actually the train did derail a Little bit Because if You look at the scene when the train goes over the giant log If You look closely at the wheels at the back of the Train's "tender" it derailed so the log only derailed the "tender" but not the Entire train as the rest of the train stayed on the tracks
In the filming of this episode, which was in the early 20th century, it may have derailed in the process of producing the comic, but of course that would have been edited out.
watching this movie you do understand where the big things came from. Amazing video. Also you understand that these things were done by men who had their heads on their shoulders and they were not engineers but they believed in something that shaped the history. Big respect for them
How creative of those "old time" movie makers , how the F**k did that train not fall of the tracks while going over or around such bad track laying skills or obstacles? , I think that these people did a great job of such simple "cartoon type" stunts & with NO computer imagery either unlike today's techno stunt scenes ; well done to all who made this movie & Many Thanks for uploading this timeless film to the internet.
Niesamowity filmik. Pomysłowość przodków bardzo kreatywna, najfajniejszy moment to ten z przejazdem przez złamane drzewo. No i ta wytrwałość pieska. Super.
My dad used to work in a rail company and we used to travel by train for free twice a year. We still live in the company house. We Dire Dawans (Ethiopia) have much attachment with trains as the city started along with the establishment of the company. Sadly now the company is almost dead 😔
For a one time movie that was a fine replica. It is not like people in a 1923 will walk out of the movie because it was not exactly like the real one. It look a lot like it and it is not like everyone is going to see that. And you can not argue that those where some of the best steam locomotive stunts ever. Hats off to the maker of it.
Ironically, the lousy track conditions in the U.S. drove some major improvements in locomotive technology. The extensive use of a pivoted lead guiding truck in front of the driving wheels and of "equalizers" on coupled driving axles (to handle bumps in the track) were both American innovations developed to handle very rough track, but they ended up becoming nearly universal steam locomotive features.
Thanks for the comment, this movie was in in the middle of the night and I hit record once I realized what I was seeing, I agree with steamboy51. I didn't catch the movie early enough so missed a few of the railroad scenes. Have to check to see if the film is public domain, it might be
@@gabrielboateng1292 he needed fire wood, so he started throwing things at the guy running the locomotive, who threw back all he had, which was fire wood!
This replica is powered by a Model T Ford engine and gearbox, notice the differential on the trailing wheels behind the firebox. Also notice the loco doesn't chuff steam from the chimney as it ambles along
2:00 Note: They did straighten the track for the film footage shot from the side. An amazing film. I wonder if the wheels were made with a different design to help accomplish the rickety track visual?
@@anniestephenson86 me too his wife Frances Henderson (Roberts mother) was my 5? Great grandmother. Esther Henderson. So he was an uncle by marriage and Robert a blood cousin.
The fact that there was a director and cast and crew who thought to preserve in film for the 1923 audience what a 1829 train ride experience was meant they did not take for granted the expansion and technological advances of the railroad system. These men were looking back in admiration for the simple not in a feeling of superiority. Or they understood that future is not inherently progressive.
Liverpool and Manchester loco with Baltimore and Ohio passenger wagons. The tracks look like the Chicago Transit Authority after Bruce Rauner’s budget impasse. This train still goes faster and more reliably than the trains I take to work in Chicago.
There is a trolley line in Mandan North Dakota, that runs out to Fort Abraham Lincoln, and back. This trolley line has a section of track that very much resembles the track in this footage.
The original English right of way,wasn't anything like the Oregon operating conditions! That same area,was used for the GENERAL,which came later! Keaton,like Stan Laurel,was a master,at comedic timing! Nuff said,thank you! Thank you 😇!
@@TheOnlyHollywood1 no, my ancestor was William the conqueror (I'm actually more closely related to him than the queen is) but I cant walk up to old liz and say "can I be king now."
I was told that the movie company did not build a very long stretch of tracks. After each section was filmed, the track was torn up and placed farther ahead.
