A Visit to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay WI - A Narrated Overlook

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  • čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
  • A quite long video detailing a day at and the experience of visiting the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay WI.
    Timestamps:
    Introduction and Beginning Areas: 0:00
    Lenfestey Center Overview: 1:11
    Dwight D. Eisenhower A4 and Consist: 2:19
    Misc. Caboose and 0-4-0: 5:50
    Big Boy No. 4017: 6:27
    Misc. Snowplow and Chinese Mikado: 9:08
    PRR GG1 No. 4890: 9:55
    Pullman Porter Exhibit:11:11
    Train Ride: 14:18
    Outdoor Passenger Cars and Equipment: 18:57
    Large Outdoor Shed (locomotive shed): 19:25
    Passenger Car Display Walkthrough: 20:50
    The Steam Engines: 22:58
    Final thoughts: 28:40
    Climbing the Observation Tower: 29:18
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Komentáře • 103

  • @dillonohlemiller9027
    @dillonohlemiller9027 Před 2 lety +14

    We’ve got a Big Boy at the Transportation Museum in St. Louis Missouri and you can see the inside of the firebox much better since it’s outside and there’s natural sunlight

    • @dillonohlemiller401
      @dillonohlemiller401 Před rokem +4

      I wanted to come here and respond to myself, you actually can’t see it any better. Idk what I was talking about. It being outside in natural sunlight doesn’t mean anything 😂

  • @antonbruce1241
    @antonbruce1241 Před 3 lety +9

    I got to see 4014 when it was still on display at the Fairplex in Pomona. You're 100% right about the size. The 4-8-8-4's were MASSIVE!!! The first time you see one, it will take your breath away!!!

  • @usnusmcret
    @usnusmcret Před 2 lety +6

    Very impressive and informative. We rode a scenic liner train in Jasper, Arkansas. Something I’ll never forget. Again, thank you for this wonderful video.

  • @Trackmaster_Tehachapi
    @Trackmaster_Tehachapi Před 2 lety +3

    Never thought I’d see a Big Boy next to an A4

  • @simongleaden2864
    @simongleaden2864 Před měsícem

    I saw 60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower in 2013 when it was on display at the National Railway Museum in York, England, alongside the other five surviving A4's. It was a celebration of the 75th anniversary of A4 4468 [later 60022] Mallard achieving the world speed record for a steam locomotive.

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci

    A study in steam contrasts of the best known alongside in one room!

  • @vidcas1711
    @vidcas1711 Před 2 lety +2

    I grew up in Green Bay and pretty much took this museum for granted. Seeing the perspective of new people visiting really reminds me just how impressive the museum actually is.

  • @varrunningtrains4112
    @varrunningtrains4112 Před 3 lety +7

    Nice video! Quality narration as well!

  • @jamesconnor4302
    @jamesconnor4302 Před rokem +1

    Stunning video! 60008 an A4 legend! And of course the Big Boy! What a locomotive!

  • @timper4326
    @timper4326 Před rokem +3

    Excellent video, I wished they had more of the Milwaukee Road electrics they were incredible, and too bad all of the Hiawatha engines were scrapped. I've been to the California RR museum where they have a fully restored cab forward and it's massive also. Once again great video.

  • @jawharp1992
    @jawharp1992 Před 4 měsíci

    Fun story about this place!
    My gal and her kids came along with me. I was too busy geeking out that I got separated from them. I text one of them where she was, and she was outside in the open-shed area. I find her in the outside area and I show her more stuff I'm foaming at. We're about to go through the passenger cars when another guest asks to "join our group", so OK. We all go through the cars, I'm describing things that I've only seen in books, and when we get done I say to my girlfriend we should see something else and the guy goes "Wait, you're not a tour-guide?"
    He ran my ear off, my girls made fun of me, and I should've been paid for that tour.
    I felt proud with the foam hanging from my mouth to the ground that day. 5 stars

  • @kdyooper28
    @kdyooper28 Před 2 lety +2

    We went today! Very impressive 🚂

  • @spproductions5103
    @spproductions5103 Před 3 lety +6

    Mmmmmmmmm very great video will would love to visit the National Railroad Museum someday. Railway museums that allow visitors the freedom to explore alot are always gems
    Also dat bog bog tho😳

    • @vidcas1711
      @vidcas1711 Před 2 lety

      I visited many times growing up in Green Bay during the 2000s, and I’m glad just about everything I remember being open is still open. Part of me worries that an incident or liability issues could close off the interiors of certain locomotives, but it looks like it hasn’t happened.

  • @jackyknr3320
    @jackyknr3320 Před 19 dny

    De vrais monuments ces locomotives C'est magnifique 👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @peijuanhuang4322
    @peijuanhuang4322 Před 2 lety +1

    Cool a4 steam locomotives 🚂

  • @johnalder6028
    @johnalder6028 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Excellent tour! Greetings from Port Saint Lucie, Florida !

