I just want to point out that it is always a fine little bonus when German words and Names are pronounced correctly. It warms my cold and efficient heart.
it’s very noticeable that they are trying to pronounce the german words in an americanized way here, even tho they themselves speak german. It’s a little baity but hey, what can you do
@@Chomp-Rockthey mean it covers the span of the whole train instead of leading to another floor. From the bottom of the train to the top, not from the bottom of the train to the second floor.
It makes him reasonable unlike the cut and German version we are fed with since forever showing him as crazy mad. Who would have thought AI could save us
this train got the vibe of when you're a kid and you're designing an imaginary video game which will have every possible feature because you have no comprehension of the actual processes involved
Sure this one was a bit excessive but image a well maintained rail system spanning whole Europe with a fast and cheap rail network. Would make travel so much easier
Agreed. We need more high-speed rail covering Europe of the likes in France. There, you make it from Paris to Bordeaux in less than 2 hours! (6 hours by car).
@@vinvenus4581 Yeah especially between larger European cities (from which point you can take local trains to smaller towns.). They should also be part operated by governments, so you don't have to pay more than a flight (also, flying should not be tax-exempt).
I mean, kinda feel like regardless of it's engineering. Prolly would have been melted into scrap circa 1946. Don't see a lot of 770K mercede's about anymore....for some reason.
Today it would be converted to something similar to economy class on planes. Means that carts for Eastern workers would be modified to accommodate more people. And that food would also become more budget-efficient. ;)
Cool train, but trying to change infrastructure that's 200 years old on a continental scale is pretty much impossible.. it would need to be built from scratch, incompatible with old rail so 2 different systems (small villages/ towns don't need a huge train) and in case of derailment it would be very hard to fix. As mass increases logistic problems become exponentially bigger
@@qers How could you. The first one of the reboot is great (the new order), the dlc too. The second one (The New Colossus) is also pretty good, but i like it less then the first one. Every thing after II is not worth playing.
thats becouse he states them as "sclaves',when in reality the guys intended for 3th class were workers from eastern teritorys/reichscomisariats,wich whood had goten lower paiments meaning need to lower prices
I love this idea! It's not megalomania but highly practical. Trains can carry far more people than planes and in far greater comfort. The only problem is that creating such trains and replacing all rails with the new hugely wider ones would cost hundreds of billions.
the problem about democracy and capitalism, abitious projects are way too slow and have too many hurdles, especially when their benefit is only long-term
It is work for countless people. Those People spend Money, and so is the Cycle. Not like today where Corporation suck up all the money, and poof.. it's gone, and the workers find themself in an new Company with with a new Name, but the same faces as before..
There are many issues with this train - which is why it wasn't built while other engineering advancements from the Nazi era were adopted and further developed. That alone should tell you that it is not "highly practical". Because, in engineering, if something is "highly practical", it gets adopted regardless of the political ideology where it originated. First thing is, a train system like that would require the entire continent of Europe agreeing to build it. If you know anything about Europe, that's the first thing that is your problem. Which is why Hitler planned for it when the entire Europe was his and all decisions for the continent were to be made in his office. In a world where Europe has even semi-independent states, you won't have an agreement for something like this because some regions would benefit, others won't - so no agreement. Next, money. I see in the comments that people live in an illusion that Nazi economic system wasn't capitalist, that it was somehow different from modern greedy corporations and how they do things. That is nonsense. Nazi economy was hyper-capitalist and their companies (which were private btw) were no less predatory than the worst ones from USA today. They just further used the political connections to form even greater monopolies. Money for a project like this would come out of the pocket of a German worker and then flow into the private pockets of greedy corporations and, in large part, Nazi party itself. For example, all slaves that were used... were not a free labor force. Corporations in Germany that were using them had to pay SS directly (there was a complete list of prices for various categories of slave workers) because those slaves were EXCLUSIVELY SS property. And SS in turn filled the party wallet. In Germany during the war, SS was one of the biggest and most profitable corporations because of it. So in a normal system, you pay a worker, and that worker then spends the money in the economy. In Nazi system, you don't own a slave (so workforce is free) nor do you pay a free worker (who then spends the money in the economy) you are paying another corporation to provide you with the workforce, that is not able to spend that money back in the economy. It was a scheme to enrich the party and its heads fast, it was never supposed to be a long term viable solution. They all knew it was extremely flawed. It was a "get rich fast" model, not "let's build a better Germany" model. Even before the onset of war, Germany was effectively bankrupt (when the president of Reichsbank warned about that, they removed him) and internal debt collection was postponed during the war. When planning expansion, Hitler and his cabinet talked first about "small wars of plunder" before the big confrontation with USSR and Allies - they knew already in 1937-1938 that German economy is going bust and that they need to plunder neighboring countries to keep it all going. In short, there was never economic system in place that would make decade(s) long project actually possible in the peace time. And then comes the question of practicality. Let us say that you DID solve previous issues. The entire Europe agrees (either you own it all, or they magically agree) and you have the money ready to build it. Then what? It was planned to travel only between very few big cities, with little to no stops between them. You could build their tracks next to adjacent ones, no problem - but you'd still need the entire capillary network of regular trains going from those few major hubs. And can you be sure that you will always fill the entire train? If not, then there is a bigger delay between departures - by which point you'd opt for a smaller train anyway. Simply put, you already had infrastructure in place which was WAAAAY more flexible, working and is economically viable. And you want to add basically 2 or 3 lanes (let's say 2 tracks each) of huge trans-continental railway when there is no need. Instead of that one big train, you can have 4 smaller ones - much better, more flexible, modular, it has existing infrastructure through the entire continent, reaching all the places already... All in all, if there was ever ANY practical use for a train like this, you'd have seen it developed since at least somewhere in the world, or at least someone would have had something similar on their design board. The fact that no one ever did should drive you to ask the question "Why?". Because, while it looks impressive, and while some of you may have sympathies for a certain Austrian man, he wasn't that smart (at least not when engineering is concerned) and there is almost 100 years of engineering practice since, all over the world, and no one ever saw this and said "Oh, how great and highly practical concept, let's develop it further!". Not a single one. Every engineer and public/mass transport engineer who sees this concept is immediately "Hell no!", regardless of whether you tell them it is a "Nazi train" or not.
fantastic! They intended to make this train using 25KV / 50 cycles AC electricity as main power source via overhead power wire and pantographs (compared to 15 KV 16.7 cylcles on regular electric trains) and when power failed it would have feature a fully automatic coaldust boiler generator wagon to power parsons steam turbines feeding 4 generators for powering the 25KV locomotive.
Thanks for letting us know, that was the only interesting thing the video missed - the locomotive specs. I find how it's all powered just as interesting as the train itself. Onboard turbines don't seem to be very typical for trains!
@@dreammachine86 The wide track trains concept was ultra modern and not a stupid Hitler Idea, it was a TGV with an integrated hotel for ultra wide distances. Not even China has such a system. Americans and USSR tried trains with gas turbine propulsion during the 1950s and 60s. The German wide track train could be considered as a land cruiseship so using a boiler and steam turbines for generating emergency power was not a bad idea (Normaly the train run on AC from powerline). (Duing war germany had fuel shortage so using a set of U Boat Diesel engines would have been not a good idea)
Didn't know that, but it makes a lot of sense actually. From a dictators point of view, that is. Why wouldn't you want people to build an unrealistic, oversized train, just because you don't like to fly?
Out of all Hitler's insane evil inventions, I think this is the only one I think is good idea, minus slaves part, duplex high speed train is much better than planes.
Well not so hard to imagine tbh when similar things are happening in countries like the UAE. People will just avert their eyes and let themselves be diverted by the splendour of the rest.
U kiddin me? There was a PERFECT possible transition to your sponsor: right when you told "there even is a viewing platform at the end of the train" ... where you can watch all the nice TREES you are passing ;)
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holy crap man….. i’ve been watching this channel ever since the only vid released on that was about germanwings 9525. Absolutely crazy to see how much this channel has grown in terms of quality
They were planning on building a tank called 'Monster' which was basically little different than an oversized Ratte. He would have liked monster trucks but he would find them underarmored. And if Knight Rider would have been a thing back then he would have outfitted his monster truck with bombs so that his jumping, armored monster truck could also divebomb.
yes, it would be great if we developed interrail as one but that won't happen anytime soon for example austrian railways (öbb) is hating on hungarian railways (máv) because máv is terrible, always late and if they were connected, öbb trains would be late too
NGL this would have been so dope just without the the slave thingy... Giant ass train with full size suites, observation deck, restaurants and cinemma halls. sounds like a cruise on land. And imagine the volume of ppl and goods it could have moved.
yeah it would be really cool... until you realize we all fit into the 3rd class segment of society and would of just been doing an overnight train ride on bench's
Oh I just found they did upload the Video about Putins Bears on the german channel "funk". It has subtitles but I have no idea how good they are. ruclips.net/video/QSVQR_7fAFQ/видео.html
I love how any video that talks about Germany during this era is full of ominous music and cold narration even though things such as this train are actually just super cool. (minus the poor living standards for the train workers)
"Ah, what a great film that was. Perhaps I should freshen up with a bath... then again my hair is getting rather long too." - Person on a fucking _train_
2:24 yes, if you use a wrong model of an ICE... No ICE is that short. An ICE 3 (which this model is supposed to be) is 200 Meters long. If two of them run together (which they often do), the train is 400 Meters long. A.k.a just as long as the Breitspurbahn. The same length can be reached by a single ICE 1 or ICE 4. Freight trains can reach a length of up to 750 meters in most of Europe and well over 1 km in a lot of other places like North America. The gauge is the only thing that really makes the Breitspurbahn look big. Because every other metric is already met by modern trains.
I don't think the point here was to show how long it is... It was most likely supposed to emphasize the massive width and, primarily, height of the Breitspurbahn, which is unmatched by any other standard train today.
@@felixw19 So did they literally give the measurements for the width and height. Even the sentence immediately before specifically mentions that it's a double decker. An ICE could easily fit INSIDE the Breitspurbahn.
I'm a huge fan of the new Wolfenstein games and seeing just how much of the stach's insane projects are brought to life in there is never anything but astounding to me
Great design for a train that would mainly operate on the mega marsh that is the Northern European Plain. Even with modern technology high speed rail here in the Netherlands is an engineering challenge. And that's before the mountains and tunnels comes up. It doesn't look very aerodynamic too.
I was in the hospital for a long stay a few years ago and on the TV they had this "Hitler's Germany" type program that was literally on a loop, it would play about every four hours. I was heavily medicated at the time so I'd fall asleep and wake up to Hitler this and Hitler that...over and over again. It all blended together for the first week until I was positive I had been on that silly train.
I have to say.. Aside from the Working Slave Wagons, you could argue that this is one of Hitler's lesser *evil* projects as it mostly was just for connection purposes. Just the thought to have a rail network spanning from the west and east in Europe (and Asia) is pretty smart. On today's basis we could adapt such a system to make an Europe wide connection net, reaching to Russia if you theoretically think about it. (Sadly politically it doesn't seems so great) Modern technology systems like a maglev (which already existed in the 2000s) could be used to build such a huge intercontinental connection network between Europe and Asia to REALLY solve our CO2 Issue with having to rely less on plane flights. 🧐 In the end, it is a great theoretical idea however practically there are way to many issues (sadly), with both the old "Breitspurbahn" as well as a modern train network version (with for instance: Maglevs) and thus are still unlikely.. so we can just hope for the best. Who knows, maybe in a few decades such a connection between Europe and Asia as well as internally in Russia and Europe could be built. 🤔 (In the end, it's just a simple pipe dream which might or might not will become reality.)
The amount of tractive power needed to both accelerate this beast to an acceptable speed and to brake would have been immense, not sure there has really ever been a locomotive that would be powerful enough to haul this.
That is no problem at all. There exist trains with over 100 000 tonnes of mass when loaded. They use several locomotives distributed through the length of the train.
One of the biggest problems facing steam powered locomotives was the immense amount of power, often too much to be used right away, but not enough of a lever range to go faster than 50mph without long term mechanical problems. Perhaps a steam locomotive of this size would better utilize the traction of the wider wheels.
Not sure about those slave carriages. Doesn't seem very effective to treat the operators like this. Calling Hitler a meglomaniac, mad and greedy, isn't very serious either. And Speer had every reason to distance himself from Hitler. It saved his life in Nüremburg.
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The American, Chinese, Indian, Russian load gauges are realistically not much smaller than the mega train and 2 are standard gauge and 2 slightly wider. Could just upgrade bottlenecks on existing routes and get like 90% of what the mega train could do
a lot fo trains in the uk through the early 1900's up to about 1960/1970 had carriages where people would sit facing each other it was standard practise back then
I noticed that (almost?) all passengers (in the theater, the viewing deck or the restaurant) are presented male, but there the hairdresser was female. Was this a deliberate decision as this train would have been male-passenger-only?
Imagine if that train its network had become a reality, I wonder if would have actually preformed correctly running on such a massive broad gauge rail track? Nice presentation video indeed!!
Listening to adjectives like "insane" and "monster" in a zoomer language makes this guy sound great. No wonder the zoomers are swinging back - let's go, Europa!
Every time i see this, i think that a train this large was YEARS ahead of its time, there's gonna be time, maybe centuries in the future, that production is gonna be so intense humanity will need transport this capable.
The biggest problem of moving shit for the entirety of Eurasia is the near complete reliance on the back then pretty young Suez Canal, so high capacity rail is not an entirely out of the blue idea, but a logical conclusion. If you actually look at the third class's plans they aren't THAT much worse than a current year standard european intercity train cabin. His target speed would've been literally double of what the entirety of eastern europe gets 70 fking years later. Unlike the other megaprojects here the only real technical challenge would've been the increased weight, but the wider track could've been built with a wider base resulting in the same amount of ground pressure. It's a fairly expensive project, but not something that someone this powerful couldn't achieve outside of war times. There simply is no evil mastermind plan here like the video heavily suggests with it's tone. Mf just wanted better trains.
There is an additional problem: a wider track requires larger curve radii to maintain comfort and prevent the trains from derailing, it's the same logic behind the choice of narrow-gauge railways in areas with difficult terrain where curves must be sharp. A 3m wide track would have required enormous curves; this would have been okayish in the mostly flat lands of Germany and Northeastern Europe, but a nightmare to build elsewhere. Crossing mountain ranges like the Alps, Pyrenees or Carpathians would have been outright impossible with such a track design.
You know, aside from the, err, Nazism and megalomania behind it all, this train is honestly pretty cool. I'd love to ride on something like this. But then again, trains like this have existed for a while now, minus the guns and soldiers and slaves and such, so I'll just shut up...
I think that the project is suddenly somewhat practical. At least for exUSSR. We already have two-story carriages, and our rail network has a length about which Germany could only dream of. We have a problem with fast-track technologies, however, it is an established fact that widening the loading gauge can increase the allowed maximal speed of the train. Therefore, if we adjust the represented gauge to our gauges (1526 mm) two-track composite track would be around 5 meter wide, allowing either two trains (and, unlike the german project, they would be able to pass one another with ~20 cm clearance) or one Tzar-Train. Such tzar-train could have a final width of about 6.7 meters. It could (theoretically at least) be propulsed via a small 'slow-burning' nuclear reactor similar to that which Soviet satellites used. Or a more conventional nuclear sub ones. The width provides plenty of space for isolation. In this case, the reactor would be placed behind the locomotive, but behind it the normal locomotive for fallback would be located. In the case of emergency the normal locomotive would spool up and reverse the train far away from the place. However, the challenge is the upgrade of the track to have a fixed constant difference between two tracks, which would allow for using two tracks as one for the 'tzar-train'. It would require basically the usage of unified sleepers able to accomodate both tracks. Overall, of course, the realization of such a project is a challenge, however, in absence of automation or precision it is a very natural thing to go into. Even more practicality is revealed considering the potential for mobile launchpads (we had ones in Soviet era but they are discontinued and we only recently started to produce them again) The more you can understand the german motifs for pursuing such a project in 1940s when their levels of automation and precision were also uncomparable to modern European or Chinese ones.
I would love such a train..., I dont sympathise with the little mustache man but it would be a huge achievment in railway engineering and just a cool train.
It's such a pity that trains nowadays are not as luxuriously furnished anymore. Back then, trains were like moving palaces, but now they only serve their primary purpose: transporting people from A to B. Of course, it's clear that nowadays there are too many passengers for such luxurious trains, but I still find it unfortunate.
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It should’ve had a little moustache on the front.
Missed opportunity.
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that's so real
Pendolino trains in the Czech Republic (operated by České Dráhy) actually have a mustache on the front 🤣
I just want to point out that it is always a fine little bonus when German words and Names are pronounced correctly. It warms my cold and efficient heart.
It isn't surprising, since the author behind this channel is himself german, having started there firstly
@@AlexVasiluta you can hear from the word "Reich" that the voiceover-artist isn't german, but from the netherlands, but it's a very minor thing :)
@@lit_for_20 shoot, you're right, I just noticed this channel is a collab channel with someone else
it’s very noticeable that they are trying to pronounce the german words in an americanized way here, even tho they themselves speak german. It’s a little baity but hey, what can you do
Dein's auch? ^^
That floor to ceiling dining room looks beautiful.
Aren't all rooms floor to ceiling?
But the wood paneling wasn’t FSC-certified, unlike today‘s sponsor Holzkern
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@@Halbmond If you believe it, it's real
@@Chomp-Rockthey mean it covers the span of the whole train instead of leading to another floor. From the bottom of the train to the top, not from the bottom of the train to the second floor.
even though it's AI, hearing Hitler speak fluent English is uncanny
For real, it scares me how far AI has gotten
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It makes him reasonable unlike the cut and German version we are fed with since forever showing him as crazy mad. Who would have thought AI could save us
this train got the vibe of when you're a kid and you're designing an imaginary video game which will have every possible feature because you have no comprehension of the actual processes involved
Almost like it was designed by a guy that thought he could rule the world..
Ah yes. Snowpiercer without the snowpiercing or a perpetual motion engine
i was looking for this comment haha
that name sounds familiar, is that a train or something
@@spingleboygle it's a series, it has 3 seasons, worth watching
@@spingleboygle A fictional one, but yes
@@アナスマルディnah its a mid series based on a masterpiece of a movie
Hell of a train for a failed artist
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@@YellowPenisi’m dead that you’re standing up for hitler here 💀
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That bunker wall he painted with his brain matter was pretty good.
Sure this one was a bit excessive but image a well maintained rail system spanning whole Europe with a fast and cheap rail network. Would make travel so much easier
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That’s what they’re planning/designing for Ontario rn
Agreed. We need more high-speed rail covering Europe of the likes in France. There, you make it from Paris to Bordeaux in less than 2 hours! (6 hours by car).
@@vinvenus4581 Hey, it's not too late!
@@vinvenus4581 Yeah especially between larger European cities (from which point you can take local trains to smaller towns.). They should also be part operated by governments, so you don't have to pay more than a flight (also, flying should not be tax-exempt).
Imagine this train if were to be built, would have been an engineering marvel today, as it looks spacious and luxurious
The train would be called the Super Eurostar...
I mean, kinda feel like regardless of it's engineering.
Prolly would have been melted into scrap circa 1946.
Don't see a lot of 770K mercede's about anymore....for some reason.
Today it would be converted to something similar to economy class on planes. Means that carts for Eastern workers would be modified to accommodate more people. And that food would also become more budget-efficient. ;)
@@Palemagpie actually you see alot of S Class, 7 series, A8 and other equivalents to bigger cars
Not using standard rail widths, it won't be going anywhere.
Cool train, but trying to change infrastructure that's 200 years old on a continental scale is pretty much impossible.. it would need to be built from scratch, incompatible with old rail so 2 different systems (small villages/ towns don't need a huge train) and in case of derailment it would be very hard to fix. As mass increases logistic problems become exponentially bigger
plus digging gigantic tunnels and building extra wide bridges because the old ones would be too small
Manhattan until this day has 2 rail sizes and 2 train widths, some rail branches run wider trains, that won’t fit on narrower tracks and stations.
These Wolfenstein graphics look dope
Without miss engel even more
Imagine a Wolfenstein game set on this train.
Wolfenstein: the New Order mission on the train comes to my mind
@@abdullahchhab2325 Missed that game, should probably add it to my list.
@@qers How could you. The first one of the reboot is great (the new order), the dlc too. The second one (The New Colossus) is also pretty good, but i like it less then the first one. Every thing after II is not worth playing.
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So the work slave cabins are the same as today's cabins regular folks travel in when taking an overnight train..
Yep
theoretically. also, what point are you even trying to make with this comment
thats becouse he states them as "sclaves',when in reality the guys intended for 3th class were workers from eastern teritorys/reichscomisariats,wich whood had goten lower paiments meaning need to lower prices
@@dariusdiaconescu1942 that's unreadable. I think you should try again in your own language, then use Google translate.
I bet the slave seats on that train are comfier to sit in than a lot of seats on budget airlines.
I love this idea! It's not megalomania but highly practical. Trains can carry far more people than planes and in far greater comfort. The only problem is that creating such trains and replacing all rails with the new hugely wider ones would cost hundreds of billions.
With germany's nationalization, it would maybe cost a couple of billion, nothing insane about it
the problem about democracy and capitalism, abitious projects are way too slow and have too many hurdles, especially when their benefit is only long-term
It is work for countless people. Those People spend Money, and so is the Cycle. Not like today where Corporation suck up all the money, and poof.. it's gone, and the workers find themself in an new Company with with a new Name, but the same faces as before..
If governments prioritized their money it wouldn't be an issue
There are many issues with this train - which is why it wasn't built while other engineering advancements from the Nazi era were adopted and further developed. That alone should tell you that it is not "highly practical". Because, in engineering, if something is "highly practical", it gets adopted regardless of the political ideology where it originated.
First thing is, a train system like that would require the entire continent of Europe agreeing to build it. If you know anything about Europe, that's the first thing that is your problem. Which is why Hitler planned for it when the entire Europe was his and all decisions for the continent were to be made in his office. In a world where Europe has even semi-independent states, you won't have an agreement for something like this because some regions would benefit, others won't - so no agreement.
Next, money. I see in the comments that people live in an illusion that Nazi economic system wasn't capitalist, that it was somehow different from modern greedy corporations and how they do things. That is nonsense. Nazi economy was hyper-capitalist and their companies (which were private btw) were no less predatory than the worst ones from USA today. They just further used the political connections to form even greater monopolies. Money for a project like this would come out of the pocket of a German worker and then flow into the private pockets of greedy corporations and, in large part, Nazi party itself.
For example, all slaves that were used... were not a free labor force. Corporations in Germany that were using them had to pay SS directly (there was a complete list of prices for various categories of slave workers) because those slaves were EXCLUSIVELY SS property. And SS in turn filled the party wallet. In Germany during the war, SS was one of the biggest and most profitable corporations because of it.
So in a normal system, you pay a worker, and that worker then spends the money in the economy. In Nazi system, you don't own a slave (so workforce is free) nor do you pay a free worker (who then spends the money in the economy) you are paying another corporation to provide you with the workforce, that is not able to spend that money back in the economy. It was a scheme to enrich the party and its heads fast, it was never supposed to be a long term viable solution. They all knew it was extremely flawed. It was a "get rich fast" model, not "let's build a better Germany" model. Even before the onset of war, Germany was effectively bankrupt (when the president of Reichsbank warned about that, they removed him) and internal debt collection was postponed during the war. When planning expansion, Hitler and his cabinet talked first about "small wars of plunder" before the big confrontation with USSR and Allies - they knew already in 1937-1938 that German economy is going bust and that they need to plunder neighboring countries to keep it all going.
In short, there was never economic system in place that would make decade(s) long project actually possible in the peace time.
And then comes the question of practicality. Let us say that you DID solve previous issues. The entire Europe agrees (either you own it all, or they magically agree) and you have the money ready to build it. Then what?
It was planned to travel only between very few big cities, with little to no stops between them. You could build their tracks next to adjacent ones, no problem - but you'd still need the entire capillary network of regular trains going from those few major hubs. And can you be sure that you will always fill the entire train? If not, then there is a bigger delay between departures - by which point you'd opt for a smaller train anyway.
Simply put, you already had infrastructure in place which was WAAAAY more flexible, working and is economically viable. And you want to add basically 2 or 3 lanes (let's say 2 tracks each) of huge trans-continental railway when there is no need. Instead of that one big train, you can have 4 smaller ones - much better, more flexible, modular, it has existing infrastructure through the entire continent, reaching all the places already...
All in all, if there was ever ANY practical use for a train like this, you'd have seen it developed since at least somewhere in the world, or at least someone would have had something similar on their design board. The fact that no one ever did should drive you to ask the question "Why?". Because, while it looks impressive, and while some of you may have sympathies for a certain Austrian man, he wasn't that smart (at least not when engineering is concerned) and there is almost 100 years of engineering practice since, all over the world, and no one ever saw this and said "Oh, how great and highly practical concept, let's develop it further!". Not a single one. Every engineer and public/mass transport engineer who sees this concept is immediately "Hell no!", regardless of whether you tell them it is a "Nazi train" or not.
fantastic! They intended to make this train using 25KV / 50 cycles AC electricity as main power source via overhead power wire and pantographs (compared to 15 KV 16.7 cylcles on regular electric trains) and when power failed it would have feature a fully automatic coaldust boiler generator wagon to power parsons steam turbines feeding 4 generators for powering the 25KV locomotive.
you are a good nerd
Thanks for letting us know, that was the only interesting thing the video missed - the locomotive specs. I find how it's all powered just as interesting as the train itself. Onboard turbines don't seem to be very typical for trains!
@@dreammachine86 The wide track trains concept was ultra modern and not a stupid Hitler Idea, it was a TGV with an integrated hotel for ultra wide distances. Not even China has such a system. Americans and USSR tried trains with gas turbine propulsion during the 1950s and 60s. The German wide track train could be considered as a land cruiseship so using a boiler and steam turbines for generating emergency power was not a bad idea (Normaly the train run on AC from powerline). (Duing war germany had fuel shortage so using a set of U Boat Diesel engines would have been not a good idea)
You completely failed to mention Hitler's dislike for flying. Hence, he wanted a train.
Same for Putin and Rocket Man
Didn't know that, but it makes a lot of sense actually. From a dictators point of view, that is. Why wouldn't you want people to build an unrealistic, oversized train, just because you don't like to fly?
And his use of only one pilot except upon one single occasion
@@acrylique2976 trains are safer than planes, look what happened to prigozhin, this has nothing to do with whatever you think it does.
Makes no Sense, He traveled around in Germany a Lot with a Junkers 52
Out of all Hitler's insane evil inventions, I think this is the only one I think is good idea, minus slaves part, duplex high speed train is much better than planes.
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The "slave part" is not different from modern trains. It's just worse than the rest of the luxruious train. I would leave it.
