The 700' long BRIDGE KILLING SPREE?!? | 3/4 Show S3.5 Ep. 1

[@apollosaturn5]

I can imagine that massive wood cover bridge traveling down the river and suddenly the Jaws theme playing out of nowhere before devouring another truss bridge.

[@velocity9OOOYT]

I imagine that theme cues when the bridge turns like it just suddenly has a mind of its own and wants to get revenge on the other bridges.

[@thatonecaledonian812]

“THE NEW HAVEN HAS HIT THE PENTAGON” now I have the urge to do a thing to get me banned on your discord

[@Hyce777]

Careful now...

[@jimskywaker4345]

"Another railroad has hit the village" Well trains are unpredictable

[@northeastartist4158]

All I can see is a peaceful village and then a second later a locomotive and tender just gets thrown into it

[@steeljawX]

I mean when a village gets industrious and doesn't use the proper protection......They can wind up with a rail line. Or another way to not wrongly put it is that they become impregnated with efficient transportation....... Remember kids, industrialize responsibly.

[@weaponizedtoast2134]

“Mr ceo there’s been another dash 9”

[@northeastartist4158]

@@steeljawX "Gosh, Kenneth you gave me Pan-Am AND local lines?!"

[@northeastartist4158]

As a Mainer I can almost guarantee that 700' bridge of ridiculousness was probably built by some men who had a bit of liquid courage in their job flasks Not a damn building here in this state is built by sober workers before OSHA became a thing, we just drink and call it good. Also I'm ready to hear about the Hoosac Tunnel, that's possibly one of the craziest things I've heard from Massachusetts. They do say the Tunnel is also haunted, if you believe that stuff

[@OfficialDenverRioGrandeWestern]

That bridge about to call in the tactical nuke 💀💀

[@YourLocalRailfan]

19:46 “LOOK AT IT” “AUUUUUGHH AUUUAGHH” got me rolling

[@TheLazyComet]

that bridge has the highest K/D ratio of bridges rather then people

[@leverettrailfan5414]

YESS A story from my neck of the woods! I absolutely love this tale. A few history corrections/notes The trolley bridge had already been out of service for a couple years, trolley service to turner's falls ending in 1933 [Edit- 1934] under the Greenfield & Montague Transportation Area. The trolley bridge was NOT actually taken out by the covered bridge! It was lifted slightly off its piers and then swept under by the river current. We know this, because someone was out there with a video camera, filming it happening. Check out the WGBY documentary "The Great Flood Of 1936". In order to use the New Haven branch to Turner's Falls, the B&M had to construct a switchback out of the East Deerfield yard- it's still there, rails gone but ties all in place. Due to the whipple truss, they could only use very light power on the branch. The last B&M freight train on the Turner's Falls branch ran in 1985 according to a Shoreliner article, in which someone who was on the final Turner's Falls job recounted the trip- the crew was instructed to grab everything on the branch and remove it, and shortly after the tracks were all pulled up. The New Haven's branch to Turners Falls debatably started at South Deerfield MA, as another branch went northwest to Shelburne Junction, a middle of nowhere turn in the Deerfield River where it met the B&M at a cute little interlocking tower that was built into a rock cut. Look up the pictures! The (to be) New Haven had plans to get into New York, via the "state road" that was the Troy and Greenfield, and the state-owned Hoosac Tunnel. Until the Troy & Greenfield was absorbed into the Fitchburg, and they were promptly cut off from their route into New York. Perhaps as something of a consolation prize, the Fitchburg let them share the B&M tracks up to Shelburne Falls, where a small turntable and enginehouse was located. The most notable feature on the line besides the staggering fills was probably the "high bridge" at South River in Conway, which was 175 feet above the south river at it's highest point. It was of light construction, and only itty bitty locomotives were allowed to cross it. It also connected with a tiny trolley line that ran from Conway center to the railroad stations in Conway. There is a lot of fun railroad history in this area, though the story of the bridge that was swept downstream and obliterated a few others is definitely up there with some of the best.

