Well There's Your Problem | Episode 67: Armored Trains

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[@laineywastaken739]

"Lion's led by problems", and it's sister pod: "well there's your donkeys"

[@qwerty30013]

Lions well led there’s by your donkeys problem

[@dansaunders1655]

Well, your donkeys' problem is leading your lions there

[@GoredonTheDestroyer]

Well There's A Hell Of a Donkey

[@GoredonTheDestroyer]

Alternatively: What a Hell of A Problem.

[@MrJstorm4]

"well there's your donkey" sounds like a podcast that is dedicated exclusively logistics

[@johannageisel5390]

Somewhere in Siberia, a steam locomotive from the Russian civil war roams the land like a metal wooly mammoth.

[@eddlake5694]

Sounds like Mortal Engines but with trains

[@Runningfromtheredqueen]

The Iron Council still stalks Siberia, carrying the last ember of the flame of Revolution.

[@edh-ob5qr]

I've heard whispers that it doesn't even need tracks anymore, it is now guided only by its eldritch hunger for White Russian souls.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

@@edh-ob5qr It’s the Nodens to Von Ungern-Sternburg’s Nyarlathotep

[@anarchomando7707]

@@dylanchouinard6141 terrifying yet effective

[@Martin-xd4jl]

You'd think those Soviet anthem drops would start to get old after a while, but they really just don't.

[@reidwallace4258]

Honestly they just get better.

[@KjetilSeimHaugen]

Like an entire wine cellar of the finest vintage

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

I still automatically salute.

[@fireballninja01]

my friends and I in middleschool did the bit so much two of them took the time to learn the first few stanzas, it's a good bit

[@gloverelaxis]

ehhhhh, it is indeed old when you've already been overexposed to that joke before the pod even started. if it was a bit that was original to the pod, or the point of the joke was how annoying/hackneyed the reference was (see: the ironic rehabilitation of Borat "my wife!" and Austin Powers quotes on Twitter a decade later), then yeah it'd probably stay funny. sudden bass-boosted Soviet anthem has been a stale meme for a long time now. ripper tune though. eternal glory to the worker's councils and the Bolsheviks, and may the stupid autocrat Stalin continue to literally rest in piss

[@benoitbvg2888]

Remember comrades, we are armoured train! They take out the tracks, we artillery! They take out our main gun, we pillbox! They take out our machine gun, we bunker! They take out armour, we heroes!

[@PobortzaPl]

Beast of War reference, I was looking for it!

[@SarahExpereinceRequiem]

Truly a weapon to surpass metal gear

[@michimatsch5862]

@@SarahExpereinceRequiem Metal Gear?!

[@AGenericMoron]

Justin, I appreciate that you have made seemingly no effort to make your podcast introduction sound smooth, professional, or even well spoken. And deliberately never start your podcast at the moment you introduce the podcast. It would honestly not be the same podcast if you started off a video with an immediate and well-rehearsed "Welcome to Well There's Your Problem! It's a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides." If you ever manage to get to your own damn name in this introduction without umming and pausing, I will consider this podcast to be too well produced, accuse you of selling out, and demand a refund for my free KZbin content.

[@leaffinite2001]

Right, a podcast that is worth exactly what im paying for it! Lovely

[@JeanLucCaptain]

And it's not just ARMOURED TRAINS BAD LOLZ. They actually give a really good and helarious history of ATF Armored trains coming to take your Armored Trans!

[@Silkenray]

Speaking as a chemist, I am dreadfully disappointed that my favourite free KZbin vaguely informative engineering disaster podcast seems to have abandoned Roz hilariously mangling organic chemistry nomenclature in favour of inserting more drops of the Soviet Anthem. I would like a refund of my subscription fee of £0. How dare you not cater to my niche, narrow interests!

[@rawbebaba]

Hello, I am representative of the WTYP Soviet subscription refund agency. We regret to inform you that we cannot process your refund at this time, however if you send us your banking information I will be able to send you a refund personally

[@JoJoModding]

The best part is when Justin says „we're gonna get to that“

[@Daneelro]

YES!!!

[@Anonarchist]

'On x date, at y time...'

