Hitler's Insane Train
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This is the story of the Breitspurbahn.
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It should’ve had a little moustache on the front.
Missed opportunity.
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Thomas' bad brother
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
@@Chomp-Rock If you believe in yourself enough.
@@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.
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
@@user-kl1do4fc2vnah its a mid series based on a masterpiece of a movie
Hell of a train for a failed artist
He got a letter from an acclaimed art critic praising his art. Going after your dreams and not 'making it' at the most elite level is nothing to be ashamed of!
@@YellowPenisi’m dead that you’re standing up for hitler here 💀
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@@YellowPenisi’m dead that you’re standing up for hitler here 💀
😂 Proud to be your 3rd comment!
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
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
look up ten t
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).
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.
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.
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. ;)
even though it's AI, hearing Hitler speak fluent English is uncanny
For real, it scares me how far AI has gotten
Facts@@mrLeL-vo1on
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.
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..
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.
I love this channel every video whenever one comes out I immediately watch it. Keep it Up!
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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.
train > airplane
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0:50 Insane infrastructure projects? We Germans use parts of his Autobahn TO THIS DAY...
whats ur point xD
I have a feeling that the plans for this train partly inspired the movie snowpiercer
So the work slave cabins are the same as today's cabins regular folks travel in when taking an overnight train..
Yep
This is officially one of my favorite channels. Thank you for sharing.
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👉👈"
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
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.
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
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?
fantastic! They intended to make this train using 25KV / 50 cycles 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.
Marseille doesn’t rhyme with Versailles. It’s pronounced, “Marsay.”
marsey
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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.
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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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😂
"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_
Imagine if we made a train like this today.
ngl this is the best application for ai voice i have seen so far
This channel is made by @Simplicissimus and @Hogh. Hogh is the one who speaks.
@@BLXODi think he was referring to the AI generated voice of hitler and the other people in the video that he used , not the narrator
@@BLXOD i guess they mean at 6:22
Also i agree, giving historic figures a voice is really cool
Is it though? I'm not opposed to the use of AI here, but it could've just as well've been done by a paid human voice actor (and maybe they would've done better).
@@DueySRit was noted in the video, its AI
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.)
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 ;)
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.
Not gonna lie. Eating in this room at 3:10 while travelling would be pretty amazing.
Failed artist builds snowpiercer
during ww1, emperor Wilhelm had a similar obsession he was building a railway from berlin to constantinople
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Another great, well researched, well animated Fern production, keep it up!
Europe being more united would be sick but this (hitlers plan) was clearly not the way.
You are right. I mean hitlers plan was to eradicate/enslave „lesser“ humans. And force unification. But i dont think that it would be stable for long except if it survives for at least 2-3 Generations so people are not aware of the old order. I would assume there would be a good probability that it would collapse after hitlers death.
Hitler's dream somewhat worked out in the end. Europe is fairly united with the EU. Hopefully it will decouple from America and expand eastwards.
@@user-cz9ss4yq4x "Hitler's dream somewhat worked out in the end."
So unhinged. The EU was not his vision at alllllllll
You should have been raised to know that it's impertinent to neglect to capitalize a man's name.
Europe will never unite in an civil way.
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
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
Hitler tries to go too big: "greed, madness"
Americans try to go too big: "prowess, inspiring"
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
as someone who's obsessed with Nazis and their history, I realized how overrated their projects and architectury is, and the reason is because of media, video games, movies, etc and how they're portrayed as way cooler than they actually were and there's nothing wrong with that but people really overestimate them
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
9:05 hitler really acted like a 6 year old 💀
Average dictator. The amount of insane projects and things done just because dictators are greedy and childish is quite big.
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
fern dropping another banger as usual
Hitlers ideas were so fucking crazy I love it.
I also heard the Nazis dabbled in dark magic because why not?
I like Trains
Far be it from me to typically say "Hitler had a good idea" in really any context, but this is a DOPE train. If there were anything like it today, I'd seriously consider taking it around the continental US as part of a vacation over an airplane so long as the cost was similar.
