It's still stunning to see such old technology blazing down the rails in triple digitsb a breathtaking display of power and elegance. The whistle is definitely a sound you cannot forget. I really enjoyed this. Saying hello from the USA. 🙋
Deltic: hold my beer.... If any diesel has 'character' - then it's the Deltic. That unmistakable Deltic whirr carried by the wind well before you see it. And then the sound akin to a Spitfire as it passes. That diesel has character!! Great film of the Tornado btw! 👍 It sure is a fast Steam loco. Could give Mallard a run for its money, and the Flying Scotsman too.
@@robtyman4281 I disagree, but I respect your opinion. I say that steamers have character because, if this makes sense, a steamer looks almost alive in terms of them having a 'face', the rod mechanism looking like moving living parts, the steam looking like breathing, and the whistle sounding like, well, a sound you can make!
Fabulous footage. It really reminds us why trainspotting was such a huge pastime during the height of the steam age. (I was Born 1972 so my steam age was the HSTs which I’m ok with though!).🎉🎉
Looks like the Brits keep their railroad tracks in better shape than we Americans do. Our trains could never achieve this speed today. In the past we could, but after the demise of passenger traffic the freight lines do little to keep up their tracks in good shape. I don't think even our freight trains could attain this type of speed. Do British freight travel this fast?
And yet, they didn't shake themselves to bits. Way back about 80 or 90 years ago, these incredible, majestic beasts reached and surpassed 100 mph, their connecting rods going up and down again over 400 times per minute, massive rods weighing nearly a short ton. The Flying Scotsman, the first to reach 100 mph, would've been at around 418 rpm at that speed, what with its 80 inch driver diameter and the fact that at 335 rpm the speed equals the driver diameter. UP 844 could reach 120 mph and at those speeds it would've been turning at 502 rpm. Insane engineering skills, nothing we have today would be capable of such feats while staying in service with routine maintenance for nearly a century, five years, ten maybe at best in the modern day, old techniques and building standards demanded a machine capable of being on duty for decades with the regular routine checkups and easy part replacements built into the design, and the every-so-often full refresh to the more central core components, and that was it. Built to last forever. If society fell apart now and Humans came back in a thousand years, they'd think we were a steam-era society with a weird fixation on running metal filaments everywhere for reasons unknown.
@@Avetho UP 844 was a freight hauler not a passenger tower. That's what the 4449 is built for, high speed passenger travel. British trains have obscenely large drivers too, like the beautiful oil fueled steamer running on the historic Reichsban railway in Germany, I think that one has close to 85 inch drivers, I've never seen such diameter on a locomotive ever!
How come this isn't there a diesel at the end of Tornado's train? I mean, I know he's a young engine, but still, Flying Scotsman had one when he went a hundred miles an hour.
Click bait. It is not doing anywhere near 100 mph in these clips. Watch the BBC documentary if you really want to see it doing 100mph on it's test run.
It's still stunning to see such old technology blazing down the rails in triple digitsb a breathtaking display of power and elegance. The whistle is definitely a sound you cannot forget.
I really enjoyed this. Saying hello from the USA. 🙋
I was once told that the whistle was from 60023 Golden Eagle, which was broken up around 1965. Tornado did in fact achieve 102 m.p.h. some years ago.
Hasn't run that fast in decades, speed limits for rail lines are far lower than they used to be.
Such magnificence. Sure, diesels can do it, but they don't have the heart and soul and sheer character of a steam engine.
I agree!
Deltic: hold my beer.... If any diesel has 'character' - then it's the Deltic. That unmistakable Deltic whirr carried by the wind well before you see it. And then the sound akin to a Spitfire as it passes. That diesel has character!!
Great film of the Tornado btw! 👍 It sure is a fast Steam loco. Could give Mallard a run for its money, and the Flying Scotsman too.
@@robtyman4281 I disagree, but I respect your opinion.
