15 STRANGE Vehicles Powered by STEAM

[@eternaldonut3128]

Why does everything powered by steam look so cool?

[@Kimdino1]

Regarding the comments on the K Class subs. They did NOT see the end of steam engined submarines. In fact most of todays large submarines are steam powered. The resurgence started in the 1950s when the coil/oil burners were replaced by nuclear reactors. With very few exceptions, nuclear power plants are no more than glorified steam plants.

[@JusticeAlways]

Steam driven nuclear-powered.👍

[@Karagianis]

​@@JusticeAlways Steam powered, nuclear fired.

[@Lucius1958]

You neglected to mention the Stanley speed car, which set the record broken by the Inspiration, back in 1906: the Stanley was the first car to exceed 120 mph. According to some accounts, they tried again the following year: the driver, Fred Marriott, claimed that he had reached 197 mph, and was still apparently accelerating, when the car hit a bump, became airborne, and crashed. Miraculously, Marriott survived the disaster.

[@Andre_Thomasson]

if that car became airborne then the speed claim might actually be close to reality,

[@phillippi2]

The Stanley Speed record you mentioned, was actually broken in 1925 by Howard Hughes. The car was the Doble E 20. Jay Leno actually did a video on that car. He went 135 mph.

[@ringstar3316]

You…really didn’t research any of these…

[@Nonya-uj2gv]

Was the script generated by AI? Seems to be the AI 'hallucination' effect observed elsewhere, like with the legal papers submitted citing make-believe cases, or citing cases that were not about what the AI written papers claimed? This feels like some lazy person had an AI generate a script, but didn't bother to do any fact-checking on it at all.

[@iamhugry]

Of course not this is an ai talking and not a real human, almost like it's a view grabber

[@minhthunguyendang9900]

An Xperimentation in a.i. VS h.i.

[@velcroman11]

In the 1960’s a man in Melbourne Australia but a steam engine in a Ford Pursuit sedan. It was able to travel at 6 mph.

[@Puzpo]

Kudos for actually showing the vehicle of the miniature. And for showing it first!

[@zaildarkuldeep8451]

Very nice good great job. Thanks.

[@garymiller5937]

Some truly strange vehicles but you go with the best available technology at the time. I admire their imagination. 😊

[@topfives]

We agree!

[@thomaserixton4662]

The centipede was actually a diesel locomotive based on an F unit that was made from two car bodies that was powered by diesel electric engines

[@wizlish]

The Centipede pictured here was a Baldwin Locomotive Works design, and had nothing to do with Bessemer or steam power (or with EMD F-unit carbodies). The truly interesting locomotive was the original one using the articulated underframe -- the 6000hp Essl design of the late Thirties which used individual modular gensets (first V12s, the V8s) to power individual axles in the chassis. This was rebuilt for the Seaboard Air Line (to give a single-unit diesel with comparable performance to a good 2-6-6-4) and then made as two-unit 6000hp passenger engines to take over from T1s as the "GG1 equivalents" for trains west of Harrisburg...

[@thomaserixton4662]

Thanks for the info, I don't know all that much about the centipedes but I knew the narrator didn't have his info correct that's for sure.

[@allangibson8494]

There were multiple x-10-x locomotives. None were particularly successful for long runs but were useful where high tractive effort and acceleration is required - but electric motors do it better.

[@usafltg1]

The Centipede is a diesel and is a Pen flyer F unit body locomotive

[@robertdragoff6909]

Considering what’s going on in cars today, we might be driving steam powered cars and trucks again, real soon!

[@c0ldyloxproductions324]

Wouldn’t be apposed to this

[@MobileMasterr]

That’s never gonna happen😂

[@c0ldyloxproductions324]

@@MobileMasterr and people said theyd never try to lock the country down, or ban gas cars yet here we are 2020 happened and california is looking to ban gas cars soooo, ive stopped saying something is never gonna happen

[@Identifyasaconspiracytheorist]

Imagine if the same amount of effort put into combustion engines was spent developing electric steam engines

[@c0ldyloxproductions324]

@@Identifyasaconspiracytheorist imagine if people would actually realize c02 and nitrogen are good for plant life and how much more environmental damage happens while mining for all the resources for electric cars and batteries

[@rayfridley6649]

Ever hear of steam elevator? These were in use in the late 19th century. Steam elevators had a steam engine usually in a different part of the building that was linked by a train of apparats to transmit power to the elevator's machinery, usually consisting of a drum on which wrapped the hoisting cables that moved the elevator car up and down. The elevator driver would use control ropes in the car to raise, lower, or stop the car. The steam engine had to be constantly running for the elevator to work. It took about a half an hour to fire up the steam engine in the morning in order to have service. A modern electric elevator's motor stops when the car is at the desired floor, much more efficient.