[@jediant1]

never knew my home city was flooded at one point. super interesting to hear about something from out here.

[@Admiral_Ellis]

Thank you so much for the additional information! If there's anything I learned when I was writing the script for this it's how little I knew of this whole event, and the history of Turner's Falls overall.

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

Well There's Your Problem. It's a podcast about engineering disasters. With slides. SIR! A SECOND RAILROAD HAS HIT THE VILLAGE! *train crashes into building and gets into ONE basement* He was going to build a railroad with BLACKJACK and HOOKERS. Would it have been worth a lime to say "Christ on a BOAT" ?

[@realcanadian67]

The bridge that kills you instantly

[@Admiral_Ellis]

I'm saving the Hoosac Tunnel story for WTYP

[@thestarlightalchemist7333]

​@@Admiral_Ellisif you manage to get on WTYP I'll probably scream

[@jbran7817]

@Hyce777 got a shoutout in their recent Patreon episode for his video on railroad clothing

[@LoPhatKao]

Justin threatened to do a bonus about train sim games (ep 156, about 34 min), if he does i hope Hyce is the guest

[@Mr_Camo]

People during the flood, " OH look. It's that rampaging train bridge that has already taken out 2 bridges." The next day, "well is gone down to river past a bridge that is intact."

[@MachRacer4]

We had a bridge here in Minnesota that went a bit further that had a railroad on top and road vehicles below with the ability to rotate to allow boat traffic to pass through. The old Newport, MN to Inver Grove Heights, MN Rock Island Swing Bridge.

[@michaelimbesi2314]

Wouldn’t mind a citation needed on the Hoosic Tunnel or maybe some of the other crazy railroad construction stories from here in the East. Rock over here can be pretty hard. When the Lackawanna was building its main line, it took so long to build the Oxford Tunnel that they built a rail route up and over Oxford Mountain in the meantime so that the railroad could open and ran it for a couple years until they finished the tunnel.

[@Admiral_Ellis]

I was going to write a Citation Needed on the Hoosac Tunnel but man is it just too depressing.

[@88porpoise]

@@Admiral_Ellis And here I thought it would just be too boring...

[@LunaGen-eh1ws]

I feel like the railroad bridge that went over the sea down here in Florida, is a whole citation needed episode and I'm quoting myself here "JUST FROM THE IDEA OF CONNECTING MAINLAND FLORIDA AND THE FLORIDA KEYS IS JUST STUPID ALL BY ITS FRAGGING SELF" and makes me hate some parts of the old ways of railroading in the east as a whole

[@calebrimer2870]

11:30 the stare, the stare that someone once in a blue moon gives you, the one that you never hope to see again, the stare that gives you a crisis of existentialism in a world where most people don't understand foamers or railfans. And what of the poor gator, flank forever blank, swimming down an endless river to...an unknowable destiny... Or something like that.

[@awildjared1396]

Okay so the bridge story taught me everything i need to know about engineering: build the heaviest damn decked truss bridge that's within the budget, or if i have annoying neighbors downstream, a long wooden covered bridge close to the water line.

[@ivanthevaluable2559]

1:51 Out of all the whistles there are in the world, Mark, who is an absolute expert in railroading, chooses to use the most common whistle sound effect in the world: the out of tune 5-chime from Canadian National 3254

[@JuneNafziger]

Not only an expert in railroading, he also knows a lot about whistles in particular

[@nielsleenknegt5839]

They should use some audio made from the museum's whistles

[@Admiral_Ellis]

It's also my text tone, which I'm surprised was never heard during filming. It's an easy stock sound to get ahold of.

[@88porpoise]

@@JuneNafziger At least this one. It was the stock "Train Whistle" sound effect used in multitudes of media. If you ask a random person to think of a train whistle, the 3254 is probably what they imagine.

[@clairekholin6935]

It should be a Huber 6 chime. . .

