1829 Stephenson's Rocket steam locomotive

This is a replica of an 1829 Stephenson's Rocket built for the 1923 film "Our Hospitality."
You can watch the full movie here: • Buster Keaton - Our Ho...
The locomotive also appeared in "The Iron Mule" (1925) • The Iron Mule (1925) A...
After that movie, nobody knows where the replica locomotive went.

[@denismth]

How the train managed to run on this track without derailing is unimaginable.

[@raptor2265]

Well, it is going fairly slowly - it that speed bump at 1:30 was certainly insane. Was it just that much effort to move the log out of the way?

[@notnightfury6088]

Derailing wasn't invended back then

[@MrHerrkac]

Because it's maglev. They added wheels only to avoid people dying from futuristic shock seeing it

[@alvit123]

actually the train did derail a Little bit Because if You look at the scene when the train goes over the giant log If You look closely at the wheels at the back of the Train's "tender" it derailed so the log only derailed the "tender" but not the Entire train as the rest of the train stayed on the tracks

[@G88442]

​@@MrHerrkac😂😂

[@MelioraCogito]

These old Buster Keaton movies truly are, priceless relics. They don't make'm like this any more.

[@ConnorwithanO]

They really did put the replica through its paces, didn't they. My jaw dropped every time it didn't derail.

[@williamfulgham2010]

In the filming of this episode, which was in the early 20th century, it may have derailed in the process of producing the comic, but of course that would have been edited out.

[@chrisgerardy2877]

My teeth rattled every time they went over a bump!

[@ranasheikhrana4616]

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[@williamfulgham2010]

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[@nigelparker5886]

What have I just watched? Was it actually done and when!? Very funny and quite clever too! Anyone know now in September2023? Cheers

[@espr3dcor484]

The old guy had it figured out! He was able to get free wood - cut, split and delivered to him. Smart!

[@nagarajarikeri1198]

Ji

[@DeletedExpiration]

@@nagarajarikeri1198 ah yes! *JI*

[@--my-tech----vlog245]

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[@jennyanimal9046]

Hilarious

[@bryansolis2973]

His iq must be 1209

[@anzelikat6955]

watching this movie you do understand where the big things came from. Amazing video. Also you understand that these things were done by men who had their heads on their shoulders and they were not engineers but they believed in something that shaped the history. Big respect for them

[@Locoman3801]

How creative of those "old time" movie makers , how the F**k did that train not fall of the tracks while going over or around such bad track laying skills or obstacles? , I think that these people did a great job of such simple "cartoon type" stunts & with NO computer imagery either unlike today's techno stunt scenes ; well done to all who made this movie & Many Thanks for uploading this timeless film to the internet.

[@railroadvideoguy]

From A Buster Keaton movie. Buster had replicas built for the movie

[@candicearce3858]

Our Hospitality was the film, love it!!

[@BKadorer]

This is Buster Keaton's silent feature "Our Hospitality." As a Keaton fan, it's so interesting to read all the comments from classic American railroads experts. I'm glad to know Keaton and his team did great job on recreating the train. Keaton's "General" is also great. It's safe to say the protagonist of the movie is the train "General" itself.

[@ana-mariaduran9051]

SENSACIONAL VIDEOS

[@scorekeepn]

700,000 views. Awesome. I love it that you folks are into railroad history.

[@wolverinejay3406]

Very very funny

[@palliaskamen5722]

Yes, trains fascinate me and this one is really different

[@danieljordan4320]

I’m in it for the donkey

[@blu3_enjoy]

thanks for uploading it

[@denismth]

My dad used to work in a rail company and we used to travel by train for free twice a year. We still live in the company house. We Dire Dawans (Ethiopia) have much attachment with trains as the city started along with the establishment of the company. Sadly now the company is almost dead 😔

[@paularowe7651]

Testing of the proposed HS2 line has begun. There have been a few cut backs appparently!

[@WhyAyeMann]

I think the little brooms in front of the drive wheels is hilarious. An accurate and hilarious portrail of the hazards of early railroading!

