"EXTREME MACHINES" - "WHEELS of STEEL" 1/5

[Jemalacane]

Speed wise, SP 4449 would eat Mallard if she were pushed hard enough!

[Sarov452]

At least the Brits have a better railway system than America, Australia and Canada .

[RobertMProductions]

Thank you SO much for uploading this! I've been looking for this for years! :)

[TheMythfox]

The mallards record was broken, Former Pennsy 4-4-2 7002 reached 127.2 mph.

[silver760]

Every statement made about railways at the beginning of this program should have a subtitled underneath "Not in the UK,the inventors of the railways and steam locomotion",While the world was updating their locos and expanding their networks the UK was busy ripping up all our track and cutting up the loco's and rolling stock.

[homedad40]

poor sound quality

[EduSanjuan777]

great documentary, bad audio and video quality.Thanks anyway

[TheThefishmaster]

@EduSanjuan777 dude its from a vhs tape what do you expect?

[trainguy3]

Ther are no more SP daylight cars left are there?

[Nighthawk262]

Eh.. they only reason why I wouldnt watch this is if there where 8 kids and two parents named Jon and Kate riding it...

[r2d2sue]

Does anyone know that the narrator for ""EXTREME MACHINES" is William Hootkins. He was RED 6 in Star Wars IV.

[trinityct]

I remember this. Back in the days when TLC was actually educational, instead of today's crap.

[LycoValleyRRFan]

Rails are this country. Highway don't make money RRs do Planes are just flying tin cans. RRs saved our asses many times and will save our asses next time we need then. When was the last time a RR needed a bailout.

[59n1tr0n72]

Okay, SP 4449 is NOT the most beautiful steam loco in the world! it may be good-looking and it may be fast, but Flying Scotsman, Mallard and King George V trump it. Sorry, but they're more elegantly designed, FACT. The coolest steam engine, though, is Big Boy, gotta admit ;)

[48alfaone]

Also Beautiful was the SP "High Nose SD9's & GP9's"!!

[48alfaone]

The Most Beautiful Steam Engine ever was the "UP Challenger'", the most beautiful Road Diesel ever was the UP & C&NW "Standard Cab C40 Dash 8"! The most beautiful Switcher ever was the C&NW "MP15 AC"! End of story Boys & Girls, haha! PS: I do not like UP Management, but their Train Crews are great!

[sicilian12345]

uhm, is else anyone shocked by how off the subtitles are???

[765Genobreaker]

I love the 4449, but I wouldn't say it's the most beautiful, in my eyes the N&W Js and the NKP Berks were the most beautiful steam locos in the world. At least in my opinion. No offense to the 4449, and it's not the only surviving streamlined locomotive the 611 is still here, it may not be operating but it's still here.

[trainlover658]

"the speed of this engine is only held by the guts of the engineer" nope, fraid its health and saftey that's got yeh by the ropes there :P

[AdmiralArcher]

Can New York's AMTRAK Acela go that fast like the TGV?

[Firelife3]

@AdmiralArcher @AdmiralArcher: Acela Express trains are the only true high-speed trainsets in North America; the highest speed they attain is 150 mph (240 km/h), though they average less than half of that. French TGV = 350mph top speed.

In Japan there is also a lot of really fast trains.

[AdmiralArcher]

@Firelife3 Does Japan have a TGV. or InnerCity Express train? For the ones in China REALLY kicked some serious "S"/

[bbanksy1]

Imagine a train under the Atlantic traveling at a thousand miles an hour!!

[Charles2337]

Imagine a train across the Atlantic ;D

[ALS2001]

Dude, whoever did the subtitles did a crappy job... TGV is not KGB, Mallard was July 3rd, not July 5th, and Doyle McCormicks name is NOT Dormitory!

[regionaltrans]

Good video :X 5 stars

[caddy59]

About 4449: most beautiful currently in existance, yes. Most beautiful ever bult, no. I think that record has to go the streamlined NYC Hudson.

