When a normal conductor loses his cool, he keeps making mistakes, making it impossible for him to keep up. But this guy’s different... the hotter he runs, the faster he goes.
actually the only way the train could've been drifting is hitting the breaks and using the force of the cars/trailers to push the train off to the side and then pulling forward to have the cars/trailers pull back on the train to force it the other way. given they still had some traction it would work.
“Why are the tracks underwater?!” “Why doesn’t the train break the ice?!” Because now we get to see the single greatest drifting scene in all of cinema, that’s why.
Bro the train is magical, is very explicit in the movie They doing impossible things is not a valid critic Is like saying superman is unrealistic because flying like like he does is impossible to a normal human being
Environmental change or rise and lows of lakes. One days it was dry flat land, build the rails and done. Years later, heavy rain flooded the place, high dam built and the water went here, global warming, or etc.
I just now realized that the conductor intentionally bunched the train up mid drift to condense the weight so they’d be heavy enough to crack the ice. He did it so they’d be able to hit the rails on the the other side of the frozen lake before going through the narrow pass 🤯🤯🤯
Average maglev: -relies on magnets -not from industrial revolution -can’t drift Average steam train: -doesn’t rely on magnets is from industrial revolution -can drift
0:43 I just noticed how satisfying it is that the camera is almost completely stationary, letting the train come to us, before it fixates closely on that boss lever pull. Chef's kiss 👌
seriously though, this engineer deserves a fucking Medal of Honor for drifting a *FUCKING 400,000 POUND TRAIN ACROSS A FROZEN LAKE INTO A CANYON MORE NARROW THAN AN ASS CRACK.*
I assume the insides are magic'd to not feel anything, it's why the train can go over tracks that bend/speed the cars to ridiculous degrees yet don't need seatbelts or anything. Now what they were seeing outside of the windows probably had them shook lmao
The know-it-all kid was kinda explaining what happened when the other kids finally went back to their seats. Although it didn’t seem as intense and the other kids didn’t seem all that phased
The driver and conductor were amazing, but lets give the guy with a shovel some credit too, dude didnt miss a single shovel load despite the train constantly changing direction and he had to walk out to the second car each time
Polar Express fireman is underrated. How he could go from the cab to the tender and back to shovel coal into the firebox during all that hellishness, is only on par with Shaggy
yes, and also In my small amateur experience I've decided that things tend to work better if you already have the audio and plan editing around the audio. Especially with action. You want the dance in-beat instead of being that awkward guy arrhythmically flailing his arms in the corner.
When I first saw this scene in the movie as a child, it was that moment I started to be obsessed with the idea of being on a train. I still have never been on one and I just want to be on one more and more lol
They do give train rides still it's not like trains aren't obsolete the railroad business is thriving still actually just gotta find a station and some tracks and get some tickets sides I been on a train plenty of times and it's amazing I like taking the train sadly there's no more trains where I'm from that will take passengers but I will have fond memories of it
@@Turles811Come to Poland then. We still have passenger trains here. They won't disappear anytime soon if ever. We Polish people are very fond of keeping our traditions. Steam trains are still active here too.
Riding the train is incredibly relaxing to me if I can find a day when it's not busy and I can just sit alone and look out the window. The views are always so beautiful. It's a special feeling. Much better than a car.
All 3 of the men were very brave in trying to control the situation, the stoker is the name of the position in which a person shovels coal into the flames to keep the engine running and I can only imagine how much coal this burned off lol... The conductor is the dude on top of the train shouting orders (not irl of course, they manage the activities and passengers on a train) and the engineer is the one who physically controls the train.
I mean, it didn’t crack under the weight of an entire freaking passenger train that weighs several tons put on the pressure of that part of the wheel that keeps it aligned with the track
@@masterdragon2698 The reason to why it didn't crack is because the ice was perfectly capable of keeping the train on top of it. Only when the ice was cracked by the little rod piece is what caused it to buckle under the weight
Being the Drift King means that you're skilled in drifting all manner of vehicles on all kinds of terrain. That engineer is the real Drift King. You can tell this isn't the first time he's had to do this.
The engineer: “If the tracks became frozen under the ice, I might have a little trouble.” Conductor: “So you wouldn’t make it on time?” Engineer: “Nah, I’d be early.”
No problems like what is beauty but practical problems, like what happens when you drive your train onto a frozen lake. Answer. Use drift. And if that dont work. Use more drift
Lets not forget to give credit to the guy feeding the train a constant supply of coal, this sort of drifting was probably disintegrating coal like no ones business.
i have pretty bad insomnia and when i dont feel like playing games i just play around with stuff in video editor. I put together and uploaded this eurobeat meme on a whim and had absolutely no idea it would become popular, and once it did I uploaded a few others. My only intention was to share something that I enjoyed, to share an idea that I thought was cool.
I can't remember if this movie was actually good or not, but it's the only movie I think I'll ever see with a train drifting on ice while Tom Hanks dabs on top of it. Absolutely magical.
@@bush3126 Bro ofc I know what the movie is, and just because its a nostalgic classic doesn't mean it might be as good as I remember (Tbh as a kid I knew this movie was fucking weird). But this scene is fascinating lmao.
In all seriousness, can we just take a moment to appreciate the Engineer? He was able to navigate a derailed train, turning it around even, across an actively breaking ice lake. That is some skill.
I like this scene cause it's not JUST the conductor doing this. He's calling directions but the engineer has to pull the right levers and whatnot to actually get it to do what needs to be done. They're both necessary for this to work
00:50 and 00:58 . According to the speed of the pistons moving in the beginning on the ice...the loc is moving about 85-100mph (137 - 161km/h).... ON ICE
That's not even factoring in the fucking absurd grip strength he and those kids had at the start of the video, especially considering how icy those handrails must've been.
This is a movie about the magic of Christmas. And the most magical thing is managing to successfully drift a fully functional passenger train with no injuries or casualties
Some guy: Ha! You called him fat Engineer: You seem to not realise that fat stands for Fucking Amazing Train. Now say it alongside my profession... Some guy: F-Fucking Amazing Train Engineer... Engineer: You're god damn right.
In my opinion I'd say the Sierra Nevada No. 3 is the most iconic. It's literally nicknamed the Movie Star engine, due to it's appearances in so many shows and movies.
Some facts about the train driver: - When he was 11 years old he decided he was going to live alone and his parents moved to another house - He lost his virginity before his parents - He helped his parents give birth to him - When he was in school the teachers would raise their hand to talk to him - The train driver once missed two days of school. Those days became known as Saturday and Sunday. - Whenever the train driver had a doctor's appointment, he was the one asking questions and the doctors would tell him what their symptoms were
It's the frantic, coordinated, practiced machine operation from the engineer...and the fact he's steering a machine that by design DOES NOT TYPICALLY HAVE ANY KIND OF STEERING MECHANISM. All the wheel-locking and reversing should be absolutely disastrous for an engine like that.
this was the only part of the movie that I liked. the animation's extremely uncanny and creepy, and the movie's pretty forgettable and doesn't have any relatable characters. the actual train itself was somewhat alluring though, and it was cool to see it survive and make it to the other side of the lake
They deserve fricking medals. The engineer for driving a 400,000lbs 4-8-4 on a frozen lake with no track into a narrow ass canyon,, the conductor for guiding him to it, and the fireman for keeping the boiler hotter than the blazes of hell itself
@@Nomanjj I agree because I'm part Russian and what he said pissed me off because I'm straight and part russian and I see this and I'm like wtf dude not cool
@@eamonnduensing6153 his jealousy burns deep within he only sees the flaws of his people and only sees the strength of other peoples nations he needs to open his eyes and see the wonder of every race
Yes so was the gargantuan amount of shaking and drifting every single person would have felt as the train both drifts plus slithers like a snake toward that canyon AND the drop onto the tracks
The Conductor and Engineer just tag-team drifted a mufuggin’ steam engine with a full load of _extremely precious cargo_ over an iced lake into a point the width of a person with _surgical_ precision and we’re only just starting to realize this now
If you can't drift a 700,000 pound steam locomotive with 5 coaches attached to it, you're not a real drifter. Edit: I want to mention that I'm including the tender as well.
The driver is easily one of the most badass characters in fiction history. The fact that he can drift a steam engine controlled solely by levers, with several passenger cars attached and perfectly allign it with the tracks at the end is insane. Also props to the guy shovelling the coal while everyone else would fucking fly off the train without holding on.
So no one is going to appreciate the fact that the train conductor was the real hero of this movie not only saving a train full of children but also managing to get them to the North Pole to meet Santa on time
The train driver is a legendary and mysterious character that we didn't even know his name. With this potential, you can be one of the best if not the best driver in animation history.
Imma be *that one guy* but physics here are everything but accurate to something. Ice having enough thickness and strenght to support a +750tons train? Metal train wheels having enough adherence/grip on wet ice? dRiFtInG a WhOlE tRaIn UsInG oNlY fOrWaRd/ReVeRsE? Single metal pin cracks ice yet train going +80mph hitting the ice does barely anything?
@@ThomasG2-Chuklenuts Actually, part of me felt like this is possible. At least 40% of physics can be accurate, hear me out: To set things out, since Polar Express is a magical train, it can have up to 20 passenger cars in some scenes, but usually, it's just 5 passenger cars like the frozen lake scene shown. That know-it-all nerd kid mentioned in the film that this "Baldwin 2-8-4 S-3 class Berkshire type steam locomotive" weighs 456,100 pounds, or 200+ tons, so it's still a lot of mass. I'm not sure how this mass is going to distribute on 62 wheels given with the cars, but based on charts and the train's area coverage, a 2-3 meters thick ice can actually hold up 200+ tons. (I also have seen videos of a 100+ tons cargo plane landing on antartica ice, but you'll have to search the video for that). Counter-arguments I can think of is that lakes don't have 2 meters thick ice, or that could be wrong lol. Metal train wheels do suffer from grip, but since train wheels can have these sharp outer rims, it can plant into the ice like ice skaters in this sense. But most importantly, as long as there's some grip, and the wheels spin fast enough, you can actually get going, but I'm not going to do the math for that, mainly because, I don't know lol. One interesting counter-argument is that while the wheels can have grip, the entire train's power only comes from the 4 pairs of drive wheel on the steam engine car thing, and it would be difficult to achieve the accelerations shown in the scene if these drive wheels have less grip, less downforce to plant the power, and pulling 200 tons of weight. I would say that a lot of weight transferring and momentum are used when the train performs the 180 spin and aligning to the exit. Sadly there's no sources on how drifting on trains work, and also mainly that there's no steering wheels on a train. So I guess it wasn't really possible, but hey, have to say that the momentum of the train looks very realistic, and the way that the passenger cars trail behind, which might also contribute to the weight transferring/momentum of the entire train. The train may be traveling at high speed, but since it's not going 80mph straight into the ice, but traveling on the surface, there's no extra forces produced downwards to the ice other than the 200 tons gravity, and some frictional force. The pin indeed cannot crack open 2-meter thick ice, although one argument I can make is that ice layer thickness can be irregular, and maybe the pin just happen to land on a very thin layer of ice, as in 3 inches or so, but that would be impossible. So, 40% physically accurate, I would say quite better than some other movies out there, since physics was never the main concern. I never watched star wars though so I can't compare it.
Director: So we need some filler content that isn't boring. Writer: Another song? Director: There already is one, this ain't a musical. Writer: Well the throttle jammed, so how about we have the train loose control on ice? Director: Great! Animator (crying in corner): please stop
"Think about it. Some gearheads got their hands on a steam train, put tracks on it and slapped a huge fuck all cannon to the front, and they use it to siege encampments by drifting and firing HE, why? Because these particular raiders have a coal mine. Not exactly gas but you've got to make do, right?" Ill do you one better, look up the lombard steam log hauler.
ah well, that's not quite.. At the very least out of the ones I looked at the bpm, loopability, and emotional impact worked the best. Music needs to match whats going on in a sort of a dance, otherwise its just noise you filter out
This scene is objectively incredibly stupid but it's just so fucking awesome that it gets more than a pass, it gets an award.
BREEEEEEAD
Suddenly remembered this video eh?
Oh again!?
1 DAY AGo?????
waow 1 day ago
I love the fact that someone thought a kid's christmas movie should include drifting a steam train across ice as an action theme
it isn't a bad idea.
twas a brilliant idea actually
Yep
This scene is the main reason I watch this thing to this day
Hey, it's certainly kept me entertained
Big smoke:"All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ!"
The train:
No wonder he can't do it
Underrated
and that is why it was not Cjs falt.
HAHAHAXD
True
When a normal conductor loses his cool, he keeps making mistakes, making it impossible for him to keep up. But this guy’s different... the hotter he runs, the faster he goes.
Joldsaway nice initial d reference
Intial D reference I like it
This race is over, Shingo
@@InitiateDee *RAGE YOUR DREAM INTENSIFIES
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"This may be a magic train, but what you're seeing here is all human skill."
Magnificent. Humans truly have peaked
Rsrs
The train driver has skills to pay the bills
This is not magic, this is our school bus driver...
Indeed, that train engineer is the real mvp.
Because of it's design, a normal steam engine can't multi track drift.
Polar Express: Screw the tracks then
You realize it's unrealistic? It's a Cartoon.
HOLY SH'T
Makia bruh It’s a joke
actually the only way the train could've been drifting is hitting the breaks and using the force of the cars/trailers to push the train off to the side and then pulling forward to have the cars/trailers pull back on the train to force it the other way. given they still had some traction it would work.
Makia R/wooooooooosh
“Why are the tracks underwater?!”
“Why doesn’t the train break the ice?!”
Because now we get to see the single greatest drifting scene in all of cinema, that’s why.
What about Eggsy's London drift in Kingsmen 2?
@@Titan14you cannot simply compare that with this here
the ice did break tho
@@matthewhamilton9292 the train didn't break the ice first but a metal stick(idk what that thing is) break the ice.
@@darrickkoko2987if it was a part of the train it's still technically the train
Is this scene ridiculous? Yes
Is this unrealistic? Yes
Is this scene still amazing and very much cherished? YES
Bro the train is magical, is very explicit in the movie
They doing impossible things is not a valid critic
Is like saying superman is unrealistic because flying like like he does is impossible to a normal human being
@@cristianiiv6418 He wasn't criticising, he was being realistic while still being positive.
@@cristianiiv6418to be fair nobody has tried driving a locomotive on ice so the realistic argument is purely theoretical
@@dionjaywoollaston1349 I like this outlook, but let's drift one for science!
Staff: “It’s impossible”
Conductor: “No, it’s necessary”
nlol, executive memer now I want No Time For Caution over this scene
*Interstellar music intensifies
Not probable
COME ON KIDDD
I tried to replace TARS with the name of the boy, but I don't think he was given a name in the movie.
Philosophy 100
The train driver is overqualified for this job.
Considering the circumstances, I think they’re just qualified enough
What's your job? I'm a train racing driver. Wdy mean for train racing driver? The train:RUNNING IN THE 90s
@@DrMissJess lol - exactly, how's there a question?
More like overqualified for life
@Nicholas Olesen tf dude
This is why they didn't bother with making a rail bridge over this lake.
It looks liem the tracks went into the lake
So the lake didnt exist before?
It's a test to weed out those who are not worthy
Environmental change or rise and lows of lakes.
One days it was dry flat land, build the rails and done.
Years later, heavy rain flooded the place, high dam built and the water went here, global warming, or etc.
Are you guys really questioning why a rail that previously had a vertical drop followed by a vertical climb up a mountain also goes through a lake
Some can explain with physics but some cannot because of anime logic
I just now realized that the conductor intentionally bunched the train up mid drift to condense the weight so they’d be heavy enough to crack the ice. He did it so they’d be able to hit the rails on the the other side of the frozen lake before going through the narrow pass 🤯🤯🤯
nice
@@battlecruiserna do you just come back out of nowhere nice
*That's actually frickin insane*
thats actually an insane detail
10,000 IQ play 🥶🥶🥶
I'm impressed how the weight of the conductor's balls didn't cause the train to sink into the ice
If not even his own weight did it, I don't know what else would
It almost did!
@@luisfelipegoncalves4977 the kids
That joke is golden and deserves to be saved for the future generations
@@bro2390 which one
Average maglev:
-relies on magnets
-not from industrial revolution
-can’t drift
Average steam train:
-doesn’t rely on magnets
is from industrial revolution
-can drift
Maglevs can technically drift on a large magnetic field, they just use the magnetic rails to hit those high speeds.
Yupppp
Maglevs: new
Steam: still used to this day
MAGLEV ENgineers: Press buttons and pull handles.
Steam Engineers: Masters of the Engine and the rails.
Steam trains were used alot for passengers to but these trains were fucking torque beasts I think they put out more than a deasil train
Society: YoU nEEd tRAcks tO dIrVE A trIAN.
Conductor: Observe.
Better phrase: Hold my coco!
Crystalwatcher cocoa*
@@StupidStuff62 Thank you
Crystalwatcher np
Observe,Adapt,Overcome
0:43 I just noticed how satisfying it is that the camera is almost completely stationary, letting the train come to us, before it fixates closely on that boss lever pull. Chef's kiss 👌
Cinematics as its maximum
0:41 most majestic and freaking epic dab in all of human history
Ikr
Y E P
The rare "actually warranted" dab.
