The US President's Bulletproof Railcar
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- Published on Apr 2, 2018
- US Car Number 1, the Ferdinand Magellan, sits in the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami. It's 120 tonnes of bulletproof, armoured railcar: a train carriage designed to move the President of the United States around the country in safety and style. At least, it was, until other transport came along to do a better job.
Thanks to all the team at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum: they're at www.gcrm.org/, or on Facebook at facebook.com/GoldCoastRailroad/ ! [looks like their main site's down at the moment!]
Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin)
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I realise I said "railway" instead of "railroad" at the end. Apparently I haven't picked up too many American dialect words yet...!
Serious question. WHY NO HDR CONTENT?
Please never say railroad!
Tom Scott british commonwealth of nation calls it railway... as usual americans use a misnomer
Tom Scott continue doing what you do
We get it your british XD
Where does the poop go once you flush?
Is it a bit odd that the surname of a railway museum guide is "Waggoner"?
A great book: FDR's Funeral Train by Robert Klara - Tons of history .. well documented.. Worth the read.
Great video !
We are still a proud nation 🇺🇸
Air Force one isn’t a thing but a name given to the vehicle that the president rides in. Air Force one is the plane. There would be Marine one for the helicopter. One is President and two is Vice President. They would never ride on the same vehicle.
I bet that piece of 12-ply glass is bloody heavy.
I want one!
13 or 30?
WTF's an "Awfose"?
Am I the only one who came to the video having seen racecar instead of railcar?
would it be possible to get er up to say .90?
Oh, no special thanks for Cully Waggoner at the end. The guy did a good job showing you, & us, around the train.
I understand you would want to armored a car or a house but why would you armored a train?
Screw you and your opinions ya GOOF.
Just don’t get too political mate
I agree, I wish we could get back a little of the old days.
Herbert Hoover needed the bullet proof rail car
5/8 thick steel isnt stopping a 50bmg two stage round
Oooh, tommy boi just called trumps train not "real" enough?
What's dumpy trumpy gonna do about that boyee?
Choo choo donatello, gotta deliver a steamy comeback sooooon right? ;)
Pwease don't let us down again, k? You'd make sumboedy vewwy sad ;(
Train Force One
"I wish we could go back to that. Still keep our cellphones though, I ain't giving that up."
Hard to say that I have actually been to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum. I live right by it!
The name must have been written in Portuguese or Spanish, more correctly.
It's as if we call, Uiliam Checaspeare in Spanish.
Great video
Ayyyy I was there yesterday! :D
Trump must have a new version of a rail train across the USA with bullet proof train at last.
FDR WE COULD USE HIM AGAIN
The guy that was giving the tour is the kind of person ppl from the past would imagine. Love it!
I could definitely see that guy explaining the train as a conductor.
Was it used by Lovelace in Wild Wild West?
If I was President I'd would totally travel by train
"I'm Scruffy, the janitor"
Damn that guy loves trains
The president should ride in a train, not that stupid airplane.
That would make it just a tad difficult to go to places like ... oh, IDK ... London maybe? Or Paris?
and he just casually opens it
So, Rail Force One?
Precious video, but why would you spell "MaJelan"?
That name derives from the Portuguese word Magalhães which is spelled "MaGAllaes".
So, no "gi" or "je" sound. It would be a "ga" sound.
Bullet resistant
Derail it via destroying the rail
If it was 100% Bulletroof I wanna Put a bomb here
pentagon Rush Bulletproof doesn‘t equal blastproof.
Do why you hear yanny or laurel
Truman campaigned for reelection by travelling in that train? Surely state resources were not able to be used for partisan use...
Incumbent advantage. Some resources were used.
I thought Ferdinand Magellan Died in Cebu,Philippines.
So cosy... i like it
THIS IS TOO BORING TO WATCH
The museum rep reminds me of Tom Skerritt of "Top Gun" fame.
The President would never be allowed to travel by rail in the US nowadays... the tracks are in too poor of repair for the Secret Service to trust them with the President's life.
Your second sentence shows you know nothing about American railroads.
666k views baby
666,666th view
666k views and 222 dislikes. Interesting...
there are 666k views... more than worrying
They should have put this on the back of the American Freedom Train when it toured the country back in the 70's.
So, could a president request this be reinstated? That'd be 100% amazing to see back in somewhat action
I like the guide, he seems like a nice guy.
Anyone else pick up on the origin of the phrase "whistle stop tour"?
Could you explain what a Double NAT is?
Cully waggoner is drunk
Did you say president? Oh no. Hide from the comments!
*_this is the presidential toilet_*
MUST watch DAVID ICKE now
must see for yourself
Wow, Ferdinand Magellan is one of our heroes in Philippines
Thank you for the video!
Well... Americans do have a penchant for killing their Presidents...
Rail Force One
amazing
Always cool to see where some of the most important leaders in history spent their time.
Doesn’t Kim Jong Un have one of these?
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You could just said "There was Air Force None." Missed The oppurtunity there
Thoroughly enjoyed the video. Don't be so self-conscious of speaking proper English. I thought you did a great job.
If I was president I would use this.
this is awesome thanks for uploading!
Eisenhower traveled by train also, his wife would not fly. They came to Palm Springs each year by train so Ike could play golf.
Wait. Did he just say *eighteen* miles per hour???
Very very cool a bank vault on wheels I love history
Toilet beside bed? Prison style
And when It hit 80-MPH it could TIME TRAVEL
Strelnikov!
Love the Trump Train, and this one. Thanks for doing this.
Air Force One isn't Red, White and Blue.
R A I L R O A D
Trump train crash
It's amazing, really, all they did to both accommodate FDR's disability, and hide it from the public. We have to remind ourselves that this was the 1930's and 40's, and he was POTUS for 13 years. So many things had to be modified for him and it all worked like a well-oiled machine for so long. The media was kinder too, always respecting his wishes to never be photographed being carried, while the Secret Service set up ramps to move him, etc. Could you imagine the media respecting that today? Hell no.
I CAN SHOT THOUGHT IT WITH MY NEW SMART GUN.
Bulletproof train in the 1920's, so they obviously learned their lesson about leaders of countries riding around in open topped cars...
oh hello 1963.....
Well it's gonna be useful when the Chinese invade America
I'd like more information about the whole train. I know it had more cars that went with it.
I rate inside the train a 5 star hotel
All aboard the trump train.
How common was that radio telephone?
That glass though, wow :D
tour videos are awesome Tom,thank You for sharing
This guy need a new hairstyle
you look wierd, let good looking. in a good way i guess
That guy is awesome. He should narrate something.
How much do these ballons cost?
"The railcar is the heaviest US railcar ever built."
Correction: At 285,000 pounds, the presidential modifications made it the heaviest PASSENGER railcar ever used in the US.
One day Tom's gonna visit where I work and I'm gonna have my mind explode.
Thanks for sharing this video! This car is on my bucket list! According to David McCullough's biography of Truman, for security, the route ahead of the President's train had all of the switches spiked to prevent sabotage. Talk about "right of way"!