Peat-train in a north german moor (narrow gauge, 900 mm, near the village of Börgermoor)

Germany: special locotype, constructed to run on temporary tracks and for fluel saving. Also in use for building tunels and undergrounds. Narrow gauge, 900 mm)

[@streetsafari0]

It’s like off roading with a small train.

just like actual off roading its not fun

[@silviaholscher4117]

The Intercity highspeed train between Hamburg and Berlin.German ingeneering at it's finest.

[@BlackMeowgic]

fast. "engineering"

[@julitabak9434]

@p

[@brianlee6930]

silvia hölscher You're on a fucking bog, speed with that payload is not your friend.

[@doktorbimmer]

*Socialism is a failure...*

[@steffenrosmus1864]

@@doktorbimmer what the hell did that have to do with socialism? This Peat RR ist in north Western Germany

[@jdsb-3707]

Germany’s most dangerous job. I lived there 3 years. I loved it all.

[@andrewwagner6851]

Germany has historically had pretty dangerous jobs.

[@Lillstisse661]

"Most dangerous" what is the worst thing that can happen if that thing falls off the rails at 4-7 kph? They stop and go get some tools to rerail it.

[@bigdarbs19]

This is what the new UK high speed line will look like when the funding gets cut.

[@kevins1114]

It's difficult to imagine something so sub-standard actually being in use in Germany.

[@thetravinator934]

Kevin S It's also a temporary track. They rip it up and lay it down elsewhere when they need to. Economical, cheap, and it's good enough for what it's used for.

[@michaelbannan335]

Kevin S Look up "World's worst railroad track" It's in Indiana and it's horrid. Fortunately it isn't heavily used.

[@kevins1114]

Michael Bannan I may have seen that one, but I'll look it up anyway. Thanks for the tip.

[@megawebster9]

"that's the power of German engineering."

[@xIkkito]

halt dein dummes Maul

[@hennef53]

That's right !

[@fireflyfireworks668]

***** Wo liegt dein Problem? Lass die Ammis ihre Witze doch machen! Where's your prob? Let the Americans just do their jokes!

[@rubenmartinez7382]

Tfbfg

[@jimharris9394]

"....the power of German Engineering" is that it doesn't fall off the tracks!

[@1500chessie]

I live near that place.One has to understand the soil in North Germany,especially the moore.There is no dense surface and it´s more like a sponge.This is the best way to do it.All other shitty tracks on railroads are on solid soil and a lack of maintanance.

[@dnebdal]

That is the cutest little locomotive I've seen used for anything productive. :)

[@leokimvideo]

apply lots of flange grease and pray

[@Jan4apes]

Aye leokimvideo is here

[@w_avor]

lol

[@ank55o7]

Didn’t expect you here

[@grooviestglobe4907]

Stop making spider videos I used to love your channel

[@menofwar-os1wi]

flange greece? i work at a narrowguage museum with sometimes similar looking tracks, never greased any flanges, just go for it, if you derail, you derail

[@Sohave]

Gosh some people have no idea of the soft soil conditions at peat digs and think this is some sort of German high speed rail line. This is actually a marvellous achievement as tractors would risk getting stuck in the peetland.

[@hennef53]

Tractors are to expensive for this old mining. Perhaps this service has come to and end, while writing this answer...... Every "train" shakes the ground like a earthquake-) We have to fix the tripodes with both hands.

[@Sohave]

How can a tractor be more expensive than an industrial locomotive? On Alibaba they cost about the same for a brand new one. the tractor would also have to drive more to transport the same load and would have more friction.

[@MoeJae86]

I always wondered if there existed a smaller more simplified freight train that actually carried a payload and had a cab to ride in. It's like a freight version of a tram. I think it would be a ideal project for a train lover to build if you had spare cash and few acres of land. I'm glad I found this clip pretty awesome!

[@hennef53]

The biggest Problem: you must build a track only for this Train. Some People in Germany are using such little trains for her private fun. Some of them are operating own steam-locos.

[@leifgiering]

It's sad that most here don't read the description. The locomotive was DESIGNED to run on these 'temporary tracks'.

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

doesn't mean they couldn't have laid them straight.

[@cr-yi7ep]

@@theghostofthomasjenkins9643 It's laid on peat. No matter how straight they laid them, they wouldn't be after a couple of days. And trucks would just bog down instantly.

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

@@cr-yi7ep no, it's actually quite easy to keep them straight. use longer rails and offset the joints. that gives it less ability to shift from side to side like it is there.

