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40 million tons pulled by ONE locomotive. That's impressive

I wonder if any EM-1 2884 Yellowstones exist for restoration? It would be interesting to compare side by side a 2884 with Union Pacifics Big Boy!

The Pere Marquette Berks will always be #1 in my book... And I was a fan long before #1225 became the inspiration for the Polar Express! Thanks for the interesting history lesson!

My favorite to look at is the GG1. CHANGE MY MIND!

I grew up in Oelwein about 3 blocks South of the Roundhouse. Both of my grandfathers, an uncle and a great grandfather worked for the CGW. I was 12 years old when the merger occurred. The CNW dealt a blow to Oelwein by what it did to the CGW. The UP didn't help. Fortunately Iowa Northern stepped in when theUP abandoned Oelwein. It breaks my heart to see how much is gone every time I visit Oelwein. The Hub City Railroad Museum is doing what it can to keep the memory alive. I love it when I see things like this video that helps kept the CGW memory alive. Thanks for posting it.

I particularly like this locomotive so much that I recently purchased a Ho-United scale model and I'm working on it to bring it as close to reality as possible. This video will help me a lot in my work, thank you for sharing this precious document.

Was there ever a certified scale anywhere that could have settled this dispute?

I wish atleast one was preserved. I AM BEGGING THE PAST FROM THE FUTURE!

The shame is the steam locomotive was being perfected. When Diesel Electric locomotives eventually replaced them. I truly believe that if the steam locomotives had another 10 years. Scrubbers would have been added to the smoke stack and very little water would have been wasted to the outside atmosphere. Through condensers most of the steam would have been cooled back to water. It would still require at least 1 man to stoke the coal or feed the fuel oil on each trailing steam locomotives. Using jumper cables the lead steam locomotive would have control of the traction effort of any trailing Steam Locomotives,creating a multiple unit, single steam locomotive. Just like diesel electric all electric locomotives and control Cab cars do today Diesel Electric locomotives would not have never become the locomotive of today. Except for switching locomotives. Of course the all electric locomotives would still have their place on electrified railroads. The Pennsylvania and New York Central along with some other railroads. Owned their own coal mines. Then again back then. The Pennsylvania Railroad and other railroads actually built their own steam and electric locomotives. Made the majority of the parts. My great grandfather worked at Altoona/Juniata shops and was directly involved in casting the GG-1s articulating trucks for the 12 traction motors. He told me that they were cast in the ground under the shop floors. The GG-1 was way ahead of its time. Then again the GG-1 was a pantograph,to tap switch transformer either a 21 or 22 position throttle, to the AC traction motors. If you ever look at the spoked driver wheels on thf GG-2. There are rubber faced starter motors to get the GG-1 up to speed so the AC traction motors could engage. In LETP we were taught they were tickler motors. Once the AC Traction Motors Engaged. You could easily draw 2,250 amps and have no wheel slip of wheel slip started to occur. You could either turn a valve that dropped sand on the leading drivers. Or push down the automatic brake valve handle that would engage a lever that would drop sand on all sanders. I believe the Automatic Brake valve was either a 24 or 26 RL. It’s been over 40 years since I operated a GG-1. I not once didn’t make it from point A to point B operating a GG-1. No one could just get on a GG-1 and operate it. I had to be taught how to operate the GG-1. It took a few months to know what I needed to know about the locomotive. Just operating the steam generator. You had to know what you were doing. There was 2 water tanks,one on each end of the locomotive if the number 1 water tank was starting to run low. You had to know how to siphon the water from the B water tank. Using steam. Nowadays no railroads that I can of. Don’t even cast their own brake shoes no less spare parts for locomotives.

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I like Soviet locomotives. If I purchase a Soviet locomotive I would convert it to standard gauge in China before delivering it to the US and Canada.

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Thank you, TRC. Could thengineer have prevented this from happening? Why would a transient close a valve? Should caboose personnehave noticed the insufficient brakeline pressure in the brakeline pressure meter? Cannot blame people for picking up wreckage usable items.

I don't recall hearing of any Garratts in Europe outside of Britain?

*diagonal cylinders* Climax's catalog surely must have grinded Lima's gears.

The C & O crews reporting on the actual weight of the Alleghaeny locomotive is accurate because they worked on them.

Can you do a video about the Union Pacific quadraplex and the Union pacific hexaplex please

Can you please make a video about the union Pacific quadraplex and the union Pacific hexaplex

You people do realize the loaded ore trains where being moved DOWNHILL correct? The mines are far above Lake Superior. It wasn't much work to pull a 18,000 ton train downhill as gravity is doing all the work. The DM&IR locomotives faced their hardest work pulling the much lighter empty trains uphill back to the mines.

