank modes of transportation? lmaoo
NO WAY ARE YOU KIDDING ME WHAT I NEVER EXPECTED THIS OH MY GOD THE ORANGE PILL GOES DEEP! THANK YOU! This colab is so unexpected but so perfect
NotJustBikes pumpin out the best collabs, we loved your collab with Abigail Thorn
Dinosaurs and trains are a starter pack for every kid
I love everything about this video. The dinosaurs, the travel story, the typical unreliability of Deutsche Bahn, the comparison of cities where you lived earlier versus now, the political rant, the humor... thank you so much for this great content!
I remember coming across TierZoo's amazing channel when he had only a few thousand subs. It's awesome to see these channels grow over time
As someone living in the UK and working at Kings Cross for the past 6 months it was a joy hearing your impressions of London. Keep up the great work!
Damn. The video throws so much shade in so many directions I needed to turn up my phone brightness.
One of the Deutschbahn moments of all time
Ironically, the sleeper train wasn't operated by Deutsche Bahn, but Nightjet-ÖBB.
@@scifino1Actually he said that it was European Sleeper, even though they seem to be using old ÖBB Euronight carriages. So the ÖBB or Nightjet had nothing to do with it.
I don't know the reason for the cancellation but it is perfectly possible that European Sleeper also couldn't do anything about it and the DB threw some rocks in the way (damaged track, or other unforseen track limitations etc)
I was in Germany for Oktoberfest in 2023 and had a conversation with an older woman about the trains. She was saying that the trains were terrible these days and my American perspective had me incredulous ("have you heard of Amtrack bro?!" you all have, obviously). This video was helpful for me to understand what she was talking about. The trains were honestly top 2 parts of my wife and my trip to Germany. I literally took pictures in the train looking like an absolute wierdo. Living in a city that showed up a ton on the Strong Towns videos, we were blown away. But hearing that the trains, which are amazing, are being deprioritized is so frustrating because they are truly the solution to a lot of the problems with moving around. Politics and interest money should not be the influence.
Much love to all the work that goes into these videos. I share them whenever I can. Love the content!
You have to be kidding me… you went on a trip through europe to see dinosaurs, even pass through Frankfurt and miss out on the Senckenberg Museum which is world famous for its dinosaurs 😅. There is even a T-Rex with a Eintracht Frankfurt football jersey right in front of the building.
Wasn't expecting a Jet Lag cameo, but I'm all for it
I went to university at Imperial College, just down the road from the NHM. I used to pop into the museums on Exhibition Road during my lunch breaks and it's something I absolutely loved about being there; however, it gets insanely busy during school holidays and weekends. They've introduced pre-booking now (still free), which has probably eased the crowds a bit, but makes it hard to just pop in. When I was a kid I was obsessed with dinosaurs and visited the NHM all the time with my grandparents. I eventually did a geology degree with a palaeontology specialism, and I definitely credit museum visits for fostering that interest, so good job taking this amazing trip with your son!
What Europe probably needs is a standardized universal system for train travel..
I definitely agree that Europe needs more sleeper trains, the bigger the block gets with new members the more new standardized European rails to be applied to make sleeper trains more convenient.
So agree with how enjoyable train travel is! My colleagues often don’t understand I rather not own a lease car and take the train in stead. It is so relaxing to read books, watch a movie or listen to podcasts while looking at the giant tv showing the world pass by.
Or start the day doing most of the e-mails on the train before entering the office. Train travel is my favorite and even often the main reason to travel somewhere. Like Norway or Switzerland, doing incredible journeys through breathtaking landscapes. With a car I have to mind the road, but in the train I can truly enjoy the surroundings.
Where do you live?
@@Musta0011 Netherlands, very near Amsterdam.
@@sanderdeboer6034 aah
I will say this about the UKs pedestrianisation approach:
While Real London and a few other cities have definitely made more progress on things like bike lanes and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, most towns and villages aren't for a vast multitude of reasons including:
1. Demagogues pushing 15-minute cities as communist tyranny.
2. Austerity on public transit, as well as delays and cutbacks to HS2.
3. Tory rule for over 15 years.
4. Many, many British roads and neighbourhoods being centuries old and, while being important arterials, cannot be expanded for bike lanes or removing car access because you'd be destroying ancient sites and they're too valuable respectively (the former is why HS2 is so expensive.)
