They Increased the Speed Limits in Railroads Online...

[@DC4260Productions]

Referring back to the discussion of track gauges, here in New Zealand we exclusively use 3ft 6inch gauge, though some early lines in the Canterbury region used 5ft 3inch. The narrow gauge was chosen as the country has very rugged terrain.

[@MegaManX1415]

For most of this episode, for once it feels like kAN is being the safe one and trying to do everything by the book. Meanwhile, Hyce is like "The speed limits unlocked? WELL, MY NAMES HYCE AND I DO COCAINE!"

[@letrainperson4437]

Yes

[@AHSValor]

How you can tell that Hyce _really_ wants to go fast when at his job, but was never allowed to

[@Hyce777]

can confirm

[@NOOB_KILLA]

That's not snow all over the place...🤣

[@ampstudios4169]

@@Hyce777 where you getting your stuff from?

[@SomeOfGaming6124]

Do caboose racing again!!!!!!

[@bryceralph3050]

Yes

[@OriginalPiMan]

Harder to make than it used to be due to max bridge heights.

[@JACKHARRINGTON]

Oh, I remember that was the best

[@zippythinginvention]

With jumps

[@zippythinginvention]

Loop the loop!

[@slimchance9989]

Best theory: Romans built roads, Roman war chariots ran groves in the roads, wagons were built to fit the groves, axles for trains were originally built in the wagon axle jigs. Best theory. Could be wrong.

[@Crazyfrog41]

That is the story I was told growing up... but then I learned that Roman's built stone roads on gravel beds to be wide enough for 10 men to march side-by-side for rapid deployment of there legions... so the theory kind of falls through... so... Do with that information what you will...

[@taiyoqun]

@@Crazyfrog41 ten men side by side leaves about five men per lane. So people using those roads for hundreds of years made their axles to fit two carts on those roads. And knowing the romans were all engineers you have all of Europe making carts the same width more or less. So if you're gonna build something with weels it makes sense to more or less follow those dimensions, even if you're not gonna use the same machines and stuff.

[@HelloCity_CC]

Man Railroads online is just something amazing, amazing to watch you and Hyce play, watching and listing to the engines huff and chuff, and how relistic it is, amazing work.

[@spinnykirbo6139]

It is the highlight of my week watching these amazing railroads videos, educational too!

[@evmanbutts]

Making bridges isnt amazing lmao, just spent 3 hours making an alignment I wont be able to adjust if I decide its a touch too sketchy. Should have just bought a better engine

[@CyarSkirata]

Hyce's reaction to the idea of lifting the wheels by hand reminded me of Agents of Shield. "Can we load it up, take it back to base?" "Well have you been working out? Because that's a building."

[@drittgaming2350]

I like how this series went from "I like trains...." ._. To "force equals mass times acceleration" and then they pee in a cup 😆 That save on the turn table was dope btw

[@Egerit100]

Kan you should time a run to the sawmill and back (like you did when testing the snowplow) that way you can do the same run when they increase the speed limits, and compare. That way your viewers can get a better sense of how things are affected by the speed change

[@TallboyDave]

You are indeed correct; Japan and New Zealand use "Cape Gauge" (3 foot 6in/1067mm), but India and Australia are an absolute mess of different gauges, from Cape, to Standard, to Irish 'Broad Gauge' (5 foot 3), and everything in between.

[@TallboyDave]

Also, you have to consider that there's a different between "Track Gauge" and "Loading Gauge".

[@OriginalPiMan]

There are three main gauges in Australia. Most of the country uses standard gauge (1435mm), but Victoria mostly uses broad gauge (1600mm) with dual gauge or just standard gauge track between Melbourne and the state borders to accommodate interstate trains, and Queensland and Tasmania using narrow gauge (1067mm) because it was cheaper and could better handle tighter turns.

[@paramdandekar562]

I believe most of India actually uses an even wider broad gauge at 5 ft 6 in (that's what Wikipedia says and certainly all the tracks I've seen have easily been as wide as I am tall), though apparently modern metro lines are standard gauge. I do wonder why India uses such broad gauge, as far as I could see it seems like there just weren't many lines that were between metre gauge and broad gauge so they chose to standardise broad.

