3:20 No, it does not use coal in its own engines. Like other bucket wheel excavators, it had all electrical motors and was provided electricity by a cable from the grid.
Not saying that it ran on coal was true, but it is more then possible. Most of those large excavation machines were in fact "plugged" into the grid, some used diesel generators where the mine was just to far off the grid. Could they have used a coal fired boiler and steam turbine to power a electric generator ? Sure but I can,t see some one ordering a system so much more complicated when diesel fuel at the time was like 20 cents a gallon. But on the other hand in its hayday that machine was running 24-7 and a turbine would not require nearly as much maintenance and would last much longer then a diesel -electric set up. .
I don’t no where ferroconcrete ships are in use today, but the last time a ferroconcrete ship was constructed in Europe, was during the German occupation. The ship still exists today as church ship “Kerkschip St Josef” in the port of Antwerp (Belgium). In WW I the French built several ferroconcrete ships to be used as army transports. www.kerkschip-antwerpen.be/erfgoed.htm
@@wkruit ferrocement. It's not concrete. There are plenty of ferro vessels out there but the advantage in materials cost is outweighed by labour costs, because the system requires a lot of it. Also it can be hard to get insurance because amateur-built hulls are often less than perfect. They can be overweight because too much mortar has been used and this makes them weaker, not stronger. However a pro built ferro hull will last as well as a steel or GRP one.
I got a $10 citation from the city for leaving my trash can out to long after the truck came and emptied it. McDonalds & 6 Flags can leave a barge on the water an a Batmobile in the woods, yet nobody tells them to come pick up the trash or face a fine?
Just one more reason that GM shouldn't get bailed ever again, all they had to do was adjust the angle of the wheel where it meets the rails and that ride would smooth right out as well as increasing the top speed. Same thing with Canada's Turbo train in the 60's through the mid 70's, it kept jumping the rails at just over 100mph for that very reason. We used to scramble to get our gear off the tracks when that thing came flying through, rail yard crew gear that is. Our train tracks are the same ones used for the steam engines, terrible ride.
Hey, "Mystery Men" was GREAT. And yeah, the Herkimer was extremely cool. Damn, I'll take it if no one else wants it ... same with that Batmobile! ...Gee, those drug lord tanks are just what we need, for modern American roads.
The part about burning man is inaccurate. The festival cleanup crew was the one to handle removal of the bicycles. The lazy attendees left them, but the festival management never lets the playa go tainted before packing up. It's part of our contract for being able to continue to use the playa.
Some years the cleanup crew is there for 2 weeks after the festival ends. Locals and attendees alike helped to gather and remove the bicycles left behind by the less scrupulous attendees.
Since both Aerotrains are in museums - Green Bay and St. Louis - they really aren't "abandoned". And they were not "back in the warehouse barely a year after their 1956 launch". Both were retired in 1966 - after 10 years of use.
Interesting fact - the Cadillac "Miller Meteor" ambulances are INCREDIBLY rare and valuable. Think hundreds of thousands of dollars valuable. They were for the film like using the Delorean for back to the future - though orders of magnitude rarer. Excluding the ECTO-1 hack-ups, there are something like 50-60 known to still exist. Exceedingly rare. It would be absurd if Sony sold that car, and it's even more absurd they haven't restored it. Even as the prop car, it'd easily fetch 200 grand for private sale. My former ambulance company still has one in its original 1950's/60's baby blue and white livery, in absolutely pristine, fully restored condition. We use it for parades and at funerals for fallen medics. One of our oldest medics passed away a few years ago, he was the last one at the company that remembered driving those old boats for real in the 60's and 70's. He said that they were staggeringly comfortable and smooth compared to our modern rigs with the massive V8 and cadillac ride. Also interesting fact - if you never let the ambulance certification lapse, they could be grandfathered in despite meeting no modern standards. As long as they had the minimum required equipment of a modern rig, they can be kept as functional service ambulances. Ours isn't, but I think there are something like five of the old caddy ambulances in America that are still legally registered as ambulances.
We had a huge concrete boat built in my village in the late 60s early 70s. It travelled all round the world on a cruise, but don't know where it ended up. I remember the whole community came out to watch the launch at high tide. Massive impressive thing.
The Miller-Meteor ghostbusters car IS a hearse. It's called a combination, the floor flips over, Landau panels go over the windows, an oxygen tank goes in place, a red light installs on top so it serves as an ambulance and a hearse.
This is not Bagger 258, it is still in use in West Germany. This is SRs 1500 and it used to work until 2002 in Meuro, East Germany. It was made by VVB TAKRAF, Lauchhammerwerk is a part of it. Furthermore, all of these are powered by high-voltage electricity and can not run on coal. Which also would not make sense because this one was used to dig overburden, not coal.