[@cr-yi7ep]

@@theghostofthomasjenkins9643 Not on that surface. Longer rails would be heavier and harder to shift when necessary. Offsetting the joints would make it harder to lift 'panels' (consisting of one rail length complete with sleepers) when installing or moving the track. The only way to make the rails stay straight would be to build a trackbed with huge quantities of clean fill and ballast - which would defeat the whole point of a quickly and cheaply laid track on the peat.

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

@@cr-yi7ep longer rails would distribute the weight much better, so it wouldn't shift as much to begin with. there are much better ways to do it even with the limitations they have. i don't know why you think this is the only way it could be done.

[@ttaass1976]

I would imagine that the tracks can be easily moved to allow flexibility. Using this small train is smarter than using trucks that would use much more fuel and cause more damage to the ground.

[@hennef53]

This is correct. But it is expensive to build und to lift up the track.Railways into the moore are only in use there a old licence is still valid.

[@szabosebestyen5075]

Vonat

[@pearlyhumbucker9065]

+Thomas Scanlon You´re right. You wont get anywhere there with a truck. ;) Load distribution is clearly in favour of the little peat trains and their tracks.

[@brianlee6930]

Thomas Scanlon It's a bog, any large wheeled vehicle will sink at a drop of a hat. Narrow gauge rail is the only way to extract peat. Those zigzag rails you see are due to the fact that they are placed on a live and still wet bog. It's a partially dried swamp hence the reason why the rails move. Every loco that they run is under 2 tons anything more that that and it will sink.

[@supportervandeeuropeseunie1625]

Pearly Humbucker Well, I'm not sure of that. Ever heard of the dump truck? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dump_truck

[@tempjohn1111]

It's amazing how resilient rails/railed vehicles are ...

[@kentonge5754]

Well of course it's bumpy and higgledy-piggledy - it's laid on PEAT. Not the most stable, solid, firm foundation. And it's temporary - you can unbolt it and move it somewhere else. It works; What more do you want?

[@ziauddinsarwar5609]

Risk of derailing is high and bearings is likely to break

[@SvendleBerries]

@@yeo5811 Youd think they could design something that doesnt look like it will fall apart at any moment. It looks like something from a third world country, not Germany. Hell, it would be cheaper and more efficient to just use cattle to pull the carts.

[@alexls1923]

This track looks like someone tried to draw it in MS Paint but who am I to judge? Germany also has one of the most complex and efficient automobile factories I’ve ever seen and I’m sure that the ones here in the US couldn’t compete with it. A country can’t be the best at everything.

[@rileycoyote4924]

A speed faster than walking would be nice.

[@olegkuvshinov5599]

As Russians say, nothing is more permanent than the temporary.... 😟

[@OldLordSpeedy]

I thinks some people here do not understand this line and why they have that. Since over 1000 years people to cut peat out from the moor. Since they starts with railways they use them in the moor too. This line put out the peat over 5 till 10 km to the normal gauge line and truck station. Inside the moor is it so weak that normal trucks, if they stay longer at one place, go inside them forever. So only the railway can handle this weight, special the cutted peat is wet and very heavy!

[@dozer1642]

You were correct. Some people do not understand this. And they still don't.

[@OldLordSpeedy]

+_YoungSeattleRailfan _ Yeah, cutted peat die so fast and with the fast of 5 till 20 km/h every light locomotive derail?!

[@andrzejj4019]

Do you even readed the description? This train is DESIGNED to go on this type of tracks.

[@oscarbertola2259]

The apparent poor condition of the tracks is exaggerated by filming from a long distance with the use of zoom. That gives another strange effect: It seems that the train is moving very slowly. However, they are temporary laying routes, which can be placed and moved for entire sections with ease, according to the needs of loading in different places. Those laying without compacting the ground produce, over time, the twisting of the rails. This type of laying is common in quarries and mineral deposits. But, it is true that it is very funny. That seems from a very poor and backward country, which is not the case in Germany. In Argentina we have some trains like this

[@cr-yi7ep]

It looks like the most economic solution. It would cost far more to construct temporary roads for dump trucks. And the rail tracks can be moved and re-used indefinitely.

[@ChadDidNothingWrong]

@@cr-yi7ep That depends on the soil, climate, and surrounding infrastructure....it's possible that this is no longer efficient if the state of nearby road networks has changed, but remains as a result of the economic barriers of changing machinery. (Although you'd probably need removable tracks on any truck that went in there, regardless, so maybe this still is the best way.) My point is just that you can't ever be certain without the greater context.

