Somehow to me it always sounds like a very slowed down version of Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling ( ruclips.net/video/NrI-UBIB8Jk/видео.html ) Maybe they were steam train enthusiasts too.
Hyce, great video bud. I loved watching this short version. I miss seeing the Polar Express from the Mt. Rainier SRR. They have not done it since before COVID and now with COVID kinda over we no longer have the trains running anymore. So to get to see what you guys do at the Colorado RR Museum is awesome.
@@the_mechanic_2237 dang, well hopefully you guys can get that big girl running again, I loved seeing it and with me being in Morton, I right between you and MRSR
Hyce you mean, your trying to tell me, that you didn’t ride the train on ice, and you didn’t spiral up a mountain and didn’t get an extra 15 coaches like at the end of the movie when their on the bridge in the North Pole lol. This reminds me of when I was young and was riding on a poler express powered coach in Duluth and the driver drove it and stoped at the museum. This is just fun because you have a real steam loco and a engineer and fireman.
The Polar Express is a large and important event for us as well at the Southern California Railway Museum. Polar is a large part of our funding for restorations and operations as well.
They're about 40,000 lbs a piece, give or take. If by excursion coach, you mean an open gondola type thing, then yes, they are heavier, but if you mean more modern built coaches for the WP&Y or C&TS, those are actually heavier.
When I said excursion cars I really just meant the cars at Tweetsie railroad has that they made back in the 80s and 90s. And btw has your museum got any parts from Tweetsie. Because I know they make parts for the Disney railroad and dolly wood railroad so I was just wondering.
Really neat video. So, basically, her load capacity is somewhat equal to one loaded standart gauge car? That so much more context on you RO videos and that "They sent twenty two AND forty two" part of s01e01 of 3/4 idiots show for guys, more familiar with modern standart gauge trains.
AWESOME! Hearing the compressor going at the end as you stood up was cool. I don't know if it was because of your other video on air brakes 101, or just because it's a unique sound I can recognize from being around other types of steam engines. Either way, there was a little spout of joy just hearing that sound. Sort of like a whippet of whipped cream on top of a delicious pie.
Steam at night is a pretty neat experience. You see things you don't notice during the day. Cinders flying out the glow of the firebox while parked and the flicker with each chuff of the exhaust while running.
I never realised just how much you have to work the reg back and forth as you pull away. I'm guessing those big movements pushing it forward are as you feel she's about to slip, shutting the reg to try and prevent that?
So this is an event you basically lease from Durango, right? How involved of a production is the whole thing? Are these actors part of your crew or external people trained on the production?
Hi hyce I have a questions is 20 in rail road online as the Cook mole and as I was watching I was thinking of the song hot chocolate song from poler express
Hey Hyce how's it going, at 3 minutes and 15 seconds it looks like you are fighting the lever, I am a little confused about that and would like to learn more.
The Polar Express events really are more like a performance that happens to be on a train ride. Very neat. It’s also really important to many museums’ yearly budgets.
For Fireman and Engineers, more or less! Lol. I posted the uncut laps for 20 & Polar for Fireman & above, but that's about it. It's not necessarily anything specifically or narratively talking about the perfect lap, but I do make cockatoo sounds when I finish a lap and miss. lol
nick ozerak from the roundhouse podcast yea havent listened to it in a year but used to, had some interesting interviews on there and topics, including the guy that ran the m497 budd rail car with the convair bomber jet engines on it up here in dekalb county indiana July 21,1966 for highspeed train testing though nothing was done with the data and the new york central went belly up a short time later.
Earplugs are not "required", but they're certainly recommended. The ambient cab noise is loud enough to cause hearing damage if you're in it all day, add in airbrake sounds, loud chuffs... yeah, it's not great for your hearing.
Such a nifty thing the CRRM puts on, something i'd love to catch one day, not only see the museum but also shake hands maybe with Hyce, pretty cool thing you showcase and share with us!
Nice, I was trying to figure out what was involved with the Polar Express and my guess was that it was basically just 1 lap and not 4 around the loop. Seriously, if you tell a bit of this on the website of the Polar Express, you may increase your ticket sales a bit... One thing for sure, I would have attended the run outside the Polar Express... Would be too busy listening and feeling the train rather than worry about an onboard theatrical performance :D
Oh it would be amazing if some parents like set up a thing where they'd go christmas eve, and then have a friend put out the presents while theyre out on the train. So when the family comes back the presents are out.