[@barrettwbenton]

We could rebrand this as "Drunk History: Railroading", and it would totally work. Tons of great stuff here, both eye-opening and gut-busting.

[@justat1149]

Is everyone gonna gloss over Jersey’s *FLAWLESS* Jorgen VonStrangle impression at 4:20! 😂😂😅

[@jerseycentral833]

FINALLY someone recognizes my real talent

[@nickaprill5427]

Oh my God! at 11:20 it had me dying of laughter 😂😂 Especially the look on Brett's face while he was pondering his life's decisions and then looking into the camera at future Mark or Brett with a annoyed stare

[@darylmorning]

39:28 Not one but TWO Major Kong parodies! EXCELLENT!

[@thatonecaledonian812]

“That’s gotta be the best pirate I’ve ever seen” “So it would seem…”

[@Banjogiga]

at 39:25 I can just imagine manger Kong riding the bridge flinging his hat around then just as it contacts the camera cuts to the bridge collision from on shore

[@mikefilipkowski5445]

First bridge went.. around the curve and slammed into another bridge which then slammed into another which then slammed into ANOTHER ONE.. Oh God. Its like the RGS Snowstorm with the engines

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

The dominoes keeps on falling...

[@TSMGL_Youtube]

The intro comedy is pure hyce gold as always 🤣

[@Admiral_Ellis]

Thank you so much for having me on! That's got to be one of my favorite stories and was an absolute blast to tell.

[@Ronald.Golleher]

DSLR died, but at least you got the thanks to Ellis in lol. What an amazing story of a bridge on a mission 😂

[@SternLX]

"Stop bridge on bridge violence!" Some protester from the Railroad in Turner Falls... probably.

[@LehrerFamilyWest]

I like the New Haven Paint scheme

[@JanTonovski]

I really like these stories on the 3/4 show. For one you hear a great story and secondly you are constantly laughing

[@spencerdodd3400]

Probably the most chaotic episode yet

[@lukemendel8197]

28:10 Hyce Johnson and his spicy limes to kenosha your house with.

[@TheInternationalHarvesterMan]

Ah yes Hyce aka Mark aka The funny bird train KZbin man

[@markhunt9568]

That was a great episode thank you very much! I asked you for a 3/4 show a few days ago and you came through huge I grew up right between the Franklin pierce bridge and the Deerfield train yard I spent many a great night with my first love on top of the Hoosic tunnel as trains rolled under us it was a great experience!

[@mateokuo7502]

Barely starting the video and I'm already like: this is gonna be good!

[@solarflare623]

You know what would go perfectly with the bridge going down the river? The theme of shy guy falls from Mario kart!

[@osageorangegaming5128]

This was classic! Loved Hyce's bit starting at 11:20 on the box of limes; thought "Oh My God, the Limening will occur at some point!" The tac lime showing at 37:15 was cool and its deployment against Hyce at the end was worth the wait. Also, cheers to both Ellis and Jersey for being sources of drama, especially Jersey and his *EXTERME* agony over the New Havens!

[@4ntig3n]

That was amazing, really enjoyed the story. Thanks for making it super entertaining, it really bridged the gap between factual and hilarious.

[@magnusaugust8489]

This is the canal version of "unstoppable"

[@ChrisCompson576]

You know you can run the cameras on power supplies or external batteries 🤣

[@Hyce777]

You know, I can, but I've not gotten to that level of kit yet. Lol. Evidently for the next season that's what I need to acquire.

[@brillbusbootcamp2320]

6213 Return to Golf!

[@MikuJess]

Well. That story sure went places. So did the bridge.

[@BNSFandSP]

I worked on a streetcar line for a while and at one point we were adding another track to our barn, which required closing the road out front. We had to move the signage to allow the streetcars into the barn, and twice an entitled motorist gunned it before the sign was replaced, landing in the hole where the pavement was removed (about 3 feet deep). I think we ended up using the crane from the construction site next door to hoist them out.