[@cr-yi7ep]

@@ChadDidNothingWrong For a bit of context go here (if the link works): www.google.com/maps/@53.042111,7.6458511,7666m/data=!3m1!1e3 As you can see, it's a huge peat bog 4km across. If you zoom right in you can see the rail tracks. No roads across it, there's no reason to go there except to extract peat. I think the rail tracks only lead to the edge of the bog - there's some sort of depot at the south end on route 401 where the peat is processed in some way and loaded onto road trucks. www.google.com/maps/@53.0170578,7.6305004,479m/data=!3m1!1e3

[@HarryBalzak]

"That gives another strange effect: It seems that the train is moving very slowly." 1:40 That guy got out, took a good long gander, then took a couple of steps to catch up and get back in. You are right. The train does seem to be moving very slow.

[@camaro89886]

I agree but there are temporary railtracks more efficient : Decauville railroad aka "portable". It was used at first in fields then on building sites and during WW1.

[@petemcintire4339]

Good to see the Detroit kids being bused to school again.

[@Cutstalk]

Underrated comment

[@yetanotheruser1989]

Man, the sound of it cracking and clanking over the rails is oddly satisfying

[@MagictrainsOrg]

This is absolut awesome!

[@hanifisyaa9246]

Im first?

[@Coasterfan1614]

@@hanifisyaa9246 huh

[@GraceandWisdom]

For the first time ever..."The Little Engine That Could," in real life!! "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!!"

[@AaronShenghao]

This was in Germany? I guess who ever laid the track was shot afterwards.

[@MrEstebanSzucs]

Hahahaha best comment

[@equaals7552]

"Under nazi regultion you will be shot for, what the hell?"

[@maxkonig559]

I thought this was in former East Germany but it's not. lol Wow

[@martinum4]

It's fine and supposed to be that way, lol. The ground is not precompacted and the tracks moved quite often, so there is no need for accuracy.

[@BC_Geoff]

It was probably fine when it was laid. This is from use and low maintenance

[@thedreamliner2012]

lol This is actually quite amazing! I love how he hops off to check his cars. The trick I noticed was that the wheels actually form the track into shape as it makes contact. Those rails are very flexible. It's the only way that this will work.

[@superchevys10]

its like off-roading for trains.

[@RRBuilder611]

+Xbob gottX thats funny

[@selvamv4680]

hahaha lol

[@gunner-pm7jh]

:D

[@zagi988zap]

every few seconds he is like: am I still on tracks??

[@plutoniumpie]

The navvies who laid this track were fed only beer and gin.

[@lordbelvoir2543]

And magic mushrooms 🤪

[@knockhello2604]

xd

[@knockhello2604]

idk how to lay track

[@adamabele785]

The tracks are just laid on top of the ground, the ground is sand and peat and swamp, so they move when the train comes. These tracks are only temporarily and get dismantled after the work has been done and then the track gets laid elsewhere.

[@knockhello2604]

@@adamabele785 u Nigerian?

[@caseyjonessnr1200]

A great video showing locomotives at work in their home environment. The locomotives and wagons handle the temporary track perfectly.

[@caseyjonessnr1200]

Great video. Typical lightly laid track suitable for moorland use, the locomotives and wagons are ideal for this environment.

[@tombarclay7108]

Looks like some of Amtrak's main lines here in the northeast.

[@ankitshetty3642]

This happens when the contract of laying rail changes every other day

[@ddandrews6472]

I've seen permanent freight train tracks that look like this or even worse in regional northern states(New York I think). So, I can't complain about these small temporary freight tracks looking like this. :)

[@carmium]

Vancouver has one of the world's biggest raised peat bogs, and on Google Earth you can still see the scars of the railway used in the harvesting operation for many years. Totally shabby when I saw it years ago, it used old Plymouth narrow gauge diesels - or what was left of them - and tall cars with sides that swung open when they were run out on a raised track at the plant site. Now the bog is considered too valuable to the environment to dig up!

[@Marchautowerks]

I would think a tractor with wagons would a lot more efficient?

[@turbine1974]

No, they would sink in the moor.

[@Bassotronics]

How does it not derail?? The holy grail of messed up track!

[@mikeytrains1]

Bassotronics The Napoleon, Defiance, and Western is worse.

[@paullangford8179]

Wheel profile, and slow running.

