The Story of the Trans Europe Express
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2022
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In a time before high speed express trains such as the TGV and the ICE criss-crossed Europe, and when domestic air travel was still a fledgling alternative, the nations of the near continent were connected through a series of luxury high speed trains which fell under the Trans Europe Express marque, one of the finest international express trains to ever run, but one queered by the prospect of inevitable decline as market forces rapidly turned against it.
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At the end of the summer of 1976, and a month before starting school in Aix, I bought a one-month,first class Eurail Pass for $400(?). OMG. I lived like James Bond on those trains - even skipping hotel stays and sleeping on night services - four 4 glorious weeks. While my peers were back-packing in jeans - hitch-hiking and eating granola - I was wearing a navy blue worsted wool suit and tie and slicing into tender schnitzels, lol. I didn't need reservations. That pass was a carte blanche! I really enjoyed this video!!! Thank you Rory! 🤗 Oh, and near the end of the video was a demo of one of tge signature features of the french TEE - the electric louvered blinds embedded in the windows...!
French and Italian TEE required reservation, as far as I know, even with a pass. You could get those at stations until shortly before departure.
@@uncinarynin I stand corrected. I do recall playing dumb on occasion and usually getting a break when space was not an issue. Thanks. Have a great day.
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May I ask what made you 'live' on a train?
That sounds fantastic. There's certainly a lot less style to the trains we have now, while these old thing looked gorgeous. The days when getting there was half the fun of the trip.
No wonder the German group: Kraftwerk dedicated an Album + album track: to the TEE. Named: "Trans Europe Express!" Truly stylish and romantic travel through Europe. I knew practically nothing about the TEE before watching this video!
Think Kraftwerk's robotic yet optimistic sound on Europe Endless is an apt musical description of Europe at the time. Man, what a time would it have been to live in '70s-'90s Europe...
Took a ride on it 1977- Bordeaux -Paris. Willy Wonka stuff
One TEE Ram trainset is preserved in the Netherlands. I stood years at the Amsterdam Dijksgracht, rotting away. Until the end of 2021. Then it got preserved by the Dutch Transport Museum in Nieuw Vennep. Those people are working hard to get it back in the original state
Just some passenger cars though. The original power units were scrapped in Canada after technical problems.
None of the first generation TEE sets are currently operational. A German attempt to restore a 601 class train was aborted for cost overruns, but a number of vehicles are preserved non-operational in Koblenz, Augsburg and Nürnberg, with some more in Braunschweig used internally by railadventure at their "Zughotel" maintenance depot.
TEE was one of the coolest train brands ever, and a great idea at the time, with some very cool looking rolling stock. I feel like, with all the fuss over high speed rail these days, and environmental concerns etc, it could be a really good idea to bring the brand back, with some new cool rolling stock that evokes the same kind of ideals as the original, but newer and faster to compete with the likes of the TGV, ICE, Thalys etc.
Don’t worry, it’s already in the works with many of the same actors as before: SNCF FR, DB GE, SBB CH, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, AVE Spain.
What unique service would TEE 2 provided that ICE TGV Renfre etc do not already do? the idea of slower trains running on other routes looks good, however I wonder if they could attract enough paying customers away from Air and High Speed rail services unless all nations in the EU occupied territories are to be instructed to cease ALL internal air services for all but EU officials and domestic politicians! but I did love the look of those TEE and turbo trains when I was an adventurous 16 year old traveling the European networks with an inter-rail ticket!
@@I_am_NEVER_wrong ‘What unique services would TEE 2 provided that ICE, TGV, Renfre, etc do not already?’ - Integrated timetables, ticketing, service levels, booking systems …. So that there is really a seamless Trans Europe Express network and passenger experience.
@@lours6993 it seems that anyone holding a different view to you is irritating and as I have a life I will simply say yeah your right bye bye.
@@I_am_NEVER_wrong I thought I was providing an simple answer to a simple question. I honestly have no idea how you have taken offense.
