How to use a Steam Locomotive to troll vandals
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- čas přidán 21. 04. 2022
- In this video, we take a look at a little story from the 1950's involving a few young boys, vandalism, a steam locomotive and an annoyed driver
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"Are you ready Henry?" Said the driver.
"Sneeze hard when I tell you. Now!" He said
"Achoo!"
"Well done Henry!" Laughed his driver
I know many of the Railway Series stories were based on true events, but it never crossed me to think if this ever actually happened. Either way, this was very interesting to know.
Yea like Henry's rebuilt
Absolutely
That was exactly my thoughts, it's “Sneezes and Whistles” in reality! Oh god, perfect!!
czcams.com/video/3wZlJdMVp_k/video.html One step skipped, but there it is!
Well then, this is pretty much Henry's Sneeze in real life. Wilbert really did have a lot of events for perfect stories
I had no idea that Awdry’s story “Sneezes and Whistles” was based on a true event! I always found it so funny when the boys would get sneezed on by Henry and can’t imagine the good laugh the driver and fireman had afterwards😂
All of the stories in The Railway Series are based on real events, often magazine articles or the Author’s own experience. The formula was that it had to have happened to some engine, somewhere, at some time. The downfall of the television series began when they deviated from reality.
sorry about this comment, but I just have to:
The episode of the TV-series is called "Whistles and Sneezes" (not the other way around), the respective RWS-stories (from the book "Henry the Green Engine") are called "Gordon's Whistle" and "Henry's Sneeze". Surprising for people who mainly know the TV-series might also be that the two stories aren't even directly after one another in the books, as "Percy and the Trousers" (in the TV-series "A Scarf for Percy") separates them.
Sneeze Coal At them its would have been a tragedy if a Diesel loco is used and just went (FUME)at them they would probably stop stop throwing stones at locos and have lung cancer
@@talesfromsodor so at some point someone actually accidentally got fish inside a tank engine's boiler that had to be fished out?
@@CrimSkies Yep. Train of Thought even has a video about that as well. In fact, a true story from my own family history is that members of the community attempted to run a traction engine on muddy ditch water. They didn’t get any fish into the boiler (that I know of), but the resulting clog from the muddy water caused a massive build up of pressure, and eventually a boiler explosion that killed several people. The same thing likely would’ve happened to Thomas if they hadn’t dealt with it in time.
If it's coal dust doesn't that mean that the driver technically threw stones back since coal dust is just small rocks of coal?
The Uno reverse of railway tales
well yes but actually no
Well, kinda?
Questions that science can't answer
Well, the Engine did :D
I similar story happened during Flying scotsman's trip to the USA. On a test run before the tour actually started, some locals gathered on a bridge over the line and threw stones at Scotsman as it passed, even a gunshot was heard. On the return journey, the crew in the cab threw pieces of coal back at them
and then those who picked up the coal would use it to warm their houses, from what i heard
Considering how the USA has a huge Irish community and that 1968 is also the year that The Troubles started,seeing a British steam locomotive pass by while your homeland is in a literal bloodshed it'll definitely trigger some nationalistic thoughts
@@davidantoniocamposbarros7528 no wonder why
I Guess It’s Safe To Say: Don’t Screw With British Steam Engines!
@TrainSpotting and Adventures
And attempt to riddle the steam engine in Bonnie and Clyde style bullets…
I can tell you as a firemen myself there are 100s of stories like this that exist out there somewhere, this was just how life on the footplate was. Footplates crews are a stern bunch you should not mess with thats for sure
Share one! Share a story!
didn't expect to see you here
Yeah I heard that on the LNER in the 1920s a driver was fatally injured when some little shits throwing stones broke the engine eyeglass and one of the glass shards lodged in his head, and another driver got a face of broken glass that he had to wash off before he could carry on.
@@invisibleman4827 how do they find it fun to throw rocks and stones at moving vehicles with people and exposed moving parts?
@@buzzygaming7667 Stupid kid stuff really.
Interesting fact that this story was picked by Wilbert Vere Awdry, author of Thomas the Tank Engine series, and adopted in the story, Henry's Sneeze.
based on the music in the background, train of thought knows this too! xD
Wasn’t that not obvious with the bg music?
