Drift Express
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Published 2016-03-26
Think about it. Some gearheads got their hands on a steam train, put tracks on it and slapped a huge fuck all cannon to the front, and they use it to siege encampments by drifting and firing HE, why? Because these particular raiders have a coal mine. Not exactly gas but you've got to make do, right?
Running in the 90's - Max Coveri
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All Comments (21)
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This scene is objectively incredibly stupid but it's just so fucking awesome that it gets more than a pass, it gets an award.
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Big smoke:"All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ!" The train:
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I love the fact that someone thought a kid's christmas movie should include drifting a steam train across ice as an action theme
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Is this scene ridiculous? Yes Is this unrealistic? Yes Is this scene still amazing and very much cherished? YES
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Staff: “It’s impossible” Conductor: “No, it’s necessary”
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"This may be a magic train, but what you're seeing here is all human skill."
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it's a damn shame we never saw what the other kids are going through on the inside of the cars.
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I just now realized that the conductor intentionally bunched the train up mid drift to condense the weight so they’d be heavy enough to crack the ice. He did it so they’d be able to hit the rails on the the other side of the frozen lake before going through the narrow pass 🤯🤯🤯
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Society: YoU nEEd tRAcks tO dIrVE A trIAN. Conductor: Observe.
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I'm impressed how the weight of the conductor's balls didn't cause the train to sink into the ice
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7 years later and it's still a masterpiece.
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When I first saw this scene in the movie as a child, it was that moment I started to be obsessed with the idea of being on a train. I still have never been on one and I just want to be on one more and more lol
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Because of it's design, a normal steam engine can't multi track drift. Polar Express: Screw the tracks then
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“Why are the tracks underwater?!” “Why doesn’t the train break the ice?!” Because now we get to see the single greatest drifting scene in all of cinema, that’s why.
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I love how you looped it, suggesting that the entire track is made from rollercoaster and icy lake segments coming one after an another
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0:43 I just noticed how satisfying it is that the camera is almost completely stationary, letting the train come to us, before it fixates closely on that boss lever pull. Chef's kiss 👌
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seriously though, this engineer deserves a fucking Medal of Honor for drifting a FUCKING 400,000 POUND TRAIN ACROSS A FROZEN LAKE INTO A CANYON MORE NARROW THAN AN ASS CRACK.
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This is why they didn't bother with making a rail bridge over this lake.
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Being the Drift King means that you're skilled in drifting all manner of vehicles on all kinds of terrain. That engineer is the real Drift King. You can tell this isn't the first time he's had to do this.
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Soviet Trucks going across frozen lakes to get to Stalingrad 1943:
