Yea i watched nascar but really like f1. Nascar = crash. F1 = that cartoon where there is just a character left with a steering wheel going down the road. "
This simultaneously the goofiest and coolest thing I have ever seen, from the comical train horn to the fact they're holding up an endless pileup of traffic behind them
@@JackieOwl94 They're amazed by why someone would spend so much money on an "autonomous environmentally friendly" vehicle causing global environmental disasters through lithium and other invasive resource extraction processes, not including disposal of the heavy metal wastes from mining or when cells need to be replaced, instead of just buying a horse.
i love how comically powerful these things sound, the violent vibrations and overwhelming power just going like 5 mph... incredible. Watch Europa The Last Battle.
@@0SynergyThey're between 50 and 100hp, so the power output of the engine is not particularly high (though for the time, certainly impressive, it took until the 1980s before european medium size farm tractors crossed the 100hp mark afaik) Torque at the wheel axle is tremendously high, because of the very large wheels and the exceptionally slow rotation of them. You could - with the correct gearbox - hide a modern 3 cylinder turbo city car engine somewhere on the steam engine, and have it perform very similarly to the steam engine. Yes, really. The experience would suck, but it is physically possible. Gearing is the magic word here. Torque is multiplied with the gearing. So if you have a modern engine screaming along at 6000rpm versus the perhaps 200rpm of the steam engines, you gear down more than a tenfold, and get a big torque increase at the output of the gearbox. Because that's what gearboxes do. Of course, it goes without saying that it's unlikely that a modern 3 cylinder city car engine will survive for about a century, let alone be fixable a century from now. They also don't smell as interesting, and don't sound nearly as cool. For the Doble steam car, similar things are valid. The engine speed is much lower than on a modern engine, so to put out a similar amount of power, you need more torque. Torque in itself is not the big important thing. A trained cyclist can deliver as much torque as a small car at the crank, but it can't nearly put out as much work because of a lack of power. But power is power, and with a long enough lever one could move the Earth.
@@laurensvisser7623 We have a MINT one with LUGS for bad field mud that is usually at the Stampede Rodeo in Calgary, Alberta. Along with other equipment from the early days: Remington Museum and other Alberta memorabilia. CHAIN DRIVE, baby. Chain STEERING.
I don’t know how it took UA-cam 9 friggin years to suggest this to me but I’m so happy it finally happened. Those are absolutely beautiful machines! Even the horses in the adjacent field were fired up!
@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 My comment that i posted a year ago (So the new fast an furious movie takes place in the 1800's?) just took off with reply's the last few days no idea why.
That exact thought really messes with your head. Next time you driving down the motorway/freeway imagine your still and the road is moving. It’s a really strange sensation
Glad to see there are still men in sheds keeping these babies running. My grandparents lived in Ripley (less than 10 miles from Cromford) and we would always go to the steam engine rally from there when we were children in the 1980's and 90's.
@@Perry-o5i I absolutely despise general noise pollution and think that there should be stricter rules around it, yet even I can recognize that sometimes it’s acceptable given unique and enriching situations like this. Loud noise in those specific situations shouldn’t even be classed as noise pollution. It’s just good fun.
Yeah, some douche woud blow up the boiler but somehow still manage to get away from the constable by Bo and Luke jumping over the Snake River Canyon with Evel Kinevel even though he's dead.
@@Thereisnoname-_- weight doesn't limit speed... at all... it just means acceleration is slower... if you try to speed up or slow down acceleration is slower... a point object moving at C with 0 weight will stop instantaneously if it hits anything... a 5 ton train engine moving at 1km/h would not stop unless all of the energy in the system were to be stopped and the heavier a thing is the more energy it has we call this energy momentum. And momentum is always conserved.
I love the horses keeping pace in the field “Oh man! My greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandfather used to share stories about these!”
@@jazzfeline5970 Look at 0:22 there are cars on both sides of the road, and behind them are cars queued up as far as the eye can see, unable to pass. The locomotives even have license plate numbers on them and rubberized tracks, so I assume they are grandfathered in due to their age to not require brake lights and what not.
Fun fact: the darker a steam engine’s smoke is, the more fuel it will use. Steam engine owners would usually try to get their smoke as white as possible to ensure peak efficiency, this is why the last steam engine’s pistons are moving faster, because it’s not getting enough energy from the fuel it’s burning.
It’s more of a balance really. A black plume means you aren’t burning coal very efficiently as it’s leaving the firebox as soot the byproduct of incomplete combustion. However burning too hot will produce more steam than the engine is capable of using burning coal faster while the excess steam is wasted by the mandatory venting.
Doesn’t matter to me. As long as mains pressure is within spec and regulation is correct, I’ll roll coal from here to the moon and back. Better than overheating and heat cycle the riveted box and boiler by burning white hot. Gonna have to vent steam anyways….
Nealy 1k upvotes on someone that has no idea what they are talking about.... steam engines don't usually have gears, so the only reason for them to be going any faster is the steam valve is opened widere and it has enough pressure to run that fast... that's literally it. It has nothing to do with the smoke being black or not.... and yes black smoke does tend to mean unburned fuel, but that's got nothing to do with how fast the pistons are reciprocating.
And this is why you approach blind bends expecting the unexpected 😆, rounding a bend to see that coming at you 🤣. Awesome sight to see, true vintage street racing...
I was working in the UK a few years ago and had the weekend off, so I rented a car and went tooling around the countryside. I ran across a vintage steam tractor fair in a little village. OMG, if you haven't seen and heard these behemoths up close I strongly encourage you to add this to your bucket list. Awesome.
Did you see that traffic jam in the back? Besides if i was in the car at 0:21, i would be furious. Driving such cool piece of history doesn't give them right to drive dangerously.
I think my favorite part about this is the fact that these things are so slow that anyone in that line of cars could easily pass these guys and get to work on time. But instead almost all of them collectively agreed. "Naw fuck work I wanna watch a steam engine"
Not sure they thought that... doesn't necessarily look like it would be safe to overtake from the angles at the filmed point, esp when you consider you'd have to overtake 3 vehicles at once.
