The Steam Train That Runs on an Active Tram Line

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Tales from the S-Bahn

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@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

This is a reupload, as KZbin wasn't letting the old version be viewed in more than 480p! Should be in full HD now!

@tomo-tawa-linja 3 ай бұрын

I will not comment about broad gauge again I will not comment about broad gauge again

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

Maybe I'll do a video on Leipzig some time - apparently their trams run on broad gauge!

@jamesparson 3 ай бұрын

I have never been to Philadelphia

@seafighter4 3 ай бұрын

I think Frankfurt's U Bahn runs on broad gauge.

@IamTheHolypumpkin 3 ай бұрын

@@seafighter4False-ish, Frankfurt is using 1435mm standard gauge but the interurban section to Oberursel and Bad Homburg which the U2 and U3 operate as a whole, and the U9 on parts of it, used to have a slightly wider gauge to prevent wear on the wheels. While I can not confirm it, I'm rather confident that over the years with track replacement and just more modern vehices the gauge should all be adjusted to be standard gauge by now.

@gliese832c 3 ай бұрын

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@TwoWholeWorms 2 ай бұрын

I was in Germany with some friends in June, and we took the chance to go up to Rostock to ride the Moliebahn back and forth a few times, I highly recommend that one too. ^^

@TFTSB 2 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@KyuQem 3 ай бұрын

Same in Nordhausen. The HSB and Tram share some tracks there

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

The Harzbahn region is on my list for a visit!

@KyuQem 3 ай бұрын

@@TFTSB Can recommend and on all Lines except the one to the Brocken the Deutschland ticket is even valid. i also recommend taking a visit to the rübeland bahn its the only line in germany using 25kv 50hz Electricity. Sadly on the rübelandbahn there is no passenger travel except some steam trains sometimes. But the Harz is always worht a visit for rail lovers. and if you want to see alot of old Formsignals i recommend visiting the Mühlenbahn Braunschweig-Wieren. its still running with Mechanic Signal Systems like 100years ago.

@roderickjoyce6716 3 ай бұрын

@@TFTSB I made my first ever visit to the Harz two weeks ago. Go. You will not be disappointed; although the trains on the Selketalbahn were suspended and the dreaded SEV (Schienenersatzverkehr) bus replacement service was in operation that week. I managed two trips from Wernigerode to the Brocken. The weather on the mountain can be very rough (and I live in the North of England) - on the first trip the cloud at the top was so thick I went straight back down, had lunch at Drei Annen Hohne and caught the next train to Eisfelder Talmühle. There were three steam-hauled trains in the station at the same time - a real rarity these days. On the second the wind nearly blew my head off, but the views were fantastic. the day after that, I caught the RB to Quedlinburg and the HSB to Alexisbad. The weather was much better and as it was a Saturday the up train was packed with local hikers. The downhill run was much quieter. I am already looking forward to my next visit. :)

@zora874 3 ай бұрын

I've lived in Darmstadt for ten years now. Never managed to even see the Feuriger Elias. Someday I have to plan for it and jump onboard :D As a sidenote: the stop Kongresszentrum is regularily only used by the airliner bus, but this one stops across the street as it only goes in the other direction. The stop for the Feurige Elias is only used when trams have to turn around early. For example because of constructions (which we have a lot in the last few years) or accidents further down the line.

@powgames 3 ай бұрын

It's always special to see Feuriger Elias, i was on it as a kid and was amazing! I love to see that many people out there still enjoy it :DD Also, it's really not a problem that the Kongresszenturm stop isn't served on weekends, as there's hardly anything relevant around it anyway, theres no Uni and the next stop is just 150m away ^^ All lines that don't run on weekends are overlapping on weekdays so that every station (except Kongresszentrum :D) always has service to the city center. E.g. line 9 and 5 both run to Böllenfalltor and they add up to a 10 min frequency (20+20). On Saturdays, line 5 doesn't run, but line 9 switches to a 10 min frequency on its own. All that is lost are some direct interconnections between districts that are easily replaced by one change at the city center with hardly any time loss. And on Sundays, line 9 runs every 15 minutes, as there is no commuter traffic :)

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

That makes a lot of sense! Thank you tons for that local perspective :)

@IamTheHolypumpkin 3 ай бұрын

Surprisingly despite living just up north of Darmstadt in Frankfurt for (almost) my entire life, and even knowing about the Steam-Powered Trams there, I only rode the regular trams in Darmstadt just this year.

