1:28 where put what type of engine Putting engines in the middle: put stronger at front weaker in middle to help balince coupler forces but too much mid power to crush carages, also some bridges can only hold 1 engine at a time. 5:34 spliting train into 2 sections 6:04 flag and light colors 9:05 helper at end used for shorter trains and usaly as banking engines (for parts of track) 10:00 if theres a helper both trains would just "send it" to get over the obstacle and hope the carts handle the compression, (down hill rear engine uses less power but will exspecaly diesels use there break) but both engineers know the track but ultimately front engine must stop the train 13:12 diesel locomotives, one engineer controls front trains, radio to trains at rear but for really long ones may have some difficulty relaying information to engine a km back... Conecting 2 engines together theres a few pipes, one for air breaks, one for power, 3 mu hoses (for breaks i don't understand) modern trains both compercors surply train with air so other trains act like carages 22:10 more corners in pipe means its efectively pumping longer pipes Another issue is if trains are all at front they cant send enough pressure to the back (90 psi front 75 at rear) lower then 75 train cannot run, to solve if you have another engine at that point even steam that engine can pic up the slack (as the aur from front can't refill the mid or rear engine so they can safely lower there breaks Then they talk about university
I'm currently studying system engineering, I'm half way through the career and can relate so much with some experiences you guys had, it's funny how this kind of things doesn't change that much between countries, or even when you study. Remeber, as we say here in Venezuela, a 10 (51 in case your grades are up to 100) is a grade, the rest is luxury. 🤣
Listening to you guys talk about engineering makes me wish I had finished my degree years ago. I never learned how to do homework in high school so when I hit thermo dynamics I failed miserably. I could explain the concepts and help others get their work done, but I didn’t have the discipline to actually sit down and complete the assignments.
Prevents excess slack and buckling in the middle when braking. Also helps on tight curves. Short train- helpers all forwards. Add-on helper - added to rea. Long, heavy train - front, rear and middle.
First year of engineering; I added up all the hours in every classes "manual". It came to a 48 workweek, not counting time between classes, breaks or any of that important stuff. First year, but that's just to ease you in. (I didn't need every hour for every class they set for homework/study but know what you'll be getting into)
I'm in my second semester of engineering school, and I find it interesting (and also incredibly relieving) others have experienced what I'm experiencing right now...makes me feel like I've chosen the right career. It's also interesting and motivating to hear what life's like on the other side of college, to know that there's something more than the stupid general engineering classes I'm taking right now. Appreciate the commentary as always!
As a german medical engineering student, it's really interesting to listen to those canadian and american study concepts. It is mainly the same, but different in so many places too. Those insights are what keep me watching. Great series.
the biggest difference I have with Kan is class sizes. I am taking Applied mathematics, and my class size is between 3-12 people per semester. I also have classes across the entire city because so few people are taking Applied math. it's 30 minutes to my physics class, and 130 minutes to my statistics class. and the funniest part is the base math is the same, but I am learning how it's applied differently depending on the field you are in. Stats is provability of a thing occurring, and modern physics has the provability of a particle being in a location.
Never went to a single one of my 3d design or engineer graphics classes in college. Only showed up for the final projects and I would make up the midterm and complete the final projects in half the time it took everyone else to just finish the final, and got all A’s in the subject.
As I mentioned on Hyce's channel- only the lead unit can charge the train line with modern locomotives. The lead units brake valve had a port of limited size to charge the train line. The trailing units help charge through their main reservoirs, and indeed more units charge quicker than less, but at a certain point you have greatly diminishing returns. With DP's, the "lead" DP unit is the only one that can charge and the trailing DP units can help but again all through the lead units brake stand. In manned helpers, the brake stand is cut out but the independent is cut in.
50:45 I remember taking AP Calculus BC in High school: near the end of the first semester, we all literally struggled on basic arithmetic staring at an expression for 15+ minutes because we hadn't seen any math with no letters in it for so long. XD
I love it. How kan is just describing how canadian Junior High is now. Like in 7th, 8th, and 9th grade, we had to do everything on memory with no calculator and had to wight everything down, and if we couldn't keep up, good luck.
Oh my word! This reminds me of both my college finals. So US, and Georgia Southern University. Senior Seminar had a project, and what I got assigned to was a 3D driving simulator. Note, all mechanical engineers. The professor over that wanted one team to program it to work (we had a great lovely computer science and IT building 5 minutes away), want it turned into an air suspension lift trailer so it was mobile, and laid out no expectations, then disappeared most of the time. He had to Moyer sports team members so I guess he assumed they’d take charge, and one did. In the end all we had to show for it was broken code, and a blueprint on how to make the trailer because parts were delayed, and that professor said we were behind progress meet 1…. He sucked. The second one was with one of my favorite professors in Engine Dynamics (ironically I work on cladding for buildings now), and we designed a new EGR filter for one of the lab diesels. Sadly, parts delays were the name of that year, but at least this time everything was ready to bolt on, and he gave us a mini project to make a replacement filter for the big engine so it could run longer before cleaning the EGR. Best projects of my senior year. Thanks for bringing back the memories guys, and loved hearing your experiences, especially Kan’s cause I never knew the differences between Canadian and US college.
