We race NUCLEAR & EXPLOSIVE cargo down the STEEPEST, SHARPEST HILL! | Derail Valley Races

[@yegorgribenuke6853]

The absolute comedy of hyce panicking about the alcohol cars crashing into the slug and them just peacefully derailing a few meters from it completely got me

[@tiamut2683]

Its the best thing ever😂

[@wildberrygarage4348]

Hyce's over confidence with DE2 always leads him to his downfall. 😂

[@jackgamer6307]

It is so sad. I can't run steam at all but I'd rather run an 060 than the DE2 again

[@corkabiznisLP]

29:18 Hi, student of Electrical engineering here. The death probability is dependent on few facts: For DC, your body can tolerate a short, high amp burst pretty well. What kills you is electrolysis of your blood, as it causes your red blood cells to no longer be able to carry oxygen. On the other hand, AC is dependent on frequency. Anything close to 50-60 Hz causes arrhythmia. (Your heart becomes confused and doesn't contract properly anymore) If you get the frequency high enough, it becomes practically harmless. At that point you aren't worried about the effects from the electromagnetic fields, but about dumping raw heat into your body as it's basically just a huge resistor that produces waste heat from the current.

[@peregrina7701]

Hyce was Hyce, and kAN made smart decisions. Well done fellas. Love the Explodey Trains Podcast. I worked on car assembly plants for a few years, and car plant stories never disappoint. One of my favorites involved the car body that jumped its hook in the paint dip tank and shut the entire mile-plus long line down for over four hours while they fished it out. Pushed a lot of brooms that day. Thanks guys!!

[@Fogolol]

" It's either gonna end in fireworks or i'm gonna somehow win. " He says as kenosha starts playing in the background

[@bluescrew3124]

Smells Like Kenosha…….😂

[@AstralRaeTV]

So I discovered this recently, the Slug does have sand, it is the only serviceable component on it. It has a ton of sand (like a few times what the DE6 has) but it can run out.

[@cranberrysauce61]

32:15 yeah, sometimes when a component fails it only show signs of the fault while power is on, so you either take everything a part and test them separately or make the component fail harder. heard a story from my dad, who was an aircraft mechanic, in which there was an electrical fault somewhere that kept triggering the circuit protection which was eluding them. to find it they held down the circuit breaker until they found something smoking or glowing.

[@blackhawks81H]

My favorite old airplane mechanic story comes from an old airline mechanic. Told me how once they banned smoking on airplanes completely, it became way harder to spot cabin pressure leaks. The cigarette smoke in the cabin escaping through said leaks used to leave brown stains which made the leak super obvious.

[@Bubbarain717]

Talking about wearing a hard hat moving die presses. When I worked at an auto company making steel blanks for everything and everyone. Not only did we have big dies that was craned overhead, you had large steel coils that were always flying overhead. My boss said never stand under anything because your hard had is only there to scup up what’s left of you. Definitely gave you a comforting feeling with all that weights flying around.

[@tomahawk9341]

42:00 ish - A tie point for a boat that is located on a dock is called a cleat, (boats can have their own cleats too). The main style I have seen look like a capital T with a second vertical support.

[@crazyt.trombone]

Ah yes the traditional thanksgiving racing of the boys!

[@Its_me_6]

The explodi boys

[@jacobpfeifertrains1998]

23:12 Kan: "Are you switching to steam?" Hyce: "6325 return to steam"

[@baarum]

Pretty sure the Slug does dynamic braking, but only when MU'd with a DE6. (Edit: Typo)

[@Hyce777]

Oh cool. It doesn't have resistor grids modeled though.

[@Lightningbolt5674]

Hyce When you worked for BNSF, did u ever work on BNSF 342? It’s a cabless locomotive

[@SmackyTheB3AR]

It would be "dynamic braking". You absolutely do not want your locomotive to dynamically "break" (or break in any way), as that would render it quite inoperable.

[@baarum]

@@SmackyTheB3AR I apologize, English is not my native language.

[@baarum]

@@Hyce777 True, maybe they hidden bellow the big cooler looking fans?

