Night Train ASMR: American Railroads

[@TheFrenchWhispererASMR]

Timestamps: You can also listen to my stories on Spotify spoti.fi/2yv5WvP, Apple Music apple.co/2USUIZu and other streaming platforms. Patrons can download videos in HD, or audio only, and watch/listen offline. www.patreon.com/thefrenchwhisperer 0:00 Railroads in America 2:48 USA, 1830 16:13 Transcontinental Lines, Civil War and Railroad Mania 26:39 New Capitalism and Robber Barons 37:47 Revolution in Work and Consumption 48:11 Restructuring and Decline 59:14 Conclusion and Soothing Train Sounds

[@Miguel-hr9yp]

Espero, algún día... Tus vídeos en español :(

[@shantaiii]

I recommended your channel to my boyfriend the other day. He usually falls asleep watching history videos but always has to change videos after 15-20 minutes, but since your videos are nearly all more than an hour long there’s no need to! He fell in love with your content immediately! What you’re doing here is fantastic!!

[@tycc8512]

Shantai, he’s great at what he does! I couldn’t agree with you more.

[@hubflower5433]

@@jack8n was just gonna say

[@barbaram8619]

I’m torn between closing my eyes to fully absorb your soothing accent and fascinating information, and watching you brush items. The brushing is almost hypnotic.

[@BrittKatSlat]

My Toddler son is going to LOVE this! He’s obsessed with trains!!!

[@deusexaethera]

Does your toddler son sit still long enough to listen to something like this? Mine sure doesn't. Even when he's watching his favorite movie (Cars), he gets bored after a half-hour and wants to go to the park instead.

[@blehtbh]

I can see him driving a big locomotive

[@hannahh8696]

It's finally happened, the perfect ASMR video exists. Everyone can go home now

[@heatherrogers548]

Oh goody gum drops. Just in time for bed. I looove train stories. Thank you French Whisperer. And thank you for calming me down. :)

[@BoringBooksPod]

Loved this wide-ranging look at railroads (including the wonder of the Sears Catalog and the way trains completely changed consumption--thanks for the mention!). They're such a fascinating subject.

[@BoringBooksPod]

Also, the connection between steamships, railroads and the standardization of time is pretty cool beyond the need to keep trains from crashing. In the Gulf of Mexico region, particularly, regular steamship routes (ultimately linked to railroads) caused people to start expecting things like mail "on time." So...they had to figure out what "on time" actually meant!

[@bobveinne2439]

I can already tell this will be a video I'll be playing more than once, absolutely thrilling, drifting off hearing of historic yarns with the thought of steam and adventure in my head. Thank you French Whisperer.

[@clove8359]

Oh you did it again, every video you put out is an absolute masterpiece. You are by far one of the best ASMR channels of all time!

[@JonBrownSherman]

This has become by go-to video to fall asleep. It really is such an amazing thing to be able to rely on as a person who struggles to fall asleep easily. Thank you for your time and effort into your great work!

[@FlowStateSZN]

Just getting ready for bed the timing of this video could not have been better👌

[@IRLTheGreatZarquon]

Seconded, I'm just hitting the pillows and boom, new TFW. His timing is always perfect, just like his videos.

[@FlowStateSZN]

@@IRLTheGreatZarquon your timing was so perfect

[@vanpiisu88]

Same here 🧡😌😴... I love falling asleep to these videos.

[@marilyndoering2501]

I love your videos on trains, including this one! Please do another on the Robber Barons, which would be very interesting too! Thank you for all your efforts in creating such excellent historical content!

[@MrThundaro]

Trains are probably the coolest machines ever made.

[@jacobblackard2574]

That I agree with

[@even2288]

I'll do you one better, rocket train

[@Roflcopter4b]

Silly person, rockets are clearly the coolest machines ever. They practically contain all anyone needs to know about the human condition in one object. They're gigantic, exceedingly complicated vehicles, the product of countless hours of work by the smartest of people and the most skilled of workers, that are nonetheless, in essence, huge cylindrical bombs that we light at the bottom. People willingly, indeed even compete amongst themselves for the privilege of being able to, ride these deathtraps for no real reason other than to explore. Rockets encapsulate our ability for ingenious inventions at the same time as our most animalistic urges. And to top it all off, they're basically massive erect penises. What could better represent mankind?