  • @markwilliams2620
    @markwilliams2620 Před 3 lety +3

    One thing that struck me was the compact nature of the Eisenhoeer compared to a similar American design. People on an island tend to design things that way.
    I spent over an hour measuring and photographing the MILW caboose. Could have spent all day.
    Finished the day with a trip to Usingers and then a drive to a campground in Oshkosh. There, I cooked up brats and onions in a skillet full of Miller beer. Pretty damn Wisconsin.

  • @kenmunozatmmrrailroad6853
    @kenmunozatmmrrailroad6853 Před 11 měsíci

    Excellent video; now I gotta go😎

  • @gregcroon6768
    @gregcroon6768 Před 2 měsíci

    I crawled around inside the firebox of 4017 when I was a kid.

  • @warbabyproductions
    @warbabyproductions Před 3 lety +1

    Nice very nice

  • @348loadedlever3
    @348loadedlever3 Před 2 lety +1

    Great video, I gotta check it out

  • @MygrandpasTrain
    @MygrandpasTrain Před 3 lety +3

    I can't remember how many times I've been to the Railroad Museum growing up. It is a really great place, and a lot of fun to explore everything in the out door shed. Walking through those old passenger cars is a neat experience, and one thing I always recall is the smell of the old interior. The Milwaukee Road Switcher is a Fairbanks Morse, #736. I remember riding in the cab a few times, my uncle and grandpa were volunteer engineers there for many years. The GBW #106 switcher is an ALCO, not sure of the specific type- but it used to be the Chicago Northwestern #1083. I remember many cab rides in that when they did the "Terror on the Fox" haunted house, riding around the loop at night delivering passengers to the haunted house.
    Very nice video, thorough and very informative!

    • @vidcas1711
      @vidcas1711 Před 2 lety

      I also grew up nearby and visited many times, and agree that the smell in the outdoor passenger cars is very distinctive and burned in my memories.
      Seeing this video also reminded me the sheer amount of cars and cabins you were able to enter. I want to visit some time again and see what new cars they’ve restored and opened up.

  • @rhettintaipei
    @rhettintaipei Před 9 měsíci

    Very well done! Definitely check it out next time back in Wisconsin! Taiwan has a great train culture so if you are ever here, it’s worth the look. Again , fantastic video!

  • @braydenlom8328
    @braydenlom8328 Před 2 lety +1

    I have been going to the National Railroad museum since I was 4 and now I’m 21 and it still my favorite place in Green Bay

  • @BlackGloveBricks
    @BlackGloveBricks Před 3 lety +1

    Staying in Green Bay for a few days next month. You just made my visit more exciting. Thanks! I have subscribed!

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci +1

    (Despite his saying he has a steam. engine "specialty", he sounds like her never really visited any train exhibits before.)

  • @josegovea9569
    @josegovea9569 Před 10 měsíci

    Wow that is a big museum

  • @woodrubber4538
    @woodrubber4538 Před 5 měsíci

    29:17 Fun Fact about this locomotive, it is 1 of 16 C-430's made by Alco and it's the only one the GBW had.

  • @martinboulay5243
    @martinboulay5243 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks you for the great interactive tour

  • @leenettywilson528
    @leenettywilson528 Před 2 lety

    Just been watching some of ur videos of ur trains got to say I am likeing them a lot I love the american trains I hope to see them one day , from across the pond Manchester English godbless you sir, netty Lee,,

  • @simontaylor2319
    @simontaylor2319 Před 11 měsíci

    Super!......

  • @Perrygallo
    @Perrygallo Před 2 lety +1

    That Gresley A4 Pacific is truly a thing of beauty. How amazing would it have been to commute and see those pulling up at platforms

  • @jacquelineroberts1133
    @jacquelineroberts1133 Před 2 lety

    You are a good teacher, gopernoper. I didn't know much about trains when I first started watching this, but I have since learned about British trains. Thank you for the lesson.

  • @lackawannarailfan5206
    @lackawannarailfan5206 Před 3 lety +2

    Great tour! Now that you’ve seen that you need to get to the east coast! Id check out Railfest at Steamtown. Operating steam locomotives, caboose rides, more train rides, passenger car tours, cab tours, shop tours....etc. Looked like a lot of fun! Take care!

  • @stratagama
    @stratagama Před 5 měsíci +1

    It's rather small. I may be spoiled being so close to the Illinois railway museum but I think they've got a much better facility

    • @gopernoperstrains3160
      @gopernoperstrains3160  Před 5 měsíci +1

      I live about an hour from IRM. While IRM’s operational equipment is absolutely displayed and ran better, I have more fun by myself here. NRM is a place that I can drop by and spend a few hours without needing a dedicated day to visit. IRM feels like a task sometimes. That being said both facilities are amazing.