In Vienna, we sit in a late-night cafe
Straight connection, T-E-E
Trans-Europe Express
Der der, der-der de der... 🙂
wir fahren fahren fahren
auf der autobahn...
Rendez-vous in Champs Elysees
Leave Paris in the morning with TEE
We going to a club
And we start to dance
We are showroom dummies
7:02
The VT98 railbusses were actually really special! These small Diesel rail cars were regarded in Germany as the “Saviours of the branchlines” as their cost efficiency made many branchlines profitable. They were produced in the fifties and still ran up until the early 2000s.
See British Rail Railbus or "Pacers"
@@jamesforster7612 Well unlike the Pacers, they were comfortable AND reliable ;)
@@scanida5070 And presumably ran at useful times with useful connections
@@scanida5070 Pacers where reliable, its why they hung around for so long, they just had zero comfort.
The last operator to give them up was the Südostbayernbahn, my local regional variety of DB, in the mid 2000s.
Good Morning Everyone.
Smashing Video, thanks.
Good morning fellow transportation Conrad.
Good morning
East Germany had a service with Sweden called "The Berliner" which used the streamlined "VT 18.16" train sets that would very much fit in amongst these trains.
Those Rheingold panorama carriages where also used in Sweden in the early 2000's after deregulation.
Upstart train company "Tågkompaniet" had won the bid to run the night trains between Narvik/Luleå and Stockholm/Gothenburg and to gain some exclusivity they bought 5 Rheingold Panorama/Restaurant carriage's for use on those trains for a few years.
Good documentary.
Just one clarification about the danish version of the DB 601. The danish version (class MA) were not repurposed TEE sets, but were built new in the early 60's. They also had a different makeup, with six intermediate cars instead of five. Two of the cars were also gangwayed cab cars, so the train could be split for fitting onto the Great Belt Ferry and so that it could serve two different destinations.
Stunning lines on that train.
...and it has a great tune as well!
I’m surprised he didn’t mention the Kraftwerk Album: Trans-Europe-Express!
Hi to all the Kraftwerk fans who've arrived here by mistake. Stick around, Ruairidh knows his stuff. :)
Ya, we are humming or singing the Trans-Europe Express song.
One of your best vids ever. Thank you - it shows how WW2 changed so much in Europe, yet, good old Blighty just kept on. TEE was a marvellous concept, executed brilliantly; to my 60 year old mind, it's still as exotic as... the most exotic and useful thing you can think of. I sign off with... Kraftwerk, TEE. An album. Go and have a listen. This is the future we never actually had.
Great episode, thank you! 🥰
Amazing facts also revealed by followers in the comments add a lot to the stories!
Love the view of the Caravelle jet, too!!
I remember seeing one while inter-railing in the 80s. Can't remember the location or exact date: was either '83 or '86. Immortalised by Kraftwerk of course :)
I still regret not being able to use these services when they were running. Excellent seating, a dedicated restaurant car and stylish rolling stock.
Back in 1969 I was at a station somewhere in Germany (sorry for memory loss) as a young Canadian student. While waiting on the platform early for my train, in comes this very quiet train coming to a smooth stop infront of me. There on it's side was a plaque with the names of several Cities that I new. I looked up to see the TEE name and was amazed that there was this train that travelled to all these cities. Just sorry I never got to experience it.
Another fascinating film. Keep them coming
I loved to see the lady tapping away on her typewriter at 3.55
The quality of content on this channel is actually top notch
DSB class MA were not former TEE trains but a separate class, derived from DB class VT11 with the main difference that they could be split in the middle, which was required for going on train ferries and also allowed to split up and go to two different destinations.
The maximum speed was initially limited to 140 km/h, and the diesel units were designed for this. VT11 could reach 160 km/h but was underpowered, especially after being extended from the initial five middle cars (later up to eight). New electric trains introduced during the 1960s reached 160 km/h and regular 200 km/h operation started 1970 with SNCF's Le Capitole (even though DB class 103 allowed the same speed, difficulties with developing a reliable cab signalling system meant that anything above 160 km/h remained an experimental exception until 1978 or so).
