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@Brett.1984 Says:
The host has never done manual labor.
@NoNameIdk1 Says:
The trains I go on still make that rail noise
@the_notorious_tj2600 Says:
3:29 my Hometown Essen… Nur Der RWE 😂😂😂
@patjohn775 Says:
This is ridiculous… you could just send one pipe fitter with a mobile generator rail mounted, welder and grinder. This would be done in 1 hour
@AbdurRahman-gy4qx Says:
In India (I am from India) there are still gaps in the joint and they use bolts
@Scott-J Says:
If you think this is cool, you want to study Materials Science. Quantum Physics, Chemistry, and Mechanical Physics rolled into one discipline.
@ryanjackson645 Says:
IS IT CAUSE THE R.R. SHIFT WITH THE RAILROAD TIE PLACEMENTS??
@EvilMrDogbert Says:
Cool vid, thank you. But only slowly beginning to lose the bad taste that that ' Elon musk' episode created....
Veritasium (derived from veritas, meaning truth) and we got a lie. I wonder how that hyperloop is doing? I wonder how mars and moon bases really fair against the science(they don't). Still....slowly getting that cred back....
@Felonnnee Says:
Because the stones the track lays on move instead of the rails.
@bugtusslealien3931 Says:
I watched an Indian video on thermite welds on train tracks before this. The Indian guy wore the required steel toed sandals with bare naked eyeball protection and rag clothing.....no one complained. He even took a dump and wiped his arse with a rock. Got to admit smart men and tough as nails.
All I see and hear from this guy is ughhh I'm hot, I'm sweaty, it's heavy, where do I toss this. Let's go to an air conditioned lab, here buy this thingy.
If I wanted to hear all this whining I'd still be married.😂😂😂😂
@gregtitus2467 Says:
Astounding. Absolutely astounding. What a well-done, instructive video. This could easily be a role model for others.
@ericbailey2535 Says:
Joints give my belly some expansion 😂
@majormixer7804 Says:
to me as a german it sounds kind of absurd that you found a company to film s rail installation with in the german countryside our train system has been crumbling for 20 years
@VincentRiquer Says:
Did the private equity thermite the footage for part 3? You promised it, it's filmed already, come on Derek!
@MAMOONAZHAR Says:
6:45 rail tracks have barcodes 😂??
@dotinsideacircle Says:
They found a great use for thermite in 2001.
@Niklas391-7 Says:
Germany mentioned!!
@EarthlingNews Says:
5:23 at least he's honest
@codyott1982 Says:
For anyone wondering, this doesn't really get easier with experience.
Maybe it goes a little quicker, but it does not get easier.
@Chris-Lynch Says:
A thermite reaction doesn’t make steel, it actually makes very pure Iron which is brittle.
I never actually checked this but I assumed a stoichiometrically correct addition of carbon to the Aluminium and Iron Oxide thermite mixture was the solution. Anyone know if this is actually the case?
@KI11TY-t5u Says:
Titanic?
@MaraKleiber Says:
YES. A video for train enthusiasts. Thanks.
@ArifinHossainMahin Says:
Here is no third part
@Halbarad3019 Says:
22:42 Viratsium turned into a little Hobbit
@TomHuston43 Says:
Fascinating!! Is the narrator trained in science/engineering?
@GTrax1992 Says:
Aligning the rails perfectly without dropping that cigarette ash onto the rail is a sign of true mastery of his craft. 😮 10/10
@rameybutler-hm7nx Says:
I got a question? Why does germany use stone ties instead of wood? Also much respect to railroad workers they work hard. I wish the rail road system in America was more extensive, imagine a high speed rail across america, i could live in mississippi and work in new york or chicago or california and be home every night! It would almost solve the employment nightmare we have here in north america!
@Countryboy071 Says:
Thermite is good but marmite is better 😊
@donaldpaterson5827 Says:
It seems to work in temperate climates, does it work in tropical climates. Around seventy years ago in science class, I was shown a rail line in India which was very badly buckled due I was told to the line expanding, whilst some fish plates were compromised. This rail had buckled to what seemed to be around four feet in height. Why doesn’t the solid rail buckle?