@@RBXTrains The problem is not the 3 steam engines, it's the 20+ cars behind them. Once a few more cars hesitate to overtake, they cause a massive jam. You notice how timid drivers always have several cars behind them?
Everybody talking about how powerful they sound, but how slow they go don't realize that the torque these thing generate is far greater than most modern cars. These things could haul probably 5X the weight of what a modern pickup could.
@@blaster1185 imagine building a gearbox to be handle that torque pulling that much weight. The gears would behave like butter. The only gearing available to steam locos is the size of the wheels.
Fun fact. The city i live in has an event each year called "dordt in stoom" where they bring out all kinds of steam engines including steam boats, a steam train, steam machines and many more, most of which still work. The city is called dordrecht and online you can find more about this event
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@@Sam3532Practical? If a ferrari is bad at something it's at practicality. Now imagine a huge torque beast that could plow and tow anything. THAT is practicality. Plus, it uses coal, so if gasoline goes crazy the vehicle won't be affected.
When I was a kid in the 1950s, I watched two of these lovely old monsters passing a dredging bucket back and forth between them across a small lake. I was enthralled.
Yeah, the second one is rigged for that, the drum underneath the boiler. It was used with a reversible plough rig as well. Two machines on the headlands and run the chains and run the plough forward and back like the shuttle on a loom.
I remember being stuck behind of those machines on an A road somewhere in the UK. Took a long time before we could overtake but was nice to see the power of steam!
The most ironic one was when I was cycling LEJOG last year, on a bank holiday, I did a bit along the A303 because it was less hilly than the significantly quieter A30. (The A303 basically bypasses the A30 for 90 miles). I was fully expecting to be the slowest vehicle on the road. But, in classic A303 fashion, a wild tractor appeared... ua-cam.com/video/3Ss-D0FbYKM/v-deo.htmlh32m09s I don't recall encountering any of these traction engines on that trip, but I did come across one last time I visited the peak district. And there's a local fair closer to home! ua-cam.com/video/vtsOjxXk2ic/v-deo.htmlh41m31s
@@Bellezzasolo The A303 is the route from London to Devon and Cornwall, right? I've taken that road numerous times when I was on holidays in the UK. Never took the A30 tho, not on that stretch at least
@@meterspoor if you go far into Devon you've actually been on the A30. The A30 is Hounslow to Land's End. The A303 pops up at Popham, where a spur from the M3 (of course the natural driving route these days) joins the A30 and the A303 begins. The A30 rejoins in the Blackdown Hills, which is the other end of the A303. You just drive straight on and the number changes, so it's easy to miss. From there it's A30 all the way to Cornwall, except for the M5 Exeter bypass. Last August I did an overnight ride from London heading for home in Dorset, so I used the A30 instead of the M3, and then A303. After a few miles the A30 reemerges, but it's basically a local road through Salisbury and whatnot. ua-cam.com/video/M837dUWWg6I/v-deo.html
@@Bellezzasolo Yes, we use always use the M3 and A303 to go to Devon. I've also been on the stretch through Bodmin Moor. Also, your channel looks very interesting, when I have more time I'll watch some of your videos for sure. Thank you for commenting on my comment :)
Jay Leno steered my attention towards steam cars when he said while driving his Stanley Steamer: “I am going 60 mph in a car made of wood and it’s on fire. It’s fantastic!” Steam engines are really amazing.
I admired more the one coming from the other direction who slowed right down and moved over without making a huge fuss. I can imagine Karen’s just stopping in the middle of the road in a fit of pique.
In the state of PA there's a festival every year it's like farmers a thershermans jubilee. You get to see all types of steam engines from small ones that kids can operate to great big ones that's almost the size of a rv (i might ve exaggerating but you get the point)
These sort of machines, from that era, boosted the West into an unbelievable industrial development. Quite amazing how ingenious and creative people were and always have been.
@@Cfbrolley1320 Yes, I'm safe behind a thin sheet of aluminum door. I can literally pull next to one of those guys and whack at their feet with a long stick. Surely they can handle a simple "get the fuck out my way" without resorting to violence. If not, then I'm pulling out my broomstick I randomly carry in my car for days like this.
@@Cfbrolley1320 literally throw anything at the engine and watch as it detonates like the literal bomb thats barely held together that it is. these things are a rolling death trap, and any asshole whos going to block traffic with one deserves when it blows up.
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Everyone driving these is clearly living their best life. I bet they could safely do this even in the rain, since it's still overall slow and traction engines have amazing adhesion.
Those horses are spooked, not awesome. Where ever they are I'll bet there are some very old laws still in the books specifically concerning the spooking of horses, that they are surely violating, with their careless blasting of horns. Mostly joking, but you can imagine if a rider were on the roadway the danger they would be in of being thrown from a spooked horse.
Weird I always imagined those to go around the speed of a 1910s car. I guess I expected a little too much from what essentially is just a tractor when there are actualy steam cars that go over 60km/h
It's because traction engines are geared for torque (which they are gods at) and acting as stationary drive engines for machinery, rather than for speed.
I am so amazed that his led to the creation of modern vehicles, if you look closely at the end, you can see two horses literally going at full speed whilst these steam powered carriages go at like 10mph, can you imagine people looking at this back in the 19th century and going like: “yeah this is cool and all but why should we switch to this since my horse is way faster and safer” Really makes you think that some technologies we consider really niche and we don’t see gaining much traction nowadays will propel humankind into a new and more advanced era
This thing could carry trams full of people on a regular route through a city. Or loads of coal, metal, etc. In fact, we got a lot of electric trams, steamboats and trains carrying people before cars were small. The horses require a lot of land and they shit a lot in cities. Having a car wasn't popular until the 50s in America and 60s in Europe, and we were all traveling long distances with train engines. This is actually decades after we went through our massive culling of horses.