[@ArinJager1]

after a quick read (if I understand it right): narrow gauge is *cheaper* (and easier - to instal and remove) because it's all lighter - the rail, the cars, AND the locomotives, plus smaller bridges and tunnels, too... Great sentence: "The choice was often not between a narrow- and standard-gauge railway, but between a narrow-gauge railway and none at all." :D broader gauge is more expensive (it's heavier, uses larger cars and locomotives,... etc.), but it has higher speeds and capacity ("greater capacity offsets the higher initial cost" it says)... it's also more "permanent" new stuff I learned from reading about this: loading gauge X structure gauge, and something called "network effect" (the more people use the same thing, the better, basically)... also: bogie exchanges, railbock, dual gauge, variable gauge, and gauge conversion exist my country has 1435 mm (except two lines with 760 mm) [there used to be 1520 mm soviet era wide guage, too, but mostly for iron ore transportation]... subways and tramways have 1435 mm... rarely 1000 mm (like the two funiculars in my town - one of them being the second oldest such funicular still running in Europe, it's from 1907, it's 114 m long)

[@jeffreyblack666]

For steel, the Youngs modulus varies with temperature. This means if you heat up the steel it should deform more and give a larger contact area, which would be comparable to a larger COF. However, in addition to that you have the COF itself that will also change, in a complex manner which is also dependant on the pressures involved. So it will change, but by how much and if it will be higher or lower will depend on many factors and it would be easiest to just directly measure it.

[@Luredreier]

44:16 That's one *big* cultural difference between Americans (and the anglophone world in general) and Europeans (especially countries with germanic languages, *especially* Germany). We had to deal with the Gestapo in countries occupied by Germany and in Germany itself too, and many countries had to deal with Stasi, KGB etc, etc, etc... And all of this survailance left a mark on our culture. Even in countries that didn't experience stasi first hand we still experienced it second hand from movies etc from the area or visiting etc... And it leaves a mark on you. The whole "if you're not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to hide" argument just doesn't hold water. And we're just *never* going to feel comfortable with all of this, you know...

[@ArinJager1]

they'll never understand (we've got a sixth sense about totalitarian regimes and practices in our blood, can smell the stuff from miles away)

[@Luredreier]

@@ArinJager1 Most of us can. The UK still have a *ton* of survailance though, and brits seems to be fine with it. The anglophone world just seems to be different from the rest of the germanic one in that respect...

[@squarebodycasewademckenney6190]

This looks much better than before.... the sound that the engine makes matches the speed it's going now.... before it would be sounding like it's at full tilt and only going 17ish mph now it looks and sounds right

[@carcyaxon5532]

35:59 he did in fact pull the switch

[@michaelhollister1472]

Here's a weird outlier, There was a narrow gauge running from mount pleasant, Iowa to fort madison Iowa. I believe that this was called something to the effect of the peavine rail co. There was a fort in Fort madison, and resources in mount pleasant, if I remember the reason for it correctly. The remanent of this railroad is in mount pleasant, by the name of Old Threshers railroad. Here in Fort Madison, there is an old backwoods trail that takes the approximate trail of the original railroad, and if you venture off the trail, unwary of the two hundred trespassing signs, you can still find sections of track. I've only found one that someone staked into the ground, but I know there are more out there, as some of my friends have found them. Old threshers has a really cool track that I think hyce would have fun driving.