The first generation diesel units, introduced in 1957 when there were still many gaps in European electrification, were deemed too slow and too small for the requirements just ten years later so they were phased out in the early 1970s. Nevertheless some lines in the TEE system were still not electrified, leading to diesel locomotive hauled trains such as the "Bavaria" between München and Lindau (electric further on to Zürich), a connection that remained diesel operated until 2020 when tilting "Astoro" trains took over on a fully electrified, slightly different route.
One factor not mentioned in the film were synchronised timetables, introduced in the 1970s/80s in various countries, with trains every one or two hours during the day and systematic connections at regular intervals. The TEE didn't fit into this system so in many cases no good connections to and from TEE could be offered. The Intercity system introduced from 1971 in Germany was practically equivalent to the TEE in first class, except for a few perks such as bar or dome cars. It was significantly expanded in 1979 and then also offered second class. Though the EuroCity, introduced 1987, used some coaches also previously used in TEE, it was not just an expansion of previously operating TEE trains by a second class section but also connected the clockface timetable systems of different countries, nicely integrating and offering good connections every one or two hours.
All TEE offered first class seating either in open spaces or compartments or both, and either a restaurant car or meal service at the seat (one exception being the "Merkur" to Denmark where meals could be taken on the ferry used by the train). Additional services offered by a few trains were dome cars (as shown), bar cars, in some cases mobile offices with a secretary who could type letters for a fee and make telephone connections, or occasionally even a hairdresser. Some of these services have completely disappeared, it seems like speed and reliability are more important than the frills of bygone eras. And a plug and wi-fi for your devices .... times are changing.
He doesn't do proper research and always makes silly mistakes like this.
Thanks for this very interesting and informative presentation.
I remember seeing a traveling Maerklin model train layout (in a train car no less) back in '64 and it had the DB BR 601 TEE trainset. I thought it was the coolest train I had ever seen. Unfortunately I modeled Fleischmann not Maerklin so I couldnt get one, had to settle for an E10, which was still fairly cool.
Later, in high school we had a textbook that had a picture of the BR 601 crossing the Hohenzollernbruecke right in front of the Koelner Dom. I remember staring at it and daydreaming while the instructor blathered on about whatever.
Then in '95(?) I finally got to see one for real in the Verkehrsmuseum Nuernberg. Awesome. Never seen one run tho.
Id like to see one run. Id also like to hear a B-36 fly (for real, NOT in a Jimmy Stewart movie).
Wonderful memories of travelling on the Settebello, Cisalpin, Capitole, and the Paris-Brussels TEEs....The Grand Confort coaches were especially smart...and then there was the food....Oh for that time machine.
A fantastic remembrance of my first trips to Europe, in 1971, 72 and 73. I had a 1st class Eurailpass,
and would go out of my way to ride these wonderful trains. A favorite of mine was the Prinz Eugen,
from Wien to Bremen, and I rode it at least 3 times, though not the entire route.
The Eurail Pass is not the great deal that it used to be, as the price is now quite high, and more and more
national rail services are putting restrictions on pass-holders. SNCF is now only allowing a few seats on a train to be reserved for pass use, which I find shameful. DB still doesn't even require a seat reservation,
as far as I know, but that might change. Thanks for the great video! 😄
Used the Danish version every day, back in the 80s (they where used as domestic express trains) during my studies. They looked great, but were bitterly cold in the winters...
Amazing footage of some great locomotives and rolling stock.
I have waited to see this come up and it is spectacular. TEE was the precursor to modern travel networks in Europe despite its end for lack of adaptation to the market. Revival of the brand would been cool to see especially if a new multi voltage train set to operate the service was introduced. Excellent work and quality. Keep it up.
Don’t worry, it’s already in the works with many of the same actors as before: SNCF FR, DB GE, SBB CH, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, AVE Spain.
Great vlog as always! Now the other end of the train, the Interrail!
In my younger years, when one was accidentally hit by something hard, we used to comment "He's been run over by the Trans-Europ-Express"
That reminds me of a song with the same name TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS
Very enjoyable to watch. Thank you.
