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Why American trams had nets to catch people - Trolley Safety Devices
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- In today's video, we take a look at how trams in North America protected pedestrians by hanging nets off the front.
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I guess that's why they're called *tram*-polines
I wanna jump in trampolines
Go home, TOT! You’re drunk!
😂
Bouncy bouncy bouncy bounce
Oh brother, this guy STINKS!
Trams with nets. A rather fascinating concept that sprung out of the drawing boards. I guess you could say that every once in a while, the staff of the tramways had their catch of the day.
Give the funny thought of a romance brewing between a tram operator and someone he scooped into his tram's net.
Un-fun fact, iv had the unfortunate experience of getting caught in a "trolley people catcher" by accident while working on a vintage streetcar line in Texas.
I was helping a tram back in to the barn after being a conductor on it all day and the driver wasn't paying attention, he went backwards instead of forwards, knocking me over I quickly pushed the safety bars in making the catcher come down, I rolled up into it screaming my head off and it worked like a charm!
@MJC19 was it better than hitting the body?
Thank you for making a video on this! I did a project on these "lifesavers" in high school, and took forever to find any good information
Trams with nets is probably the funniest thing I’ve seen all day.
Imagine being chased by a tram screaming
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Would be what CinemaSins calls "The Prometheus School for Running Away From Things," given that someone could (usually) jump off to the side of the tracks and be safe. Though I don't doubt there are still people out there who would do that. I've certainly encountered animals that did, had me chase them a significant distance along the rode or bicycle path when they could have easily escaped to the side.
@@quillmaurer6563 its all fun and games until *the tram jumps out of the track*
@@johnathonmcjohn3 True, and that's probably happened - debris in the track causing it to derail and hit someone or something where they should have been safe. I've heard tram derailments are quite common due to the environment they operate in and the narrow grooves their flanges are in easily being filled with debris. Resulting in a chase like the train chase from "Wrongfully Accused."
The UK system (life guard) was mostly used in Australia. I maintain these life guards as part of my job and as long as you get the geometry of the mechanism above the front ‘trigger gate’ correct, they work a treat.
When the trigger gate is been activated, it pushes a shaft around with a cam rotating around, pulling on the correcting rod that pulls the life guard tray down. A spring is also used to help ensure that the dropping action of the tray is done with more force than what gravity can provide.
"Not pleasant"
Shows a picture of a tram to Mt Pleasant.
Well done, Sir. 😂
One thing we all forgetting is, when a tram hits you with 30kph (19mph), getting dragged unter it is probably the least of your problems
In Soviet Russia, tram catches you.
0:57 That tram is on St. Peter's Gate, Nottingham. The street joining it is Wheeler Gate, the camera is on Lister Gate and Hounds Gate is just off camera to the left. The oldest pub in the UK, The Salutation is at the top of Hounds Gate. This is of course contentious. The three major contenders are all in Nottingham, and it's all in the small print. A girlfriend always claimed there was also one in Suffolk or Kent.
This video for me is very strange. It’s a good video with great information but I took a nap and had a dream where I got ran over. When I woke up this video was recommended to me. So is this man more than the Train Fact Guy?
You weren't supposed to see that
I love the concept of the tram catching you.❤️
For a time, a specific type of plow used in Toledo, Ohio, nicknamed the "Toledo Bumper" which was required on all interurbans entering Toledo. On one line, the Western Ohio Railway, which sometimes had to enter Toledo, they had several cars that on one end had the standard Toledo bumper, but on the other end, did not, so they would enter the city with the Toledo Bumper facing forward, and then turn around, so that the Toledo Bumper is facing forward again.
You can see a good picture of one on the cover of the book "The Western Ohio Railway" by Scott Trostel.
(with apoligoes to Mr. Yakov Pokhis AKA Yakov Smirnoff)
Today... You catch tram.
In the past, Tram caught you!
1:03 Perfect for pushing cars out of the way
Nice story on pedestrian safety devices on American streetcars. Thanks for sharing! One correction here is that in the U.S. and even Canada these forms of city rail transportation (at least in the past) are referred to as either streetcars or trolleys but never trams. Trams sounds, well, so European.
Electric Trams on the Isle of Man have small cowcatchers, however, their couplers stick out in front of them. And on that note, this year is the 150th Anniversary of the Isle of Man Steam Railway & the 130th anniversary of the Manx Electric Railway.
I have two video ideas:
First is a video about the Namibian Railways Zwillinge class, which was basically a double Fairlie but the two halves could separate.
And the second is about the Vatican's railway, which is one of the shortest railways in the world, it's also the only railway that doesn't own a locomotive.
In Soviet Russia, tram catch you!
Damn I wish this video came out last week. I visited the Illinois Railway Museum Sunday abd they have a huge collection of trolleys and street cars. If I had watched this, I could have kept my eye out to see if any had such devices.
Almost all of them do!
Car number 327, seen at the 2:40 point is still operating at the Halton County Radial Railway museum, near Toronto Canada
Only heard legends of streetcars in the US. Only know cars and the few hated that are left of those old tales. Genius vehicles, way better than cars!
There are a few traditional streetcars still running, most famously the ones in New Orleans. Or the San Fransisco cable cars, if you count them as trams. There are others, including in Galveston, Texas, among other locations. Those mentioned are historic and I get the sense are mainly kept running for historical purposes, but do still serve as functional transit. There are other historic ones that just go along a short section of track and don't really serve a functional purpose anymore, I know both Denver and Fort Collins, Colorado have those, surely many other cities. Then there's modern light rail in many US cities, which in many systems (including Denver where I live) have portions that function like a tram. Usually not shared with road traffic like some historic trams, but alongside streets with rails embedded in pavement, but with curbs separating the track from the street.