[@anthonyj.adventures9736]

Best thing for breaks going down a grade is with light continuous pressure. Jamming the breaks then letting em go to cool actually heat them up quicker. Eventually you will over heat the brake and hot brakes means no friction which means no brakes. It's actually a question on the CDL tests

[@benbookworm]

The question is how did Derail Valley simulate it?

[@dwalpole]

That's interesting, because on taxiing airplanes it actually is better to separate smooth applications to give the brakes a chance to cool off. So much so, the 787 actually only uses half the brakes each time the pedals are pressed while doing ground movements.

[@brunoais]

@@dwalpole Different kinds of brakes and different kind of load. Each wheel in a plane takes WAY more weight

[@nathanaelgodson3994]

Being a stage engineer you learn all about electricity and to a point you don't really think about it anymore when it comes to normal things like light fixtures or PA Amps, but i will always remember the first time hooking up our big AC power station. 400A Powerlock input (400V AC in Germany) i needed 10 minutes to set it up because i was so scared about it, i checkt every connection befor actually plugging it in (you have 5 connections, 3 mains, Neutral and Ground). Messured everything 3-4 times befor throwing the main breaker. Nothing else was plugged in at that point but still, i still have huge respect when it comes to electricity. If your not careful and respect it, it WILL kill you in a flash, or cost a huge amount of money to repair. I wrecked 3 high end fog machines once, all three where hooked up to a splitter that split the three main leads so each machine would only get 230V. Only that the Neutral came of inside the splitter itself so they got the full 400V. I can now say: more volts does not equal more smoke^^

[@ericbonanno5214]

I agree with kAN when it comes to working in factories. Working in injection molding I can say I've once seen liquid fire drip out the nozzle. Basically the barrel was heating up to temp and the barrel wasn't purged out well enough before shut down so the plastic that was re-melting caught on fire as it was dripping out before it was up to temp. 😂

[@matthewthompson1082]

Was it acetal plastic? That is some nasty stuff when it blows.

[@justaguycalledjosh]

Oh god, I can smell the Kenosha already!

[@marcel-peters]

Kan: Full brake. There we go. Victory is mine. Hyce: congratulations sir. Here's your fireworks. The timing was just chef's kiss 🤣

[@juanthang9576]

"That's smarter than what im doing" Kenosha is playing in the background. Yes, yes it would seem so :)

[@Dylant38]

hey guys, im one of the dudes wearing a hardhat and operating one of those large cranes moving the dies for a press 30,000lbs Kevlar slings, wireless crane controller. we try not to drop dies on our heads lol . i cant believe so many people are around things like that

[@legend2460]

kANs logic= "if im gona bin it i may as well take out the entire poulation while im at it" pure gold!!

[@johndeere7245]

We need a hazmat switching challenge next week.

[@Streaky100001]

Ya know..... hearing kAN talk about railroaders going to the bathroom on the shovel, and into the firebox.... makes me slightly concerned about K-37 kitchen..... Please Hyce, make for darn sure you get the right shovel, and that everyone else at the museum KNOWS which shovel is which!

[@bluescrew3124]

O.M.G. 😱😱😱

[@Ole_CornPop]

When the metal gets red hot there's nothing left anyways.

[@Streaky100001]

@@Ole_CornPop I know. It was a joke.

[@bobbysenterprises3220]

Today I learned what the slug actually is. On a separate note awesome to hear about the OEM robot level auto painting. Your audience reaches into my paint booth. Professional auto painter. 17 years as a tech rep for a large paint jobber and now as a collision painter. Never seen electro static used in the collision refinish. Currently I spray catalyzed urethane sealer. Acrylic latex color coat and catalyzed solvent clear coat. Usually baked to dry. I get to deal with the factory paint not matching from part to part on the same vehicle from the factory all the time. Not just the plastic from metal. There is around 17 different areas of color on most vehicles. Meaning front fender doesn't actually match hood door or quarter panel even though it's painted all at the same time. Getting blend able and in some cases better match with out electro static is certainly possible. Also using around 70 toners instead of the OEM level 300 toner palette. It was cool watching the rotating cup robots that use little to no air compared to the 25psi and 20CFM manual gun I use.

