"Trailer Train" British Style

[andrechapelon]

Trust the guys at Top Gear (the original British version) to come up with this:

http://www.flixxy.com/top-gear-trains.htm

Filming was done on the Great Central Railway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj4r4Khvpys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a51SO6-duY&feature=related

Gives a whole new meaning to the term "intermodal".

Andre

 

[Anonymous]

This is hilarious!

James Mays is always good for something extraordinary. Remember his OO gauge train from Liddleton to Barnstaple?

[ChadLRyan]

Excellent!!

[rrinker]

Awesome!

          --Randy

 

[teen steam fan]

Cheaper than building a train? I dunno. there might be a bit of advantages over a couple of used cars.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I watched that some time ago. It was really funny when the kitchen car caught fire. There they are going down the track and flames are streaming from the windows.

[vsmith]

On Top Gear, where theres smoke, there's a caravan ...on fire LOL.

[Phoebe Vet]

That was broadcast on their show 9/12/2011 on BBC America.  I have it saved on my DVR.

Rowan Atkinson was the guest on that episode, as well.

[Juniatha]

Gee !   Top gear strikes again !   I like their British sense for extravagant absurdities and conquering of the senseless – and they pursue it with a convincing mixture of humor and being earnest about it – allegedly .   Obviously it was filmed on a museums railway’s site , anybody know which one ?

The TGV-12 sports train - *ggg* … spinning wheels trying to start but four trailers … Brunel , the first ‘pimp my stove’ sports locomotive designer with customized 96 ins rims ?   Jeremy forgot to mention : it was wide track and a convertible , too !

For more information on Isambard Kingdom Brunel see :

http://designmuseum.org/design/isambard-kingdom-brunel

Also , you may like to see the challenge video James tests the >> ginormous << 207 Peugeot city car in a race through Liverpool against Parcours , >> a couple of young men in silly trousers << - see what happened :

http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/207-v-parkour

Or the ‘race to the North’ series ( A1 Tornado against Jag XK 120 and Black Shadow bike ) , see :

http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/train-race-part-1?VideoBrowserMode=categories&VideoCategory=Challenges

http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/train-race-part-2

http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/train-race-part-4

http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/train-race-part-5

Sorry not all the links will work nor all the videos , yet there are some great scenes of the A1 with express speeding through the park-like scenery …

 

Seeing the trailer-train series , on my PC was also advertised this :

http://www.flixxy.com/bear-animal-nature-film.htm

The Bear – a film by Jean-Jaques Annaud . 

Of course with a cougar involved I just had to look at the scene .  The description says it’s a >> fascinating << film >> the way director Annaud gets his ursine stars ( i e the bears ) to do what he wants << .   Later in the film the Kodiaks must cope with an invasion of hunters ( i e humans who actually kill animals for ‘recreation’ ) .  It says >> the film offers startlingly close-up looks at bear behavior << .  

Obviously not at cougar behavior ‘cause a cougar wouldn’t hunt up a bear or a little bear in that instance .   It would be unwise – as the scene shows – and besides it’s just not on a cougar’s list of eatables , so to speak , and twice wouldn’t engage in just stupidly slapping the little bears face – sorry , some typical human low class style aggression got mixed in here , same with that ridiculous tongue licking in anticipation :  human low class behavior , not cat’s !  Besides , that idea of slapping wouldn’t make sense with a big cat having paws with claws that wouldn’t make a slap just a slap but produce bad scars , too .  Now what would a cougar , if at all getting into this , want to scar a little bear for ? to make start screaming for mom ?  And in this close up several ‘paw slappings’ leave but light scratches while in reality that should have torn the little one’s flews in rags !   Without intending to compromise intentions that may be good – on behalf of the bears , not the cougars who in regards of bad reputation could well have a little truth told in their defense :  all in all that scene was less than convincing , politely said .  

My first thought seeing it was  “Gee , those computer virtual 3D graphics have become a lot more real looking since !” – well , small wonder when it’s supposed to be really real .   Not that I’m fully convinced – just in case :  how on earth did they make those independent minded Inhabitants of the Great Wide Open do things that only make sense to a human mind ???

I wonder …

 

Regards

 

                        Juniatha

Edit Feb 2012:

Link to topgear parcour video fixed

[riogrande5761]

My wife is recently immigrated from England and we enjoyed watching the linked Top Gear episodes together!  She is tolerating my "daft" hobby well and I drag her to the train shows here in Virginia and Maryland!