In 2020, it was reported that there were plans to refit the barge into a seafood restaurant, though a location had not been secured. Later in 2021 it was reported that an undisclosed site had been selected but was awaiting government approval.
There's a giant electric excavator in West Mineral, Kansas named Big Brutus. It was used in the 60's and 70's for coal strip mining. It weighs 9.3 millions lbs and is now a museum that is open to the public. It ran off electricity and inside there are gigantic motors that powered everything from the tracks, to the booms and other equipment. There are stations all over the place for maintenance guys to ride along with it and just keep things oiled and lubricated at the time. It's really cool to walk around inside of it. If you ever get to Kansas, this is in the southeastern area and worth a visit.
11:18, go to see this aero train, go to Wisconsin railroad mueseum and u can see it…. U can also go inside if the train and look at the cabs and the skylight car…my favorite part is going inside the cab
Bagger 258 (and Bagger 1473 that is often confused with it) were both powered by electricity supplied by external power cable. NOT BY COAL. This is also true for the later Bagger models, like the 288 and 293 that are counted as the largest (by most measures) land vehicles of all time.
I've been on that boat many times, it was still attached to the fishing pier at Sea cliff beach in Aptos. The last time I was there the pier had been cut off of it as the boat had pretty much broken apart and was no longer safe.
@@petergambier boats are the kind of thing that eventually become outdated and more costly to maintain than to get a new one, and nobody likes shipbreaking.
@@blockstacker5614 I agree, you could sell it off to be a houseboat where all that should concern you is the hull and so long as that's good it'll last for years, especially if it's aluminium or completely plastic. So, with all that plastic waste floating in the oceans it's time we got into boat building.
Hey,the Big cole excevator is not Bild from Lauchhammer,it is build in Lauchhammer...east Germany...the Firma that him build is TAKRAF!!!! Very nice Video,greets from Germany!!!
If I'm not mistaken that batmobile is the 1 from a 1989 MTV "steal the batmobile" contest giveaway. The car came with no engine. The guy who won it had to sign an agreement with WB not to use it for financial purposes (he couldnt charge people to see it on display) after he got it the IRS hit I'm with taxes on it. He was forced to sell it.
I had a trainee on my ambulance the other day and he said that he goes to burning man with his old schoolbus and collects the nicest bicycles after the event and resells them. I got my bike, a rare and classic schwinn traveler chromoly that way. I also used to work at a hot rod shop, we bought an 1970's chevy pickup as a parts-getter for like $400, and the bed was filled with old bicycles. I dug through them and saw one was a 1950's schwinn california beach cruiser with its original badges (big money) so we cleaned it up, powder coated the frame, rebuilt the coaster brake, new grips and cables, and I resold the thing for $5000 in 2007
That's because burning man is full of spoiled hippie wannabes on rich parents dime, people with every opportunity afforded to them that instead go off and live like bums doing drugs then discard garbage and even expensive ideas when the hangover comes and run home to mommy and daddy
One of those trains from GM I've seen a lot at the National Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood MO. The styling of it has always intrigued me. Damn now I want to take a trip back to the museum lol.
I collect Art Deco piece so that truck thumbnail caught my eye. It's so cool, the bulk and the front glass with the cap roof and large dropping heavy grill is so original of the era. Iam going to share this with east coast customized builder.
If you want to know more about the Herkimer Battle Jitney (used for this video's thumbnail), you can find photos, some blueprints, concept art, and videos of it, in the Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/1539262516391069/?ref=group_header
thanks. Side view looks like something you would see at a burning man festival LOL shorten and low rat rod style unpainted would also work. They say it was a air streem rv. Or 60s very similar with the round lines or even fins. About 56 -57 chevy times.
The Aerotrains were operated by Rock Island railroad into the late 1960's, punishing their commuter passengers for many years. They were not returned to a warehouse after a year, but wer rejected for use by the Pennsylvania, Union Pacific, and New York Central railroads because they were so rough riding. The light weight was not the problem with propulsion, it was the fact that the engine only powered 2 axles, with a 1200 HP diesel engine, not enough for a bunch of cars. Not a problem in the flat midwest.
@@jesseturner9865 Thank you for your comment. The aerospace companies usually made such backups for practice and other reasons. Thirty years ago, some aerospace companies in the LA area had surplus sales on Saturdays, where they sold all sorts of space items large and small.
I have a picture standing in front of the Batmobile a Six Flags over Texas in Dallas. It used to sit in front of the rollercoaster. Maybe it’s the same one?
Not true for the Bagger - the cost to restore it then transport it somewhere it COULD be used would be higher than building a newer, more modern version.
4:00 the herkimer (however you spell it) there is one like it off the 215 freeway in California. Drive by it everyday and always wanted to stop and ask about it
Look up Amphiroll, somewhat different from the Ford product, but used in swampy areas here in the Netherlands, Land van Saeftinghe, Hulst, from minut 12 of this video. Regards,
The amount in each bucket 3:11 is incorrect. For a start it should be measured in cubic feet (volume) not square feet (Area). Even the figure of 5,000 cubic feet incorrect. Most reports put the volume of each bucket at 6.6 cubic metres or 6,600 litres, which is 233 cubic feet.