Number 4 seems quite ridiculous. When there is space for cars then there is space for even more bicycles.
as German living in Switzerland i have to thank the Deutsche Bahn for years of Anger Management lessons for free...
Oh same, I don't think my family ever had a time when we DIDN'T have to change trains once we crossed the border because if they had let the (very delayed) German train onto the Swiss rails, it'd break their whole system because it didn't fit into their perfect schedule
@@amicaniiya1576 SBB is trying to get it fixed at DB but as Jason said in the video it's a failure in system, a lack of investment, maintenance and personal power, political will and a lot smaller problems to...
I love to go here by train, it's reliable, comfortable and they do even excuse themselves for a 3 min delay they have from time to time.
Dinos and Trains? Autism overload. :D
Special interests ACTIVATE!
You also might want to visit Naturalist in Leiden (20 minutes by train for you) where they have a T-Rex. If you go on a Saturday you can go into the lab where they prepare dinosaur bones and ask any question you might have.
As an airline pilot, I prefer to travel by train and bus and I find flying boring and uncomfortable and driving even more boring and even less comfortable. Trains are good because they are fast and comfy and buses are good (in Europe) because usually they are the cheapest way of getting around and are as punctual of a service as trains. Sometimes, the bus stations are located literally in the same place as the train stations.
Every kid should have a parent like Jason.
@@richardalvarez2390 What’s to teach?They are people like everyone else.
Straight up
Ah yes and i am watching this on a Deutsche Bahn train... and so far it is on time 🎉
How did it go?Greetingss from your neighbor Poland
Shocking!
yea okay i will arrive 20 min late now
@@jakobcs6856Tja! Jinxed it!
Naturalis is also a sick museum! The have almost complete T-rex and many other dinos. Im sure it would be a blast for your youngest. It's just a 10 minute walk from leiden centraal
Having your train canceled and staying at a hotel by a train station is almost always nicer than having a flight canceled and staying at a hotel by the airport! 😂
15:15 is this the statistic that counts cancelled trains / stops as unpunctual as well? Because the DB usually only counts trains that arrived and then calculates how many of those were unpunctual. That way they inflate the number of punctual trains.
And a train only counts as unpunctual, when it's more than 6 minutes late.
They also leave cancelled trains out of this statistic.
@@hanshorstjoachim9498 I think this is actually reasonable, at least for long-distance trains. I wouldn't consider a four minute delay on a 600 km journey unpunctual.
@@eintyp But for regional trains? There the time for a train to be considered late should be lower.
And those 6 minutes might be nothing if you only take a single long distance train. But if you have to change trains it's too common for you to not catch the next train because of those few minutes. I think there was a statistic on how often those connections can't be reached but I couldn't find it.
@hanshorstjoachim9498 6 minutes for regional trains, and 15 minutes for non-local trains.
i have a hyperfixation on transit and my situationship has a hyperfixation on dinosaurs. this is literally made for us thanks mr. just bikes
Belgium has been having similar problems. It recently reworked it's Bus system. DL closed hundreds of stations and rerouted some of the most popular commutes because they could make it "faster" to reroute to less common stops to not pass through cities (it didn't even work /). In this project they decided to stop working with Belgium's best and biggest Bus manufactorer, Van Hoof. Hundreds of jobs are now going to dissapear from the country and be moved to countries like Hungary. Meanwhile our highways are (fairly) joked to be the worst in Western Europe.
The big problem I have with the Amsterdam-Berlin connection is that it stops EVERYWHERE. As a Dutch person, there is absolutely no reason why an international train has to call in Apeldoorn or Almelo.
Maar Hilversum is natuurlijk hét station waar de lijn niet zonder kan.
I think one stop before leaving the nl should be there just so I don't need to travel from the east to Amsterdam to catch a train to Berlin
The IC Berlin has not stopped in Almelo for four months. In addition, the IC Berlin was an addition as a direct IC connection between Amsterdam and Almelo. The NS does not run directly between Amsterdam CS and the Twente region.
@@lars9518 Yes the call in Hengelo is legit, but I don't think all those intermediate stops are necessary. A dedicated IC service (or a good connection) would be more useful for those regions.
