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Just put some dusty fabric and wood around the new electronics and call it good 😁. (That stuff was dusty when they installed it right?!? 😉). But more seriously, for anyone interested in the old tech, it would be interesting to know about any surviving organs using the old technology, or to have a functioning model of an old relay component around for people to experience.

Now this organ is 60% functional!

I have seen this rig, and have taken pictures of it. I recently bought the video of this, they really did a good job and it it the prize of the KCFDHS.

I wish they would do an update to this!

I grew up in Norwood (Cincinnati) Ohio where these fire engines were made. Norwood had one of three Cab pumpers ever made with Oprah rear seat windows. In Norwood that pumper was stationed at Fire House #3 near Waterworks Park. Above the din of screaming kids in a swimming pool I used to carefully listen for a fire alarm to drop at No. 3.. I would jump out of the Pool and run over to the fence to pay homage to that magnificent piece of handmade equipment as it rolled out of the firehouse.

She is down the hill from my home right now. I have been obsessed with her for about 12 years.

We watched this episode last night. I was in awe of the work, and the final result, absolutely beautiful!!!!

Fantastic to see this ! Lysanders saved so many lived directly and indirectly from information carried by the Resistance, the Maquis and the SOE.

almost a great video .

Where is this footage shot? A RR museum?

Sierra Railroad 3 is Return/Sierra 3 Engineer Squint Kurt is Born from Pooh's Adventure's of Madagascar 3 Europe Most Wanted

This is amazing! The Movie Queen being pulled with an old Plymouth locomotive and being spun around on an old turntable! I hope to see the Sierra 3 in person sometime. This engine was featured in the 1963-1970 TV show Petticoat Junction and was used to push the Delorean up to 88 in Back to the Future part three in 1990. Hope this engine can survive for many more years especially for Back to the Future fans and Petticoat Junction!

I got to say, of all of the antique fire trucks out there, American Lafrance, Mack, Brockway, Hahn motors, etc. the Ahrens-Fox is the best! It's even nicer looking than those old lemons known as Hahn motors. A friend I watch trains with, he volunteered with Denver fire company for sometime, and they had a Hahn which was a major LEMON! It had steering problems! So if a can compare a Hahn and an Ahrens-Fox, the Ahrens-Fox will beat the Hahn! So case closed, the Ahrens-Fox is the ultimate fire truck! Not Hahn, Seagrave, Pierce, Mack, or American LaFrance!

Funny to think that all those console to switchboard wires could now be replaced by a single fiber optic cable the size of a strand of spaghetti.

Replacing this relay as you well know not only improves the reliability. The response time from key press to note play will also be greatly improved.

I love old trains and old cars and trucks. There was a honor about them, an honesty. What you saw is what you got and for it's time, they were the best man could build.

dat cliffhanger

A question not addressed by this video: Is this relay being restored? If so, why? It seems to me the only use for this relay would be as a museum piece. As stated here, there really is no need to use these mechanical relays because electronic relays are more reliable and take up less space, and the type of relay adds nothing essential to the organ.

the purpose of restoring the Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall organ is to get it fully functional and playing like it once did and keep it as original as possible! Not to make it into some modified hybrid monstrosity! Shame about the relay but then things sometimes happen. I wonder if that is the only relay removed or if they all have been removed. I have seen pictures of some other relay? and it was the size of a small room! you could literally sit inside of it while the organ was being played it had an air tight door on it.

Where is the video of the Oakland Paramount Wurli available? Jim Riggs???? organist.

Do they not have all episodes here on You Tube? I am looking for episode S1 E7. "The Illions Supreme Carousel: A Rare Masterpiece"

2:22 you have your hand on the largest pipe in the instrument!

Is that the relay for the left stage chamber?

Very interesting! You may want to fix the typo in the title :)

Over restored? Not at all... Fire Truck companies/junkies are obsessed with detail. Even today's new machines are as decorative as budgets allow. I restore cars... no detail matters less than another. Also, I've know Doug for decades. He's just not an overboard type, at all.

wonderful and ... wondrous! Never have I witnessed such a marriage of technology and art of this scale!

So much of the manual labor involved in dis-assembly was charitably done by volunteers and still the restoration process cost ... 10 million dollars! YIKES!!!

Not true, not even close. My favorite, which I saw a lot in my childhood, the Delphine left Detroit for the East Coast in about 1962, is now in Europe, restored, beautiful, and running. Built in Ecorse, Michigan for Horace Dodge and launched in 1921 and 258 feet long. Per Wikipedia: "Of all the large American-built steam yachts built between 1893 and 1930, the Delphine is the only one left in her original condition with her original steam engines still in service."

Aren't these restorations over done. I mean that the factory wouldn't have been so concerned with the appearance?

Will this series play on PBS again? Only saw last part...the coronet.

Not a glove in sight.

At last I finally got to see myself on TV. I am the person in the white shirt on the stage with my back to the camera and there is a shot of me walking in the organ chamber near the end of this clip. I am waiting to see this program.

It will be an "Ultimate Restoration" if and only if Carl Loeser can return to the job.

Wow, what is that at 2:38? Is it the Sub Principal or the Trombone? The tapered shape makes me think Trombone, but I believe the Sub Principal is flared too in this organ.

he locomotives going to be in Carson City, Nevada this summer!:D

You say 35,600 stops, but I've seen 33,112 in multiple places. Which is it?

Can't wait to see this show!

wonderful work

Does it need fed all that wood constantly like that or was that just him stoking it?

bellissimo!

This is not an organ that can be classified as one type (Symphonic ,Theater etc.) It is a combination organ that can play music of any genre in the organ world and beyond! It has straight stops, compound, unified, duplexed, extended and mixtures galore. Check out the book by Stephen Smith detailing this pipe organ. It's incredible!! Atlantic City's Musical Masterpiece

Amazing to think that this enormous instrument was designed and laid out without the help of computers!

The pipe organ consul is very beautiful. Lots of the organ pipes r like ice cream cones.

it was ment to be everything that an organ could be, but the senator of course of matter made it a pipe dream with pipes that were even supposed to have duel modes but could not be pulled off, but its ment to be all things to all people and a bit of all organs as it is said, but it is a civic organ much like many places had, like the one in sydney hall with the other only true 62 foot pipe beside the diaphone on the midmir losh.

nooo, the video end just too early:O

The Sanfilippo organ, too, defies classification; it has plenty of non-theatrical stops. I think the biggest mostly-theatre organ is probably Organ Stop Pizza. No matter the arguments, though, the Atlantic City organ is, in my opinion, the ultimate all-purpose organ. It deserves a full restoration, though please, PLEASE put in some effective swell shades with individual motors! Those duralumium ones may be original, but they're practically worthless for playing.

Bio fuel!

0:09 is a good view of the back solo chamber showing the English Post Horn closest with the Trumpet Royal right behind it. I hope this show follows through. I wonder if they will have to air sections one at a time since it will be close to a decade (from what I can tell) before the organ is completely restored.

Yes but the Organ considered classical some organ builder says Actually the Largest Theater Organ is Located in Sanfilippo music palace it has 5000+ 80 ranks 5 manuals.Basically theater pipe organ less than pipes than church pipe organ or Cathedral Organs the differences of two is the wind pressures and i consider Boardwalk Hall Main Organ and Adrian Phillips Residence they are same case but not unit organs as well

How muck wood does that thing consume!