@@motosnape Even on that basis It doesn’t pan out as there are 18 buckets with a total capacity of about 4200 cubic feet. Also, each bucket doesn’t start loading up until it’s at the bottom of the wheel & empties just after top dead centre, so at any one time it could only logically hold about 2,100 cubic feet. People may think I’m pedantic but it seems to me that if one produces a video, time and care should be taken to explain things more clearly & relevantly & above all, correctly.
Trains are limited in how tightly they can turn - most often by the length of the train cars. This limits where one can lay tracks, due to having to curve the rails in a minimum arc, and how much urban access a train can be granted. I suspect that having shorter cars and locomotives meant that they could handle tighter turns - which would have allowed them to do things like drive cargo straight to (rail-equipped) factories, get closer to potential passengers for convenience, etc.
that was an interesting video. i used to golf at a course in sterling massachusetts that had a huge caterpillar bulldozer abandoned and left on one of the golf holes. i think it was a model D-9 maybe.
THANK YOU!!! You found my Wife's Car. She ran away last year to become one of those Van Lifer Hippies. Maybe I can scrap it to help pay for her loosing at the Casino.
There is a strange story about a batmobile that 'disappeared'. A motor enthusiast in Sweden built a replica of the 1989 Tim Burton batmobile in the 1990's. It was referenced from an airfix model (or equivalent) and by many accounts it was a really well-made replica, fully driveable and road-worthy. (I actually saw out in traffic once as a child) The ownerr/builder and his batmobile naturally got a lot of attention and appeared in a lot of car shows, magazines and tv-shows. This wasn't that clever, because it turned out the guy had massive tax debts. The tax agency decided the car was worth a lot of money, but before they could force him to sell it and pay his debts, the car was mysteriously gone. The batmobile was never reported as stolen but it wasn't filed as sold, exported or scrapped either. So, as the story goes: somewhere there is a fully functional, unregistered batmobile in hiding... I don't remember how the story ended and I might be wrong on some of the details. It is a fun story nonetheless. Could this be the same one?
I've been at the Bagger, it's truly and amazing machine and a sight to behold. But it doesn't feed coal into itself, it feeds the coal into the power plant that feeds electricity to the Bagger
I saw some similar abandoned excavators in Ukraine, in a UA-cam video by some Dutch urban explorers (Exploring the Unbeaten Path). What made it especially eerie is that the mine they were in had flooded, so all that was showing was the upper portion. On top of that it was winter, so they were frozen in ice...
The bagger newer dug for coal, but removed the covering earth layers for later open-pit mining. It never burned coal itself, but ran on electricity, supplied by 6kV cables. Just sayin'
The Fordson tractor with the big drums seem to able to float on water if it cracked trough to the ice. Even could get along in the water by the screw design of the drums. But it is just a guess
The ekranoplan is in a naval dockyard on the caspian sea. It was a big worry in its day as it could deliver a lot of Russian troops anywhere on the caspian sea very quick. Builders of the vehicle were photographed by satellite. Years later they were shown pictures and could pick themselves out in the photo.
@@motosnape I think there are at least two. One indoors and one stored on a naval dock. Another reason to think it might be two is the colour of the plastic engine covers varies from red to blue. (I cant see why they would alternate) The one on a dock is viewable from google earth. I have seen it from above but cant remember where.
Interesting about the McBarge. I lived in Vancouver for over a year and never realized it was there. Will have to look it up when I visit again (assuming they haven't moved it by then). The short fate of the GM AeroTrain is also interesting in that the Disneyland "mini-me" version of that same train suffered essentially the same issues and was dismantled in equally short order.
that Batmobile is from the 1989 Movie not 1990 I'd love to get my hands on the 3rd Ecto 1A & restore it myself! Along with a Fordson Screw Drive tractor
@Sean Wilkinson if you watch the trailer you can actually see it is the Ecto-1A due to the natural rust spots and it's been quickly repaired in certain places, after all it's cheaper to just use a rusty car rather than making one look rusty
The Herkimer is sitting in lot off the 215 freeway in the city of Devore CA . I see it pretty much every day and I always wondered what its was built for.
8:02 that's sad 😥 thats definitely one of my favorite car in show business and to see it like that makes me sick if I had the money I'd definitely would buy it and clean it up like new
There is another concrete ship hull, down in Galveston, Texas. SS Selma was an oil tanker built in 1919 by F.F. Ley and Company, Mobile, Alabama. President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of 24 concrete vessels of which only 12 were actually completed. SS Selma is the only permanent, and prominent, wreck along the Houston Ship Channel.
there are five concrete ships used as a breakwater in a lumber town in British Columbia to this day. One of them was at the pacific A bomb tests and is Identifyable by the gun tubs for AA weapons.