[@FunkoBandit]

@@Roflcopter4b yo mama, gottem

[@blehtbh]

The railfans have gave you love

[@fademusic1980]

I would love to sit down and have a cup of tea/coffee with this guy

[@nangaleema]

I have come to rely on your voice to fall asleep. Excited to see this new video. I'm certain it will be a delight, as usual. 💖

[@mlk2244]

Seriously? Train sounds to lull me to sleep after you’re done talking? I’ll never make it that far!! Thank you, for a wonderful finish to an otherwise rainy, dreary weekend💤💤💤.

[@cis4coffee]

I've always loved trains and their history... And you present in such a wonderful manner. This video is on the right track to entertain and relax. Thank you.

[@estellewaring1619]

I studied the 2 railroads in America 5 years ago so it's nice to recall and relearn.

[@christopherconwell]

very pleased to come home after a long day of work and listen to this nice bit of history. cheers!

[@michelle4688]

Thank you!!!!! I can’t get enough of your content. 🙏🙏🙏

[@melaniepnail1978]

Im not much into asmr but I really dig this

[@AndeezWorld]

Yessss…Thank you french whisperer, for another soothing journey into slumber… Sweet dreams everyone :)

[@Bored_Barbarian]

I love your rail videos. The orient express was the first one I really saw of yours ❤️

[@SurvivalSpheres]

Ok folks, if anyone needs me, I'm back in the golden era and riding the night train. I'll just get my tobacco pipe and telegraph you when I'm halfway through my current book. Good night, everyone!

[@nakurunakuru497]

Yey, I have been waiting for this one! So happy to enjoy this journey with you, thank you for the upload.

[@fernandofranciscoserranoca1538]

Just helping with the algorythm. Nice videos!!

[@muldenthalle0]

Thank you so much for linking Boring Books for Bedtime. She is a superb ASMRtist and her channel has nowhere near the support she deserves. Another stunning journey from you again!

[@feliciaaviles3622]

I've listened to this three nights in a row. Thank you

[@LukasGummesson]

Love your videos man! I'd love to hear a story about the history(and different kinds) of beer, similar to the one you did about wine!

[@hipspinster]

Oh wow, your timing is perfect!

[@kristingardner8001]

So excited to find this as I get ready for bed! You officially go on my list of loves.

[@even2288]

I could've learnt so much from this, if it wasn't for me falling asleep after 10 minutes

[@amdb6]

Absolutely perfect timing!!!! I cannot wait for this one!

[@jenhildebrandt8772]

When ASMR really does it’s job! So I fell asleep to this video earlier this morning. When I woke up I found my phone here in the comments section. I had wrote “That is awesome. Thanks again for your help today and for ttys ttyttysss yttyttyyyyyttttt.” I don’t recall hitting comments. Actually the last thing I remember was watching the ashes of the burnt paper being brushed. 🤷🏻‍♀️😂😂😴 Thank you.. I needed some sleep!

[@gkennedy8734]

I seriously love your train videos! the subject has always been so relaxing for me.

[@fermitthekrog6318]

This is fantastic, I actually work for a railroad so its great to see you make a video about them

[@sarahraven36]

This truly was a great surprise ending to my weekend! 💕

[@dr.toxicgamingmadscientist]

as a railroad enthusiast, i take great pride in collecting the many scattered, discarded, and rusted railroad stakes, metal parts, scrap, and whatever else i can find thats legitimately worth something, even coal

[@KnightlyASMR]

I love your videos! It always feels like I'm going on an adventure through time with you. Much appreciation!

[@iroast7333]

Lol, looks like I’m 2 years late but welcome back 😂😂😂 I watched your channel about 3-4 years ago before you disappeared and than I forgot about your channel. Now I found it again and I’m so happy I did 😅 funny, but I used to watch your history videos to help me with some of the school work that I was doing and now I just graduated university 😅 incredible how time flies

[@sigalabergel6296]

Thank you for your awesome work abs helping us sleep Mr. French Whisperer 🙏👍🏻🤩👏

[@lesclaypoolonbass9431]

I just realized after clicking on this i haven't learned anything about the early European railways but we learned extensively about the U.S.'s.