[@grandstandgirl]

I AGREE

[@patsematary]

The speed measurable in steps per hour

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

This is one of those portable railbeds. Like they have at some strip mines, as the working face moves, the railbed gets moved with it by dragging it sideways with tractors or dozers. That's how it gets so abused that even the fish plates are bent.

[@DM-ry3ms]

Interesting video, Wolfgang. Amazed that the train is able to stay on the tracks.

[@xamhund]

Glück Auf, erinnert mich an Untertage

[@user-tr3yc4ht5w]

Машинисту аплодисменты :)

[@anb7408]

I can just hear Cousin Eddie looking at this and saying: “it’s a quality item!” 😂

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

Wow. I’ve seen a lot of stupid comments on KZbin, but the comments here beat them all. This obviously is a temporary track run over a bog, where there is very little structure in the ground to support weight. Any normal vehicle would likely sink and disappear, but the train just keeps doing its job, slowly but surely. This is a great way to run these heavy loads over the moor.

[@hennef53]

Don´t worry, have a look for old logging trains with climax/shay egines. US-logging-railroads did the same job with heavy steamlocomotives!

[@Ddd-ei3bo]

Hauptsache die Ladung kommt an . :-)

[@marcnissen5083]

I’m baffled what keeps that poor bastard from derailing

[@Tatra_T4R]

i think every train love watched this as a kid

[@airborneace]

That's obviously just temporary track, akin to what the old logging railroads in the US used

[@Tonatsi]

It says so in the description!

[@larrylitmanen9877]

Germany, i thought this is Africa.

[@hennef53]

Producing more and more CO², im sure the missing elephants would come back soon...

[@MaxPivovarov]

а я думал это Россия...

[@larrylitmanen9877]

lTaxoml lol

[@cyn3176]

v sesee

[@vector6977]

+Larry Litmanen There are kids in Africa that could eat the rails straight.

[@hennef53]

Richtig !!! einer der wenigen die Ahnung haben und sich nicht nur über buckelige Gleise amüsieren. Besten Dank und Grüße.

[@timcole3719]

Survey team called in sick and the boss said Proceed!

[@LarS1963]

While the video is interesting, the comments section is sadder even than usual for a KZbin video.

[@eduardoenriquez7025]

This is what the American high speed trains look like compared to what Europe has

[@sharannadeeproyroy6211]

that's so humiliating

[@williamjohnston982]

Did this job and many others associated with this industry for about twelve years near Penicuik in Scotland, great days but long days in the summer months.

[@raztaz826]

Driver leaves it going by itself while he checks its all on the track or something :D Neat little train, I'd like to have a go.

[@AshleyLeaney]

Vorsprung durch technik!

[@robertcampbelljr.3195]

Who does their track maintenance? Maumee and Western?

[@BertrandAckermann]

Mire is one of the last environments in which field railways are in use today. The simple and obvious reason is: on top of the soft ground tracks are buit and allow a fast transport of goods over long distances at low cost.

[@thenexusmedia29]

Camera person did a great job.

[@AStalinKoba]

Зато со светом ))))))

[@duxberry1958]

Does the track move with the train

[@duxberry1958]

lol

[@tryithere]

+Mark Duxberry Hell, the track moves with the wind.

[@alastairpreston3237]

It's clear from the video that the track does move with the train - even the adjacent track moves as the train passes by, because the ground is moving as well.

[@arbjful]

Wow....amazing...as an engineer I am always impressed by these marvels of creation..

[@GretchenDawntreader]

that's just crazy. Hard to see how it even stays on the tracks.

[@charvista]

German technology! No derailment !!! ;)

[@user-dh3fh7ce4e]

У кого то было 2 по черчению))☺☺☺☺☺

[@ovalwingnut]

"Temporary Tracks" as in temporarily installed in 1918? That's really increadable.. Guy just doing his job.. have to hand it to him. Not his first rodeo. With time and endless money I bet you could come up with tracks that are more "plastic, movable or rubberized (with a steel surface?). The last thing I saw with such nasty kinks was my last GF, oh Snap! Thanks for posting!

[@gregwarner3753]

I thought the track I built for my stepfather's amusement park railroad was marginal. At least I built on sand. This is built on mud. Amazing that it works at all.

[@Rammstein45]

How does it not derail?!

[@hennef53]

Rails and sleepers are having a soft underground, so the material can work. The loco itself has large wheels, ti drive on different

[@hennef53]

distances between the rails. The two axles of the loco are working like that: one hard one and one soft one. So the loco has only three points to bring her waight on the rails. It works like a chair with three legs - he safe will stand on every surface.