Maybe it was because I went to a large school (University of Texas) but for the most part most of my classes were like kAN's. The large classes were upwards of 300 students, and lectures were 1 hour (50min) MWF, or 1.5 hours (80 min) TTH. There were a few 2 or 3 hour lectures one or 2 nights a week or Fridays. Most also had an additional mandatory 1 hour discussion/Q&A session headed by one of the TA's (usually 20ish students) (can't remember the exact term used for it) that met once or twice a week depended on the exact course that was part of the 3 hour per week lecture. Upper division courses were smaller (~50-100) students and usually had half a dozen or more courses that it fulfilled and each had a TA for the specific focus (ie art history, history, humanities, politics of a specific period of a specific area all had the same lecturer and different sub TAs). Labs were different as were Art classes after I discovered I disliked math enough not to continue my Astronomy/Physics double major and transferred to the Fine Arts college. Summer school was expected for at least the first 2 years, and many students found them taking classes all 4 or 5 summers (most degrees are hard to complete in 4 years). Lastly most did not have a work or intern requirement, but those that did usually was either during the summer (in addition to or part of summer classes) or included as work-study in the last year to year and half of the course load. Lastly, you could tell how many hours a course counted for and generally hour many hours it met for by its course number.
One of my professors initially had the tests not open book (pretty much the first and maybe second one still), but then basically said "screw it, there are probably people looking anyways, so just open notes, open book, whatever you want to use". And it's great being able to use books and notes.
As a 2nd year Mechanical engineering student in the UK I can confirm that a lot of the things here are the same (including lack of time, I should probably be sleeping rn) however there are some things I noted: Our profs are happy to answer questions and there nearly 200 people on my course (that is mech eng alone not including others we rarely share lectures with other courses due to the size of our course). Btw I thought 3 hours of lectures was alot until I had 4 hours in a row of the same module. Also timetables can be mad, yesterday I started lectures at 9am and ended at 6pm with 1 hour for lunch.
Loved the entire conversation and I want to go into mechanical engineering your guys conversation help me be a little less inseminated by the schooling
Wow it is not like that here in the uk that’s so bad in the use and Canada I’m so happy School and college is different here if you want to do work like that come to the uk for god it is so much better here and I love it here
I took a grad level FEA class as an elective and we didn't use Pro E or solidworks, we used Abaqus for this class. For one of my major report projects for the class I did a short study on how the accuracy of the solution was related to element count and a couple other key factors...... apparently the education edition only allowed several hundred thousand elements in a project, and the raw text file after running the solution with my largest element count was several Gigabytes of text format information..... (There is definitely a point of diminishing returns regarding increasing element count and you should be worrying about other issues like element aspect ratio, etc.) On another note: In the early 2000s the graphical interface for Abaqus was technically incomplete, and you had to run a project using the command line interface in order to use a few of the more special options that aren't as commonly used. (I think we were doing a tire contact simulation.....) I was probably one of the few people benefiting from buying an AMD Phenom processor back then for my personal PC build..... The core counts/$$spent I could throw at Pro E and Abaqus simulations meant I ran those for fun...
Here are a few reasons why practice of using multiple steam locomotives in a single train common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: 1. Increased power: By using multiple locomotives, trains could carry more freight or passengers, and travel faster over steeper gradients and rough terrain. Each locomotive could be run at maximum efficiency, and the combined power of the engines would enable the train to move heavier loads. 2. Improved safety: With multiple locomotives, the train would have more braking power, making it easier to stop quickly in case of an emergency. In addition, if one locomotive failed, the others could take over, preventing the train from becoming stranded. 3. Reduced wear and tear: By distributing the load across multiple locomotives, each engine would experience less wear and tear, resulting in longer-lasting and more reliable equipment. 4. Efficiency: With multiple locomotives, the train could be operated more efficiently. For example, one locomotive could be used to pull the train uphill, while another could be used to brake and control the train's speed on the descent. Overall, banking or double-heading was a common practice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when steam locomotives were the primary form of motive power for trains. As diesel and electric locomotives became more prevalent, the need for multiple steam locomotives in a single train diminished. Hope it helps a little :D
I would enjoy a podcast with the two of you very much. I would like to listen to these while doing things but I feel pressured to watch what you are doing while using the trains and that would distract me. do love this series though! Don’t stop!
Context: I went to the same K-12 private school all the way from Kindergarten in 2005 to Senior year in 2018 and graduated from it with a 4.01 GPA (if I remember correctly). This school only started in 2003, and when I started you could fit the entire school, staff and all, within half of a basketball court with plenty room to spare. Since this was a private school, there was no government funding, and since it was also a startup, there was very little equipment to go around. As a result of this, there was never a computer basics course during the entire duration of my attendance. As I got to Junior High (7th & 8th Grade), most of the students and staff were from other schools where mandatory computer classes of some kind or another were commonplace. Due to this fact, the teachers expected everyone to already be proficient in using word processors, spread sheets, and slideshow presentations, despite that school never officially teaching students how to use them. As one of only three of the twentyish graduating students to have been part of our original Kindergarten class, I had many issues revolve around this increasingly more necessary set of knowledge. Main Story: After skipping a semester in between high school and starting college, I attended my local community college in order to get prerequisite courses done because it was much cheaper to do that than to spend two years taking the same courses at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (the college actually I wanted to go to). One class that I took at this community college was "Introduction to Engineering", where we primarily worked with Solid Works and some engineering history. Two to three months into the semester I had to drop the class because I didn't know my way around basic computer programs well enough to do the very simple parts of a project. Because this was an engineering course, the workload was absolutely ridiculous and left me no time to properly teach myself the necessary skills on top of my homework and other classes. When I set up a meeting to talk to my professor about my issues, he said that he thought it was impossible for students to have not had computer basics classes and the course would be extremely difficult without it. We both agreed that it'd probably be better if I dropped out, but due to there only being a little over a month of the semester left, we also thought that it might be worth it to try and finish. I thought it over during that weekend and decided to drop the class. My plan was to take a break from college the next semester and then return the following, but Covid completely ruined that by forcing all classes to be fully online, which was not happening for me due to certain reasons. I still plan to go back, but I need to do a summer computer course first... Thank you to the maybe two people who actually read this. TL/DR: Grew up without knowing how to properly use basic computer programs, which caused major problems with the engineering education I wish to pursue.
