Thanks to user Anonymous60103 for this video idea! If you're interested in or want to support the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, here's their website: www.lynton-rail.co.uk/ Here's what I think is the L&B's older website with the story about Lew: www.lynton-rail.org.uk/page/mystery-lew
@daniloaventurero250911 ай бұрын
As an argentinan i can confirm that "Lew" isnt here. The only locomotoive that we have is "Camila" that still works on a preserved railway, BUT from an friend from my country it says that maybe he could be in a logging station in Argentina al trought is not confirmed. If anyone can contact whit the railway please tell this information so this loco atleast can be repaired or found.
@rambling_railfan11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the credit lad (Edit: My username has changed)!
@844SteamFan10 ай бұрын
If you want another interesting story of a narrow gauge locomotive, check out the OZRR’s “Riva” (Omaha Zoo Railroad). It was built in the 1890’s in Austria for an Italian railway, then went into military service during WWI, worked on an industrial railway in Poland before being used in military service again during WWII, ending up in service on the Romanian State Railways (CFR) before being sold to a company that later donated it to the Omaha Zoo in the 1970’s iirc. It’s been operating there since.
@jackthebassplayer1884 ай бұрын
@@daniloaventurero2509 Hey I work at the railway do you know the name of the logging station?
@user-fj6qb1ij4i11 ай бұрын
Someone is going to fall through an over grown shed roof onto Lew's smokebox, and his friend is going to write it into a book.
@anf_8310_ab11 ай бұрын
Thomas Trainz channel writers: Write that down! Write that down!
@4fproductions63711 ай бұрын
Tbf, Awdry already did that with Duke in some regard.
@AfterPartyGoer11 ай бұрын
@@4fproductions637it’s ttte fans, in their eyes, it HAS to be Rws canon and NEEDS ONE historical based event
@mr.oliver_1111 ай бұрын
Too late (it kinda feels like Luke’s story in BMM
@ZstackZip11 ай бұрын
NOW THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR ME
@SomewhereTug10 ай бұрын
I Could be wrong, but i heard somewhere that "Duke The Lost Engine" is based in a story of a Brazilian Loco that stayed 30 years in a forest, forgotten.
@Cnw870111 ай бұрын
Lew most certainly isn't the only "ghost engine". There's dozens more American diesels that disappeared in Brazil, namely Dash 7s and Dash 8s.
@danielferrovias11 ай бұрын
Well... Their service life ended there
@Nictrain12311 ай бұрын
Nevada County Narrow Gauge #9 was definitely the US version of “Lew”….
@daniloaventurero250911 ай бұрын
As an argentinan i can confirm that "Lew" isnt here. The only locomotive that is similiar that we have is "Camila" that still works on a preserved railway, BUT from an friend from my country it says that maybe he could be in a logging station in Argentina al trought is not confirmed. If anyone can contact whit the railway please tell this information so this loco atleast can be repaired or found.
@mlp-hot-rod582411 ай бұрын
Any idea whereabouts in Argentina this logging station is/was? Any known names of nearby towns?
@daniloaventurero250911 ай бұрын
@@mlp-hot-rod5824unfortanley, no
@Mason5865411 ай бұрын
Kudos. 🇦🇷 Argentinian steam locomotives were very handsome and often British-looking. Many were broad gauge (5’ 6”).
@daniloaventurero250911 ай бұрын
@@Mason58654 yes but we have some narrow gauge railways,
@OntarioTrafficMan11 ай бұрын
Do all Argentinians know the location of all of the locomotives in Argentina at all times?
@nathancorcoran534711 ай бұрын
Great video of this missing locomotive. I have been thinking of these missing steam locomotives. There are some three Santa Fe steam locomotives that became missing in the Kaw (Kansas) River since July 13th 1951 which are 1035, 3167, and 4076.
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
Nice idea but as a L&B enthusiast I have several issues: It did NOT connect to the Devon and Somerset Railway. The L&B was decently popular but the line was only surviving due to Holiday Traffic
@eryhv11 ай бұрын
I actually saw Lyd at the Ffestiniog this last summer! I just hope that whatever happened to Lew, his current whereabouts would be confirmed
@bussesandtrains12187 ай бұрын
she's probably in your razor blades
@TheWinnipegRailfan11 ай бұрын
I stole Lew, I used it's metal for parts to rebuild an MLW S13, sowwy ! X3
@TheATFSux8 ай бұрын
It's okay, I can understand.
