How Does A Steam Engine Cross A Mountain Range? | How Do They Do It?
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2020
- The Ceres Rail Company runs a regular tourist service from Cape Town, but how exactly does a nearly 90-year-old steam engine manage to cross mountainous terrain?
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'I think I can, I think I can ...'
Few will get this reference
@@LilCurtisKeepASwitch-m9r lol happy some ppl did!
Casey.jr is happy
I thiiiink iiiii caaaan, i thought i could i thought i could 😂
Very nice video! Only one HUGE omission ..... a little bit of the engine "talking" her way up the steep incline - the greatest music in the world!
0:26 that LSD inspired pronunciation genuinely had me believing we had some kind of 80 ton Moth-type Pokemon. xD
steam engine
Mother of industrial revolution
Its always interesting to see historical engines running
1:24 This is wrong
In a 4-8-2 wheel arrangement only the 8 driving provide power. The others are only there to support the weight
Thats cool
Your smart bro
The non-drive wheels guide the engine through curves and switches.
Interesant vir jou💯
Nice.
Train is like my home to me 🧡
Nice
0:49 you can see the class 26 (red devil) in the back ground
Liked
Imagine he left the hand brake off and the train rolled back down the hill!!!
Bailey
5:16 “the mountain type has an extra pair of driving wheels, compared to most locomotives”
Their are steam engines in America that have 4 pairs of driving wheels.
Is the steam still hot when it comes out? Like if I stood in that cloud of steam would I get burnt lol
Bane coulda said it less patronisingly but ok thx
You can stand in there pretty safely. Because the Steam from the cilinder cocks is blown in such a big cloud it covers a large area and cools down pretty fast.
It's kinda the same as a cloud, and clouds aren't really hot either.
@Bane actually it depends. If the engine is working hard then there is a high level of superheating, so the exhaust will be mostly superheated steam as it exits the chimney. This is extremely hot and very dangerous. However, if the engine is not working hard eg going downhill, then the degree of superheating is less, and so the steam will quickly condense into vapour, which has a much lower temperature. So in theory under the right conditions, it would be safe to stand very close to the top of the chimney.
It also depends on the outside temperature. Since we cannot see steam, the 'steam' most people refer to on a cold day coming off a loco is actually water vapour. If you can see a lot of water vapour, then the exhaust existing the chimney comparatively isn't as hot.
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On the train tracks.
ask the driver
Slowly. It does it slowly.
I like trains
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First
something am not impressed with they call them steam trains when its actually steam locomotives
Not everyone is a ferroequinologist like we are.
why don't create coal funnel to feed the burner, scooping 1 ton of coal per hour into the burner must be tiring
With modern technology yes this would probably be possible but you have to remember these engines are 90 years old and it took less technology to just have someone shovel the coal in than create an expensive funnel system to feed the fire, and another reason for this is instead of creating a funnel system you can replace the coal with oil which pretty much has all the benefits of a funnel system in which case the only reason there is a fireman in gas engines is to light the fire and ensure it doesn’t go out
@@notverygoodatthis8945 just a plank of hardwood should be enough to make some kind of bridge between the coal and the slit, so he just need to push the coal through the bridge, no need to scoop it which looks more tiring and difficult
Bich
steam engine is very old, maybe it uncomforable