@@Roanmonster agree, should be minimum 2 / 3 stops should easily be enough for nl. Just make sure you have a good connection to those 2/3 stations where the stops will be and it should be fine. If there is a good connection Utrecht - Hengelo for instance then the ic doesn't have to stop in Utrecht but just push on. I think in a few years those connections will become better and better. First we need to increase taxation on aviation fuel and a tax for short flights then the travel space will become more competitive and resulting in busier trains aka better prices and better connections
Two year's ago I worked for a company to where I could not take the train and thus had to drive one hour to get there. I was tired, annoyed and felt empty before I even started working. Then after working 8 hours the same drive back. It felt like I wanted to kill my self, dam I hated it. Then for a short while I had to take a train for a other job and that was 2 hours back and forth. No problem. I just worked on the train and ate my breakfast. When I came in to the train station it was time for a break and walk to the office. Perfect. Love that. I still have the car but I haven't used it for over 2 years. I hate driving.
This is the weirdest but best collab ever to happen on UA-cam
Yes!!! Driving is extra work. Riding public transport is relaxation if it's not jam-packed.
Everyone needs to realize that being a driver is a job, and when you are driving you are doing unpaid overtime.
Riding a bicycle then.. I'll consider it a somewhat pleasant workout, unless it's pouring rain or the bike path is bad.
Even if you enjoy driving you want more trains rather than roads - less other cars = better for you!
Thanks for the reminder that travel by train can be much more enjoyable then travel by car. That was my experience too when I decided to take the train from Luxembourg via Liege/Maastricht to Amsterdam and back a week later. I decided that this time I would not take the Blabla car.
I travelled from London to Hamburg last September for a convention. Price by train was the same as flying with the luggage I had, so the obvious choice was to go by train. It was surprisingly straightforward! Didn't regret it at all, even with DB delays. If I go again, unless Eurostar is outlandishly expensive, I don't think flying is even on the cards.
DB International's journey planner is extremely good especially if you're touching Railteam international services and/or DB. e.g. You can add additional interchange time in mins or hours when booking advance tickets if you, say, want to spend a couple of hours in Cologne for lunch.
Also, my luggage I was taking to the convention was worth a lot of money (custom mascot costume) so not having to stress whether my luggage made it on the same aircraft is good too :D
most unexpected collab ever, i love both of these channels and the little breaks that we got to see the museum exhibits. I used to be super obsessed with dinosaurs when I was little and it's cool to see that you did this with your kid, i'm sure it was super fun for him and definitely helped develop his passion for paleontology.
I learnt the word "smilodon" long before I learnt English. I had never linked it to "smile". Thanks for the new neurone connection.
When you mentioned problems with the Deutsche Bahn, my mind immediately jumped to memories of "Tag across europe" from Jet Lag: The Game.
Seeing the same connection being made in the video was great!
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Sad fact: No new highest passenger record for DB since its privatization.
😢😉
The US just started spending money on getting high speed rail.
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As an american im like only twice as much road spending as rail and this is considered bad service. u got enough trains to easily rebook. Like in america amtrack might give u 4 trains a day and the freight rail companies refuse to maintain their shit and run giant trains that cant fit into sidings so even if an amtrak train could go faster on a line the rails and archaic signaling cant support it and there is a good chance the raill will be blocked for an hour by a gaint freight train.
Of all the channel crossovers, this is definitely one of the most unexpected.
Humans really should have put more evolution points into the "tolerate mass transit" tree.
I loved the one in Brussels. We visited it with school back when I was 9 or 10 and until recently had no clue where it actually was. About a year ago my girlfriend and I made a little train trip to Brussels and decided to visit the museum of natual history. I was super excited to instantly recognise everything there because I can finally place that core memory on the map and connect it to my world.
I have this thing where every destination I went to as a kid by car (or bus) kind of feels like it's floating somewhere in an empty void because nothing connects the places I know to those destinations. That's massively changing by travelling by train and bike now that I'm out of the house.
I work night shift and it's currently 4am here in Australia so new NJB is exactly what I needed for a little pick me up!
They recently showed a documentary about the shortcomings of European railways on Dutch public TV. At one point, the crew was aboard a European Sleeper carriage at a trainyard in Belgium conducting an interview with one of the founders (who was there doing pre-departure inspections) when he suddenly got a call informing him the service would have to be canceled for the first time. Can't help but wonder if that was your train now, lol.