@Axo-1254 ай бұрын
It's not okay, i dont understand
@Axo-1252 ай бұрын
@user-ty3he1lu6g you just cant understand sarcasm dont you?
@ajaxengineco11 ай бұрын
An LBSCR 'terrier' was sold to the La Plata tramway in Argentina - it definitely made it there, and was observed, but not identified, at work in 1920. Nobody knows what did become of her.
@nicolasmaximus22868 ай бұрын
Somebody has it on film.🎬😎
@bussesandtrains12187 ай бұрын
before someone gets exited, its been 100 years and nothing came of her she would have already been 50 years old, so there's pretty much no chance of her survival
@themanformerlyknownascomme77711 ай бұрын
holy... I was just looking at a bunch of stuff about the L&B! what a coincidence. Although it is more likely then not that Lew has been scrapped, it always is a nice thought that the Engine is still out there and could be found and restored to run on the reopened line.
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
If it is found, more likely than not it won’t be restored as to try and preserved the originality of it
@terryaltherr24819 ай бұрын
This is really interesting since I remember learning about the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway from Chris Eden-Green's Gauging The Issue episode "Defining Disneyfication" so it's interesting to see the history of the line and how it's biggest mystery still fascinates rail fans to this day.
@sinalverde389111 ай бұрын
Lew may be lost here in Brazil to this day, after all, the list of locomotives that disappeared here is relatively long lol
@nottelling812911 ай бұрын
Okay, I have this crazy Mandela effect, I could’ve sworn that Lew was preserved with Lyd at the ffestiniog.
@daniloaventurero250911 ай бұрын
As an argentinan i can confirm that "Lew" isnt here. The only locomotoive that we have is "Camila" that still works on a preserved railway, BUT from an friend from my country it says that maybe he could be in a logging station in Argentina al trought is not confirmed. If anyone can contact whit the railway please tell this information so this loco atleast can be repaired or found.
@intercity-mq6qv11 ай бұрын
The Ffestiniog only have the 1 maning wardel at the moment, tho I believe there may be plans to make more locos of the type
@mattlander911911 ай бұрын
@@intercity-mq6qvthere are active plans to rebuild 3 Manning Wardles eventually.
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
yes the L&B have a project to recreate more
@jackthebassplayer1884 ай бұрын
@@daniloaventurero2509 Hey I volunteer at the L&BR do you know the name of the logging station? kind regards Jack.
@catapultking886111 ай бұрын
A lot of stuff that goes beyond the border of Mexico and the US is typically never found or seen again. A Pair of D&RGW Mudhens also went down and I don’t believe anyone got a final fate for those either. Plantations Railways seemed to be the last known places we see a lot of stuff. Sad but a way of life really.
@Dallen911 ай бұрын
If Lew ever went to Argentina then Lew is long gone. Probably got cut up the day that the last locomotives of the Uintah Railway were "accidentally" cut up.
@jbf19kd10 ай бұрын
Do more locomotive disappearances!
@ThompsonSteamtrain11 ай бұрын
Fun fact, James, May run oo gauge trains from Barnstable to Biddeford.
@user-fj3iv4ct3s11 ай бұрын
Britain had an engine named "Exe".... The more you learn
@dominicbarden443611 ай бұрын
It was named after the River Exe in Somerset and Devon, which flows through Exmoor and through towns such as Exeter and Exmouth among others.
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
yeah and Yeo, Taw, and Lyn were also locos on the L&B
@sericsmith577011 ай бұрын
Watching your channel is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get!
@Jetthehawk199410 ай бұрын
This may sound crazy, but maybe the ship Lew was on sank in a storm and that's why there's no record if it arriving in Brazil.
@adventuresofamtrakcascades3013 ай бұрын
Ooho then maybe Lew is probably under the sea somewhere..
@rf615e11 ай бұрын
Great video. Actually in Argentina a full scale 1000mm gauge locomotive dissapeared.
@martinchalimoniuk35479 ай бұрын
Which one?
@JohnDavies-cn3ro11 ай бұрын
Some years ago one of the magazines ran a spoof story for their April issue, that Lew had indeed been found. Quite a few readers were taken in by it!
@paulkidger11 ай бұрын
This appeals to our fantasy of finding dinosaurs grazing in a hidden valley deep in a jungle somewhere.