The way you describe train sections work is weirdly the exact way sending big files through the internet works. Files are fragmented and share the transaction id and each of the fragments except the last one will have "more fragments" flag. Maybe that's where they got the idea xD
Sheesh just hearing about the pain of engineering school makes me kinda glad I went with a trade work instead (welding/fabrication)😂 I go to a community college , and it’s so nice having smaller classes, and being able to work hands on, with great teachers, and nice equipment. There’s also the cost part, thanks to grants, which man I am so grateful for, I won’t have any debt, and will leave with a wide work area. I did a 2 year welding/fab degree program, then decided to do a 1 year pipe welding degree as it was only a little more credits to get as I had all core classes done through the other one. I had a couple speciality intro classes, like machining (learned how to use a lathe, and mill on metal), and some NDT classes. Loved doing autocad, but surprisingly never got to do the other ones like solidworks, or inventor. Though they are totally different animals compared to autocad lmao. There’s also a joke about butting heads between engineers, and us welders lol. The engineers will give some blueprint and basically say ok, go build this, even though it’s not possible, then they’ll deny that, and insist on it. Then it’ll fail, and need to be redone, but you know, they won’t listen to the welder and just call them dumb😂
Insurance works by paying monthly premiums to a company that will, in turn, pay for any sudden, high-cost disaster or something. Private insurance companies can exist because, on average, the premiums sum up to more than the costs of disasters. Self-insurance is basically just budgeting money every month that you will never touch instead of paying a premium. Then when a disaster happens, you have to pay for it yourself, but you now have this massive fund that you've built up with the money that you've been putting away this whole time. It works as long as nothing bad happens before you can afford to pay for it the first time. It also has problems if things happen frequently enough for your fund to dry up.
Can relate Kan, my class was 40 people in electrical engineering, by the end of it we were 8 hahaha Also, glad to hear professor types is an universal thing, got the same profiles in Brazil lol
Reminiscent of my comprehensive school physics final (mock) exam back in 1984.. Consisting of 50 questions and I achieved 98% So 1 question was wrong.. I still remember my physics teacher commenting on how well I'd done and I also remember him pointing out that despite milk being an alkaline and I was correct in answering "Coffee" to the question.. "What changes colour when an alkaline is added.?".. The answer he was looking for was "Litmus paper" :)
Nice to learn about other people struggle learning... I had a great time listening while eating xD Like always Btw just ignore the rest of the comment it's a random ramble... Well... I Didn't go to engineering but computer science but where I studied you could only go fully into it in the 3rd year, the 2 firsts years were more generalist for pretty much everyone, the thing is in the coding classes I Had 90% (missed a deadline then the prof changed from 23H59 to 22H and having some copy paste of a same thing here and there that could be made into one (a text message mostl) but whatever it's not like I done it in 15 min then we had a whole hour to do it... Oh wait I did :p) and for the math classes I failed because it was too abstract for me (and the 2nd classes assumed you knew thing from the 1rst classes and the same for the others), after going to the 2nd year with 1rst year maths classes and failing both maths (4 or 5 classes in total) having an average of 40% and "needing" to pass the maths classes for going into 3rd year I stopped in the middle of the 2nd attempt of the 2nd year (basically it was only maths at this point...) This is what the dumb part of this university was... Would have loved to go into AI learning and all before it even started becoming big... Anyway not that anyone care :p
Ask Hyce if diesel trains can fill from a tanker car. Last week I saw two engines pulling one tanker and one car, I couldn't help but wonder if there was something in there important making a non stop trip
The BN once bought several million ( yes, million) gallons of diesel fuel at about half price. They setup some 10000 gallon tank cars as tenders to feed pairs of locomotives. Two SD40s followed by a BN green tank car. They were only used for a year or so, if I remember correctly, because price of fuel dropped.
Current Mechatronics engineering student here!! Can confirm that engineering is not an easy course. It’s a lot of work and a lot less sleep, but the satisfaction of getting smth to work is well worth it! (And yes I absolutely agree that electrical engineering sucks)
I would phrase it differently. Uni is graded differently to high school. With high school, it is expected that if you apply yourself, you should be able to get 100%, and lower marks are due to silly mistakes or not caring, with 50% being bad. You can easily have classes where most people get 90% or above. At uni, the passing bar is set at 50%. If you want to get good marks you need to be good and really apply yourself. 90% is a mark denoting you performed significantly better than the rest of your cohort.