[Hotshotmech38]

Any1 seen the episode when the Titan was chasing the car?

[wowiejunior]

betamax?

[Tuppoo94]

I remember watching these in the early 2000s. Cool!

[matanuialive2010]

its called MALLARD not "mallerd"

[Benjy5997]

Never new Mallard crippled herself on the record run

[newtongrace]

I LOVE the 'porn film' quality!

[RPSI1718541864613BG]

It was a 126!!! mph. If u dont believe me go to the NRM

[KingofTomedy]

Most of that footage of the Mallard was taken in the 50s and 60s. Mallard broke the record back in the LNER era, before British Railways.

[BRRUUUAAHHable]

THE RISE OF THE MACHINE

SHINKANSEN vs TGVATOR

[TheBlairSmithProject]

eh, i dunno i haven't topped out my car yet....

[paking07]

NRM york

[carb5551]

6:29 does anybody know that soundtrack??))))))

[yujin04]

TGV kinda creep me out!!! i wonder if your on the roof at full speed!lolXD

[CaptainDangeax]

@yujin04 : if your on the roof, you'll be fried by the 25kV power line ! Some tried, they're dead now. Want to play "hot dog" ?

[JoshA1977]

Gotta clean that VHS, man! :-)

[LyokoTravels]

GO TGV

[joshuapeg]

Oh my God, TLC when it actually had educational programming.

[Charles2337]

@joshuapeg

Lmaoo I know right. Since when were shows about families with 12 children educational.

[TopThrillDan]

@joshuapeg Nothing can be farther from the truth!

[VideoFreakAustinT]

Thats some crappy audio

[benoit91220]

574.8 world record on rail for the tgv now or 357mph

[ripmas]

Boeing 747 top speed is 1040 km/h that is 185 km/h below the speed of sound (1235 km/h), I also heard that it's engine is capable of making it reach higher than that, but the wing shape would prevent it from breaking into the sound barrier since they are not delta shaped. I don't think that we are making a fair comparison here !!

[elixaristhedragon]

yes but when did you last hear of a train falling out of the sky

[keptnplanet]

Most normal airliners can beat that easily. Plus, the TGV can't maintain that sort of speed on average, whereas a plane can.

[Carlovingjosh]

I wouldn't go quite as far as saying that the train is the most important invention in history, the aeroplane will take care of that job. And while a French train can go 320 mph, a Boeing 747 will go 587 mph. And I could even mention Concorde, which could reach a mere Mach 1.

[Adamw5433]

True but its not easy to stop and start a boeing 747 along its route.

Where as a train is.

But i agree its not the most important invention, in history.

[travers114]

Mach 2

[kepundengz2003]

@Carlovingjosh

I don't think anyone is talking about air transportation here, and I believe no one has actually been generalizing or implying that trains are the mankind history's most important inventions above everything else. Yet if you want to bring B747 and Concorde into the debate, then just anyone can bring rockets and space shuttles to debunk you.

[Carlovingjosh]

The reason I brought up air transportation in this "debate" as you seem to think it is is because the video clearly states that the train is 'the most important invention in history', whereas I think otherwise (the plane is far more important)...so that's the reason I mentioned it beforehand.

[trainlord11]

Bull, the railroad has done far more for counties then any airline or airplane. Look at the Daylight 4449, one of the greatest locomotives ever built and try to explain how a B747 is better?

[USAFSmiley87]

@trainlord11 easy, the "Airplane" film

[matanuialive2010]

@trainlord11 there is also the class A4 pacific of the London & North Eastern Railway known for Mallard and the class A3 Flying scotsman

[trainguy3]

@trainlord11 I'ts faster, can fly across continents with more people, but it's still not better than the SP 4449

[Pauninggio]

Machines seen on this program are just made in superpowers for superpowers.

[frodo3332]

the world speed record i think is 750Km per hour.

[apia13]

yes thats true but thats not on rails its on magnetiks(in japan )

[frodo3332]

oh, i thought the were talking about land speed record genraly.