Sadly, this realization occurs to very few. It is very much a question of the individual - see potential in new technology and embrace change - or demonize it and insist on conserving the status quo? Ironically, people in the steam scene can be very reactionary, which is sad, as those vehicles were as offensive to some folk at the time as other technologies are to people now. At any point in history, it was left to a small minority, fighting against the mainstream, to move things forward. A lot of these Visionaries have been, and continue to be heavily ostracized. All technologies are transitional. Some stay longer, some only have a short life. If there's a use and a market, it will have it's place. (This is general comment, relating to the human condition vs. innovation, completely unrelated to any particular technology or current political conflict)
for personal transportation a horse was better for moving trains and rocks/logs/coal/animals this kind of machines were the rule trains are older than cars also 1 HP wasnt enough to move 1kTON, to move big loads you need twerks(TORQUE), not horsies
It is quite interesting to see steam engines, when you expect this giant slow turning piston and crank assembly it´s actually small in comparision to the other parts and runnning at very high (visually, probably low if you were to count them) rpms. But of course they have to gear them very low as they don´t have a lot of torque as is.
The rising gas price really took a huge hit on the street racing scene. They are now using coals.
Anyone notice the red horse?
@@Juice4L999 yes i 00:57
And also wood😂😂😂
It's probably better than owning an electric car though. 😉
Ah yes the german solution.
So the new fast an furious movie takes place in the 1800's?
Yes
Perfect
Steam punk era
Cyberpunk 1827.
Don't give them any ideas
My favorite part about a steam engine is how it's like 98% comprised of things that will rip your arm off if you're not careful.
Ah victorian england
Kinda makes me think the human race is getting dumber and dumber,
Back then people knew better than to stick there fingers where they shouldn't.
It forces you to be careful, if you mess up you won’t make the same mistake twice
Enlighten me, why? What’s so dangerous about them?
@@luisecheverry8617 0:42 is a prime example
@0:24 I love that as this is taking place there is a huge line of cars behind them waiting in traffic.
Imagine the combined fury of those waiting vehicles :)
"Tonight, on Top Gear. James dies in a boiler explosion. Hammond contracts cholera. And I sent the police to deal with a union strike"
Amazing comment.
Underrated comment. And doomed to remain so due to it being British pop culture.
Nah that’s Bottom Gear lol
@@TheUKNutter No no
, the rest of the world loves top gear it’s the jellied eels we want you to keep over there
Severely underrated 😂
as a person who never watched f1, i can confirm this is the most epic overtake i've ever seen
As a person who has, this is still pretty close to the top
THROUGH GOES HAMILTON!
ALONSO GOES RIGHT THROUGH THE ALLEY TO 6TH PLACE
You probably watch Nascar
Yea i watched nascar but really like f1. Nascar = crash.
F1 = that cartoon where there is just a character left with a steering wheel going down the road. "
This may be the coolest road race I've ever seen.
Youre wrong ... inside it whas really hot ...
@@GpunktHartman good joke😂
It's the right kind of drag racing -- 1% racing, 99% dragging.
Mad max in the 1800s ?
@@Chowbizful "Steampunk" original!
If I was in that traffic I couldn't be even mad
Would be if i was in the back so i couldnt see these things
I could look at the line of cars behind them it stretches for miles. All because a bunch of rich dcks want to play around with trains
Mad? No. Irrationally scared? Yeh.
I love how insanely fast the pistons are thrashing at, yet the engine is only moving at like 10mph
that's power for you!!!
Mhm
@@krakenpots5693 *torque
@@Tracert-mc1hu I stand corrected
I mean it would be faster on a train track
This simultaneously the goofiest and coolest thing I have ever seen, from the comical train horn to the fact they're holding up an endless pileup of traffic behind them
Exactly! And nice pfp
My favourite part is that they’re in public streets, so other people are seeing this madness happening infront of their eyes
Every train needs its cars
And I bet the drivers were pretty amazed
Reminds me of driving my Tesla through an Amish community on a road trip. I was so happy.
@@JackieOwl94 They're amazed by why someone would spend so much money on an "autonomous environmentally friendly" vehicle causing global environmental disasters through lithium and other invasive resource extraction processes, not including disposal of the heavy metal wastes from mining or when cells need to be replaced, instead of just buying a horse.
I love how the horses in the field join in the fun.
horses be like: 😀
"Holy crap, Silver ... get a load of the horsepower in that one!"
@@marshalllhiepler " holy crap, Silver " - you should write children's books. Silver and Bronco catch the jewel smugglers, I'd buy that for the twins.
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391,
"Oh Nellie, just stop it. Quit horsing around for once in your life, dammit."
That has the potential to be the greatest movie ever made!!!!!!!!
Horses are staging a demonstration in the background yelling "you will not replace us"
Lmfao
Sounds like an antisteamitic conspiracy theory to me.
I like how the horses are faster than the steam engines
@@weemissile never ask henry ford what he thought about jewish people
@@weemissiledoes bro even know what the word antisemitic means?
i love how comically powerful these things sound, the violent vibrations and overwhelming power just going like 5 mph... incredible.
Watch Europa The Last Battle.
Thats because they are comically powerful, the torque they make is FUCKED. Jay Lenos 1925 Doble E-20 Steam Car makes 1000 pound-feet of torque.
@@0SynergyThey're between 50 and 100hp, so the power output of the engine is not particularly high (though for the time, certainly impressive, it took until the 1980s before european medium size farm tractors crossed the 100hp mark afaik)
Torque at the wheel axle is tremendously high, because of the very large wheels and the exceptionally slow rotation of them.
You could - with the correct gearbox - hide a modern 3 cylinder turbo city car engine somewhere on the steam engine, and have it perform very similarly to the steam engine. Yes, really. The experience would suck, but it is physically possible.
Gearing is the magic word here. Torque is multiplied with the gearing. So if you have a modern engine screaming along at 6000rpm versus the perhaps 200rpm of the steam engines, you gear down more than a tenfold, and get a big torque increase at the output of the gearbox. Because that's what gearboxes do.
Of course, it goes without saying that it's unlikely that a modern 3 cylinder city car engine will survive for about a century, let alone be fixable a century from now. They also don't smell as interesting, and don't sound nearly as cool.