Well, ever heard about the autobahn?
@@igors1234You think modern trains are run by slaves or something.
@@CountingStars333 "slave part" is just a name, you can name it whatever you want. You should judge the interior.
Imagine being a tourist on this train, and knowing the carriage behind you contained literal slaves. Damn.
no no no, *”work* slaves”!!! Completely different. Just your regular train company employees… who happen to be slaves
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Why should I care because there my slaves
Not much different than buying cheap shit from China, is it?
Well not so hard to imagine tbh when similar things are happening in countries like the UAE. People will just avert their eyes and let themselves be diverted by the splendour of the rest.
U kiddin me? There was a PERFECT possible transition to your sponsor: right when you told "there even is a viewing platform at the end of the train" ... where you can watch all the nice TREES you are passing ;)
during ww1, emperor Wilhelm had a similar obsession he was building a railway from berlin to constantinople
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Hair salons “so the undercut wouldn’t suffer during the journey” 😂 took a whole 10 seconds for me to even process that one being dropped
I’m still processing tbh
Wikipedia says it was a popular haircut back then?
@@Halbmond nazi haricut
@@Halbmondyes. And still is. Or is again for the last decade or so
@@annarosa865 why would it suffer during the journey? I still don’t get it
That was supposed to pass for a joke? What even is an undercut?
I have a feeling that the plans for this train partly inspired the movie snowpiercer
*Graphic Novel (at least you didn't say TV show)
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He would have loved monster trucks
"NEIN NEIN NEIN!! Vee need a trunk for at least 10 work slaves back there! And add a bathroom!"
On a par with a Boris Johnson vanity project😁
They were planning on building a tank called 'Monster' which was basically little different than an oversized Ratte.
He would have liked monster trucks but he would find them underarmored.
And if Knight Rider would have been a thing back then he would have outfitted his monster truck with bombs so that his jumping, armored monster truck could also divebomb.
9:05 i love how he spoke that so seriously
and it matches up perfectly with H1tler's disappointed expression..
holding his train like "why can't we have this, mama👉👈"
train > airplane
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Running > Train
Not gonna lie. Eating in this room at 3:10 while travelling would be pretty amazing.
Ngl those would still be solid plans for europe-wide train routes nowadays.
yes, it would be great if we developed interrail as one but that won't happen anytime soon
for example austrian railways (öbb) is hating on hungarian railways (máv) because máv is terrible, always late and if they were connected, öbb trains would be late too
Even today this would be unrealistic!
Another great, well researched, well animated Fern production, keep it up!
NGL this would have been so dope just without the the slave thingy... Giant ass train with full size suites, observation deck, restaurants and cinemma halls. sounds like a cruise on land. And imagine the volume of ppl and goods it could have moved.
That's exactly what I was thinking😂
Even today this project would be unrealistic lol
yeah it would be really cool... until you realize we all fit into the 3rd class segment of society and would of just been doing an overnight train ride on bench's
You are one of the best explainer channels on RUclips, we would appreciate longer videos 😁
In german they have. Even a BIG project called "Putins Bears" in cooperation with a german TV Channel
Oh I just found they did upload the Video about Putins Bears on the german channel "funk". It has subtitles but I have no idea how good they are. ruclips.net/video/QSVQR_7fAFQ/видео.html
I love how any video that talks about Germany during this era is full of ominous music and cold narration even though things such as this train are actually just super cool. (minus the poor living standards for the train workers)
"Ah, what a great film that was. Perhaps I should freshen up with a bath... then again my hair is getting rather long too."
- Person on a fucking _train_
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fern dropping another banger as usual
Of course Hitler has a train
Suddenly I imagine Hitler as one of those “train guys” who get home from work, put on their cute lil conductor hat & play with model trains all night
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2:24 yes, if you use a wrong model of an ICE... No ICE is that short. An ICE 3 (which this model is supposed to be) is 200 Meters long. If two of them run together (which they often do), the train is 400 Meters long. A.k.a just as long as the Breitspurbahn. The same length can be reached by a single ICE 1 or ICE 4.
Freight trains can reach a length of up to 750 meters in most of Europe and well over 1 km in a lot of other places like North America.
The gauge is the only thing that really makes the Breitspurbahn look big. Because every other metric is already met by modern trains.
womp womp
I don't think the point here was to show how long it is... It was most likely supposed to emphasize the massive width and, primarily, height of the Breitspurbahn, which is unmatched by any other standard train today.
@@hoppel9177did you just say "womp womp" about a little train taken from it's mother? How dare you!
@@nemes.tamas.21 they talked about the length literally the sentence before that. The length absolutely was a factor in this comparison
@@felixw19 So did they literally give the measurements for the width and height. Even the sentence immediately before specifically mentions that it's a double decker. An ICE could easily fit INSIDE the Breitspurbahn.
man there was a sponsor segway opportunity when you mentioned the dining area having natural wood
I'm a huge fan of the new Wolfenstein games and seeing just how much of the stach's insane projects are brought to life in there is never anything but astounding to me
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why is ferns voice so captivating
Marseille doesn’t rhyme with Versailles. It’s pronounced, “Marsay.”
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@@REMPLACEMENT-TV-2 marsey and versey no?
@@fixu-in6pmVersay, with the ending like the pirate greeting, I think
Marcy and Jefferson.
Honestly, if we ignore the work slave car and obviously the people behind this project, these trains would have been awesome.
Yeah that would be awsome
It would be like a cruise but it's a train going all over Europe
It would be unrealistic today!