I’m shocked he didn’t mention it outright.
I know, a lot of stories in the Railway Series where taken from real events, some covered on this very channel.
I was going to say that this is obviously the inspiration for that, although I was going to use the title of the episode, Whistles & Sneezes. Now I'm wondering where Gordon's jammed whistle came from!
Fun fact: in Boston during the 1970s and 1980s, people throwing debris over bridges was such a big problem that locomotives were fitted with metal bars in front of the windows to protect the drivers from falling objects. These metal bars eventually got the nickname of “ghetto bars”
They still have these in India I believe
@@flare2000x and Mexico
There was one story of the UAC TurboTrain getting hit with a cinderblock on one of the domes, killing a person. Another story of some kids putting a snowman with a tie/sleeper in it and it getting hit by a Boston & Maine Budd RDC. Kids on the NEC were massive assholes.
As soon as I heard Henry's theme I knew where this was going! Didn't realise until now that the classic episode was based on actual events 😅
I always found the story where Henry got back at those boys by sneezing coal dust on them hilarious. One of Awdry's best stories
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@@hackerman203 Well done, Henry!
@@chesapeakedproductions3009 but when henry stopped at the next station he saw the boys who where throwing rocks at him this time they sneezed at him henry was shocked he did not know they can turntables looks like henry learned the lesson instead
@@hackerman203 Hmm, I never thought about it that way
@@chesapeakedproductions3009 lol its a twist to the real story where henry loses instead
I never knew this was an actual event that happened, I had only ever heard the story from the early Thomas and Friends series!
All the early Railway Series stories were based off real events
Thomas and friends was inspired by real events
And the death of steam power to diesel, Audry was a fan of steam. And only let like 3 diesels be "good" characters
I stand by steam, diesel has a worse safety record when you sit down and look at it
Another story very similar to this, I was told this by my uncle (whether it’s true or not I can’t remember) but there was a gala at a heritage railway, there was this group of children who would sit on the line and then when the crew got down to talk to them, they’d simply dive into the river nearby and swim away. The trains were getting more and more late and so one driver thought of a solution. He was driver on a Great Western engine (famous for their ‘bark’) and so when he approached, he wound the reserver back and opened up the regulator, the engine started barking like mad and the kids dived into the river in horror and swam off. They were never seen mucking about on the line again.
To be honest; if I heard that unprepared I too would probably shit myself
Took me about 15 seconds to realize why Henry’s theme was playing. When you mentioned boys on a bridge, I knew exactly where this was going.
I thought that was probably where it was going as soon as I saw the title of the video!
So this was the real life story that inspired the story of Henry the Green Engine sneezing at some naughty boys who threw stones at him and his crew and passengers on a bridge.
Really taught the boys a lesson. With a little coal soot.
Doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "with a sneeze." 🤣
Well I guess all that smoke and soot can’t be good for there lungs but still credit where credits due that driver really thought that one out
@@Thatspuremental Thrown stones also aren't good for someone's lungs if it somehow manages to break someone's ribs
@@atoka2206 no no I mean the smoke 🤣 i should of made that more obvious
....and pressurized steam. I wonder why pressurized steam is no longer used in the education of children.
That sure was a satisfying way to get back at those boys, yet another great video! Keep up making these, I'm interested to hear more incidents and amusing facts about railways!
He was doing a bit of trolling
Yes
Oh wow, I never realised the original story Awdry took inspiration from came from down the road from where I lived XD. I used to walk across that same bridge all the time as a kid.
I’ve watched the Thomas the tank engine episode whistles and sneezes loads of times as a kid and didn’t realise it’s possibly based on a true story. Good effort, very clever and great dose of karma
also something funny happend in the 2010s with tornado's whistle getting stuck open just like gordon's and whats even funnyer is that it happen long after the books were written
Most of the original Railway Series stories were.
@@RJSRdgand now I love them even more
One of those "if it's not true it should be" stories that I'll add to my Pub Facts™ file.
"Henry is going to sneeze at those boys"
The fact the thumbnail is a black five too lmao
This was one of my favorite stories involving Henry the Green Engine! I can't believe it actually happened!
