The Chicago & Northwestern E4 Hudson Locomotives
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- This video tells us about the Chicago & Northwestern's 4-6-4 Hudson locomotives that ran it's famous "400" route between Chicago and the Twin Cities in direct competition against the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha service.
Dude used to put out a video almost everyday, now nothing... Has me concerned for him
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I check back every few days in the hopes he’s back and doing well :(
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Those engines in many ways were kissing cousins of the J Class NYC engines! The basic outlines,were right out of the Alco/ NYC playbook,and the Milwaukee and North Western got their money's worth,but the managements,really didn't think that far ahead! Cutting back on maintenance is a bad path to follow,and one example that really stands out,is the deferment of maintenance on the New York City subway,and it took 20 years,to make up the damage done,in the 1970's! History again,never followed through! Thank you for the attention! Thank you 😇 😊!
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It's been 2 months since you uploaded and I'm worried about you
First. March 29, 2024 at 6.46pm est. Finally got to do that. Anyway, you make some good videos. Keep up the good work.
Hehe! Thank you for the kind comment!
@@TheRailroadCrossing-SteamPower you're welcome and happy easter.
@@TheRailroadCrossing-SteamPowerHope you’re doing well miss you’re regular uploads
Loved it! I’ve heard them called “Shovel Nosed Hudsons” because of the stream lining. Another well researched presentation! Thank you.
I watched the CNWE-4's Pennsy T-1's and IC H's come past my home. All very fast and had a reputation for being dependable.
I'd love to see a series of you covering all the lesser known American streamliners!
The CB&Q's Aeolus would be a good start considering it was one of the competitors.
G'day from Australia 🇦🇺.
Here in the state of Victoria I believe there are 3 possibly 4 Hudson Class Steam Locomotive's
R Class Steamers
Check it out
They are out & about just about every weekend roaming around Victoria.
Great powerful & good looking
R 707
R 711
Victoria Railway worth Googling & plenty of videos on CZcams.
Thoroughly enjoy your videos
Cheers
Louis Kats 👍
I love the C&NW Hudsons! I had no idea these were also on this railroad aside from the NYC
Thank you!
The reason these Hudsons weren’t used on the ‘400’s had to do with their being too heavy for the tracks on their route to Minneapolis.
Really? Surprised to hear that since that was a mainline. Any details on this? thanks
Doubt that, they ran H series ,4-8-4 on that main.
Other streamliner with a sad ending story like the New York Central Hudsons and New Haven I-5 and Milwaukee Road A and F7 classes.
Indeed
Good story didn’t know they didn’t use them on the 400 route
Can you please make a video about the union Pacific quadraplex and the union Pacific hexaplex
The Milwaukee thought that by "taking" the UP streamliners away from the North Western would also mean UP routing their freight on the Milwaukee. UP continued to route their Chicago bound freight via the North Western, C&NW had one less problem to handle, and MILW got the shaft.
I always fine it weird that the prettiest of the stream liners were almost always scrapped or de-streamlined than later scrapped. you'd think one of them would of been preserved at least for museums. I can understand the ones that were everyday and everywhere common locomotive designs getting the torch and the occasional odd ball experimental but when you have a front page advertised unit especially the streamlined Hudsons and Pacifics I'm shocked so few actually survived.
Then again 1930-1980 was the worst financial half century for the railroads so if you didn't get bought or merged you disappeared or became part of Conrail and Amtrak. Then again the Rail companies never learned that decades of shady business practices kills your business when the best affordable alternative comes to the customers attention and they can take it. people don't go always for the best solution, they go for the one that makes them feel the best when they can take it.
No preserving of steam in early 1950s; because there aint no rail museums!! Rail Preservztion started between 1950 to 1958 very slowly with cities getting engines for park displays. Like tributes to the good old pioneer days !! Then left behind like statues in the parks. Just a rest stop for pigeons. Or a home for raccoons.
But local city museums cannt take locomotives 🚂 because of the extra large size!!!!! They wanted to have the pioneer muskets instead also family heirlooms.
But by 1950 many early model railroad clubs tried to save the smaller steamers. Often the 2-8-0 Consolidation was chosen as the favourite locomotive 🚂 that pulled the local night freight at midnight. BUT, often in town with multiple rail junctions they could only save 1 engine; bit depending on whether the big mainline; or the small local branchline.
Sometiles they could get a short section of nearly abandoned track of a mile or 2, and run their little steamer and coach back and forth on weekends. And a few visitors would wander by to get a free ride.
Then, larger groups started to form museums; like in St. Louis. Or Union. Or Los Angeles; or Green Bay; and Bellows Falls. And many others joined in!!
Most are large collections. With trains from across AMERICA 🇺🇸; instead of the local trains.