[@claudiascott6654]

I love taking Amtrak to see my Mom and leave the' driving' to them .. a series on the Robber Barons would be great..

[@nobody8328]

Thank you and goodnight! 💖

[@m.huffman2089]

I LOVE your train videos. Thank you so much for another one 😁🛤️

[@ramenbirb9885]

Anything from the steampunk, industrialization, roaring twenties era just set me up for a good dream 💤

[@ichibanmacbean5625]

Escaping the heat wave in my area, dealt wth a bunch of nonsensical, felt sad... but now at least I can go to bed happy. Thank you FW!

[@danielpeat2396]

Another wonderful idea for a video. Thank you for the upload FW

[@alicephoenixpoetryjournal9062]

✨So peaceful!✨

[@AZMom33]

I work in the Rail industry. I've never been this excited for an asmr video!

[@artoriuscasca424]

Your content is amazing as always

[@nogoodcops6557]

Perfect timing

[@IRLTheGreatZarquon]

38:00 just gonna casually set this thing on fire, brb 🤣

[@TheFrenchWhispererASMR]

Yes that was random 😅, but try to find new things to do on this desk after you have already shot dozens and dozens of hours of hand movement and props manipulation ;)

[@gracehiser8066]

your videos are my favorite man thank you for these

[@shayanyc]

Yay! I can’t wait to listen to this one.

[@bossasaurusrecks9819]

This video is amazing

[@davidd6171]

Great work again! But I don't think anybody is surprised given that it's you!

[@maggieplaza8661]

The craziest thing just happened to me. As soon as I clicked on this video it just so happens to be 5am and I have a railroad near my apartment and the train had just honked right when I started this video and I thought it was this video but a part of me was like holy shit that sounds very clear and good it happened again and I paused the video and that’s when I found out it wasn’t the video lol but what a coincidence never been up at this time before

[@Knallbart]

Oh gosh allmighty. I am hypnotized 😊 amazing video

[@denniscowe3289]

A thought just occurred to me. I would love to see you cover The Pit of Tartarus in one of these videos

[@RockyRacoon123]

Just in time for bed. 👍 love Railroad Stories!

[@ArtScienceWonder]

Omg Space, Trains, China, Mythology, art....you know everything I'm most interested in. Please do an abbreviated history or Section of Mexican history or Magical Realism sometime too please.

[@JayHam1]

Still to this day my favorite video of yours is the t-rex build in minecraft... but now this video...

[@brograb898]

Incidental comment: most people don’t realize that Phileas Fogg never uses a balloon in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 days.” He does use a lot of trains though. Thanks for another relaxing history!

[@NYFan-wv8bc]

So relaxing thank you

[@thestickboy5]

Please could you do a video about the history or journalism/the news? Always learn so much from these videos, thanks.

[@yamsantha]

Great topic!

[@brandybeans7653]

Stephanie Harlowe sent me to your channel.

[@TheFrenchWhispererASMR]

That was cool of her, welcome!

[@volodymyrhavrylov7993]

I wonder who are those lads who put dislikes for these videos?.. what are you unhappy or mad about? What life do you have ... Anyway, the tube treats both likes and dislikes as an activity and thus any reaction is better than no reaction, so lets treat the dislikes as a kind of appreciation nevertheless. The topic is great! I.m only at the very start of the story but enjoy it big time.

[@TheFrenchWhispererASMR]

Thanks! As for likes and dislikes, it seems people give it more thought than I do ;). I don’t even know how many dislikes there are under videos. From where I stand, mean commenters and dislikers are just hamsters in a wheel, they may think they are doing sth, but I just see engagement being generated and a vast majority of nice reactions. Really not a big deal :).

[@pandorasflame7742]

Is there any chance you’d do a side series of you reading a Webster’s Dictionary and repeating the sounds 3 or more times? I LOVE hearing you talk and certain words REALLY get my tingles going.

[@r.shores1933]

Please do a video on the history of photography!