@rutanjelly62711 ай бұрын
Lew: Noooo! I don't want to go to Brazil!
@eggballo449011 ай бұрын
We need to put lost engine posters all over South America.
@Danominator10 ай бұрын
Loved your uses of random game and media footage in this. The Paper Mario bit was pretty funny! 🤣
@cablecar3683Ай бұрын
"It's weird to have something as big as a locomotive disappear, right?" Ships: "Sure....."
@POTC_Oscarandfriens11 ай бұрын
it would be great if they find Lew's remains. unless it was scrapped.
@geronimo55373 ай бұрын
I watched an urban explorer go through an abandoned mansion property in the UK last year. It had one of these engines in a barn along with several train cars matching the track gauge. I doubt it was lew, though its possible it ended up in some collection.
@ewelinanajgebauer88622 ай бұрын
Link? Or atleast title?? I saw a video similar to that, but i never saw a Lew-lookalike.
@Honeydwarf8511 ай бұрын
Similar thing happened to a few terriers tank engines sent to south America. No one really knows what happened to em
@PitofTrogness11 ай бұрын
One such case is Thames, who after being sold to La Plata Tramways in 1909, vanished from the face of the earth
@Mason5865411 ай бұрын
@0:37 Great 👍 Video! Lyn is my favorite L&BR locomotive. 🇺🇸
@jackthebassplayer1884 ай бұрын
Thanks! I Volunteer up there and my dad is a fireman on Lyn.
@owenmccarthy252111 ай бұрын
Can’t forget about ATSF 4076 if you wanna talk about missing locomotives
@daniloaventurero250911 ай бұрын
As an argentinan i can confirm that "Lew" isnt here. The only locomotoive that we have is "Camila" that still works on a preserved railway, BUT from an friend from my country it says that maybe he could be in a logging station in Argentina al trought is not confirmed. If anyone can contact whit the railway please tell this information so this loco atleast can be repaired or found.
@Chessie-Steam-Special10 ай бұрын
There is a Roblox game called the Wedgeford Abby Light Railway and there is a reference to Lew in the form of another loco called Loo, built in 1925 by Men In Wardrobe Co, she worked on a line that was soon closed, then bought by Schieferbahn(Woodworks) which is another game, brought by ship named J Archer she was brought in Poppadon Docks then working at the Woodworks and now remains in a corner of the area hidden by trees. Side note: Both Lew and Loo share the same design along with the rest kf the southern narrow gauge
@ImmortalAbsol11 ай бұрын
A real ghost train for October.
@SCFR_Guest511 ай бұрын
Maybe the ship sank before it came to brasil?
@harrisonallen65111 ай бұрын
The Sad Story of Lew
@gianstyle713111 ай бұрын
Only 1 weak we have 6 steam locomotives missing
@burlingtonfan749210 ай бұрын
this would probably be the most anticlimactic possibility, but maybe Lew was dumped off the ship it was on, hence never making it to Brazil? the ship apparently didn’t sink, and it could’ve been deliberately rolled off the boat to reduce weight in very rough seas, it was a common practice among sailors then
@ewelinanajgebauer88622 ай бұрын
I don't think they would, otherwise there'd be records, or an angry letter from the buyer about the whereabouts of his loco.
@SomewhereTug11 ай бұрын
I'm Brazilian And i Doesn't know about this Loco! Now i know about it! I'm From Bahia, a State in Brazil, next to Pernambuco!
@stephenchappell751210 ай бұрын
Best part by far 🌴
@IEATUO6 ай бұрын
Lew is in service with Thomas and friends running daily to over rainbow bridge
@SP4449Railfan11 ай бұрын
Nice video 👍. Nice spooky ending 👻.
@nathancorcoran534711 ай бұрын
I don’t think it’s best to say this and keep talking about it too much.
@Tom-Lahaye11 ай бұрын
A good story about Lew so far, would be great if the story doesn't end here. But many standard gauge locomotives of countries in West Europe disappeared during WW2, being taken by the Germans for the efforts on the eastern front. They took them even when there was not a real use for them, like electric train sets from the Netherlands when there was no catenary using 1500V DC east of the Netherlands. And while some locomotives and rolling stock would return after the war ended, those left on Soviet controlled territory often disappeared without a trace, being damaged during the war or used for a few years after and finally scrapped. One time during a visit of Ukraine 20 years ago I spotted a box van with the Dutch railways initials on the axle boxes, it was of a type built for Dutch railways and rebuilt to a staff van for a high ranked person after the war, now it sits in a railway museum in Kiev when I recall it right. In 1945 it may have been listed as lost or unknown destination by the Dutch railways, it certainly was not sold to the Soviets.