"VPRO Tegenlicht - Europa spoort niet" in case you want to see it.
The comparison of train travel to other forms of transport was spot on. Trains and Ferries are such a nice way to get about, that speed becomes secondary. Other people just shrug it off, when I get asked why I took the train here or there.
And thanks for the summary of the problems currently in germany and also presenting the solutions. You have to be a bit knowledgable, but the system is at least resilient. I could always get home on that day.
Thank you for including the parasaurolophus sound! Didn't a Japanese team 3D-print the skull several years back? i always thought the sound would be a honk...
As a german (commuter?) without watching the video I think I know exactly what's going to happen
edit: I freaking knew it, although honestly I expected worse
edit(2): very long explanation, you have been warned:
the problem with the rail network is that a specific region in NRW (german state) has had a lot of unconnected railtracks and systems (partially because of the old industries) all leading into a couple overcrowded stations which don't have enough space to expand because of monumental protection and other important buildings right next to the stations. Because of that trains have to wait to enter and exit the stations which eats up time. One solution which is in progress since years is to remove old tracks to clear space for new interconnected ones. That is at least one of the reasons why rails and stations are getting removed at the moment resulting in negative numbers. It's a similar situation for our rails as for American Highways.
That sadly also means that any train going through this region has a delay of 20 to 50 minutes depending on the time of day and route and sometimes trains get cancelled so that other trains can get through the stations faster.
Interesting to hear that. The removal of tracks was a phenomenon all over germany though. Closing tracks was because everything should be focused on car infrastructure.
@@Alina_Schmidt I am mostly familiar with the situation in the ruhrgebiet and cities in that area, there might still be a lot of different reasons for delays and track removal in different parts of Germany. Just some inside knowledge from school and the life of a train enthusiast...
The bonuses of travelling on a train can be felt even on shorter trips. I take the GO to visit my family and those rides are usually 30-45 min and even in that short of a time frame, I still enjoy the extra leg room, the ability to move around and having half-decent scenery that I'm able to look at (highways rarely have interesting sights but even if they do, I'm driving so I can't enjoy them anyway).
Also, loved the random shade on Rowling and the British Museum. A+, would watch and laugh again
Damnit, I thought this video was going to include TierZoo talking about trains, and even go into a "which would win" scenario between dinosaurs and trains, if they somehow "lived" at the same time (yes, I know modern day birds are dinosaurs, but that wouldn't be the same, man).
Like, wouldn't it be awesome to talk about the evolutionary traits of trains, and why they exist today (if going extinct...) when T-Rexes don't?
I gotta say, I wasn’t expecting a collab between these two, but that doesn’t make it any less perfect.
The route Berlin - Netherlands is basically my commute :). In order of worst to best way to take this route:
6. Car: most definitely will arrive tired of sitting and fearing death on the Autobahn for 5 hours straight (very German bf driving). Nothing else can be done that day anymore but sleep.
5. Plane: the stress of indeed waiting and running is just bad. Also the amount of transitions needed (s bahn train plane train) is a lot. Making the difference in traveltime minimal. Good for the stepcount tho.
4. ICE nighttrain. I prefer nighttravel as explained below.. But this one.. I mean its safe and all. But because anybody can pass you and I never seem to get the seat adjusted it is very difficult sleeping. Also doesn’t help that Deutsche Bahn maintains a hospital light ambiance the whole ride..
3. Intercity Berlin: I mean its fine. But its during the day. Since I take this route a lot I prefer using that time the most productive 😄.
2. Flix Nightbus: I have my steady seats (2). Get on at a station convenient for me. Sleepy time. Amazing!
1. EUROPEAN SLEEPER: too bad you didn’t get to experience it. The most expensive way for me to take this route. But o its so worth it. My own space. Very comfortable. No other way of travel beats it. I actually look forward to my commute whenever I book the sleeper train!
We just took a train trip from Graz to Vienna and back. Our kid LOOOOOOOOOVED it. He is enamored by trains beyond words.
In Vienna, we had to stay in the U Bahn station for 15 minutes longer just so that he would watch and call for the trains coming in and then wave them goodbye when they left the station.
And between the two directions, one was coming in every minute.
Of course, on a train, we plenty of room, he can walk around whenever he wants, he plays "hide and seek/pick-a-boo" with folks around instead of just sitting strapped up in a seat from which he can barely see anything.