[@shyce7]

It's sooo good every time

[@jimc.goodfellas]

What a great topic! You are the man French

[@ItMeSinamenRoll]

Yesss you have no idea how excited I am

[@kimckenzie6161]

Im glad you do not omit details and that you are objective. I love trains but in North America especially do they got such a controversial history- from colossal genocide and repression of the indigenous, to the corrupt moguls, to the great leaps and bounds of industry and transportation they provided. You covered this really well.

[@Amberstarrbanks]

I love you thank you so much for your videos

[@ruabadfish02]

Yay! 🚂

[@dfwai7589]

I would love to see you revisit this topic with French or other European railroads. They are a topic not much touched upon and still have much to tell

[@TheFrenchWhispererASMR]

In case you did not see them, I made one called “a night on the orient express” about the history of railroads in general, and another one about the trans siberian.

[@elliottbuxton]

Sleep well all 😴

[@eciesz]

Thank you for a new one. I appreciate you helping me sleep. Any thoughts on Christian stories?

[@Jimk435]

no

[@PanTheMan000]

@@Jimk435 be nice

[@Jimk435]

@@PanTheMan000 no

[@peaceandwisdom3514]

Do one in French!!! we love you

[@doom4157]

Cool, good shit

[@sigalabergel916]

Woooowww this is a wish come true fir us in this train loving household 🚂 #frenchwhiapererrocks

[@COUNTERCOM]

So Mr French whisperer. This may seem like a strange thing to ask but I am curious. What do or what did you do for a living to get a nice house in Santiago.

[@TheFrenchWhispererASMR]

-I’m a youtube star- I own a small business I created years ago ;)

[@COUNTERCOM]

@@TheFrenchWhispererASMR very cool. I hear Chile is an excellent place for Business.

[@Joni-qx5uz]

Hello French Whisperer! I would just like to tell you that I absolutely LOVE your channel. Listening to you is dichotomous for me, because on one hand your beautiful, sonorous voice is very conducive to falling asleep but on the other hand, the topics you explore are SO interesting I am too intrigued to fall asleep! Curious-do you research your topics and then write the stories or do you read from source material? Thank you for what you do! It’s truly incredible! 😊💗

[@Eleven1921]

Can I project this video onto my ceiling? ❤

[@theshenpartei]

You should do British railways

[@chixdighueyz]

Do you publish your scripts anywhere like on Patreon? I’d love to read them and appreciate the research you put into these videos instead of just falling asleep all the time 🤣

[@edwardmason119]

That's a great idea. I never make it past 15 minutes before I'm out cold too haha.

[@TheFrenchWhispererASMR]

The script only exists when I am done recording and editing, because I use a list of detailed bullet points with only a few sentences written down. So I don’t really have a written script. But I think it is possible to extract a script from KZbin videos (I was told that, I don’t know with which software or site though).

[@sluggo206]

It's not railroads as a whole that plummeted, it's passenger trains. The railroad companies prefer freight because it's more profitable. Passenger service was a nuisance; they only did it because the government required it. Amtrak relieved the companies of that passenger requirement; now they just have to give Amtrak track priority and charge it a minimal fee. The railroads found a niche market in slow commodity freight: if iPhones are shipped across the country every week, wholesalers don't care which batch arrives today as long as one does.

[@SwedishMeatball972]

1:03 Whose face is that?

[@Nick-Emery]

You could probably just read the train timetables to me to be honest 🥰

[@blehtbh]

Steam engines: :o You: :) Railfans: 😃

[@SAGF4]

Can you make a history video about the world war 1 and World War 2 Thank You

[@peepokrumshark7996]

Pls do Canadian railroads next❤

[@MagicByEli]

Remember anybody who can-- please support the French Whisperer on Patreon!

[@spareaccount1969]

💖

[@eclipsexgaming1169]

Just got into bed, you love to see it

[@thesoundtherapist2127]

Hello Everyone.

[@RichMitch]

Halo everyone

[@TheFrenchWhispererASMR]

Halo

[@hannahh8696]

Halo

[@RichMitch]

@@hannahh8696 halo there 👋

[@hannahh8696]

@@RichMitch haloooo

[@allanbennadji8701]

No more French video ?