@stephenchappell751210 ай бұрын
Anything in the service of Germany would have been considered fair game as reparations by the Soviets
@caboosech11 ай бұрын
Great videos
@Kaidhicksii11 ай бұрын
Honestly the idea of a locomotive going missing isn't all that far-fetched to me. From what it sounds like, there was no record of the ship carrying Lew going down, so I think we can rule out being lost at sea. In all likelihood, wherever the engine ended up, he was probably scrapped at some point, but I would be very pleasantly surprised if somehow someway, he's still out there somewhere.
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
The ship did sink, but during WW2 and its unlikely Lew is still onboard
@KatyPacific38211 ай бұрын
0:02 that's a big boi I like soo line 1003👍
@lionelmarytravels60033 ай бұрын
One of life's little mysteries.
@superjesse64511 ай бұрын
My only other theory is that Lew probably fell off the ship, which might be why it was never recorded as reaching Brazil.
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
The records were destroyed in WW2 bombing
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
and I think we probably would have known if that did happen and its unlikely it would have been on top deck
@danielferrovias9 ай бұрын
@@pacermanthefan but brazil was never bombed
@pacermanthefan9 ай бұрын
@@danielferrovias the records were in the UK.
@Trainboy1711 ай бұрын
All Locomotives Continue
@Ty-yt3lj11 ай бұрын
Oh Christmas came early tonight boys
@johnarnehansen957411 ай бұрын
This one deserves to be rebuilt!..
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
It has
@stephenchappell751210 ай бұрын
under a different name
@Sleepyatmost11 ай бұрын
Great Video once again Jared have you ever thought that the ship ever sank while it was being transported?
@chrishartley455311 ай бұрын
Would there not be a record of that sinking. Or at least the ship not arriving at its destination?
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
The ship did sink, but during WW2 and its unlikely Lew is still onboard
@bussesandtrains12187 ай бұрын
@@pacermanthefan very, very unlikely
@pacermanthefan7 ай бұрын
@@bussesandtrains1218 exaxtly
@SalmanMentos11 ай бұрын
Wouldve been a good trainz thomas story
@Davidstrains205611 ай бұрын
What if Lew broke down and was later sent to be scrapped?
@whitemountainproductions11 ай бұрын
Could the locomotive possibly been lost at sea
@andrewyoung74911 ай бұрын
no, the ship arrived safely. it was however later a ww2 loss i believe.
@whitemountainproductions11 ай бұрын
Could it have fallen off the ship during transport
@firstnamlastnam214111 ай бұрын
@@whitemountainproductions There's nothing saying it did
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
It did sink but during the war and it is incredibly unlikely it was still on board then or lost at sea on its way to argentina
@firstnamlastnam214110 ай бұрын
@@pacermanthefan and there's no way it took 4-10 years to get all the way there.
@lia_heeler11 ай бұрын
"A few years later"
@MorrisHillmanProductionsАй бұрын
It's also plausible that the ship 'Lew' was on sunk.
@frglee9 ай бұрын
Also in North Devon, the Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway, which closed in 1917, also 'lost' two of it's small standard guage tank locomotives, Grenville and Torridge, after they were requisitioned and shipped to France for war duties. The ship was torpedoed of the North Cornish coast and sank. The location was lost until 2001, when divers discovered the wreck with the locomotives, which may be brought back to the surface one day for static displays. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5PLq3qlg9ejiq8
@kingck10111 ай бұрын
my company lost a king air once
@kingfisher148711 ай бұрын
I know reading the book on the L&B that oakwood press did that the ship carrying lew did stop off at my home city Swansea before carrying on.
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
Lew was actually loaded at Swansea!
@killerbees17711 ай бұрын
Here's a theory. What if the train never made it to the port. What if train enthusiasts saved it and it never left the UK
@TeardropLabs11 ай бұрын
“That’s a nice argument, Senator, but why don’t you back that up with a source?!”
@Kaidhicksii11 ай бұрын
@@TeardropLabs Yeah, I heavily doubt that one too. If such a thing happened, surely everybody would know about it.