OK for people that do not know this. Ecto-1 the one that was in disrepair at the time is in a collector's hands and was restored. The batmobile was also restored five years ago. A person did see it that is also a collector of cars restored it and it does function today. That picture was over a decade old.
Wow, the correct use of the word 'unique' to mean 'one of a kind' rather than the far more common usage of it to simply mean 'rare'. Mind you, I'm not sure if screen accurate one-off _replicas_ of a unique item exactly count, but I'll let that slide...
Most of those deserves to be in a museum!
3:20 No, it does not use coal in its own engines. Like other bucket wheel excavators, it had all electrical motors and was provided electricity by a cable from the grid.
plus it only cleared the overburden
No, it's true. It was a steam punk excavator.
Not saying that it ran on coal was true, but it is more then possible. Most of those large excavation machines were in fact "plugged" into the grid, some used diesel generators where the mine was just to far off the grid. Could they have used a coal fired boiler and steam turbine to power a electric generator ? Sure but I can,t see some one ordering a system so much more complicated when diesel fuel at the time was like 20 cents a gallon. But on the other hand in its hayday that machine was running 24-7 and a turbine would not require nearly as much maintenance and would last much longer then a diesel -electric set up. .
And at a much lower operating cost ( coal fueled )
The "Concrete" boat/ship was actually built from Ferrocement and the material/technique is still in use today.
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I don’t no where ferroconcrete ships are in use today, but the last time a ferroconcrete ship was constructed in Europe, was during the German occupation. The ship still exists today as church ship “Kerkschip St Josef” in the port of Antwerp (Belgium). In WW I the French built several ferroconcrete ships to be used as army transports.
www.kerkschip-antwerpen.be/erfgoed.htm
@@wkruit ferrocement. It's not concrete. There are plenty of ferro vessels out there but the advantage in materials cost is outweighed by labour costs, because the system requires a lot of it. Also it can be hard to get insurance because amateur-built hulls are often less than perfect. They can be overweight because too much mortar has been used and this makes them weaker, not stronger. However a pro built ferro hull will last as well as a steel or GRP one.
The "concrete" ships were the Library ships (part of them) in WW II.
The cement boat is right outside my window. We're growing old together!
That's so cool. I love stuff like that, someday I'm taking a vacation out there to check it out.
Seen it many times.. I swear he kept calling it the Padoalto... oh, then there is the old Aptoes vs Aptahs debate.
I thought that Batmobile had been rescued years ago and restored on a TV show.
@@robdude1969 Aptose if you're fancy, Aptoss if you're partying! And we call it the cement boat, not the concrete ship, most locals.
I got a $10 citation from the city for leaving my trash can out to long after the truck came and emptied it. McDonalds & 6 Flags can leave a barge on the water an a Batmobile in the woods, yet nobody tells them to come pick up the trash or face a fine?
… but some animals are more equal …
Isnt government over reach amazong
Yup,living the dream,just not my dream. I totally conclude you pay a high end lawyer or you pay high end fines,and it's on your record.
Hmmm. . .. How can a train be "highly maneuverable?"
Now there is an interesting question
Means it can take tighter bends without falling off the tracks. Bit like a city tram
Maneuverable around tracks meaning it can take a tight corner better than most trains
Just one more reason that GM shouldn't get bailed ever again, all they had to do was adjust the angle of the wheel where it meets the rails and that ride would smooth right out as well as increasing the top speed. Same thing with Canada's Turbo train in the 60's through the mid 70's, it kept jumping the rails at just over 100mph for that very reason. We used to scramble to get our gear off the tracks when that thing came flying through, rail yard crew gear that is. Our train tracks are the same ones used for the steam engines, terrible ride.
Sure as you can't steer a train
You can't change your fate
Hippies - sAvE tHe PlaNut
Also Hippies - Leaves thousands of bikes behind
That is truly pathetic.
@@tyrssen1 lol
7:33 that Ecto-1's fate has finally been determined: its been repurposed as the star car of Ghostbusters: Afterlife!
Yes!
someone should make a nasty techno club out of that mcdonalds boat
Cheap housing for the homeless?
Technically it is a barge .
@Caroline Balkon sorry but malls to buy more shit you dont need is the last thing humanity needs...
Hey, "Mystery Men" was GREAT. And yeah, the Herkimer was extremely cool. Damn, I'll take it if no one else wants it ... same with that Batmobile! ...Gee, those drug lord tanks are just what we need, for modern American roads.
Yes.
JUNK IT!!
The part about burning man is inaccurate. The festival cleanup crew was the one to handle removal of the bicycles. The lazy attendees left them, but the festival management never lets the playa go tainted before packing up. It's part of our contract for being able to continue to use the playa.