[@SteamfanScott]

Love these series, such good fun learning about railroading history.

[@hurinironfoot6865]

Hell yeah! Return of my favorite show! These are always bangers. Keep up the good work lads

[@Skynd303]

Dude... buddy... man.... homie.... whatever you wanna call yourself. I love these videos!!! Thanks for all of your videos Mark! Need to try to coordinate another Jeopardy video!!

[@cameronrodgers6480]

I still like when Hyce sent jersey into the house track lol

[@LunaGen-eh1ws]

It's the fact that this whole story didn't happen in my home-state of Florida is what making die of laughter as this whole story sounds like a Floridian railroading story

[@rdreher7380]

Western NY was very much "the west" at one point. We even had Buffalo! (That's where the city got its name!). However, Albany was never "the west." Albany is the longest chartered city in America, has been around since New Netherland times, it was no frontier in the early 18th century. Anything west of Albany though? Specifically west of Schenectady: that was Iroquois Country. That was a frontier to the Americans.

[@avobot9705]

Was watching 3/4 Show as this episode came out. Can't wait for more! Best funny Train Birb

[@Whistlestop_Productions]

19:50 Now I know Jersey's biggest fear LOL 😂😂😂

[@wilfstor3078]

Which is unfortunate cause for some reason I actually like the NH... If I'm ever stateside I assume the two of us would have an epic argument...

[@thetoontrain473]

ALAMOSA! Durango weather report: It is currently snowing and got a lot so far. Snow came a little late this year and more is coming

[@mitch95722]

Relatively new here but you sold me with history did not start until they started brewing Coors 😂😂 PA native

[@maxwellsteam5810]

i can't unhear the "alla mom sas", thanks cs189.

[@Ian-qs3fz]

me too😂😂

[@dark_one1337]

It's the Christmas/Hogmany Bonus Special episode with special guest.

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

Oh god, they're expanding the idiots, with some of the best standin's we could have asked for... The bar has been raised, above the flood line... Beautifully edited Hyce, thank you for your extra effort for this episode! Excellent host work by Ellis, I'm gobsmacked! Jersey completed the cast in ¾ idiots spirits like a fresh cog that just slipped in without any hassle, kudos! Last, but definitely not least, Brett handles anything like a seasoned veteran, excellent performance! I cannot overstate this, what an amazing group of people you've found together with Hyce, everyone is just such delightful company! Thank you all for this episode, absolutely marvelous! P.s. Perhaps time to look for alternatives in battery management or other solutions for the camera issues?

[@Admiral_Ellis]

Thank you!

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

@@Admiral_Ellis Well deserved praise of you and your preparation, thank you for the reply and I hope we here get more of your company, even after the not yet released 2nd episode of season 3.5 that Hyce eluded to in the latest office hours episode.

[@PowerTrain611]

I want my brain cells back. Both of them.

[@chicagolandrailroader]

Covered bridges are so very quaint and charming. (Becomes the most dangerous waterbound vessel known to man)

[@eafd270]

3:26, 4:08, 17:31, 40:55 made me laugh the most! This is probably my favorite so far!

[@jbran7817]

Sir we have tactically ascertained a bridge-like suspect travelling downriver

[@KennethFowler-d5x]

Hi local resident of NH (just north of the MA border) and i would just like to say WHAT IN ALVA CROCKERS MIND DID HE THINK LOWELL WAS A "GOOD" CITY. Thank for the great content Hyce keep up the good work!

[@pontushaggstrom6261]

the top gear intro got me good

[@JasontheFolf]

35:09 It is likely that those hopper cars were loaded with scrap, since the Boston and Maine weighed down the bridge in Northampton with hoppers loaded with scrap

[@RibbonRailProfuctions]

Didn’t expect to see Jersey here, nice to see him, hope he’s doing okay from his accident

[@SDE1994]

Im guessing this was filmed before the crash

[@jerseycentral833]

The recovery is going well, this was filmed back in September, before the accident.

