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@danielsantiagourtado3430

2 ай бұрын

Thanks For this Guys! You're the Best ❤❤❤❤❤

@also_arles

2 ай бұрын

The sprinting to railcar to train pipeline was insane 😭 I got a laugh out of it! Never mess with someone who doesn't skip leg day!

@user-je7fr5nb5x

2 ай бұрын

Excuse me, is this an error or something? Your video has been uploaded an hour ago, but it says that your video is uploaded a day ago.

@davidtceultra2556

2 ай бұрын

I actually own a model of the General

@danielsantiagourtado3430

2 ай бұрын

How he ran was amazing! You guys always make Me laugh! Never skip leg day🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh, they steal a train, they get the medal. I steal a train, I get five stars.

@jcl4370

2 ай бұрын

join the military then try it

@charlieinthe_box

2 ай бұрын

Five Starz? Congratulations, super general!

@DragoSonicMile

2 ай бұрын

My dumb brain thought "five stars" meant a one-tribute Monster card.

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2 ай бұрын

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@93MANIAC

2 ай бұрын

To be honest they did also get five stars

I laughed out loud seeing Fuller chase the train.

@dinoz2113

2 ай бұрын

Yea me too 😂😂😂

@sharkside8

2 ай бұрын

MAN. That dude was devoted to his train

@nulolove

2 ай бұрын

“FLINT LOCKWOOOOD!”

@flyingace1234

2 ай бұрын

That was full on Loony Tunes.

@IceAokiji303

2 ай бұрын

I didn't initially. Then he got the handcar.

Fuller is the ancestor to the security guard from Subway Surfers

@madisons2117

2 ай бұрын

Some say they are the same person. He just never stopped.

@ChrisKetcherside

22 күн бұрын

Fuller had been training for this his whole lofe

You have to respect Fuller's determination. Come hell or high water, he was going to get that train.

@ecurewitz

2 ай бұрын

He got it

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2 ай бұрын

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@yuvalgabay1023

2 ай бұрын

running one 100% spite

@Old_Glory

2 ай бұрын

Y'know if someone stole your beloved locomotive you'd be mad too

@natheriver8910

2 ай бұрын

True😅😅😅

All ya all gonna say how Loony Toon the conductor was, going after the train.... But y'all not considering that it was HIS Train! The conductor isn't just some oldy-timie steward. Conductors are THE BOSS on the train. Not the train engineer, they're just the operator of the locomotive. So the hijacked train was a PERSONAL insult.

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2 ай бұрын

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@justanothercommenter5835

2 ай бұрын

It's the equivalent of a captain commandeering a motorboat to chase after some pirates.

@dasirrlicht5415

2 ай бұрын

@@justanothercommenter5835 More like jumping after it into the water, comadeering a fisher along the way, and then showing up next time standing at the bow of a cruiser still shouting to give back that thrawler.

@macaylacayton2915

2 ай бұрын

To be fair they were trying to cut off one line of accessing resources

The Buster Keaton movie is also really impressive because a lot of those stunts are real. That movie also contains the most expensive shot in film history: when a bridge collapses with a train driving overtop, they actually destroyed a steam locomotive to get the most realistic "trainwreck". The dedication!!

@smalltime0

2 ай бұрын

It'd probably be the most expensive scene shot in silent film history - but not history overall. That'd either be The Battle of the Borodino in "War and Peace" or Ney's cavalry charge in "Waterloo".

@Toonrick12

2 ай бұрын

How Expensive you might ask? $42,000. In 2024 dollars, that $741,126.78. I doubt any film make today would physically destroy something worth 3/4th of a million dollars for just one scene.The film itself had a beefy budget at $750,000. Granted, that's not huge by today's standards (With inflation it's in the $14 Million range) but still, a lot of money was put into it.

@wingracer1614

2 ай бұрын

@@Toonrick12 It's estimated that Speed 2 spent about 25 million to partially build a cruise ship and then destroy it. Movies can be stupid expensive.