[@darylcheshire1618]

In Melbourne, some very old buildings had water driven elevators, I’m not sure how they operated, I think water flowed into a piston and ran until the 1970s. They were given an exemption to run during times of water restrictions. Perhaps they had electric motors and used water instead of hydraulic oil. They were slow and there was a height limitation.

[@lawriealush-jaggs1473]

What a lovely presentation. Thank you

[@mrviking2mcall212]

Sorry, but this is AI generated slop full of factually incorrect errors.

[@railstofails1396]

Fowlers ghost was a 1 of 1 locomotive, the plan was to make a locomotive to work underground in the British tunnels. It turned out as a poor steamer and one incident nearly caused it to explode in a station when the water ran out. This being die to its boiler design. As it not only had a firebox for conventional use, it had firebricks lining the boiler to retain heat to keep creating steam after the fire was dropped for traveling in the underground the issue was that despite the fire being out the bricks cant be removed from the boiler, thus it nearly exploded from lack of water and continued heating from the bricks. After that it was deemed a failure and taken out of service, with its builder allegedly denying the engine ever existing. Am interesting locomotive plagued with bad luck and poor design…

[@MauriceEscargot]

Why do they call it a streamlined design? The thing is a brick.

[@Dallen9]

??? The fowler Ghost was a fire brick Steam locomotive. the issue with the Fowler Ghost was the fact if the boiler ever ran low on water there was no way to drop the fire preventing a crown sheet failure and a boiler explosion. Their contribution is literally they're the first locomotives for the London Underground soon replaced by regular traditional tank engines until Electric locomotives were able to take their place.

[@BLACKOMAMBO]

What impress me thw most with the centiped locomotive is the use of a standard diesel electric shape, thats unusual for a steam train

[@nomdefamille4807]

save that as I and others have pointed out this is a crock of shit, and from your screen name I suspect that you were well aware. There are a handful of steam powered locos that have a passing resemblance to the early road diesels, the UP/GE pair, the C&O M1, the N&W Jawn Henry to name a few but the Baldwin looks that way because it simply is a diesel. You will note that the git who produced this has spliced in some footage of what I take to be a german/austrian steam locomotive drivetrain.

[@kzstv5667]

Very informative video 📹 I really appreciate your efforts 👌

[@HauntedHenry]

I thought the thumbnail was clickbait, I quickly found out it wasn’t! Subscribed!

[@fatalinsomn1a182]

I wish I could like this twice.

[@SteamLance]

Well the Fowler's ghost story is completely wrong, it was an experimental brick fired loco to reduce smoke in the underground tunnels of London. It failed though, and was promptly scrapped. No idea what the loco is you lot are on about that is sleek and whatever, but sounds like a US loco rather than a UK one

[@offline7620]

steam helicopter - but it's not April Fool's Day - interesting what people will believe

[@howardking3601]

It's not impossible, just impractical. The Besler steam plane flew.

[@YodaWhat]

@@howardking3601- Due to the high energy density of most fuels, compared to the low energy density of batteries, a steam helicopter actually seems more likely than a battery-electric helicopter, though each also seems likely to have only a short range.

[@quinn446]

Amazing video keep up the amazing work!

[@topfives]

Thanks!

[@quinn446]

@@topfivesyour welcome thanks for the amazing videos

[@KartikPatel-nt4ff]

😅😮😅😅😅😅😅well information good show 😅

[@haroldluck9899]

Very interesting

[@lc79tourer26]

Nice video, steam propulsion is still alive and well in subs however, nuclear power is basically just steam, usually a turbine, with a nuclear boiler so is the motive force in nuclear powered ships, subs and power stations.

[@christofferniemonen8872]

most of human history is just boiling water- and improving it

[@dedenkodir8793]

👍🙂 MANTAP' TARMAC, Engine Steem

[@FuelFire]

The DG8 Steam Wagon is basically a Shay but as a car. Insane.

[@cleitondecarvalho431]

Insane motorcycle.

[@schautamatic]

The Black Pearl, huh? “What are you doin’?” “No, what ARRRGH ya doin’?” 😄😄

[@aigslmnop6559]

😂 pirates 🦜 of the carribbean

[@WisePlagueis]

3:54 None of the Michelin Railcars were steam-powered, not even the 1932 prototype. A mere look at the exhausts and it's obvious this is a diesel engine (Junkers). Where did you get your info ?

[@Wubboxfan_2024]

The black pearl is insane!

