5 Trains (That Are Not What They Seem) 🚂 History in the Dark 🚂

"amd i am your host, Darkness the curse". British rail: I AM THE REAL CURSE HERE U LITTLE.....

Toby and his class aren't an anomaly. Apart from their 0-4-0 cousins also made by the GER and later absorbed into the LNER, a lot of American streetcar lines (including in my hometown) used "steam dummies" pulling a carriage to transport people within cities. Problem with these things included that they polluted a lot and, while they took the appearance of regular streetcars, the sound probably still spooked many horses. We did away with them when we figured out electric traction.

05:05 North of the Island, there lives a dear old train...

In this list you could have had the British GT3, a gas turbine that looked like a steam engine, or the Bulleid Leader, a steamer that looked like a diesel.

"Is it electric?" "HOOSH!"

I was drawing a j 70 at school then someone said “is that a house” and then once I drew the rollingstock behind it he’s like “oh it’s a train.”

Hey Darkness! The GE Steam turbines are really GE Steam Turbine Electrics Locomotives, Henceforth they have a Boiler that heats water into steam then the steam in pushed through a turbine. The turbine is connected to a electric generator. The electric generator powers the traction motors on the drive axles. This is why the GE locomotives do not have driving rods and why they are car-bodies. Another example of these kinds of locos is the C&O M1 turbine.

In the Railway Series cannon, (the book series Thomas originates from), Toby is said to be the only surviving member of his class of engine.

GER C53s used to run on the branch line that ran through the village I live in. When GER was taken over by LNER they were called Class J70. The Reverend Awdrey lived in a village not far away and apparently used many of the happening (mishaps) on GER as the basis for his stories.

If you make a part 2, you HAVE to talk about fireless engines! ;)

Hooray! You covered the Steam-Diesel hybrid that I recommended a couple of times. I was worried that it came off as too annoying to consider.

I wonder if it would be easy to make a class c53 replica, i mean you would just have to make a boiler, pistons wheels and all other metal parts and then you can get the wood for everything else, i do wish someone makes a replica of this baby.

So us brits came up with 3 things.... The Deltic proto is the least off on this list... Since it's just the engine being an odd thing by having an odd way for the pistons.... Also fun fact. Shildon is very close to the first passenger railway. Aka the Stockton & darlington railway. Tees valley became from being the inventer of the railway to being well forgotten with the durham coast line and tees valley line having not very good schedules And atleast 3 separate depots Darlington, Hartlepool and Thornaby being demolished. Though Thornaby was the last to go with it only being demolished in the 2010's and the tracks remain to this day. J70's haft to be the best steam engines with forward cabs, Perfect visibility. Also they had bells instead of whistles because of them being tram engines, Due to them being near roads that at the time had horses on them they couldn't use whistles incase the horses get spooked so bells were used instead to great effect. And the Hybrid.... That thing is just odd... Interesting but odd since eventually the diesel mainline and shunter prototypes will come from the LMS aka 10000 and 10001 along with a gronk.

I'd be interested in seeing content about 15-inch railroads. Most of these, of course, are built as tourist attractions or amusement park rides, but that wasn't always the case. Many were meant for practical purposes just like full-size trains. One example I've heard a lot about would be the Romney, Hythe, and Dymchurch Railway in Kent, England.

I have few Locomotives you should put in your vids. First one is the Montreal Locomotive works M420 and the RS-18u for best locomotives. They were well known locomotives operating in eastern Canada. For worst trains is the Alstom Citadis Spirit which suffered alot of problems when OC transpo was operating them in Ottawa Ontario they constantly derailed alot and their electronics kept malfunctioning 80% of the time.

Is It eLeCtRiC?? as soon as that was said, i thought about the following clip after it. love it. Great job.

If you continue this series, I have a suggestion: The LMS Turbomotive

You missed the key feature of the General Electric steam turbine at 6:40. That is they were steam turbines with electric drive motors like diesel electrics. The steam turbine driving an electric generator then provided with electric control of the bogie mounted electric motors like all diesel electrics. The electric part was why General Electric designed these. They had near fifty years of steam turbine electricity experience. But in the less restricted confines of power stations.

History in the Dark, if you decide to do a follow up to this list, may I suggest the Commonwealth Railways CL class? I suggest these for ‘not as they seem’ since they look like classic E units. They most definitely are not! Built between 1970 and 1972, mechanically they are SD40-2 units but have EMD car bodies and the classic bulldog nose. Infact, CL17 was the last EMD bulldog nose built anywhere in the world. 17 were built and they were rebuilt as the CLP and CLF classes in 1993 (P units being set up with HEP for passenger service, F for freight). A couple have been scrapped but most are still in revenue service while CL17 itself (rebuilt as CLP10) is being restored to original CL condition by Streamliners Australia at the moment.

Ah that little trams the LNER J70 I think based off of Toby the tram engine of the NWR