@@quillmaurer6563 I know, but I think you can count those on one hand.
@@saintly2k You mean surviving historic streetcars? Yes, certainly true. There's some modern trams, usually the city-center portion of larger light rail systems rather than purely urban streetcars, though those aren't super common either, not like in Europe.
@@quillmaurer6563 yes
Now here’s a tram with a net, that I just found.
When I say clash, get ready to catch! And clash!
* Boing *
Go and catch them, not me! Ugh, let’s just try a cowcatcher.
at beamish last year i saw the tram driver demonstrate the uk type. he pushed it in not hit someone with it unfortunately. now i want to dive in front of a tram. thanks!
Plenty of choice in fender vendor, always good to have a competitive market!
It’s a clever idea that improved security on the tramway
just wanted to say that i love all your video's and to keep up the good work!
A lot of the modern low-floor trams have a similar system to the english system shown here; in Australia it's known as the body-catcher.
Menacing horror plot: people go missing when a new tram line is built. You can catch the tram, but don’t let the tram catch you ;)
In Oslo the English device was called a peasant catcher. (Bøndefenger)
would american cities be better today if they didnt scrap street cars and continued to expand and innovate them?
A lot would say yes. Can’t blame them, but decreasing ridership led to their downfall.
@@Mason58654 citires were built around the street car. toronto proved its a viable system
@@randomrazr That maybe true. Same with American cities, but as car ownership increased streetcars became seen as a nuisance.
Yes, but the downfall of the streetcar didn't happen in a vacuum. Streetcars, Interurbans and Mainline Railroads all faced off against the automobile and it's derivatives such as the motor bus and semi truck. The fight started in the 30s with paved roads starting to be adopted on highly traveled routes. That killed off most interurbans in the US. The economic boom following WWII and lasting until the 70s and 80s gave rise to the suburbs and interstate highways. This allowed most people to travel by car and live farther from work by avoiding the often comparatively slow trolley and commuter train and the missed transfers that sometimes come with them. Trolley companies also had to pay for the tracks themselves instead of being effectively subsidized by public roads. This killed off the streetcar with some exceptions and later threatened railroad passenger service across the US all together. Semi Trucks also killed off a large portion of the US freight rail industry with a lot of small less than carload services being discontinued.
@@rileycoyote4924 now were reeping the consequences of having a car dependent cities ?
Those Yankees across the pond have really good passenger poaching skills
I just was watching his videos when I refreshed it
1:12 this isn’t a trolley, it’s another kind of train: an interurban. these were bigger than trolleys and operated like railroads as they normally went farther distances(10 miles at a minimum) between large cities.
you ignored the most blatant reason, especially during the earliest days: protecting the driver as he was operating out in the open on the front platform since he had to use reins before they electrified the lines. you don’t want him getting hit by the person being hit.
In the words of George Carlin
Constable= Engines that go on public roads must have cowcatchers!
Toby responded
"You see these officer, yeah, now go truck yourself!"
roses are red, violets are blue,
trains, trams and buses come in all sorts of hue ;)
my playlist #2 is about transportaion
In Imperial Britain, the tram catches you
Soviet Russia: 😮
Cool stuff. If you're looking for a future topic, you might find some interest in the abandoned Cincinnati Subway lines.
Love this channel
I’m surprised that daring youths didn’t try to ride the plows.
In Bucharest older trams still have the "scoop" catching system.
Not a bad idea at all. I'm surprised they didn't just make the guards/catchers removable for coupling.
Also, man, a future that never was. All-electric vehicles powered by hydropower in the 1890's! We had all the pieces not to screw ourselves over and get some great tech, huh?
on the mail catching video I made a joke about "why don't they do this with passengers?"
holy hell I was right
One fender type eclipsed all the others.
I’ll fetch me coat on the way out!
What about person was fall down of the middle track and when theres locomotive with cow catcher coming?
In America, you catch tram. In Soviet Russia, tram catches you.
You should make a video on the Mocănița, the last high altitude forest railway in all of Europe INCLUDING the United Kingdom.
Ah yes, the ol poopa-scoopa
TRAMS
Should be streetcar instead.
In Capitalist Britain, tram catches you!
ye, i once was in a tram where an Idiot thought it would be a very good Idea to ran over the tracks in front of a Tram so he could be a bit further in the Line to get in. A sharp breaking later and we heard some screaming, luckely for them the tram was about to pull into station and already was slow, but ye, a modern People Catcher saved that Idiots life
The true cow catcher
I know someone who would be glad to have this thing on the front of his electric scooter...
In Soviet Russia the tram catches YOU!
Obviously if you didn't have a full tram you could just go faster and scoop up some fares.
8 hours till this is 24 hours or 1 day old
0:36 tell that to the husband of Marie Curie.
I've heard of cow-catchers on trains but this is ridiculous 🙃
In Soviet Russia, 4:49
damn
But that’s a Russian thing
Because in the motherland
The tram catches you
looks like there was no single catch-all solution!
Nuke hot dog enough it explodes?
Whats with these europeans using the name of horse drawn light railways to explain electric trolleys as named by the inventors Charles Van Deople and Spragg
Its good that you finally came to your sense to use the term trolley for street electric rail vehicles, i can tell you still struggle a bit but your getting there!
Just for that I'm going to exclusively refer to trolleys as trams in every video I made from this point on
@@TrainFactGuy noooooo *in a over the top way*
“Trolley!”
“Streetcar!”
“Trolley!”
“Streetcar!”
“I’ll settle this. Tram.”
@@mattaustin2128 tram is incorrect. The answer is "gods chosen form of transportation
@@mattsmocs3281 agreed!
In heavy snow times in Toronto the TTC used to hook up the life guards as the drop down gate at the front would be constantly releasing the guard. Not an efficient way to plow snow.