[@zosiamaciejkakaty305]

Niesamowity filmik. Pomysłowość przodków bardzo kreatywna, najfajniejszy moment to ten z przejazdem przez złamane drzewo. No i ta wytrwałość pieska. Super.

[@Jesse-B]

The railways haven't changed much. Little gem of a film.

[@colindhowell]

Ironically, the lousy track conditions in the U.S. drove some major improvements in locomotive technology. The extensive use of a pivoted lead guiding truck in front of the driving wheels and of "equalizers" on coupled driving axles (to handle bumps in the track) were both American innovations developed to handle very rough track, but they ended up becoming nearly universal steam locomotive features.

[@niloantonio3661]

the tenacity of that dog is unbelievable 😄

[@alvit123]

The fact the "dog" wasn't on the train with It's owners Get Me triggered

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

I really get amazed at some of these old boilers. Steam power was first generated about 500 years before they figured out what to do with it!

[@NathanielKempson]

That trackwork, would be deemed safe by NCB standards

[@digimaks]

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!! And so by BNSF too.

[@genericclass4058]

Its way back in early iron horse days of course there that great

[@jacobschahczinski1441]

Lol

[@johnsimpsonkirkpatrickhist1372]

An amazing piece of history. Ten out of ten!

[@ronduff4325]

It's amazing how the coaches stay on the tracks..

[@rogergriffith286]

Great fun - very whimsical. The locomotive and carriages look very authentic.

[@johnsergei]

+Roger Griffith The track looks more like current Australian mainlines.

[@cheesypotatoes9627]

John Sergei Ikr

[@kennewton9369]

Love the dog closely following the train, ha!

[@mike-rayner-videos]

totally amazing how things haven't changed very much

[@BruceLeanTrades]

What do you mean?

[@geopornicus3944]

wait, what ?

[@scorekeepn]

Well, two rails

[@connormclernon26]

Bruce Lean people opposed to public transportation?

[@callumhardy5098]

Yes I suppose the sun still exists

[@JDmoney00420]

That was my grand pappy throwing those rocks.

[@nightlightabcd]

But he got fire wood in return!

[@johntapp9670]

@@nightlightabcd work smarter, not harder, I always say.

[@espr3dcor484]

Very smart man!

[@huntersvideos905]

Prove it liar

[@MaybeHarvey]

I’m stupid I just read the description

[@davidfmelbourne3473]

It's actually the prototype for the new high speed rail connection between Sydney and Melbourne. Very advanced.

[@TheDemocrab]

Psh, as if we could ever get the track from Melbourne to Augury half as smooth as this is.

[@srcreeper02550]

A rocket era tão lenta que o maquinista podia simplesmente sair dela e acompanhar correndo, simplesmente impressionante

[@BackcountryTrains]

For a one time movie that was a fine replica. It is not like people in a 1923 will walk out of the movie because it was not exactly like the real one. It look a lot like it and it is not like everyone is going to see that. And you can not argue that those where some of the best steam locomotive stunts ever. Hats off to the maker of it.

[@vincentfalsaperla]

a very early film of 1920s with the great Buster Keaton. I watched it as a child...

[@scorekeepn]

You that old? LOL

[@KevinSmith-dx6xq]

The public library in my town showed silent films every Saturday in the 1960’s.

[@SYVRRy]

Another great feature by Buster Keaton. I enjoyed very much both this one and "The General".

[@MotiveLocomotive]

4:10 - The first parallel ride in history. ;)

[@scorekeepn]

Thanks for the comment, this movie was in in the middle of the night and I hit record once I realized what I was seeing, I agree with steamboy51. I didn't catch the movie early enough so missed a few of the railroad scenes. Have to check to see if the film is public domain, it might be

[@scorekeepn]

@@gabrielboateng1292 he needed fire wood, so he started throwing things at the guy running the locomotive, who threw back all he had, which was fire wood!