Some years the cleanup crew is there for 2 weeks after the festival ends. Locals and attendees alike helped to gather and remove the bicycles left behind by the less scrupulous attendees.
It breaks my heart to see these vehicles abandoned
you are dutch right?? je videos zijn cool
4:12 is it just me or does that look like the helmet of the t-51 power armor from Fallout? 😂
Yes it does good eye
@@Ty-47 thx
Nice!!!!
The Train looks like something out of Fallout
First! A pleasant walk through time when you could make mistakes and still survive.
Haha
Since both Aerotrains are in museums - Green Bay and St. Louis - they really aren't "abandoned". And they were not "back in the warehouse barely a year after their 1956 launch". Both were retired in 1966 - after 10 years of use.
Thanks. That's good to know. I really liked the design. I might take a ride up to Green Bay to check one out😎
The red Peterbilt used in the first "Pet Cemetery" sits on the side of US Rt 1 in Princeton Maine.
No way! Any idea how to get ahold of the owner?
@@eligebrown8998 If you do a web search do it there is plenty of information about it. I'm on my phone for a bit and not good at posting links well.
Not to be confused with the thousands of other truck abandoned on the side of the road in Maine.
@@ericwsmith7722 True. But this one is well documented.
Interesting fact - the Cadillac "Miller Meteor" ambulances are INCREDIBLY rare and valuable. Think hundreds of thousands of dollars valuable. They were for the film like using the Delorean for back to the future - though orders of magnitude rarer. Excluding the ECTO-1 hack-ups, there are something like 50-60 known to still exist. Exceedingly rare. It would be absurd if Sony sold that car, and it's even more absurd they haven't restored it. Even as the prop car, it'd easily fetch 200 grand for private sale.
My former ambulance company still has one in its original 1950's/60's baby blue and white livery, in absolutely pristine, fully restored condition. We use it for parades and at funerals for fallen medics. One of our oldest medics passed away a few years ago, he was the last one at the company that remembered driving those old boats for real in the 60's and 70's. He said that they were staggeringly comfortable and smooth compared to our modern rigs with the massive V8 and cadillac ride.
Also interesting fact - if you never let the ambulance certification lapse, they could be grandfathered in despite meeting no modern standards. As long as they had the minimum required equipment of a modern rig, they can be kept as functional service ambulances. Ours isn't, but I think there are something like five of the old caddy ambulances in America that are still legally registered as ambulances.
Mystery Men is an underrated classic
The Free Bike Giveaway at the end of Burning Man was part of the reason we would go.
We had a huge concrete boat built in my village in the late 60s early 70s. It travelled all round the world on a cruise, but don't know where it ended up. I remember the whole community came out to watch the launch at high tide. Massive impressive thing.
"concrete boat..."
Sorry, what?!
@@LordSandwichII ikr
That Herkimer Vehicle would make the Coolest Resto or RestoMod . Astonishing that No-One has .
3:50 It you came for the thumbnail
I thought volume is expressed in cubic feet, not square feet.
Awesome vid
The Miller-Meteor ghostbusters car IS a hearse. It's called a combination, the floor flips over, Landau panels go over the windows, an oxygen tank goes in place, a red light installs on top so it serves as an ambulance and a hearse.
the battle jitney is in a junkyard? WHERE?
*MUST HAVE BATTLE JITNEY!!!!*
Krispy Bacon it’s actually off the 215 fwy in Devore,California now
@@GWENZDADDY yes, I took a picture of it just last week.
This is not Bagger 258, it is still in use in West Germany. This is SRs 1500 and it used to work until 2002 in Meuro, East Germany. It was made by VVB TAKRAF, Lauchhammerwerk is a part of it. Furthermore, all of these are powered by high-voltage electricity and can not run on coal. Which also would not make sense because this one was used to dig overburden, not coal.
In 2020, it was reported that there were plans to refit the barge into a seafood restaurant, though a location had not been secured. Later in 2021 it was reported that an undisclosed site had been selected but was awaiting government approval.
Excellent video! Very interesting I really like it thanks for sharing it 👍
OMG, i just leaned something new today, my car was mass produced!
There's a giant electric excavator in West Mineral, Kansas named Big Brutus. It was used in the 60's and 70's for coal strip mining. It weighs 9.3 millions lbs and is now a museum that is open to the public. It ran off electricity and inside there are gigantic motors that powered everything from the tracks, to the booms and other equipment. There are stations all over the place for maintenance guys to ride along with it and just keep things oiled and lubricated at the time. It's really cool to walk around inside of it. If you ever get to Kansas, this is in the southeastern area and worth a visit.
What is it that makes trains highly maneuverable? The only ones that I’ve seen are on tracks, that pretty much rules out the maneuverable concept.