Many railfans will complain about the Allegheny's operating steam pressure of 260 psi. Steam pressure doesn't create the power. It is all about the heat of the steam. Steam locomotives work on thermodynamic principles, they do not work on steam pressure. They are a Heat Engine, not a pneumatic tool like an air tool that a mechanic would use.

Tractive effort is the most misunderstood thing about steam locomotives. Tractive effort is not power. It is the calculated starting pull at 0 mph. A steam locomotives calculated starting pull has nothing to do with how much power it can produce at speed.

The valve to allow high pressure steam steam into the low pressure cylinders did not operate at "all" speeds as you stated. They only operated at low starting speeds to increase the starting pull. But as you stated, this could make the Y6 slippery. If left open, it would literally drain the boiler steam into the large low pressure cylinders. The operating procedure was to open the valve when starting to get some extra pull, then close the valve ASAP and operate in compound mode. The Y6 actually had a relatively small boiler for an articulated locomotive, basically the same size as a 4-8-4s boiler.

@machinist1879 So how does that make you an expert on the Y6? Oh, yeah by reading books written by a person who has no actual facts like Ed King and playing with toy trains in your basement. What you stated has NOTHING to do with N&W steam. The joke is on you because since you have no actual knowledge on how steam works, you waste what little money you earn to buy make-believe railfan drivel.

I would tried to keep them in service in hopes of solving their problems. But if not, I would have at least kept one or two to be donated to a museum.

I like the smaller N&W steam, like the class M 4-8-0 and the class Z mallet

Pennsylvania is known for 3 things. Dumpster railroad, Voter fraud, Drunk and fighting eagles fans.

The ACs proved very adaptable engines and were used all over the SP empire. Notably, they were used as passenger power for both the Pacific Limited and Owl over the Donner and Tehachapi segments respectively. Their last days were spent pulling freights on the Southern Pacific's Western Division between Oakland and Roseville.

Thank you! I love the 2-8-2 Mikados! They are my favorite steam locomotives! (Specificly Nickel Plate Road 587) :D

Shame that there were too many teething problems. It had some decent promise. Could've had an era of the Steam-electric locomotive. That'll be something for alternative history railfans to geek out over.

I wish they would do a movie on this.

Is this the incident after which one of the brothers was in a jail next to the line? The engine crews knew it, and kept whistling very loudly every time they passed the jail at night - which did not make the man very popular with the other inmates, who knew exactly why they were getting no sleep.

I’ll build a 4-28-28-4 locomotive.

id sell it to heritage railways for abnormal prices

What an amazing video! If you have a way I can send them to you, I have several photographs from the accident. They are digital copies received from the Oklahoma History Museum. I was going to post them here but I guess pictures cannot be added to comments…

i have a Excursion Program New York Central's 30th Steam Spectacular.

I would have 4 The N&W J 4-8-4 605 with no streamlining and a Yb6 4-6-6-4 with A NYC Hudson 4-6-4 and Last a UP Big boy

FWIW, mallet articulateds are not well suited to super high speed running. The S1 is rumored to have gone well above 130mph (not confirmed, but circumstantial evidence says it did). Duplexes can do that since both engines are on the same frame.

The Q2 was really the most successful of the duplexes - it worked pretty well, it was just more expensive to operate than the J1s they were already operating. It wasn't an engineering failure so much as it was an economic failure.

thank you .

Thank you very much for all your work making these videos. Very enjoyable to watch. Lots of historical info.

There is a massive mistake made. The creator left of a 0 in the weight. It should say that they weighed as much as 771,300lbs, not 77,130. If 77,130 were correct, then even an old Pershing tank M26, weighing in at 92,355 lbs would be a heavy load, let alone cars full of them.

I miss these videos, hope you're well and you come back again soon!

It wish same engine it rare find dcc Ho scale 😔

I would kind of disagree with your statement, that diesel didn't outperform Steam. When you look at the strongest Steam vs the strongest Diesel, then yes. But if you look at two trains with the same amount of HP, then no. On equal footing, the steam train can at best perform as well as the diesel train. If you look at lower speeds, the steam train can't produce the full HP and will be worse than the Diesel. PS: Electric is better than both.

Thank you again and I already gave you a like the first time that I watched it. But I believe that I said to you before that the Allegheny is one of my favorites along with the Big Boy. If I had the money I would have a brand new one built. Thank you again.

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I have seen both the one at Henry j Museum and the one in Baltimore, and as a Swede living in Sweden that must be unique :-)

Dude, you alright It's been 2 months since you uploaded and I'm worried about you

If your still reading these we miss you and hope your doing well