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[@Charles-7]

for the first part: it's like someone never seen polar express, which even that movie CLEARLY shows that the conductor, fireman, and engineer are 3 separate people in it.

[@Dichuz91]

you're quite welcome for this clip BTW, that was me making Hyce explode on stream, at the time of saying it i wasn't actually aware of the fact that the nature of the design K-37's was a point of contention and debate, and that mis-information wasn't limited to wikipedia exclusively, and was cited as fact in several documents related to the D&RGW, nor did i actually know that it was a tension point for hyce. so all in all the entire clip was one happy accident of a while bunch of star aligning to make everything just perfect.

[@thebanananacam]

Wow, I did not know people were stupid enough to think the conductor was in the cab.

[@PowerTrain611]

It happens all the time. I can not begin to describe my anguish when I hear people refer to the engineer as the conductor as if they are interchangeable. However, on diesel powered freight trains, the conductor is in the cab.

[@BNSFandSP]

I got called the conductor all the time, even though for the majority of that time I was the motorman.

[@TheBeeMan1994]

Well in all fairness in the modern day they are

[@BRIANumber7-RCandModels]

Until the news stops referring to Amtrak engineers as conductors, anything is possible, haha

[@thebanananacam]

@@BRIANumber7-RCandModels Fair enough, same could be said for the news referring to the runway, ramps, and aprons as tarmac

[@lordsherifftakari4127]

listening to Hyce go Supercritical Nuclear Meltdown!
do not challenge the man who lives, eats, breathes and sleeps Choo Choo's
and for the love of all things cute and Furry, do not poke fun at his beloved 491!

[@titanmechanical17763]

hyce being this mad is rare to see he's usually really chill

[@strasburgrailfan90]

People calling the driver and firemen the conductor pisses me off too

[@strasburgrailfan90]

Sorry engineer

[@KyloKellen]

Facs

[@edwardpapak4234]

3:09 Hyce took that very personal

[@Two_Bears]

Interesting enough on this topic, shown in your pic is the Heisler #3 from the Westside Lumber Company modelled for Railroads Online! That particular locomotive went from Narrow gauge, to standard gauge in 1947, to Narrow gauge again when it was bought by Roaring Camp and Big Trees. True, it's not a K-37, but also true, that quite a lot of switching stuff around.

[@whatusernameis5295]

I want some of what the railroad was drinking

[@Two_Bears]

The K-37 was never standard gauge and to say that is pure ignorance. The engine was pretty much built from scratch and utilized a standard gauge C-41 boiler. The engine is more than a boiler by itself. If that was the only case then a Chinese laundry boilers are K-37’s as well (no slight to Chinese laundry folks here).
Hyce: I get slightly elevated myself when someone refers to geared locomotives as “toys” compared to D&RGW locomotives. I’ve yet to see a K series loco pulling a log train on a 6% grade on flimsy reused rail. Different strokes for different folks!

[@SternLX]

And this is why you never ever trust Wikipedia

[@rollingbox]

I actually correct misinformation on Wikipedia last I checked the article was truthful.

[@KatyPacific382]

If i remember, one of the k class mikados involved with the whole *"lizard head stuck in the snow debacle"* wound on on the National railways of Mexico (NdeM) and was converted to be a standard gauge mikado, it was unfortunately scrapped in the 1950s.
There are photos of it on the NdeM

[@thundervallie]

Yup, that would be so, although that one was a K-27 if I remember correctly.

[@KatyPacific382]

​@@thundervallie I think that was the k class that was converted into a standard gauge engine by the NdeM

[@libra3655]

Oh, I can't wait for chat to come back to the RRO discord... this needs to be posted there and stickied once it does 🤣

[@billyrueckert5113]

He channeled his inner Michael Scott!

[@captainjonna1034]

arrrrrrrrhahaha lol that's a side of Hyce we don't get to see on his channel, oooooh boy my sides are hurting bad for nearly pissing myself laughing at Hyce going nuclear, thank you Mason, if i ever have the pleasure of being trackside at the museum within earshot of Hyce I'm point at him and "ooooooh there's the conductor" hahahaha.

[@BMMEC6000]

I hate it when people call engineers or firemen conductors too

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

"The frames around the boilers were 'rebuilt'" shall we say?