[@KerboOnYT]

We used to go to Mt. Pleasant when I was a kid. My dad was really into steam

[@U_Geek]

Now I just wanna show up at the museum with a shirt that has that image of a horribly laid track from somewhere in asia with the text below it saying "Hyce was here"

[@ArinJager1]

look up "napoleon, defiance & western" (aka "the worst railroad" or something), that stuff's hilarious... put that on a shirt instead

[@beaconbro8052]

I wonder how confused dapper would be if he joined In the middle of this play through😂

[@magica3526]

there's a (probably apocryphal) story that spain chose a different railway gauge than france Specifically to avoid a repeat of napoleon, to make it harder for the french to use spanish rails

[@foudremy1514]

In Japan, they primarily use 1067mm gauge and the bullet train yes, standard gauge. In India they have so many gauges that their locomotives may have the same design but different codenames to identify what gauge it runs on etc. In Malaysia and Thailand, we primarily use meter gauge which is exactly 1000mm or just over 3ft. There are some lines like airport express and MRT that use standard gauge. Edited: Fun fact, on Yamanote line in Tokyo, Japan, which is a loop line, they use the same gauge as other standard lines but their trains are so wide almost 3 meters it kinda looks janky almost

[@rcrawford42]

The Cincinnati, Georgetown, and Portsmouth (started as a narrow gauge) ran over mostly flat terrain. It never made it as far as Portsmouth, but only had one elevated section. One of its spurs (which ran past the house I grew up in) was COMPLETELY on flat ground.

[@jursh3936]

ive been sic today been binge watching the series so awesome to see you guys playing again.

[@adammullarkey4996]

7:40 I can tell you exactly where Standard Gauge (4ft 8+1/2in) came from. In Britain, the history of railways goes back to medieval times, when mines would use "wagonways," which were basically horse-drawn or manhandled wooden wagons running on pairs of wooden logs acting as rails. Over time, this developed into the "plateway," which had a flat plate on top of the old wooden rail, to make it more resilient, and a flange on the outside edge to guide the wagons, like the wheel flange on modern trains. George Stephenson is often referred to in Britain as the "Father of Railways." He worked in several mines in North-East England, notably the Killingworth Colliery, where he built one of the first working locomotives. The Colliery used a gauge of 4ft 8in, and this became the Stephenson Gauge. He later added an extra half-inch to prevent binding, creating the 4ft 8+1/2in Standard Gauge. For a time, this was in direct competition with Isembard Kingdom Brunel's 7ft 1/4in Broad Gauge, during the Gauge Wars, until the Government's "Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act" standardised to 4ft 8+1/2in for all new railways built in Britain. Many foreign railways, including in the US and Europe, purchased early locomotives from Britain, and this led to the use of Standard Gauge around the world. The value of being able to quickly adapt a foreign-built locomotive to run on your railways without needing to make a slow and costly conversion, is obvious, particularly for international trains. The idea that Standard Gauge was based on ancient wagon wheelbases is false. More accurately, it's true, but not for the reasons people usually claim. The reason most horse-drawn wagons tend to be the same width is just because of the need to fit a horse between the shafts, and this was inherited by the wagonways that evolved into modern railways. EDIT: On the question of why 3ft, I don't know, but I'd suggest it's related to the fact that 3ft is exactly 1yd.

[@DavidJrReeves]

If you want to see some wooden train brakes still in use today go ride one of the cable cars in San Francisco. They have wood brake blocks that press directly on the track to slow them down and it creates a very distinctive smell as well. They have a cable car museum too if you want to see the mechanism up close.

[@pinaz993]

On the topic of client-server de-syncs, that happens when both the client and the server are calculating how something should react to its circumstances. I think what's happening with Hyce's magical unrailings is related to missed physics updates. If the server (who has the final say in all disagreements) says that the car, in the course of wiggling, bounces off the rail and thus changes direction, it would send an update to the client to that effect. If that update never makes it there, the client might believe that the car keeps going in that direction and thus will derail. Thus, until the server sends an update that corrects the velocity and position of the car, the client will continue to think that the car is going on its merry way down the hill. Then, when the update is received, everything seemingly snaps back on the rail as if nothing happened, because in reality, nothing actually did. The way to fix this is to go through both the client and server simulation code with a fine tooth comb and figure out where they are differing. Once you fix the discrepancy, the client always agrees with the server. This is much harder (or completely impractical) to do when you didn't write much of the physics engine, such as when you are using Unity or Unreal. (See ZeepKist and nondeterministic physics for an example.)

[@0ptera]

I've never seen a setup like your helper station. Old railroads would have a turn table connecting those 3 tracks directly. After the steam era they started removing turn tables, sometimes just by filling in dirt locking it in place permanently, and squeeze in switches like you did.