For the Doble steam car, similar things are valid. The engine speed is much lower than on a modern engine, so to put out a similar amount of power, you need more torque. Torque in itself is not the big important thing. A trained cyclist can deliver as much torque as a small car at the crank, but it can't nearly put out as much work because of a lack of power.
But power is power, and with a long enough lever one could move the Earth.
@@laurensvisser7623 We have a MINT one with LUGS for bad field mud that is usually at the Stampede Rodeo in Calgary, Alberta. Along with other equipment from the early days: Remington Museum and other Alberta memorabilia. CHAIN DRIVE, baby. Chain STEERING.
So many huge exposed moving bits moving way faster than they look like they should, way too close to soft squishy humans
@@HakureiReimuOfficial thats what makes me chuckle too. its just so silly.
I don’t know how it took UA-cam 9 friggin years to suggest this to me but I’m so happy it finally happened. Those are absolutely beautiful machines! Even the horses in the adjacent field were fired up!
I'm thinking they may have been spooked more so than enthusiastically fired up lol
@@100GTAGUY
I’m sure you are correct but it’s fun to pretend.
Widziałem takiego na drodze w Lincolnshire niedaleko Bostonu.
Same here. Execpt, I just got this recommended today.
@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 My comment that i posted a year ago (So the new fast an furious movie takes place in the 1800's?)
just took off with reply's the last few days no idea why.
You just triggered some 200 year old memories in those horses that they never knew they had
fr i thought i was the only one that thought that
I have sad news. Horses do not live that long.
@@Sorin2120 genetic pass-downs
@@Sorin2120 their genes do
Memories are not inherited. Please go back to school to learn how genetics actually work
Those wheels are sick, 80 inch 3-piece ultra low profile racing wheels
The horses running toward the street acting like they remember hearing stories of these machines from their grandparents is everything
😂😂 or terrified from the noise and bolting away
@@johnshipley1389 Horses are easily frightened but they will be back and in greater numbers.
@@skull9674 We must leave before nightfall, or these hill with be swarming with ponies.
More like scared
why the horse red
Imagine the horror of seeing this machine in your rear view mirror, thinking for a second that a train is thundering towards you.
_[THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE THEME INTENSIFIES]_
Can you outrun a steam engine?
@@stellviahohenheim no
I love how Jesus replied to that 💀
Even Jesus got no hope for that.
“Boss, I’m gonna be late..”
“…no, it’s not diarrhea… I’m stuck behind some steam traction engines.”
Boss: 👁👄👁
i love how the boss assumed its diarrhea
Well he's always full of shit @@eastofwarden
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Getting this recomended after 10+ years is actually crazy
And the Video Quality is great😭👍
What's fascinating is that the tractors aren't actually moving, they're just pulling the road towards them with the monstrous torque
nah they're spinning the entire planet towards them
Lol that one got me goin
What tractors? all i see is race cars in this video!
I hate that you're technically not wrong.
That exact thought really messes with your head. Next time you driving down the motorway/freeway imagine your still and the road is moving. It’s a really strange sensation
Only 1860s' kids will remember this gem
@vizomak98 Well done Miss Marple
@@mannydekhar-antipov9954 XD
had remembered 💀
@vizomak98 No s-
@vizomak98 made me laugh so hard
It's almost comical watching the contrast between how freaking fast those rods are pumping, and how slowly the wheels are turning.
and now think about what torque these things must have
Only to realise cars do the exact same thing
@@1earedwolf Reminds me of when I had a crappy bicycle that barely moved despite my roadrunner antics.
@@scintillam_dei good for going up hills 🙂
@@scintillam_dei then switch gears if it was a mountain bike and not a BMX
Glad to see there are still men in sheds keeping these babies running. My grandparents lived in Ripley (less than 10 miles from Cromford) and we would always go to the steam engine rally from there when we were children in the 1980's and 90's.
Fuckkng noise pollution is all I see and making the enivorment worse
@@Perry-o5i I absolutely despise general noise pollution and think that there should be stricter rules around it, yet even I can recognize that sometimes it’s acceptable given unique and enriching situations like this. Loud noise in those specific situations shouldn’t even be classed as noise pollution. It’s just good fun.
When this baby hits 8mph, you're gonna see a helluva show! 🔥🔥
**cough** or maybe **cough** you won't, with all that smoke...
@@legendaryra3590 why does everything need to be a reference? It’s a joke
@@legendaryra3590 it's just a joke...
"we're just getting started"
@@legendaryra3590 gen z at its finest
I can imagine another Fast and Furious movie with only steam powered cars.
A steampunk flavored racing movie would be dope.
Sentinel stream lorry ftw
That runway scene in F&F 6 might have actually been correct if they did ;)
FF producer: slower guys, I need to write down this one
Yeah, some douche woud blow up the boiler but somehow still manage to get away from the constable by Bo and Luke jumping over the Snake River Canyon with Evel Kinevel even though he's dead.
Might be slow but the amount of torque this makes is on another level
Talk about rollin mass
It can probably go faster, but it would be dangerous.
@@Thereisnoname-_- If it went faster, it would probably blow up if it had to stop.
@@Thereisnoname-_- weight doesn't limit speed... at all... it just means acceleration is slower... if you try to speed up or slow down acceleration is slower... a point object moving at C with 0 weight will stop instantaneously if it hits anything... a 5 ton train engine moving at 1km/h would not stop unless all of the energy in the system were to be stopped and the heavier a thing is the more energy it has we call this energy momentum.
And momentum is always conserved.
@@livedandletdie What's C?
These new "motor engines" are truly quite fascinating!!
I love the horses keeping pace in the field
“Oh man! My greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandfather used to share stories about these!”
Lol.
I bet your great great great great grandfather was around for this age, the one you mentioned is in the bible i believe. Cool man
@@timoarrg i dont know how long horses live but i think they did put a little too many greats
so that is about 300 years ago. He had a traction engine in 1720..... WOW, Mr Newcomen would have been impressed.