  • @josephmcknight5047
    @josephmcknight5047 Před 2 lety +1

    fun fact GG1 #4890 was never actually painted in the Tuscan five-stripe paint scheme in her service career in the prr
    She wore the Brunswick single stripe paint scheme during her service life
    Im guessing they probably put her in Tuscan because its such a famous color scheme but I wish they'd kept her in her original PRR scheme

  • @4321grp
    @4321grp Před 10 měsíci

    I got to see Big Boy 4018 at the museum of the American Railroad at Frisco, Tx.

  • @charlesharwood5705
    @charlesharwood5705 Před 3 lety +1

    It's honestly so cool to see an English Steam locomotive there!

  • @daviddebergh254
    @daviddebergh254 Před 2 lety +1

    Only living 45 minutes from this place I really need to visit now and spend all day here.

  • @skunkman9815
    @skunkman9815 Před 2 lety

    Wow the big boy has a lot of spigots and valves

  • @YourLocalRailfan
    @YourLocalRailfan Před 4 měsíci +1

    I got my picture taken on 506

  • @robertlucido3686
    @robertlucido3686 Před 2 lety

    This museum use to be the home of Milwaukee Road #261, you should check out that steam locomotive

  • @highspeedboom
    @highspeedboom Před 3 lety

    At 27min 25sec that old Lake Superior passenger car, wow what neat windows, what year was that from? All wood design? I have one Ho scale passenger car that has windows like that but don’t know the time frame? Very impressive museum! That’s for showing us!

  • @HarryWarren1223
    @HarryWarren1223 Před 3 lety +1

    Great video Will! I need to get out there lol

  • @adammiranda357
    @adammiranda357 Před 2 měsíci

    What other British loco would you want them to put on display at the National Railroad Museum? I am thinking an LMS Jubilee Class because those are such beautiful engines.

  • @callmecaeleigh
    @callmecaeleigh Před měsícem

    Im going there tomorrow

  • @anthonyhunt701
    @anthonyhunt701 Před 8 měsíci

    GG-1 at Illinois Railroad Museum👍🏻

  • @liamalbers6635
    @liamalbers6635 Před rokem

    In Leona WI they have a very rare logging locomotive

  • @heritagetransport4242

    Btw in England the “engineer’s” seat is called the driver’s seat and “cars” are called coaches! Fun fact for you Americans!

  • @ethanarmitage5611
    @ethanarmitage5611 Před 2 lety +1

    My name is Ethan Armitage.

  • @betsymani2734
    @betsymani2734 Před rokem

    I went there a week ago

  • @railfan830
    @railfan830 Před 3 lety +2

    Cn 1563 is a sw1500 and Green Bay western 106 is a alco S6

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci +1

    (He's never been to Europe, evidently.)

  • @markcinque7011
    @markcinque7011 Před rokem

    Nice, 0:15

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci +1

    They're valves, not "dials".

  • @warbabyproductions
    @warbabyproductions Před 3 lety +1

    The gresely a4 used to have one of the flying Scotsman USA a tour coaches when Scotsman was on its USA tour. But there where move back to England shortly after

  • @rogerlollar4325
    @rogerlollar4325 Před 2 lety

    2716 another Kanawha is being restored

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci

    Never been in a caboose (before)? As a railfan, where HAVE you been?

  • @kenhanks9620
    @kenhanks9620 Před 3 lety

    The museum in Duluth, which includes a DM&IR Yellowstone (Big Boys equal!) is also pretty awesome.
    If you caught the Burlington Budd built Diner-Lounge Obs "Silver Star" there she has a sister down my way we are trying find a way to resurrect.
    Yeah, great tour job you did! When I visited I spent a weekend there but still need to get back.

  • @david.d.billington110
    @david.d.billington110 Před 2 lety

    OMG the engine 101 seems to be an engine that worked in Korea.(not china)
    As the umber plate has the word 소리
    which is korean .its strange tho because it translates to the word sound🤔
    Still its a amazing surprise
    to see a korean steamer in America.
    As only about 5 to 6 steamers are preserved in korea sadly

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci +1

    "Would've looked like"?

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci +1

    "Kanah?"

  • @jacquelineroberts1133
    @jacquelineroberts1133 Před 2 lety

    *we chose to ride the Mount Hood Railroad train in Oregon.

  • @mr.bl0ckm4nn
    @mr.bl0ckm4nn Před 3 lety

    Awesome video! Since you mentioned it, will you go and visit IRM and video it?