I have "Snowpiercer" feelings
Me in the beginning: This actually sound much better than the Deutsche Bahn
Me during the end: Good that we have the Deutsche Bahn instead
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
why is ferns voice so captivating
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.
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)
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But what about the giant silver Hitler holding the train, how would that have worked?
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'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
You should have said that Breitspurbahn literally translates to wide gauge train
This all seemed pretty cool until we got to the slave carriage
Your videos are always well-made and well-researched. Thank you!
Dude would have loved Snowpiercer! Shame he never got to watch it
2:30 AN ICE has 8 Cars, not 4. The comparrison is a bit unfair
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
He painted himself a bright future, but got denied once again
you could have interduced holzkern when you said that the dinner area was fully out of elegant wood
One of the best channels ive ever met ngl !!
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.
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.
if the Breitspurbahn is not a setting in Wolfenstein III I"m not gonna play it
How do you make these visuals they are insane?
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.
Easily one of the best channels to learn something new.
Damn, despite the usage back then, such a train today would be damn cool.
How was a train supposed to combat local resistance. It’s on tracks….. vulnerable, sabatogable tracks. Did they think the locals would tolerate track laying and wait for the train to get violent?
Trains can transport large amounts of troops and supplies to new areas quickly and stations are major logistics hubs. The only was to fight back if you don't own your own train might be guerrilla warfare, cutting up track sections and running away. But that requires tools and being able to reach the terrain.
During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army ultimately won by taking back control of the Trans-Siberian Railway from the White Army.
It's kinda cool except the military aspects. I wish we could have such long-distance trains. This would make it much better to travel far disctances and also improves the transportation of goods.
I´m part of a group that pushing a rail transport solution with similar but updated performance. Its built on a already existing rail system with tweaks to power supply and loading gauge. The original loading guage is 4x4.2 meter. It planed to be expanded to 5x6 meter. (so basically a meter shy in both direction). Trails would be up to 500 meters long
Having it wider would actually make sens. 5 meter wide is a bit to shy of two full cabin width. The issue is that the system its built on have problem supporting wider trains.
A primary night route on plan now would be Helsinki to Athens, with a later Oslo-Neapel, that both routes would take about 10-11 hours with a fairly low speed (the track would primary used for local transport and express fright daytime).
That would later be intended as a collector route for a much longer Asian route. We are quite a few years into the future, and working under the assumption that the situation in Russia and China would chill down by then. One possible endpoint could be Singapore with a possible 5 hour connection to Perth in Australia that would allow people to go from Europe to Austria with a nice coshy sleeper train majority of the way.
The economics of the European routs is actually surprisingly solid. The problem is that the first link is very expensive to build. But there after it will be cheaper and cheaper. When a handful of links are built the track would generate more cash than it cost. So we are basically poking different government to spend the money to built the first link. Well.. let me say it this way. Nobody want to be first, everyone want to be second.
Got the response from multiple transport agencies in multiple countries that if we built it to there border from a outer country, they are interested in building there part. Nobody want to build the first section.
The Europe to Asia part got a bit more iffy economics. But there are people working on solving it.
I like the diverse topics in this channel nice work guys
Anybody who travelled with Deutsche Bahn in Germany knows the project would have failed miserably.
I just gotta say, Hitler was a total goofball.
What do you mean?
He made a career around hating people for made up reasons. He definitely was goofy and not quite sane
Just to clarify, he wasn’t a very fun guy at all from what I’ve heard. Very goofball actions for sure.
@@LordDanielG glad we agree he was a total goofball
If you go watch “11 less evil facts about Hitler” by Mitzi Studio then yeah Hitler was really goofy behind his “strongman” dictator persona I bet even his advisors thought their leader was weird at time.
man there was a sponsor segway opportunity when you mentioned the dining area having natural wood
Well, beside that this would be very bad, lets take another perspective, the highways in Germany was even built by Nazis for better logistic of military distribution. And we dont rid it off the land, just because it was made by the Nazis.
So, lets take a look further, with such a huge train infrastructure today, you could transport so many people at ones, we would not need air planes anymore for continental traveling. And 200km/h, this you dont even get in Germany today, so it was ambitious. But if the infrastructure would exist hypothetically today, we could have less problems I guess.