I say that steamers have character because, if this makes sense, a steamer looks almost alive in terms of them having a 'face', the rod mechanism looking like moving living parts, the steam looking like breathing, and the whistle sounding like, well, a sound you can make!
I think diesels do have character (compared to electrics) but steam was on a next level
NOR THE TORQUE xD
That whistle is iconic
Fabulous footage. It really reminds us why trainspotting was such a huge pastime during the height of the steam age. (I was Born 1972 so my steam age was the HSTs which I’m ok with though!).🎉🎉
She is absolutely stunning when you see her moving like that…
Looks like the Brits keep their railroad tracks in better shape than we Americans do. Our trains could never achieve this speed today. In the past we could, but after the demise of passenger traffic the freight lines do little to keep up their tracks in good shape. I don't think even our freight trains could attain this type of speed. Do British freight travel this fast?
Freighters don’t travel at that speed here no. If do want to see how fast they go search Tamworth station uk and that is probably the fastest they go
Sped up footage, she was making 60 or 70 miles an hour there.
Yep yep its for sure faster than any 1950s cars that Chevy made 😜😜😜 great video 👍👍
That would be a hell of a lot of heavy metal whirring about - they would surely shake themselves to bits!
It has run at 100 mph
@@AndreiTupolev 15th may 2017
And yet, they didn't shake themselves to bits. Way back about 80 or 90 years ago, these incredible, majestic beasts reached and surpassed 100 mph, their connecting rods going up and down again over 400 times per minute, massive rods weighing nearly a short ton. The Flying Scotsman, the first to reach 100 mph, would've been at around 418 rpm at that speed, what with its 80 inch driver diameter and the fact that at 335 rpm the speed equals the driver diameter. UP 844 could reach 120 mph and at those speeds it would've been turning at 502 rpm. Insane engineering skills, nothing we have today would be capable of such feats while staying in service with routine maintenance for nearly a century, five years, ten maybe at best in the modern day, old techniques and building standards demanded a machine capable of being on duty for decades with the regular routine checkups and easy part replacements built into the design, and the every-so-often full refresh to the more central core components, and that was it. Built to last forever. If society fell apart now and Humans came back in a thousand years, they'd think we were a steam-era society with a weird fixation on running metal filaments everywhere for reasons unknown.
@@Avetho UP 844 was a freight hauler not a passenger tower. That's what the 4449 is built for, high speed passenger travel. British trains have obscenely large drivers too, like the beautiful oil fueled steamer running on the historic Reichsban railway in Germany, I think that one has close to 85 inch drivers, I've never seen such diameter on a locomotive ever!
Where the saying, "working up a head of steam" probably came from. Haha
Mighty fine engineering.
Why does it look like the wheels are about to fall off?
I enjoyed. 😊
that's pretty quick
Wow, Nigel Gresley was the pioneer of the 1st Generation HST's (Steam HST's I mean!)
Tornado is a Peppercorn design
@@bennickss she's the only A1 peppercorn around just so you know
Awesome sight!
How come this isn't there a diesel at the end of Tornado's train? I mean, I know he's a young engine, but still, Flying Scotsman had one when he went a hundred miles an hour.
The diesel is just there for power and for breaking strength, it's just dead weight.
@@PiotrBarcz I see.
Why has the footage been sped up?
To show as it would have been if it was doing 100mph!
Great video with the Tornado :=)
Foutstanding!
2:17
The Best Shot In The Whole Video
Nice video!
GO Tornado!!
Great !!!
My favorite steam engine.
Good Video nice Loco👍👍👍
Cool
All of your videos are sped up!!
I think you could be one of an elite group; the two people on YT who don't know this.
Click bait. It is not doing anywhere near 100 mph in these clips. Watch the BBC documentary if you really want to see it doing 100mph on it's test run.
Sir, it says in the description this is EDITED VIDEO. It IS doing 100 miles an hour in the sped up clips to demonstrate.
I love benny
Indian electric trains are not this fast 😅
Slow down speed up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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