So got a question for hyce so Kan how your exiting the train to change to rail split how the he'll they do that in the past because I know now they have a hole system with all the switch and stuff
My uni has hurdle requirements on practically all exams. So to pass you need a minimum of say 60% on the exam to pass. Some units used an assessment task as the exam so they were the hurdle. I think you might then need to maybe get enough on assessment tasks to get a pass mark? Or maybe the hurdle is it. Can't remember
Being self insured is actually the standard for large corporations. Insurance companies just can't absorb the cost of the large scale industrial accidents and even smaller incidents. Smaller being entirely relative where values of multi-millions is a small scale footnote.
a question for Hyce I'm thinking of working as a train engineer (hopefully in Ireland) but I have asthma...would that effect my chances of being a train engineer?
In America, College and University are two different things, a College is just the school part, like math, science, history, etc, a University includes the dorms and other buildings.
with how much Hyce talks about running the 20 on Cumbres & Toltec ask him how they got it there, since the museum is a closed loop - on the back of a semi trailer or ?
theres a comment below about podcasting. i agree, start a podcast and play games so we can watch one thing and listen to another without it being mixed up! like hearing adult films but watching the matrix...kinda weird.
So kan, I will be going to collage for engineering later this year. It will be my first year. Would you recommend taking the cad program they offer now or waiting a year or two?
Instead of jumping onto the cars and being bounced off try just walking straight at the cars without jumping, you should be able to just walk straight onto the top of whichever car your aimed at.
What is the feasibility of making a nuclear powered steam locomotive? My father asked me this, since I am a nuclear mechanic who enjoys trains as a hobby, and I thought long and hard about it. I have a solid idea of the answer, but I want to know what you guys think about it.
From a technical and design perspective, I think it is totally possible if not feasible. Reactors can be made fairly compact today, compared to even 10-20 years ago, and steam powered trains are already a thing so you could go with either designing a turbine to get electricity or kinetic energy, or as a boiler replacement in a more steam locomotive design. However, from a cost and safety perspective, I think it would be axed, the potential of derailment makes it a much harder sell than say a nuclear powered ship. And even with nuclear powered ships you have the example of the US Navy decommissioning their nuclear Crusiers due to the cost of maintaining them compared to the benifts of being nuclear.
As a pilot, I gotta disagree with Hyce and Kan. Post-secondary education is very useful, but college/university is more often than not a waste of resources. Way too many jobs require a four year degree, namely the ones that do not care what subject that degree is in (like airline pilots until just a few years ago). Trade school is better for those that don’t know what they want to do for a career.
This weeks video title should be: Kan and Hyce talk about the wonders of the painful college experience.
wow an hour of monologue? perfect way to spend my afternoon
...there are two people here... this is dialogue.
You are being sarcastic but you still watched it. Not much for you to do today huh?
This comment sounded somehow aggressive ngl a lil sarcasm
You should write books if you put this feeling in these few words intentional
You sly dog you got me monologueing
1:28 where put what type of engine
Putting engines in the middle: put stronger at front weaker in middle to help balince coupler forces but too much mid power to crush carages, also some bridges can only hold 1 engine at a time.
5:34 spliting train into 2 sections
6:04 flag and light colors
9:05 helper at end used for shorter trains and usaly as banking engines (for parts of track)
10:00 if theres a helper both trains would just "send it" to get over the obstacle and hope the carts handle the compression, (down hill rear engine uses less power but will exspecaly diesels use there break) but both engineers know the track but ultimately front engine must stop the train
13:12 diesel locomotives, one engineer controls front trains, radio to trains at rear but for really long ones may have some difficulty relaying information to engine a km back...
Conecting 2 engines together theres a few pipes, one for air breaks, one for power, 3 mu hoses (for breaks i don't understand) modern trains both compercors surply train with air so other trains act like carages
22:10 more corners in pipe means its efectively pumping longer pipes
Another issue is if trains are all at front they cant send enough pressure to the back (90 psi front 75 at rear) lower then 75 train cannot run, to solve if you have another engine at that point even steam that engine can pic up the slack (as the aur from front can't refill the mid or rear engine so they can safely lower there breaks
Then they talk about university
Farmers, Engineers, and Mechanics make the world go round and keep it that way. I love this series and learn a lot from your discussions.
56:42 In Germany we have a proverb that translated to : "A Horse only jumps as high as is necessary"
Can we just get more podcasty episodes of you guys talking engineering
Engineering and bullshittery
This is my favorite way to spend an hour💜 keep up the good work you too
I'm currently studying system engineering, I'm half way through the career and can relate so much with some experiences you guys had, it's funny how this kind of things doesn't change that much between countries, or even when you study.
Remeber, as we say here in Venezuela, a 10 (51 in case your grades are up to 100) is a grade, the rest is luxury. 🤣
You cut the actual humping! That's like the most satisfying part of the whole trip :o
What are you trying to say here...
I just recently started university and it was so relieving to listen to others talking about the same difficulties that I'm having!
Listening to you guys talk about engineering makes me wish I had finished my degree years ago. I never learned how to do homework in high school so when I hit thermo dynamics I failed miserably. I could explain the concepts and help others get their work done, but I didn’t have the discipline to actually sit down and complete the assignments.
