The Railway so Bad it Exploded - Bradford & Forster Brook Monorail
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- In today's video, we take a look at the Bradford & Foster Brook Monorail, a railway that was so bad, an accident was reported almost daily and it exploded after 1 year
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Lets build a railway!
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@@DangerAngelous Explodes Aw shit
TOT trying to build anything in RR Online with mike & river:
Hyce in a nutshell
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Bradford & Foster Brook Make "Worst Railway Ever," Asked To Leave Reality Itself
i thought the title meant UK bradford for a second and i was like "yeh, that sounds right"
The UK had its own version built at Aldershot about five years prior, and - By all accounts - That was quite a bit more successful than the Bradford/Forster railway shown here! 😇
@@dieseldragon6756 There were other 'monorail' ideas in the late 1890s, mostly for military and agricultural use which were also successful - indeed the idea has never gone away, as you can still find them in European vine yards on steep sloping hills.
Penn Central: Finally! A worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!
I watched a reactions vid before this one and that made me chuckle, but your comment just made me laugh the house down! 🚂🇺🇸💯🤣
(I will have to apologise to my neighbours, though. Local time here is about 05:00... 🕔🇬🇧😳)
Did you just say "Booming business?"
Well, booming railway for a booming business...
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine, bona fide
Electrified, six-car monorail
What'd I say?
I get it this real life event is almost like in the monorail episode of the Simpsons.
_Monorail! Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!_
Mono.....
D'oh!
Wonder if that Simpsons episode took some light inspiration from this story
Monorail!
What's it called?
Monorail!
That's right! Monorail!
"it isn't wrong, but we just don't do it."
Moral of the story - monorails suck
Correction, Steam monorails suck
Well the Disney Monorail is actually good
basic comment
in fact a Lartigue monorail was pretty successful in Algeria, on a 90km long line, the load being more easily spread on the sandy ground with large wooden beams than what was possible with regular railway sleepers.
Another desert Lartigue monorail was the short lived Epsom Salts Monorail, in California. It ran successfully until the magnesium sulfate mine it was built for depleted, which sadly happened only two years after the line had opened.
The Lartigue system has proven itself to be a good solution for laying tracks in soft, unprepared grounds.
yeah but Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook had a monorail and by gum it put them on the map!
There was a lot of oil-boom money in northern Pennsylvania in the 1870s. Some of it got spent on stupid ideas.
Oil boom money made a _coal_ boom when that boiler ran dry... 🚂💥😉
they did the persian gulf petrostate thing before it was cool
What’s it called? monorail, once again! Monorail! Monorail!!
2:35 those trains looks like the ones that are in ireland that The Tim Traveller made an video on
Yes, that's the Lartigue system mentioned a couple of times in this video - the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway. That was rather more successful, with the original lasting for 36 years (1888-1924).
@@iankemp1131 it was at Listowel that The Tim Traveller went to, you just reminded me about it to look where Tim went on his video
@@AdamHinckley Exactly. I remember reading about the Listowel line many years ago and thinking what a pity it was that it hadn't preserved, it would have made a great tourist attraction. Well the locals clearly thought the same and recreated the line from scratch on part of its original route, building new engines and rolling stock. Kudos to them! I hope to visit it some day.
Monorail, Monorail, MONORAAAAAAIL!!
Mono-Doh!
Cue the Simpsons Monorail song
My faith in humanity is maintained by the fact that about 10% of the comments are Simpson references.
On an unrelated note, Brigadier General Roy Stone had been removed from command during the Battle of the Wilderness after his horse fell on him. However, many presumed he was drunk during the battle.
This would not be the first nor the last time a Union Brigadier General would be drunk during a battle.
Ledley at the Battle of the Crater?
@@connormclernon26, also at North Anna.
The strange thing is that this looks quite a promising idea. The explosion was due to letting the boiler run dry which is a basic operating error which could happen on any railway. The Baldwin engine shown at the end with a single large central boiler should be better than the two mini-boilers if the track can take the weight. Both this and the Lartigue system were certainly quick and cheap to build, though it sounds as if this one had too lightly constructed rails - a problem dating back to Trevithick (but solved in the 1820s).