@@Hyce777 i meant the handle of the independent brake was moving. but i assume it is a combination of the detent and the locomotive shaking that moved the handle to the center of the position it is in.
This was amazing Mark, so many thanks for sharing your experience during Polar Express. I also really like observing you and others as engineer because I learn so much about the techniques and skill it takes to run a steam engine. As your hands move from the throttle to the breaks, etc, I quiz myself about what you are doing and why. This is when your instructive videos prove their value. Who can’t love the sounds a steam boiler makes when all pressured up. So immersive! Again Mark, I echo everyone here to say many thanks for a first rate video. As always looking forward to your next production.
Off topic, but would be interesting to see you discuss hypothetic turbo-electric steam engines and possible reasons why they were never built. (At least, not that I know of. If my attempt at making a double ended version in Stormworks is anything to go by, one issue is *S I Z E .* [Well, and *M A S S*, too.] Though I basically need to scrap the design and redo it b/c I think I tried to do something with the piping that would work IRL, but I don't think the game supports.)
@@Hyce777 That's fair. Guess I'm just curious about electric locomotives, and why steam couldn't've stayed around by increasing technology. I suspect it has to do with cost, maintenance, mass, and size such locomotives would have over diesel-electrics. I've redesigned my turbo-electric locomotive, and I'm coming up on finishing it. It's going to have 8 whistle blocks. (1 per end serving as emergency safety valves, then 3 others per end serving as the actual whistle.) I'm wanting to create a 6 chime, but the whistle block sets it's sound based on a percentage from 50% to 200%. 200% is pretty shrill, and what I'm using for the safety valves. I'm not musically minded, so I don't know how to make that into a 6 chime. I mean, if you don't mind figuring it out. Edit: I asked an AI, and got 50%, 57%, 63%, 69%, 75%, 81%, OR 75%, 81%, 88%, 100%, 113%, 121%
I don't know if it was intended or not but the water bottle on the boiler showed how much the engine kicks back while firing the water in that bottle was moving pretty aggressively
I've always loved trains and the polar express when I was younger but then I kinda stopped paying attention to that stuff so i would like to than you and kAN for bringing me back into this community!
legend has it, that if you run the CRRM Loop counterclockwise 69 times with number 90 at tonnage, you shall enter a strange, unfamiliar land, one where the locomotives speak, the mechanics growl, and the conductors sing this strange land is called: the roundhouse where #20 will certainly be spending the next few days licking her boo boos, as the engineer gets called into question of what the hell they were doing on the night of the "Incident"
I thought you were going to show footage of PM 1225, the Berk used in the movie from the title! LOL This is cool for sure. She is working hard like she was made to do. Very cool.
@@AB8Y_radio Yep. I was on the 1225 once years ago when we were double heading with the 1225 and the NKP 765. It is amazing how much the cabs are so different, but they are pretty much the same locomotive.
I know this isn’t polar express oriented but I just downloaded Railroads online and I’m having trouble laying track, I’m getting better but any tips you have? Or just play with it? Also I had someone join me while I was building and I didn’t know how to communicate with him other than jump up and down, I wanted to thank him for laying most of my track from the depot to the log camp area while I tried to clear trees for him since he knew more of what he was doing
Remember, Hyce is really really bad at track laying, you are better off asking Kan about it. 🤣 The lets play the two of them are running currently showcases a lot of good track laying, and if you watch from Kan's POV, you can see what he does as he lays it
The hidden “magic” done for the public is what keeps people coming back. (Also somehow if the RGS COULD have gone to the North Pole, I suspect they would have-provided they had a combine car to carry enough whiskey and vittles to make the trip. Shackleton had 40-odd cases for Antarctica. So it can be done!) Also 20’s brake handles are in an awful interesting place-but I’ll confide that cab is hella cozy and tight haha.
I got a quick question for you do you ever look at the small British narrow gauge locomotives like the ones on the talyllyn railway and want to drive them?