@tarzina

2 ай бұрын

it was shot in oregon and the small town by where they were filming came out to see it, they had a dummy in the drivers seat , and when it went down some of the people freaked out. also there was a forest fire that all the people filming stopped and put out the fire! PBS did a documentary on it.

@Kaebuki

2 ай бұрын

Huh, sorta like the precursor to Tom Cruise’s steam train destruction.

Fuller better have gotten an employee of the month or something because he was one dedicated conductor.

@madisons2117

2 ай бұрын

I don't know if he ever got employee of the month, but, he does get to be remembered for hundreds of years solely for his tenacity with a near 0% chance of having his name tarnished anymore than for being a confederate sympathizer. Thats seems like the better achievement.

Okay, this one could have been a comedy thanks to that tenacious train conducter! The ending was somber though.

@thomashambly3718

2 ай бұрын

A very good comedy was made based on this, its called "The General" by Buster Keaton, one of his best films. I would highly recommend a watch, its on youtube, one version even has the original Piano Score

"I say i say i say i say boy our train being stolen"-foghorn longhorn

@user-gw4oz1rk3i

2 ай бұрын

I scream, you scream, we all scream icecream!

@4362mont

2 ай бұрын

By a tiny chicken hawk?

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2 ай бұрын

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@Marjax

2 ай бұрын

Activate T9000 run!

Love the image of Fuller chasing the train and getting upgrades! 🤣🤣🤣

@ChrisKetcherside

22 күн бұрын

Where did he even get them from?

Lesson learned. NEVER STEAL FULLER'S TRAIN!

The ultimate cop: Fuller. Run until you get an upgrade 😂😂

Funniest thing is that this isn’t even a single time occurrence in Us history . US Seabees also managed to steal a train from behind North Korean lines during the Korean Wat

@NJFireDepartment

2 ай бұрын

Stole the train and some booze, plus they repaired the sabotaged tracks.

@05Matz

2 ай бұрын

So you're saying that the USA produces the world's finest train robbers? ...I suppose that tracks.

@Game_Hero

Ай бұрын

@@05Matz bud dum tss

@sirboomsalot4902

Ай бұрын

I believe MacArthur got his first Medal of Honor stealing a train in Veracruz as well

I'm guessing I'm not the only person who saw that title and had high/middle school band flashbacks.

@douding999

2 ай бұрын

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@TuneRMX323

2 ай бұрын

YES

@averagewarhammerenjoyer9526

2 ай бұрын

Never played it but man, it was still a huge joke for us

@sampathalavilli9428

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

@sampathalavilli9428

2 ай бұрын

Best song I have currently played in high school

To put in perspective of how important Buster Keaton's "The General" is, it was one of THE first movies selected to be added to the National Film Registry, right next to Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, and A New Hope (Star Wars IV).

@MD0Hatter

2 ай бұрын

Yea, that puts it into perspective of being the only one on that list I haven't seen and after this video I'll have to change that.

@STho205

2 ай бұрын

One of the few times Walt Disney made the more accurate film, but BKs movie was a great romp.

William "Not On My Watch" Fuller

@spindash64

2 ай бұрын

GTA Star system

"I say, I say, I-Isay, I say, I say, I say BOY! I think our train's been stolen!" -William Fuller, probably... *hiccup*

Fuller has that indomitable human spirit in him

If you don't allow the train to stop and eat breakfast it will eventually become enraged and start attacking the townspeople out of Hanger. Always feed your locomotive.

@Soundwave3591

2 ай бұрын

not too far from what actually happened: as they were constantly being chased, the General eventually ran out of fuel as the Union raiders couldn't stop to resupply.

Fuller chasing the train was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The parody of the Inglorious Basterds speech got me. Flawless

The whole video I was thinking to myself, "This should be a movie!" I'll definitely have to watch the film adaptations mentioned here.

@timmccarthy9917

2 ай бұрын

Fortunately, The General is public domain and you can watch it anywhere for free. Hell, it's available on Wikipedia.