[@garethpatterson7130]

Wolfgang Cloessner i've derailed a couple of times

[@williamebertz8828]

It's German

[@Rammstein45]

I want this on Train Simulator.

[@pablof59]

Off Road railing !!

[@shortliner68]

I rode on a freight branch line years ago that had rails which would jump up like that. That engineer wouldn't know what to do with himself if the track were ever upgraded. Looks like he's on the ground checking his train over more than he's up in the cab.

[@hoomanp3766]

Gotta love the new high speed railways they are putting up

[@at90percent]

Worst laid track ever. Or should I say wurst laid track ever?

[@fireflyfireworks668]

Ba dum tsssssssssssssssss... will never end :)

[@depressionchan8394]

...

[@eoinpkav152]

Pianoman 70s style javol

[@anon265]

РЖД

[@user-xi3nd5yb6x]

В северной германии?

[@ponkkaa]

I didnt understand PEED. Peat bog, now i get it. Amazing that the train didnt just jump the tracks in fear. Tracks look like they were built by a,severly intoxicated surveyor

[@CardboardSliver]

This is why you don't let Wall-Eyed Whilheim lay your tracks, Karl.

[@welder0879]

немецкий сапсан)))

[@irelandbloke]

Brilliant videos !

[@timsricochet]

Thanks for uploading this, very interesting and like you said...temporary track and it will be used again in the future.

[@mouser4290]

It' good to see Baltimore has improved it's transit system.

[@vichui9773]

Yes, some day we will improve our system to this. Looking forward to that!

[@Nader620]

I understand that the ground is soft and the tracks are moved periodically as the peat/peed is harvested, but it looks like no effort is made to keep it straight. I have to agree, however, that as long as it is working, there is no reason to change it. When the locomotive finally falls over, then they will straighten out the tracks.

[@parkmedia]

Don't forget that these are temporary tracks! it makes no sense to bulid it more precise.

[@hennef53]

Best comment since a very long time - thanks a lot!

[@MetroVick]

Nicely done. Similar operation in Ireland on a three foot gauge.

[@hennef53]

Thank you very much, you have understud the function of this temporary track - this is no loco-rodeo...

[@hirushabalapitiya2114]

It's amazing to see How Train run on oblique Railway!!!!

[@MagictrainsOrg]

Das ist ja wohl ein starkes Stück ;)

[@neumoi3324]

The driver gets a good churn of the food he has eaten.

[@ArchTeryx00]

It wouldn't surprise me if the axles on the locomotives were articulated (could bend in the middle). That and the slow speed would allow it to get over almost any set of track, so long as it was continuous.

[@Fred-by9em]

How can it be possible? ! Rail seems like chewing gum, nothing is strong... Nice video which presents the hard reality of some workers...

[@efbeVideo]

Ist schon interessant, wie das Rad-Schiene-Prinzip auch funktionieren kann :-) Ich habe nur noch nicht herausgefunden, was mich immer wieder an solchen Videos über Bahnen mit schlechter Gleislage fasziniert.

[@soulassassin0g]

Other nations: "Hey, what's that?" **points at train** Germany: "That was there when we got here."

[@ganzmavag]

Railway tracks in Argentina are exactly like in this video. The sad is that passenger trains are running over them and we have many accidents.

[@rocket3man]

Thats really cool as you don't have to use skilled workers to lay the track.

[@mohammadgagat7589]

People: "How's your day?" Me:

[@No_Hiro]

Wow this makes the Maumee & Western (Now Naopleon, defiance and western) look like a class 1 railroad!

[@WiseSnake]

Pretty neat little train. Love the sound.

[@interestedErvini]

Ah reminds me of the auld peat years here in Ireland, ah the only times when I could do down to the bog lands as a wee lad and watch the wobbly train snake down.

[@danielconlon2388]

Still in Ballivor. Does be fun to watch

[@interestedErvini]

@@danielconlon2388 ah is there, haven't been in Co.Meath for wee while now though it's been closed down.

[@seigyo_zoufukuki]

How can anyone downvote this gem? :D

[@LanceCampeau]

My son loves this video...

[@myfeeling4you]

Thx Wolfgang, amazing, would believe it if I didn't see it

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

Pure magic..Ya gotta love the baby loco's. Thanks for sharing

[@Neky_Hina]

That's even much slower than a crowler excavator! LOL

[@supertouring]

I love the 2x12 ties