I thought at first this was one of the McCloud River engines. But close examination of especially the smoke on the engine, among other details, seems wrong
Methinks that it’s Artificial Untelligence, or, at the very least, poor CGI.
AI & CGI
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That message annoys the frell out of me. After all, sometimes I just want to make a short comment.
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I thought I might usefully add a link to what must be the worst example of AI illustration that I have seen. This purports to be a documentary on the work of Andre Chapelon, who many of the members of this forum will be familiar. As far as I can tell, the actual script being read is factually correct, if a little biased towards Chapelon’s work compared to other contemporary locomotives. The illustrations are so bad as to be laughable, and sadly might appear possible to beginners or others unfamiliar with the subject. The illustrations are of remarkable pictorial quality but show completely impossible locomotives, drawings and other scenes.
I am basically lost for words.
There are literally hundreds of excellent photographs of Chapelon’s work and quite a few of the man himself. Why invent false illustrations when real ones are available?
On the subject of the text, while this is in my view biased towards Chapelon’s work, it doesn’t. deserve such ridiculous illustrations…
As far as I can tell, this “documentary” doesn’t clearly mention the 240A and 240P conversions which by the late 1940s were completely worn out, and were replaced by modernised PLM designs (141P, 241P) and by the USA built 141R. While 242A1 did exist, it was a one off and given that the 240Ps basically had worn themselves out by the time it was complete, there was little incentive to see if this one unit had any staying power…
Here’s the link, if you want to see some minutes of completely artificial illustration…
[The 1930s Locomotive Too Advanced For 1980s Technology](YouTube
v=gXX7ap4FVWM)
Peter
Yeah, these kinds of videos absolutely suck. I honestly agree–why bother coming up with fake, useless slop (to use the current Internet slang, something I rarely do) when you could just source a few real images… By the way, the link you posted was broken, but I think that I fixed it.
When ever i am U toobing it if i come across a video that starts off like that where they pound out the script in captions at you, as an artificially created voice drones on. And some still picture is in the background with a fake loop of photo degradation running on top of it to give the illusion of old movie footage. I immediately tune out because i know whats coming. Glitzest up garbage that was created to entertain but not actually inform. That being said i have to admit i didn’t watch much of that video.
Are you all still talking about the Amazon video that I put up? Can’t tell.
I think that we all got distracted by AI junk videos in general. Oh–hey look a SQUIRREL!!! 
Laziness. Pure and simple laziness.