Truly majestic.
Lmfao dab on steam train
TheDark Force tha best oof
seriously though, this engineer deserves a fucking Medal of Honor for drifting a *FUCKING 400,000 POUND TRAIN ACROSS A FROZEN LAKE INTO A CANYON MORE NARROW THAN AN ASS CRACK.*
Some Guy on UA-cam
And for completing that reverse entry
Some Guy on UA-cam
B-but.. The locomotive itself weighs more than 130 tons...
Railwaytube
Who cares, it's still quite the accomplishment
The whole train weighs around 30 million tonnes...
DanKop Just like *your mum?*
I'm sorry, i just had to.
Now i know why CJ couldnt follow the damn train
The Maniac i was playing this damn mission yesterday, damn cj
Who made the achievement "better than cj" in the mission with the train on gta5?
So cj steel a bus and ua-cam.com/video/w0gMRiLhZUg/v-deo.html
Cause the train was fucking drifting on the ice.
This train is level 100 mafia boss
it's a damn shame we never saw what the other kids are going through on the inside of the cars.
I assume the insides are magic'd to not feel anything, it's why the train can go over tracks that bend/speed the cars to ridiculous degrees yet don't need seatbelts or anything. Now what they were seeing outside of the windows probably had them shook lmao
The know-it-all kid was kinda explaining what happened when the other kids finally went back to their seats. Although it didn’t seem as intense and the other kids didn’t seem all that phased
@@d.n.3652 *You mean the* 🤓
Maybe they are thrown around Inside
I think it’s that russian car video with a couple guys bouncing inside but make that a train car with more people and 100x more intensity
The driver and conductor were amazing, but lets give the guy with a shovel some credit too, dude didnt miss a single shovel load despite the train constantly changing direction and he had to walk out to the second car each time
And if he did, they all would have fallen into the ice.
Absolute Mad Lad
Dude was more chill than the other engineer
@@GarthTheMighty wat
Polar Express fireman is underrated. How he could go from the cab to the tender and back to shovel coal into the firebox during all that hellishness, is only on par with Shaggy
This is a true example of "music sets the tone of the scene"
yes, and also In my small amateur experience I've decided that things tend to work better if you already have the audio and plan editing around the audio. Especially with action. You want the dance in-beat instead of being that awkward guy arrhythmically flailing his arms in the corner.
It's tense in the actual movie (Thanks, Alan Silvestri), but this is legitimately hysterical.
original music : We will gonna die
this music : Im the most badass train driver ever
@@battlecruiserna This guy gets it
true dat
Thomas the Tank Engine: “Was my father a great steam engine?”
The Fat Controller: “ *He was the best* ”
This is now canon
I ifeel so much proudness right now!
This is now canon
This is now canon
"The Fat Controller" an accurate name for Sir Topinhat
7 years later and it's still a masterpiece.
Great to se another veteran of the 2016 meme-scape
69th like here
For a second I thought you were talking about the movie and got super confused.
500th like by yours truly ;)
You know the most savage thing about this train drift is that they do it every year because its a scheduled route...
Well, this time the pin caused it to be dangerous
If you do the math right, this guy has drifted more times than any character on initial D. He...IS THE DRIFT GOD!
Its part of the tour XD
Otaku Railfan yeah! Its totally normal to see Pe're Marquette locomotive drift like a toyota trueno apex. Totally normal! 👌
i want to see the one time when the lake hasn't frozen over!
That guy is just amazing,drifting something that doesn't have steering
All that is ok ...but he had time for cho cho
Skilled Drifters do not require left and right
Especially Engineers
Physics: "You cant drift a train!"
The engineer: "Hold my beer"
The people who made this part hummmm well skateboards do this
This looks way crazier than Mario Kart!
Big Smoke : *"All We Had To Do Was Follow The Damn Train CJ"*
Also The Train :
Lmao
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Mission Failed: The train has been sunk!
Can't catch up with this train
When I first saw this scene in the movie as a child, it was that moment I started to be obsessed with the idea of being on a train. I still have never been on one and I just want to be on one more and more lol
go for it
They do give train rides still it's not like trains aren't obsolete the railroad business is thriving still actually just gotta find a station and some tracks and get some tickets sides I been on a train plenty of times and it's amazing I like taking the train sadly there's no more trains where I'm from that will take passengers but I will have fond memories of it
@@Turles811Come to Poland then. We still have passenger trains here. They won't disappear anytime soon if ever. We Polish people are very fond of keeping our traditions. Steam trains are still active here too.
@@LukiKruki I might have to one day I honestly always wanted to drive one of them giant locomotives
Riding the train is incredibly relaxing to me if I can find a day when it's not busy and I can just sit alone and look out the window. The views are always so beautiful. It's a special feeling. Much better than a car.
Universal Pictures: "We've run out of ideas for Fast & Furious"
Vin Diesel: (gets recommended this) "I have an idea"
LAMEZOR hahaha this got pinned and it was commented 4 hours ago lolol
Nice
you have been chosen
Well all be coming back here when FF20 comes out and they’re pulling this shit off
Lmao
I am amazed to see that the ice doesn't even crack by the weight of the conductor's massive balls of steel.
All 3 of the men were very brave in trying to control the situation, the stoker is the name of the position in which a person shovels coal into the flames to keep the engine running and I can only imagine how much coal this burned off lol... The conductor is the dude on top of the train shouting orders (not irl of course, they manage the activities and passengers on a train) and the engineer is the one who physically controls the train.