[@jan_franzke]

The thing about german ww2 gauge is not quite right. Ukraine and large parts of Russia (and other, later soviet states) were invaded by germany but use 1520mm gauge now (not 5ft).

[@raptormaster666]

I remember that earthquake, and wondering why the room I was in (on the other side of the country, was shaking for a good minute and a half. The next morning I found out why, and the picture I remember was the entirety of the track for 300m being slid onto the beach amongst the debris, still intact, and the bleaching marks of where the track had been. Kaikoura was cut off for weeks from the rest of the country, IIRC, and they had to get a Navy vessel in.

[@dappermachine2032]

so that WAS the Kaikoura earthquake Kan was talking about in the start of the episode

[@raptormaster666]

I'm guessing so. Milford's earthquake doesn't have railways, could be Christchurch, most likely Kaikoura.

[@gerrard1144]

In Indonesia all railways are 3ft 6inches, they were however standard gauge, until the japanese came up and changed them. Some railways like the sugar mill railways are 600mm - 900mm wide, so they're pretty small and they're still running to this day, although they're not maintained that well. Infact, some of the sugar mill engines went to the UK at Statfold Barn

[@Ronald.Golleher]

Talking about the cameras in locomotives: it's a big deal in trucking industry also that a lot of big companies are putting (or trying to put) driver-facing cameras in the trucks. Obviously there's some merit to it to ensure the driver isn't distracted or anything especially in event of a collision. But a lot of drivers a pushing back, especially over the road drivers because for days to weeks at a time that's their living space, and it's always the thought of a camera being able to watch and listen to them in their off-duty time where they're just in the truck (their living space) and not driving.

[@sheldongoulding5658]

Here in Newfoundland we had a 3’6” gauge railway from 1898 till 1988. Was the longest 3’6” gauge railway in North America

[@freshairefarmsllc909]

Actually the Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ran 3ft narrow gauge from Johnson City TN to Boone NC all the way until 1940. The only remaining #12 4-6-0 still operates at Tweetsie railroad in Blowing Rock NC.

[@blake1471]

In Australia, before the federation we had some states using 3ft 6in or 4ft 8 1/2in or even 5ft 3in. There has been a slow unification to standard (4ft 8 1/2in) and there is still around 4000km of 2ft gauge used for sugar cane.

[@3DPDK]

I don't run steam engines, but I do know diesel run, hydraulically driven machinery that uses a similar system of regulated pressure and a variable power valve. > the pressure dome holds a constant pressure set by the pressure relief valve (known on some pressure vessels as a "pop-off valve"), like 120 psi in the case of the smaller engines in the game. The *regulator* allows a percentage of that pressure into the plumbing going to the drive cylinder. If the regulator is set to 50% then the pressure in the drive plumbing is 60 psi. (this is ignoring the secondary heating of the steam to boost the pressure and the final pressure in the steam chest) People familiar with SCUBA tanks know the tank can hold several thousand pounds of pressure but the regulator only allows 30 psi into the breathing mouth piece at any time. It's a mechanical *regulator,* not just a variable gate valve. > The *reverser,* more correctly called the "cut-off valve" determines not only direction but how long that pressure is injected into the drive piston. If the piston moves 2 feet within the cylinder, and the reverser is set to 50%, the steam pressure is only injected for 1 foot of that travel effectively cutting the applied power in half. I'm almost certain the math isn't linear, but a regulator set to 50% and a reverser opened to 50% means the total applied power to the piston is 25% of maximum possible power. I read somewhere in my search when this game was first available; a steam engine is "properly" driven by the reverser setting while the regulator is fixed to some level less than 100% (unless necessary for maximum power). This has one main effect in controlling the speed of the engine. It adjusts the applied power *at the piston,* giving an immediate response to power setting changes rather than the response lag that would occur by building up or dropping off pressure in all the plumbing back to the pressure dome. By the developer's own admission during one of their Vlogs last year (might even have been Hyce, I don't remember who), this has NOT been properly modeled in the game.

