Belgium's Botched three boiler Passenger Engine - Belgian State Railways "195"
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- In today's video, we take a look at an attempt to give a steam locomotive more power by giving it more boilers
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From certain angles, this engine looks like it lived a pained existence...
"Father....father, it hurts...."
It’s always Belgium
Omfg lmao ❤
Or France
"They're probably belgian, they're so unsporting"
Yeah, we had a lot of locomotive builders.
We had an industry just short of italy pre WW2
We had a fuckton of industrial development
These are not side boilers, they are torpedo tubes :)
mo boiler mo good
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An engineer could always tell he'd pissed off the boss when he was assigned to crew 195.
“So how goofy is the locomotive going to be?”
Belgian engineer - “yes”
Whoever designed this had too much of the Belgian Delirium Tremens beer!
Luckily we have also some good inventions of this period from Belgium, like the Belpaire firebox.
There truly are a ton of very strange and interesting Belgian steam locomotives. In addition to the very bizarre-looking locomotive in this video, the Triple Boiler Locomotive #195, there was also the Type 3 Locomotive, which History in the Dark says "clearly throws the Whyte notation completely out the window" due to the fact that there were two unpowered wheels in between two of the driving wheels (which were coupled), and, of course, the Franco-Crosti Quadruplex Locomotive, which was THE most powerful steam locomotive ever built by any nation, EVER, and the only ever built quadruplex locomotive (with a 0-6-2+2-4-2-4-2+2-6-0 wheel arrangement)!
It was pretty darn powerful, but maybe not the most powerful. By my calcs (they could be wrong) the quadruplex made about 97,000 lbs of tractive effort (or 432 kN). There were plenty of engines with much more power in the US, like the Norfolk and Western Y6b's making 152,000 lbs of tractive effort (677 kN).
The Belgian railways had lighter track and roadbed, whereas American engines could get very heavy. A Y6b on Belgian rails would have crushed them. Bethlehem Steel's main line used 155lb rail!
The gigantic quadruplex was the most powerful at its time, but many later, conventional or not, designs outperformed it, especially in the US (with the lone S1 probably being the most powerful and fast and arguably most beautiful loco ever built)
“Certainly there can’t be a stranger engine than this?”
The catboy engine: * internal panicking *
The Holman Horror and The Fontaine Fiasco and the John Stevens say hi
I need som seeeeerious context for this
@@harumochizuki www.lbscr.org/Rolling-Stock/Locomotives/Stroudley/Gladstone/189-Edward-Blount-a.jpg
Belgians were certainly good at making some funky engines isn't it? lol
Even though they arent a country 😂😂😂 (jk)
As a dutch person i agree that the Belgians truly are very Belgian sometimes
@@rubentreingames6466 They even named a city "Brussels" 🥦
And to think Belgium gave us Walschaerts valve gear.
@@RobertCraft-re5sf broccoli city not only it’s very Brussels they also speak 2 languages in one city I have no idea how they would achieve that but cool I guess ✨
Think this would make an interesting "Thomas the Tank Engine" type character?
Would basically be a Minecraft wither lmao
An engine with 3 faces would be a nightmare to other engines
Imagine someone with 3 faces, something like peter griffin but with 2 chip griffins
The mountain engines have 2 faces and they always creep me out. Do they see and speak from both simultaneously or can they choose?
Thomas and the Belgian Hydra and Other Stories
@@HenryGreenEngine3I think that’s mostly because there’s no turntables, so they go forward 1 way & backwards the other way
damn that's a good message there TOT
The initial reasoning behind this locomotive demonstrates one of the main problems with steam locomotives in general. Steam weebs like to pretend that they're constant-force machines that develop more and more power as they go faster, but the reality is that they aren't. They are constant-power machines just like diesels, except the rated power comes from the boiler capacity rather than the limits of a diesel engine. This falls apart at low speed, where the physics of directly driving the wheels by injecting steam into the cylinders imposes a hard cap on the available tractive effort, effectively meaning that the locomotive can use less and less of its rated power output as speed decreases. This causes the illusion that it acts as a constant-force machine. Sometimes, looking at a graph from the bottom up makes us believe falsehoods that are readily apparent when you look at the graph from the top down.