11:18, go to see this aero train, go to Wisconsin railroad mueseum and u can see it…. U can also go inside if the train and look at the cabs and the skylight car…my favorite part is going inside the cab
Bagger 258 (and Bagger 1473 that is often confused with it) were both powered by electricity supplied by external power cable.
NOT BY COAL.
This is also true for the later Bagger models, like the 288 and 293 that are counted as the largest (by most measures) land vehicles of all time.
Loved the Fordson Snow Devil and a sad end for the concrete boat.
I've been on that boat many times, it was still attached to the fishing pier at Sea cliff beach in Aptos. The last time I was there the pier had been cut off of it as the boat had pretty much broken apart and was no longer safe.
Thanks for the update OldB, where's Aptos and why was a costly item like that boat abandoned in the first place?
Oldbmwr100nz sti
@@petergambier boats are the kind of thing that eventually become outdated and more costly to maintain than to get a new one, and nobody likes shipbreaking.
@@blockstacker5614 I agree, you could sell it off to be a houseboat where all that should concern you is the hull and so long as that's good it'll last for years, especially if it's aluminium or completely plastic. So, with all that plastic waste floating in the oceans it's time we got into boat building.
6:23 (on the right) if Elon musk was in mad max
Happyneko03 uwu u right it’s the cybertruck
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Nothing sounds more romantic than a Big Mac on the waters. 👌
I liked the Mystery Men movie :(
Loved that movie
Very interesting. I've surely subscribed
Hey,the Big cole excevator is not Bild from Lauchhammer,it is build in Lauchhammer...east Germany...the Firma that him build is TAKRAF!!!!
Very nice Video,greets from Germany!!!
McBarge sure make a great home, have a nice kitchen built in
If I'm not mistaken that batmobile is the 1 from a 1989 MTV "steal the batmobile" contest giveaway.
The car came with no engine.
The guy who won it had to sign an agreement with WB not to use it for financial purposes (he couldnt charge people to see it on display) after he got it the IRS hit I'm with taxes on it. He was forced to sell it.
damn that really sucks
I had a trainee on my ambulance the other day and he said that he goes to burning man with his old schoolbus and collects the nicest bicycles after the event and resells them. I got my bike, a rare and classic schwinn traveler chromoly that way.
I also used to work at a hot rod shop, we bought an 1970's chevy pickup as a parts-getter for like $400, and the bed was filled with old bicycles. I dug through them and saw one was a 1950's schwinn california beach cruiser with its original badges (big money) so we cleaned it up, powder coated the frame, rebuilt the coaster brake, new grips and cables, and I resold the thing for $5000 in 2007
That's because burning man is full of spoiled hippie wannabes on rich parents dime, people with every opportunity afforded to them that instead go off and live like bums doing drugs then discard garbage and even expensive ideas when the hangover comes and run home to mommy and daddy
Mystery men! Confirmed!
One of those trains from GM I've seen a lot at the National Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood MO. The styling of it has always intrigued me. Damn now I want to take a trip back to the museum lol.
The McDonald's water restaurant would make a killer nightclub.
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya Prayers
I collect Art Deco piece so that truck thumbnail caught my eye. It's so cool, the bulk and the front glass with the cap roof and large dropping heavy grill is so original of the era. Iam going to share this with east coast customized builder.
My good sir i hope you are able to save the HERK its truly beautiful and needs to be saved. The thumbnail caught me to good luck
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@@edwardtupper6374 thank you
If you want to know more about the Herkimer Battle Jitney (used for this video's thumbnail), you can find photos, some blueprints, concept art, and videos of it, in the Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/1539262516391069/?ref=group_header
thanks. Side view looks like something you would see at a burning man festival LOL shorten and low rat rod style unpainted would also work. They say it was a air streem rv. Or 60s very similar with the round lines or even fins. About 56 -57 chevy times.
how did I pick the location for the abandon bikes?
That Herkimer looks so cool
The Aerotrains were operated by Rock Island railroad into the late 1960's, punishing their commuter passengers for many years. They were not returned to a warehouse after a year, but wer rejected for use by the Pennsylvania, Union Pacific, and New York Central railroads because they were so rough riding. The light weight was not the problem with propulsion, it was the fact that the engine only powered 2 axles, with a 1200 HP diesel engine, not enough for a bunch of cars. Not a problem in the flat midwest.
i think one of those is in a museum
@@davewallace8219 St Louis Museum of Transportation. One of the Rock Island sets
What's that thing in the water at 13:48??
i love the soundtrack..whats the name of the song
yes I'm curious to know that too
Interesting. Thanks.
10:35 - one of them is in Green Bay, WI
at that train museum thing
@@averypavlik7812 Yeah, though how they can call such a small place "national" is too screwy to fathom.
The good old days, when trains, planes, and automobiles had STYLE
Interesting video. An Apollo capsule is at a desert museum in New Mexico.