[@LoPhatKao]

30:00 good to see it's not just me that has phantom headlights on the 48 wondered if it was something in my potato settings

[@anthonyj.adventures9736]

I love watching your's or Hyces version then watch the other. Especially when you guys are on separate parts of the map doing diffrent operations. You ask Hyce alot of great train related questions.

[@MechE_Emma]

I binned my iron ore train when I was going to the smelter. It seems like the locomotives go fast but the rolling stock is still finicky.

[@eliaslundstedt5607]

fun fact, there is another 3 foot gauge narrow gauge, which is 891mm narrow gauge, something that only exists in sweden, and it's 3 old swedish feet, while 3 imperial feet would be 914.4mm. This gauge is, or was, pretty common back in the day, but there are still several museum railways around, the longest operating on a 71km track, mostly with diesel engines, diesel railbusses, but also a couple of steam engines. Then there is also still 1 891mm railway still in everyday comercial operation, that runs in Stockholm and the surrounding area.

[@louwn]

yes finaly i can watch you both. Anoing your vids desync with time, is it the editing software delta?

[@joshuanethery8262]

36:05 Kan indeed did flip a switch 🤣 looks like it's about 1 ft too soon, run it in .25 speed and you'll see as soon as he clicks the switch the back of the car jumps the track

[@Zacht1980]

Exactly right. He had to know he clicked on the switch. I don't understand his confusion about it.

[@Transportationspotting]

Talking of signals, in Britain there was a person who used to sit by signals and change as necessary. However, one person fell asleep causing a derailment as when he woke up again, the signal had frozen!

[@alexwallace1707]

Hey KAN, your local history student here. Your statement about Germany switching the rails to their own is 100% true, this mostly took place in the Soviet Union, the program was called Deutsche Riechsbahn. They had to convert something like 10,000 miles of track or so, I might be wrong on the number

[@alexmartinez5859]

I didn’t know about this but the entirety of it sounded plausible as he explained it. Also, fellow history student here. Coincidence on the first names right?

[@TheWeldingPanzer]

As a civil war reenactor, I respectfully decline Hyce's statement of historians chiming in, I have no wish to get political and want to just enjoy the video :). Have a great day and thanks for the new video kAN!

[@unkl3t3rry40]

Over in Australia we still use many guages. In perth and around some other places in Western Australia we use 3ft 6in guage (aka Cape gauge). Mainly for passanger but sometimes for freight. Cross country trains, most freight and other states passanger are all 4ft 8.5in standard guage. And the Melbourne passanger network uses 5ft 3in broad guage. Most of this is because Australia was formed by separate colonies using separate railways and it was too expensive to change everything. Where different guage trains need to run its all triple track. Or in some cases 2 standard guage lines next to 2 Cape or broad guage lines. All freight is the same width so seeing a Cape guage freight train is quite funny, almost half the train is overhanging the track

[@WibleWobble]

you + hyce scrap mechanic gameplay would be awesome

[@goldenandesite]

RO: We’re Off Track and so are our Trains

[@Nebulachadlazzar]

Man Kan I own the game but I could never sit down and build the track but it sure is great to see you play

[@wowthisisareallylongname9236]

i don't know what you're talking about it being 360p but it is 1080 it probably just some glitch

[@Nebulachadlazzar]

@@wowthisisareallylongname9236 yeah it only let me go 144 or 360

[@probablyants]

Right after a video is posted the resolution is low often

[@Poatatero]

it takes time for youtube to release the full resolution

[@pascal2085]

5:32 A whole load of lumber destroyed.

[@daanbos5918]

Petition to make ‘The Goat’ the main engine (Also it’s lights dissapeard)

[@superbluhedgehog1]

With regard to the Civil War, I can't remember exactly, but according to the B&O railroad museum, I believe, someone stole a locomotive from the north, brought it to the south, and re-gauged the axels to run the 5'. Upon the end of the war, the manufacturer of the repurposed locomotive offered the man a job at his plant...

