we got manual v12 mid engine trains before gta 6

@TheSilverShadow17

4 күн бұрын

Rowing gears while riding the rails. Hell yeah haha

@Kolejovey

Күн бұрын

we got manual v12 mid engine trains before even computers or GTA 1 :D

We used to call this railbus "Hurvínek". The units that replaced these had an engine from an actual bus and some are in service to this day in many different versions. Many people love to hate these railbusses, but they helped to preserve rural railways that would have been long closed without them.

@petrfedor1851

3 күн бұрын

As someone growing up on one of these rural railways who use 810 to get to school as kid I quite aoreciate it. And love them unconditionaly to this day.

@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006

Күн бұрын

I wonder how many nations did the same thing, it certainly happened in the UK with lorry engine and gearboxes then bus drivetrain, the frogs did too many drugs in the 60's and ended up with gas turbine railcars.

@sulcik1889

Күн бұрын

Not only the engine, but 4 speed hydromechanical transmision too, only the original reverse remained unused on this transmision box, and an another gearbox was added only for the purpose of reversing the direction of travel

If anyone is surprised that the government contracted Tatra to make these rail cars, one thing to remember is that for at least 20 years before they made their first automobile, Tatra had been prolific in making making railway rolling stock, which was a majority of their business for the automobile, and continued to be up until the 70s or 80s if I am not mistaken! So these little diesel railcars were by no means their first foray into the world of railways, but rather a continuation of their storied history of railway production!

@nick_mechanic2228

5 күн бұрын

They made whole chassis for 460 pantograph unit, the company was called Studénka vagonka, Tatra was main producent for technologies, parts etc..

@lukesmith8792

3 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for the info. Great little insight to tatra past which I didn't know about

@sandasturner9529

2 күн бұрын

Yes I am

The more I hear about Tatra engines the more I with they had gone worldwide. Sounds like a true workhorse.

@prazakkk

9 сағат бұрын

i think they are worldwide, they sell cargo vehicles. many fire departments in the capital of czech republic, prague, still buy and use tatra-made firetrucks

Looking at the exhaust smoke, it looks like they ran on coal rather than diesel 😁

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

3 күн бұрын

So would your exhaust at 80 years old.......

“Reducing the need for diesel electric trains” Proceeds to show a clip of a class 55 “Deltic”, which is fitted with an opposed-piston 6 cylinder Napier Deltic marine diesel engine

@wildcoyote34

4 күн бұрын

18 cylinders 3 crankshafts , 36 pistons in a triangle

The Ultimate Enthusiast experience

Of course it's air cooled, of course it sounds beasty as hell, of course it's a Tatra engine. meanwhile in France many narrow gauge railcars made by Billiard or Renault had manual gearboxes too.

Its also worth noting that Tatra already made such small railbuses even before the war.

I rode on a couple of those trains, totally cool to see the drivers shifting gears.

It's so weird to see a train and hear a diesel engine going through the gears 🤯

@PG-nf9wx

Күн бұрын

very common in europe with small railcars, like Stadler RS1 or Siemens Desiro

The diesels in Australia are literally diesel trucks on rails with a manual gearbox

Tatra and their air cooled V12 diesels... I still want a T813.

@vrbka2692

2 күн бұрын

Tatra 111

Small railcars like this existed in many countries, they were developed for those lines where passenger traffic wasn't enough to justify the use of full size steam or diesel locomotives with just 1 or 2 cars. That just wouldn't be economical. These little railcars with drive technology based on busses and trucks were much cheaper to build and operate and saved many branch lines from closure. For instance West Germany had the "Schienenbus" VT95 and VT98, East Germany the VT2.09 "Ferkeltaxen", Belgium the Class 551, 552 and 553 "Brossel" , and the Netherlands the omC and omBC "Ome Ceesje" to name a few, the UK had also diesel mechanical rail busses from 4 different manufacturers, but there they were less of a success.

That's wild! Dom is gonna use one in the next F&F to catch a bullet train carrying the mcguffin.

@joseguzman1073

4 күн бұрын

Nah Dom is gonna steal one of these when he travels back in time to save his dad because family

In some depots train drivers called it "Tříruké hovado". It means something like a "three hand monster", because there were 3 levers on the main controll panel. 😆

When I was a child I droved in one of this. My mum called it Schienenbus (German for rail-bus) 😅 It was loud and slow but funny ❣️👌🏼

Tatra (1850) like Skoda (1859) were already wellknown industrial manufacturers when the Chzech republic was still a part of the Austrian Hungarian empire. Today Tatra ( who went bankrupt in the 2013 due to a corruption scandal in India) is after a restart and partly owned by PACCAR/DAF specialised in the niche heavy duty off road for construction/mining sites and military truck market. Tatra came in the picture after PACCAR/DAF searched for a new partner after GINAF (in the same niche market) went bankrupt and was sold of to the Chinese. Military contracts and outside the west/NATO owner was an absolute no go for US parent company PACCAR. Fun fact the former warsaw pact countries had mostly the famous Tatra trams. The former western NATO countries are getting more and more Skoda trams/regional trains.

@dennisyoung4631

4 күн бұрын

Portland has Škoda streetcars…

This reminds me of the BR Class 101, I have only driven it in simulators but i must say its a unique driving experience.

Beautiful story and great inventions , and even merrier engine sound , long live the Manschaft and the Duech tech ❤️

4:47.... it does not only enhance relaibility, it also enhance passenger-confort (less motor speed, lesser loudness). So, as you meantioning, the train-engine for that vehicle, is reduced to even 155 HP and 1600 u/min. That is way less loud and intrusive running noise. Besides the possible fact, that for normal use, that power-mode is absolutely enough. And there is a phenomen at ship-diesel running (and noising). They rev even lower and with way higher displacement, it results in a hypnoticing deep rythmical noise...barely hearable (infrasound via resonance within the ships steel construction?). So, low revs are lesser stressing, because of that phenomen of deep frequencies and that rythmic sound.

@petrfedor1851

3 күн бұрын

Most of local railways this train was implemented don´t allow speeds over 60kph because sharp turns and many level crossings including dirtroads with no safety features.

I remember a railbus - "ferrobus" - around Salamanca, in 1984. I was amazed to see the driver shifting gears. He was there for all to see, the whole thing was not much more than a bus with trainwheels.

In Czech we gave them popular nickname: Hurvínek.

In France We called them autorails and MICHELINEs when they were on tires

those of us who watch this channel, we can all agree, for much of the 20th century Tatra were pretty awesome 😎👏

Chief Engineer! The State requires you to build a mid-engined vehicle which can have front or rear wheel drive, with a V12 engine and a preselector gearbox! {wild enthusiasm} It is a bus to run on railway tracks. {plans to defect to West}.

Poland produced few railcars with mechanical transmission in the '90 even. With automatic gearboxes though. They were basicly draisine frame with passenger compartment added.

This isn't a train. This is a bus with train wheels

1:41 The term Československé Štátne Dráhy is in the Slovak language. In Czech language it is Československé Státní Dráhy. The difference is in the words: Státní - Štátne. And in the pronunciation...

We used railcars up to mid eighties in uk they had a manual gearbox with fluid flywheel coupling to the engine

The most important question is, does anyone make a shortshift for it😉👍

@ItsDaJax

4 күн бұрын

And the jake brake, can't forget that.

In America we had, and in some places still have diesel railcars known as RDCs. They were diesel-hydralic (hydralic toruqe converter) as apposed to diesel-mechanical.

Wow, the action of changing gears is closer to what you'd do on a bike than on a car :D Thanks for the video!

It's not a train, it's a railcar.

Lovely vehicle

In the DPRB, some of the railways run DMUs which have ZF automatic transmissions.

Italian Aln663 Aln668 class have manual gearbox too.

That is very cool! I'd like to see it in person.

Fascinating video.

So a month ago we had a vid on the Russian 12 x 12 locomotive turned into a truck and today we have a bus that was turned into a locomotive. . . .