[@Hyce777]

Oh wow. That's super cool! Paint is wizardry as far as I'm concerned. Thanks for the comment mate!

[@bobbysenterprises3220]

@@Hyce777 thank you. But wait. The guy that can work a railroad. Understand the railroad and it's systems. Teach others so well the knowledge he has. AND operate a love steam engine thinks my daily job is wizardry? I disagree friend. I've trained people that are not as intelligent and good with their hands how to paint. Not saying anyone can do it. Not saying it's easy. But you could do it.

[@seymoarsalvage]

That was a legit close one, I was almost on the edge of my seat lol

[@Raiders1917]

Hyce: "Is that Kenosha I smell?"

[@sabliath9148]

There's a railroad near me that regularly uses a slug for service over the road. they also use 4-axle diesel electric locomotives. The line has low speed limits (10 mph in some areas) due to the line having had few improvements since it was first built. The trains that run down this line often have 5 locomotives plus the slug.

[@Streaky100001]

Also, I feel the need to point out, when talking about your low fuel situation, you said, when you were right near empty, that you were getting close to bingo. Bingo fuel does not actually mean your tanks are empty. Bingo fuel is the minimum fuel required to get you home. i.e. when you hit bingo, it's time to turn around and head for home, else you wont make it back. (although, usually there's a safety margin built in)

[@MachRacer4]

I know Burlington Northern had some SD40’s that had been in an accident early on in their lives, and were rebuilt without the cab as B Units. Scaletrains is going to be modeling them in HO in their next run of HO scale SD40’s.

[@blacksmeim8791]

29:25 Sooooo, current doesn't kill you, voltage does. The """save""" voltage are AC 50V & DC 120V (at least in Europe). You can touch 2 points where theoretically 5 Amps could flow, but only with 5V. You will feel a slight tingle at most. Touch 120V AC with theoretically .5 Amps, and you are almost guaranteed your demise. Source: I am an electrical engineer for a european railroad company.

[@ducewags]

@blacksmeim 120v AC in American systems is only half of the breaker box power, as we have a 220v AC system. You are talking about DC 120 where you live, not the same power.

[@blacksmeim8791]

@@ducewags Not exactly what i meant. DC 120 meant a border where the voltage is almost save for humans to touch it

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

What else is there to say, kAN won the race fair and square without shenanigans while Hyce had some hubris moments there: It had to happen sometime, but I fear that kAN will have issues still with the steam challenge. So there probably would be a reason for a handicap for Hyce, unless kAN lets his hubris after the win go to his head. Barring no hubris issues, perhaps kAN has the bigger locomotive or Hyce does the double header with double load? Because if you select even loads, spawn in a similar load, so that Hyce has to do double the hookups and control of the train could be a fitting challenge? Preferably where Hyce has to do switching to collect his consists? Whatever the setup will be, I know it's going to be awesome nonetheless!

[@SteamfanScott]

😂 A perfect way to celebrate the end of the Thanksgiving day, thanks to Hyce and kAN for the laughs and great racing! Congratulations to kAN for his first victory, well played! 👏

[@PennsyPappas]

kAN has finally won a race and were all happy for him. Of course we the viewers win either way because were always entertained by whoever bins their train the most often and the hardest. And we cant forget all of the fun engineering lessons from you two such as to why car paint has such a sparkle in it. I never knew that but now i do and i have you guys to thank for that. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and i look forward to the next race.

[@dimazkamaz]

Never saw nuclear explosion in this game, and you know I think it gonna happen here

[@snowvrgt8667]

The slug is a kAN-Crete brick. 😂😂

[@bluescrew3124]

Classic

[@michaelimbesi2314]

The big things in the harbor that the ropes go around to tie ships to the pier are called either a bollard if there’s one of them or bitts if there’s two grouped together.

[@GreenAxolotI]

DE2: Notch 11 go to heaven DH4: Notch 7 go to heaven DE6: Notch 10 we die like men IRL Diesel: Notch 8 don't be late

[@circuitgamer7759]

It wasn't last race, but for one of the first races (I don't remember which one), I had the videos running in parallel and by the end they were over half a second out of sync somehow. One of them apparently just slowly drifted off, but I'm not sure how.