I mean, it didn’t crack under the weight of an entire freaking passenger train that weighs several tons put on the pressure of that part of the wheel that keeps it aligned with the track
@@masterdragon2698 The reason to why it didn't crack is because the ice was perfectly capable of keeping the train on top of it. Only when the ice was cracked by the little rod piece is what caused it to buckle under the weight
LOL
im sure it was the brakes
*MULTI-GLACIER DRIFTING!*
The Guy above me needs some recognition .
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The Guy Yo
This Guy O shit waddup
Being the Drift King means that you're skilled in drifting all manner of vehicles on all kinds of terrain. That engineer is the real Drift King. You can tell this isn't the first time he's had to do this.
"I'm the Drift King. I've drifted so hard that I've drifted into another world. I will become the Drift God. This is my Story" The light novel
The engineer: “If the tracks became frozen under the ice, I might have a little trouble.”
Conductor: “So you wouldn’t make it on time?”
Engineer: “Nah, I’d be early.”
"THEY CALLED ME THE DRIFT KING BACK IN COLLEGE,
AND YOU WILL NEVER OVERPASS ME!"
*"Hey look buddy... I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems."*
No problems like what is beauty but practical problems, like what happens when you drive your train onto a frozen lake. Answer. Use drift. And if that dont work. Use more drift
chairit the kitty eyy
@@Imthepinesinthetrees Jesus christ this took some coordination
You see, 100 ton train built by me, made by me, and you best hope,
*Not drifted at you*
@@Shisnobi or something like this: like this 100 ton train right here. Built by me, designed by me, and you best hope...
Without you in it.
As a kid I never realized how cool the driver was.
Honestly same
Lmao same. I always ignored this scene honestly. then it popped up in my reccomended. Now I only want to watch this.
Yes
Agh yes it's all so cool!
Fav scene
Its funny seeing just how well running in the 90s fits with this scene, imagine if this played in the theaters, everyone wouldve loved it!
Facts
The audience: I’m just running in the 90’s
It fits with any action scene
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you got 666 likes lol
I would’ve lost my shit if it played in the theater
Lets not forget to give credit to the guy feeding the train a constant supply of coal, this sort of drifting was probably disintegrating coal like no ones business.
That was Smokey.
Alien 1: should we invade this planet?
Alien 2: nah, they're clearly superior
Alien 1: and why are they superior
Alien 2: they drifted a fucking 500 tons train
Alien1: mad lads.
@@iroblix6199 k
Well we're clearly not superior if it comes to laying the tracks for our trains...
Who the f**k even designed this track?
@@jebkerman5422 ....
Not my fault, Tucker did it.
Cpt. Caboose it’s not my fault, big jimmy did it and fell through the ice
This man wanted to create a meme, but in the end he created a masterpiece.
i have pretty bad insomnia and when i dont feel like playing games i just play around with stuff in video editor. I put together and uploaded this eurobeat meme on a whim and had absolutely no idea it would become popular, and once it did I uploaded a few others. My only intention was to share something that I enjoyed, to share an idea that I thought was cool.
@@battlecruiserna Fucking gigachad holy
@@battlecruiserna kino
@@battlecruiserna llll
It's all just luck
I can't remember if this movie was actually good or not, but it's the only movie I think I'll ever see with a train drifting on ice while Tom Hanks dabs on top of it. Absolutely magical.
Lol
Exactly
This is a classic my man, polar express.
@@bush3126 Bro ofc I know what the movie is, and just because its a nostalgic classic doesn't mean it might be as good as I remember (Tbh as a kid I knew this movie was fucking weird). But this scene is fascinating lmao.
It's too bad it got 56% rotten tomatoes.
Fast and furious characters: We are the best in drifting
This train driver : Hold my BIG BOY 🥱
Vin Diesel saw him when he was a kid and decided he wanted to be him.
"That's gotta be the best conductor I've ever seen"
So it would seem
@@insertname7750 damn it
So it would seem
@@insertname7750 didnt even check the comments, just typed it out and checked after.
Hundredth like
In all seriousness, can we just take a moment to appreciate the Engineer? He was able to navigate a derailed train, turning it around even, across an actively breaking ice lake.
That is some skill.
And then you remember they do this every year, which makes it even more awesome!
It's not just some skill, it's THE skill.
and the fireman for shoveling the coal without falling off the train
Engineer: Bunta Fujiwara
@@marxxplaysgames They drive this route every year, but it doesn't usually go wrong like this.
This is just a love letter to the stoker and engineer, let's be honest here.
yes
the vid is on a loop
This expression sux
I like this scene cause it's not JUST the conductor doing this. He's calling directions but the engineer has to pull the right levers and whatnot to actually get it to do what needs to be done. They're both necessary for this to work
00:50 and 00:58 . According to the speed of the pistons moving in the beginning on the ice...the loc is moving about 85-100mph (137 - 161km/h).... ON ICE
Damn he pinned this
He pinned this 15 minutes ago meaning he still is active on a video he posted 4 years ago
@@rudyvychodil623 damn right, hello mister creator!!!
Cool
For those that use Metric that's the equivalent of 137-161 KM.
*Virgin Snowpiercer Train:* gets demolished by an avalanche
*Chad Polar Express:* watch me casually drift on ice
Doesn't Snowpiercer plow through walls of ice? 😅
@@crash4267that's because the walls are in the way of the train.
A avalanche derails it.
@zcgamerandreacts2762 actually, snowpiercer 2.0 will go through avalanches
Snowpiercer is lowkey the shittiest sci-fi/post apocalyptic series I have ever seen.
@@M1551NGN0 bad opinion
"noooooo! you cant ride a train without tracks everyone will die!"
"haha train go choochoo"
*train go running in the 90s
YOU NEED TRACKERINOS
MOU OSOI DORIFUTO TAIMU
My favourite comment on this vid
NO TRACK DRIFTING
This is arguably the best action scene in history, from a Christmas movie, about a magic train.
