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

Movie Description
Documentary, 2003, 52 minutes.

Extreme Machines is dedicated to finding out how machines work.
This program focuses on the fastest, largest, and tallest trains. We take a brief look at the steam era -- at the Mallard and the huge Big Boys of the Union Pacific railways and a more detailed look at the trains of today -- in particular the French TGV with its top speed of 320 mph. We investigate breaking systems, on-board computer systems and the latest in hi-tech tracks. We show some of the spectacular train crashes and disasters across time and take the audience on a time-lapse trip from London to Paris. Finally, we look at plans for the future with NASA's Maglifter concept -- a launch lift for tomorrow's space train.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Ferrocarriles
• Locomotoras
• Mexico
• Rail

[joshuapeg]

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

[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?

[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.

[TheThefishmaster]

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

[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

[trainguy3]

Ther are no more SP daylight cars left are there?

[trainguy3]

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