Do you guys do a Halloween event, too? At the Pine Creek we do a wicked Halloween event. That was always my favorite because some people literally left with wet pants.
@@Hyce777 Our event has people get off the train and walk back to the station through the forest, going through a series of different scenes.... Our CMO looks like Santa Claus, so we put him in an "electric chair" where he gets "zapped" as people walk by. We have a hillbilly scene with a still and inbreds with chainsaws, and best of all, the train rolls back into the station completely empty to pick up the next group... they can hear their screams in the distance, which always freaks people out!
always wanted to know what different parts of steam locos but the video where always boring, your videos are really enjoying and have made learning about steam trains about steam trains really fun. hope u continue to make more amazing content like this
Hyce this video spikes my interest in volunteering at the museum
I love that whistle!
Hyce: "Look at me, I am the whistle now. "
Steam at tonnage always makes the best sounds
Somehow to me it always sounds like a very slowed down version of Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling ( ruclips.net/video/NrI-UBIB8Jk/видео.html )
Maybe they were steam train enthusiasts too.
And scary TUNKs
Awesome. Great video.
This is cool Hyce
Damn the 20 despite being a narrow gauge steam locomotive can put on a show!
Nice healthy bark, love it.
Definitely gonna hafta hit this up next Christmas!
Hyce, great video bud. I loved watching this short version. I miss seeing the Polar Express from the Mt. Rainier SRR. They have not done it since before COVID and now with COVID kinda over we no longer have the trains running anymore. So to get to see what you guys do at the Colorado RR Museum is awesome.
We haven't done em in Cowlitz Centralia railroad either, our mikado has been a problem child recently.
Cheers mate! I am hoping MRSR comes back... lots of neat stuff there.
@@the_mechanic_2237 yeah I saw it in the shop when I did the great pumpkin ride last year
@@blackjackactual7673 apparently soft water damaged the boiler and the crown plate was about to fail. Freaky.
@@the_mechanic_2237 dang, well hopefully you guys can get that big girl running again, I loved seeing it and with me being in Morton, I right between you and MRSR
So great!
4:02 "we could probably add another half car.."
Good idea! I'll go get the hacksaw!
lmao
Thank you for this
The cinders coming down hitting the walkway right in front of you just looks so cool lol
Hyce you mean, your trying to tell me, that you didn’t ride the train on ice, and you didn’t spiral up a mountain and didn’t get an extra 15 coaches like at the end of the movie when their on the bridge in the North Pole lol.
This reminds me of when I was young and was riding on a poler express powered coach in Duluth and the driver drove it and stoped at the museum. This is just fun because you have a real steam loco and a engineer and fireman.
Very cool video!
not pictured this year firing on slack and prayer as we almost ran out of coal
yup lol
Until I saw you take a drink from it, I was watching the "water gauge", and glad it was visible! 🤣
oh what fun for the little ones :)
Hyce have you ever been to the Mount Rainer Scenic RailRoad in Elby.
I have!
Wondering if y'all could attach a whistle like Sierra No. 3's for polar express
The polor express is awesome
The Polar Express is a large and important event for us as well at the Southern California Railway Museum. Polar is a large part of our funding for restorations and operations as well.
Nice hyce
I would assume that 5 old narrow coaches are heavier then excursion narrow gauge coaches
They're about 40,000 lbs a piece, give or take. If by excursion coach, you mean an open gondola type thing, then yes, they are heavier, but if you mean more modern built coaches for the WP&Y or C&TS, those are actually heavier.
When I said excursion cars I really just meant the cars at Tweetsie railroad has that they made back in the 80s and 90s. And btw has your museum got any parts from Tweetsie. Because I know they make parts for the Disney railroad and dolly wood railroad so I was just wondering.
I love how hyce fits parts of the descriptions for both the polar express engineers from the movie
Did the museum lay the rail or was the loop preexisting?
Just to ask did tenders and locomotives ever say "Do Not Hump Under Any Circumstance"?
not that I know of
Really neat video. So, basically, her load capacity is somewhat equal to one loaded standart gauge car? That so much more context on you RO videos and that "They sent twenty two AND forty two" part of s01e01 of 3/4 idiots show for guys, more familiar with modern standart gauge trains.
At least on this hill, yes!