All I can see here is the panicle of danger. Being a Stationary Operating Engineer, I hope this engineer is keeping track of his steam pressure and boiler water level. He has no fireman to regulate the boilers operation. The engineer has to do it all including braking the train. I sure hope this locomotive had a safety pressure valve and in addition the engineer had to stop the train to fix the track? I know this is a movie but I just have to believe there were many fatalities during the infancy of trains during this time period as a means of transportation.
heffo and juff there was hundreds if not thousands of casualties in the infancy of steam locomotives. A lot of times gauges wouldn't be checked or in very few cases there wouldn't be any and you would have to hope you had released enough steam. And this could learn to boiler explosions
And you had brakemen running on top of the box cars to set and release the brakes. Imagine doing that on a dark night, sharp curves and grades and its' snowing like hell and the running boards are covered in ice. George Westinghouse saved a LOT of lives.
Early American lines, which Keaton was apparently poking fun at, maybe weren't *quite* that bad, but some came pretty close. They had a lot of land to cover and not much money, so they were often laid on the cheap. British lines were another story. Rocket's actual railway, the Liverpool and Manchester, was laid arrow-straight, with cuts being blasted through ridges and huge viaducts built over valleys. The British had huge amounts of capital to spend on such works.
Unreal! The imagination and amount of work it took to do this short scene is truly remarkable. Here we are 100 years later and there are people confused about what gender they are. We went from crazy trains to crazy people. I'll take the crazy train days 😕
@@PoleTooke you must be identifying as a licensed psychologist today ..one who is fully capable of rendering diagnosis. That is soooo cool! I never thought of going into the sciences. Thats so deep wow. Ok so in my case your determination was I have a "phobia". I love phobias! Thats cool Dr. Tooke but don't expect me to pay cash for your services. I'm a trans-cat today and I dont have any money to pay you with unless you take a bowl of tuna fish as payment. Tomorrow is a busy day for me doc..its my day to identify as the Queen of Scotland. So be sure to bow down when you come into my presense..and remain on bended knee until I acknowledge you or you'll be sleeping on your psychologist couch down in the dungeon. Haha. (Being queen can be a nasty business but somebody had to do it..might as well be me. Besides I look stunning with that crown on) Its wonderful identifying as we wish isn't it Doc! I mean I feel so much better about myself! I'm sure you do too. Free free free to be who we really are inside. That's all that matters isn't it!! And having your love, total support and unwavering respect to be whatever I identify as means everything to me. Thank you Dr. Tooke. Take care. Opps ..I mean - Meow. .
As mentioned by others, these are scenes from the Buster Keaton movie "Our Hospitality", invented for comic effect (and not actually a documentary). The train later appeared (and was partly destroyed) in a film "The Iron Mule", directed by Roscoe Arbuckle under a pseudonym. Buster Keaton was involved, though uncredited.
Helo majid yes you are right But Please watch again this clip carefully It has some very different message in it If you find out real purpose of this short video You will be laughing whole day Haa Haaaa Haaaaaaaaaaa Haaaa Haaaaaaaaaaa Haaaa Please kindly reply
AliveC4T And a poor one as well the original Rocket,s cyclinders were canted at a much steeper angle around 50-55 degrees this loco has it,s at around 30 degrees. But it's a 1920's comedy some perhaps for the film sake it's OK
Christopher Litherland Notice that they all had black soot on their faces when they came out of the tunnel. They sort of looked like minstrel show performers.
How the train managed to run on this track without derailing is unimaginable.
Well, it is going fairly slowly - it that speed bump at 1:30 was certainly insane. Was it just that much effort to move the log out of the way?
Derailing wasn't invended back then
Because it's maglev. They added wheels only to avoid people dying from futuristic shock seeing it
actually the train did derail a Little bit Because if You look at the scene when the train goes over the giant log If You look closely at the wheels at the back of the Train's "tender" it derailed so the log only derailed the "tender" but not the Entire train as the rest of the train stayed on the tracks
@@MrHerrkac😂😂
They really did put the replica through its paces, didn't they. My jaw dropped every time it didn't derail.
In the filming of this episode, which was in the early 20th century, it may have derailed in the process of producing the comic, but of course that would have been edited out.
My teeth rattled every time they went over a bump!
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@@ranasheikhrana4616 ???????????
What have I just watched? Was it actually done and when!? Very funny and quite clever too! Anyone know now in September2023? Cheers
These old Buster Keaton movies truly are, priceless relics.
