Lets build a railway! *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it *Derails* Aw dang it
@DangerAngelous7 ай бұрын
Derails Aw dang it
@AlexKivikoski7 ай бұрын
@@DangerAngelous Explodes Aw shit
@yeoldeseawitch7 ай бұрын
TOT trying to build anything in RR Online with mike & river:
@ivanthevaluable25597 ай бұрын
Hyce in a nutshell
@marcusthetenderengine6997 ай бұрын
*Derails* A W D A N G I T
@G-Cole-017 ай бұрын
Bradford & Foster Brook Make "Worst Railway Ever," Asked To Leave Reality Itself
@thomasandladyfriend7 ай бұрын
i thought the title meant UK bradford for a second and i was like "yeh, that sounds right"
@dieseldragon67567 ай бұрын
The UK had its own version built at Aldershot about five years prior, and - By all accounts - That was quite a bit more successful than the Bradford/Forster railway shown here! 😇
@JohnDavies-cn3ro7 ай бұрын
@@dieseldragon6756 There were other 'monorail' ideas in the late 1890s, mostly for military and agricultural use which were also successful - indeed the idea has never gone away, as you can still find them in European vine yards on steep sloping hills.
@paulkornbluh63037 ай бұрын
Penn Central: Finally! A worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!
@dieseldragon67567 ай бұрын
I watched a reactions vid before this one and that made me chuckle, but your comment just made me laugh the house down! 🚂🇺🇸💯🤣 (I will have to apologise to my neighbours, though. Local time here is about 05:00... 🕔🇬🇧😳)
@iankemp11317 ай бұрын
The strange thing is that this looks quite a promising idea. The explosion was due to letting the boiler run dry which is a basic operating error which could happen on any railway. The Baldwin engine shown at the end with a single large central boiler should be better than the two mini-boilers if the track can take the weight. Both this and the Lartigue system were certainly quick and cheap to build, though it sounds as if this one had too lightly constructed rails - a problem dating back to Trevithick (but solved in the 1820s).
@xela41837 ай бұрын
Did you just say "Booming business?" Well, booming railway for a booming business...
@protogenxl7 ай бұрын
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, bona fide Electrified, six-car monorail What'd I say?
@justinwilliam65347 ай бұрын
I get it this real life event is almost like in the monorail episode of the Simpsons.
@ConstantlyDamaged7 ай бұрын
_Monorail! Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!_
@Jemental7 ай бұрын
Mono..... D'oh!
@antonio4ballondor307 ай бұрын
Wonder if that Simpsons episode took some light inspiration from this story
@ivanthevaluable25597 ай бұрын
Monorail! What's it called? Monorail! That's right! Monorail!
@RobSchofield7 ай бұрын
@ 3:45 = a treat! We get a stereoscopic picture as well!
@lukechristmas39516 ай бұрын
If a railway is only going to exist for a year, then visual aids of it will be extremely hard to come by. Man, I don't think saying it was all bad luck will cut it some slack here. Your channel highlights the many drawbacks of monorails throughout history but this one is borderline ridiculous.
@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer19337 ай бұрын
0:15 Bradford County is not where the town of Bradford itself is located, Bradford itself is actually in McKean County.
@JohnDavies-cn3ro7 ай бұрын
Fascinating - I for one had never heard of this little railway before. The Irish line is legendary over here in GB - indeed, part of it has been recreated, and a sister railway (near enough) was built in France. Unfortunately that one disgraced itself before being opened, and so never ran. I wonder if Mr Latrigue had heard of this US line at all?
@iankemp11317 ай бұрын
Lartigue came about 10 years later so maybe learnt from this line's mistakes. The supports look more robustly constructed on his system.
@AdamHinckley7 ай бұрын
2:35 those trains looks like the ones that are in ireland that The Tim Traveller made an video on
@iankemp11317 ай бұрын
Yes, that's the Lartigue system mentioned a couple of times in this video - the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway. That was rather more successful, with the original lasting for 36 years (1888-1924).
@AdamHinckley7 ай бұрын
@@iankemp1131 it was at Listowel that The Tim Traveller went to, you just reminded me about it to look where Tim went on his video
@iankemp11317 ай бұрын
@@AdamHinckley Exactly. I remember reading about the Listowel line many years ago and thinking what a pity it was that it hadn't preserved, it would have made a great tourist attraction. Well the locals clearly thought the same and recreated the line from scratch on part of its original route, building new engines and rolling stock. Kudos to them! I hope to visit it some day.
@MatthewChenault7 ай бұрын
On an unrelated note, Brigadier General Roy Stone had been removed from command during the Battle of the Wilderness after his horse fell on him. However, many presumed he was drunk during the battle. This would not be the first nor the last time a Union Brigadier General would be drunk during a battle.
@connormclernon267 ай бұрын
Ledley at the Battle of the Crater?
@MatthewChenault7 ай бұрын
@@connormclernon26, also at North Anna.
@cleanerben96367 ай бұрын
yeah but Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook had a monorail and by gum it put them on the map!
@Jeff_Faust7 ай бұрын
There was a lot of oil-boom money in northern Pennsylvania in the 1870s. Some of it got spent on stupid ideas.
@dieseldragon67567 ай бұрын
Oil boom money made a _coal_ boom when that boiler ran dry... 🚂💥😉
@G-Cole-016 ай бұрын
they did the persian gulf petrostate thing before it was cool
@ErickC7 ай бұрын
Was it worse than the one in North Haverbrook?
@ivanthevaluable25597 ай бұрын
Perhaps the one in Ogdenville?
