I’ll put train videos on for the kids, but there’s so much more going on with a steam train.
Steam is billowing out of everywhere, they’re just this massive piece of infrastructure, it’s like taming the elements with an unholy union of water and fire - natural enemies in the wild, and you get to feel like a hero because you’re helping people get to places.
I mean here’s possibly the first American superhero:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steam_Man_of_the_Prairies
If that doesn’t scream autism I don’t know what does. It’s really interesting.
Mickey McSquizzle the Irishman
Brainerd
We must retvrn to this style of names for characters
steam is a good time
One of my favorite YouTubers is autistic and says “If you want 100% employment for people with autism, bring back steam trains.”
I saw this bad boy last year, peak “chugga chugga choo choo” (skip to 1m33s)
Yo I heard you like trains that go through snow…
That’s a Union Pacific Rotary Snow Plow. 17 feet / 5.2 meters tall. 150 RPM. It’s not self-propelled and had to be pushed by 4 locomotives. It was used in Wyoming up into the 1990s to cut 14 foot / 4.25 meter wide paths through the snow.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This bit warms up and pushes this bit, which through some linkages synchronise a bunch of other things and then 10 tonnes of steel move at a nice clip