@@AmirKhan-yv8jm Yeah, totally different from you flying in the work slave part of the plane, crammed in worse than Hitlers wildest dreams LOL.
Amazing work on the animations, it would be awesome if those could be turned into an interactive demo.
Your videos are always well-made and well-researched. Thank you!
Nobody:
Hitler: insane in the membrane, insane in the train
dumb joke ngl
Nobody:
Literally nobody:
Not even one person:
No one:
insane in the aryan train
INSANE got no TRAIN!
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Hitler tries to go too big: "greed, madness"
Americans try to go too big: "prowess, inspiring"
Did you miss the part where he mentions that Hitler was to enslave people and carry them in that train?
@null-0x no, hence my comment
@@null-0x Meanwhile in America TODAY "ok prisoners time to sew these Louis Vuitton bags for 3c an hour"
Funny how this guy lives rent-free in the minds of so many people, even 80+ years later.
I like the diverse topics in this channel nice work guys
Great design for a train that would mainly operate on the mega marsh that is the Northern European Plain. Even with modern technology high speed rail here in the Netherlands is an engineering challenge. And that's before the mountains and tunnels comes up. It doesn't look very aerodynamic too.
digging giant tunnels through the alps sounds pretty stupid, even normal sized tunnels cost a lot
But what about the giant silver Hitler holding the train, how would that have worked?
I was in the hospital for a long stay a few years ago and on the TV they had this "Hitler's Germany" type program that was literally on a loop, it would play about every four hours. I was heavily medicated at the time so I'd fall asleep and wake up to Hitler this and Hitler that...over and over again. It all blended together for the first week until I was positive I had been on that silly train.
I hear you lol
Heig Ziel
Wtf?
Him again
Lol
Thank you Fern for another excellent video, and cheers to Holzkern for sponsoring this content!
I have to say..
Aside from the Working Slave Wagons, you could argue that this is one of Hitler's lesser *evil* projects as it mostly was just for connection purposes.
Just the thought to have a rail network spanning from the west and east in Europe (and Asia) is pretty smart. On today's basis we could adapt such a system to make an Europe wide connection net, reaching to Russia if you theoretically think about it. (Sadly politically it doesn't seems so great)
Modern technology systems like a maglev (which already existed in the 2000s) could be used to build such a huge intercontinental connection network between Europe and Asia to REALLY solve our CO2 Issue with having to rely less on plane flights. 🧐
In the end, it is a great theoretical idea however practically there are way to many issues (sadly), with both the old "Breitspurbahn" as well as a modern train network version (with for instance: Maglevs) and thus are still unlikely.. so we can just hope for the best. Who knows, maybe in a few decades such a connection between Europe and Asia as well as internally in Russia and Europe could be built. 🤔
(In the end, it's just a simple pipe dream which might or might not will become reality.)
Shout out to all my fellow train lovers! 🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋
0:50 Insane infrastructure projects? We Germans use parts of his Autobahn TO THIS DAY...
whats ur point xD
His point is it's beyond insane 😂
Hitler didn't create the autobahn.
First time I've given a like for a bridge to an ad
Simply brilliant, continue what you're doing fern team 👏👏👏
The amount of tractive power needed to both accelerate this beast to an acceptable speed and to brake would have been immense, not sure there has really ever been a locomotive that would be powerful enough to haul this.
That is no problem at all. There exist trains with over 100 000 tonnes of mass when loaded. They use several locomotives distributed through the length of the train.
One of the biggest problems facing steam powered locomotives was the immense amount of power, often too much to be used right away, but not enough of a lever range to go faster than 50mph without long term mechanical problems. Perhaps a steam locomotive of this size would better utilize the traction of the wider wheels.
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Imagine if we made a train like this today.
Even today this would be unrealistic
I have "Snowpiercer" feelings
Not sure about those slave carriages. Doesn't seem very effective to treat the operators like this.
Calling Hitler a meglomaniac, mad and greedy, isn't very serious either. And Speer had every reason to distance himself from Hitler. It saved his life in Nüremburg.
It's jewish propaganda
With the tension filled classed divisions in the train, this has potential to be the Snowpiecer
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The American, Chinese, Indian, Russian load gauges are realistically not much smaller than the mega train and 2 are standard gauge and 2 slightly wider.
Could just upgrade bottlenecks on existing routes and get like 90% of what the mega train could do
Even today this would be unrealistic!
Indian gauge is British.
"Indian gauge" lmao all built to British specifications. You can still see East India Company logos on equipment in India TODAY.
@@Shrouded_reaperI am teaching you something for free today: load gauge ≠ gauge
Dude would have loved Snowpiercer! Shame he never got to watch it
This would be an epic Wolfenstein level, getting dropped off at the back and having to make your way all the way to first class!
Thank you for not censoring “Hitler” or the swastika’s
Anybody who travelled with Deutsche Bahn in Germany knows the project would have failed miserably.
He wanted everyone to sit facing each other? The man truly was a monster
a lot fo trains in the uk through the early 1900's up to about 1960/1970 had carriages where people would sit facing each other it was standard practise back then
when cars are separated into these room things, seats always face each other (think about harry potter for example)
2:30 AN ICE has 8 Cars, not 4. The comparrison is a bit unfair
was this inspiration for Snowpiercer?
The graphics and animation of this video is remarkable. Well done 👏
this guy is sooo underrated i know he has 1,7 mil but still he needs more
The concept is honestly something we should build
If this train was a freight train, it would have been the most efficient type of transport for carrying freight
We'd need good leadership to build good things. Not gonna happen.