@the-Albino-Rhino

2 ай бұрын

There's also a Disney version that punches well above its weight

@claireotoole2934

2 ай бұрын

The Buster Keaton version is a really good comedy,and was ground breaking in its day. Keaton plays a character based on Fuller. Just bear in mind going in that it is a product of its time (1920s) and has Gone With the Wind levels of South good, North bad protagonist centric morality. I found it watchable despite that but your milage may vary.

@sarasamaletdin4574

2 ай бұрын

@claireotoole2934 It’s far more pro Confederacy than Gone With the Wind. It has a Confederate happy ending and nothing negative mentioned of Confederacy, the love interest also rejects main character played by Keaton at first because he didn’t enlist in the army like her family (but he wanted to! He just could not because he was a valuable engineer!). Gone with the Wind is more about societal collapse and horrors of war. It does make South look cleaner (Ashley says he would have freed the slaves after he inherited them for example). But it never acts like South didn’t start the war or that it wasn’t foolish or that most slaves didn’t just ran away the first moment they got. And Scarlett doesn’t really care of anything but herself.

Historian and Georgia native here! One of the best sources we have on this raid is the firsthand published account of one of the raiders, William Pittenger. His work on it, "The Great Locomotive Chase: A History of the Andrews Raid," is a nice read, which is pretty widely available. We also have a nice museum here in Big Shanty (modern day Kennesaw) with a lot of memorabilia of the raid :)

@Anonymized-name

2 ай бұрын

I visited the museum in Kennesaw once knowing the story of the General but assuming it no longer existed. You can imagine my surprise walking into the exhibit with the fully intact locomotive standing before me!

4:27 Never ever steal the train, because the conductor will find you.

I live right by where all this took place. Every year we even have a locomotive chase festival.

Can we take a second to appreciate the fact that they uploaded this on National Train Day?

"See ya Johnny Reb! Thanks for the train!" "Curse ya Billy Yank! I'm comin' fer y'all! Gimme back my train!"

@mccoachrailwayproductions8958

18 сағат бұрын

Too bad the series has been concluded, because now I'd love for Billy Yank and Johnny Reb to talk about that raid xD

If anyone wanted to learn more about the event and see the actual General, I would highly recommend the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotives in Kennesaw, Georgia. Built on the actual site of the robbery, the museum has everything from the medals of honer given, to a model of the robbery. It's likely one of the best museums in Georgia.

Oh thats Awesome. Big Shanty is now the city of Kennesaw, where a really big battle took place. Would love for you guys to cover it! Lived there for many years.

That sounded like a chase sequences out of a cartoon. Or perhaps that chase sequence inspired cartoon ones.

Man, fuller is determined😂😂😂

I'm sorry, I kinda cheer for Fuller. I know that confederacy=bad, but he was a man of focus, commitment and sheer effin' will. Gotta admire that.

@STho205

2 ай бұрын

Question: do Gen Washington and the patriot rebellion equal bad or good in the binary logic?

I lived in Kennesaw for a while. The Southern Museum there has the General locomotive. It’s really cool!

@the-Albino-Rhino

2 ай бұрын

Yup. Same here. Would highly recommend.

Fuller is the original officer Earl I can imagine him running after the train screaming “FLINT LOCKWOOOOOD!”

@carloshenriquezimmer7543

2 ай бұрын

This or "LEROOYYYJENKINSS"

During the main titles I thought, “One of the *last* people you want to piss off through theft is a TRAIN LOVER”, and William Fuller went above and beyond. CHOO CHOO CHARLES! Do you think Fuller’s story contributed to the archetype of the passionate train devotee?

As a huge train buff, this Locomotive Chase is such an amazing history in railroading. It’s also amazing that those engines are preserved as well

Am I the only person who thinks the entire heist feels very Looney Tunes?

@claireotoole2934

2 ай бұрын

The Buster Keaton version is as full on Looney Tunes as you can get without being animated.

@1987AnimeBoy

Ай бұрын

Maybe because how this short depicted the chase.

I'm so glad you finally decided to cover this story, it's one of my favorite historical stories ever!