[@RibbonRailProfuctions]

@@jerseycentral833 gotcha, glad you’re still with us Jersey ❤️

[@haxorouse3265]

for context on why the Appalachians can still make it hell to put a railroad through, old age and treachery beats youth and skill, the Appalachians make the Rockies look like baby mountains, they're some of the oldest mountains on the planet, old enough to be the same mountain range as the Scottish Highlands which then got separated by the new Atlantic ocean, as a result any rock with any modicum of softness or give to it was eroded literally hundreds of millions of years ago, so Appalachian greenstone makes Rocky mountain granite look like shale, it's some of the toughest rock out there, as a result digging through it with anything short of a modern TBM is just a nightmare, which is why you never see long tunnels at low elevations out here, they were just next to impossible to dig for most of the time we were actually building railroads

[@Hyce777]

Small, but strong. Makes sense! :)

[@tomstech4390]

Citation needed (not 2 of these are lying) is my favourite and I will watch them all repeatedly.

[@BandanRRChannel]

Poor Ellis...all that work on traffic management plans and it was undone... Also, yes, 722' sounds impressive for a bridge, but it's pretty small compared to what you see out here. I'll give some credit for the 5 mile tunnel, there's not many longer than that (but they include Cascade Tunnel, Flathead Tunnel, and Moffat Tunnel).

[@The_Pennsy]

It's unstoppable, the BRIDGE VERSION!🤣🤣

[@StefsEngineering]

I have to say, as a fellow nerd I do enjoy references. For example the reference to Cave Johnson's legendary speech @ 28:10

[@nicholmansgarage3501]

Another great episode!!!! Id say its on par with the RGS's mountain mayhem, or at the very least close to it.

[@applicablerobot]

Yay! Been wanting a new 3/4 idiots episode for a while

[@CristiNeagu]

Oh, your house? The magical place whence the explodiboy destruction issues forth.

[@crazyguy32100]

A suggestion just in case Hyce-the-editor doesn't abhor post enough. When someone gets a point I think highlighting who got it (different color font for the new number maybe) might be an idea.

[@Jopsyduck]

I commented early on the uncensored version that my body was ready, it was not. EDIT 8 months later: The Oklahoma Railway Museum also runs through (or at least into) a golf course.

[@mr.browser5941]

DAMN WHAT AN INTRO!!!!

[@DC4260Productions]

I'm not surprised to see that foam limes are a thing now.

[@ThatE4]

The pilot episode of season 4

[@Tkmined]

"Sir! Theres a covered bridge coming!"

[@Dan_Gyros]

Mr President the bridge has hit a second bridge!

[@justaguycalledjosh]

Huh, it's funny how much my KZbin interests cross over. I'm familiar with the Hoosick tunnel thanks to some of the videos from Post10 Which is also how I know that tunnel is probably going to either be the site of big maintenance or an accident, and there's a nearby river that's currently subsiding the retaining walls and carving into the ground beneath the track.

[@fishbait6405]

Omg this video took the bridge to the bridge and beyond

[@sambrown6426]

Ngl, you look so much like Jersey that I thought you were brothers.

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

Hyce, can we buy squishy limes somewhere? I didn't see them on the merch store, but I'd honestly really like a squishy ES&D lime.

[@tomstech4390]

Sailing a bridge reminds me of " the last saskatoon pirate"

[@mczg4954]

from where is that clip? 3:31 - 3:55 I cant find it, I wasnt able to find it, I may wasnt able to watch recent content (streams and vids) but I couldnt find it

[@DRRP]

Hyce stream Dec 7th 2023

[@andrewreynolds4949]

It’s in the railroader stream on the VRA’s operating session

[@mczg4954]

@@DRRP thx

[@WolfGamerBohumin]

A livestream from Railroader called "GIANT ops session in Railroader with Virtual Railroader Academy & MORE!" @46:18.