3:30 and you can see 20 attempting to be arrested for arson
spicy exhaust
Hey hyce when you get a climax for the crap railroad can you make look like Clark’s trading post climax 6
AWESOME! Hearing the compressor going at the end as you stood up was cool. I don't know if it was because of your other video on air brakes 101, or just because it's a unique sound I can recognize from being around other types of steam engines. Either way, there was a little spout of joy just hearing that sound.
Sort of like a whippet of whipped cream on top of a delicious pie.
Steam at night is a pretty neat experience. You see things you don't notice during the day. Cinders flying out the glow of the firebox while parked and the flicker with each chuff of the exhaust while running.
i guess if i ever end up in the US around november - dezember with my Family thats one thing i'd show my son
Hey you got an editor! Good work!
8:21
I know there's a reason for that motion I'm not seeing, but all I can think of is a surprisingly dirty joke
I wish I could ride the POLAR EXPRESS
You mean the Pere Marquette?
You can also see how it would catch forests on fire.
nice quick intro! Must be hard to operate at night and with the materiel to block the rear vision.
It's certainly different!
I never realised just how much you have to work the reg back and forth as you pull away. I'm guessing those big movements pushing it forward are as you feel she's about to slip, shutting the reg to try and prevent that?
He said in an older video the big movements are eaten by the pins and slack of the mechanism, he's actually just tapping it barely.
Precisely, yes.
@@xugro Ah, gotcha, cheers!
@@Hyce777 Nice, cool to see what goes into running one of those things near tonnage. Cheers :)
Will 491 get her old 5 chime whistle back?
probably, we'll see
Please make more k-37 kitchen
Hyce with his long hair is the perfect person to role play Steamer.
I made a reaction video to the Polar Express with that clip in mind and unfortunately warner brothers blocked it
@@Hyce777 Yeah, heard you mention that before. It sucks. RUclips seems just dead set on screwing over everyone at the moment.
Awesome video! Love the Different angles
I always find behind the scenes interesting, thank you for sharing this!
But hyce! The real Polar Express is in Owosso, Michigan! Pere Marquette Berkshire 1225.
Wow 20's whistle is boring compared to the Hyce's 6-chime
So this is an event you basically lease from Durango, right? How involved of a production is the whole thing? Are these actors part of your crew or external people trained on the production?
He forgot the start whistle, two short blasts
The first one
We're being "sneaky" when we leave our hiding spot so we don't use the whistle.
Ok
Do you remember me from the Big Boy one?
One last thing, you should play rolling line on steam
Hi hyce I have a questions is 20 in rail road online as the Cook mole and as I was watching I was thinking of the song hot chocolate song from poler express
20 is not in RO!. 20 is more powerful than every engine in the game. lol
*DRIFT THE 20. DO IT NOW.*
Are you actually able to touch the boiler inside of the cab and not get burnt?
What is it like running a steam locomotive at night? How much different does it feel from running at day?
It's very surprisingly different. Biggest thing is you have no idea how fast you're going.
@@Hyce777 That is understandable. Thanks for answering that. I have always wondered that.
You have such a cool job! Thanks for sharing!
Hey Hyce how's it going, at 3 minutes and 15 seconds it looks like you are fighting the lever, I am a little confused about that and would like to learn more.
Now I might drive down to Colorado. You’ve made me love steam more then I already did.
To be honest the whistle sounds more depressed than a flat tire.
The Polar Express events really are more like a performance that happens to be on a train ride. Very neat. It’s also really important to many museums’ yearly budgets.
You have the greatest job ever!
is there any footage of you trying to get the perfect lap on your channel?
For Fireman and Engineers, more or less! Lol. I posted the uncut laps for 20 & Polar for Fireman & above, but that's about it. It's not necessarily anything specifically or narratively talking about the perfect lap, but I do make cockatoo sounds when I finish a lap and miss. lol
@@Hyce777 definitely listening in more closely on the uncut vids then haha
nick ozerak from the roundhouse podcast yea havent listened to it in a year but used to, had some interesting interviews on there and topics, including the guy that ran the m497 budd rail car with the convair bomber jet engines on it up here in dekalb county indiana July 21,1966 for highspeed train testing though nothing was done with the data and the new york central went belly up a short time later.