@kraftovacibedna242

14 сағат бұрын

Only the engine is from a bus

They'd have loved the Pacer trains from the UK.

Good video, like.

The Gulflander in Australia has a manual gearbox because it’s a truck put on the rails

In New Zealand we had the Vulcan Railcars from the 1940s to the 1970s. It was fascinating hearing these railcars going up through the gears after leaving the station.... One still holds the unofficial speed record for any train to this day... (narrow guage rail so not very fast..... 128kmh)

Watching this on a train

Manual transmissions in rail vehicles isn't that uncommon, though mostly limited to very light, narrow guage applications. There was a Hungarian narrow guage loco that I think used the trans from a Csepel truck. It had the standard 4 or 5 speed transmission with a 2 speed range box, and even had the reverse on the transmission, despite that being irrelevant since rail vehicles have reversers to allow same speed travel in either direction anyway.

The only real railbus

What is a "semeye truck"?

Essentially a Rail Truck!!

@kraftovacibedna242

14 сағат бұрын

Not really, the only part from a bus is the engine

It only have a single pair of powered wheel?

@Vladynko1

Күн бұрын

yes

Actually, there is a much bigger hungarian railcar, with semi-manual gearbox. The clutch is not really manual but pneumatic, it can be used in slip mode in first gear to get it move, and every other gears with pre-selected fuel load in in the actual gear. Its engine is about 65.000 cubic centimetres in 12 cylinders, driving the output shaft via a 6 disc lamelled clutch. Well, this old lady has a very good sound

3:29 It must be hard to shift all those levers AND steer

@huseyinuguralacatli5064

Күн бұрын

steer 😂

I've been a huge fan of ČD railways and the former ČSD Railways also, i did not know the hurvínek has a manual gearbox until now, also what caused the noise of the ticking sound in every train that has a steering throttle?

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

3 күн бұрын

You mean as the throttle was moved? Probably a spring mechanism winding up to capture force that automatically returned the throttle to closed when the throttle was released (like a "dead man's device?)

@Lou_Hou

2 күн бұрын

@@JohnSmith-pl2bk dead man pedal.

También hay un parecido tren DMU class 101 en Reino Unido....

It put some character. Nice rail car. Not many examples of diesel "mechanical" (gearbox) trains. Here there are some small 2 coach trains with scania engine and trans. I think it is kinda of AT transmission. They are like this ones, for small towns that are far from any rail network. Mostly used in light applications.. Ive heard they have experienced driveshaft issues. It is not that easy to get this thing right.

Having bus or truck engines and transmissions on small regional trains is nothing new or unheard of. Many use a torque converter transmission from a city bus

Didn't they use a similar prime mover of also Tatra design and similar transmission in the earlier M.120 class?

most european countries had railbusses post ww2 as they where an economic way of keeping smaller passenger lines open.

Wonder why Tatra diesels have always made that thick blue smoke

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

3 күн бұрын

Air cooled anything has larger clearances piston to cylinder built in.(more expansion/contraction with air cooling Plus whether you burn diesel or sump oil...the diesel doesn't care...it burns both. And ATF and hydraulic fluid and peanut/soy/banana/vegetable oils... Plus we are now looking at 80 years of wear and tear on those engines...?

@artolindqvist9059

Күн бұрын

@@JohnSmith-pl2bk Deutz air-cooled engines does not smoke that much.

We had manual transmission trains in the uk Class 101-102 fitted with a epicyclic 4 speed gearbox

@Grid56

23 сағат бұрын

A lot more than those classes. Most 1st gen DMUs were bus engined, semi auto with freewheel.

@susansmith3568

13 сағат бұрын

Yeah British United transport bus engines

Γεια

Technically, Its semi-auto. Also, do note that this boxer engine is literally an evolution of German ww2 production.

@myvalll2835

Күн бұрын

There´s no boxer engine?

@Grid56

23 сағат бұрын

Yes not a boxer but a 75 degree v12.