Somehow this reminds me of that shirt or bumper sticker "Do not meddle with the affairs of dragons..." Being large, smoke-belching, and steam-blasting, even green in some cases from this era, a steam locomotive is basically a steel dragon, and messing with one is likewise foolish.
When Henry's theme played, i knew exactly what this event inspired
I had a similar event on a heritage line.
Instead of coal dust I got all the men at the depot to pee in a bucket.
Passing under the bridge I threw this into the firebox.
I wonder if they still smell 20 years later!
Fun fact the story possibly could’ve been the inspiration for the Reverend W Awdry‘s railway series story Henry sneeze but the story has lots of controversy because when Henry sneezes on the boys the line The boys “were black as a n!&&?2” was in the book for over 20 years until it was removed until a more appropriate line was added.
it was
As a small boy never understood why we caught a tigger by his toe and not a tiger. I would be all of 30 years old before learning to my appall what 'tigger' substituted for!
@@mortified776 how does that have to do anything with this?
In the 1960s the n-word was acceptable usage in the UK. It didn't have the same highly derogatory and horribly discriminatory overtones that were standard in the USA, which were so brilliantly satirised in "Blazing Saddles".
@@iankemp1131 makes sense
As a kid I always wondered where they got the idea for the story but never seriously thought it was real but overtime I had heard it was based off of truth. Glad I finally got the details explaining how the actual event went, and even though it sounds outlandish remember truth is stranger than fiction so Its probably safe to say it happened. I'm also glad you used Henry's theme as I could easily see why you were going for.
Story not told by Awdry but I probably read it in a memorises book, of the loco crew that would helpfully chuck odd bits of coal to lineside houses. One day in a more remote spot they heaved a large lump over for the householder to collect, on the other side of the hedge in the field that day were a courting couple who got somewhat disturbed !
@@highpath4776 There was also at least one case of a lineside householder who rigged up a large and elegant chamber pot balanced on a pole with a net below it. He never had to buy any coal because all the firemen would throw nice-sized lumps at it as they went past.
THIS IS AMAZING LOL
This channel is the find of the century lmao. I remember finding it a year ago.
Nowadays the families of the boys would sue the railway company.
And win. It’s the age of the “Victim”!
Nowadays this wouldn't happen anyway, because most parents don't even let their children outside, since Mr. Murdoch has convinced them the outside world is full of scary monsters.
@@ccityplanner1217 you're wrong there. "most" parents don't even know where their kids are, that's how they get into this situation.
Sadly this is true.
@@wolfrig2000 what
I had a feeling a knew where the video was gonna go when I saw the title. Hearing your music choice only confirmed it for me.
I love how you knew exactly what to do to make the connection obvious without even saying a word about said connection. AWESOME VIDEO
Moral of the story: If you get someone steaming mad, you will get scalded in return.
Wasn't this also a story adapted into Thomas and friends?
Yes
Why do you think he was playing the Henry theme?
@@RichardAndewSwayne Rude much?
Things like this have happened, like on Scotsman’s US trip. Amazing video, anyway!
the driver shall be remembered in railway history
This seems familiar....
I hope the driver gets to pull the express after that incident
You do mean "got", right?
Amazing absolutely amazing! I didn’t know that this story was taking inspiration to whistles and sneezes.
Instinct tells me this did really happen. It's too characterfully British not to have *XD* .
(never let it be said we don't enjoy getting even with someone who's got it coming)
Gave me a good laugh too, a bit like "Never underestimate the power of a Steam Engine; or concequently, the power of Irony"
It is certainly recorded in the book "30 years at Bricklayers Arms" and although that came out after the Railway Series books, the railway grapevine was very efficient and no doubt that's how it reached Awdry (or similar incidents may have happened elsewhere). Likewise, episodes from the early days of the Talyllyn railway got into both the Railway Series books and the 1953 film "The Titfield Thunderbolt", acknowledged by all participants.
So now I know where the inspiration for that Thomas and friend story with Henry in the trouble some boys throwing rocks that his coaches came from I figured there was always a real source to it and not just a fun story😊😊
I thought most bridges had smoke deflectors to avert this kind of happening.