[@derrickfoster644]

That really should be on a t-shirt

[@scarylion1roar]

@@derrickfoster644 with "I have ruined the pacing again", like, on the back or something 😁

[@derrickfoster644]

@@scarylion1roar lol yes

[@ExecutorElassus]

"Lions led by Problem" This whole podcast has left me deceased. Please invite Joe back.

[@scarylion1roar]

well there's your donkeys

[@CopenhagenRayne]

@@scarylion1roar nooo! Too much Short episode just a bunch of slides with donkeys

[@power_mac]

@@scarylion1roar @jonas.h Fans of the crossover podcast 'Well there's your donkey' affectionately call the show 'Ass spotting'.

[@andrewross1515]

Problems led by Donkeys

[@alfalafelstine1536]

All 👏 military 👏 leaders 👏 are 👏 problems

[@coolmikefromcanada]

imagining a typhoon class on rails "give me one ping vasili" *trolley bell rings once*

[@BorrieBeats]

Oh my daysssss, couldn’t stop laughing

[@ThePorpoisepower]

"Give me one ding Vasili, one ding only"

[@gthreek]

this made me choke on my lemonade, thanks

[@coolmikefromcanada]

@@gthreek no problem

[@alexkorman1163]

The Jewish-Armenian space laser is the Apollo-Soyuz of inter faith conspiracy lasers.

[@firstdurhamite1142]

I regularly reference this to random people who just go along with it

[@sirrliv]

Gotta say, I was expecting a repeat of the Hindenburg episode that was basically 3 hours of "Hurr hurr, airships are stupid". Was surprised and gratified to hear "Armored trains are stupid but we love them". Because they are stupid and we do love them. One thing to point out regarding the whole tearing/blowing up the track thing: Most armored train doctrine called for having a "control car", basically a flatcar weighed down with random stuff, as the first and last cars of the train. The idea being that if the track was damaged or mined, the expendable flatcar would derail and/or explode before the rest of the train. Likewise, most of the "random stuff" on said cars would often include spare rails, sleepers, ballast rock, sandbags, and other supplies that could be used to rebuild the track. So if the train were derailed, the control car would either be pulled back onto the surviving track or pushed onto the lineside, and some of the armored train's crew would get out and, under the cover of the train's guns, rebuild the section of track that was damaged, and the train would proceed on its way. Obviously, this method was of dubious effectiveness, but it was considered from the start.

[@pleasant_asymmetry]

Also, there's not actually much damage that regular infantry soldiers can do to railroad tracks in a short enough window that it wouldn't be noticeable. While there is stuff like in the movie The Train, where a section of track has the fasteners removed so it is sabotaged but not detectable, and a locomotive derails upon reaching that section, it was only possible because the train commander was in a rush, didn't properly check the track or the landscape, didn't have flatcars in front that would have derailed instead of the engine, and was going very fast. Trains going 10-20 mph can actually stop pretty quickly, and they would be going at that speed in enemy territory

[@EvilStevilTheKenevilPEN15]

I mean, airships were horrifically expensive, incredibly fragile, and for all their immense size and cost they couldn't actually carry all that much. It took them four years to build the Hindenburg, and it made all of _17_ round trips across the Atlantic, carrying a grand total of 2,798 passengers, before bursting into flames and destroying itself in a matter of minutes. That passenger number might _sound_ good, until you compare it against ocean liners, which could carry that many people in _one_ trip. Oh, and did I mention it was slower even than 1930's airplanes?

[@Ian_Wallace.]

18:50 "Rub a dub dub six men in a tub, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, the ammunition bearer, the machine gunner, and the fire team leader"?

[@josheldridge8546]

"I knew a dude named glasscock; you could always see him coming." --Alan Davies (paraphrased)

[@deeznoots6241]

Btw the Czech legion at one point controlled the entire trans-Siberian railroad, practically occupying an area several hundred times the size of Czechia The Schwerer Gustav was actually effective in that it destroyed the underwater Sevastopol armoury, because it turns out that you need a stupidly big gun to take out an armoury that is several feet under water and concrete

[@dr.velious5411]

I was listening to an album by Heavy Gustavo, I guess I know where the name came from now.

[@angusmillerable]

"Valley of Humiliation" needs to be on a NJ license plate.