In 1988 I was on a train in Scotland that was a manual shift 3 speed maybe more but it never got above 3. Learned much later it was probably a Gardner diesel motor. It vibrated like crazy and rattled the whole car. A fun experience.

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

3 күн бұрын

Out of balance Gardners were few and far between.... something wrong there might also account for no exceeding 3rd gear...

@Grid56

23 сағат бұрын

Probably not Gardner. More likely Leyland or AEC. Some parts of the country also used Rolls Royce

👌

Imagine doing burnouts on stations:):) And iam sure it not have TC. 7:26 I really didnt expect that owercomplicated geabox.

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

3 күн бұрын

Beats having to shove down a .75 metre pedal with your right foot....or a 1 metre long handlebar clutch lever?

@joe125ful

3 күн бұрын

@@JohnSmith-pl2bk Can be operated by wire cables,electronicaly,hydraulic..etc. Some old cars have this so why levers that are confusing to use and really not makes sense to me.

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

3 күн бұрын

@@joe125ful Railways systems are alll about bringing the train to a halt if anything goes wrong..f.g. Westinghouse brakes....deadman's pedal..etc. The gearbox is a pre selector that, once you understand the principles, is easy to use...... and all laid out on the dash cam be quickly scanned with the eye ...... and moved with the hand.

Those engines smoke very badly... 🤭

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

3 күн бұрын

80 years old.......parts NLA?

@janosnagyj.9540

3 күн бұрын

@@JohnSmith-pl2bk They smoke on the archive footages as well. Back then they were new...

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

3 күн бұрын

@@janosnagyj.9540 Poor quality sump oils and fuels let alone machining tolerances compared to present days....

can it do burnouts?

@joe125ful

5 күн бұрын

Iam curious too!!

@timothybayliss6680

5 күн бұрын

Wind it up in first gear and sidestep the clutch. Er...side handwave the clutch?

@kraftovacibedna242

14 сағат бұрын

Ofc! Shift into 1st gear and then pull the throttle to max

No turbo???

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

3 күн бұрын

No need... those engines were usually derated and the vehicles were designed not to exceed 60kmh with uncontrolled crossings, ad hoc pickups and drop offs etc. to contend with on their countryside runs...

Did someone say MANUAL?

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

3 күн бұрын

Preselect by hand......

It is very ugly when compared to the Swedish model we chose here in Denmark in the early fifeties suplementing our teak clad pre war triangel cars

US, Canada, Russia, India, China and Australia aren't only mass operator of diesel-electric locomotives. UK has a large fleet of them, too.

Kinda defeats the point to run one without even a second car 🤔

@goosenotmaverick1156

5 күн бұрын

Should still be more efficient than a bus just due to the reduced friction of running on rails? But you do have a good point, seems like one extra car is no issue to include, so I see no reason to run without other than limited capacity needs

@marcinsmolinski903

5 күн бұрын

@@goosenotmaverick1156 Looking at the speeds it achieves in individual gears, it is clear that it is not easy. With the additional weight it would only be worse.

@goosenotmaverick1156

5 күн бұрын

@@marcinsmolinski903 I assume in flatter areas they weren't as bad, footage of one with an extra car was shown. But I assume any incline was absolutely impossible

@neiloflongbeck5705

4 күн бұрын

Depends on the passenger numbers. Why run 2 coaches when 1 woukd suffice?

your accent makes this video inunderstandable.

UK also had a manual transmission train that used an entire semi-truck power train & those were quite modern.

@obelic71

4 күн бұрын

the preselector manual gearbox was a British invention. Leyland was the first to implement that on mass. The routemaster bus also had a preselector manual gearbox. I remember from my youth that in Leyland/Daf public transport busses the driver had a pedestal wth a H pattern and small knob to preselect gears. (Leyland engine and drivetrain were build under license by DAF) Pushing the clutch pedal would engage the selected gear. Nowadays in modern manual truck gearboxes it can automaticly preselect and engage gears and act like an automatic. A manual gearbox is way more energy efficient then for example a classic hydraulic automatic gearbox.

The railcars built by the GWR in the UK used 5-speed pre-selector gear boxes.