[@superbluhedgehog1]

@ethanschmid4104 No, it was something else. Though, I did see the "William Mason" which stood in for the "General" in the film about that chase at the same museum me and my (then newlywed) wife learned about the guy who got a job at B&O because he re-gauged a Northern locomotive to run on a different gauge track in the south

[@LunaliBrighteyes]

A lot of the objection to cameras comes down to there being two kinds of managers. One that doesn't care what you do as long as the work gets done, the other that doesn't care if the work gets done as long as they can control what you do. Managers seeking cameras are almost always the second type, which means employees are loath to let them.

[@shah_aasu]

On the topic of track gauges, Here in india, we have something called broad gauge (5ft 6.5 inch). Mostly due to fact that it has higher capacity for passengers compared to standard gauge. Metros, trams and the high speed rails being constructed work on standard gauge. We used to have narrow gauge (2ft or 2ft 6 inch) or metre gauge (3ft 4.5 inch) during the early 1900s to late 1980s, mainly made by british india. But, most of them have been converted to broad gauge with few exceptions of heritage railways.

[@gamingstanlin8210]

You should race trains on a drag styled track

[@thewatcher_476]

Japan has a load of different track gauges - shinkansen indeed runs on standard gauge, but in Tokyo alone there are a few different railway gauges that mainline trains run on. Russia (and most of the rest of the ex-Warsaw Pact) runs on wider gauge, but afaik many of those countries have been switching over to standard gauge over time. Spain and Portugal also have a track gauge which is wider than standard gauge, but iirc there is a standard gauge high speed line running into Spain from France

[@Mr.AtheTriggerGalleon6310]

Am I the only one who noticed the headlight on the Class 48 aka The Goat was missing? The platform mount was there but the actual headlight was gone. 🤨🤔

[@SuperKoalas7851]

You need to do caboose racing now that the speed limit has been increased

[@AgentWest]

It seems that trains in this game stay on track because wheels keep them there (unlike some games where trains are essentially glued to the track regardless of what wheels are doing visually). With that said, would it be possible to build two parallel tracks with the gap just right to run a third car in the middle? And if so, would it be possible to push 3-wide trains on it, similar to how tug boats push barges?

[@radiation3041]

Everything you said was correct, the game uses physics based splines meaning it has to calculate more things leading to lag. Yes it is possible to build a gap between two tracks to make the train run between them.

[@cashews1016]

1:02:51 “You hump your empties…” -kAN 2023

[@skmgeek]

hi kan, bit of a weird request but could you please enable subtitles for this video? It seems to not be working (the subtitle button is greyed out). I use subtitles quite often on youtube videos so it would be quite helpful if you could enable them. Thanks!

[@eddielowe8189]

Nice control over the trains, you would have been given a job back in the day. Looking at the smelter setup, those hopper cars would be better if you was able to get to the other side then you could have just push them on the back of the main train. FYI The UK rail gauge was set based on what they had to work with at the time. They use coaches that would have been pulled by horse and converted to run on rails. very interesting and worth a google.

[@goldenandesite]

Choo Choo Streets With Friends

[@coltonregal1797]

The new speed is great, it really improves the flow of the game. If only the cars wouldn't randomly eat crap at top speed.

[@mikelenz1990]

Giving Hayes a scrap mechanic account and having him criticize you on your work of doing a rap because of trains, you’re crazy that would make a great series. I love that idea.kan gaming

[@thestainmorephoenix8632]

Funny thing-Standard Gauge is what the British called Stephenson gauge, after George Stephenson, who built the Rocket, but he designed the gauge around the horse drawn carriages at the time he was alive and the earliest coaches were actually stage coaches that could fit easily on the rails, just add tyres and call it a day

[@ArinJager1]

1435 mm (or 4 feet 8 and 1/2 inches)... 60% of world railways are this... and yeah, it predates Stephenson, but he "pushed" it... aaand it was also called "narrow gauge" back then, which is kinda funny

[@thestainmorephoenix8632]

@@ArinJager1 True. Funnily enough, it was Brunel who called it "Narrow Gauge" and it was after an incident at Norton Fitzwarren that the statement was made that "Narrow Gauge like this has no place in our system" I don't know who said it, but it seems like one of Brunel's pupils.