Meteor crater just off of I-40. The capsule is there because the astronaughts did a lot of training there.
@@westsidetrucker7943 Thank you for your comment.
not an actual capsule but a boiler plate. scale model to practice in.
@@jesseturner9865 Thank you for your comment. The aerospace companies usually made such backups for practice and other reasons. Thirty years ago, some aerospace companies in the LA area had surplus sales on Saturdays, where they sold all sorts of space items large and small.
I have a picture standing in front of the Batmobile a Six Flags over Texas in Dallas. It used to sit in front of the rollercoaster. Maybe it’s the same one?
If you haven't seen Mystery Men, do.
There is a similar CONCRETE built ship (SS Atlantus) abandoned in the surf right here off the beach in Cape May NJ.
So the Herkimer Battle Jitney is sitting in a junk yard with the possibility of a manager yelling at an employee to "junk it!"... that's awesome.
Maybe if you gave me some proper tools...
Is that Ecto 1 from Ghostbusters behind the batmobile at the 2:30 mark?
It's sad that these vehicles are no longer used. It can serve other purpose if it can be restored.
Not true for the Bagger - the cost to restore it then transport it somewhere it COULD be used would be higher than building a newer, more modern version.
4:00 the herkimer (however you spell it) there is one like it off the 215 freeway in California. Drive by it everyday and always wanted to stop and ask about it
Where is it off the 215?
Doofensmirtz made one of them.
Great video! What's the nice chill song used in the transitions throughout??
0:42 Voor de Nederlanders, een echte Mc Drijf.
*GEKOLONISEERD*
Look up Amphiroll, somewhat different from the Ford product, but used in swampy areas here in the Netherlands, Land van Saeftinghe, Hulst, from minut 12 of this video. Regards,
The amount in each bucket 3:11 is incorrect. For a start it should be measured in cubic feet (volume) not square feet (Area). Even the figure of 5,000 cubic feet incorrect. Most reports put the volume of each bucket at 6.6 cubic metres or 6,600 litres, which is 233 cubic feet.
Ian Canty. To be fair, he’d didn’t refer to individual buckets, but how much the entire apparatus could theoretically hold at any given time.
@@motosnape Even on that basis It doesn’t pan out as there are 18 buckets with a total capacity of about 4200 cubic feet. Also, each bucket doesn’t start loading up until it’s at the bottom of the wheel & empties just after top dead centre, so at any one time it could only logically hold about 2,100 cubic feet. People may think I’m pedantic but it seems to me that if one produces a video, time and care should be taken to explain things more clearly & relevantly & above all, correctly.
how does a train become "highly maneuverable" 11:04 ???????
PENTATERRORIST is a more meaningful word.
Trains are limited in how tightly they can turn - most often by the length of the train cars. This limits where one can lay tracks, due to having to curve the rails in a minimum arc, and how much urban access a train can be granted. I suspect that having shorter cars and locomotives meant that they could handle tighter turns - which would have allowed them to do things like drive cargo straight to (rail-equipped) factories, get closer to potential passengers for convenience, etc.
You left out the RV from "Damnation Alley".
Or the behemoth Antarctic snow cruiser / snow train.
@@chrisjung7139 All that thing needed was tractor type tread tires instead of slicks.
that was an interesting video. i used to golf at a course in sterling massachusetts that had a huge caterpillar bulldozer abandoned and left on one of the golf holes. i think it was a model D-9 maybe.
THANK YOU!!! You found my Wife's Car. She ran away last year to become one of those Van Lifer Hippies. Maybe I can scrap it to help pay for her loosing at the Casino.
THe GM train definitely has 57 Chevy styling.
There is a strange story about a batmobile that 'disappeared'. A motor enthusiast in Sweden built a replica of the 1989 Tim Burton batmobile in the 1990's. It was referenced from an airfix model (or equivalent) and by many accounts it was a really well-made replica, fully driveable and road-worthy. (I actually saw out in traffic once as a child) The ownerr/builder and his batmobile naturally got a lot of attention and appeared in a lot of car shows, magazines and tv-shows. This wasn't that clever, because it turned out the guy had massive tax debts. The tax agency decided the car was worth a lot of money, but before they could force him to sell it and pay his debts, the car was mysteriously gone. The batmobile was never reported as stolen but it wasn't filed as sold, exported or scrapped either. So, as the story goes: somewhere there is a fully functional, unregistered batmobile in hiding...
I don't remember how the story ended and I might be wrong on some of the details. It is a fun story nonetheless. Could this be the same one?
It's in the bat cave silly, lol!😱😱😎😎😂🦇🦇
The commissioner of Gotham City knows all about it but he's not talking.
When a vehicle that goes missing isn’t possessed, it’s more than likely some old man has had it locked in his garage somewhere for the past few eons
Send this video to Jay Leno ^^
I bet he seen it before we did
I've been at the Bagger, it's truly and amazing machine and a sight to behold.