[@josephharold808]

That and "the Profaine Capitol; Trenton, NJ" Maybe that's the tri-centenial plate.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

I wrote the governor during the height of the pandemic advocating a change of the ‘Welcome to NJ’ signs at the Pennsylvania and NY borders to ‘Stick to the Parkway, asshole’. He told me that we can’t say the quiet part aloud because the money’s too good, but rest assured - NJ is a state built around the sole concept of repelling everyone who isn’t already living in New Jersey. I’m only half-joking. This literally goes back to the War of Independence.

[@dmrr7739]

Some good news for Giuliani: Chevron is leasing the back half of his head for exploratory drilling.

[@gloverelaxis]

overheard some astrophysicists talking about him yesterday; they were pretty animated talking about "off the charts albedo" and putting up something called a "daisen [sp?] sphere"

[@gloverelaxis]

actually on that note I can't wait for the 2761 A.D. WTYP episode on humanity's first Dyson Sphere. bound to be an all-timer

[@eagletanker]

Dyson spheres are so fucking dumb

[@PinkThorn242]

1:01:16 "Thomas the Tank Engine's grumpier German cousin: Gustav the Railway Gun."

[@JoJoModding]

Adolf the Hitler engine

[@OpreRoma]

Timo the Train Tank

[@nicholasj.m.butler4435]

Sad they didn't mention the ridiculous amenities on Trotskys armored train. Also Sad they didn't mention Poncho Villa sending a train loaded with explosives against another train full of Troops outside Ciudad Juarez during the Mexican Civil war, one of the great examples of Chihuahuan excellence. Also yay Liam

[@anarchomando7707]

Give me the deets

[@nicholasj.m.butler4435]

@@anarchomando7707 let me get home and ill have some quotes for you

[@nicholasj.m.butler4435]

Found the quote, its the battle of tierra blanca, november 1913, villa is fighting the federal troops of Victoriano Huerta, the section is from “the life and times of poncho villa” “For two days the battle continued, consisting of a series of charges and countercharges, with each side trying to outflank the other. The superior firepower of their cannon, their greater number of machine guns and above all, their larger supplies of ammunition allowed the federal troops to relentlessly pound the revolutionary lines and to inflict ever-greater casualties on them. Villas troops nevertheless held their positions. By the third day of fighting the villistas situation had grown desperate. Their ammunition was giving out, and the pounding by federal artillery and machine guns continued ceaselessly. At this point, Villa made a bold and desperate move. He ordered his troops to charge into withering enemy fire and at a crucial moment of the fighting, his cavalry attacked the federal flanks, causing panic among the federal troops. The panic was heightened when the villistas SENT A LOCOMOTIVE LOADED WITH DYNAMITE INTO A FEDERAL TROOP TRAIN, CAUSING A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION. A rout now o cured and the government troops most of their artillery in villista hands when they fled toward Ciudad Chihuahua.” (Katz, 226-227) So yeah, basically Villa did the old “throw the throttle on the locomotive with a bunch of dynamite technique” and won a battle in part to doing that. Chihuahuan excellence at its finest

[@Improbabilities]

@@nicholasj.m.butler4435 I may be late, but thank you for providing this gem.

[@dansaunders1655]

Viva Zapata, viva Pancho, y viva el tren lleno de explosivos

[@reidwallace4258]

5:35am on a Wednesday... Time to eat magic mushrooms and laugh at trains.

[@DAFLIDMAN]

How those shrooms working out for you buddy?

[@rinnhart]

Read my mind, Wallace.

[@benoitbvg2888]

Hey your hands look weird, man.

[@v1keman]

Life goals

[@MrOtokka]

Come on. Train good.

[@LuckeWent]

I feel you Joe. When I was in the military they gave me a name tag that said "Ass FAC". Supposedly this was short for Assistant Forward Air Controller.

[@Dafnessific]

Cleared in hot 🥴

[@memomorph5375]

That’s rough, buddy

[@alexroselle]

Gives a whole new meaning to “danger close”

[@TheArkTheArkTheArk]

Boy they really FACed you with that name tag.

[@OpreRoma]

Was your name tag an instruction? We really come a long way since don't ask don't tell

[@CalmAndInsane]

It's fitting that the start of the Soviet National Anthem sounds a bit like a distorted train horn.