[@kepstin]

That's actually completely normal. When recording separately, the different computers have different clocks, they're not perfectly synchronized in how fast they're running. So one of the recordings is probably running just *slightly* faster than the other.

[@Ronald.Golleher]

44:15 you did try and make the hill before getting the slug attached, and also didn't coast as much like kAN said.

[@torfley]

two videos in one day!? what a deal!

[@carlsoll]

Lol 13:49 & 13:58 Up-Hill Baby! *Edit* 14:42 Now I know why you became an Engineer *Edit Edit* 25:00 I hear that Exhaust Leak tooo 😏👈 49:31 Woahhh he’s like 200’ ft away- 1 derail and Hyce is still innnnit

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

Dirty Jobs did a episode on MOW and changing ties. He literally found toilet paper on the tracks as they were working.

[@BandanRRChannel]

Hey, kAN finally wins one! Mostly due to the Huber-is catching up with Hyce again, but a win nonetheless. Watching kAN's perspective, he could have switched the slug out a bit faster if he had done something similar to Hyce (minus the dutch drop), but I guess he still made it. And that trick of Hyce's did make him catch up quite a bit...if it hadn't run him out of fuel right at the switch, it might have paid off.

[@smurvje]

Not only the switching in the harbour, but also switching way further back is what won the race for kAN. He had way more momentum up that first hill.

[@pocketfulofgeese]

You also burned fuel trying to make it up the hill before coasting back down, as well, so you ran part of that track in double for fuel cost, which would have made the difference. Such a good side-by-side for this one though!

[@timjouwstra]

I saw "nuclear" and hoped it was a return of ES&D atomics

[@Hyce777]

Some day... I've heard the mod got updated

[@The_Goldenhammer.]

So Hyce´s secret trick was to put freebird on the radio. Because as we know the freebird solo makes everything fast.

[@bluescrew3124]

Hopefully kAN makes it… Hyce, be nice to kAN

[@ScottRails]

Thank you to whoever gifted me a channel membership, very much appreciated.

[@amandajorangervale695]

“17:40 I cant find the bleed valve!” *walks past one that is exposed*

[@triviavanille62]

i used to work at a furniture company, manufacturing steel furniture. i started out in the paint shop; we used that high-voltage painting system to paint the steel, but we did it by hand using a paint gun, not a robot. which was definitely not the safest job ever, but OSHA basically isnt a thing where im from

[@Ronald.Golleher]

RE: the out of sync videos, there's of course a delay in voices, so that may be what they're talking about (other than before the countdown). So if you're watching both videos at the same time with both unmuted, you'll constantly hear echoed voices by a half second or so. Also, ads *really* mess up watching both videos simultaneously.

[@craigwilliams-ys6uz]

Premium eliminates all ads, the student version is worth the money

[@Hyce777]

Even if we turn off monetization, ads still play. We clearly just need multiplayer DV. :D

[@Ronald.Golleher]

@Hyce777 yes that would be perfect

[@miragept]

Until no MP happens won't think about making a racetrack map, got a few possible ideas for them.

[@kornaros96]

​@@craigwilliams-ys6uzadblocker is free though, and works for the entirety of internet; including spicy websites...

[@tieguy5438]

you can reskin the slug using the comms radio! it's a setting in skin manager that i think is off by default

[@a-scarred-red-E2]

Yes, Hyce. Slugs can sand, as they have sandboxes (found that in Model Railroader Magazine's March 1988 edition)

[@Honza2268]

Challenge suggestion: S060 with 9 cars of electronics (easier) or tooling (harder) from GF to MF, and you can spawn the handcart. I tried it a few times and almost or completely run out of water on multiple runs. Should be fun

[@TrainMedia00]

Gas Gas Gas 54:14 Dies after it farts out with flames 54:33 😭😭

[@Rsenior1981]

The slug is like putting your car into 4x4. Doesn’t add power, just adds traction.