CHOO CHOOOO CHOO CHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Stupid question…. How hot does it get sitting literally right next to the fire box?
Sucks in the summer, not too bad in the winter
How much did it snow during puler express
2-3 times, maybe a total of 12" or so.
Are earplugs always required, or is the engine just that much louder with this load?
Earplugs are not "required", but they're certainly recommended. The ambient cab noise is loud enough to cause hearing damage if you're in it all day, add in airbrake sounds, loud chuffs... yeah, it's not great for your hearing.
This popped up and said it was uploaded 7 seconds ago XD
How long WOULD it take 20 to get to the North Pole? Oh boy this may be a rabbit hole I'll just leave alone.
20 probably was thinking “damn this train is heavy” as she was starting off from the station
It looks challenging yet rewarding.
Nice intro. Also, what does that valve do that you rotate at 3:35?
Did you have fun with the hooter :P ?
That's the sander. And, 20's hoot is one of the nicest hoots around. Doesn't bug me as bad as some others.
@@Hyce777 Glad to hear you like it! I thought it was the sander but, I wasn't sure. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing this! We live a few miles away and I hope to bring my kids to ride your trains someday soon!
Seems like a place I'd love to run. My favorite line to run at work is a real roller coaster, but it's not in a circle. ;)
I still have my hardback copy(of Polar Express)! The darn thing is older than I am, and falling apart on the seams but was such a big part of my youth
Thanks for this. Gonna play the 45 minute version to fall asleep to the sweet symphony of train chuffs.
Cheers mate! I am glad you enjoyed both :)
Such a nifty thing the CRRM puts on, something i'd love to catch one day, not only see the museum but also shake hands maybe with Hyce, pretty cool thing you showcase and share with us!
Woo-ooooooo-woo
Nice, I was trying to figure out what was involved with the Polar Express and my guess was that it was basically just 1 lap and not 4 around the loop.
Seriously, if you tell a bit of this on the website of the Polar Express, you may increase your ticket sales a bit... One thing for sure, I would have attended the run outside the Polar Express...
Would be too busy listening and feeling the train rather than worry about an onboard theatrical performance :D
Polar Express sells out every year, believe it or not, lol.
You're definitely one of my new favorite RUclipsrs
Oh it would be amazing if some parents like set up a thing where they'd go christmas eve, and then have a friend put out the presents while theyre out on the train. So when the family comes back the presents are out.
Thank you for the invitation to be in the cab! This was a wonderful and insightful video. The 20 sounds great! Nice work!
what is that brass hadnle you were opperationg at 2:59 and 8:23 ?
and why is it "slipping" between 3:03 and 3:26 ?
1. independent brake
2. because it's a really heavy train and this engine is very slippery
@@Hyce777 i meant the handle of the independent brake was moving. but i assume it is a combination of the detent and the locomotive shaking that moved the handle to the center of the position it is in.
This was amazing Mark, so many thanks for sharing your experience during Polar Express. I also really like observing you and others as engineer because I learn so much about the techniques and skill it takes to run a steam engine. As your hands move from the throttle to the breaks, etc, I quiz myself about what you are doing and why. This is when your instructive videos prove their value. Who can’t love the sounds a steam boiler makes when all pressured up. So immersive! Again Mark, I echo everyone here to say many thanks for a first rate video. As always looking forward to your next production.
Off topic, but would be interesting to see you discuss hypothetic turbo-electric steam engines and possible reasons why they were never built. (At least, not that I know of. If my attempt at making a double ended version in Stormworks is anything to go by, one issue is *S I Z E .* [Well, and *M A S S*, too.] Though I basically need to scrap the design and redo it b/c I think I tried to do something with the piping that would work IRL, but I don't think the game supports.)
I'd have to learn more about them to really understand the thought behind them myself.
@@Hyce777 That's fair. Guess I'm just curious about electric locomotives, and why steam couldn't've stayed around by increasing technology. I suspect it has to do with cost, maintenance, mass, and size such locomotives would have over diesel-electrics. I've redesigned my turbo-electric locomotive, and I'm coming up on finishing it. It's going to have 8 whistle blocks. (1 per end serving as emergency safety valves, then 3 others per end serving as the actual whistle.) I'm wanting to create a 6 chime, but the whistle block sets it's sound based on a percentage from 50% to 200%. 200% is pretty shrill, and what I'm using for the safety valves. I'm not musically minded, so I don't know how to make that into a 6 chime. I mean, if you don't mind figuring it out.