As a fourth year physics major, I connected with this episode on a spiritual level
Prevents excess slack and buckling in the middle when braking. Also helps on tight curves. Short train- helpers all forwards. Add-on helper - added to rea. Long, heavy train - front, rear and middle.
First year of engineering; I added up all the hours in every classes "manual". It came to a 48 workweek, not counting time between classes, breaks or any of that important stuff. First year, but that's just to ease you in.
(I didn't need every hour for every class they set for homework/study but know what you'll be getting into)
I'm in my second semester of engineering school, and I find it interesting (and also incredibly relieving) others have experienced what I'm experiencing right now...makes me feel like I've chosen the right career. It's also interesting and motivating to hear what life's like on the other side of college, to know that there's something more than the stupid general engineering classes I'm taking right now. Appreciate the commentary as always!
As a german medical engineering student, it's really interesting to listen to those canadian and american study concepts. It is mainly the same, but different in so many places too. Those insights are what keep me watching. Great series.
the biggest difference I have with Kan is class sizes. I am taking Applied mathematics, and my class size is between 3-12 people per semester. I also have classes across the entire city because so few people are taking Applied math. it's 30 minutes to my physics class, and 130 minutes to my statistics class.
and the funniest part is the base math is the same, but I am learning how it's applied differently depending on the field you are in. Stats is provability of a thing occurring, and modern physics has the provability of a particle being in a location.
Finishing my last semester of college this semester and being able to relate to all of the engineering stuffs you guys talked about was too relateable
Never went to a single one of my 3d design or engineer graphics classes in college. Only showed up for the final projects and I would make up the midterm and complete the final projects in half the time it took everyone else to just finish the final, and got all A’s in the subject.
I'm new to the channel but absolutely love the history lessons while we watch, awesome stuff man.
As I mentioned on Hyce's channel- only the lead unit can charge the train line with modern locomotives. The lead units brake valve had a port of limited size to charge the train line. The trailing units help charge through their main reservoirs, and indeed more units charge quicker than less, but at a certain point you have greatly diminishing returns.
With DP's, the "lead" DP unit is the only one that can charge and the trailing DP units can help but again all through the lead units brake stand.
In manned helpers, the brake stand is cut out but the independent is cut in.
50:45 I remember taking AP Calculus BC in High school: near the end of the first semester, we all literally struggled on basic arithmetic staring at an expression for 15+ minutes because we hadn't seen any math with no letters in it for so long. XD
I love it. How kan is just describing how canadian Junior High is now. Like in 7th, 8th, and 9th grade, we had to do everything on memory with no calculator and had to wight everything down, and if we couldn't keep up, good luck.
Oh my word! This reminds me of both my college finals. So US, and Georgia Southern University. Senior Seminar had a project, and what I got assigned to was a 3D driving simulator. Note, all mechanical engineers. The professor over that wanted one team to program it to work (we had a great lovely computer science and IT building 5 minutes away), want it turned into an air suspension lift trailer so it was mobile, and laid out no expectations, then disappeared most of the time. He had to Moyer sports team members so I guess he assumed they’d take charge, and one did. In the end all we had to show for it was broken code, and a blueprint on how to make the trailer because parts were delayed, and that professor said we were behind progress meet 1…. He sucked. The second one was with one of my favorite professors in Engine Dynamics (ironically I work on cladding for buildings now), and we designed a new EGR filter for one of the lab diesels. Sadly, parts delays were the name of that year, but at least this time everything was ready to bolt on, and he gave us a mini project to make a replacement filter for the big engine so it could run longer before cleaning the EGR. Best projects of my senior year. Thanks for bringing back the memories guys, and loved hearing your experiences, especially Kan’s cause I never knew the differences between Canadian and US college.
Maybe it was because I went to a large school (University of Texas) but for the most part most of my classes were like kAN's. The large classes were upwards of 300 students, and lectures were 1 hour (50min) MWF, or 1.5 hours (80 min) TTH. There were a few 2 or 3 hour lectures one or 2 nights a week or Fridays. Most also had an additional mandatory 1 hour discussion/Q&A session headed by one of the TA's (usually 20ish students) (can't remember the exact term used for it) that met once or twice a week depended on the exact course that was part of the 3 hour per week lecture. Upper division courses were smaller (~50-100) students and usually had half a dozen or more courses that it fulfilled and each had a TA for the specific focus (ie art history, history, humanities, politics of a specific period of a specific area all had the same lecturer and different sub TAs). Labs were different as were Art classes after I discovered I disliked math enough not to continue my Astronomy/Physics double major and transferred to the Fine Arts college. Summer school was expected for at least the first 2 years, and many students found them taking classes all 4 or 5 summers (most degrees are hard to complete in 4 years). Lastly most did not have a work or intern requirement, but those that did usually was either during the summer (in addition to or part of summer classes) or included as work-study in the last year to year and half of the course load.
Lastly, you could tell how many hours a course counted for and generally hour many hours it met for by its course number.
One of my professors initially had the tests not open book (pretty much the first and maybe second one still), but then basically said "screw it, there are probably people looking anyways, so just open notes, open book, whatever you want to use". And it's great being able to use books and notes.