[@ra1lwayman]

That part when they were going over the log made me die of laughter!

[@rodneymcgiveron]

that's one of the best and funniest bits of film I've ever seen ....classic film,,,

[@NSaw1]

OMG I can't get over that off rail train! lol That track is crazy!

[@terencewilliammckenna6121]

Happy 98th anniversary to this documentary

[@CaffeinatedMoustache]

@Edu Yan Read the description my man

[@dannygillingham7904]

This is the neatest thing I've ever seen, yet!!! love this!!!

[@huntriss]

This is adorable. That's the only word I can think of to describe it! The whole railway built over a log as a bump in the track. Priceless!

[@thegreatdivide825]

This replica is powered by a Model T Ford engine and gearbox, notice the differential on the trailing wheels behind the firebox. Also notice the loco doesn't chuff steam from the chimney as it ambles along

[@rizon72]

Looks like such a smooth ride.

[@user-ou4wx3ru6b]

Even though an old film, it is really creative and interesting .

[@themagicminstrels476]

I laughed my ass off

[@parvezdivecha7467]

Amazing this is from here the journey by the railways started & Stephenson name will always be remembered because he was the one who invented it

[@harri2626]

Amazing footage, and such skill in creating this train and trackage. Buster got some of his ideas for "The General" from this.

[@MrMKH2010]

Buster Keaton set the movie in 1830 and had the replica of Roket built for the film.

[@charlesnelson8978]

I was told that the movie company did not build a very long stretch of tracks. After each section was filmed, the track was torn up and placed farther ahead.

[@morg52]

There is a trolley line in Mandan North Dakota, that runs out to Fort Abraham Lincoln, and back. This trolley line has a section of track that very much resembles the track in this footage.

[@Drkush2022]

Moving the track to get around the donkey cracked me up

[@BorodinRW]

За все время существования кино изменились только спецэффекты. Все зависит от качества сценария, идеи, таланта актёров. Отличный фильм !!!

[@carajopling2752]

stephenson is my great great great great uncle

[@cecilalesslie4054]

@@anniestephenson86 me too his wife Frances Henderson (Roberts mother) was my 5? Great grandmother. Esther Henderson. So he was an uncle by marriage and Robert a blood cousin.

[@RattelP-sx8tx]

Well this is cool you are kind of related

[@dean-gm1lg]

He's buried not far from where I live

[@carajopling2752]

@@anniestephenson86 Wow are you based in England?

[@fidelcatsro6948]

my Siamese is a great great great great descendant of Stephensons pet cat

[@PoetryETrain]

Love this, so added to a playlist...

[@billyjack8119]

Awesome! Loved every bit of it

[@davidleebls1874]

Much better than today's TV and no commercials

[@a_leaf]

The fact that there was a director and cast and crew who thought to preserve in film for the 1923 audience what a 1829 train ride experience was meant they did not take for granted the expansion and technological advances of the railroad system. These men were looking back in admiration for the simple not in a feeling of superiority. Or they understood that future is not inherently progressive.

[@robkunkel8833]

2:00 Note: They did straighten the track for the film footage shot from the side. An amazing film. I wonder if the wheels were made with a different design to help accomplish the rickety track visual?

[@rickreid81]

Great video. Enjoyed it

[@ana-mariaduran9051]

TODO EL VIDEO ES SUPER LOS CARRUAJES LOS PASAJEROS EL POLVO EL ASNO EL PERRITO QUE SUPER OBSERVEN Y RIAN Y SIGAN OBSERVANDO EL VIDEO

[@radosawchroscinski1733]

This is the same 'rocket' that was in thomas and friends! Wow

[@discbreakerchanel8180]

Its not like the Thomas and Friends locomotives are based on real engines or anything

[@user-hp3ce1xm4v]

Спасибо! Отлично отвлекает от нынешнего сумасшествия.

[@vishwajitpawar4076]

Wonderful travelling with funny situations. Thanks.

[@jerseyforhawks]

A marvel of invention.