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

I absolutely feel on that. I live close to a Feldbahn museum here but haven't been in the several years I've been here now!

@RoamingAdhocrat 3 ай бұрын

Refilling the coal bunkers with buckets was a thing on the fullsize railway at certain times and places, I'm told... like, most places had labour-saving infrastructure but an unlucky/inexpert loco crew could find themselves called short somewhere inconvenient and refilling the bunkers by hand

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

I'm somehow imagining a Big Boy being refilled with buckets lol

@RoamingAdhocrat 3 ай бұрын

@@TFTSB yeah it was old Scottish steam locos in the book I read ("Legends of the Glasgow & South Western Railway in LMS days" by DL Smith - surprisingly entertaining)

@gydo1942 3 ай бұрын

I used to volunteer at a standard gauge heritage line and this is how we did it.. shovel coal into big buckets (we lifted them with two people), lift them onto the cab floor then pour them out into the bunker. It does take a lot of time though, not suitable for a busy railroad...

@yukaira 3 ай бұрын

mastodon, discord, youtube I CANT ESCAPE GERMANY

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

Deutschland ist sehr real und man kann ihm nicht entkommen

@roderickjoyce6716 3 ай бұрын

@@TFTSB 😁

@drdewott9154 Ай бұрын

Im just baffled that there is an actual steam locomotive like that which runs on tram tracks. It doesnt even look like a steam tram, its like a full on branch line locomotive! Wild stuff.

@seafighter4 3 ай бұрын

Darmstadt also has the best district: Darmstadt Wixhausen

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

I love Colontown-Jerkinville

@lolermosskoss1834 2 ай бұрын

Wie wird es bei NNN genannt?

@adnamamedia 3 ай бұрын

this was so interesting! thanks for sharing this experience

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@Xder232 3 ай бұрын

The stop Darmstadt Kongresseszentrum does not get any regular use. But the stop schloß that is right beside it has active tram lines

@ministig63ace 3 ай бұрын

Omg I've just moved here for over a year and have never known about this🤯

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

I think it's a really cool place!

@stanley3647 3 ай бұрын

In Barmouth, and Porthmadog, Wales (UK), trains (regular DMU passenger services) also must stop to red light, before road crossing. Train driver after stop the train, must request to permission to cross road by pressing button, and wait for barriers go down and permission white light. This is due to retrofitting old "manual gates" crossing, but without paying wage of crossing guard.

@toonymoony16 3 ай бұрын

I like how every single city in Hessen has better trains than Wiesbaden, the city i live in

@Jimboliah3985 3 ай бұрын

An American person emigrating to Germany? And blessing us with a steam train running on active tram tracks? *BASED.* I nearly thought you were just German born and heavily adopted an American accent.

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

I actually have lived all over haha! Spent a majority of my life in Canada, actually

@Jakob-l7p Ай бұрын

Really nice vid

@TweetsieRailroader 3 ай бұрын

Welcome to the foamer life. Embrace it.

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

I am happily! Though if I really think back to it, I can trace this back to going trainspotting with my dad as a kid

@TweetsieRailroader 3 ай бұрын

@@TFTSB Honestly, that's the case for many of us. I got to see plenty of cool trains as a kid (especially steam), and that's what formulated my love of railroading.

@amadeosendiulo2137 3 ай бұрын

0:22 I saw that joke comming, hehe

@GobbiExists 3 ай бұрын

I never heard the answer for if it went chug-a chug-a or choochoo 😔 other than that this is probably the 1st steam train that I’ve ever heard of that’s actually in revenue service! Great that you covered this

@TFTSB 3 ай бұрын

I talked about the whistle a little! It does also chugga chugga, can confirm

@roderickjoyce6716 3 ай бұрын

Germany has a lot of narrow guage steam trains in revenue service - the Mollibahn, Rasender Roland, the Harz system (totalling 140km), and the three lines run by the Sächsischen Dampfeisenbahngesellschaft (Saxon Steam Railway Company). The trains run all year round; some of the locos are new builds, two lines in Dresden are included in the local public transport network ...