Great Information Vids!
At least they had the ingenuity to actually make these
Oh god I live along that line 3:35
An interesting idea which didn't pan out. Nothing venture, nothing gained.
The Type 12s have appeared in my locomotive books. Both the conventional Type 12s and No. 195 are examples that Belgium had some of the most unusual looking steam engines in Europe. I suggest looking into the 4-6-2s that ran in Belgium. Both beautiful and strange-looking at the same time.
The strange thing is that the problem of getting extra power had been solved before this engine was built. Unfortunately many locomotive designers didn't believe it. Consequently singles were still being designed for express locos long after four and six coupled machines were setting new speed records. I know the type 12s had two powered axles but the whole shape looked it was a modified single.
more
more boilers
“Halt, who are thou?!”
art
Now bring me a shrubbery. Ni!
I like Belgium, Belgium is cool
First weird wheel configuration like a bogey inside a driving wheel, second biggest mainline engine, third 3 boilers. whatever will Belgium do next?
Are you referring to that quadruplex & the thing that throws the Whyte out the window?
@@lyokianhitchhiker ye
How tf would this work in the world of Thomas? The engine just wakes up with two other faces on the side of its original like a 3 headed dragon...🤣
Just imagine it's like the three headed dragon meme
As tf2 engineer once said: sometimes you gotta need a little less gun
Most people don't know that the region of now Belgium was the first to start the industrial revolution just after the UK.
To avoid UK patents Britisch industrialist, entrepeneurs and engineers setup shop in now Belgium.
f.e. John Cockerill set up shop in Verviers (Liege region) during the Napoleonic era.
The industrial powerhouse of the south of the Netherlands was a major factor in the 1830 violent breakup with the then poor agricultural North part of the Netherlands.
After the 1830 violent breakup the current Netherlands had to build from scratch an industrial industry.
Lots ofafter 1830's industrial equipment was bought in the UK and Germany.
The homegrown Industry started at the end of the 1800's eraly 1900's
ToT: more isnt always better
KSP (Kirbal space Program): add more boosters. Solution to everything
All things considered, this experiment was a success. Just very awkward to work with.
Why is the funnel blocky?
Is it something like a giesl ejector?
Because of the poor quiet of Belgian coal. This coal was very dusty, almost sandlike, and would sometimes be sucked into the fire tubes and smokebox. By adding a rectangular chimney they could reduce the “pulling force”.
Imagine this engine in the Thomas universe. Would have split personality disorder, or can it choose which face to speak out of?
I don't listen to much content like this so my ears aren't attuned to the terms used, I had to repeat "a wide firebox" in my head because my brain first understood it as "a Wi-Fi erbox"...
This train follows the logic of Kerbal Space Programs: add more boosters.
Obviously this was before there were unions, because they would have demanded the railway have a fireman for every boiler.
“Papah, I require protien”
Beedle’s shop theme from the Legend of Zelda franchise. Rather fitting for an odd engine design.
bro im belgian and i dont understand why we keep making the weirdest designs ever and we dont ever preserve them
Leave it to Belgium to create the best steampunk designs
The Steam Engine Looks Amazing I Like It
We've had one, yes. What about a second boiler?
First quadruplex now triple boiler
I love Belgian engineering failures!
Look at some of the guns their arms industry produced at the turn of the 19th Century.
TRIPA KILLA KAN INTO DA FIGHT! WAAAAAAUGH!!!
Frankenstein engine
What super cocaine was Belgium smoking
Crack from the Netherlands prob 😭
coal dust
Thats a whole lot of extra weight and complexity for around 3% more power.
Id count that experiment as extremely not worth it
It may not work great, but that is a pretty rad design. Maybe someone will make a model.
Engerth-Locomotive
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20 minutes ago, ay.
Great vid TOT
You did a great job man 0:20