@@timoarrgq😂se
no need for that many greats
I absolutely loved the green English country side and the grey sky, perfectly blending with a time memorial machine. Phenomenal.
do you also absolutely love the fact that its made with stolen Indian wealth?
@@sipsofhell9018 the industrial revolution happened quite some time before the indian raj
@@sipsofhell9018 It's not though, that's English steel and design right there, stay salty
@@sipsofhell9018 You drunk too much of an anti-British propaganda kool-aid spread by the enemies of the Anglo-Saxon world order.
@@sipsofhell9018 no one asked
I can imagine how shocked the motorists passing by were, and indeed all the eyewitnesses😂
Not to speak of those stuck in the line behind them.
@@user-pc5sc7zi9j long line
It's pretty normal for the English countryside
And the horses
I imagine it's less shocked and more "Not *those* guys again."
The guy standing behind that piston doing 10 million RPM really puts his faith in 200 yo mechanics.
Imagine being overtaken by two Fowler BB1 Ploughing Engines.
Better than being run over by a Z7.
Chief isn't a BB1
Back in the 19th century... Likely it would've impress the many.
That couldn't be me
The pain would be so slow.
Time traveller: moves a chair.
The world 2000 years later:
now you know why steam cars are no longer a thing on the road they were to slow🤣
This meme was never funny.
Stop regurgitating it, zoomer.
@@yosefshekelberg5433 it's hilarious
@@briansteele3592 I'm sure it is, if you're barely sentient worm shit.
@@yosefshekelberg5433 Careful, you'll cut yourself with that edge
That's great to see those old machines running like that.
You can hear how powerful they are. The piston gets going so fast lol.
Not to the 93 cars queued up behind them that are frustrated driving 18mph.
DumbDuck44 I'm guessing this is on a closed-off section of road for some special event. There's no way those things are street legal.
@@jazzfeline5970 Look at 0:22 there are cars on both sides of the road, and behind them are cars queued up as far as the eye can see, unable to pass. The locomotives even have license plate numbers on them and rubberized tracks, so I assume they are grandfathered in due to their age to not require brake lights and what not.
@@jazzfeline5970 These are road legal in the UK
0:53 You sure this isn't an advert for Lloyds Bank?
That’s beautiful view ❤ horses are excited
Imagine being the cars behind the last two thinking "these guys are going so SLOW" then witnessing them begin an overtake. 🤣
It's like watching sloths fight
@@Ryan-op7yd intriguing, continue.
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*That thing looks incredibly powerful!*
yea probably 10 hp maybe 15 xD
@@frankmartel3428 This thing will shatter your bones and liquefy your flesh.
@@frankmartel3428 Yeah but prob enough torque to take down a building
@@patrioticwhitemail9119 like 10 hourse would lmao
@@frankmartel3428 It's not about horse power. It's about torque.
Imagine seeing these guys a mile behind you in a race: "They're going to pass us in 2 hours! Faster! Faster!"
"Hang on, I'm gonna accelerate this baby into high gear!"
_[accelerates from 10 to 12 km/h]_
"They'll never catch us now!"
@@Klabbity_Kloots time to shift into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!
0-60 : Never
@@bimisikocheng 0-60: 20 minutes going down mount everest
Those horses running in the background at the end of the video, gave the video this authentic vintage vibes, broo its so epic
Fun fact: the darker a steam engine’s smoke is, the more fuel it will use. Steam engine owners would usually try to get their smoke as white as possible to ensure peak efficiency, this is why the last steam engine’s pistons are moving faster, because it’s not getting enough energy from the fuel it’s burning.
It’s more of a balance really. A black plume means you aren’t burning coal very efficiently as it’s leaving the firebox as soot the byproduct of incomplete combustion. However burning too hot will produce more steam than the engine is capable of using burning coal faster while the excess steam is wasted by the mandatory venting.
It's the Victoria Era Coal Rolling...literally
Doesn’t matter to me. As long as mains pressure is within spec and regulation is correct, I’ll roll coal from here to the moon and back. Better than overheating and heat cycle the riveted box and boiler by burning white hot. Gonna have to vent steam anyways….
They should have bought Premium Coal not that cheap Brown Coal.
Nealy 1k upvotes on someone that has no idea what they are talking about.... steam engines don't usually have gears, so the only reason for them to be going any faster is the steam valve is opened widere and it has enough pressure to run that fast... that's literally it. It has nothing to do with the smoke being black or not.... and yes black smoke does tend to mean unburned fuel, but that's got nothing to do with how fast the pistons are reciprocating.
The Fast and the Furious prequel looks *amazing.* That's some serious street racing right there.
To be honest, I would LOVE to see "F&F: prequel" like this! 😀
Steady and gentlemanly
@@panzerofthelake506 yes, that would be perfect name 😀
@@dav1342 swift and honourable
Hella lame comment that you stole from the other comment mentioning fast and furious.
This is the most environmental friendly air I ever seen.
That's what I'm thinking, is cool. But is coal too
what
thats what big oil would say
Just like China
Coughing, black puffs from their mouth. “Ya, that’s some good air.” Cooughing.
Imagine being that guy that's thinking "did a god damn train just overtake me?"
And this is why you approach blind bends expecting the unexpected 😆, rounding a bend to see that coming at you 🤣. Awesome sight to see, true vintage street racing...
And you bet a car would definitely come off worst in this case.
Especially when they're overtaking as the road signs say to pull in. A classic country road feature.
@@CoolSteve08 pretty sure it would just drive right over the car in the case of a collision lmao
Really idiots doing the overtake
Could you imagine the insurance claim.
I was working in the UK a few years ago and had the weekend off, so I rented a car and went tooling around the countryside. I ran across a vintage steam tractor fair in a little village. OMG, if you haven't seen and heard these behemoths up close I strongly encourage you to add this to your bucket list. Awesome.
