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The EN57s became an icon in Poland, and can confirm, you have atleast 2 Polish fans 🇵🇱🩶❤

Polish rail nut here. I enjoy your channel. Finally the EN57 got some american recognition:) traveled on these things growing up in Poland and when visiting on vacation nowdays. Anyone hungry or curious for old style MU travel should experience these while still available, before they all get modified. Starting with being able to open the windows and hear real unmuffled sounds of steel wheel on steel rail on mainline trip, plus all other sounds of old electrical relays knocking and compressor work, you can't beat the experience. You should also make more parts with some other polish stock, like the EU07 class four axle universal electrics. They originally came from Great Britain in the form of EU06 series (20 built in 1962). With Polish also buying the license to manufacture copies, few hundred EU07s were build and they are still in front line mainline service. Greetings from Antracite country of eastern Pennsylvania:)

Duke's story was genuinely inspiring

I actually saw the Duke of Gloucester at Crewe station, once. Ended up in the Crewe Heritage center there, possibly for some tinkering, and after a while, I saw the engine pulling out from the sidings, and I rushed over to the platform where it was standing.

Cannot imagine how long you spend on dreaming up all the new angles for lists, let alone researching and converting imperial to metric or vice versa... Trust us, your devoted viewers, it's all worthwhile. Thanks to you and your global network of helpful suggestions I am continually learning about rail-based stuff that has somehow eluded me for over a half-century.

If you want another South African steamer to look into. I'd recommend the South African Railways 4-8-4 Class 26 (Red Devil). It's a class 25NC that got rebuilt in 1981 with TONS of modern improvements. It's a very interesting story.

EN-57 is the longest running/produced EMU in the world. They were called Kibel (Crapper) by railway workers due to stink coming out from onboard toilet. Had opportunity to going onboard of original and modernized one. Original ones were horrible, modernized ones are very modern and quite comfortable.

So essentially the Duke of Gloucester is henry the green engine in real-life, wonderful storie

Oh, you should do the LSWR O2's big (and I mean big!) brother, the M7. Despite early stability problems, they gave sterling service for many years, and some are preserved. Much loved, the M7's first rejigged the LSWR's commuter service, then proved to be excellent in cross-country service.

the O2 classes were basically working in their own sodor, a steam safe haven

Duke of Gloucester reminds me of Henry as both were at first pathetic and a bad runner and then later became big chads of the rails.

The Duke of Gloucester is one of my favorite underdog stories, and I must say, your impeccable editing certainly did it justice! 20:03 gave me goosebumps.

Actually the EN57 type layout is very popular with none other than our old favourite, British Rail. Most of the British Rail overhead powered EMUs were built Driving Trailer- Motor - (sometimes trailer) - Driving Trailer. Whilst the Southern Railway went for Motor-Trailer-Trailer-Motor for their designs and BR kept it for derivatives, when they built a series of entirely new build trains in the 60s they too were DT - M - T - DT (the exception being one series which used the old layout since they were intended to haul or push 4 or 8 underpowered trailers and needed twice the motors).

The last train is absolutely beautiful ❤️. What a great piece of engineering art 🎨. To see her belching smoke with all the coaches behind her, WOW 😳 what a beautiful site.❤️

British Rail really didn't care for the poor Duke. It's always good when people who aren't part of some big companies do better than the people who are. Sometimes, we need to slow down and think outside the company rather than being in the company trying to fix something flawed. Railfans took the win in saving Duke of Gloucester and fixed the problems thus improving the performance and creating what could've been. Maybe making British Rail slightly open their eyes seeing what could've been one of their finest express locomotives

The EN57s are nicknamed "Toilets"

No. 1 was so beautiful, you had me close to crying. LONG LIVE THE DUKE!!!!!!!!!! 💖 🥰 😸

The EN 57 EMU's will need to stay in service a while longer to beat the NSW railways A.E Tulloch built EMU's, there were still T&E units built in 1924 and first batch of production units built in 1927 still running in 1993, the last of the '24 sets was only withdrawn in January '94 (I worked on them in the years prior to withdrawal).

Czech nickname for EN57 is dřevolino which is translated to woodlino. It's because the seats inside are made out of wood and the emu is so horribly made. Probably the most hated train that ever ran here. Czech drivers even refused to drive it because it was hard to control and unsafe

As always Dark, quality content 👏🏻 Also the absolute butchering of some names is sublime 😂