[@gloverelaxis]

would probably sound sick on a calliope

[@heheheiamasuperstarcatgirl8485]

its just the doppler effect of a train horn barrelling straight towards you

[@Midwest_Urbanist]

Fun fact: I might be related to General Gajda, who led the Czechs across Siberia (similar spelling to my Polish name which originates in nearby Silesia). When y'all mentioned they "captured some stuff" you didn't really get the full scale across. They captured 20,000 prisoners, 5,000 railway cars, 60 cannons, 1,000 machine guns, and an entire naval fleet in just a single battle.

[@iannordin5250]

Czechsellence

[@fulccrum2324]

Well gosh diddly darn

[@brentdalebroux2821]

Czech-mate.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

I think at that point you become a train raider city...which damn I'm going to save that as a world building concept. Except the war ended like two generations ago so the people living on the train now don't really feel like going home now, they were born there.

[@GoredonTheDestroyer]

Hey, that is - by definition - some stuff.

[@tompain9735]

The UK has a van running around to check for any unlicensed armored trains.

[@dansaunders1655]

Johnson intends to upgrade it to a bus

[@alicereddings9209]

LJSLA: Liam Jewish Space Laser Anderson I know I am correct and will accept no alternative

[@criticalevent]

I think the nuclear missile train idea could have worked if EVERY freight train in America were required to include one of these cars and no one knew which ones were armed and which were carrying ballast. And then just don't arm any of them.

[@Hamun002]

this is entirely too safe overall for that period of time. nuclear annihilation under the airforce was on a hair trigger

[@Raptor747]

In fairness to armored trains, they were an attempt at fulfilling the desire to have actually mobile heavy tanks/land battleships before the technology existed to make that kind of mobile, armored firepower. And let's be clear, here: the better-made armored trains look fucking cool as hell, and we all wish that things like that could be practical (by not actually needing tracks or getting stuck on terrain).

[@williamchamberlain2263]

19:32 does look good and hefty.

[@civilengineer3349]

Considering that train tracks were absolutely necessary for transporting troops and supplies fast back then, most armies wouldn't destroy enemy train tracks if they could capture it. An armored train is useful for protecting those troops and supplies from ambush and could also raid enemy held train stations.

[@Thekilleroftanks]

That and to keep supply lines open from attacks. Fun fact when everyone has just rifles and maybe a light field gun. You don't need to worry about much. And seeing how there was armoured trains from the American civil war. Means there was a good 50 or so year period where they were the top dogs. It wasn't until late 1910 where the notion of a high velocity but light enough cannon became common and that's when everything started going down hill. However their use was still important during WW2 on the western front. Because that's a lot of land you gotta travel through.

[@evamiller4886]

It’s good Biden recognized the Armenian genocide, which deserves more recognition than it often gets in the US. But if he wants to talk about Turkey it would be nice if he also discussed the historic and ongoing ethnic cleansing efforts of the Turkish state against the Kurds. In recent years it’s “just” been mob violence, activists and journalists disappearing, and the fact it’s illegal to use or teach their language in any school public or private, but there’s also the history of massacres and mass executions, a lot of it resembles the genocide against Native Americans Turkey is calling out. I’d like to think Biden responding to that acknowledgment with pressure for Turkey to treat minorities better right now could help to make change or at least bring more light to the issue. He probably won’t though because corporate Dems can be pretty cowardly.

[@jackthorton10]

We can only hope

[@Dafnessific]

One day General Kerensky will return with Clan Ghost Train and lay waste to the hubristic Houses of the Inner Sphere.

[@boldandbrash9447]

I heard Clan Ghost Train got utterly suplexed at Tukayid.

[@Runningfromtheredqueen]

But wait, do they have to take rail gauge into account for their *batchall*? Or is that just assumed to be standard?

[@Piterdeveirs333]

Yay Kerensky

[@eclipserepeater2466]

Well, legged armored vehicles make about as much sense as armored trains, so it makes fits.

[@Houseckat]

@@Runningfromtheredqueen No, it's a wierd Clan Rail Gauge, so they have to refit every railcar to compromise wheels.

[@Debilitator47]

The episode I didn't even know I wanted. Hoping it's as good as the zeppelin episode, which I have listened to several times because it's just...so good. I also have an undying love of airships, dirigibles, blimps, and balloons, impractical and deadly as they are.