I don't have to drive and deal with all the hassles of it etc
And this route can actually even be cheaper than driving, if you pick your schedule right, you can get a return ticket for 20 euros :D
Trains awe awesome
We have the same problem here in Sweden too. Decades of neglect has left the train network in despair. Of course, the new government just recently slashed some projects that were meant to alleviate it.
These NJB collabs have been so good! It's also nice to know that Jason is a fellow megatherium fan
I just wish international trains in europe were cheaper... Sure 75 euro for the eurostar to london isn't unaffordable, but it's not really that comparable when ryanair sells return tickets from eindhoven to london as low as 35 euro sometimes
Yeah, I wonder how that is even possible. They do take freight on those flights and not on the trains, but is that what makes the difference?
@@Kris_M ryanair actually sometimes sells tickets at a loss because all the "upgrades" people buy with it (extra bags, refundability, seat choice, food in the plane, ect...) makes up for the passengers that don't pay for anything extra. They also stuff their planes with the maximum capacity allowed
Still doesn't change the fact that it's the cheapest way to go from the netherlands to england though, and train unfortunately aren't even close in competing price wise
The negative externalities of these cheap flights are huge. The solution is not hard: emissions from flights require EU allowances. EU can lower the issue of allowances which would drive up prices of allowances and make flights more expensive, transferring the cost of the externalities to the consumer.
Also, consumers should make better choices. EUR150 for return ticket on comfortable train VS EUR35 + bagage fee, transportation fee to town etc in shit airports and on shit plane. And the latter being much worse for the world. Should be an obvious choice to most.
@@markachternaam5207most people don't really care about that because it's only for an hour. If you don't have to bring a carry on and your clothes can fit in the "personal item" size, it's a lot cheaper to fly a lot of the time
I've taken one train and that one train was far less stressful than any flight I've ever had. There was even a point where I had the entire train car to myself for a good couple hours before my stop which is such a beautiful contrast to being absolutely jammed in like sardines shoulder to shoulder like most flights are unless you spring for first class
"There's nothing better than a train trip" Agreed. I exclusively used trains (and a bus in edinburgh) for my exchange semester in Edinburgh. Was already a train guy before that so using trains was a plan of mine from the start. Went from Frankfurt, Germany to Edinburgh Scotland. Sometimes I think the train trips I had were more fun than the actual exchange semester haha. Might be a bit over the top but I certainly really liked my trip via train. Sometimes I thought it was almost too fast too. "Only 3h from Frankfurt to Brussels and only 2h to London? How am I gonna read all my manga and watch movies in that time?" Still, I'll probably never say no to having an even faster option via train(!! dont care about planes at all lol).
Always had good internet (except on the Eurostar even outside the tunnel) which allowed me to play games on my laptop on my way back home.
Honestly it was such a great time. Made me think about how I hate sitting in a car for even just 1h and not even driving myself but love using a train for multiple hours no problem.
Love your Dutch accent in German xD
What's even funnier is that he spoke German before learning Dutch & certainly in the beginning he had a German accent when speaking Dutch. Apparently that's now reversed?
Finally, a sequel to Dinosaur Train!
Between this collab of Not Just Bikes and TierZoo, and that Jet Lag reference, this is like a triple threat of my favourites in one video
As someone living in Brussels for more than 20 years, I can"t wait to see your video explaining how things changed (and how they might keep changing). The surroundings of the Bourse is way better now, as shown in your video. Also I'm really happy you didn't show the area around the Gare du Midi, what a shame it is... Great video, and it was nice to see TierZoo!
Deutsche Bahn is as per usual, Deutsche Bahning with those delays
Ayy I love TierZoo!
What a great collab
"Until we tried to get to Germany"
I live in Enschede, I occasionally travel to Poland.
Through Germany.
Yeah. I feel it.
I have the same issue with DB right now! I’m leaving for vacation in Austria soon, and yesterday I got the message that one of the trains on that route is canceled, and now I’m in full blown panic mode, searching what other trains on that route I can take
There is also something else going on with the DB. The State basically said to the DB "we will repair tracks with taxpayer money if they are close to breaking". So the DB does the 'natural' thing and evades minor repairs and letting infrastructure go into disrepair so the state jumps in.
*facepalm*