Edit: I asked an AI, and got 50%, 57%, 63%, 69%, 75%, 81%, OR 75%, 81%, 88%, 100%, 113%, 121%
All I can think of is how did your hat get that dirty?
grease, oil, dirt, trains... :P
I don't know if it was intended or not but the water bottle on the boiler showed how much the engine kicks back while firing the water in that bottle was moving pretty aggressively
At least at the beginning when it was laying flat anyway
Was not intentional, that was just my water. lol
I've always loved trains and the polar express when I was younger but then I kinda stopped paying attention to that stuff so i would like to than you and kAN for bringing me back into this community!
legend has it, that if you run the CRRM Loop counterclockwise 69 times with number 90 at tonnage, you shall enter a strange, unfamiliar land, one where the locomotives speak, the mechanics growl, and the conductors sing
this strange land is called:
the roundhouse where #20 will certainly be spending the next few days licking her boo boos, as the engineer gets called into question of what the hell they were doing on the night of the "Incident"
I thought you were going to show footage of PM 1225, the Berk used in the movie from the title! LOL This is cool for sure. She is working hard like she was made to do. Very cool.
Same. I was think her the real polar express is here in MI.
@@AB8Y_radio Yep. I was on the 1225 once years ago when we were double heading with the 1225 and the NKP 765. It is amazing how much the cabs are so different, but they are pretty much the same locomotive.
what museum do you work at hyce
The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, CO.
Does the waycar count as half a car?
It could! It's about the right weight. Actually probably closer to a 1/4 car, lol.
Steam at night is just amazing.
I know this isn’t polar express oriented but I just downloaded Railroads online and I’m having trouble laying track, I’m getting better but any tips you have? Or just play with it? Also I had someone join me while I was building and I didn’t know how to communicate with him other than jump up and down, I wanted to thank him for laying most of my track from the depot to the log camp area while I tried to clear trees for him since he knew more of what he was doing
Remember, Hyce is really really bad at track laying, you are better off asking Kan about it. 🤣
The lets play the two of them are running currently showcases a lot of good track laying, and if you watch from Kan's POV, you can see what he does as he lays it
@@kuhljager2429 it would probably help if I actually get a mouse instead of using the mousepad on my laptop
The hidden “magic” done for the public is what keeps people coming back. (Also somehow if the RGS COULD have gone to the North Pole, I suspect they would have-provided they had a combine car to carry enough whiskey and vittles to make the trip. Shackleton had 40-odd cases for Antarctica. So it can be done!)
Also 20’s brake handles are in an awful interesting place-but I’ll confide that cab is hella cozy and tight haha.
I got a quick question for you do you ever look at the small British narrow gauge locomotives like the ones on the talyllyn railway and want to drive them?
I'd love to!
Do you guys do a Halloween event, too? At the Pine Creek we do a wicked Halloween event. That was always my favorite because some people literally left with wet pants.
We do - it's less spooky / scary, but we decorate things up and run trains, yeah.
@@Hyce777 Our event has people get off the train and walk back to the station through the forest, going through a series of different scenes.... Our CMO looks like Santa Claus, so we put him in an "electric chair" where he gets "zapped" as people walk by. We have a hillbilly scene with a still and inbreds with chainsaws, and best of all, the train rolls back into the station completely empty to pick up the next group... they can hear their screams in the distance, which always freaks people out!
I just noticed at 3:20 you can see the cinders through the door, that's amazing. Man I wish I could go see some real steam trains.
tne paower of steam ho yea
always wanted to know what different parts of steam locos but the video where always boring, your videos are really enjoying and have made learning about steam trains about steam trains really fun. hope u continue to make more amazing content like this
Hey Hyce, have you ever considered offering a limited edition ES&D-branded alcohol? It could be named ‘Spirits of Kenosha’.
Great job Mark! Can’t wait to see more videos like this in the future!