0:15 Bradford County is not where the town of Bradford itself is located, Bradford itself is actually in McKean County.
This has Lyle Lanley written all over it.
@ 3:45 = a treat! We get a stereoscopic picture as well!
Was it worse than the one in North Haverbrook?
Perhaps the one in Ogdenville?
I’m guessing the Bradford and Forster Brook railway just weren’t ready to tackle the monorail line concept.
Fascinating - I for one had never heard of this little railway before. The Irish line is legendary over here in GB - indeed, part of it has been recreated, and a sister railway (near enough) was built in France. Unfortunately that one disgraced itself before being opened, and so never ran. I wonder if Mr Latrigue had heard of this US line at all?
Lartigue came about 10 years later so maybe learnt from this line's mistakes. The supports look more robustly constructed on his system.
"This is more of a Shelbyville idea..." The promoters, trying to get funding.
Sometimes, doing things as cheaply as possible doesn't work out.
One of the best train explaining guy.
Where'd you find all these pictures? I've been mildly obsessed with finding out more about this weird contraption for years and could never find more than the same three pictures over and over.
Believe it or not, this might have been inspired by a similar (Albeit lesser known) system that was installed at Aldershot in 1872 for appraisal by the British Army (See Wikipedia: _Aldershot narrow-gauge suspension railway_ ) and so far as I can tell was the Worlds first passenger-carrying suspended railway, predating the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn by about 30 years. 🚟🇬🇧🥇
In the Aldershot system *two* rails were employed at a 12" gauge, and this probably contributed to the Aldershot system proving more stable and less problematic than the Bradford/Foster system you document here. 🚂🇬🇧⚖😇
Sadly, the Aldershot system was deconstructed at some later point (At a guess the timbers and rails were requisitioned for the war effort in WWI) and no trace of it remains to this day, but it was documented in _The Engineer_ (1872-11-01) and more can be found at the above referenced Wikipedia page. 😇
Finally: Many thanks for the awesome video! Absolutely *amazing* to hear that there was a U.S. cousin to the similar British
system that had been created shortly before! 👍
I never heard about this railway until now, worse than Penn Central?
Nice work my friend 4:48
great video!
Guess gadgetbahns aren't as new a phenomenon as we might think.
I was very much expecting this to be Bradford, UK given firstly Bradford here is pretty dodgy and secondly one of the two mainline stations is Bradford Forster Square, that's a massive coincidence between the similarities in the names.
*is there a chance the track could bend*
This was a bad idea
From what I can find, a steam rotary engine was like a Wankel. making the creator of this railroad a bit of a wanker.
Bradford and Foster Brook Monorail.
Camp McCarren Monorail.
Nihil novi sub sole.
Is there a chance the track could bend?
"He cut corners everywhere! Bad wiring, faulty brakes, and the celebrity on the maiden voyage was Gallagher!"
Quite likely, my UA-cam friend.
@@vincentberkan605”This is all that’s left of one of the crappiest trains ever built”
How were the engines transported from the manufacturer to the Bradford line?
Most probably on flat cars, with supporting tracks. Narrow gauge engines were often delivered in that way - so were trams (trolleys or street cars), Here in GB a couple of railways had special well wagons specifically for carrying trams, which were disassembled into their main parts - truck, lower deck saloon and upper saloon, for reassembly after delivery.
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Demonstration Line?
Engerth-Locomotive
They should have really thought about their mud first.
This is 1800s Northfolk southern Lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
TOT MADE A MINOR SPELLING MISTAKE AGAIN RAAAAAHHHH
This Is Bad Ideas
Huh
skibidi bop mm dada
first
Who rightfully cares…..
Your railway so fat, it died
This is how railway roastouts went. "Yo railway so dumb, it tought coupling rods were couplings!"