The Railway so Bad it Exploded - Bradford & Forster Brook Monorail

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Bradford & Foster Brook Make "Worst Railway Ever," Asked To Leave Reality Itself

i thought the title meant UK bradford for a second and i was like "yeh, that sounds right"

Penn Central: Finally! A worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!

Did you just say "Booming business?" Well, booming railway for a booming business...

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, bona fide Electrified, six-car monorail What'd I say?

yeah but Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook had a monorail and by gum it put them on the map!

"it isn't wrong, but we just don't do it."

There was a lot of oil-boom money in northern Pennsylvania in the 1870s. Some of it got spent on stupid ideas.

2:35 those trains looks like the ones that are in ireland that The Tim Traveller made an video on

What’s it called? monorail, once again! Monorail! Monorail!!

The strange thing is that this looks quite a promising idea. The explosion was due to letting the boiler run dry which is a basic operating error which could happen on any railway. The Baldwin engine shown at the end with a single large central boiler should be better than the two mini-boilers if the track can take the weight. Both this and the Lartigue system were certainly quick and cheap to build, though it sounds as if this one had too lightly constructed rails - a problem dating back to Trevithick (but solved in the 1820s).

On an unrelated note, Brigadier General Roy Stone had been removed from command during the Battle of the Wilderness after his horse fell on him. However, many presumed he was drunk during the battle. This would not be the first nor the last time a Union Brigadier General would be drunk during a battle.

Moral of the story - monorails suck

Cue the Simpsons Monorail song

Monorail, Monorail, MONORAAAAAAIL!! Mono-Doh!

@ 3:45 = a treat! We get a stereoscopic picture as well!

Was it worse than the one in North Haverbrook?

If a railway is only going to exist for a year, then visual aids of it will be extremely hard to come by. Man, I don't think saying it was all bad luck will cut it some slack here. Your channel highlights the many drawbacks of monorails throughout history but this one is borderline ridiculous.

0:15 Bradford County is not where the town of Bradford itself is located, Bradford itself is actually in McKean County.