[@NBSV1]

With kAN’s story about the heavy dies and hard hats, the hard hats are more for smaller stuff that can fall and still hurt you but would be helped by the hard hat. Someone could have left something on the crane, or there could be something loose on the die that can fall once it starts moving. Or, if you just hit your head on something having a hard hat can be nice.

[@kingboah6556]

It's all nice and synced except when the computer your watching on has 15 ads and the phone has like 2

[@emrilbennett8704]

8:16 a sassy loco story indeed.

[@shaunholt]

Have you guys tried starting at different places and racing to each other's initial start location? Would give each unique challenges, e.g. one is downhill, one uphill. I need not say who gets the downhill route.

[@Lectrikfro]

I feel like it might not have totally been the disconnected slug on the flat part that ran down the fuel, you also had the start where you ran the DE2 up to the tunnel. So you actually ran that much further with the engine than Kan did

[@kornaros96]

Yeah that first failed attack up the hill put him under.

[@IAmAnonymyz]

😂😂😂 I just got the slug today and thought this would be an EPIC place for a downhill race between Hyce and kAn with some explodie bois or some boom boxes.... And then I see this video 😂😂😂

[@jacebeleren9290]

Yeah 3/0 or 4/0 is BIG cable for a vehicle of any size. I've worked with bigger cable only a couple times in my short electrical career, but both times have been to service some big boy equipment, like a trio of motor control cabinets or, in the case of a single demo job, a set of huge electric motors that ran on 4kV ish. That cable (which had all 3 phases of course) was bigger around than my arm

[@Nareimooncatt]

29:13 it's not simply that a certain small number of amps can be fatal. If the voltage is low enough, there will be too much resistance to make an electrical path regardless of the amperage. You need adequate voltage before amperage comes into play.

[@DaysofKnight]

Love the Slug in this game. Did one big mission, had 2x DE6 with the Slug for a 1,600t 640m train. The 2x DE6 together with the Slug just did not give a *fuck*

[@thespacementv1506]

29:12 he managed to get them exactly the wrong way around.

[@Jeff-uk9cu]

29:57 or Kan. You can just be good at painting and not have to deal with that. And. If they'd go back to dip painting where they dip the whole thing in the paint boom even coat. Also I've painted all kinds of stuff in my shop and have had it come out better then a pro shop. It's not hard

[@VapeGod993]

Did you know if you look up while hitting "f" you can teleport farther?

[@luigirota7964]

15:10 derailment 😅😂 54:28 another derailment

[@luigirota7964]

49:58 out of fuel ⛽️

[@alexgoodwin2419]

Not really surprising that Hyce _has_ to qualify "Nothing's exploded" with "yet"

[@ComerProductions193]

He lost to his own Huberis

[@Yeentenology]

M y s t e r y C i t r u s !

[@QuorkQTar]

One day we'll get the race video that *starts* with Kenosha. 16:20 as Kiriko says in Overwatch when killing Soldier 76 or Pharah: I thought you were a professional? 23:50 that's standard sand boxes. We don't put our sand anywhere high, what for. You see the big screw caps on the top of each sand box. That's where you fill (well, usually not you but shop staff with PPE; quartz dust really isn't something you want in your lungs). 42:15 not nautically yeah more like naughtycally inclined 😂 At least in DV. 47:40 open toilets have been history for quite some time now, but we still have problems due to them: The wild rasp- and blackberries along the lines have been reeeeally well fertilised over the decades and so we still have people collecting fruit ridiculously close to the track 😅 51:20 "I have to be recklessly stupid" (Kenosha's initial hi-hat) "down this hill" now that's what I call a good timing. Looking forward to the rest xD Though I'll say, kaN always finished the race anyways =P

[@emrilbennett8704]

Ye they’re having fun

[@bluescrew3124]

“The paint robot became a flame thrower”

[@whatusernameis5295]

good video i have definitely watched it all

[@tannerbass7146]

For being two MEs you didn't do too bad with the EE topics 😂

[@Skynd303]

We just had a derail similar to that here west of Denver!!

[@eshock9208]

The nuclear waste was probably the least dangerous thing on that train. Those nuclear waste boxes are probably the closest to indestructible thing we have.