[@jasperdude443]

Australian railway gauge The three main railway gauges in Australia are narrow: 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in), standard: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in), and broad: 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in); a slow progression towards unification to standard gauge has taken place since the 1930s

[@Baer1990]

The fun thing with lifting from deep (canyon or water) is there is a max depth for every rig. Same as a standard waterpump cannot pump water from below 7 meters I worked at a drilling company (waterwells for enviromental purposes) and the machine I worked with had a max drilling depth of 150 meters. Any deeper and the weight of the casing would be too heavy for the table to pull out. With lifting an heavy object from deep, all the steel cables combined get so heavy that you reach max capacity by just lowering to the bottom. Not exactly true but you guys get what I mean

[@biddinge8898]

they still use narrow gauge railroad cause tokyo everything is smaller.

[@MaebhsUrbanity]

At least in the UK we have speed limit signs on our railways, thoguh they have different limmits for different train classes thoguh for much of the network passenger trains run at the maximum speed signals can be read at.

[@grayradicalgaming6760]

Just sayin, stormworks has some pretty in-depth steam power and train stuff. Would love to see it!

[@thekathal]

I'm afraid us Brits had the first 3ft gauge railway, funnily enough being the first powered railway in the world at Coalbrookedale, built in 1802.

[@Blaster_Unity_UB]

I don't get the tangent alert thing. Can anyone explain plz

[@arconnelly5365]

Are you going to get a geared locomotive?

[@N00dleMeister]

33:45 I've heard about multi-track drifting... but single-track drifting?😳The C.R.A.P railroad team truly are kings of the Mountain pass 😂😂😂

[@evanbumpus6733]

Well Hyce talking about the civil war. Your good, as a high school history nerd and I don't mind it I find it funny that you know how historians reacts.

[@A_Gray]

Yall may laugh, it wasnt until this episode that i realized the Johnson bar is kinda like controlling the ignition timing in a car. Now it makes sense why hyce said youd ideally put the bar in the neutral position once up to speed.

[@margiechronister3482]

During the winter when there is snow and ice, the railroad will literally lite the ties on fire while in hot climate the railroad rubs ice down the rails

[@steammaniac314]

There are lots of European locomotive with outside Stephenson valve gear that'll make it easier to see. Any German Brigadelok will do, or the locomotive Bellerophon in the UK

[@Nabitz]

in the UK we have signs on the side saying in 100ft you go up 1 1.5 2 ect

[@quakxy_dukx]

Here in Queensland Australia you see a lot of cane trains (transporting sugar cane) running on 2ft gauge

[@michaelhardeman6004]

Yeah, that what some railroads did back in the day. They left trains and carts at the bottom of the river and lake.

[@Dallen9]

Germany and Russia did it. Russian gauge is 7ft Broad gauge. Except for Standard gauge(which is the rail gauge of the world) there is as far as I know only 2ft*, 3ft, 3 1/2ft, and 7 ft are in active use for Nations in the world. *I'm including the 2ft Railroad in Maine even though I could argue it kind of doesn't count do to being more of a tourist railroad.

[@cheese9144]

ngl, i dont even watch the gameplay, i just put this on as a podcast about trains, 10/10 content

[@joshuanethery8262]

Australia still has different gauges between states, nsw runs standard QLD runs narrow, below is from wiki The three main railway gauges in Australia are narrow: 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in), standard: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in), and broad: 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in); a slow progression towards unification to standard gauge has taken place since the 1930s. About 4,000 km (2,500 mi) of 610 mm (2 ft) light railways in Queensland support the sugar-cane industry, they are not included in the following table. Now if hypothetically if I grab one of these locos from America's history of narrow gauge would it fit on Queensland rail? Not long ago QR ordered some new trains for the south east qld lines... the wrong gauge turned up and they had to be modified to fit the lines

[@Looppen]

I think what kan said about switching the gauges in Europe during the war made sense as I believe Germany had a massive cannon mounted on a train that they needed to move around, so they would need the gauge to match that train.