Supported by well known private enthusiasts. And soon growing into an important tourist attraction 😊❤!! Thus rail attractions wete often set near the new Interstate highways 🛣 in order to attract visitors to this new family 👪 based historical site!! And drive their new station wagons on long vacations!!
Yet most railroads were all too anxious to scrap these olde fashioned antique steamers but even if they were nearly new 4-8-4 Northern-series from the recent WW2, and A Tribute for All Our Brave Soldiers in the 1940's!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 🙏 ❤ 😊!!! But only several 4-8-4 Northerns were saved; as the best examples of Modern Steam of 1940s in comparison to the old 1890s 2-8-0.
Railroads were anxious to move into the new Future in the space age with so called "clean Atomic power" BUT why waste time with the dirty old coal burners?? Also there was the early 1950s advocates of cleaning up air pollution from the old dirty coal burners. But using petroleum fuels in cars and trucks and airplanes has caused a great increase in deadly Carbon Monoxide, C-O gas vapors and causing even more and worse global warming climate changes!!!!! And ripping down forests with Green trees🌲 that used to provide fresh oxygen. Causing even More damage to the Environment!!
But ironically the railroads were abandoned and ripped off for the nature trail 👣 for bicycles 🚲.
And all too frequently the tracks were parallel to the older 2 lane roads. And the rails were able to run big new Steam locomotives 🚂 with COAL at 100 +M.P.H.!!! WHEREAS the rails should have been Modernized with Electricity and also Welded rails to achieve new express speeds of 120 M.P.H. and Faster!! And soon the Modernistic electric MAG-LEV on elevated structures over the regular tracks that still carry heavy freight with Clean electric locomotives 🚊🚋🚅🚆that gets electric power from modern sources like a combination of Solar power in daylight; in addition to Wind Turbines at night; in order to charge up large batteries for standby storage power !! Thus saving the farms and forests that are the very definition of the environment. And then the tourists can still ride upon the historic old steam locomotives 🚂 that now well over 100 Years old!! And still serving Both American 😍 and 🇺🇸 the World 🌎 Faithfully for the past Century!!!!!
Steam locomotives 🚂 and the railroads ##### changed the world 🌎 almost 220 years ago in 1804 in England 🇬🇧 with Mr. Trevithick and his early 4 wheel steam contraption . Leading to the 25 Union Pacific BIG BOY 4-8-8-4 ARTICULATED MALLET BUILT BY ALCO IN SCHENECTADY NEW YORK IN 1941 to 1944 in WW2, and with 8 saved around America 🇺🇸!! And Rail Museums and Excursions from short to long, and growing from small numbets into nearly 500 Railroad Attraction. And Many Amusement parks with their narrow guage steam locomotives 🚂!!
Plus the many new organizations that are build Brand new reproduction of the historic steamers that were Scrapped En Masse in the 1950s, like the Britain 🇬🇧 4-6-2 PACIFIC called "TORNADO"!!!!! And the new Pennsylvania T1 Duplex 4-4-4-4 Streamlined passenger express capable of 120 M.P.H. AND EVEN FASTER!!!!! With Bituminous coal!!
Thus, it is truly 😢sad that the Original steam locomotives 🚂 were Destroyed back in the 1950s.
Luckily there are many hundreds of volunteers working very hard to repair and run the nearly 150+ steamers that are currently running from Standard guage to narrow and miniature live steamers in the backyard, and also gardens!!!
It is both quite easy. But also difficult, and build the brand new replica from scratch, any historic steam locomotive 🚂 from the past 220+ years!!
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BRAND NEW STEAM LOCOMOTIVES 🚂 😎 👌 COMING THROUGH IN 2024A.D.!!🎉
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Are more videos coming mr crossing?
The C&NW E4's had an impressive appearance along with all of the other streamlined "Hudson" type locomotives from other railroads in my personal viewpoint. It's a true shame that none of the members of the E4 class were preserved as these were Hudson type locomotives which were well suited for passenger service. The C&NW was an interesting Midwestern railroad and no famous examples of their larger types steam power have been preserved unfortunately, I really liked the E4 class Hudsons along with the H class 4-8-4 engines which were owned by the C&NW. The C&NW should have made a serious, better effort into preserving at least one example of both of their E4 & H class locomotives as a tribute to their steam power fleet.
No mention of the tractive effort or horsepower of these engines; were those figures not available?
Honestly, I think it was more like a waste of money instead of being a big mistake.
Trumps lawyesr are re saying what he told them to say. Crazy people do crazy things
Was this comment meant for another video? Nothing was mentioned in this one about Trump.
Streamlining was worthless for saving fuel and were a bitch to work on. The only redeeming quality was they looked good but not worth the trade in cost and maintenance.