[@NekiCat]

There is a very impressive video of a train driving full speed into one of those caskets as a test, and it held no problem. Hyce couldn't break them if he tried.

[@michaelasbury7121]

Here's a monster project for any DV modders that might be watching your comments: N&W Z class. Not a Y class, a C&O H8 class, or a Big Boy. Those are way too big. It'd probably be very difficult to mod in, but I believe the game needs an articulated loco the size of a Z class 2-6-6-2. Imagine how much coal you could drag kicking and screaming out of the mine.

[@potato21206]

You should make a slug 101 after the rotary plow 101

[@brunoais]

27:37: Angry DM3 knock knocks. (Maybe that's why it exploded last time!)

[@allisonstilley9536]

Luckily for Kan, Hyce's Huber-is got the better of him in the end. At 10:00, That's the first time I've noticed the smoke pouring from the roasting traction motors ingame. Regarding the conversation at 25:30ish: On the RS4TC-1A that I trained on and ran, the auxiliary generator was mounted on the carbody and belt driven from the the shaft running between the prime mover, main generator, and air compressor. The aux. generator powered all of the smaller loads(traction motor blowers, low voltage control circuits, battery charging, lights, and a couple misc. 110v outlets) as well as providing excitation current for the main generator.

[@levibruner7553]

Advanced Slug Tech: Accelerate to top slug speed, then unplug the slug as long as your speed stays above top slug speed. Day 8 of asking Hyce to get the handcar. Multiple benefits including easier lining of switches, free fast travel, no rerail or spawn costs, and saving your f key.

[@Wilful1]

More than one reason not to walk in the gauge 48:00

[@slashmacleod]

Yet again, Hyce gets in his own way by trying to go too fast. And comedy (kANmedy?) ensues.

[@sushifox3931]

I feel like someday people will look back on these videos when multiplayer exists and would be like “bro, they used to do that?”

[@garysprandel1817]

Happy Thanksgiving Hyce. Wait a second Hyce binning it before Kan? Inconceivable! Just looked up what those dock pieces are and they're simply called bollards or hawser bollards. In reference to the answering nature's call over the side there's a KZbin video about a grade crossing over an interstate in Michigan in the 60s. Apparently insufficient traffic for the NYC to split the cost of a grade separation so this branch line crossed the interstate with traditional bells and flashers but in the video one of the last crews to work the line was interviewed and told the story of a new brakeman or conductor riding with them and the noob needs to take care of number 1 so wanting to have a bit a fun with the new guy suggesting he just take care of business over the side from the walkway. Of course the old hands knew the interstate grade crossing was coming up so here's the new guy out on the walkway watering the ROW thinking he's in the middle of nowhere when suddenly he's front and center to two lanes of east or westbound interstate traffic waiting for the train to pass with Wille The One Eyed Wonder Weasel in his hand.

[@jamescoutts6147]

Could you do a video or talk about the difference between slugs and b units?

[@CTW-G]

Perfect video to start off Thanksgiving 😄

[@srgntsylveon2919]

My instant reaction when i saw the notification was just ooooooooo

[@thomasmuir5653]

It’s 1/10th of one amp across the heart will kill. And one amp equals 6.28 billion billion electrons.

[@boredzero037]

For volts jolts, current kills debunking, see Electroboom.

[@nathanrcoe1132]

Could you make an interesting race using the remote from the caboose? Assuming preparing switches in advance.

[@Honza2268]

btw You can check if you damaged the powertrain/traction motors in the F4 driving window, if you have that enabled, or by printing out your fee report

[@jhsevs]

I’ve been told that all the steam loco roundhouses always used to have a distinct smell. Is this true?

[@jarrodhofmann3219]

Hey Hyce so I would love for you to start jobs from places you don’t normally go to as the same track does get a bit boring to watch

[@Shadowtiger2564]

MUing with the slug burns more fuel than normal

[@leechowning2712]

You should be good if you splitscreen on the same computer, but if you are using a desktop and phone the way the ads are put in will effect it a lot.

[@Mr.crisskombat]

Happy thanksgiving 🦃 it’s the great train wreck on thanksgiving