This must’ve been the basis for the Rev. W Awdry’s story Henry’s sneeze…
But I guess that’s why you had the theme from the Thomas TV series as background music. All the Rev W’s stories were based on true events, I’d imagine this was no exception.
Nice story, Im gonna be a party pooper here, so dont read further beyond this line if that bothers you:
- increasing boiler presure is not needed, most steamloco's usually operate verry close to max pressure since thats when they are most efficient.
-the safety valves usually have a lever for testing purposes so those can be opened at a distance (i.e. from the cab)
- opening the smoke box to add slag and what have you doesnt help either, there will acumulate enough in the smokebox as the days trip advances
- in regular cases there will be a debris-screen in the firebox to catch any debris that could hurt, damage, or set fire to anything next to the railway.
- Removal of the screens in the smoke box would have sufficed.
In short, yes the driver may have removed the screens (i wonder where he'd have put them, i guess in the coal tender) at a station just prior to pasing the bridge. And then to let slow down the train to a low speed approaching the bridge, and then close to the bridge to open up the regulator as far as possible without getting in to a wheelspin, That is all it would take to blast them with soot, smoke, steam and hot burning pieces of coal!
(and yes i'm a steamloco driver my self)
When I saw the thumbnail I immediately knew what this story was going to be about before even clicking
a beautiful case of life imitating art (in a way)
actually, it's art imitating life, since that must have happened near the end of the 1940's and Henry the green engine was released in 1951, also you stole the Unlucky tug's phrase for the flying Scotsman video New York video
@@1dylan596 1: ok
2: he didnt create the quote
@@MiddletownBranchProd. there are 3 things I hate.
1. Irony
2. Lists
wow, Train of Thought is a big Thomas fan from adding Thomas music, to making videos about real story that inspired the Rev Wilbert Awdry in his thomas books.
and that's how the story of Henry's Sneeze was born.
I knew this story would sound familiar, but the fact that you used Henry’s theme song takes the cake. Love it!😂
Henry's driver: Are you ready? Now
Henry: AAA-CHOO!
Henry's theme in the background, very clever
Fantastic! It's amazing what you can do when you know your way around a steam locomotive. It also made for a really good Railway Series story and its TV adaptation. I love that you added Henry's theme to the video.
I think timing the safety valves to lift at just the right moment would be difficult.
I don't know if this was only on oil-fired locos, but I've heard that (on some occasions) when the regulator was opened wide on a long cut-off the fireman would chuck a couple of shovelfuls of sand into the firebox, which would be sucked through the tubes thus sandblasting the accumulated soot out of the chimney. I do know that on some New Zealand steam specials, standing on the outside platform of the old wooden wild-west style carriages, you could feel fine grit descending on such occasions (and I washed plenty of it out of my hair afterwards).
So, I would suggest that (if available) would be a suitable treatment - regulator shut, several shovels of coal on the fire (to generate plenty of smoke), then open it wide and a couple shovels of grit at the critical moment.
“I’m gonna give those boys a REAL scolding!”
I like Henry's theme in the background. Nice homage to the RWS
I love the theme you had in the background, nice touch
Music couldn't be more appropriate for this one. Great story, great video.
Perfect choice of music and _brilliant_ move to upload this on Earth Day
I can’t tell if this was the inspiration for the story Henry’s Sneeze or if it’s just a coincidence.
Revenge is sweet. What a great way of dealing with vandals.
This story is slightly less fun when you realize that those children probably suffered severe skin burns as a result of the hot, high-pressure steam
I mean,it's burning coal travelling at high speeds,don't know what to expect from that
i have, in the pat, used the diesel loco steam generator (for the train heat supply) for just this purpose. It did need some time to set up, but the 'next day', the idiots would be there again, so arranged with the driver to blow the horn at the right time, I was in the engine room, with my hand on the safety valve test lever. On hearing the horn, I let fly as we approached the bridge with said idiots on it. Probably never hurt them (sadly) but it made them think better of coming back any time soon!