But it doesn't feed coal into itself, it feeds the coal into the power plant that feeds electricity to the Bagger
I saw some similar abandoned excavators in Ukraine, in a UA-cam video by some Dutch urban explorers (Exploring the Unbeaten Path). What made it especially eerie is that the mine they were in had flooded, so all that was showing was the upper portion. On top of that it was winter, so they were frozen in ice...
The bagger newer dug for coal, but removed the covering earth layers for later open-pit mining. It never burned coal itself, but ran on electricity, supplied by 6kV cables. Just sayin'
@@alittailfar Thats basically what I said... It feeds coal into power plant that then gives electricity to the machine...
What's the name of the music playing in the background please can someone tell me thanks(:.
The Fordson tractor with the big drums seem to able to float on water if it cracked trough to the ice. Even could get along in the water by the screw design of the drums. But it is just a guess
Amazing content. Is this narrated by Seth Rogan? If it is, or if it isn't, it's a great job either way.
The ekranoplan is in a naval dockyard on the caspian sea. It was a big worry in its day as it could deliver a lot of Russian troops anywhere on the caspian sea very quick. Builders of the vehicle were photographed by satellite. Years later they were shown pictures and could pick themselves out in the photo.
Link?
@@edwardtupper6374This is it in trials. ua-cam.com/video/V8Nu94khHoo/v-deo.html
Simon Wright. On behalf of Edward Tupper. Thanks.
@@motosnape I think there are at least two. One indoors and one stored on a naval dock. Another reason to think it might be two is the colour of the plastic engine covers varies from red to blue. (I cant see why they would alternate)
The one on a dock is viewable from google earth. I have seen it from above but cant remember where.
42°52′54″N, 47°39′24″E
Not gonna lie when I first saw the Narco tanks I thought they were some sort of reject TIV (tornado intercept vehicle)!
Interesting about the McBarge. I lived in Vancouver for over a year and never realized it was there. Will have to look it up when I visit again (assuming they haven't moved it by then). The short fate of the GM AeroTrain is also interesting in that the Disneyland "mini-me" version of that same train suffered essentially the same issues and was dismantled in equally short order.
that Batmobile is from the 1989 Movie not 1990
I'd love to get my hands on the 3rd Ecto 1A & restore it myself!
Along with a Fordson Screw Drive tractor
Good luck with THAT - Sony are a**holes who would rather something be destroyed than to be restored by ANYONE.
The third Ecto-1 is actually being used for the new Ghostbusters film.
@Sean Wilkinson if you watch the trailer you can actually see it is the Ecto-1A due to the natural rust spots and it's been quickly repaired in certain places, after all it's cheaper to just use a rusty car rather than making one look rusty
I have always wanted a 1959 Cadillac
Me too
A very interesting video.
What are those tank like things that you mention in this video looks somewhat similar to a tank from Short Circuit
The screw tank was ahead of it's time.
Love the Herkimer Battle Jitney in the thumbnail.
Companies that leave anything to rot should be massively fined
Some people should never be given cool stuff. The Ghost Buster car is way more or just as iconic as the Batmobile
Maybe regarding the Michael Keating Batmobile, but definitely not the Adam West Batmobile.
Not by a long shot.
The Herkimer is sitting in lot off the 215 freeway in the city of Devore CA . I see it pretty much every day and I always wondered what its was built for.
That truck in the movie mystery men do you have a address and pictures I would love to have it.thanks
@@kelvintorrence5994 Who wouldn't.
I wouldn't mind having one of those bikes. Could use it run a few errands and get some exercise since I'm retired.
I’ve seen the concrete boat. It’s in an area famous for juvenile great white sharks
8:02 that's sad 😥 thats definitely one of my favorite car in show business and to see it like that makes me sick if I had the money I'd definitely would buy it and clean it up like new
Where did you find a Herkimer battle Jitney?
There is another concrete ship hull, down in Galveston, Texas.
SS Selma was an oil tanker built in 1919 by F.F. Ley and Company, Mobile, Alabama. President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of 24 concrete vessels of which only 12 were actually completed. SS Selma is the only permanent, and prominent, wreck along the Houston Ship Channel.
there are five concrete ships used as a breakwater in a lumber town in British Columbia to this day. One of them was at the pacific A bomb tests and is Identifyable by the gun tubs for AA weapons.
OK for people that do not know this.
Ecto-1 the one that was in disrepair at the time is in a collector's hands and was restored.
The batmobile was also restored five years ago. A person did see it that is also a collector of cars restored it and it does function today. That picture was over a decade old.
Wow, the correct use of the word 'unique' to mean 'one of a kind' rather than the far more common usage of it to simply mean 'rare'. Mind you, I'm not sure if screen accurate one-off _replicas_ of a unique item exactly count, but I'll let that slide...