[@Pletzmutz]

Now I want someone to build an armoured zeppelin.

[@WebertHest]

I mean they are about as wrong in this episode as they were in the zeppelin one, so.

[@brentdalebroux2821]

@@Pletzmutz "Vat if we filled ze airship with concrete?"

[@falloutghoul1]

The story of the Czech Legion's train adventure is the funniest thing I have yet heard on this podcast. The last funniest thing was the Hindenburg.

[@CarlVolt]

Liam's full name is clearly Liamdon B Johnson

[@alexroselle]

“The Soviets built a second rail gun named Dora the Exploder”

[@Dekubud]

10 months later and Russia unleashes an armored train on Ukraine. Edit: 1:41:00 You guys predicted the Russian tank conga lines.

[@ernekid7241]

The Drunk Czech guy train riff made me laugh so hard I almost crashed my car.

[@d.lam.8178]

So around 56 minutes in you guys started talking about how they tried piping smoke down to ground level. Smoke elimination isn't so much as for stealth (i.e. not knowing that a train is nearby) but making it harder to locate without physically see it. That's not a new idea, it having been done to some extent on the narrow gauge lines supplying the WWI trench networks on both sides. Piping it down to track level was a quick and dirty method, and while your exhaust smoke would rise back up at some point behind the train, it's not going to go nearly as high (as you've lost heat energy that caries the exhaust skyward), and the train's own movement will help disburse the smoke cloud quicker and closer to the ground. Makes it damn near impossible for ground based observers to see, and aerial observers would likely have more difficulty as the smoke signature wouldn't be as obvious from a safe altitude. Another thing you could do is pipe your smoke into a water tank, whether the locomotive's own water supply or a separate water car. Doing it on the locomotive introduces a long term problem if you pipe the exhaust smoke and steam into the water supply, as locomotives of the time didn't have feedwater pumps that could inject water at a point close to boiling into the locomotive boiler. The standard injectors of the day would eventually not be able to pump the water into the boiler if it go too hot (I've heard anywhere from 150 to 180 degrees, but have struggled to find technical literature that gives an exact point that the water temperature is a problem for injectors.). And of course smoke elimination was a thing with railways in urban areas or with long stretches of underground rail routes that were served by steam locomotives. Operations in London around the turn of the 20th century are a good point to start, as just about every railway in the city had condenser-equipped locomotives for just that purpose.

[@haphazardlark1502]

Feels almost like I’m being haunted by jokes from kill James Bond.

[@cGoryeo]

The podcast about Bondology

[@dakunssd]

a hauntology, if you will.

[@jonweber8921]

The Dad's Army line was clearly a throw back to TrashFuture.

[@dakunssd]

@@jonweber8921 It's like all these podcasts are running together into one amorphous genderfluid blob of making light of the crimes and boorishness of the British Empire. Also slides, occasionally.

[@eleSDSU]

@@cGoryeo Bondology: the feeling of loss for the Bonds we could've had.

[@AetherialPhage]

The wreckage of the old Tacoma Narrows Bridge serves as home to many giant Pacific octopus, the largest species of octopus in the world.

[@discoj7112]

Wait til next episode please

[@redbasher636]

LIAM, I WANTED TO SAY THIS. You inspired me with your "no shit taken" attitude to straight up shut down an asshole who'd been harassing me. :) Thank you, oh Grand Duke.

[@robin8404]

As soon as I heard "the Union _also_ came up with their own railroad gun" I was like "oh shit, this is the same bullshit as the ironclads, where each side had one and they were billing it as some kind of unstoppable superweapon, but it was actually kinda shit except in specific situations". Yep...

[@grmpEqweer]

"Why are they putting a flamethrower at the front of it?" Because they had one? 😁

[@Mamorufumio]

rules of the armored train, if you have free space and more Dakka on hand, then put more dakka onto it.

[@William-Morey-Baker]

@@Mamorufumio flamers aren't dakka and you know it...

[@PobortzaPl]

IIRC flamers do "morale damage" (or maybe it was only on first Dawn of War game)

[@Nwmguy]

Brush clearance.

[@grmpEqweer]

@@Nwmguy 🤔

[@kensurrency2564]

I’m so happy they keep bringing Joe onto the show. Two of my favorite podcasts! And yes, Liam, you’re doing good.