Oh yes definitely! If I can find one nearby
I hear them every weekend in the summer, They seem alive.
i used to go to a place called bressingham all the time as a kid, the smell of steam and smoke is as good as the sounds steam locomotives make
Midwest Threshers Reunion. Mt Pleasant, IA. Labor Day weekend. These, trains, hit and miss engines, and so much more old stuff.
They cause a lot of air pollution though.
That's actually quite quick for a traction engine
no just looks quick cause hes passing a single
@@johnsmith-nl3js I meant in reference to the landscape
@@GoldenEDM_2018 Put it in 0.25x and it's still faster than that Honda at 3am
Breakneck speed. Great, great, great grandpappy would be telling them to slow down because he wants to get there ALIVE !
They create incredible amounts of torque
Did you see that traffic jam in the back? Besides if i was in the car at 0:21, i would be furious. Driving such cool piece of history doesn't give them right to drive dangerously.
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No one cares
No one cares
I bet you’re fun at parties
@@MatthewWills-s2h I care
You don't see a ploughing engine overtake a traction engine very much. Just shows the power they have
They have power not speed
@@welsh_Witch That's what I was saying!
@@welsh_Witch gear them differently and they will go 30mph+ easily
Torque*
Technically they're all Traction Engines. But I guess it goes to show even traction engines had some diversity depending on the job.
I think my favorite part about this is the fact that these things are so slow that anyone in that line of cars could easily pass these guys and get to work on time. But instead almost all of them collectively agreed. "Naw fuck work I wanna watch a steam engine"
Honestly I'd have probably done the same thing. And I'd have to take a picture or video of it happening just to prove it to my boss.
Not sure they thought that... doesn't necessarily look like it would be safe to overtake from the angles at the filmed point, esp when you consider you'd have to overtake 3 vehicles at once.
@@RBXTrains The problem is not the 3 steam engines, it's the 20+ cars behind them. Once a few more cars hesitate to overtake, they cause a massive jam. You notice how timid drivers always have several cars behind them?
Everyone I work with would be pissed if I didn't get a video. They would probably leave work to come watch a steam tractor race.
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Everybody talking about how powerful they sound, but how slow they go don't realize that the torque these thing generate is far greater than most modern cars. These things could haul probably 5X the weight of what a modern pickup could.
Why aren't they using gears to make the rpm faster?
They also weigh about 50X the weight of a modern pickup and are about twice the size
@@blaster1185 The purpose of these machines isn’t speed. They’re more like really old tractors than really old cars
@@blaster1185 imagine building a gearbox to be handle that torque pulling that much weight.
The gears would behave like butter.
The only gearing available to steam locos is the size of the wheels.
@@johanbuis1369 wdym like really old tractors? That’s literally what they are
No matter how many times I watch this I can't help but have a stupid grin on my face from beginning to end😁
Fun fact. The city i live in has an event each year called "dordt in stoom" where they bring out all kinds of steam engines including steam boats, a steam train, steam machines and many more, most of which still work. The city is called dordrecht and online you can find more about this event
Hoe vaker in Dordt, hoe mooier het word!
@@daanwillemsen223 inderdaad.
150 year old Stoomer
@@daanwillemsen223 hoe dichter bij dordt hoe rotter het wordt 💀
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The horses running from the loud sounds at the end was a nice touch.
lets be real, owning one of these is a bigger flex then owning a Ferrari
Quite a bit less practical tho .. & that’s saying something
@@Sam3532 have you seen the price of fuel?
@@Sam3532, Ferrari's are pretty much the antithesis of practicality. With a steam traction engine you can pull the entirety of Europe.
@@Sam3532Practical? If a ferrari is bad at something it's at practicality. Now imagine a huge torque beast that could plow and tow anything. THAT is practicality. Plus, it uses coal, so if gasoline goes crazy the vehicle won't be affected.
probably cost a lot more to
“Honey, I’m going to be late, a steam engine overtook me.”
When I was a kid in the 1950s, I watched two of these lovely old monsters passing a dredging bucket back and forth between them across a small lake. I was enthralled.
1950's street racing
Yeah
Wow you must be in your 70s
@@dhirajkamath4057 DOB 1941. Do the math
Yeah, the second one is rigged for that, the drum underneath the boiler. It was used with a reversible plough rig as well. Two machines on the headlands and run the chains and run the plough forward and back like the shuttle on a loom.
I remember being stuck behind of those machines on an A road somewhere in the UK. Took a long time before we could overtake but was nice to see the power of steam!
The most ironic one was when I was cycling LEJOG last year, on a bank holiday, I did a bit along the A303 because it was less hilly than the significantly quieter A30. (The A303 basically bypasses the A30 for 90 miles). I was fully expecting to be the slowest vehicle on the road. But, in classic A303 fashion, a wild tractor appeared... ua-cam.com/video/3Ss-D0FbYKM/v-deo.htmlh32m09s
I don't recall encountering any of these traction engines on that trip, but I did come across one last time I visited the peak district. And there's a local fair closer to home! ua-cam.com/video/vtsOjxXk2ic/v-deo.htmlh41m31s
@@Bellezzasolo The A303 is the route from London to Devon and Cornwall, right? I've taken that road numerous times when I was on holidays in the UK. Never took the A30 tho, not on that stretch at least
@@meterspoor if you go far into Devon you've actually been on the A30. The A30 is Hounslow to Land's End. The A303 pops up at Popham, where a spur from the M3 (of course the natural driving route these days) joins the A30 and the A303 begins. The A30 rejoins in the Blackdown Hills, which is the other end of the A303. You just drive straight on and the number changes, so it's easy to miss. From there it's A30 all the way to Cornwall, except for the M5 Exeter bypass.
Last August I did an overnight ride from London heading for home in Dorset, so I used the A30 instead of the M3, and then A303. After a few miles the A30 reemerges, but it's basically a local road through Salisbury and whatnot. ua-cam.com/video/M837dUWWg6I/v-deo.html
@@Bellezzasolo Yes, we use always use the M3 and A303 to go to Devon. I've also been on the stretch through Bodmin Moor. Also, your channel looks very interesting, when I have more time I'll watch some of your videos for sure. Thank you for commenting on my comment :)
the power of acid rain, deforestation, and smog 🙏
Jay Leno steered my attention towards steam cars when he said while driving his Stanley Steamer:
“I am going 60 mph in a car made of wood and it’s on fire. It’s fantastic!”
