Locomotive Race

[fasterthantak]

this should be an international sport

[Gunny761]

Nice! A bit rigged though. The 2-8-0 had a fully loaded tender, whereas the others were tank engines.

[reitoe]

Awesome!!!

[Trolleymoose]

The winner paid $ 9.20 to win. The next loco paid $5.40 to place, and the last one paid $ 3.20 to show. This is about the most stupid thing I have ever seen. Must have been filmed in "Jerkolia".

[JrFlexing909]

I did like to say the Steam Engines Rule railroad back in the days.

[trainmanjosair]

Even though i really don't like steam locomotives mainly because they pollute the air like a volcano eruption. But what i do like about them is that a single steam loco can outpull a diesel anyday because of there weight.

[jiffyman]

@trainmanjosair

Steam loco can outpull a diesel because of their weight?????? Hmm... think you maybe wrong there

[trainmanjosair]

@jiffyman Alright, suppose u have a SD38-2 vs. a 4-6-4 steam loco, which would u think would haul the most tonnage?

[alexander1485]

@jiffyman big boy vs centennial hmm

[marktegrotenhuis]

COOL!

wow, It's amazing how fast they build up speed. Ididdn't know that steamtrains can do that.

[maxanddad1]

HAHAHA that's great! how cool!

[HappyLappyNappy]

they're not shays

[Gunny761]

@HappyLappyNappy He was referencing another video.

[tannerremillard]

That guy sounds like a soccer game announcer, if he would shut the hell up we could hear the engines

[lstrabt]

Line up 3265,3237,3526 from waratah to maitland - lol

[trains72345]

o please we all know that won't happen Or will it LOL (I WISH)

[jettrainfan]

About time they let them go all out!

[lms264t]

The 2-8-0 in the center didn't have a chance. He had a fully loaded tender.

[donaldengine9]

Good Lord, the tank engine on the right is like a freakin rocket!

[Railroadingfarmer001]

Without a load they got under way fast!

[divooriginale]

WOW.  :) I would love to see this with big ol' American locomotives! Can you just imagine what that would sound like?

[Anheizkesselwaerter]

Right. "Big Boy" against "Challenger". I believe I would hear that here in Gemany.

[DeltaPhi79]

If only they could restore a Big Boy right.

[anvil357]

I think they did it a cass senic railway with two shays and a heisler

[BNSFandSP]

@anvil357 With one of the shays pulling a mock-up log train. HEY, THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!

[cncdude1]

That would be pretty equal to sitting in the basket on the back of your Great Grandmothers bicycle and caning her with a riding crop to see how fast she could petal to the end of the driveway!! Funny but sad. :) Poor old steamers.

[melisluv06]

They must've had absolutely nothing to get done that day. Hahaha, good stuff.

[nardp96]

forget car racing lets go for steam engion racing.

[dwarflord812]

hell ye

[dixieflyer804]

it was rigged.

[JohnsZX2]

Wow, that was quick!

[railfanfromiantha]

Was this in Germany?

[callinstead09]

Finland

[FreeFallin1976]

OMG!!!!! That was the coolest thing I've ever seen!! Hahaha, that was awesome :D Now I wonder how fast my favorite (Southern 4501) can move!

[MonaroDoorslammer]

Goddamm, they certainly make them move... :O

[FlyBikes089]

lol

[chikenpicken123]

that's a good way to damage your steam engine. but damn that was cool

[EliteRanger]

Oh pooh, they can always fix them later...and you're damn right it's cool!! We need to race MORE trains!! :D

NASCAR can kiss my ass!!

[chikenpicken123]

YEAH!!! Jeez, doesn anybody like NASCAR? THIS is quality entertainment

[dwarflord812]

agreed

[ffej980]

this is good...and i used to drag race...cars...might have to try steamers

[SwampDaddy7]

Racing steam trains? I'm in!

[EliteRanger]

Me too!! People race every single thing known to man except for trains...about time they changed that!! :D

[SwampDaddy7]

Hell yeah!

[hckie]

The announcer is speaking Finnish :)

Tried to find the event itself but no luck there :/

[backmask2007]

HA WTF!!!!!!!

[BaronvonBavert]

lol awesome video :-D

great work

[Inuyasha4lif]

lol Old timer vs old timer.if an american was in their I would say.GO 4-4-0 GO!!!!

[SwampDaddy7]

4-4-0? I'm partial to the 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler myself.

[thetrainman407]

lol awesome

[MickFix]

Where is this, would love to see it, great idea, great video mate!

[cattleman6420012000]

I didn't even know that this existed.Absolutely amazing!!

[cataclism22]

Way to go! What a great video AND enterteinment! Have never seen this before! Nice one!

[mafarnz]

Ha ha, that's amazing. I would love to see something like this with a few big American steamers.

[railfanalways]

That was great, awsome video, thats something you don't see every day. Way to go man thanks for posting, I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[RENFEMikado]

looks like VR - Finnish Railroads

[dutchtrainmanserie22]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!

[wildhunter666]

hahaha, my favourite movie on youtube, you have 2 choices when building locomotive: big torque or big power, big torque means nice acceleration but poor maximum speed, looser locomotive is probably the fastest locomotive here, look on wheels - it has biggest wheels, amazing movie, amazing idea, drag racing of locomotives, hahaha, awesome!

[usmcpsu66]

how amazingly rediculous...i love it

[psychoxander]

same here!

[Joe2568]

That's true. However, we do have a lot of steam engines that could race, but I am not sure if I would want to abuse them like that or not though.

Joe

[Joe2568]

They should do locomotive races like that here in the U.S. Heck, we have horse racing, bike racing, dirt bike racing, car racing, people racing, etc. Why not have a steam engine race?

[sgprailfan]

Steamers are too expensive to maintain

[Tcostello105]

great video where was that race

[trainby4]

get more footage of that stuff if its local

[Paraffinmeister]

Where is that?

[theamateurbasher]

My money's on the tank engine on the far right! (little joke) Good clip.

[ITW84]

cool lol