[@Arkay315]

Fowler's ghost was actually a failure at a steam locomotive that could run subways without killing everyone with smoke inhalation, what happened is that it's fire box collapsed. And fowler's ghost wasn't streamlined, it did not pull express trains. And the centapede was a locomotive run by an internal combustion engine, not a steam engine. Also the drive system of jay leno's fire truck is run on internal combuation, the only thing steam powered was the water pump.

[@andremiller1566]

15 mph is very close to what my 97 Grand Prix gt gets.

[@The_Goldenhammer.]

19:59 That is the Baldwin Centipede. A diesel locomotive with the wheel configuration of a Big Boy (4,8,8,4). And this was build around the time diesels took over the american railnet. Alco tried to make diesels. And Balwind ignored it until they no longer could. The Centipede was one of their attemps to compete with EMD and GE. And it was a fail. Mainly because Baldwin did not know what they where doing.

[@MahaRainbowStarseedAvatar1008X]

Josh where can I find the background music of this video ? sounds very nice !

[@kimeldiin1930]

That is a leading link front forks...the sprung link is in front of the pivot

[@alexartiststudios7981]

Wow woooow

[@piercebales9546]

There was a steam motorcycle in the window of the Sutro baths museum in San Francisco. It burned down in 1967. You had a boiler between your legs, wild.

[@abrr2000]

Given that steam is low speed high torque, you could probably get better performance by applying some geering between crank and wheels so that the wheel turns faster than the crank shaft.

[@fuzzybutkus8970]

But was he a pilot on a steam powered Aireoplane??

[@unvaxxeddoomerlife6788]

I honestly thought the thumbnail was some photoshopped clickbait not a real creation, amazing.

[@ChrisBullington]

It is a shame Bill Bessler's steam-powered airplane receives but a mention while an imaginary steam helicopter makes the list. There is another big misconception in this video: What Walter Christie made for fire departments was a conversion unit for horse-drawn steam pumpers they already possessed. It actually used an internal combustion engine to drive the front wheels.

[@wellingtonnorthjunction3911]

Rubber tires are never used on trains because they would be shredded that’s why steam locomotives use steel tires

[@davidmackey344]

Most of the images in this video have nothing to do with the subject matter. The Beyer-Garrett segment being one exception.

[@verilyheld]

Re the Steam Man= some few years ago, there was a steampunk book made about the imaginary adventures of Boilerplate, a steam robot.

[@Cosmic76Guardian]

Aww man, you changed the thumbnail, lol. Because that yellow lowrider car looks very futuristic. 😅

[@danielobrien1571]

Are you a lady with extremely long hair? I admire woman that keep theirs that way, describe it all please?

[@topfives]

I know!

[@phillippi2]

I came here looking for information on Jay Leno's steam motorcycle. He said that he did a video on it, but I can't find it on either KZbin or his website. He's done a few videos on other shows where he pointed it out. But little, if anything, has been said about the motorcycle. I want to find out more about it.

[@hstrinzel]

"An astounding record breaking speed of 148 MPH?" For such a gigantically HUGE engineering piece? Well that proves once and for all that Steam is VERY, VERY inefficient for such purposes.

[@howardking3601]

It proves nothing. The engineering was not great, or else it would have been much faster. The Stanley brothers set the record over 100 years before with a very simple design. Given modern aerodynamics, materials technology, metallurgy and control systems, a steam car should easily run with any other wheel driven vehicle.

[@thekaxmax]

I've worked on a Beyer-Garret restoration.

[@billparker244]

I don't understand the issues with the British K class subs. My ship in the US Navy today is propelled by two GTM's that only have two speeds that rotate the shafts. The actual speed with which the ship moves is governed only by the pitch of the blades. So the shafts could be spinning and the ship would go nowhere with the blades of the screws at zero pitch. In fact, you could replace the diesel power plants in my ship with steam engines right now and it would work in the same exact way. The officers of the ship would never know the difference during maneuvering.

[@billparker244]

Modern and advanced US subs are steam powered now too. If you removed all electricity from the sub, the shaft is still directly rotated by the nuclear reactor/boiler. Can't tell you about the Seawolf or Virginia class though.

[@PreservedSteamUK]

WHEN ON EARTH HAS A STANDARD GAUGE GARRATT BEEN USED ON THE WELSH RAILWAYS!??!? ARE YOU MAD?!

[@mrviking2mcall212]

Wow, I didn’t know Henry Bessemer the steel mogul built a Baldwin locomotive fifty years after he died!

[@datprawn4850]

The Inspiration is also the fastest Steam-Powered Vehicle in the World, beating the Mallard's 124 MPH in the 30s.