It's soo badass inarguably
Imagine just casually hiking when you see a passenger train drifting on the lakes ice
Mind blown
lol
How would even hike at that time
And it's full of nothing but children.
thats cool
Look, the engineer got knocked on his butt, but boy howdy did the man regain control of the situation. Solid hire.
Make videos please
Mad respect for the recovery
*cue the AAAAA from big enough "
Hello there max
A true professional
I just realised that the conductor has the most impressive balance ever, he literally is balancing on a 100 ton steam engine drifting on ice
His balls balanced him.
That's not even factoring in the fucking absurd grip strength he and those kids had at the start of the video, especially considering how icy those handrails must've been.
And hes doing it only with braking, he has no steering wheel
Bruh!
@@mr.noname9328 he means the guy that was yelling at the engineers (controllers)
This video is also a perfect loop
Drifting with no steering wheel: NEW LEVEL OF DRIFITING
DRIFTING WITH LEVERS
The Engineer's swag cannot be contained by the Laws of Physics.
Prosack Metheus he has his own physical rules!
derliebeEugen 2.9 Damn right, he has!
I reject your reality, and substitute my own!
UA-cam's "Recommended For You" is *finally doing something right*!
zSTALKn Gaming IKR!
zSTALKn Gaming ikr
zSTALKn Gaming Truuue
zSTALKn Gaming yeah!
zSTALKn Gaming True
I love how the engineer's not got the typical "I'm a badass" face. He's just. concentrating on not dying
You can feel the stress he's under and it gives some real emotion. I love it.
dude its because he got kid's lives in the back of the train
Hell yeah, I love his character as a kid. So cool.
"I have kidnappes 30 kids, I can't die now!"
He's stuck in a drifting scene loop forever, what a brave driver for still being able to maintain his train !
he isn't stuck in there with the loop, the loop is stuck in there with him.
Me as a 5 year old: Cool I love this Christmas movie
Me as a 14 year old: *H E J U S T D R I F T E D A 1 0 0 T O N T R A I N W T F*
Yeah
yea
A “magic” train
Yep
T r i a n
Smokey and Steamer are the single most elite engineer/firebox guy duo in history.
How do they have names but Hero Boy is Hero Boy
@@41dnHero Boy’s name is Chris, I think
Firebox Guy, also know as Fireman.
@@41dn they only get named in a deleted scene iirc
Can we all appreciate the fact he drifted A STEAM TRAIN, not a car but A WHOLE ENTIRE TRAIN
imagine if it was a freight train
He drifted something which had no steering lol
Must be really pro gamer
With kids inside
ACHEVEMENT UNLOCKED:
DRIFT MASTER
wait wait wait... IT LOOPS!! All these years! I never knew it has a perfect loop!!!
Kids on the front of the train:
oh we getting a bumpy Road
Kids on the back of the train:
*KANSEI DORIFTO????*
the kids on the back drowned
OMAOMA MOU XINDERU
Driftooooooooo deja vu
Initial D reference
This is a movie about the magic of Christmas.
And the most magical thing is managing to successfully drift a fully functional passenger train with no injuries or casualties
Christmas magic is a hell of a drug
Well if you think this is magic, you haven't seen russian dash cam videos
@@dustRat1 Russia is a state of mind
I'm surprised the passengers didn't notice the whole rumble.
Trains can't drift
The fat controller laughed, "You are wrong"
Some guy: Ha! You called him fat
Engineer: You seem to not realise that fat stands for Fucking Amazing Train. Now say it alongside my profession...
Some guy: F-Fucking Amazing Train Engineer...
Engineer: You're god damn right.
That guy needs a fucking raise
N…NANI？ FUKUSEN DORIFUTO？
The polar expres can drift when he wants to ok
Perfect, now I have an excuse to beg the Guinness world records company to make a moral for me!
At 6 years old: I was hooked
At 23 years old: now that I know how “unreal” it is. I’m more hooked, Tom hanks is a boss.
thanks for reminding me that this video is 8 years old
This scene always made me think what the fuck was going on in the passenger cars
Me Too Lmao.
Everyone in the passenger cars possibly died.
Panicking, and bowel movements. Bowel movements everywhere.
Robot Chicken please do this!! We need answers!
I’m pretty sure the nerd kid says that they didn’t even notice a thing in the next scene
The Hogwarts Express is the most iconic train in cinema history
Tom Hanks: hold my hot hot hot, hot chocolate
I would like this, but it's at 169 likes so I probably should just leave it, lol.
@@jaredmorales5130 respect
Get this comment to 1112 likes thats the number of the polar express
@CK124台灣蒸汽機 hehehe i forgot but thats what i remember but the likes still dont have 1225 on it
In my opinion I'd say the Sierra Nevada No. 3 is the most iconic. It's literally nicknamed the Movie Star engine, due to it's appearances in so many shows and movies.
Some facts about the train driver:
- When he was 11 years old he decided he was going to live alone and his parents moved to another house
- He lost his virginity before his parents
- He helped his parents give birth to him
- When he was in school the teachers would raise their hand to talk to him
- The train driver once missed two days of school. Those days became known as Saturday and Sunday.
- Whenever the train driver had a doctor's appointment, he was the one asking questions and the doctors would tell him what their symptoms were
He is, "the most interesting (locomotive engineer) in the world."
"I don't always drift trains, but when I do, I drift them across frozen lakes."
Reused Chuck Norris Facts? WHAT YEAR IS IT?!
someone's about to get wooshed i can see it
The driver gave birth to adan and eve
Total respect for the engineer...
I gotta be honest this scene is still strangely satisfying even to this day.
Don't forget how smoth the animation for that time. So smoth.
Its amazing!!