[@danielkorladis7869]

I choose to believe that the armored train is, indeed, a technical (as long as it was not originally designed as that).

[@ClaudiaNW]

There isn't a pinned comment yet, so let me predict how it will go. Pinned comment: "I don't like the thing you are doing can you do a different thing that I like" Liam: "I will fucking increase the fucking thing"

[@killerbee.13]

Close, but actually it was about Alice instead of Liam.

[@jackthorton10]

I just now reported it to KZbin, hopefully it will get that whole argument there out of the way

[@diestormlie]

Notch. EIGHT.

[@William-Morey-Baker]

I'm convinced that union armored train car around the 30:00 mark is the progenitor of all modern RVs and or camper trailers... It looks just like every camper from the 70s/80s... Really just every camper trailer ever honestly. Good stuff...

[@jadebullet3884]

The ghost ridden locomotive story reminds me of how during the one railroad strike in PA, someone did the same thing to a heavy freight locomotive in Easton PA and sent it running into the LVRR railroad president's parked personal locomotive, which shoved it down the tracks into a parked coal train, crushing it. Edit: I love the Geschutzwagon(German gun Jerry Rigged onto a French tank) on an armored flatcar with the German armored train.

[@scarylion1roar]

🎼 I'm a pillbox on wheels Say what you will I done made the devil a deal He made me baggage car He made me armored and I'm gonna break a million rails

[@daltonkraft4241]

Since I could mute my mic for my test this morning, I got to listen to my two favorite podcasts while acing my final. Thanks WTYPPod and Joseph Kassabian!

[@eve36368]

1:37:19 "that day his prostate grew 3 sizes too big" i lost myself to laughter for like a full minute, like i replayed this section OMFG

[@Feral_Badger]

Come for the Yay Liam, stay for everything else

[@propellhatt]

The cute little British mini train actually shot down three German planes during the war. So a pat on its back is warranted, I suppose

[@grmpEqweer]

It's like getting shot down by an anime character.

[@jonweber8921]

Three very tiny airplane stamps on the inside of the gunner turret.

[@gloverelaxis]

were the German planes animatronic or just suspended from a beam by nylon strings and spun like a crib mobile?

[@lfraser7128]

I’m just really glad they finally mentioned yugoslavia in an episode Edit: as for where they got the hell cat, the Yugoslav army had them laying around from the late 40’s

[@sarapocorn]

Slovenian here: yes.

[@pommunist]

I worked with a Muslim guy who stopped drinking spirits during Ramadan, beer and wine were still ok though... Aussie-Islam !

[@tributetolost]

For any curious Aussie-Muslims lurking: drinking any kind of alcohol invalidates your prayer for 40 days and you've entered a state of acute apostasy while intoxicated.

[@kamikazekittiesii161]

After along exhausting day landscaping its so nice to come home to this! Gonna put this on the Bluetooth speakers and take a long hot bath.

[@ferdinandpenguin]

Alternate podcast son name: Well there’s your donkey

[@hodakok]

as a czech the enrire fucking bit about czech legionaires and pilsner urquel had me out of the breath amazing episode as always

[@TalkingSoup]

joe has such good chemistry with the three of 'em, they need to have him back more often

[@Stoyon]

The safety third reminded me of what is currently going on in Stockholm. Stockholm is a city in Sweden, northern Europe, it is rather pretty in the summer and there are quite a few tourists, as such we have sightseeing busses, double decker sightseeing busses, soft top double decker sightseeing busses. These busses like to drive with the top open to give their patrons a good view of the city. Stockholm also have a small tram network, a tram network that uses overhead powerlines. Parts of the open top double decker sightseeing bus routes crosses the path of the tram network. This has been running like this for years. Sometimes the busdriver takes the wrong route and drive along the tram tracks, with their double decker, open soft top bus, containing paying tourists, on the top floor, with the overhead power line running just above their heads. So far I have yet to hear about any deaths, but watch this space...

[@grmpEqweer]

It'll be...wait...shocking. I know, I know, I'm going...

[@WaterMan416]

Sounds like future episode material

[@jackthorton10]

If you universally just jinxed the death of dozens of people, I swear to god

[@Bluecho4]

Honestly, I'd love to see a treasure hunt movie about people trying to find the lost armored train of the Czechoslovak Legion, and its cargo of Tzarist gold.