@mattlander911911 ай бұрын
@@KaidhicksiiWell there was a 16" Hunslet that was thought to be scrapped in the UK and was found after a number of years. Not impossible but not very likely in Lew's case
@bobross444911 ай бұрын
@@TeardropLabsthe source I made it the *bleep* (kids might be in the comments) up
@curlyfriez_270910 ай бұрын
@@mattlander9119I happen to work on said 16” hunslet…
@F40M0711 ай бұрын
I think it might of fallen off of the ship carrying her to Brazil
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
It did sink but during the war and it is incredibly unlikely it was still on board then or lost at sea on its way to argentina
@loganfrancel927511 ай бұрын
Hey! Any way you could do a story on utah's interurbans?
@ctvalleyrailfan11 ай бұрын
Hey Amtrakguy365
@chessiejohnproductions11 ай бұрын
I heard of that story
@Negropelado10 ай бұрын
Would you do a viedo talking about CS trains (all games including CS2) please
@Daniel-hj8el11 ай бұрын
What about the Full History if Electric Interurban Railway to the present day in the US can you do that?
@stanleepatterson9511 ай бұрын
Do something on the toledo 8. The 8 gp35 some employees stole off of the dt&i
@xgcskiman7 ай бұрын
Anyone else hear the Super Mario theme in the background during the first part of the video?
@adventuresofamtrakcascades30110 ай бұрын
Grandpuff in real life everyone.
@saptaksarkar3046811 ай бұрын
Charger when ?
@Hozy78010 ай бұрын
I pray she still alive
@OfficialTrainzGod11 ай бұрын
I stole him He’s in America, he was in ALCO before he was sold off to your moms house
@4-8-4Northern28 күн бұрын
I used Lew to rebuild NKP 765 💀
@JVMonge11 ай бұрын
Have you searched the Island of Sodor yet?
@kupferbergbahn795211 ай бұрын
I remember someone at the L&B back in 2018 telling me they'd found evidence that Lew was probably scrapped. Annoyingly, I wasn't told anymore because the man was attending to other visitors. So I didn't get told anything else about it. Personally, I reckon Lew was scrapped. The locomotive, is pretty large and has a long rigid wheelbase, as far as narrow gauge locomotives go. So I doubt it'd be much use on a railway in Brazil with tight turns and rough track, not to mention the maintenance.
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
no one really knows
@davidmolin894411 ай бұрын
It would be really funny If lew was still running today but just very well hidden from the public
@certifiedcitydestroyer11 ай бұрын
Lew more than likely, if didnt it didnt make it to brazil, was sunk.
@pacermanthefan10 ай бұрын
The ship did sink but during WW2
@-vf4hq6 ай бұрын
I will say but I think the locomotive Lew was exchanged to the Ffestiniog railway in the Cambrian mountains it’s in wales that runs from Porthmadog to other places and they changed the name and it’s close to Lew as it has the same looking looks and paint so it’s there if you want to know as it got exchanged there👍🏻
@jimmypetrock11 ай бұрын
Welp, how did I get here?
@nathancorcoran534711 ай бұрын
Don’t ask like that please.
@jimmypetrock11 ай бұрын
@@nathancorcoran5347 aight
@Jeisr4207-bc5ui10 ай бұрын
@@nathancorcoran5347 cry about it
@MattTheAllertor12511 ай бұрын
Ohhhh thats strange. No steam locomotive disappears O_O
@thomaswatkiss948411 ай бұрын
Me buy a model and recreate it
@ThatoneFloridianrailfanguy11 ай бұрын
First person here!
@TheGs4_444911 ай бұрын
Ooooooooooo spoopy 👻🚂 :O
@TheGs4_444911 ай бұрын
@@nathancorcoran5347 ok
@TheGs4_444911 ай бұрын
@@nathancorcoran5347 ok :(
@danielferrovias11 ай бұрын
Lew was probably scrapped... Oh well...
@danielferrovias11 ай бұрын
Also, the only "Lew" we know about is the Diesel Hydraulic locomotive, made by germany
@amtrak211511 ай бұрын
First: I’m sorry, I had to
@Orangeshirt_Railfan11 ай бұрын
First
@tonyknoweverything176411 ай бұрын
Accept Jesus as your lord and savior ❤❤❤
@inherentmirth518011 ай бұрын
Spamming the comment section of a locomotive video. You're a real winner...
@Aaron-uf3sl10 ай бұрын
piss off dude stop forcing your religious beliefs on people