@dawedoctopus8141 Says:
Thank women and black folk for this you bigots!!!
@usakicksass Says:
50 some years ago engineering class teacher....stress is when you wake up hard as a rock and gotta pee, strain is when you bend that down to hit the toilet.
Edit: all male classes....oh my!
@Danthrax81 Says:
Veritaseum reminds me of connections 2 from the 90's
@russe19642 Says:
We just welded the last job we did,takes all day and this would have been quicker. Also no double face protection on that saw?
@Moe-n2q Says:
Wow people are ridiculous in try to fake learned to we the people to known before you born and unknown right now lie down stand for nothing clueless about how to find truth and make politicians tell the truth and do there jobs exactly what we stand for
@Raymond_Petit Says:
I missed something in the comparison of the water quenched rail and the one cooled in sand. Which one was brittle?
@ronhat-nx6yq Says:
I think I missed something here. If you have one very long rail, it will still shrink and expand. How can the rails expand without distorting???
@monticore1626 Says:
Many of the rails where I live are bolted and still make the noise
@GerryMander-kj9sz Says:
Got a laugh at 3:56. "Every safety precaution" on an image of welding without dark glasses. Later, everyone standing around watching 2 industrial grinders throwing massive sparks. This raises a critical thinking question: How do their eyesight's survive this?
@pbradleyking Says:
You're saying Thermit steel. Where does the carbon come from? The Thermit reaction produces iron and aluminum oxide. Steel is iron and carbon. Where's the carbon?
@pbradleyking Says:
So, how do you untwist a rail?
@David-1H1 Says:
Them saws weight 30lbs .. hit a gym lol come on man
@David-1H1 Says:
Well I still hear it every day lmao
@Dr.WayneManzo Says:
V Rit Asylum?
This is very interesting. But, they should not be using such primitive methods to join steel bars. It look like cavemen welding? There are more efficient ways to heat up the rail ends and also to melt steel insitu without using SRB Rocket Fuel.
Speaking of Witch, why not do a show on how the Morons from Jutah designed a Solid Rocket Booster to destroy the Space Shuttle program and how the Dummies at NASA couldn't figure it out?
Sort of like how the KKK CIA Telepathic Spooks destroyed the McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
The untrained eye cannot understand design flaws intentionally designed into a critical assembly. Aft cargo doors that have no function. Pylon connecting fasteners design based on Engineering 101 and not good design practice. Etc.....
So, we are using Rocket Fuel to join rails and the myth about rail deformation because of temperature effects is nullified by the fact that the rail is constrained in the lateral direction and thermal deformation caused internal stresses to rise but no apparent rail elongation or contraction.
Maybe you can use brittle coat or strain gauges on a piece of rail and measure the elongation and contraction due to temperature changes with and without rail constrainment methods.
I'm a former NASA PhD who was Assassinated in Office just like JFK on November 22 1963. I was tricked into employment with Nazi KKK CIA Spooks that hunt and destroy smart Human people. They hired me as a NASA PhD but paid me like a Burger Flipper. I stayed at a Flophouse in Lakewood OH__ a NASA PhD?
Just like Lee Harvey Oswald. They kept me in a boarding house in the same city as the NASA Lewis Director John "Kill all Humans" Klineberg. The same city! Also note that Patsy Lee Oswald bought the cheap Italian Rifle from Kline's Sporting Goods in the Chicago Loop and the Xapruder film of the Kennedy Assassination at Daley Plaza__ the film frames when Kennedy was hit with the Majic bullet__312__the Area Code of downtown Chicago. Believe it__Or Not!
@tammylines2779 Says:
i was wrong just learned something new very interesting. How would make the railroad tracks expand without breaking apart?
@tammylines2779 Says:
because of the the rock like stones that are under the track, it gives it pools
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