[@aljol54]

As mentioned by others, these are scenes from the Buster Keaton movie "Our Hospitality", invented for comic effect (and not actually a documentary). The train later appeared (and was partly destroyed) in a film "The Iron Mule", directed by Roscoe Arbuckle under a pseudonym. Buster Keaton was involved, though uncredited.

[@EvolutionOfTrance]

those trees are probably still there.

[@Finallybianca]

Not likely as this was filmed in Pomona if I remember what I read and thats all been developed.

[@angelbarrera1201]

Very interesting effects!

[@terencewilliammckenna6121]

Happy 192th anniversary to this locomotive

[@mclary9808]

That’s too cool !!! Those tracks look like the highways here in West Virginia!!!

[@Loco-uh6hp]

4:16 The coaches can roll faster than the "rocket".. LOL

[@geebaco5671]

"rocket" means the locomotive

[@jacobkudrowich]

@@geebaco5671 obviously

[@adriansimpson652]

The drivers are the most kind people in the world.

[@shahzadghumman6563]

That time was so simple and much better than 2021

[@Scythian1]

What a fabulous bit of film, and interestingly note the American style use of wood, rather than coal, for the fire. Thanks for posting.

[@thomasgriffin5340]

Liverpool and Manchester loco with Baltimore and Ohio passenger wagons. The tracks look like the Chicago Transit Authority after Bruce Rauner’s budget impasse. This train still goes faster and more reliably than the trains I take to work in Chicago.

[@lakshmilavanya3741]

I feel this is far better than present

[@darrylcook8793]

I love it watched it 3 times so far..I'm going to start pitching rocks at the beer truck.this is so funny.

[@forrestcalkins93]

This is a great example of the poor track conditions back then

[@dubsy1026]

Chris&forrest funvideos the track conditions were far better than this back then, in the UK anyway, the locomotive went over 30mph in the early 1830s

[@dubsy1026]

Chris&forrest funvideos and the railways was the first mainline

[@mickd6942]

Didn’t the original Rocket have it’s pistons moved to the lower position because they were found to be hammering the tracks , that is a very good replica when you consider it was just made for a film .

[@ccnt89]

My fiances grandmother (98) is the niece of Robert Stevenson

[@fidelcatsro6948]

wow its more satisfying to watch those steam pistons turn those wheels than watching rockets take off

[@JanetWilham]

wow--thanks for this old video--love it.

[@indridcold8433]

Spindly little fellow. It is hard to believed this ungainly novelty became the mighty 4-8-8-4 articulated, beasts of yesteryear that breathed fire.

[@mahajanashok9253]

Thrilled to watch .

[@heffoandjuff5903]

All I can see here is the panicle of danger. Being a Stationary Operating Engineer, I hope this engineer is keeping track of his steam pressure and boiler water level. He has no fireman to regulate the boilers operation. The engineer has to do it all including braking the train. I sure hope this locomotive had a safety pressure valve and in addition the engineer had to stop the train to fix the track? I know this is a movie but I just have to believe there were many fatalities during the infancy of trains during this time period as a means of transportation.

[@imhungry3446]

heffo and juff there was hundreds if not thousands of casualties in the infancy of steam locomotives. A lot of times gauges wouldn't be checked or in very few cases there wouldn't be any and you would have to hope you had released enough steam. And this could learn to boiler explosions

[@lawrencelewis8105]

And you had brakemen running on top of the box cars to set and release the brakes. Imagine doing that on a dark night, sharp curves and grades and its' snowing like hell and the running boards are covered in ice. George Westinghouse saved a LOT of lives.

[@admiralcraddock464]

There were, mainly down to very poor signalling.

[@oldbloke5277]

Bloody brilliant.

[@graveebailey2]

Very funny to watch. How it managed to stay on the tracks has got me beat.😂

[@ashishgajbhiv1111]

Somebody show some mercy to the dog, plz. He is running all the way behind the train.

[@bimalmondal6009]

Excellent, from invention to super modernisation people hardly think of.