[@erichd9460]

It’s from the first big Railroader ops session stream where Kasey was running CTC. Title is something like “Giant Railroader OPs Session”

[@bmtrains4466]

I grew up around turners falls and my favorite place around there hoosic tunnel it was dubbel track then in the 50s they turned it into singel and made Adims into a booming city

[@polarvortex6496]

THAT THUMBNAIL IS A-FUCKING-PLUS

[@Hyce777]

Wings & Strings, everyone. :)

[@00Zy99]

I'm noticing that you are talking about how you can't build a railroad on the exact route of a canal. About that...... You might want to do an episode on the Cromford and High Peak Railway in Britain. As one of the first railroads in the world, there weren't too many people who knew how to build "railroad". And it was really only supposed to be a portage between two canals, anyways. So the guy that they hired was a canal engineer. And he built the railroad in the shape (alignment-wise) of a canal. The result was even more insane than you think it was. It had Britain's steepest adhesion grade and sharpest curve. And a multitude of rope/cable inclines (the adhesion grade was an incline that they decided they could run engines up-without changing the slope). The REALLY strange thing? Large parts of it lasted into the 1960s, including some of the cable inclines. Even today, a very tiny stretch is still active and serving a quarry.

[@austinniederjohn9813]

When brett fell, if i would have pushed him and innocently asked, "it falls like that?"

[@300poundbassman]

Hello guys,hate math. Anyway. Love this series. How is GJersy get well soon. Take care guys❤.

[@Tsukunea]

My 6'7" partner was the tallest man in Colorado until moving out last February

[@thehighiron]

27:13 Brett is very upset at the fact that there aren’t forks in this story

[@steeljawX]

I mean a few things about this. Number one, I've successfully retroactively infiltrated Hyce's house/train/train-house......abode. He welcomed me at the beginning meaning mission complete. Second, Hyce, did you know that the original Takeshi's Castle game show in Japan got a reboot? Back in May of last year, they got a new cast (since you know 30 years can be cruel to people) but they are doing the same kind of ridiculous things WITH medical crew on site this time. You KNOW that means MXC is scheduled for a reboot soon. How did the canal run? Downhill. But imagine being those indentured servants that spent years digging out that canal to have that yokel come in telling you, "Fill it back up and this time put this wood and iron on top of it." The Canal Line needed a bridge......I didn't know they ran the canal over the river to the point where they needed a bridge. Remember, you said they can only build where the canal was. "New England's confusing." Old England's confusing as well, you know. I thing you can just sum it up as (Insert adjective here) England is confusing. So what I'm getting at is that this bridge was not the tallest, or widest bridge across the Connecticut, but it sure was the fastest, traveled the furthest, under technicalities spanned the longest distances (not simultaneously), and had the highest KTD ratio on the water?

[@KuptisOriginal]

Wow! Good true story. Y'all need to do this more often. NIce video although you need cameras that like you.

[@TheMostUt]

Betty Crocker elicited a drive-by liming. Totally NOT what I expected Jersey to look like....lol I imagined a Guido, for some reason. My cameras don't die, my audio just hates me, lol.

[@quinnwilson755]

01:50 Anyone know how to lip-read?

[@bobross4449]

19:50 LMFAO

[@lukethecrazyhillbilly6901]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂hahahahahah

[@skeleton_craftGaming]

Did the canal need a bridge? Was definitely deservant of a lime.

[@Fuzzypattyg]

Hey Mark you should check out the Lombard log hauler the dude who built it invented tracked vehicles

[@Fuzzypattyg]

It's also a bit of a movie star it featured in a homemade film called stump to ship which was the last shipment of lumber shipped out by a Lumber Company in Maine my home state too bad the town I live in only has five people

[@jamesTBurke]

You should do a bit about the railroad that used to go to greenville NH

[@LiamMcfarlane-wi4ht]

11:33 he looks so disappointed

[@LiamMcfarlane-wi4ht]

Bret looks 11:33 so disappointed

[@suprisex4999]

I feel like we missed A few minutes of the video, is this the abridged version?