Steam engines are really amazing.
steam engines could’ve been developed further, imagine where we would be if that route had been taken
@@protocetid boats
@@imthemrblue I mean automobiles, there were steam engine cars that weren't whatever these are (custom? restomods?)
@@protocetid Except steam engines had a TERRIBLE efficiency percentage of fuel consumed to power being made. Compared to ICEs, definetly.
@@JagiUGG I'm no engineer but couldn't that have been fixed with the trillions of dollars and the 100+ years of R&D that ICE got?
After 11 years these guys are still badass
I admire the patience of drivers in all those cars
they have no choice
I admired more the one coming from the other direction who slowed right down and moved over without making a huge fuss. I can imagine Karen’s just stopping in the middle of the road in a fit of pique.
@@CycolacFanBut they're not really being slowed down. They just get by and move along. The traffic behind the steam engines is just stuck there
@@hamzerpanzer during the overtake the oncoming car had to pull right over to the kerb.
The Age of Steam never dies!
it did in fact die
@@lemau8458 how does it feel to be wrong? 🎤
@@tiredtoby6930 I don't know because I'm not wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@lemau8458 Nope, we still use steam to generate electricity :)
@@theremixer4959 and not on the roads, which has nothing to do with what I was talking about
Everybody gangsta until Trevor the Traction Engine rolls up to the car meet
" dam, that cars low " , guy with steam roller "oh, I cam make it a lot lower than that "
Hear them coming from miles away
Aw shit
*He here*
Ah" exclained trevor "A harbour, the seaside, Children. That would be lovely"
@@Gameboy_1992 "You know what I say?" Asked Edward. "Fuck the children. Fuck 'em! They're getting entirely too much attention."
Men will never get old.
Plus the horses running in background , give the vibes of Black beauty ❤
I love to see these magnificent engines still running and I can't believe it took youtube 9 years to recommend this!
In the state of PA there's a festival every year it's like farmers a thershermans jubilee. You get to see all types of steam engines from small ones that kids can operate to great big ones that's almost the size of a rv (i might ve exaggerating but you get the point)
This video's time has come.
2022 rec gang
I love how you can hear the second engine really rev up...followed by one of the slowest overtakes ever.
These sort of machines, from that era, boosted the West into an unbelievable industrial development. Quite amazing how ingenious and creative people were and always have been.
they once ruled the world from their island kingdom! Steam engine was a remarkable invention.
It was actually the stolen wealth that made west.
@@ns7353 Then they lost steam?
@@JeansWebbTv nice one
Yeah and that was the beginning of the end...
0:52 Can't understand if horses in background wants to escape... or win the race! That's real horse power! 🙂
"Scotty, I need 5 miles per hour!"
"Ach, Captain, she cannae take it! She'll blow up!!"
scotty jettison the boiler into the sinkhole.
"Just haven't got the power"
Lmao I love how the horses are like "OMG WTF IS THAT? ITS SOME WEIRD TOOTY THING, LETS GO LOOK!"
nah that shit is the stories their grandparents told them. "Back in my day, there were these big monsters that went around and gave us food!"
@@GermanyballMapping. they usaully never saw the trains directly tho
They're absolutely running away from the horrendous noise.
Cleanest overtake I’ve seen in racing history
11 years ago and I only found this masterpiece now what a shame..
You can really feel how these tractors are giving it their all
Yea one of them had a front axle box that just started shaking
@@WhiffyScarf whenever my tractor is full throttle the whole thing shakes (its a gas tractor from the early 50s)
@@GermanyballMapping. My old tractor shakes at idle, half throttle and full throttle but not in between. Quite interesting I think.
lmao
@@gubbtratt1 Idle makes the most sense since the engine would just be running and not powering anything
I love how they turned the road with modern cars into the 1800s and forced everyone to be stuck behind them 😁
I mean, what are you gonna do? Pick a road rage fight with a 10-ton steam tractor?
@@Cfbrolley1320 Yes, I'm safe behind a thin sheet of aluminum door. I can literally pull next to one of those guys and whack at their feet with a long stick. Surely they can handle a simple "get the fuck out my way" without resorting to violence. If not, then I'm pulling out my broomstick I randomly carry in my car for days like this.
@@Cfbrolley1320 Blleed in the streets, bleat in the local magistrate's office, yes.
Maybe not a steam engine, but being stuck behind a tractor for miles is very common in these parts
@@Cfbrolley1320 literally throw anything at the engine and watch as it detonates like the literal bomb thats barely held together that it is. these things are a rolling death trap, and any asshole whos going to block traffic with one deserves when it blows up.
The neighbors:
God damn speed demons, cant even hear em and they’re right on you
that's what the whistle is for
The horses ran so happily at the end, as if they were glad that the era of westerns was finally coming again
What horse?
0:55 The horses in that farm: “We’re racing with steam cars like the old times? Ok!” 😂
I love this! You can see the genuine passion on their faces and the excitement that radiates from them
This looks like a helluva time.
love this snapshot of an alternate steampunk reality where people drive around massive contraptions in little squads
Sounds pretty awesome, not gunna lie
That's how we live life here in Florida.
the pollution would be crazy
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These things existed for a short time in 1830s London, until the government banned them. Apparently people thought they were too loud or something.
Bro was really like:FULL STEAM AHEAD
So nice to see trevor and his siblings going on their daily drive
Bro Thank you I needed that🤣
Which trevor, the one from GTA?😂
@@sannalabelle7124 trevor from thomas the tank engine
tevors has best theme in thomas change my mind
@@molteniron2025 I disagree, Henry and Diesel.
Everyone driving these is clearly living their best life.
I bet they could safely do this even in the rain, since it's still overall slow and traction engines have amazing adhesion.