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Currently at school for an engineering associates. Literally taking Intro to Psych this semester, and I heard those exact words lol.
As a 2nd year Mechanical engineering student in the UK I can confirm that a lot of the things here are the same (including lack of time, I should probably be sleeping rn) however there are some things I noted: Our profs are happy to answer questions and there nearly 200 people on my course (that is mech eng alone not including others we rarely share lectures with other courses due to the size of our course). Btw I thought 3 hours of lectures was alot until I had 4 hours in a row of the same module. Also timetables can be mad, yesterday I started lectures at 9am and ended at 6pm with 1 hour for lunch.
Loved the entire conversation and I want to go into mechanical engineering your guys conversation help me be a little less inseminated by the schooling
Wow it is not like that here in the uk that’s so bad in the use and Canada I’m so happy School and college is different here if you want to do work like that come to the uk for god it is so much better here and I love it here
6:05 With the green flags for multiple of the same train, funeral processions would follow the same idea. Though it’s rare to see that nowadays.
Hey Kan , you should ask Hyce what he thinks about Brightline building all the high speed rails and about the Ohio train crash ..
For that matter, what’s with all the derailments lately?!!
@@GreenAppelPie you learned about the Kenosha at Tempi?
@@GreenAppelPie iTs ThE gOvErNmEnT!!!1!11!!!
Every movie I've ever seen about collage lied to me! lol!!🤣😂
I took a grad level FEA class as an elective and we didn't use Pro E or solidworks, we used Abaqus for this class.
For one of my major report projects for the class I did a short study on how the accuracy of the solution was related to element count and a couple other key factors...... apparently the education edition only allowed several hundred thousand elements in a project, and the raw text file after running the solution with my largest element count was several Gigabytes of text format information..... (There is definitely a point of diminishing returns regarding increasing element count and you should be worrying about other issues like element aspect ratio, etc.)
On another note: In the early 2000s the graphical interface for Abaqus was technically incomplete, and you had to run a project using the command line interface in order to use a few of the more special options that aren't as commonly used. (I think we were doing a tire contact simulation.....)
I was probably one of the few people benefiting from buying an AMD Phenom processor back then for my personal PC build..... The core counts/$$spent I could throw at Pro E and Abaqus simulations meant I ran those for fun...
Here are a few reasons why practice of using multiple steam locomotives in a single train common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries:
1. Increased power: By using multiple locomotives, trains could carry more freight or passengers, and travel faster over steeper gradients and rough terrain. Each locomotive could be run at maximum efficiency, and the combined power of the engines would enable the train to move heavier loads.
2. Improved safety: With multiple locomotives, the train would have more braking power, making it easier to stop quickly in case of an emergency. In addition, if one locomotive failed, the others could take over, preventing the train from becoming stranded.
3. Reduced wear and tear: By distributing the load across multiple locomotives, each engine would experience less wear and tear, resulting in longer-lasting and more reliable equipment.
4. Efficiency: With multiple locomotives, the train could be operated more efficiently. For example, one locomotive could be used to pull the train uphill, while another could be used to brake and control the train's speed on the descent.
Overall, banking or double-heading was a common practice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when steam locomotives were the primary form of motive power for trains. As diesel and electric locomotives became more prevalent, the need for multiple steam locomotives in a single train diminished.
Hope it helps a little :D
I would enjoy a podcast with the two of you very much. I would like to listen to these while doing things but I feel pressured to watch what you are doing while using the trains and that would distract me. do love this series though! Don’t stop!
Context:
I went to the same K-12 private school all the way from Kindergarten in 2005 to Senior year in 2018 and graduated from it with a 4.01 GPA (if I remember correctly). This school only started in 2003, and when I started you could fit the entire school, staff and all, within half of a basketball court with plenty room to spare. Since this was a private school, there was no government funding, and since it was also a startup, there was very little equipment to go around. As a result of this, there was never a computer basics course during the entire duration of my attendance. As I got to Junior High (7th & 8th Grade), most of the students and staff were from other schools where mandatory computer classes of some kind or another were commonplace. Due to this fact, the teachers expected everyone to already be proficient in using word processors, spread sheets, and slideshow presentations, despite that school never officially teaching students how to use them. As one of only three of the twentyish graduating students to have been part of our original Kindergarten class, I had many issues revolve around this increasingly more necessary set of knowledge.
Main Story:
After skipping a semester in between high school and starting college, I attended my local community college in order to get prerequisite courses done because it was much cheaper to do that than to spend two years taking the same courses at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (the college actually I wanted to go to). One class that I took at this community college was "Introduction to Engineering", where we primarily worked with Solid Works and some engineering history. Two to three months into the semester I had to drop the class because I didn't know my way around basic computer programs well enough to do the very simple parts of a project. Because this was an engineering course, the workload was absolutely ridiculous and left me no time to properly teach myself the necessary skills on top of my homework and other classes. When I set up a meeting to talk to my professor about my issues, he said that he thought it was impossible for students to have not had computer basics classes and the course would be extremely difficult without it. We both agreed that it'd probably be better if I dropped out, but due to there only being a little over a month of the semester left, we also thought that it might be worth it to try and finish. I thought it over during that weekend and decided to drop the class. My plan was to take a break from college the next semester and then return the following, but Covid completely ruined that by forcing all classes to be fully online, which was not happening for me due to certain reasons. I still plan to go back, but I need to do a summer computer course first... Thank you to the maybe two people who actually read this.