It's the frantic, coordinated, practiced machine operation from the engineer...and the fact he's steering a machine that by design DOES NOT TYPICALLY HAVE ANY KIND OF STEERING MECHANISM. All the wheel-locking and reversing should be absolutely disastrous for an engine like that.
this was the only part of the movie that I liked.
the animation's extremely uncanny and creepy, and the movie's pretty forgettable and doesn't have any relatable characters.
the actual train itself was somewhat alluring though, and it was cool to see it survive and make it to the other side of the lake
@@hobomike6935 when i was a kid i watched it like 30 times just for this part lmao
They deserve fricking medals. The engineer for driving a 400,000lbs 4-8-4 on a frozen lake with no track into a narrow ass canyon,, the conductor for guiding him to it, and the fireman for keeping the boiler hotter than the blazes of hell itself
The conductor gets a medal for 0:42
WhackyJ in AK *2-8-4
Not to mention the fact that if they had been misaligned by less than half an inch they might not have landed on the tracks.
best comment ever
You mean a T-8-6 Tofu Express
IS NO ONE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW THE VIDEO IS IN A PERFECT LOOP?
Wait...
(One second after checking)
WHAT
*D E J A V U I V E B E E N O N T H I S T R A I N B E F O R E*
No, the music doesn't loop.
OH MY GOD YOU ARE RIGHT
IT IS P E R F E C T
WAIT WHAT-
Director be like: Fu€k the budget,I will create the world's most legendary scene in this movie.....💀💀
What movie is this?
@@CraftyLamb Polar express
Rare footage of Soviet train escaping from german fighters and tanks
Flare Oil random.
@@flareoil533 your wrong blyat
@@Nomanjj I agree because I'm part Russian and what he said pissed me off because I'm straight and part russian and I see this and I'm like wtf dude not cool
@@eamonnduensing6153 his jealousy burns deep within he only sees the flaws of his people and only sees the strength of other peoples nations he needs to open his eyes and see the wonder of every race
I can’t even 😂
Engineer: saves everyone's lives by aligning the train
That annoying kid: "it was just an optical illusion
yea but that kid was not invited to the train so dont worry
The annoying kid thought a train spinning was just a OpTiCaL oLlUsIoN
@Agent Smith 🤣
@@legoclonetrooper4053 Actually he was. He was the nerdy kid with the glasses and yellow pajamas.
Yes so was the gargantuan amount of shaking and drifting every single person would have felt as the train both drifts plus slithers like a snake toward that canyon AND the drop onto the tracks
The Conductor and Engineer just tag-team drifted a mufuggin’ steam engine with a full load of _extremely precious cargo_ over an iced lake into a point the width of a person with _surgical_ precision and we’re only just starting to realize this now
W
EB Bisnar That is indeed what I meant
Jesus Christ seeing it all laid out like that, u right
As children we just didn't have the mental capacity to fully grasp this scene. 16 year later, now we do.
WHY DID I FORGET THIS SCENE???
Dude pulled off the maddest drift OAT to save a train load of kids. Respect
If you can't drift a 700,000 pound steam locomotive with 5 coaches attached to it, you're not a real drifter.
Edit: I want to mention that I'm including the tender as well.
Ponyboy John you're fucking Jesus
Ponyboy John 5 cars to be exact, 6 if you count where the coal is
Thug Doge thanks m8
Ponyboy John not only that, but on cracking ice.
Ponyboy John they're called coaches
We just learned two things:
1: He is a God with his skills
2: Eurobeat makes everything looks cool
It's cool without the eurobeat though
And thats a fact
Soviet soldiers delivering supplies to Leningrad across Lake Ladoga
1942 colourised
Stannis De Mannis underrated comment
Heh-heh, nice joke!
@CJ BUSTA :D everybody gangsta until the anti tank guns show up
@@justmerc1642 or the Luftwaffe
Mastermind comment.
god damn the driver is such a badass for pulling that off this is what he tells his grandkids for storytime
0:42 no matter what remix you see of this scene, Tom Hanks always dabs in the right moment with the music
Bruh😂
XD
I hate you, Daniel 28893, you say this, and I hate you for it
@@direwolfstar2539 why
I see the dab
When you put *_ALL_* your points into some skill everyone else in the party laughs at.
And it finally comes into use
And that's from an anime
Pain Train from Fallout 4
NATURE'S BEAUTY!
ECU-SPLOOOSION!!
This is the equivalent of Samuel telling doom slayer that he can't just a put a hole on the surface of Mars.
mondo crow “haha BFG go boom”
TRAIN GO SKKRRRRR SKRRRR
"You can't just drive a train over a frozen lake"
Yes :)
Same energy
Japanese: Drift a car
Russian : Drift a tank
Canadian : Drift a plane
American : Drift a train
This train scene deserves in a fast furious movie its not even debate.😅
it's about the only thing they haven't done at this point
Wtf bro 6 hours ago and congrats for getting pinned in a 7 years old video with 33m views, you bouta be famous
BRO WHY IS IT PINNED IN A 7 YEAR OLD VID????
@@akim-p4x because i agree
@@battlecruiserna ok, i guess if it floats your boat. Pretty random to pin your 7 year old vid
The driver is easily one of the most badass characters in fiction history. The fact that he can drift a steam engine controlled solely by levers, with several passenger cars attached and perfectly allign it with the tracks at the end is insane.
Also props to the guy shovelling the coal while everyone else would fucking fly off the train without holding on.
smokey is the true hero of this story, he's responsible for making the boost.