[@trollyface6640]

Valve would be proud

[@davidbrandenburg8029]

frankly steam is scary, I have been burned by both gas and steam and steam is by far the more painful kind of burn!.

[@TVPiles]

The Black Pearl is built to European specifications, wherein anything not faster than 6 Km/h does not require a registration or driver's license, where I suspect it was more to avoid the homologation as street worthy vehicle that made them opt for that low speed.

[@garryej]

Toronto's subway uses pneumatic tires.

[@justincollins8266]

The Bessemer centipede was BASICALLY A PROTOTYPE FOR THE BIG BOY

[@filomenamillermiller3035]

Its like isoblea 3:04 from thomas

[@only.2.shark.]

Me looking at the thumbnail The first word that appears in my mind: steambike

[@-Master_Of_Disaster]

Wow that was a lot of wrong or incorrect information in this video. Check your facts please.

[@The_Goldenhammer.]

I feel you. I was seething with anger whan he talked about the Baldwin Centipede.

[@petercooper2387]

One example being the Sentinel DG8 which had a duplex (twin cylinder) double acting engine and not 3 cylinders.

[@caledonianrailway1233]

Can we get a list of corrections?

[@nomdefamille4807]

Save that the Michelines were not steam powered, you can see the radiator grille and the external silencers ffs!

[@Remibiggestfan]

Mate, The Centipede Locomotive Is Diesel. Not Steam

[@jamesgraham4586]

Where the hell did you get this info? some of these Vehicles were never powered by steam for god sake!

[@Voucher765]

Maybe one day steam traction could make a comeback if oil and gasoline goes kaput

[@frankkoester257]

And yes Thomas you're right the centipede was a diesel electric, and the so-called steam helicopter was a bunch of BS

[@barcleyt]

The Sentinel DG8 had a flat four double acting engine not a vertical 3

[@csdestonia6984]

7:08 Soviet Volga GAZ24

[@FunAngelo2005]

If diesel power was never discovered

[@georgecastiblanco2978]

Katsuhiro otomo' s Worlds.

[@DerekWalsh-l4i]

Your history of Fowler's Ghost is completely wrong and insane. It was not early 20th Century, it was 1863, not streamlined, not built for speed but for working on the Metropolitan underground line in London, UK. What you are describing is a complete mystery.

[@justincollins8266]

The 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement is correct

[@kentworch]

Maybe steam could make a resurgence in the 21st century with electric steem powered cars with the emergence of heat pumps and lithium batteries at some point in the 2050s to 2100s

[@sm6moj30]

You had a shot from the Soviet WW2 k-class diesel sub in the film!

[@bidhan.chandrabhattacharje585]

How peculiar ...!...was the evolution of..... technology..!!!

[@georgeshelton6281]

1914 Christie fire engine. Just precisely what I was after..

[@muhammadrifqi9287]

Not sure why but i've a feeling that the narrator in this video somehow same voice like the person on Simple History 🤣

[@Auldpharte]

Beyer-Garrets had two sets of pistons and driving wheels, but only one boiler. The driving units were laden with water tanks, with the rear unit, next to the cab, carrying the coal bunker. Just check your facts before you write your scripts.

[@emmanuelsemons6830]

0:54 the front looks like a train

[@BLACKOMAMBO]

Hey thats kurnagets voice

[@mkli3459]

Very big part of romanticizing steam engines is how they sound like but now the only thing to hear about was the speaking of the speaker 🤨

[@soonersciencenerd383]

STEAM PUNK baby!!!!

[@AEKarnes]

It would be nice if you asked to use my footage.

[@petercooper2387]

The Sentinel DG8 had a duplex (twin cylinder) double acting engine mounted in line with the chassis. It's successor, the Sentinel 'S' had a four cylinder single acting engine mounted across the chassis.

[@ajid3846]

Mantaaf ok

[@paulschramm1144]

I seen four steam power motorcycle

[@leroyproud294]

Jay Leno has two Doble steam cars.

[@victorrowley7494]

I wonder why you haven’t included the first steam powered aircraft, which flew in England in 1894. See a post by ‘History Debunked’ titled ‘How a steam-powered aeroplane took to the air in England in 1894; long before the Wright brothers’

[@pierredecine1936]

Nuclear Subs are powered by Steam ...

[@yotamamit9945]

Y0TAM AMIT❤5

[@PreservedSteamUK]

Uhh... you got pretty much everything wrong about Henry Fowler's Ghost. If you continue to do videos on steam traction consult an expert or don't bloody bother because your coverage of this locomotive was abysmal. 1. The nickname is "Fowler's Ghost", it never had a name as it was an experimental engine. 2. The engine was not at all streamlined, the only reason it was "streamlined" is for aesthetic purposes and that was common of the period when locomotives were made. 3. The locomotive was not "enclosed", It probably has boiler cladding and lagging like pretty much every steam locomotive ever and it had an open cab so you're not gonna pull a fast one on me, lots of locomotives from that period were open-cab because driver comfort wasn't considered for most locomotives. 4. WHERE ON EARTH IS THIS COW-CATCHER?!? OUR LOCOMOTIVES RARELY EMPLOYED THE USE OF A COW-CATCHER! IF YOU'RE MISTAKING THE COUPLING CHAIN FOR A COW CATCHER GO TO SPECSAVERS PLEASE FOR YOUR HEALTH'S SAKE! 5. How does this locomotive look Ghastly? It more resembles The Crampton Locomotives that were popular of the time, the nickname has nothing to do with the appearance. 6.This "Stream-Lining" nonsense was never on the locomotive (refer to point 2) and the concept of stream-lining wouldn't become used on steam locomotives for another 70+ years. 7. EXPRESS PASSENGER TRAINS?!?!? WHAT!??!??! IT WAS DESIGNED SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE CHIMNEY TO PREVENT EVERYONE ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND FROM CHOKING TO DEATH! HENCE THE NAME "FOWLER'S GHOST" 8. There have been no reports on passengers finding it's appearance unsettling... where are you finding this information? you're making it all up aren't you! 9. YOU THINK FOWLERS GHOST, A VICTORIAN 2-4-0 LOCOMOTIVE DESIGNED FOR THE UNDERGROUND THAT WAS MADE TO EXPERIMENT WITH HEAT TRANSFER METHODS COULD LAST UNTIL THE 1960'S WHERE 3/4 CYLINDER EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVES WERE THE MAINSTAYS OF EXPRESS PASSENGER WORKINGS, THIS LOCO COULDN'T GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH A GREAT WESTERN CASTLE LET ALONE A GREAT WESTERN AUTO-TANK! IT HAD ISSUES STEAMING AND NEARLY BLEW UP ON IT'S TRIALS BEFORE BEING BOUGHT AND EVENTUALLY SCRAPPED BEFORE IT COULD BECOME A CONVENTIONAL WORKING ENGINE/ 10. SURVIVING EXAMPLE S?!?!?! THERE WAS ONE BUILT AND THAT'S HOW IT WAS. 11. THAT PHOTOGRAPH IS A THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE FAN CREATION OF THE GHOST NOT THE REAL THING! WE ONLY HAD ONE PHOTO TO GO FROM AND YOU'VE BEEN USING OTHER STOCK FOOTAGE OF STEAM ENGINES AND I FEEL RATHER INSULTED YOU WOULD ASOCCIATE THE GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY WITH THIS MESS OF A VIDEO! YOU SHOULDN'T BE MAKING VIDEOS WITH THIS POOR ACCURACY FOR INFORMATION, YOU SHOULD QUIT KZbin BECAUSE THIS IS APPAULING!

[@Arkay315]

You are completely correct, this video is just misinformation.

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

I BOUGHT INTO THIS UNTILL THE STEAM MAN LOLOLOL TAKE YOUR STEAM AND SHOVE IT

[@paulschramm1144]

Case tractor made a world biggest steam power tractor

[@charlesmishak8434]

And Jay Leno does not own the fire truck

[@peje1524]

I miss the sound of Now ai is talking to much

[@MarquisDeSang]

Remember what they took from us.

[@densondirosa4497]

The steam motorcycle pictured at the first of the video is actually powered by compressed air, However a British gentleman built a coal fired steam motorcycle named ‘Jenny’, a Garrett locomotive has a central cab & boiler. Just a couple of inaccuracies….

[@wizlish]

An American named Sylvester Roper built a quite successful steam bicycle... and the locomotive type is spelled 'Garratt' after its inventor; it deserves its own detailed video which should include the early Tasmanian express locomotives and the astounding Algerian engines of the mid-Thirties.

[@supernintenjoe974]

Did he seriously just call the whistle a steam horn? 1:29

[@mechamax7919]

10:31 Fowler's ghost vid reappears! XD

[@AgustinMoreno-t3f]

Es mejor la levitación que eso. Tino de Reynosa.

[@nguyenxuan9531]

Except for the locomotive, the rest only proves that humans can always think of strange things, but the use of those things in real life and in commerce is not high.

[@PablRdgz]

1:20 my skateboard goes faster than that motorbike