@Arkay3157 ай бұрын
Moral of the story - monorails suck
@Mike_Wahousekey7 ай бұрын
Correction, Steam monorails suck
@Elliottblancher7 ай бұрын
Well the Disney Monorail is actually good
@TheFinalFrontiersman7 ай бұрын
basic comment
@Damien.D7 ай бұрын
in fact a Lartigue monorail was pretty successful in Algeria, on a 90km long line, the load being more easily spread on the sandy ground with large wooden beams than what was possible with regular railway sleepers. Another desert Lartigue monorail was the short lived Epsom Salts Monorail, in California. It ran successfully until the magnesium sulfate mine it was built for depleted, which sadly happened only two years after the line had opened. The Lartigue system has proven itself to be a good solution for laying tracks in soft, unprepared grounds.
@David_Mattox7 ай бұрын
Monorail, Monorail, MONORAAAAAAIL!! Mono-Doh!
@DennisLora20017 ай бұрын
Nice work my friend 4:48
@Handyman11997 ай бұрын
Cue the Simpsons Monorail song
@AnthonyHandcock7 ай бұрын
My faith in humanity is maintained by the fact that about 10% of the comments are Simpson references.
@TankISU-1527 ай бұрын
One of the best train explaining guy.
@dieseldragon67567 ай бұрын
Believe it or not, this might have been inspired by a similar (Albeit lesser known) system that was installed at Aldershot in 1872 for appraisal by the British Army (See Wikipedia: _Aldershot narrow-gauge suspension railway_ ) and so far as I can tell was the Worlds first passenger-carrying suspended railway, predating the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn by about 30 years. 🚟🇬🇧🥇 In the Aldershot system *two* rails were employed at a 12" gauge, and this probably contributed to the Aldershot system proving more stable and less problematic than the Bradford/Foster system you document here. 🚂🇬🇧⚖😇 Sadly, the Aldershot system was deconstructed at some later point (At a guess the timbers and rails were requisitioned for the war effort in WWI) and no trace of it remains to this day, but it was documented in _The Engineer_ (1872-11-01) and more can be found at the above referenced Wikipedia page. 😇 Finally: Many thanks for the awesome video! Absolutely *amazing* to hear that there was a U.S. cousin to the similar British system that had been created shortly before! 👍
@vincentberkan6057 ай бұрын
This has Lyle Lanley written all over it.
@harrisonallen6517 ай бұрын
I’m guessing the Bradford and Forster Brook railway just weren’t ready to tackle the monorail line concept.
@TheFinalFrontiersman7 ай бұрын
Where'd you find all these pictures? I've been mildly obsessed with finding out more about this weird contraption for years and could never find more than the same three pictures over and over.
@joshuabessire91697 ай бұрын
"This is more of a Shelbyville idea..." The promoters, trying to get funding.
@skovner7 ай бұрын
From what I can find, a steam rotary engine was like a Wankel. making the creator of this railroad a bit of a wanker.
@christianshields41647 ай бұрын
*is there a chance the track could bend*
@jed-henrywitkowski64707 ай бұрын
How were the engines transported from the manufacturer to the Bradford line?
@JohnDavies-cn3ro7 ай бұрын
Most probably on flat cars, with supporting tracks. Narrow gauge engines were often delivered in that way - so were trams (trolleys or street cars), Here in GB a couple of railways had special well wagons specifically for carrying trams, which were disassembled into their main parts - truck, lower deck saloon and upper saloon, for reassembly after delivery.
@thesledgehammerblog7 ай бұрын
Guess gadgetbahns aren't as new a phenomenon as we might think.
@mortman2007 ай бұрын
Is there a chance the track could bend?
@vincentberkan6057 ай бұрын
"He cut corners everywhere! Bad wiring, faulty brakes, and the celebrity on the maiden voyage was Gallagher!"
@joshuabessire91697 ай бұрын
Quite likely, my KZbin friend.
@retroflashbackdude7 ай бұрын
@@vincentberkan605”This is all that’s left of one of the crappiest trains ever built”
@wesless11117 ай бұрын
I never heard about this railway until now, worse than Penn Central?
@garryferrington8117 ай бұрын
Sometimes, doing things as cheaply as possible doesn't work out.
@edtheshed237 ай бұрын
I was very much expecting this to be Bradford, UK given firstly Bradford here is pretty dodgy and secondly one of the two mainline stations is Bradford Forster Square, that's a massive coincidence between the similarities in the names.
@sebastianthomsen22257 ай бұрын
😊👍👍
@vladabjr62657 ай бұрын
great video!
@warrior3456_7 ай бұрын
This was a bad idea
@robertroy78187 ай бұрын
Bradford and Foster Brook Monorail. Camp McCarren Monorail. Nihil novi sub sole.
@alicehodges99647 ай бұрын
Demonstration Line?
@Machodave2020Ай бұрын
I think I know what the Simpsons go the Springfield Monorail idea from.
@Austriantrainguy7 ай бұрын
Engerth-Locomotive
@CecFan4067 ай бұрын
This is 1800s Northfolk southern Lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@TheStickCollector7 ай бұрын
They should have really thought about their mud first.
@yeoldeseawitch7 ай бұрын
TOT MADE A MINOR SPELLING MISTAKE AGAIN RAAAAAHHHH
@Richard-the-Autistic-engine7 ай бұрын
This Is Bad Ideas
@xXLiamsTrainsXx7 ай бұрын
Huh
@brenlc14127 ай бұрын
skibidi bop mm dada
@autobotoctolingthomasho33627 ай бұрын
Your railway so fat, it died
@Combes_7 ай бұрын
This is how railway roastouts went. "Yo railway so dumb, it tought coupling rods were couplings!"