"EXTREME MACHINES" - "WHEELS of STEEL" 3/5

[Nedearb1]

at 0:10, challenger is like I run again!

[trainguy3985]

i've been up in the cab of the challenger when it came to kansas in fall 2010.

[UAL012]

I'm loving what I've seen about Challenger and 4449. There are some GREAT videos that show those 2 locos at full power. I do have to say that they're wrong in this show when they say 3985 is the sole surviving Challenger. There is another one on static display in North Platte, Nebraska. It's #3977

[geomodelrailroader]

this may be old be today we the US have high speed rail on the NEC the ACELA Express pulls the fastest trains in the world

[kaiieeyor]

16 hours of descend is insane

[AlcoholicSemenStain]

Holy MONKEY!!!!

[intercityrailpal]

The announcer says "Trains lost because distances were smaller in Europe" Sorry but Ohio in the USA has more people than France per square mile and has no high speed rail major cities have no passenger rail at all. Cleveland one train a day middle of the night! Running sold out most of the time! Cinncinnati tri-weekly middle of the night service. Columbus the Capital no service. We have a powerful car and road lobby here. They even own shares of the railroads!

[lukebccb]

@intercityrailpal: Gee I don't know where you're getting your numbers from but the population density of France is about 300 person sq/mile while the population density of Ohio is about 270 persons sq/mile.

Last time I checked 300 is a higher number than 270.

[intercityrailpal]

@lukebccb 300 maybe more than 270 but not by much. Also depends on what area your studing. 3 C would have been a prefect start. But the Ohio Convienence Store Industry lobby lead the fight to stop it and won. Now you can expect to pay up to $5 a gallon for gas from those stores. Surprize, surprize! We will get 3 C, but in the future, it will cost billions more. I still expect the Republicans to bring back the draft for the wars for oil. If Korea starts up, gas should jump 25 cents a gallon!

[Californiabros]

is the 3985 still active

[intercityrailpal]

@Californiabros Yes, but they only have one public ride a year.

[4yBaK100]

Hello. Why here there are no Russian trains? In fact Russian trains one of the most good .

[binoyrakesh]

I am from India and I loved the Nilagiri Railway part right at the end. It is beautiful. And IR s the only railway in the world that makes profits.

The railroads that built the US are now not very popular. I think it ll be popular again if they introduce faster trains like the TGV.

[chessiethecat]

@binoyrakesh

Amtrak has the Acela in the Northeast. But, in the rest of the US, we don't have the infrastructure to handle high speed trains.

[intercityrailpal]

@chessiethecat Years ago we had a tax on train tickets untill 1965 up to 15% federal some states had their own taxes and cities like Atlanta had their's. In some places it was 18% or more. Billions were collected and added to the road and air trusts and spent on airports and highways. (Gee I wonder why we don't have trains? duh!) If the railroads improve their property their taxes go up! Guess what the money is spent on? Not trains!

[iRECKONER]

@intercityrailpal

Govt is !@#$%

[intercityrailpal]

@binoyrakesh Some of the people on railroad board of directors are former Oil and Car company people. Do you think they want a fleet of passenger trains running around?

[binoyrakesh]

that is incredibly sad dude. if counries like china can do it, why can't the most powerful country in the world do it??

caapitalism has gone toooooo far now. the US definitely does have all the technology and more technology "than they need". it is will that is lacking. Im Indian, and i wish to see great countries like the US do it. I hope theey will.

[chessiethecat]

Some of these shots are taken from Great Railway Journey's of the World, by the BBC back in like 70s and 80.

[DanielVolker]

Did the airplane help American in the 1800's and the first half of the 1900's? No, planes didn't become popular until the 1950's.

[danlefou]

Articulated cars or coaches are nothing new; pairs of coaches sharing a bogie (or truck in American parlance) appeared on the British Great Western Railway in the early 1900s, and they were common on the streamlined steam expresses of the 1930s.

[hollywood1340]

Daylight had a three section articulated dinner

[LyokoTravels]

China / Tebit railway is the highest railway now

[ozzirt]

but nly so the Chinese can get their troops there quickly, to repress the Tibetan people.

[yeeaahhzz]

man, I remember watching this with my brother over and over again since our dad taped it. we were 9 and 10; 10 years later we still know all the dialogue by heart.

And we still don't understand the french guys explanation on "bogies"

[WhyAyeMann]

listen to that little steam engine!

[yeeaahhzz]

my mother is from that part of the world, so after watching this, then being able to see that little toy train perform was so sweet!

[yeeaahhzz]

my bad, i meant to post on the Metal Monsters Darjeeling Toy Train vid.

[wildhunter666]

they forgot to say that mountain train system in peru was designed by polish engineer

[BigUnitBeef]

I can't wait until 3985 is done with it's rebuild......

[AlcoholicSemenStain]

@BigUnitBeef

I heard they were going to rebuild it as a bigboy...

[BigUnitBeef]

@AlcoholicSemenStain.........n­o way. 3985 is back on the rails and they have no intentions of defacing this old lady with such a poor idea. UP has kicked around the idea of pulling one of it's better display bigboys (namely one in California) and converting it to an oil burner as they did 3985. But such a similar trail failed in the 40's when they tried before and UP had so many brush fires from 3985 when it was burning coal that it won't happen unless they can find a way to change it over.

[jdurose]

Years ago I took Canadian Pacific from Vancouver to Montreal, just about 3000 miles, would like to do that again

[rdrogel]

Indian Pacific is still the best train ever.

[piledriver89]

in the first minute it looks amazing with the train chugging through and that mountain jus in the back drop i could jus stand there and smoke an oz jus lookin at it

[fafnir242]

How old is this program? There's already an Acela that goes to New York, Washington, and Boston, isn't there?

[frisco1529]

This show first appeared on TLC in the mid to late 90's, Amtrak was just soliciting bids for the Acela boondoggle. The Swedish X2000 would have been a better choice for the Northeast Corridor.

[fafnir242]

Oh, man, wouldn't that be nice!? I actually saw that when it came through my town on it's tour. Granted I was about 3 at the time, but....

[pandass111]

Yea the tunes are good if you consider yourself to be an 80's pornstar lol.

[Owentheguitarist666]

THATS not ture, well in the uk any way, 80% of house holds haves a car, but when ppls want to travel long distances we use the train, becuse its quicker, and easy than driving, and the air lines may be cheapish but are still crap, but over all, our rail system is on the grow again =) reopening disused stations etc.

[NCStL576]

There is a concept of building a TGV system in California.

[DaaYay]

Yeah We need a way to let everyone in California abouth the High Speed train system that's still being worked on. Lets get everyone in California to push this into reality since many people don't know about this.

[ronthecyborg]

where can i get the tune for the Challenger segment?

[cattleman6420012000]

Fantastic series of videos. Wonderful scenery and trains etc. So interesting. Thanks very much for showing this.

[skeezix91]

Awesome music!!!