[@MrJimheeren]

I’ve followed Dononeat01 in being banned from Twitter for threatening Nazis. Damn shame. I’ve loved fighting with Nazis on Twitter, oh well hi guys. New episode of my favorite podcast will brighten my week

[@ericbruun9020]

Just making sure that people who might be interested that there are two studies about SEPTA Regional Rail and one about SEPTA Subway Surface rail that we did at Penn in the early 90s available on ResearchGate.

[@crybernetics9007]

SEPTA's modernization plan now includes a heavily armored jolly trolley

[@HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

28:41 I often wonder if artillery people back then were just stone deaf as a matter of course. Like, surely there's no way you could fire a great big cannon from a fort's echoey stone casemate without seriously damaging your hearing.

[@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw]

WHAT?

[@ViolentOrchid]

I'm imagining the nuclear train raising the missile and the mechanism that probably moves the missile towards the center of that car as it rises failing: "Do a wheelie!" And then you nuke somewhere directly behind you.

[@ExplizitDuester]

It rises and hits a bridge

[@nekobun]

Walking the boardwalk at the Jersey shore and out of nowhere you hear, "Watch out for the tram gun, please." "What?" ::BOOM::

[@fuzzwork]

I have seen the video of the Croats rolling a sea mine down a hill to chase Serbs out of a forest. It is Awesome

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

Honestly the best way to hide a nuke in a train car is to spay paint it with graffiti and just put it on a random siding. No one will look at it twice.

[@henrycurtis3652]

"we've all become Czech" ahh, Brnofication

[@sodinc]

Brno Nice

[@Daneelro]

1:08:35 I have seen this one several times in real life, and waited whether I can add a mention of it in a comment - but you really did your homework. But I will add some details. The genesis of this train is somewhat similar to the Bolshevik ones: Zvolen, a small city in the core region of the Slovak National Uprising, had (still has) one of the largest railway repair shops in the country, so they wanted to do _something_ big fast. It took just 18 days to put it in service, along with two other armoured trains. The way I read the story, it was repaired after it was first damaged and redeployed into battle, its operators abandoned it and switched to partisan tactics because they got surrounded. The train that is exhibited is not "real": although some of the cars used to be part of another armoured train, what you see was a reconstruction for a 1974 film.

[@steveg5122]

Yay Lliam!

[@maglorian]

Yay Liam!

[@_oe_o_e_]

Yay Liam!

[@sweetpeabee4983]

Yay Liam! 🥳

[@TemplarOnHigh]

@@maglorian Yay Iam!

[@HelixFlame33]

Yay Liam!

[@criticalevent]

I transport all my gold via highly vulnerable fixed route that my vehicle can not deviate from.

[@warmachine5835]

"Scoreboard" is, to this day, my favorite shutdown.

[@GTDGalatea]

How did y'all mention "Train Corps" without talking about "train-Core", my newest least favorite metal genre?

[@adamevans1989]

Joe talking about 'conga line tanks' hits a bit different after seeing Russia's attempt at one in Ukraine...

[@johnathanh2660]

M18 Hellcat - that's the WORST tank to use! It is a tank destroyer designed to move VERY quickly and so armour has been sacrificed. It even has thick armour (which only stops bullets) and an OPEN turret. So, it has been strapped to a flat bed trailer where its' speed advantage is totally nullified and the FYR is hilly/mountainous so the 'opposition' can fire down from above. Add in the fact that any main gun mounted in a tank turret has limited elevation and depression.

[@spleeble]

Alice wisely forgot all of that "law" bullshit so she could make more room for jokes and being cool

[@Neuttah]

The Railroad Battery reminds me of Vietnam-era Gun Trucks. Regarding the M18; Informbiro Period. 1948-55. Also included M36 and M47s.

[@abbajuice9613]

my dad was listening to this in the car and it was such a comfort to me i’m so glad i found it, i will now fall asleep to this :)

[@arueshalaetablebuildingsociety]

Man, the fact that this episode dropped before 2022, and the fucking Russian Federal Armored Train, is tragic.