[Torch48930125]

Those bullet trains are really long

[edwardianeccentric]

Actually the press was at Kings Cross and the locomotive stopped at Peterborough- and it wasn't exactly 'badly damaged'- it was back in service less than three weeks later. Documentaries should get their facts right before even starting on conjecture like what is the most beautiful locomotive ever.

[tugsrule4]

actually it was 126 mph

[ShellShock1967]

Fun Fact: This train was repainted Red, White, and Blue to commemorate the tragedy of 9/11.

[Typhoon6666]

"This has been called the most beautiful steam engine in the world" Pfft. It has nothing on the A4s and the 7P classes.

[Polybun]

Then you have never seen the 4449 in person.

[Typhoon6666]

You kidding me? It looks like it has a tumour on the "face". And I don't like the odd livery either. The A4s and 7Ps are much more appealing to the eyes.

On the same sort of note, the programme is obvious bias to make big-headed Americans feel superior to everyone else. They only mention Mallard for under a minute, and then go "BUT LUK AT DA GR8 AMERIKKKAN ENGUNS DEY R TEH BIGUST AND MOST BUTIFUL CUZ WE SAY SO GOD BLESS MURIKKA AMIRITE?"

[Polybun]

Yea well, which one is still on the mainline? :)

[Typhoon6666]

Doesn't stop it from being an eyesore like any other American engine.

[Polybun]

haha, well, hey, what was the tractive effort on the mallard then huh? :)

[Typhoon6666]

Not shit, that's for sure, now gb2/fchan/.

[Cre7tiv]

Actually the german ICE-Velaro is the fastest serial-train in the world. Without spectacle it is able to run (251mph/404 kmh) -- every day, every hour. This TGV ran under test-condition, special preparation, abnormal 30.000 V High-Voltage and special tracks. The test-train was outweared after 10-Min. and with 30 Mio. Euro a one-way-ticket is a little bit too expensive. Old technic boosted up for one time. Alstom needs years to follow Siemens-technology to compete with the brandnew ICE-Velaro.

[houlala16]

A normal TGV goes at 408KM/h in 1988 far before your ICE, and the lastest record is 574.8Km/h, so the ICE is just a shit, alstom is far more advanced than siemens that s all, you re jalous!

[alexrm82]

lol, guy...that tgv in 1988 was modified too :)

the max speed reached by a "normal" tgv (a tgv reseau) has been 366 km/h on the LGV Med in 2001. All the other records have been reached by modified tgv trainset... :)

If you apply the same modifies to the ICE, it can reach the same result :)

[CaptainDangeax]

@Cre7tiv : Yeah, that's the reason why DB is hiring french TGVs to ensure their service between Frankfurt and Paris. ICE just burned their poor engines, running at 320 km/h under 25 kV in France. Sorry but, there's a record 574,8, and your conjectures. There is facts (DB hiring TGVs) and your conjecture. There is a crash with +110 dead with ICE in germany, no dead ever onboard a TGV. Now you talk, but TGV is the best.

[Owentheguitarist666]

wait a sec no one knew the mallard was going for 126mph run, the ppl's who knew was Sir nigel gresley, fireman and the driver, they where orgianly ment to be doing a brake test, U can tell this porgam was made by Yanks. LOAD OF CRAP!!!!!!! just becuse we built the fastest steam engine.

[andrewx86]

The TGV can now travel at 574.8 km/h

[LongIslandEddie]

If it weren't for the video pictures,

I'd have guessed that they were talking

about the personal computer, the inventio

that truly changed the world!

[megasz]

mallard rockz

[putodoburacoobscuro]

comboios

[ronthecyborg]

love the intro music. Where can I get it?

[TheSteamEngine]

I´ve always love the intro music too, so I also wonder it.

[vectorm1299]

heheheh, yer thundered into our lives.

Look out the 'locomotive' must be coming... after all the guy with the red flag just walked past. lol