They don't make'm like this any more.
Where is the buster keaton in here?
@@s.t.e_1855 Keaton directed and starred in this film, though he's not in this sequence.
The old guy had it figured out! He was able to get free wood - cut, split and delivered to him. Smart!
Ji
@@nagarajarikeri1198 ah yes! *JI*
@@nagarajarikeri1198 n
Hilarious
His iq must be 1209
watching this movie you do understand where the big things came from. Amazing video. Also you understand that these things were done by men who had their heads on their shoulders and they were not engineers but they believed in something that shaped the history. Big respect for them
How creative of those "old time" movie makers , how the F**k did that train not fall of the tracks while going over or around such bad track laying skills or obstacles? , I think that these people did a great job of such simple "cartoon type" stunts & with NO computer imagery either unlike today's techno stunt scenes ; well done to all who made this movie & Many Thanks for uploading this timeless film to the internet.
Niesamowity filmik. Pomysłowość przodków bardzo kreatywna, najfajniejszy moment to ten z przejazdem przez złamane drzewo. No i ta wytrwałość pieska. Super.
700,000 views. Awesome. I love it that you folks are into railroad history.
Very very funny
Yes, trains fascinate me and this one is really different
I’m in it for the donkey
thanks for uploading it
My dad used to work in a rail company and we used to travel by train for free twice a year. We still live in the company house. We Dire Dawans (Ethiopia) have much attachment with trains as the city started along with the establishment of the company. Sadly now the company is almost dead 😔
For a one time movie that was a fine replica. It is not like people in a 1923 will walk out of the movie because it was not exactly like the real one. It look a lot like it and it is not like everyone is going to see that. And you can not argue that those where some of the best steam locomotive stunts ever. Hats off to the maker of it.
I think the little brooms in front of the drive wheels is hilarious. An accurate and hilarious portrail of the hazards of early railroading!
I really get amazed at some of these old boilers. Steam power was first generated about 500 years before they figured out what to do with it!
From A Buster Keaton movie. Buster had replicas built for the movie
Our Hospitality was the film, love it!!
Testing of the proposed HS2 line has begun. There have been a few cut backs appparently!
That trackwork, would be deemed safe by NCB standards
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!
And so by BNSF too.
Its way back in early iron horse days of course there that great
Lol
Ironically, the lousy track conditions in the U.S. drove some major improvements in locomotive technology. The extensive use of a pivoted lead guiding truck in front of the driving wheels and of "equalizers" on coupled driving axles (to handle bumps in the track) were both American innovations developed to handle very rough track, but they ended up becoming nearly universal steam locomotive features.
The railways haven't changed much. Little gem of a film.
the tenacity of that dog is unbelievable 😄
The fact the "dog" wasn't on the train with It's owners Get Me triggered
An amazing piece of history. Ten out of ten!
It's amazing how the coaches stay on the tracks..
Great fun - very whimsical. The locomotive and carriages look very authentic.
+Roger Griffith The track looks more like current Australian mainlines.
John Sergei Ikr
Another great feature by Buster Keaton. I enjoyed very much both this one and "The General".
Love the dog closely following the train, ha!
that's one of the best and funniest bits of film I've ever seen ....classic film,,,
That was my grand pappy throwing those rocks.
But he got fire wood in return!
@@nightlightabcd work smarter, not harder, I always say.
Very smart man!
Prove it liar
I’m stupid I just read the description
totally amazing how things haven't changed very much
What do you mean?
wait, what ?
Well, two rails
Bruce Lean people opposed to public transportation?
Yes I suppose the sun still exists
За все время существования кино изменились только спецэффекты. Все зависит от качества сценария, идеи, таланта актёров. Отличный фильм !!!
Even though an old film, it is really creative and interesting .
I laughed my ass off
Happy 98th anniversary to this documentary
@Edu Yan Read the description my man
Thanks for the comment, this movie was in in the middle of the night and I hit record once I realized what I was seeing, I agree with steamboy51. I didn't catch the movie early enough so missed a few of the railroad scenes. Have to check to see if the film is public domain, it might be
@@gabrielboateng1292 he needed fire wood, so he started throwing things at the guy running the locomotive, who threw back all he had, which was fire wood!