Sure, everything in the past, was build with blood.
They were planned and started to be build before the Nazi's even took power, dont get ahead of ourselves here.
Every time I think I'd love this train, he says something like "wealthy nazi's enjoy their reading here"
This highly misleading, this project never left the drawing board really.
No sh1t 🤦🏼 it's a video explaining the vision of this train 😂
Sometimes an enormous train is just a train.... but in this case, Hitler was defo compensating for his little party member.
was this inspiration for Snowpiercer?
Amazing work on the animations, it would be awesome if those could be turned into an interactive demo.
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!
In a different timeline, someone is watching this while travelling on that train.
Crazy how convinced hitlor was that he will win the ww2
He came close, several times but his egomania and allies got in the way.
The Battle of Moscow ended with the bitter defeat of the Wehrmacht, who fought within kilometers of the city and although they were heavily exhausted, an excerpt from a particular General (whose name evades me) noted that Moscow could have been taken but Hitler thwarted his own opportunity to take the Kremlin (or at least establish a battlefront in the city itself) because he wanted the "Ferdinand" tanks under development to serve a symbolic role during an assault on Moscow and the opening to the Kremlin began to close with time. Those tanks were never fully completed, by the way and the unassembled carriages were later converted into Assault Guns I believe. (A poor man's tank.)
Not destroying the British; which the Reich had the means to do but insisted on a terror bombing campaign against the them instead. This would have dire consequences for the Reich, who likely left the British standing solely because Valkyrie Mitford, a famous Nazi (not a Fascist) appropriator and possible (likely) girlfriend of the Angry Moustache Man; swayed his decision to do so out of emotional distress, only to shoot herself later. (A common trend amongst women that involve themselves with him.)
One could assume the Reich wanted the British to submit and become an Axis satellite like Rumania, Croatia etc. because of their colonies, but taking into consideration Operation Hercules (which the Italians stupidly turned down in favor of an invasion of Greece) and Italy's disastrous annexation of the eastern French coast and alps, that the idea of keeping the British around was long discarded in favor for their complete eradication and maintaining the ethos of a Greater Germany and a New Roman Empire.
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor solidified the US entry into the war (and subsequently Canada, Brazil) despite the American position on the going-on's of Europe at the time being largely indifferent. Canada themselves let 900 Jews die who came on the MS St. Louis for refuge from the Holocaust, knowingly denying these people asylum from genocide. The League of Nations (NATO) are murderers and opportunists. Lest we not forget Poland was doubly invaded by the Soviets AND the Nazis, whose armed forces mutually partitioned Poland and saluted one-another in the streets of Warsaw as they proceeded to co-operatively loot and burn the city.
While China was burning throughout the 20's until the Japanese too, added to the political KMT-Communism-Warlord madness happening there by invading Nanking and occupying Manchuria akin to Operation Barbarossa.
The Reich could have conquered USSR if you look at the performance of Axis forces (until '43; although some stellar examples of defense were exhibited by the Axis once the tables turned) throughout the war.
Now add logistics and things get hilarious. Hitler made absolutely sure German women could still get access to luxurious vanities like lipstick and make-up (literally for Eva's personal sake) but made little concern of the bitter winters that soldaten were baring in their spring and summer field uniforms which obviously, were ill-equipped for Eastern European/Far East Asian winters. MP43's could have possibly been in the hands of the average soldier much sooner and Stalingrad, Petrograd and many other sites of fighting quickly brought to attention the power of an SMG and handguns in urban fighting. Let's not forget the high military command stated by Christmas of XIX41, that the campaign would be over (two atomic bombs in '45 later lol)
He had chances but if you look at the bigger picture, the defeat of Moscow and establishment of lebensraum wouldn't have begun with the capture of the Kremlin. France's Free Zones were still a problem; Africa was re-captured from the Italians by the Brits, lolGreece (don't f* with these people), the Manchurian problem was HUGE and complicated, Jugoslavia was an entire open battlefront and of the few "neutral" countries, they would have required pacification akin to Cassibile at the tiniest incursion (Spain, Switzerland)
Win yes, he could have (it would've been short-lived.)