[@firefox3187]

That little English armoured train, did shoot down some German plains, that ended up hitting the ground as the side through off the pilots depth perception so the where too low to pull out of there attack dives. 😂👍

[@OddLeah]

*planes *threw *were *their

[@beefbobjones5900]

Bruh. L.J.S.L.A. Literally "Liam Jewish Space Laser Anderson"

[@MrJohndoakes]

1:31:04 They got the M-18 from the US, in the early 1950s, because America tried using Yugoslavia's independence as a wedge against the Warsaw Pact. They also sold the Yugoslav Air Force F-86 Sabre jet fighters. This was called the "Informburo period" and ended around 1955.

[@miche1df]

*to the tune of Arnold Layne* armored trains you're not to blame

[@britishrocklovingyank3491]

I haven't listened yet because I am saving it for work tomorrow but I declare this a great episode and y'all need to tell y'all's friends to listen.

[@devinfaux6987]

51:57 Missed a perfect joke: should've taken that left turn at Albequerstok.

[@gibbcharron3469]

The way they described the misadventures of the Czech Legion made me really want to see that brought to the screen as some kind of dark comedy period piece. Call it ‘Last Train to Vladivostok’ or something.

[@rambis4120]

The Chonky Choo Choo episode = much excitement

[@pamdemonia]

They had (still have? ) one of those mini trains in Wheaton Regional Park when I was a kid. I loved it. So cool.

[@pin0teres]

3:33 "What if your tank run on coal?" I am like "Sigh, here it goes, just be done with it.", and then "Where is my mandatory Polish coal joke?!"

[@HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

That would imply that Polish tank propulsion has evolved beyond the traditional method of the crew getting out and pushing.

[@PobortzaPl]

Actually... Polish Republic had quite a few armoured trains in 1939. Some of them used tankettes and tanks for recon "in the field".

[@grmpEqweer]

@@PobortzaPl Tankettes? Female tanks? Do they have babies? Is that how we get off-road vehicles?

[@PobortzaPl]

@@grmpEqweer You see, when a tank has a gun it means it's a male tank. If tank has only machine guns it means it's a female tank. Hence, small tanks armed only with machine guns are called tankettes.

[@grmpEqweer]

@@PobortzaPl ...If you remove the gun and retrofit machine guns, it would have to be a trans tank, I gather.

[@SAnne-pc8hc]

Theres a good chance that I exist only because of an engineering failure on D-day

[@anarchomando7707]

I want to hear about this now

[@SAnne-pc8hc]

​@@anarchomando7707 My grandfather was a day late to the whole battle because the landing craft he was on broke down, or so the story goes. He also taught me about that Gustav gun, and the Paris gun while I was like elementary school aged.

[@justicar5]

'gotta mordernise that nuclear stockpile' just hits different mid 2022.

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

1:28:20 *inflates your missile making it big and round*

[@nanothrill7171]

goddamn the Zaamuret has some rad design and also a wild story.

[@ArgieGrit]

this has to be the funniest episode you've done since the V-22. I had to stop this video so many times it probably took me twice as much as it should have

[@lukeman9851]

You know damn well the railed gunners circling the Tesla factory couldn't be in a train. They'd have to be in individual self-propelled pods, each running on large and very flammable batteries. And it would have to be an elevated monorail track. The only reason those pods aren't in a depressurized tube is the need to shoot at people from the side

[@joshuahadams]

Fire once and the recoil knocks the pod off the monorail

[@Shortfirstslip]

Ok so this is the episode where I learnt a bunch of Czech guys did Xenophon’s March during the Russian Revolution, but with a train.

[@thegenericguy8309]

So, probably unrelated, but I was sitting in a New York subway station and this giant armored train blew through absolutely hauling ass, took about ten minutes to fully pass and a bunch of pissed off Czech dudes kept jumping off

[@devinfaux6987]

"You can't really switch the tracks without stopping, right?" What are you talking about? I've played Starfox, you just need to make sure you shoot the eight smaller switches, then the one big switch. And you've got a shitload of guns, so it should be easy!

[@lolwutinternet]

1:00:30 We've done it, folks; we've found the elusive "Train Bad (TM)"

[@uilsoum875]

Liam: Roczniak (derogatory) Rocz: hello

[@briankemery459]

Point about the camo train: probably took after the razzle dazzle school of camo which was purely to disrupt analog rangefinding methods by breaking up the outline.