OMG I can't get over that off rail train! lol
That track is crazy!
It's actually the prototype for the new high speed rail connection between Sydney and Melbourne. Very advanced.
Psh, as if we could ever get the track from Melbourne to Augury half as smooth as this is.
Amazing footage, and such skill in creating this train and trackage. Buster got some of his ideas for "The General" from this.
a very early film of 1920s with the great Buster Keaton. I watched it as a child...
You that old? LOL
The public library in my town showed silent films every Saturday in the 1960’s.
A rocket era tão lenta que o maquinista podia simplesmente sair dela e acompanhar correndo, simplesmente impressionante
4:10 - The first parallel ride in history. ;)
My all time favourite locomotive. Crazy that it was nearly 100 years old when this was being made.
This is the neatest thing I've ever seen, yet!!! love this!!!
Amazing this is from here the journey by the railways started & Stephenson name will always be remembered because he was the one who invented it
That part when they were going over the log made me die of laughter!
This replica is powered by a Model T Ford engine and gearbox, notice the differential on the trailing wheels behind the firebox.
Also notice the loco doesn't chuff steam from the chimney as it ambles along
2:00 Note: They did straighten the track for the film footage shot from the side. An amazing film. I wonder if the wheels were made with a different design to help accomplish the rickety track visual?
stephenson is my great great great great uncle
@@anniestephenson86 me too his wife Frances Henderson (Roberts mother) was my 5? Great grandmother. Esther Henderson. So he was an uncle by marriage and Robert a blood cousin.
Well this is cool you are kind of related
He's buried not far from where I live
@@anniestephenson86 Wow are you based in England?
my Siamese is a great great great great descendant of Stephensons pet cat
This is adorable. That's the only word I can think of to describe it! The whole railway built over a log as a bump in the track. Priceless!
The fact that there was a director and cast and crew who thought to preserve in film for the 1923 audience what a 1829 train ride experience was meant they did not take for granted the expansion and technological advances of the railroad system. These men were looking back in admiration for the simple not in a feeling of superiority.
Or they understood that future is not inherently progressive.
Liverpool and Manchester loco with Baltimore and Ohio passenger wagons. The tracks look like the Chicago Transit Authority after Bruce Rauner’s budget impasse. This train still goes faster and more reliably than the trains I take to work in Chicago.
Somebody show some mercy to the dog, plz.
He is running all the way behind the train.
those trees are probably still there.
Not likely as this was filmed in Pomona if I remember what I read and thats all been developed.
Buster Keaton set the movie in 1830 and had the replica of Roket built for the film.
This is the same 'rocket' that was in thomas and friends! Wow
Its not like the Thomas and Friends locomotives are based on real engines or anything
There is a trolley line in Mandan North Dakota, that runs out to Fort Abraham Lincoln, and back. This trolley line has a section of track that very much resembles the track in this footage.
Спасибо! Отлично отвлекает от нынешнего сумасшествия.
Much better than today's TV and no commercials
@toyotaprius79 check out the description of the video, it's REPLICA built for the 1923 film. Oh how I hate having to repeat myself
The original English right of way,wasn't anything like the Oregon operating conditions! That same area,was used for the GENERAL,which came later! Keaton,like Stan Laurel,was a master,at comedic timing! Nuff said,thank you! Thank you 😇!
4:16 The coaches can roll faster than the "rocket".. LOL
"rocket" means the locomotive
@@geebaco5671 obviously
Happy 192th anniversary to this locomotive
wow--thanks for this old video--love it.
😢 Poor dog, he was runing behind the train.
Wonderful travelling with funny situations. Thanks.
Moving the track to get around the donkey cracked me up
My fiances grandmother (98) is the niece of Robert Stevenson
That time was so simple and much better than 2021
I love it watched it 3 times so far..I'm going to start pitching rocks at the beer truck.this is so funny.
Dog: Gold. Donkey: Silver. Rocket: Bronze. Track: Unplaced. Hilarious film. Thank you.
Love this, so added to a playlist...
That’s too cool !!! Those tracks look like the highways here in West Virginia!!!