Considering that they obviously can't do it safely in dry conditions, I highly doubt they'd act more responsibly in the rain.
Everyone driving there except those stuck in the queue behind em
@@Zanderal24 I said everyone driving *these* - as in, the traction engines
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Imagine just watching TV, then hearing a steam engine come down your street
The horses running in the end feels like we're back in time 😍
The horses make you feel like you're back in time...
But not the steam engine 😂
@@Rocco-tb9ih to be fair horses are older than steam engines 🤔
@@demonindenim so are humans 🤔
@@Rocco-tb9ih but then trees are even older 🤔
@@Rocco-tb9ih feel modern until all of those element combined
Me and the boys commencing our steam engine global domination
I would join if I could
Yes, steam engine supremacy all the way!
@@tanto64 indeed!
Doesn’t matter where in the world you are, you’ll find guys being dudes.
@@nicksurfs1 and dudes being guys.
People don't realize the mass torque that a steam engine produces.
@@Stevie-J hahaha
I agree
@@Stevie-J I think they ment steam lorry’s showmen’s engines and traction engines and steam rollers
You can literally hear it
Also people dont realize how much polution steam engine does🤡
The first train we see looks like it has Ricky and Bubbles from trailer park boys piloting 😂
Decent.
When children tell Trevor the traction engine their parents aren’t home:
"The harbour, the seaside, children! That'd be lovely!"
@Ashton : All machines like children. They're the juiciest humans.
*why don’t you have a seat right over here for me?*
@Ashton Fuck you.
suddenly everything,everything
faster
everything,everything
faster
everything,everything
So Trevor is a pedophile
There’s even horses running in the distance, just awesome!
They're probably scared.
Those horses are spooked, not awesome.
Where ever they are I'll bet there are some very old laws still in the books specifically concerning the spooking of horses, that they are surely violating, with their careless blasting of horns. Mostly joking, but you can imagine if a rider were on the roadway the danger they would be in of being thrown from a spooked horse.
@@All4Grogg I'm pretty sure they have to blow horn to release excess steam , could be wrong though
@@Rowant-sh7vm I would think there is a way to not blow it through a whistle haha
@@user-uo3ws7np8r Some traction engines have that ability but the older ones do not
so does the steam engine come with a rear-vision mirror as standard off the show room floor or is it an optional after market add on? 😁
I’m pretty sure it’s an optional aftermarket
I think that's comes free if you buy the airbag and turn signal package.
Probably optional
It also comes with keyless entry, you just walk right up!
@Brett Hilbert ?
I liked seeing the horses running to see what's happening at the end😊
Weird I always imagined those to go around the speed of a 1910s car. I guess I expected a little too much from what essentially is just a tractor when there are actualy steam cars that go over 60km/h
nothing will be funnier to me than Jay Leno speeding down the highway with goggles on just casually waving to people in one of those things
A standard steam traction engine has a top speed of 10 mph.
It's the gearing that slows em down
It's because traction engines are geared for torque (which they are gods at) and acting as stationary drive engines for machinery, rather than for speed.
Cars at that time could go a _little_ faster than these.
After all, these are working machines, not land cruisers.
I am so amazed that his led to the creation of modern vehicles, if you look closely at the end, you can see two horses literally going at full speed whilst these steam powered carriages go at like 10mph, can you imagine people looking at this back in the 19th century and going like: “yeah this is cool and all but why should we switch to this since my horse is way faster and safer”
Really makes you think that some technologies we consider really niche and we don’t see gaining much traction nowadays will propel humankind into a new and more advanced era
This thing could carry trams full of people on a regular route through a city. Or loads of coal, metal, etc. In fact, we got a lot of electric trams, steamboats and trains carrying people before cars were small. The horses require a lot of land and they shit a lot in cities. Having a car wasn't popular until the 50s in America and 60s in Europe, and we were all traveling long distances with train engines. This is actually decades after we went through our massive culling of horses.
Sadly, this realization occurs to very few. It is very much a question of the individual - see potential in new technology and embrace change - or demonize it and insist on conserving the status quo? Ironically, people in the steam scene can be very reactionary, which is sad, as those vehicles were as offensive to some folk at the time as other technologies are to people now. At any point in history, it was left to a small minority, fighting against the mainstream, to move things forward. A lot of these Visionaries have been, and continue to be heavily ostracized. All technologies are transitional. Some stay longer, some only have a short life. If there's a use and a market, it will have it's place.
(This is general comment, relating to the human condition vs. innovation, completely unrelated to any particular technology or current political conflict)
for personal transportation a horse was better
for moving trains and rocks/logs/coal/animals this kind of machines were the rule
trains are older than cars
also 1 HP wasnt enough to move 1kTON, to move big loads you need twerks(TORQUE), not horsies
Frfr😊
@@-whackd 20s mate. It wasn’t popular until the 20s.
I can imagine how painful it must have been for cars to be behind those steam engines.
Very noisy and lots of smoke
@@LuizAlexPhoenix I think it's primarily the slowness which is painful. One big traffic jam for 3 people enjoying their hobby.
@@Engineer9736 boo hoo
@@andrewmeyer169 I know, people should be able to enjoy their hobbies at the expense of everyone around them.
@@andrewmeyer169 the day traction engines are banned, I won't feel so bad.
Santa has been real quiet since the naughty kids got creative
I always find it funny how fast the components are moving then you see how slow the actual vehicle is moving 🤣
Gear ratios
just like a car then.
It is quite interesting to see steam engines, when you expect this giant slow turning piston and crank assembly it´s actually small in comparision to the other parts and runnning at very high (visually, probably low if you were to count them) rpms. But of course they have to gear them very low as they don´t have a lot of torque as is.
this is outrageously chaotic and I love it
"Why were you late to work?"
"I was stuck behind a train."
"Oh. Okay.....
*You were stuck behind a what?"*
Yes. A (road) train.
It's not a train
Underrated
@@andyg3 technically, it's as close as it can get
That is the coolest thing I ever saw. Being behind that fly wheel spinning that fast is crazy.