(Capetown, RSA)
*Plays Kraftwerk on vinyl
10:12 I'd just like to mention that DSB never had any TEE sets of their own and the set you showed in the picture was never used on TEE services. They were called the "Ma" sets and were inspired by the German class 601's yes, but they were designed and built domestically in Denmark at the Scandia works in Randers for the country's own domestic "Lightning train" services. These services were introduced in 1936, featured 2nd class from the start and are still around today. The MA trains, built in the 1960's and seen in the video were especially noteworthy for being halfsets so to speak. Each set only featured a single power car, with a number of carriages behind it, and a cabcar at the end with a passage below the cab. This was so these trains could fit onto the Danish train ferries, which all trains to and from Copenhagen leaving the island of Zealand had to use until 1997. But it also served a double function as the services could split with one of 2 coupled together sets serving one set of destinations, and the other half serving a different set. We still see this with Danish train services to this day operated by the even more flexible class IC3 and IR4 Flexliner multiple units, with a max speed of 112mph or 180km/h.
I'd also mention that one halfset of DSB's fleet exists in preservation, presented in the silver livery it bore in the 1980's where the fleet had been dubbed "Silver arrows". Their remaining sets were sold to Poland where they for a few short years were oddly used on run down rural railways, with max speeds as low as 40km/h.
this was brilliant, thank you very much!
Very interesting as always Ruairidh
A good way to lose your head having it out of the window like those passengers!The TEE is a similar concept to the various things like Thalyis, Eurostar,etc that run now sort of joint companies operated by various state railway except for England where Sir John Major insists that the private sector must be involved with Eurostar in line with the Thatcherite/Reganite dogma that the private sector can do it better even if the private sector is the state railway of another company!
oh yes, i was kind of waoting for this episode! iconic trains!
Personally I wish those low-profile dome cars still existed on European railways. They seem like such a clever big brain move while keep some headroom for the catenary.
And now I can't get the Kraftwerk tune out of my head.
I recommend Yakety Sax.
A French TEE wagon set was used from about 2000 until 2019 by Ferrocariles de Cuba on the Havana to Santiago de Cuba line. It was pulled by a Chinese built locomotive.
Excellent video!
# ‘rendezvous on the Champs-Elysee, leave Paris in the morning, straight connection, TEE’
I remember the introduction of TEE. Super cool livery and logo. Great 60s style. Real dining cars. Typists. Hairdressers.
Interesting!!! I found a complete preserved Class 175 Trans European Express set at Lichtenburg, East Berlin back on 9/9/2018. I've never really known anything much about them until now! Looking at the various styles of train, they were quite impressive, much more so than a Blue Pullman!
That‘s not quite the same thing though. The East German Class 175 wasn‘t part of TEE, it only wore a similar livery and performed similar duties. TEE was a wholly West European affair, no Eastern Bloc countries participated.
@@bahnspotterEU Thanks for the clarification. A second look at the photo shows a big "DR" on it, obviously standing for _"Deutsche Reichsbahn"_
This is a good video my friend 😀
With modern hardware, especially taking into account modern environmental concerns and sentiments, it would be an excellent idea to reintroduce the brand name for long distance international travel products. The fact that the brand still does hold recognition and indeed even some mystique 30 years after its last use, does work in its favour. Whoever does so, will have to take good care of it though. It takes precious little to destroy a name.
I really enjoy your videos, they are both interesting and entertaining, with excellent visuals and narration.
May I suggest a possible future video topic, the history of Pullman trains, in the US and U.K.?
The streamlined German TEE was such a nice train
-.- you didn’t mention the coolest of them all…. The Italian Settebello!!!!
Just going to say, TEE rolling stock is absolutely gorgeous
Brilliant work, love the videos, any chance of one about the fliegender hamburger
GDR (=DDR), the Eastern of the two Germanys, had its own TEE, the SVT 175. It was as fancy as the TEE, featured a more sleek design and had reversible seats.