[@cptfrecell]

We had several biggish cannons that was just a long railroad car and could fire without much preparation, and then there was Gustav, that monster which was firing on Sevastopol consistent of several trains worth of cannon stuff and needed 4 thousand men to build, operate and secure, special track called "schießkurve" , special locomotives and a lot of time...

[@ArinJager1]

Schwerer Gustav (= Heavy Gustav), yep (it fired 800 mm shells)... that thing is hilarious(ly crazy)

[@adammullarkey4996]

47:25 0-60 in a vehicle that can't reach 60 is not infinity, it's NaN, for the same reason that anything divided by 0 is NaN; it's impossible. Let me explain. Any number divided by 0 is NaN, not infinity. The best way I've heard it explained is this: Multiplication is just fancy addition. 3x5 is just 5 3s added together, so 3+3+3+3+3=3x5=15. By the same token, division is just fancy subtraction. Take 15/5. Start with 15, then subtract 5 and you get 10. Subtract 5 again and you get 5. Subtract 5 once more and you reach 0. You subtracted 5 3 times before you got 0, so 15/5=3. Now, let's try this with dividing by 0. Say, 5/0. So, we start with 5, and we subtract 0. Well, 5-0=5. Was the answer 0? No, so lets keep going. 5-0=5. Still not at 0, so lets go again. 5-0=5. You get the idea yet? Even if you subtract 0 from 5 an infinite number of times, the answer would still be 5, not 0. Thus, the answer is not infinity. Since there is no number that satisfies the conditions, the answer is NaN. If your train can't reach 60, your 0-60 time is not infinity, because you could keep accelerating for an infinite amount of time and never reach 60. Thus, the 0-60 time of a train that can't reach 60 in NaN.

[@mirrakirra]

34:40 when Hyce sounds more drunk than I am. And I actually am.

[@OG_Casual_Tryhard]

36:05 there's something wrong with that switch, or connections to the switch. You can only see it for a split second in the video, but watch the car, it'll jump up a bit right when you turn away.

[@midnightpaddypaws6941]

the 7.2 eatrthquake was 2012 along with the 6.8 wich took the lives of people and hurt alot of people me included the damge was shocking and intresting as well as the traintracks were betn weird ways

[@SHAMBHALANZ327]

0:20 that photo of the railway tracks is from my home town. Kaiapoi, New Zealand 🇳🇿

[@Dinkfod_Q_Oglethorpe]

You mentioned scrap mechanic and a hump yard. Now I want to see a hump yard that automatically sorts the cars by type as you kick them.

[@streetrypper9961]

You and Hyce's talk about mechanical engineering on trains on the last episode threw me for a headache loop. Would I really need to know that stuff if I were to driver steam engines? If so, I'll just stick to driving diesel and electric trains

[@electrifiedgamer1322]

Day 16: asking for train jousting Hyce mentions that there is no "good" way to do this... I disagree. You can put two trains facing each other on 1 track and full send into eacho0ther and let chaos unfold. More like Chicken but still I mean. it would be funny to give the physics engine a stroke

[@Saxquatch_]

I want to see this

[@jaunusender6166]

There are roads in Colorado that are wide enough to turn a 2 horse carriage around without backing up.

[@brendanhatch983]

my dad works for KCS and I can confirm that not all the engines have cameras on the inside

[@Baer1990]

19:50 paint+supplies would be heavier to carry down than TNT lol

[@bluewolf9964]

Kan be like I didn't flip the switch me watched it back, kan flips switch derails car and switch flips back. 🤣 love it kan hahah great series keep it up bruv

[@JanTonovski]

Scrapmechanic with kAN, hyce and Scrapman is going to be epic!

[@alexpym8216]

Im only here for the pee ina cup moments lol

[@sixfthree]

the derailing seems extra buggy recently. I've been going slow and had cars and the locomotive jump the track for no discernable reason.

[@theorianjohnson4105]

I like how he moves cars slowly and leaves the train moving, but when connecting the engine he speeds into the cars

[@stormrider2156]

now you need a heisler