TL/DR: Grew up without knowing how to properly use basic computer programs, which caused major problems with the engineering education I wish to pursue.
At my college we have up to 300 ish people in a lecture hall and somehow the professors answer questions from the class.
The way you describe train sections work is weirdly the exact way sending big files through the internet works. Files are fragmented and share the transaction id and each of the fragments except the last one will have "more fragments" flag. Maybe that's where they got the idea xD
there is stuff that's directly named after railroad equipment - semaphores come to mind, but I'm not sure if there's any others
Are you talking about segmented packets? Most file transfers on the internet (these days) are via connection oriented streams.
@@Milamberinx Yes, packets, couldn't remember the name at that moment
Logistics makes the world go round, engineering shows how to make it happen.
Kan, you and Hyce should play stormworks and build a steam loco
That would be sick, but unfortunately the game doesn't allow co-building
Sheesh just hearing about the pain of engineering school makes me kinda glad I went with a trade work instead (welding/fabrication)😂 I go to a community college , and it’s so nice having smaller classes, and being able to work hands on, with great teachers, and nice equipment. There’s also the cost part, thanks to grants, which man I am so grateful for, I won’t have any debt, and will leave with a wide work area. I did a 2 year welding/fab degree program, then decided to do a 1 year pipe welding degree as it was only a little more credits to get as I had all core classes done through the other one. I had a couple speciality intro classes, like machining (learned how to use a lathe, and mill on metal), and some NDT classes. Loved doing autocad, but surprisingly never got to do the other ones like solidworks, or inventor. Though they are totally different animals compared to autocad lmao. There’s also a joke about butting heads between engineers, and us welders lol. The engineers will give some blueprint and basically say ok, go build this, even though it’s not possible, then they’ll deny that, and insist on it. Then it’ll fail, and need to be redone, but you know, they won’t listen to the welder and just call them dumb😂
Insurance works by paying monthly premiums to a company that will, in turn, pay for any sudden, high-cost disaster or something. Private insurance companies can exist because, on average, the premiums sum up to more than the costs of disasters.
Self-insurance is basically just budgeting money every month that you will never touch instead of paying a premium. Then when a disaster happens, you have to pay for it yourself, but you now have this massive fund that you've built up with the money that you've been putting away this whole time. It works as long as nothing bad happens before you can afford to pay for it the first time. It also has problems if things happen frequently enough for your fund to dry up.
Can relate Kan, my class was 40 people in electrical engineering, by the end of it we were 8 hahaha
Also, glad to hear professor types is an universal thing, got the same profiles in Brazil lol
You know, maybe it's me getting old, but I would totally be up for the two of you doing some sort of engineering podcast where you talk for many hours
cause middle train go brrr, everyone knows this...
Challenge: you and Hyce say your own intros at the same time without laughing over it until after the intros are said
Reminiscent of my comprehensive school physics final (mock) exam back in 1984..
Consisting of 50 questions and I achieved 98% So 1 question was wrong..
I still remember my physics teacher commenting on how well I'd done and I also remember him pointing out that despite milk being an alkaline and I was correct in answering "Coffee" to the question..
"What changes colour when an alkaline is added.?"..
The answer he was looking for was "Litmus paper" :)
Nice to learn about other people struggle learning...
I had a great time listening while eating xD Like always
Btw just ignore the rest of the comment it's a random ramble...
Well... I Didn't go to engineering but computer science but where I studied you could only go fully into it in the 3rd year, the 2 firsts years were more generalist for pretty much everyone, the thing is in the coding classes I Had 90% (missed a deadline then the prof changed from 23H59 to 22H and having some copy paste of a same thing here and there that could be made into one (a text message mostl) but whatever it's not like I done it in 15 min then we had a whole hour to do it... Oh wait I did :p) and for the math classes I failed because it was too abstract for me (and the 2nd classes assumed you knew thing from the 1rst classes and the same for the others), after going to the 2nd year with 1rst year maths classes and failing both maths (4 or 5 classes in total) having an average of 40% and "needing" to pass the maths classes for going into 3rd year I stopped in the middle of the 2nd attempt of the 2nd year (basically it was only maths at this point...)
This is what the dumb part of this university was... Would have loved to go into AI learning and all before it even started becoming big...
Anyway not that anyone care :p
Hey Kan, you should really start a podcast just from all the things you are talking about in these videos
I'd really listen to it
@@utegold8209 This is the podcast. Just with some video thrown in for the heck of it.
Back at it again boys
Ask Hyce if diesel trains can fill from a tanker car.
Last week I saw two engines pulling one tanker and one car, I couldn't help but wonder if there was something in there important making a non stop trip
Sorry
Could you ask if you find the time?
Please
The BN once bought several million ( yes, million) gallons of diesel fuel at about half price. They setup some 10000 gallon tank cars as tenders to feed pairs of locomotives. Two SD40s followed by a BN green tank car. They were only used for a year or so, if I remember correctly, because price of fuel dropped.
@@davidwise2489 I figured it was possible but would be against some regulations these days.
The Florida East Coast Railway has converted its diesels to run on natural gas. They have basically a tank car between the two engines.