I rode the Danish trains between Copenhagen and Aalborg many times, including the penultimate service. From the mid 80s the trains were painted silver and the service was officially named The Silver Arrow, but people quickly dubbed it The Bacofoil Express ("Staniolekspressen").
5:18 The Br 103 was not a multi-voltage capable locomotive. It could only operate under 15 kV AC.
Trans Europe Express is also a cool old song from German group Kraftwerk.
09:37: The TEE from Brussels to Paris did not go over Arras and Amiens, that was the line from Lille to Paris. The TEE from Brussels to Paris (and all other trains between Brussels and Paris) went over Aulnoye, Saint-Quentin and Compiegne.
Let's all pretend that Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express is playing in the background :)
Its intersting we had tee sets in canada. And now the northlander is getting chargers
Thank you for this video. 2 questions:
1 - There was no discussion of rail gauges: were they the same through all the countries?
2 - When I worked at Oerlikon in 1963, they referred to THEIR TEE multi-system electric locomotives, using their own Ondulatingspannungmotor (probably misspelt - excuse me) which worked on a number of electrical systems. These were DC and AC systems, the latter being rectified by the then new high-power semiconductor rectifiers. They had regenerative braking where the motor dumped its generated power into huge, variable huge resistances = rheostats, whence "Rheostatic braking". Are these the same as, or confused with, the SIG locos mentioned in the video? And wasn't that SIG-SAUER? (Incidentally Sig in German is pronounced Zig). The factory was called Maschinenfabrikoerlikon, and was in the same suburb (ie Oerlikon) of Northern Zürich as the gun factory. The company was later taken over by Braun-Bovery which itself ceased some years later.
The Germans have nice long words, consisting of several words joined together. My favourite was the personnel office, whose door bore the legend:
MASCHINENFABRIKOERLIKONPERSONELBURO. I was 21 then and I'm 80 now.....
Most Europe uses standard gauge, apart from Spain, though even they use standard for their highspeed lines
@@Exospray Thank you for the info.
"And wasn't that SIG-SAUER?
Yes and no. They had the same roots, but SIG Sauer no longer has anything to do with the original SIG. In the past, SIG mainly built bogies for trains.
Elegant machines and a first class presentation ( excuse the pun! )
Meraviglioso WUNDERBAR 🤩
Most interesting. TFP
Would have been nice if Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express" was set as the background music
10:48 they should have seen service on VIA Rail Corridor service (Toronto and Montreal service)
Just one little snag!! The Danish Railroad did not have electric operation on mainline on till 1997 when Storebælt connection was opened!! So no electric TEE in Denmark, we had diesel!!!
One word RESEARCH!!
Buy the way TEE was transformed into EC (EuroCity) operations where capitals of Europe was bound together from international railways, which also had second class.
Kind regards the Danish Viking
Simplest, spaceous , airy, see-through, open-ended, sunny.
Flatforms track low-levelled unbridged.......
Mumbai Central old flatforms
Trains ..THE way to travel . from LeviNZ.. where there is one "workers'train" south passing through to Wellington at 0655. . and passing through north at 1845+-.
I never realized the TEE had a multiple voltage drive. Now I have to go find out how that worked!
Multiple pantographs for different voltages and multiple rectifiers and transformers inside the loco.
0) In the Netherlands, we credit our then CEO of NS (Dutch state railways), F.Q. den Hollander, with the concept of TEE.
1) Yes, TEE was quite a brand. It may return, but its achievements and standards definitely live on in many long-distance rail services. ("Long-distance" in the perception of Europeans outside vast countries Russia and Ukraine.) Note me saying "long-distance", not "international".
Sidebar: my first holiday job was in 1974: cleaning passenger trains at Amsterdam Centraal station. We would superficially clean the trains in teams of three: a foreman (who'd collect all explicit magazines) and two real workers (collecting newspapers, emptying waste bins) within 15 or 20 minutes, no problem. The night train from Nice(?) was to be handled by two teams in 45 minutes (before being taken to a maintenance yard for cleaning the toilets, etc.), hurry! (Imagine six persons in a compartment with hardly a waste bin for some twelve hours. I don't think this train had sleeping cars.)