But maintain the victory? *Highly unlikely.*
He could have, and he did come pretty close. In my opinion, to the extend that history is correct, his biggest mistake was trying to fight a war with Russia. He should have left Russia alone. There was much to lose but basically nothing to be gained from making war with Russia. The same is even more true today, and the US + Europe are making the same mistake as Hitler by trying to engage Russia in warfare in modern day Ukraine. The US in particular is grossly overextending itself by trying to fight Russia in Ukraine, by actively fighting in Yemen, and by threatening to fight at much larger scale in the Middle East (ex: Iran) and Asia (ex: China and North Korea), and by having way too much government debt. The US military is not strong enough to handle more than one serious military conflict at a time, unless the adversaries do not have the weapons to meaningfully shoot back (like in Iraq and Afghanistan). Additionally, the excessive US government debt means that the US cannot really afford any war at all, and all war that it does engage in, is expensive and hastens its own financial demise (which will also bring US military demise, since the US military runs primarily on money).
If Hitler had instead left Russia alone but instead focused his efforts on invading the UK, he likely could have captured the territory and put a stop to the UK + US supported airplane bombing campaigns in Germany. This would have enabled him to fast track nuclear weapons development and delivery systems necessary to bring them to the US mainland. Had he not made the mistake of trying to invade Russia, history would likely be very different than it is today. Instead of Nagasaki and Hiroshima getting atomic bombed, New York City and Washington DC likely would have been nuclear bombed instead. Most likely, we would all be speaking German, we would enjoy wider gauge railroads, and there probably would not have been any warfare between nations in the time since World War 2, as there would only have been a single nation on the Earth. Wars like the war in Vietnam, the war in Afghanistan, the wars in Iraq, and most or all other wars on Earth simply would never have happened.
The pending World War 3 that may happen soon and could destroy much of humanity, also would never have happened (or would not happen). Hypothetically in an honest "what if" scenario, if Hitler had won, and his vision of his "new world order" had created global peace (due to lack of multiple competing nations interested in fighting each other), he might have effectively "saved" billions of future lives, by preventing World War 3 (of course, subject to the assumption that World War 3 does occur in humanity's future, and it does kill billions of people).
History is written by the victor. Hitler is a loathed and hated individual, because he lost. If he had won, the history books would be written very differently. That said, he was not a good guy. He was a killer and there was no good reason for him to have persecuted the Jews. He should have left the Jews alone. Innocent non-combatants should not be killed. Additionally, there are much more peaceful ways of accomplishing objectives, compared to mass killing through open warfare. It is not totally inconceivable to imagine plans to take over the world, by peaceful economic, religious, immigration, technological/artistic/cultural, and propaganda means, rather than by conventional military invasion.
Damn. As someone who has slept on a CFR (Romanian Railways) train in a 6-bunk cabin with a shared bathroom, this looks LUX 😲
I thought 6 bunk cabin was standard everywhere,
@@matsv201 it very well may be, but I daresay the cabin was smaller than average...very cramped! Especially when you're sharing with strangers
@@dancoroian1 If i don´t miss remember, the Romanian trains are license produce Swedish trains, so they are probobly basically identical to the one we got here.
I know the locos are, but i think you have some of the same carages as well.
The 6 bunk is of cause 2:n class, the 1st class one is 2 or 3. Those are really nice
@@dancoroian1 yea.. they are really tiny. I use to ride them a lot when I was a kid.
Only once when I was a adult.. and it was really cramped. The beds are so narrow I can't even turn around.
But when I was a kid it was fantastic. Whent on a 24 hour ride to the other side of the coutry when I was 24 with a yourth group. Greate time.
How long would it take to build this?
Thank you for not censoring “Hitler” or the swastika’s
hitler used to famously yell at his inner circle even when they were chilling at a table
considering they were losing it's understandable.
@@spol no I'm talking about the A.I voice, its funny
Just me and my wrench.. derailing a hypothetical train 🚂 chooo choooo