うぉすげえ固定されてる。しかも三時間前。
@@battlecruiserna in 0:44 you can see him shoveling coal while going sideways haha
៨៩៩
Nbbuuuq
So no one is going to appreciate the fact that the train conductor was the real hero of this movie not only saving a train full of children but also managing to get them to the North Pole to meet Santa on time
You have to credit the badass staff who controlled and steered the train
The Polar Express is always on time my guy
Give that man a raise. Heck, give all the staff a raise
Lmao right he deserves a huge bonus
I like ur name ;)
The train driver is a legendary and mysterious character that we didn't even know his name. With this potential, you can be one of the best if not the best driver in animation history.
the physics in this scene is more accurate than in any Disney star wars movies
Yes
Imma be *that one guy* but physics here are everything but accurate to something. Ice having enough thickness and strenght to support a +750tons train? Metal train wheels having enough adherence/grip on wet ice? dRiFtInG a WhOlE tRaIn UsInG oNlY fOrWaRd/ReVeRsE? Single metal pin cracks ice yet train going +80mph hitting the ice does barely anything?
@@ThomasG2-Chuklenuts r/whoosh
@@ThomasG2-Chuklenuts Actually, part of me felt like this is possible. At least 40% of physics can be accurate, hear me out:
To set things out, since Polar Express is a magical train, it can have up to 20 passenger cars in some scenes, but usually, it's just 5 passenger cars like the frozen lake scene shown. That know-it-all nerd kid mentioned in the film that this "Baldwin 2-8-4 S-3 class Berkshire type steam locomotive" weighs 456,100 pounds, or 200+ tons, so it's still a lot of mass. I'm not sure how this mass is going to distribute on 62 wheels given with the cars, but based on charts and the train's area coverage, a 2-3 meters thick ice can actually hold up 200+ tons. (I also have seen videos of a 100+ tons cargo plane landing on antartica ice, but you'll have to search the video for that). Counter-arguments I can think of is that lakes don't have 2 meters thick ice, or that could be wrong lol.
Metal train wheels do suffer from grip, but since train wheels can have these sharp outer rims, it can plant into the ice like ice skaters in this sense. But most importantly, as long as there's some grip, and the wheels spin fast enough, you can actually get going, but I'm not going to do the math for that, mainly because, I don't know lol. One interesting counter-argument is that while the wheels can have grip, the entire train's power only comes from the 4 pairs of drive wheel on the steam engine car thing, and it would be difficult to achieve the accelerations shown in the scene if these drive wheels have less grip, less downforce to plant the power, and pulling 200 tons of weight.
I would say that a lot of weight transferring and momentum are used when the train performs the 180 spin and aligning to the exit. Sadly there's no sources on how drifting on trains work, and also mainly that there's no steering wheels on a train. So I guess it wasn't really possible, but hey, have to say that the momentum of the train looks very realistic, and the way that the passenger cars trail behind, which might also contribute to the weight transferring/momentum of the entire train.
The train may be traveling at high speed, but since it's not going 80mph straight into the ice, but traveling on the surface, there's no extra forces produced downwards to the ice other than the 200 tons gravity, and some frictional force. The pin indeed cannot crack open 2-meter thick ice, although one argument I can make is that ice layer thickness can be irregular, and maybe the pin just happen to land on a very thin layer of ice, as in 3 inches or so, but that would be impossible.
So, 40% physically accurate, I would say quite better than some other movies out there, since physics was never the main concern. I never watched star wars though so I can't compare it.
@@sethhu20 Great explanation! You deserve more likes!
"They used to call me the drift king back in college"
RT is secretly the conductor
NANI?!
"Drift me Daddy! Drift me!"
RTGame when he loses his friends while playing mario kart:
“...it was a small college”
I know that this is surreal af but this scene alone made this movie one of my favorites as a child
Same
This movie is one of the best Christmas movies
Same
This scene was so thrilling an badass as a ked 💯💯💯
@@mackerel6099 I mean your not wrong
This gets noticed 7 years later. Meme culture is weird
Director: So we need some filler content that isn't boring.
Writer: Another song?
Director: There already is one, this ain't a musical.
Writer: Well the throttle jammed, so how about we have the train loose control on ice?
Director: Great!
Animator (crying in corner): please stop
Milkman karlson
To be honest, I would love to animate this
MILK MAN
KARLSON VIBE
the movie was made by tracking irl people do this so probably just the animator is mad of how much he does have to animate
Okay but like the conductor needs his own fast and furious spin off 😂
ABSOLUTELY 😂
And the engineers too.
Imagine F10 is just train drifting
With bald superheroes of course
Fast and Furious: Off the rails
@@josephjaasund4250- you know what SK stands for?
-what?
-STEAM KING
*Train starts going out of control...*
"Hey look buddy...I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems."
This is my train.
Owned by me.
Piloted by me.
And you better be able to hold your lunch down.
Underrated
the engineer
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAWAW
Not problems like what is beauty
"Think about it. Some gearheads got their hands on a steam train, put tracks on it and slapped a huge fuck all cannon to the front, and they use it to siege encampments by drifting and firing HE, why? Because these particular raiders have a coal mine. Not exactly gas but you've got to make do, right?"
Ill do you one better, look up the lombard steam log hauler.
mother of log
I'm sure everyone in the passenger cars are really enjoying the drifting
Pikapetey Animations is piemations still mutating
i was on the train heading to school
Petey you are fucking everywhere
yeah
and you really like to mess up piemation
Pikapetey Animations yeah petey why do you watch exactly what I watch. are you stalking me?
There's absolutely no better song to go with this scene than Running in the 90's.
ah well, that's not quite.. At the very least out of the ones I looked at the bpm, loopability, and emotional impact worked the best. Music needs to match whats going on in a sort of a dance, otherwise its just noise you filter out
@@battlecruiserna lol why is this pinned tho after all these years
THE PIN HAS CHOSEN YOU
Have you even seen Tokyo Drift Express?!?!
Deja Vu?
N-NANI? POLAR DORIFTO?
YES.
Good one XD
Torain dorifo ?
KANSEI DRIFTO
WHICH POLAR? THE TEKNIKK POLAR OR THE OTHER POLAR?
"People complain about 2024 brainrot but forget what we watched in 2016"
The masterpiece we had in 2016: