The Train within a Train & the Railway Built for Beer - Guinness Brewery Railways

[@hawkerhellfire9152]

Your Pronouncation is spot on. One note though, there are a total of 6 preserved NG steam engines. No15 ran in preservation for 2 years in Stradbally.

[@FalkB2010]

The locomotive powered locomotives? Yeah they tend to do that

[@The_Robbing_Narrator]

Dont know why though..

[@zippy3377]

Can’t guess it

[@tonytins]

We must go deeper.

[@johnathonmcjohn3]

coal fired locomotive? how's locomotive gonna get a job now?

[@Train_Tok_Man]

I’ve never been more intrigued.

[@abyssminiaturestudios6103]

Lmfao in the words of Hyce and Brent Weibol with a heavy Irish accent, " it's an 0-4-0. With big shoes"

[@Combes_]

It's an oh-fir-oh!

[@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243]

Truly one of the three quarters of one idiot moments of all time

[@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243]

Truly one of the three quarters of one idiot moment of all time

[@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243]

Truly one of the three quarters of one idiot moment of all time

[@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243]

Truly one of the three quarters of one idiot moments of all time

[@tonytins]

Honey, I need to borrow your locomotive to power my locomotive.

[@yeoldeseawitch]

Ah yes L O C O M O T I V E P O W E R E D L O C O M O T I V E

[@crestfallensunbro6001]

hmm yes, the locomotive here is powered powered by locomotive

[@jpsholland]

Vegeta, how many locomotives power that locomotive? - Let's see what the scanner says.... HUH!?!.... What is it Vegeta? - This can't be right,... it cant be!!!, the scanner must be broken! How much does the scanner say? - It is... it is... IT IS OVER 9000!!!

[@voltsiano116]

I never considered that a single business may grow so big as to require and entire multikilometer on-site railway just to function... That's so cool!

[@SynchroScore]

We've still got a number of such businesses. Look at any large steel mill. Some of my great uncles worked at Northwestern Steel & Wire, which was a small mill as things went, but they were known for taking in steam locomotives sold for scrap, and the owner having them fixed up and used in the mill. They used steam until the owner died...in _1980._

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

​@@SynchroScore Because of the owners actions I am aware that atleast 3 of the locomotives are around, one in a park in Sterling, another in Amboy, and one at the Illinois Railway Museum

[@geoff1201]

Ford at Dagenham had a substantial railway.

[@SynchroScore]

@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory There is also one sitting in the woods in Galt, IL, just west of Sterling, one on display in Independence IA, one stored in Geneva NE, and one on display in St. Paul, MN. The one we have in Union is currently undergoing a cosmetic restoration.

[@OscarOSullivan]

St Jame’s Gate was a massive site then and still is.

[@sebforce1165]

I absolutely _love_ seeing narrow gauge tracks running in the middle of Standard or Broad gauge ones, it just feels so clever to me, and makes so much sense for space, but _yeesh,_ finding images online is oddly annoying to do. Never thought a Brewery would need little trains to move stuff around, but really should've figured :P

[@SynchroScore]

There are a few installations of three-rail trackage here and there. I know there's a fair bit in Switzerland where the standard gauge and metre gauge overlap. But four-rail is much more rare.

[@Damien.D]

There is a 4 rail setup (so couplers are aligned for narrow gauges engines to haul normal gauge wagons) at the CFBS heritage railway in France. It is used nowadays for regular (every 4 years) massive gathering of preserved rolling stocks, both narrow (1m) and standard gauge, allowing display and running of everything on the network.

[@napsbrickrailways2290]

There’s a famous quote that goes: “Oi mate, I need ta get pissed do ye mind makun me a railwae fir me pints”

[@jameslawrie3807]

I really appreciate these industrial documentaries. Industrial engines and their infrastructure including towers, water systems etc are fascinating and don't receive enough attention

[@lukechristmas3951]

Grain Belt Beer and trains in and out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin are what bring the haulage of beer by train close to home for me. Usually, one would think a private industry would have only one, two or three engines for its own. But I find it amazing that Guinness not only had a good sized roster of narrow and broad gauge engines over time but also built and patented their own unique engine design. That's a good company. And for those out there who also enjoy maritime vessels like myself, there have been special ships and barges that have solely been used for transporting beer and wine.

[@alicehodges9964]

I Like Railways And Steam Engines

[@lukechristmas3951]

7:00 I almost forgot to bring this up, but has anyone else noticed the chalk face on the Hudswell Clarke?

[@alicehodges9964]

It's Awesome The Steam Engines Look Amazing

[@randywise5241]

It was a national necessity. Imagine Irish without their Guinness. It might cause a riot.

[@OscarOSullivan]

Not everyone in Ireland drinks, not everyone who drinks drinks beer and not everyone who drinks stout drinks Guinness, people drink Murphys, Beamish, O’ Hara’s single stout, Porterhouse stouts, Dungarvan Blackrock Irish stout you get the picture.

[@baltoflyer7503]

Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-do I've got a dozen barrels for you Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-day You have caused confusion and delay

[@worldtraveler930]

Should look into the Pabst Brewery railroad in San Antonio Texas!!! 🍺🤠👍

[@rottenroads1982]

It’s nice to know that some of these unique locomotives are preserved.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

Mr Geoghegan certainly was a smart guy in developing a locomotive which suited all his requirements. A brewery can be an environment with lots of dust from the barley and hops, especially in those days when most of the proces would be open and there was a lot of spillage. Now with pneumatic transport of the ingredients, covered tubs, pipelines for liquid transport and modern filling machines it is a lot cleaner

[@C.A.A93]

Of all the jobs to have, driving a steam train around a brewery sound like a very fun one.

[@misterflibble6601]

This would make quite a project for a model railway

[@OscarOSullivan]

When Guinness was first established in 1759 it was an ale brewery. Only started being a porter brewery in the 1790’s. The narrow gauge railway system lasted until the late 1970’s, but the broad gauge railway line to Heuston station was closed in 1965. A number of narrow gauge Guinness engines and a broad gauge engine no.3 are preserved.

[@damienboyington4057]

One of the tank engines (the green on pictured near the end of the vid) is at the talyllyn railway museum. I helped restore that red corris coal truck in the background, some 25 years ago when i was a young volunteer on the railway.

[@NewController01]

I think one of the gauge converter wagons can be found at the Amberley Chalk Pits museum.

[@peters1127]

You continue to give us more festinating stories, Thank you.

[@Arkay315]

Yay, my video suggestion finally got made into a video.

[@ratheonhudson3311]

They really did make an adaptor for narrow Guage to broad Guage locomotives! Astounding history. Thank you

[@zacharyrollick6169]

Thanks for the cool history. Gonna crack open a Guinness.

[@rsc9520]

Me too !!!

[@PuzzlingHousing56]

What's next a locomotive powered by beer?

[@AshCatTrainz]

Don’t tell him about the moonshine powered locomotive-

[@captainryusugi1128]

My Bassett-Lowke Moguls at least run on alcohol. If you distilled beer enough to get to 95% (the highest chemically possible ABV), you could steam them on it.

[@guidor.4161]

It seems even the spiral helix used by model railroaders (espcially in the US) to reach a higher second level of their layout, has a prototype!

[@pileofstuff]

There's several prototype helix examples, but most of them are in mountainous regions. The Tehachapi loop in California and the spiral tunnels in BC, Canada are some of the best known examples

[@guidor.4161]

@@pileofstuff True, i forgot about those...

[@MatthewsBranchLine]

Y’hear that folks? Without trains, Ireland would’ve been a lot less drunk. Also Skarloey used a haulage wagon to take standard gauge wagons to the harbor at Kirk Ronan according to the Reverend W. Awdry.

[@teeKeri]

This was fun, fascinating and educative to watch. Imagine building a model railway of the brewery trains. How cool would that be ♥

[@gregg281261]

Greetings Train of Thought guy. Have you considered making a video of the Wolgan Valley Railway? The WVR was a railway to transport shale oil from the middle of nowhere in New South Wales, Australia, to not far from the middle of nowhere, also in NSW. It operated from about 1907 to 1935 and used Shay locos due to the steep grades, impossible terrain and tight curves. It is now a spectacular walking track and includes a long tunnel known for its glow worms. Might be interesting for you.

[@poxbottle7791]

In 1978 or 79, my father brought me to the brewery, he took me to the highest point in Dublin at the time, which was the storehouse iirc, we spent a couple hours walking through different parts of the facility including the tunnel section for the locos, My father was looking for someone who was drinking is a makeshift "bar" located in the tunnel, I remember the smell, the steam pumps, tuns, and the pipes going throughout, I remember the green paint, a light caterpillar green color everywhere, at the time i was fascinated by the experience but being ten years old I didn't appreciate it for what it was, not long after, the brewery was modernized and all that history was scrapped....well most of it 🤫😜

[@ROCKONNGUNDAMS]

I've been waiting for this to come up in one of your videos- I've always found the idea of Haulage wagons to be SO COOL.

[@Roy_1]

Really cool, I'm glad that there's so many pictures and that they're preserving a few of the engines!

[@tslon4185]

I was all in for the idea of a steam locomotive powering an unpowered locomotive, but the worlds most annoying steam engine kept me hooked. Keep up the good work man.

[@Machodave2020]

Leave it to the Irish to make a locomotive specifically for beer. Edit: I'm sorry, leave it to the Irish to make an entire Railway specifically for beer.

[@markeast74]

genuinely, someone should make this, not in real life but in, say maybe Roblox or smt, or in a virtual experience, or even though I said not in real life, maybe someone could make a museum of this.great vid.

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

I love being Irish 😊 ☘️ but thankfully I am no longer an alcoholic 🙃

[@magnificus8581]

It was great seeing these at the Guinness museum!

[@TenShine1productions]

Id like to see something on the Leek and Manifold railway. The narrow gauge line that pulled standard gauge trucks

[@Steam286]

One of the most interesting engines I can think of is a natural gas plant locomotive. The example in question is currently on display at Steamtown in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The example had no firebox to avoid an accidental explosion at the plant. Instead of this, pressurized steam was pumped into the locomotive periodically.

[@CATASTEROID934]

Fireless locomotives came in a range of sizes and shapes, some used compressed air (where available) but steam was often readily available as plants usually had boilers anyway

[@TheRailwayGuy175]

Can you please make a video of how St Pancras station became a hub for beer trains?

[@garryferrington811]

This was quite interesting!

[@pebblecups]

Nice. More interesting than Cosmeston's Quarry Railway, which is what I was thinking of watching this. Come to think of it there were a few interesting narrow gauge lines in South Wales. Cosmeston, and then there was the sand quarrying or whatever it was at Porthcawl and also the dual gauge tracks at some of the mines. There might have been a very short line on Barry Dock too but information is difficult to find so I cannot confirm it, just a picture I saw years ago of a short narrow gauge line.

[@johnmay6090]

Interesting video! Cheers!

[@TheStickCollector]

These are so unique. I want to make one.

[@historystuff3005]

Of course it was Ireland that had a beer train

[@DennisLora2001]

Excellent work Train of thought

[@Marcy53Volkswagen]

For Anyone wondering, Train Within a train: 5:32

[@frankw8772]

Have a look at the BASS / CORS railway for the bear industry and other industries around in Buringham.

[@Freesavh1776]

Hey it lasted almost a hundred years. I'd say that's pretty good for the industrial revolution.

[@bluehighlander0256]

We've narrow gauge No. 22 preserved at the cavan and leitrim railway in Dromod, Co. Leitrim. Minus a boiler

[@peterbottenberg5713]

These people were quite on the brink of progress. They were also one of the first to have a formal research and quality control lab. In which a guy named Gosset developed a statistical method. He was not allowed to publish it under his own name, nor refer to his employer, so he used the pseudonym 'Student'. The famous 'Student's t-test has got his name this way. Let all scientist raise the glass to his health :)

[@guidor.4161]

Most important railway ever....😁

[@joshmnky]

7:00 that is one of the homeliest looking trains I've ever seen.

[@ErickC]

Wait till you see what WM did to their GP7s and GP9s.

[@13garage._]

i been there. can still find rails at the site

[@primrosevale1995]

If that haulage wagon looks familiar it’s probably cause you’ve seen an edit with Talyllyn in it instead to represent the history of a certain island.

[@bostongeis5123]

Funnily enough, one of the little guys is at the Narrow Gauge museum in Tywyn

[@Nowheres_Channel]

I'm curious if the same design for the "locomotive powered locomotive" was used for Skarloey in the RWS...

[@snewsom2997]

The AB Brewery in STL Mo also has an interesting rail history.

[@willknipe9491]

This is something that bender would be happy to work on

[@Racer69]

I saw them in real life, real cuties.

[@roelantverhoeven371]

brewery "halve maan" in Bruges had a pipeline installed under the city in the 2000's.

[@Hushey]

sounds like my kind of train!

[@justice5832]

I like this railway

[@FlorbeenDorpaman]

Geoghegan: "All of these engines are terrible to maintain and operate, every time we get a new one it's more trouble than the last!" Steam Engine Manufacturer: " Oh yeah? Why don't you go and make one yourself huh? If you think its so easy!" Geoghegan: "Hold my Guinness." *proceeds to make an objectively better steam engine *

[@lordmuntague]

I can't believe they didn't paint the funnels black with the top few inches light cream... 😁

[@harrisonallen651]

Here’s a pint of Guinness for this pub centric train 🚂 🍻

[@MrNoUsername]

If anyone’s wondering, the music is Bitters At The Saloon by Bird Creek kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWmyZWVtnbp4b7Msi=R7hOpIHdrG9volmG

[@petroltrankof2667]

What is the music called?

[@officialmcdeath]

Elements of road-rail maintenance vehicles \m/

[@barrettoliver2009]

God I love trains

[@greycatturtle7132]

Awesome

[@TheLostGamerMan]

The Irish are amazing people. Steam monorail, and now a beer railway.

[@haydenthetoyologist4117]

Why do UK diesels have two tone horns unlike those here in the US?

[@EthanTheEngine7]

drink! chug! arse! 😵‍💫 also i've been to heuston station, as i live in ireland 👍

[@alicehodges9964]

I Like Steam Engines Thay Are Amazing i Like Railways

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

When bro orders exactly one more beer but instead of one more beer a small train with several barrels of the stuff shows up instead

[@AlexanderVonish]

Filling the comically large mug eh?

[@BHuang92]

How about the world's largest model train?

[@ErickC]

I think they called that "British Rail."

[@killerbees177]

I didn't know Bill and Ben were Irish😂

[@tomppeli.]

I'm wondering why not electric? _If_ the brewery was powered regardless, why not electrify the rail network to begin with?

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Millennials invented all this.

[@kellybrown8638]

"Bee-awe"

[@Jayhsia1215]

Skarloey Moment

[@toyotaprius79]

It definitely makes me think that Awdry took more inspiration from Irish railways, stories and landscapes in creating the island of Sodor (and its people). Especially mid-Ulster

[@cleanerben9636]

they could have distilled some alcohol and ran them by burning that. I wonder if it was attempted?

[@Q8Bart]

Drunk engines 😉🚂

[@Austriantrainguy]

Engerth Locomotive

[@IsaacDaBoatSloth]

bEER

[@edgoen7310]

Now russie need a "built for vodka"

[@kiefershanks4172]

Mmmmmm beer

[@joshuaW5621]

We Irish are too reliant on beer, hence why our country is a mess right now.

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

🚂🍻😋👍

[@edward002gaming]

Ofcourse its ireland

[@Kira-vy7vc]

Who else read it as bear

[@templar_1138]

Oh the stereotypes...

[@420sakura1]

It's offensive only if you use it in hate propoganda. Otherwise stereotypes exist for a reason.

[@Jumansa19]

No price and work too much to get alcohol to get to the societies 😞 So many families, relationships and social good behavior were and are still destroyed by alcoholism and people who can't handle the consume and behavior of them self if they get alkalized... "You" should not be proud about any drinking alcohol producers in any country...

[@AurelGaner]

Hi

[@420sakura1]

Unrelated. Why do Northern Irelandees hate Ireland so much?

[@AurelGaner]

Let's leern abaut treins

[@toyotaprius79]

FUN FACToid! Guinness brewery workers were not allowed to intermarry (Catholics and Protestants) until the 1980s, and the very Guinness associated with Irish heritage was actually not just a wealthy family empire but also a strategic tool to subjugate the Irish population from 1759 with alcoholism in parallel with the penal laws etc.

[@elijahbrown3096]

today I learned that the Guinness Book of World Records was started by the people at the Guinness Brewery. I made a quick Google search after seeing the place was the alleged "worlds largest brewery."