I noticed that (almost?) all passengers (in the theater, the viewing deck or the restaurant) are presented male, but there the hairdresser was female.
Was this a deliberate decision as this train would have been male-passenger-only?
germans were supposed to spread and populate the world which you can't do without females so probably no
I think he only uses male models
I feel like if I was trying to conquer the world, I would want a big ass train too
train will instantly get destroyed by allies aircrafts and bombers. ww2 aa guns were not good
Imagine if that train its network had become a reality, I wonder if would have actually preformed correctly running on such a massive broad gauge rail track? Nice presentation video indeed!!
Damn, despite the usage back then, such a train today would be damn cool.
Is this Unreal Engine? Really keen about how you made this awesome video
I get the feeling that he only doesnt like this train because it was hitlers idea.
No shit
4:31 no Hugo Boss tie in? 😬😆
Huh
Listening to adjectives like "insane" and "monster" in a zoomer language makes this guy sound great. No wonder the zoomers are swinging back - let's go, Europa!
Massive trains, gigantic underground lairs, and weird occult projects. I especially loved what's told in the book "The Dark Reich" by Peter Reinsdyr.
2:53 You could even zip-line in it?!
4:35 well the transition is easy. They are also Austrian…
How do you make these visuals they are insane?
Every time i see this, i think that a train this large was YEARS ahead of its time, there's gonna be time, maybe centuries in the future, that production is gonna be so intense humanity will need transport this capable.
you could have interduced holzkern when you said that the dinner area was fully out of elegant wood
The biggest problem of moving shit for the entirety of Eurasia is the near complete reliance on the back then pretty young Suez Canal, so high capacity rail is not an entirely out of the blue idea, but a logical conclusion.
If you actually look at the third class's plans they aren't THAT much worse than a current year standard european intercity train cabin. His target speed would've been literally double of what the entirety of eastern europe gets 70 fking years later.
Unlike the other megaprojects here the only real technical challenge would've been the increased weight, but the wider track could've been built with a wider base resulting in the same amount of ground pressure. It's a fairly expensive project, but not something that someone this powerful couldn't achieve outside of war times.
There simply is no evil mastermind plan here like the video heavily suggests with it's tone. Mf just wanted better trains.
There is an additional problem: a wider track requires larger curve radii to maintain comfort and prevent the trains from derailing, it's the same logic behind the choice of narrow-gauge railways in areas with difficult terrain where curves must be sharp. A 3m wide track would have required enormous curves; this would have been okayish in the mostly flat lands of Germany and Northeastern Europe, but a nightmare to build elsewhere. Crossing mountain ranges like the Alps, Pyrenees or Carpathians would have been outright impossible with such a track design.
You know, aside from the, err, Nazism and megalomania behind it all, this train is honestly pretty cool. I'd love to ride on something like this. But then again, trains like this have existed for a while now, minus the guns and soldiers and slaves and such, so I'll just shut up...
I think that the project is suddenly somewhat practical. At least for exUSSR. We already have two-story carriages, and our rail network has a length about which Germany could only dream of. We have a problem with fast-track technologies, however, it is an established fact that widening the loading gauge can increase the allowed maximal speed of the train. Therefore, if we adjust the represented gauge to our gauges (1526 mm) two-track composite track would be around 5 meter wide, allowing either two trains (and, unlike the german project, they would be able to pass one another with ~20 cm clearance) or one Tzar-Train. Such tzar-train could have a final width of about 6.7 meters. It could (theoretically at least) be propulsed via a small 'slow-burning' nuclear reactor similar to that which Soviet satellites used. Or a more conventional nuclear sub ones. The width provides plenty of space for isolation. In this case, the reactor would be placed behind the locomotive, but behind it the normal locomotive for fallback would be located. In the case of emergency the normal locomotive would spool up and reverse the train far away from the place.
However, the challenge is the upgrade of the track to have a fixed constant difference between two tracks, which would allow for using two tracks as one for the 'tzar-train'. It would require basically the usage of unified sleepers able to accomodate both tracks.
Overall, of course, the realization of such a project is a challenge, however, in absence of automation or precision it is a very natural thing to go into. Even more practicality is revealed considering the potential for mobile launchpads (we had ones in Soviet era but they are discontinued and we only recently started to produce them again)
The more you can understand the german motifs for pursuing such a project in 1940s when their levels of automation and precision were also uncomparable to modern European or Chinese ones.
I would love such a train..., I dont sympathise with the little mustache man but it would be a huge achievment in railway engineering and just a cool train.
It's such a pity that trains nowadays are not as luxuriously furnished anymore. Back then, trains were like moving palaces, but now they only serve their primary purpose: transporting people from A to B. Of course, it's clear that nowadays there are too many passengers for such luxurious trains, but I still find it unfortunate.
actually there is plenty luxurious trains out there, we are just too poor to use them :D look it up in youtube if you like.
I don't think this is Hitler's most insane train.
😅😅😂 right was thinking the same thing hahah
Yeh his train of thought was pobably worse
@@woods-do9yx no i think the train full of Jews was possibly worse
Bro, that's funny right there
How long would it take to build this?
Me: (watching the video)
My mind: (Snowpiercer theme intensifies)
Aboard the Breitsputbahn 876 cars long, snowpiercer season 4 is out FYI
You had to say the ending scentances instead of apprciating the beautiful train idea and amount of thought that went into the whole operation
Correction: hitler’s AWESOME train
Good thing he lost then.
@@jaynecobb6711 yeah
Still, a giant train is pretty cool