  • @davidng2336
    @davidng2336 Před 2 lety

    Engine 102 is unfortunately powered by a Diesel engine in the tender. It doesn’t look bad though.

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci +1

    When you pose, as in then A6, you didn't need to wear the mask.

  • @jacquelineroberts1133
    @jacquelineroberts1133 Před 2 lety

    I have only been on one train in my lifetime (I know, that's pathetic). It was the Mount Hood Railroad in Oregon. One year when I was a kid (this was over 20 years ago, quite a long time ago) my parents and I took a short vacation with my two sisters and we choose to ride the Mount Hood Railroad train. I made an unforgettable friend when we took that trip, it's a shame I don't see her anymore...

  • @mediatrainfan0282
    @mediatrainfan0282 Před 2 lety

    Do you have a Twitter account?

  • @Wawa111_Mainline
    @Wawa111_Mainline Před 3 lety

    intresting that 102 steam engen has a booster on its tender i only know of 1 other loco that has it

    • @davidng2336
      @davidng2336 Před 2 lety

      102 is diesel powered.

    • @Wawa111_Mainline
      @Wawa111_Mainline Před 2 lety

      @@davidng2336 its a steam locomotive not a desil

    • @davidng2336
      @davidng2336 Před 2 lety

      @@Wawa111_Mainline the tender is a Diesel engine. It’s very obvious on this video: czcams.com/video/nxuSdXdRal4/video.html

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci +1

    (It's pronounced "Kanawha": you're missing a syllable.

  • @Roccohasbraindamage123

    your train museum one

  • @Roccohasbraindamage123

    I WAS IN A SERVER WITH U

  • @allisonstilley9536
    @allisonstilley9536 Před 2 lety

    A slight error on the sign at 9:47: #101 is not the sole surviving Pershing Class locomotive. #396 still exists as Southern Pine Lumber Company #28. It is operational but currently undergoing running gear repair work.

  • @Uptownloki47
    @Uptownloki47 Před 3 lety +1

    I’d like to go there...

  • @jamessnyder3896
    @jamessnyder3896 Před 3 lety +1

    Very cool yes you are right the Arrow train is a ugly train but it is a very cool to look at do you have Facebook

  • @1chuck96
    @1chuck96 Před 10 měsíci

    MAN !!! I getting seasick watching this. Too much rapid camera movement I guess.

  • @katgore17
    @katgore17 Před 9 měsíci +1

    525 likes

  • @railwaymechanicalengineer4587

    Sad really when you realise that in Britain they have around 800 operational steam locos, many running on their National network for hundreds of miles, pulling tourist trains at 75mph every weekend. And they have one huge National Railway Museum with HUNDREDS of steam, diesel & electric types, its absolutely stunning !!!

  • @Roccohasbraindamage123

    i was in umm?

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci

    The place has improved quite a lot since I first visited it in 1975. Engines are indoors in a comfortable, climate-controlled display room, rather than left outdoors to the harsh Wisconsin elements. It and alternative reason to visit Green Bay if you're no Packers fan. However the museum's name is still very unwarranted and pretentious.

    • @gopernoperstrains3160
      @gopernoperstrains3160  Před 2 měsíci

      “Unwarranted and pretentious” how? It has trains from all over the US as well as a few international countries. It has a collection representing the nation and more. The name is fitting.

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 měsíci

    The music drowns out the narration.

  • @Roccohasbraindamage123

    your game

  • @kenruble5292
    @kenruble5292 Před 2 lety

    The camera pans around way too fast and the viewer doesn't get a chance to examine anything.

  • @Roccohasbraindamage123

    IV SEEN U IN ROBLOX

  • @Jade2781
    @Jade2781 Před 2 lety

    It seems like every single video I see about this museum doesn’t chronicle one of the most interesting parts of their collection, the 1996 life sized Thomas prop.

  • @tonypodkanowicz5490
    @tonypodkanowicz5490 Před rokem

    You move your camera way to fast

  • @dale5898
    @dale5898 Před 2 měsíci

    The music adds nothing. Also too loud. I can’t give you a thumbs up.

    • @gopernoperstrains3160
      @gopernoperstrains3160  Před 2 měsíci

      Feedback has been revisited multiple times, and comments like this are why I quit making videos lol

  • @HarryWarren1223
    @HarryWarren1223 Před 3 lety

    Great video Will! I need to get out there lol

  • @kenhanks9620
    @kenhanks9620 Před 3 lety

    The museum in Duluth, which includes a DM&IR Yellowstone (Big Boys equal!) is also pretty awesome.
    If you caught the Burlington Budd built Diner-Lounge Obs "Silver Star" there she has a sister down my way we are trying find a way to resurrect.
    Yeah, great tour job you did! When I visited I spent a weekend there but still need to get back.