[@amtrakpepsican8408]

Walking nerd emoji

[@jacobramsey7624]

People in general are not as knowledgeable about railroads today as they used to be. I blame lack of regular train travel and the movie industry just saying and showing what ever they think is a train and what they think how a train and its crew work and then the public uses that as the basis for their knowledge on the subject.

[@michaelramsey82]

Well said. Hollywood almost always prioritizes what makes an eye-catching action scene over realism, and since North America's passenger rail service is an absolute joke compared to what it was in the steam era, most people have little first-hand experience with trains and none at all with steam-powered trains (unless they were lucky enough to grow up near a tourist railroad, as I was).

[@jacobramsey7624]

@@michaelramsey82 well said! Being a Railfan and a history buff I've learned alot about trains and was even fortunate to have worked for the Conway Scenic Railroad for 2 years before covid hit. I learned alot there but I still knew alot when I was a kid. For example, in Lionel's lionelvill movie there problems with the trains in the movie that tell me that the people who did the picture have no clue how Lionel trains work. They probably just looked at some pictures and guessed the rest. The biggest example of this is when the start of the value gear of the locomotive is attached to the axle of the locomotive and the sid rod just goes through it. That would never work in real life. You would have to see the movie to understand what I am talking about.

[@thomasparodies9730]

I heard the k-37 were supposedly supposed to be minimum guage...i hope he sees this

[@fuzzelf]

Sorry everyone, but the K-37 is the narrow gauge version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame... Really strong, but all kinda' odd with a big back, with a bit of deformed face. Just sayin'.....

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

Thanks for clipping this

[@BMMEC6000]

0:43
Your welcome

[@collider8077]

EXPLODES

[@koriyagay]

Dude had a meltdown

[@Dallen9]

The k-36s and k-37s were designed to be converted from Narrow gauge to standard gauge by simply swapping the wheels and axles on the locomotives(as simple as that sounds would of been a 2 week ordeal in the time period). This design was cause in the 1920's the Rio Grande (D&RGW at the time)was planning to make their whole network standard gauge. this never took place. now the tenders were converted from standard gauge to Narrow gauge so that when this conversion they planned out happened they knew what to do. Black Monday happened so this never came to fruition.

[@thundervallie]

go talk about this with hyce lol

[@Dallen9]

@@thundervallie Anyone who does the heavy Library research on this would knows about this. Anyone else who denies this is either bat shit insane or they don't know the nitty gritty details of what the Machines purpose was. Now if I'm recalling it right what Hyce refers to is some of the K-36s or the k-37s had a bad casting of their component (that I can't think of off the top of my head and too lazy to look up) and those units would need to have that component recasted (which as of right now is unsure if even if we had the facilities to cast is if we even know how to cast it (which we still do but I won't go into Illiteracy of men, their machines, and the manuals to maintain them) ). in fact if the Railroads and museum wanted to they could probably have those components casted if they wanted to build a facility for it. (which if the three organizations wanted too they could totally have it done but you know old men and bickering not caring for their future)

[@Jared_Smith_99]

Do you have an article or paper? I don't believe this is true but if you can prove it I'll look

[@Dallen9]

@@Jared_Smith_99 Can you read Spanish? Cause the notes of the k-36 conversions to standard gauge are in Spanish. And it was documented heavily in D&RGW that the goal was to Standardize to Standard gauge many times it's part of the reason why D&RGW bought outside framed locomotives period.

[@Jared_Smith_99]

@@Dallen9 I can read some, what I can’t read I can have translated.

[@joenewstead4848]

So.....how about those k37's that were converted from 2-8-0's....?😬😬😬😬😬 ONLY KIDDING don't kill me bro.

[@pootmahgoots8482]

Hyce's head exploded. o.o

[@uhitskyle]

What a gerb

[@Hushey]

*...what?*

[@train_chicken6143]

hehehe

[@thatonecaledonian812]

Not converted
Reutilized

[@ianmcnab9534]

Wow........

[@richardjayroe8922]

According to my hard cover books, he was correct about the K-37s were converted.
Also I like how they joke about this in tech tree videos

[@rollingbox]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@richardjayroe8922]

@@rollingbox hard cover never lies, especially when it is over half a dozen books.
Also one of the authors, had a family member who worked for the Denver Rio Grande

[@TrainsAreReallyCool]

@richardjayroe8922 Burn that book. *IT IS WRONG.*