This is a great example of the poor track conditions back then
Chris&forrest funvideos the track conditions were far better than this back then, in the UK anyway, the locomotive went over 30mph in the early 1830s
Chris&forrest funvideos and the railways was the first mainline
Spindly little fellow. It is hard to believed this ungainly novelty became the mighty 4-8-8-4 articulated, beasts of yesteryear that breathed fire.
Robert Stephenson is a relative of mine on my mother's side of the family!!
MrRickbeachboy, they we're probably engineers & "rolling over" in their graves at this new fangled sense of humor...let alone mine...thanks
MrRickbeachboy So, can you technically take back the rocket for yourself
@@TheOnlyHollywood1 no, my ancestor was William the conqueror (I'm actually more closely related to him than the queen is) but I cant walk up to old liz and say "can I be king now."
George Stephens
Not Robert
OMG I KNOW THIS IS OLD BUT I THINK WE R RELATED
I was told that the movie company did not build a very long stretch of tracks. After each section was filmed, the track was torn up and placed farther ahead.
All I can see here is the panicle of danger. Being a Stationary Operating Engineer, I hope this engineer is keeping track of his steam pressure and boiler water level. He has no fireman to regulate the boilers operation. The engineer has to do it all including braking the train. I sure hope this locomotive had a safety pressure valve and in addition the engineer had to stop the train to fix the track? I know this is a movie but I just have to believe there were many fatalities during the infancy of trains during this time period as a means of transportation.
heffo and juff there was hundreds if not thousands of casualties in the infancy of steam locomotives. A lot of times gauges wouldn't be checked or in very few cases there wouldn't be any and you would have to hope you had released enough steam. And this could learn to boiler explosions
And you had brakemen running on top of the box cars to set and release the brakes. Imagine doing that on a dark night, sharp curves and grades and its' snowing like hell and the running boards are covered in ice. George Westinghouse saved a LOT of lives.
There were, mainly down to very poor signalling.
Early American lines, which Keaton was apparently poking fun at, maybe weren't *quite* that bad, but some came pretty close. They had a lot of land to cover and not much money, so they were often laid on the cheap. British lines were another story. Rocket's actual railway, the Liverpool and Manchester, was laid arrow-straight, with cuts being blasted through ridges and huge viaducts built over valleys. The British had huge amounts of capital to spend on such works.
Colin howell are you familiar with the US rail system
I just heard that the Stephenson rocket goes 36 mph and it was operated in Liverpool and Manchester railway .
jane ofoegbu the replica is in the Yorkshire railway museum and the real one is in London’s history museum
26 mph
It's top speed is 26 MPH
It did reach 34 mph after it won the competition, when all the carriages were removed.
@@johngledhill2970 after it won the competition the engine blew up.
wow its more satisfying to watch those steam pistons turn those wheels than watching rockets take off
Замечательная комедия!
Excellent, from invention to super modernisation people hardly think of.
Bloody brilliant.
Looks like such a smooth ride.
Unreal! The imagination and amount of work it took to do this short scene is truly remarkable. Here we are 100 years later and there are people confused about what gender they are.
We went from crazy trains to crazy people. I'll take the crazy train days 😕
🙄 Transphobia really needed here?
@@PoleTooke you must be identifying as a licensed psychologist today ..one who is fully capable of rendering diagnosis. That is soooo cool! I never thought of going into the sciences. Thats so deep wow. Ok so in my case your determination was I have a "phobia". I love phobias! Thats cool Dr. Tooke but don't expect me to pay cash for your services. I'm a trans-cat today and I dont have any money to pay you with unless you take a bowl of tuna fish as payment.
Tomorrow is a busy day for me doc..its my day to identify as the Queen of Scotland. So be sure to bow down when you come into my presense..and remain on bended knee until I acknowledge you or you'll be sleeping on your psychologist couch down in the dungeon. Haha. (Being queen can be a nasty business but somebody had to do it..might as well be me. Besides I look stunning with that crown on)
Its wonderful identifying as we wish isn't it Doc! I mean I feel so much better about myself! I'm sure you do too. Free free free to be who we really are inside. That's all that matters isn't it!! And having your love, total support and unwavering respect to be whatever I identify as means everything to me.