There's also a great Disney adaptation that punches WAAAAAAAYYY above its weight

@CrossOfBayonne

4 күн бұрын

One of the locomotives used was B&O no 25 aka the William Mason, It's now on display at the B&O museum and was used to be fired up for events at the museum grounds and also was in the Will Smith movie Wild Wild West

Awesome! I'd forgotten about the film so thanks for the content. Also sooo excited for Hypatia!

Bro I’ve never been more excited to see a video, I remember taking a field trip of the museum of this event as a kid cause it was so close

I've been waiting for an episode about this!

As an expert of the Great Locomotive Chase, I can say that a lot of details were missed, but, for the sake of time, this was a well done history short about the event. I will say though, that while Parrot was the first man to have the Medal of Honor pinned on him, all seven of the Raiders were the first to receive the medal. Secretary of State Stanton said "Your party shall be the first to receive it." Meaning, that they were all the first, together. Stanton did not say "You are the first." Obviously, someone had to be pinned first because Stanton only had two hands, but the seven Union Raiders were all the first to receive the Medal of Honor together.

Thank you for being such a fun channel to watch! Recommended to my boyfriend and he’s been binging the channel for the last couple days and we’re bonding over our shared love for you guys!

I absolutely love the timing of this. This is the second year where I go to all the Medal of Honor burial sites at the Chattanooga National Cemetery and read off the commendations of the MOH recipient there during memorial day to honor them. This was a wonderful retelling of the valor and bravery these men possessed.

Look at Fuller, becoming the first superconductor back in 1862. It would take the rest of the world another 50 years to rediscover this tech.

Fuller is just some kind of a cartoonish villain.

And now two more of their number have been posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

"because Fuller had upgraded again" is it just me or is there an idle game in this story? 🤣

I am convinced that Fuller played a much larger part in the punishments. He probably made it to the court faster than the cart that hauled the train snatchers in.

That train chase is the most looney toons thing possible lmao I want to see a full animated movie about this

I saw a movie about this train heist. One that Disney made in the 60's. It was an awesome watch for me when I was a kid. I still have fond memories of watching this movie.

@CrossOfBayonne

4 күн бұрын

1950s actually late in the decade, One of the locomotives used was B&O no 25 which has a name William Mason and it was used to be fired up at the B&O museum until it's boiler flues expired

@brokenbridge6316

4 күн бұрын

@@CrossOfBayonne---Oh really. Didn't know that.

@CrossOfBayonne

4 күн бұрын

@brokenbridge6316 Yup and it also ran with St Elizabeth no 4 a 0-4-0 saddle tank that was built in the 50s

I had feared there was no hope in heck of you guys doing an episode on one of the most dramatic railway related events in history, and yet here we are. It was fun to watch, thanks team EH!

This is actually one of my favorite music compositions, I’ve been waiting years for this video

I have been waiting for this

@CrossOfBayonne

4 күн бұрын

@@Missingcouchproductions Glad to see a few Thomas fans here

4:31 - “Oooooohhh, there’s no stopping the Batman!”

Finally you did this story!

and a new video again! how nice!

Heard all about this growing up in Ringgold, went by the monument just about every day! Thanks for covering this story.

@zyancuerdo1615

2 ай бұрын

A uttp thats actually civil?aint that a rarity

@UTTPOfficerBennie

2 ай бұрын

@@zyancuerdo1615 UTTP.

@zyancuerdo1615

2 ай бұрын

@@UTTPOfficerBennie still one that actually inst spamming is a rare I seen so many of you lot that do that and other...shady things

Oh my gosh, this was one of my favorite stories growing up!

Yay! Its Time for the Greatest Show is Back!

You guys always make my day! (...or night😅)

2:25 nice basterds reference lmao

Solid video. Solid story.

Nice to see that you released this on National Train Day!

I LOVED playing this song in band!

I must ask, do you list down all the sources and citations every time you do a standalone history video like this? For series like Fredrick the Great and Ned Kelly, you did put a "Recommended Reading" section in your lies video. Is this where you cite the sources of your information? Note: I am asking all of this because I just wanted to know where you cite the sources.