[@scorekeepn]

@toyotaprius79 check out the description of the video, it's REPLICA built for the 1923 film. Oh how I hate having to repeat myself

[@colindhowell]

Early American lines, which Keaton was apparently poking fun at, maybe weren't *quite* that bad, but some came pretty close. They had a lot of land to cover and not much money, so they were often laid on the cheap. British lines were another story. Rocket's actual railway, the Liverpool and Manchester, was laid arrow-straight, with cuts being blasted through ridges and huge viaducts built over valleys. The British had huge amounts of capital to spend on such works.

[@joeconrad9147]

Colin howell are you familiar with the US rail system

[@thats_my_comment]

it's so amazing just thinking those folks were actor's

[@Paul.Smith1980]

Wao they has speed breaker also.Loco pilot can also slide tracks by hand.Thats funny.Amazed to see how human technology has changed.

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

It’s remarkable how well this footage has held up for close to 200 years. It just had to be Made in China.

[@CombraStudios]

Why is it 1829x funnier than modern TV shows

[@Modeltnick]

Some say that there was a Model T engine in the tender driving the train.

[@tomsimpson5317]

Quite the production

[@scorekeepn]

Just building a working replica must have been quite an undertaking 98 years ago.

[@joseykurianjoseph3163]

Big salute Mr Stephenson.. great

[@Sam-od5wb]

Truly amazing

[@djburland]

Crazy track and crazy film, but a lot of fun

[@Romin.777]

Now i know what coaches to build for my Hornby Rocket. ;)

[@janeofoegbu1863]

I just heard that the Stephenson rocket goes 36 mph and it was operated in Liverpool and Manchester railway .

[@FifaIconMaker3529]

jane ofoegbu the replica is in the Yorkshire railway museum and the real one is in London’s history museum

[@thomashambly3718]

26 mph

[@TheOnlyHollywood1]

It's top speed is 26 MPH

[@Reksio-yz1eg]

36 Km/h you mean duh

[@johngledhill2970]

It did reach 34 mph after it won the competition, when all the carriages were removed.

[@prakashghadge2854]

Indeed Stephenson had done admirable job. He invented steam locomotive.

[@junkdeal]

After the log tunnel scene, they were on a legitimate railroad. Since stub switches were outlawed on main-line trackage, I wonder where they found a railroad with these. Either a private line, a logging line, or the East Broad Top Railroad in Pennsylvania, which retained these well into the 20th Century, are possibilities. Imagine the accident possibilities with this type! Back in the 1860s the frog part (the crossover)of the turnout wasn't common. Some lines used jumper bars over a gap in rail.

[@VideoDotGoogleDotCom]

"The film was shot in Truckee, about 485 miles north of Los Angeles, and was decorated to recreate the Shenandoah Valley of the 1830s. The cast and 20-person crew arrived in Truckee in July 1923, along with the fully functional locomotive, three railroad passenger cars, 30 set pieces and enough building material for several miles of train track." - Wikipedia

[@colindhowell]

Agreed, I thought that was a hilarious bit of satire. "Rough and ready" was the general standard for U.S. trackage in the early days of railroading. It was the polar opposite of conditions in Britain, where massive civil engineering works were performed to make conditions as easy as possible for the locomotives. Because of this, many locomotives imported to the U.S. from Britain proved to be completely unsuited for rough U.S. tracks and had to be greatly modified to handle them.

[@kirbycraft9325]

I thought it was the roads here in Duluth, Mn. today, but then I noticed it was a little aged.

[@McLarenMercedes]

So Buster Keaton was a train enthusiast and set this movie in the 1830's to include Rocket? I guess most people in 1923 didn't know the Rocket was a British locomotive and he thought it fit his slapstick comedy. Funny to think that the Rocket was almost a 100 year old antiquity in 1923, while this movie is only 90 years old. Puts things into perspective.

[@Pinkdragon1211]

The tunnel shape was just made perfectly to squeeze the rocket locomotive in XD