Fun fact this inspired one of R.W Adry stories
*Soon they could see the boys, and they all had stones.*
*"Are you ready, Henry?" said his driver. "Sneeze hard when I tell you."*
*"Now!" he said.*
*"A-Choo-Shoo!"*
*"Well done, Henry!" Laughed his driver.*
I find it amazing that this real-life event was the blueprint for that Thomas the Tank Engine story, "Henry's Sneeze", and then “Sneezes and Whistles” in the TV show.
The true inspiration of the Thomas and Friends episode Whistles and Sneezes
Love how you used Henry's theme. Nice to hear the true story behind Whistles and Sneezes.
I love the Henry theme in the background telling us where most of us would've seen it first
Somehow I knew EXACTLY what story this was going to be about.
The fact that he used Henry's theme in the background shows this was the adaptation for "Henry's sneeze".
Well golly gee, I had no idea this was a real story! Great video!
"We do a little bit of trolling"
_Uno Reverse Card_
Of all the things I want to be true, this is probably near the top of the list!
I wonder if those boys are still alive and could tell that tale (if it actually happened).
GREAT story thanks for your work, give us more pls^^
Once again, the perfect background music was chosen for a video, but I think it could've been ever so slighly louder.
I love how he doesn’t mention the story but knows we will
That's nothing to sneeze at.
I heard Henry’s theme, which is actually fitting since this actually happened in a story with Henry, nice
This is the greatest story I’ve ever heard, how haven’t I heard it before?
I knew this had to be that henry story and his theme playing is perfect lol
I love the use of Henry’s theme here! 😁
The vandals get trolled. 🤣
The first bridge story was actually adapted in Thomas and friends
I like how you never connect this story to Thomas but rather heavily imply it by using Henrys theme
The Henry theme in the background was very clever lmao
I assume this was the inspiration for Henry’s sneeze.
Love the music! Reminds me of something I saw on tv one time!
WOW. with the music I just got whiplashed by nostalgia from the old old Thomas episodes.
Did anybody heard henry's theme in the video? That Henry episode "whistles and sneezes" was based on this event, cool!
I had figured it to be a true story, Awdry didn't like physics defying or rule breaking in his stories. If he hated Henry stopping in a forest he would never "Sneeze" in his stories. Sadly this story also had Awdry say a bad term in the first editions of Henry The Green Engine. Due to a unfortunate nickname my hometown has (Anna think what each letter could men with that second N being a stupid slur) I can't even imagine how he could justify it, he claimed he meant no offence but that word is never innocent nope. Ah one time isn't going to tarnish my opinion of Sodor nor will I believe he never regreted it so nice to hear about the true story.
“Can you keep a secret? Henry is going to sneeze at those boys.”
Bro i got so shocked when u started telling the story when henrys theme started but after i got the story i now knowed that i was the story that was based from ones of henrys stories
haha. Love how you used henry's theme cuz Henry has a story just like this
This is where the story Whistles and Sneezes came from, Specifically the Sneezes part. This was inspiration for one of Audrey’s stories.
"NOW!" He said.
"AAAAACHOOO!!!!!"
*Wheeeeeew!*
Just read the Railway Series version of this to my daughter a couple days ago! 😂
I know this from before, from the Thomas the Tank Engine story CD I used to listen to as a child.
But the fact that this would even have been a plausible storyline that might've happened & not some impossible fantasy shows perfectly the degree to which modern parenting has broken the spirits of our youth. Where once this, now mental health problems.
"Don't piss off an engine's crew,worst mistake of my life"-Sun Tzu,The Art Of War
*Henry’s Theme*
ah, I see where this is going, excellent!
as soon as i heard Henry's theme i realised this was potentially the inspiration for "Whistles and Sneezes"
Well done Henry! Laughed his driver.
i wanna see more stories like this
This driver is a mad lad
"The passengers weren't hurt, but they were cross. 'Call the police!' 'No,' said the driver, 'leave it to Henry and me.' 'What will you do?' they asked. 'Can you keep a secret?' 'Yes, yes!' 'Well, then,' said the driver, 'Henry is going to sneeze at those boys.'"
So now we know how Henry held his sneeze in the show and how any steam engine can sneeze when their smokebox/firebox is full of something (mostly soot and burned out fuel) or as we seen how Bill had a pipe in his funnel when Ben got new buffers.