As much as I enjoyed the story-and please keep up the good work-my favorite part of the video has to be the intro when you and the others beatboxed using train noises. That was a great start to the story and the video.

A train seems kind of easy to catch, but idk wtf you do when you get there

@abstractapproach634

2 ай бұрын

Oh, obviously you get yourself a train, fuller I'd I'd gangster

Finally I love this story

Ah, i LOVE civil war stories! Please do more!

This is my favorite channel by far.

Would love to see a huge multi-part series on the US Civil War from y'all.

While Buster Keaton's "The General" is undoubtedly a classic, the 1956 Disney film, "The Great Locomotive Chase," is a more accurate (if less artistic) retelling of the events. They used 3 steam locomotives for the film. The 'General' was portrayed by Baltimore and Ohio #25, the 'William Mason,' which was actually older than the 'General' by one year. Most of the other locomotives, including the 'Texas' were portrayed by Virginia and Truckee #22, the 'Inyo,' a passenger locomotive originally from the Comstock region that I have a personal connection to as she was the icon of the Nevada State Railroad Museum as I grew up in that area. I credit the moment I learned she was in the movie as the beginning of my love for film.

You got my thumbs up at the ”Sabotage!” 😂

I'm thoroughly impressed you managed to pronounce Chattanooga correctly, well done! One note though, Andrews raiders actually stopped about two miles north of Ringgold when the General ran out of water, there's a marker off Ooltewah-Ringgold Road that tells the tale while giving a rough estimation of where the loco stopped.

Just purchased Nebula Lifetime. Great way to support my favorite creators.

In my town theres a memorial to where the chase ended. Ive even pointed tourists from as far away as england to view it. I pass by it every day on the way to work. Its in Ringgold Ga

I had a book from my dads childhood in the 1960s and it has a section on train travel (it’s a kids book about transportation across human history) and about 10 or 15 years later the first sleeper cars started to appear on the railways (trains where slower than school zones in the day

I scream, you scream we all scream icecream!

OK, you gotta make a video on the next train heist but this was very successful! The fighting sea bees stole a train in the Korean War and took it back to South Korea. It’s an amazing story. I would love for you guys to make a video on it!

The way my brain started playing Thomas and Friends chase music when they stole the train at the start...

Had a double feature DVD of a 2 buster Keaton films with the general on it. Good stuff.

'Listen all a'yall, it's a sabotage!' I was NOT expecting a nostalgia slap in the face like that today.

Amazing

We’re talking about trains, baby! I love history

I don't think I laughed louder at a extra history video than this one.

At 4:51 Fuller DID NOT have a handcar but he actually had a pull car. A pull car is like a flatbed but only two axles and you would use a pull(made of wood) to push the car. They are lighter than a handcar too. Also at 6:11 the raiders ran out of wood and water. They didn’t see smoke from other locomotives.

I’ve been to the museum where the General is and it’s a pretty cool and interesting museum. If you’re ever in the Atlanta area and are a train or civil war person then I would recommend.

I watched the Buster Keaton movie "The General" dozens of times when I was a kid, it's a banger, I didn't realize it was so accurate

ch-choo- choo choo train? EDIT: i remember going to museum and seeing the actual general great experience also both movies are great excited to see u cover it fr.

Combine this with high irons version of this for the best & most accurate version of this

I love this and it should be made into a hilarious Quentin Tarantino comedy as his last film.

Never mess with a conductor's train .

🎶So c'mon, c'mon, steal a locomotive with me!🎶 🎶C'mon baby, steal a locomotive🎶

Finally! Someone else other than High Iron is doing this

I used to watch the Disney depiction of this event on DVD when I was kid. Had no idea what was going on, but it had trains in it so…

What a coincidence, I’m in Resaca preparing for our annual Civil War reenactment here, and will soon be heading home to Atlanta along the exact route 😂

0:45 best intro ever 😎👍🏾🔥