2) I do see problems, though: time-table conflicts. Each railway network (not necessarily a country, I think) creates its own "optimal" time-table, but inter-network trains are likely to interfere with these (even though they are the basis of European railway time-tables). Or they could be treated as local trains (local to the network), but then they are likely to lose any speed advantage that should attract inter-network (long-distance) travellers. (Example: the hourly Intercity between Amsterdam and Brussels.)
Example: Amsterdam Centraal station is at the start of a gigantic reconstruction, and Amsterdam Zuid station is at the start of quite a reconstruction as well (adding a third island platform). Afterwards, all international trains will call or terminate at Zuid, so that Centraal can handle intensified national services.
3) There may well be a capacity issue too, as international travel has been increasing for decades (at least in Europe). I can clearly remember the Brussels-bound 2-part EMU being part of an hourly Flushings-bound train from Amsterdam until Roosendaal. Currently it's a 6..9-coach hourly train, and (in my outdated perception) often crammed.
Or the Amsterdam - Berlin Intercity. Either it runs in addition to national Dutch trains, interfering with the national time-table, or it runs in the "path" (time slot) of a national train, and is less equipped for the numbers of passengers getting on and off it.
4) Obviously, adding "fast" tracks to current railways would likely solve these problems. I'm unlikely to see that day.
Cue Kraftwerk!
I like trains
One or both of the Rheingold "dome"-cars ended up in Sweden in the late 90's. Refurbished to modern standard, but the plexiglass dome was exactly the same. They were put on the Stockholm-Narvik route through northern Sweden over to Norway by the private carrier Tågkompaniet, before that company folded in the early 2000's. The whereabouts after that are unknown to me.
Two dome cars (AD4üm-62) are still in service for AKE-Rheingold. You can buy tickets for the nostalgic trains and I recommend doing so. One carriage can be found in Coburg Railway Station Germany.
With Eastern Europe getting wealthier this could make a come back soon and have conventional and high-speed services across the EU
TEE was a great dutch idea. was great for it's time
Oo! Wait TEE TO BUDAPEST? At that point they could just go on all the way to Istambul and also north east to Mos- no wait different gauge
Mans wearing airpods at 0:09 🙏 Respect 💪
Rendez-vous en Champs-Élysées
Leave Paris in the morning with TEE
Trans-Europe Express.
Trans-Europe Express.
Trans-Europe Express.
Trans-Europe Express
Really hoping that the TEE 2.0 dream will come true :)
Can image our trains having windows that drop down like those continental coaches? HSE would have a fit!
It’s the ORR, not HSE, for railways. Besides, drop-down windows are just too risky.
Funny though that there’s was rarely if any injuries. People had common sense
I think the Danish 25 kV system was not part of TEE, since this system was not introduced until around 1980.
The sets in Canada had so many maintenance issues that they were referred to as 'Works poor'
Well ... European tech. In N. America .... yes ,no wonder they did not work , would you give your European car to an N.American mechanic !!!!!!
Proberbly couldn't figure out the buffers.
The Golden Knight card is unlocked upon reaching King Level 14. He is a single-target melee troop who targets grounded units. He has high hitpoints and moderate damage per second. Being a Champion card, he will stay out of the player's card cycle while he is deployed, and only return once he is destroyed. The Golden Knight's ability increases his movement speed when no enemies are nearby, and causes him to dash onto enemies in sequence, similar to the Electro Spirit's attack. He has golden hair and is outfitted in gilded breastplate and gauntlets, as his name implies, and wields an impressively large sword. A Golden Knight card costs 4 Elixir to deploy, and his ability costs an additional 1 Elixir. The Golden Knight has a special ability, accessible from the rightmost side of the screen just above the player's card slots in battle. After a 1 second delay, the Golden Knight activates his "Dashing Dash", gaining a movement speed boost if he is not within 5 tiles of an enemy unit. Once a unit is in range, he dashes to it quickly, then dashes towards any other units within a 5-tile radius (even if the previous unit was not destroyed). His dashes have invulnerability and deal increased damage, like the Bandit. He cannot dash into the same troop per ability use. He will stop dashing after dashing 10 times or if no other valid targets are within range. The ability goes on an 11 second cooldown after the duration ends. The Dashing Dash ability costs 1 Elixir to activate. It is also important to note that his movement speed boost cannot be reset or cancelled by The Log, Zap, Freeze confirmation needed or other things that will normally stop a charge.