Current Mechatronics engineering student here!! Can confirm that engineering is not an easy course. It’s a lot of work and a lot less sleep, but the satisfaction of getting smth to work is well worth it! (And yes I absolutely agree that electrical engineering sucks)
I would phrase it differently.
Uni is graded differently to high school.
With high school, it is expected that if you apply yourself, you should be able to get 100%, and lower marks are due to silly mistakes or not caring, with 50% being bad. You can easily have classes where most people get 90% or above.
At uni, the passing bar is set at 50%. If you want to get good marks you need to be good and really apply yourself. 90% is a mark denoting you performed significantly better than the rest of your cohort.
Welcome to another video podcast on trains brought to you by KAn & Hyce
So got a question for hyce so Kan how your exiting the train to change to rail split how the he'll they do that in the past because I know now they have a hole system with all the switch and stuff
My uni has hurdle requirements on practically all exams. So to pass you need a minimum of say 60% on the exam to pass.
Some units used an assessment task as the exam so they were the hurdle.
I think you might then need to maybe get enough on assessment tasks to get a pass mark? Or maybe the hurdle is it. Can't remember
Being self insured is actually the standard for large corporations. Insurance companies just can't absorb the cost of the large scale industrial accidents and even smaller incidents. Smaller being entirely relative where values of multi-millions is a small scale footnote.
a question for Hyce
I'm thinking of working as a train engineer (hopefully in Ireland)
but I have asthma...would that effect my chances of being a train engineer?
You might want to ask that on Hyce's channel. More likely he'll see it there.
When I was doing astrophysics at uni, we started with 120 people in class, after 5 years there were 20 left.. 😅
You guys should check out the modded map with the industries placed in a way that running mixed trains makes more sense.
Soon we would need only engineers because they are designing ways to automate farming with self driving vehicles and other stuff.
In America, College and University are two different things, a College is just the school part, like math, science, history, etc, a University includes the dorms and other buildings.
Double header…
Hehe 😜
I think heist knows a thing or two about that. 😉😁
Kan should design some RC cars and 3D print them, think they'd be awesome.
steam chocho is the professional word
with how much Hyce talks about running the 20 on Cumbres & Toltec
ask him how they got it there, since the museum is a closed loop - on the back of a semi trailer or ?
theres a comment below about podcasting. i agree, start a podcast and play games so we can watch one thing and listen to another without it being mixed up! like hearing adult films but watching the matrix...kinda weird.
So kan, I will be going to collage for engineering later this year. It will be my first year. Would you recommend taking the cad program they offer now or waiting a year or two?
Take it asap and advertise it on your resume to get internships
@Manti 088 Engineering in what form?
Of course with Hyce
Instead of jumping onto the cars and being bounced off try just walking straight at the cars without jumping, you should be able to just walk straight onto the top of whichever car your aimed at.
You should try to build a dev bridge with the new splines
18:37 oh I wonder why there's an obvious cut/s
Kan kan kan kan the johnson bar is simulated correctly your able to set the johnson bar at 30% and run the glenbrook at knotch 8 without derailing
I love your video so much
What is the feasibility of making a nuclear powered steam locomotive?
My father asked me this, since I am a nuclear mechanic who enjoys trains as a hobby, and I thought long and hard about it. I have a solid idea of the answer, but I want to know what you guys think about it.
From a technical and design perspective, I think it is totally possible if not feasible. Reactors can be made fairly compact today, compared to even 10-20 years ago, and steam powered trains are already a thing so you could go with either designing a turbine to get electricity or kinetic energy, or as a boiler replacement in a more steam locomotive design.
However, from a cost and safety perspective, I think it would be axed, the potential of derailment makes it a much harder sell than say a nuclear powered ship. And even with nuclear powered ships you have the example of the US Navy decommissioning their nuclear Crusiers due to the cost of maintaining them compared to the benifts of being nuclear.
We've got Kan and Mark Cash/Johnny Huber
Will railroads online ever come to console? If so, when?
Also whistle codes
Was how you would tell your back engine
Hey its time to brake bud
Kan after starting to take the empty wood cars back you forgot to shut the firebox door
You should make a podcast you like to talk to it
A lot stupid auto correct
Hey link us that Led Zeppelin cover!! Hahaha
I love how 95% of this video isn’t about the original topic chosen
27:00 i found a calculator it is around 3 000 000 dollars now
What do you call the student who graduates med school with a D average?
Today I learned green flags make multiple trains legally the same train
You are entertainers
It’s duct tape and zip ties man😂😂
listening to engineering problems and problem solving always sound interesting, but i am so happy i have chosen to go the architecture route
He did all that college work just to end up playing video games...
Bread 👍
47:32
I did it because it pays for my side projects
As a pilot, I gotta disagree with Hyce and Kan. Post-secondary education is very useful, but college/university is more often than not a waste of resources. Way too many jobs require a four year degree, namely the ones that do not care what subject that degree is in (like airline pilots until just a few years ago). Trade school is better for those that don’t know what they want to do for a career.
I would love to see an art of rendering style of video of the solidworks assemblies you worked on. It might work in a shorts format.
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I think it’s engineers think it and machinists make it mechanics fix it people use it truckers haul it and farmers feed them all.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world
"thank god college in the states arent like this" actualy they are.
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