Thank you Dr. Tooke. Take care. Opps ..I mean - Meow.
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@@rapturebound197 Yeah, Ima just go ahead and also diagnose insanity for that text wall.
@@PoleTooke feeling triggered?! I know a good psychologist. You know him too.
@@rapturebound197 Not really anything to be triggered by, so no? Just you've gone off the rails is all.
And, I don't know him. Proud atheist.
As mentioned by others, these are scenes from the Buster Keaton movie "Our Hospitality", invented for comic effect (and not actually a documentary). The train later appeared (and was partly destroyed) in a film "The Iron Mule", directed by Roscoe Arbuckle under a pseudonym. Buster Keaton was involved, though uncredited.
Oh look! An advert for Modern British Rail!
Reminds me of the keystone cops.entertaining re-enactment when motion pictures were invented much latter than 1829.
Ys after 1900
Great video. Enjoyed it
TODO EL VIDEO ES SUPER LOS CARRUAJES LOS PASAJEROS EL POLVO EL ASNO EL PERRITO QUE SUPER OBSERVEN Y RIAN Y SIGAN OBSERVANDO EL VIDEO
For those saying it was amazing it never derailed, look closely at the tender’s back wheels @ 1:26
I saw that as the train went over that log
Прекрасный юмор!!!☝️👍Привет из санкт-Петербурга!😅😂🤣🤝😉👋
What a fabulous bit of film, and interestingly note the American style use of wood, rather than coal, for the fire. Thanks for posting.
Becouse of these struggles today human beings are able to run train in speed 600 km/h
Helo majid yes you are right
But
Please watch again this clip carefully
It has some very different message in it
If you find out real purpose of this short video
You will be laughing whole day
Haa Haaaa Haaaaaaaaaaa Haaaa Haaaaaaaaaaa Haaaa
Please kindly reply
Unless you live in the US, we still top out at about 240 kmh
@@gulabsinghsingh7248 What??
@@noepeckham9648 what do you mean by WHAT? ????
@@gulabsinghsingh7248 I was just a bit confused by your comment
Awesome! Loved every bit of it
Awsome video, looks like csx trackage in NY. lol
Wao they has speed breaker also.Loco pilot can also slide tracks by hand.Thats funny.Amazed to see how human technology has changed.
its like 1820s comedy
It's actually 1923 comedy :V
i guess thats when they must have filmed it but the locomotive was built in the 1820s
The original Rocket was donated to the museum in 1862. The one in the movie is a replica.
AliveC4T obviously
AliveC4T And a poor one as well the original Rocket,s cyclinders were canted at a much steeper angle around 50-55 degrees this loco has it,s at around 30 degrees. But it's a 1920's comedy some perhaps for the film sake it's OK
Just watched a video on an old logging railway in Maine. The rails were actually moveable but not THAT flexible! 😀😃😄😆😅🙃!
Check out the railway where they harvest salt in San Francisco Bay. blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/1999/01/08/salt-californias-gold-1001/
buster keaton rules!
The drivers are the most kind people in the world.
Tempo bom onde não existia
tanta maldades igual hoje.
Mas era difícil, as pessoas não tinham nenhum tipo de celularzinho ou computador pra tirar 10 na prova, elas tinham que aprender tudo na prática
The asphyxiated passengers emerging from the tunnel were a great parody upon our times! Genius! Thank you
run away! oh wait its the rocket walk away!
laughed
It’s remarkable how well this footage has held up for close to 200 years. It just had to be Made in China.
I think all the passengers died of co2 poisoning in the tunnel lol
Christopher Litherland Notice that they all had black soot on their faces when they came out of the tunnel. They sort of looked like minstrel show performers.
You mean CO poisoning? CO2 is not a poison.
Christopher Litherland sure
VIERON LOS DETALLES? EL GRRANERO LAS VACAS EL TUNEL Y..EL PERRITO Y EL ASNO EN LOS RIELES LOS PASAJEROS ES SUPER GRACIOSO !!!
Christopher Litherland Luckily only once.
Intelligent , brain , hard working. People ,. showing their talent to the world. I like this
I wish I got my genes from my uncle Stephenson 😂
Smart genes lmao