Strategy
For the purposes of determining Elixir trades, the Golden Knight and his activated Ability count as 5 Elixir, as the player must play the 4 Elixir Knight and then spend a further 1 on his Ability. While he runs to the tower, use a cheap card like Skeletons to make him dash from the tower into said cheap card. If done correctly, this can be used to cause him to chain dash into the King's Tower and activate it. Because of this, it is not recommended to use his Dashing Dash if there isn't a target. For the reason mentioned above, he can act like an Electro Spirit: Potentially lots of value, but can also be a double edged sword if you accidentally activate the opponent's King Tower. Though this isn't recommended due to the cooldown, the Golden Knight's ability can be used to counter swarms. The Golden Knight is unique in the fact that he can dash onto multiple targets, like a Knight and Tower, and still attack the original target. Because of this, it can be hard to defend against. For example, if a Valkyrie is approaching a tower, the defender will use a Knight to avoid all damage, but if a Golden Knight is approaching and the defender places a Knight close to the tower, it will dash onto the tower, making the defense less valuable. If the player has a unit on the board that they do not want the enemy Golden Knight to reach, they must play more ground units as far away from it as possible to entice the Knight to charge into the more expendable units instead. Due to his low damage output, a glass cannon or mini-tank such as Mini-P.E.K.K.A. or Prince can easily take him out. Once the Golden Knight uses ability, he will not target any units behind him unless they are in range. In other words. The Dashing Dash ability only chains to the troops that the Golden Knight can see.
So how did the Long Island Railroad get into a video game?? Mayhaps,one of the designers was a Long Islander?? Very curious,and there was a Lady Dasher too!! Back to the future,Lol,LOL, then some!! Thanks for your attention ☺️!
The first TEE trains weren´t electric because the electrification was not enough developped, and there were a lot of diesel and steam operated services in 1957. Electric rolling stock was developped when there were enough international electrified lines. Oh, by the way, there were no electrified main lines in Denmark until the 80´s and the Spanish 3 kV wasn´t used by the Swiss trains because of the broad gauge of the Spanish network...
So this is about how the Trans Europe Express trains dominated Europe. Impressive.
👍👍
How about a video about the routes that left the Hook of Holland every morning after the ferries arrived, trains going as far as Moscow.
No kraftwerk??!?
That's really, really neat.
I wish we Americans had gotten something like that.
I own Ho scale Roco Class 103 with Coaches.
It is now immortalized as a... horse
Oh my god
I hope that somebody will make a new TEE system to compete with air travel.
Meet Iggy Pop, and David Bowie
I'll be waiting for this episode for years. I am from Bulgaria and during 1980's I read about it. Article explained it as cheap alternative for air travel.
Also lets not forget Kraftwerk band has an album TEE
Two non "Trans" ees, being solely within national borders were the Mistral and Settebello, both of which also deviated from the standard livery.
@ 11:48 that is Eindhoven central Station. It was never part of the TEE routing . I don't know what type of locomotive that was but it's Nothing that I've ever seen and not part of the standard rolling stock of the nederlandse spoorwegen.
It is part of the standard rolling stock, though there is no TEE link. The locomotive is called Traxx.
Wanted to go Cannes to St Raphael years ago and purchased local 2nd class ticket. But got on TEE train by mistake - it was the first train that turned up. I asked dining car waiter where 2nd class was and he just looked. Asked him if it stopped at St Raphael and he said 'yes'. Thank goodness! Spent trip in dread that a ticket inspector would appear but none did. Could only sit back and enjoy the luxury.
Those locomotives look like some of the American "Zephyr" streamliners of the 1940's.