My model railroad, the BL&G, would’ve used steam all the way until 1971, when they replaced their last steam engines, J3a Hudsons 5438 and 5450, with a pair of EMD E7 diesels. J3a 5438 managed to survive into preservation, as did 5450, and 5438 was returned to operation for special excursions in 1985. The BL&G currently only has one of their E7 diesels, former-Southern Railway 2920, in operation. The other one, former Southern Railway 2905, was retired in 1992 and put on static display. The BL&G reactivated seven of their original steam engines, including two of their original Baldwin 2-10-0s, three secondhand 4-6-2s of varying designs, Seaboard 0-6-0 #1094, and J3a #5438, for special weekend steam excursions.
7:50 , this engine is now sitting at Cass Railroad in West Virginia waiting a new boiler to be built by the same people who built Heisler number six new boiler Manufacturing of the boiler is supposed to start this year
The problem was the political side of railroads at this time. So much regulations to try and squash the big railroads killed the small ones with the very policies that were in place to help them. On top of the general attitude towards railroads at the time
My model railroad, the BL&G, would’ve used steam all the way until 1971, when they replaced their last steam engines, J3a Hudsons 5438 and 5450, with a pair of EMD E7 diesels. J3a 5438 managed to survive into preservation, as did 5450, and 5438 was returned to operation for special excursions in 1985. The BL&G currently only has one of their E7 diesels, former-Southern Railway 2920, in operation. The other one, former Southern Railway 2905, was retired in 1992 and put on static display. The BL&G reactivated seven of their original steam engines, including two of their original Baldwin 2-10-0s, three secondhand 4-6-2s of varying designs, Seaboard 0-6-0 #1094, and J3a #5438, for special weekend steam excursions.
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7:50 , this engine is now sitting at Cass Railroad in West Virginia waiting a new boiler to be built by the same people who built Heisler number six new boiler Manufacturing of the boiler is supposed to start this year
PRICELESS FOOTAGE ! What a find , thanks for sharing this !!
There's Sidney S&A 750 on the Southern.
where did the name sidney come from?
@@lets-go-larson5 My Railfans and i,
Why did all these Companies go out of business about the same time? I would think wood never goes out of style.
The problem was the political side of railroads at this time. So much regulations to try and squash the big railroads killed the small ones with the very policies that were in place to help them. On top of the general attitude towards railroads at the time
As stated at the end of the video, many of the locomotives shown do indeed survive. Here they are in order of appearance with the current location and condition of each:
- Rebel Railroad 2-8-2 No. 192 (0:25) - Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, TN - Operational
- Morehead & North Fork 0-6-0 No. 12 (1:18) - Age of Steam Roundhouse, Sugarcreek, OH - Operational
- Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 No. 14 (5:06) - Gaithersburg Community Museum, Gaithersburg, MD - Display
- Virginia Blue Ridge 0-6-0 No. 9 (8:07) - SMS Rail Lines, Bridgeport, NJ - Operational
- East Tennessee & Western North Carolina 2-8-2 No. 190 (10:47) - Tweetsie Railroad, Blowing Rock, NC - Operational
- East Tennessee & Western North Carolina 2-8-0 No. 208, aka Southern Railway No. 722 (10:51) - Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, Dillsboro, NC - Restoration
- North American Rayon Co. 0-6-0F No. 1 (11:29) - Carter County Chamber of Commerce, Elizabethton, TN - Display
- Graham County Shay No. 1925 (12:09) - North Carolina Transportation Museum, Spencer, NC - Stored
- Savannah & Atlanta 4-6-2 No. 750 (14:51) - Southeastern Railway Museum, Duluth, GA - Display
- Western & Atlantic 4-4-0 No. 3 "The General" (16:00) - Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, Kennesaw, GA - Display
- Rockton-Rion 2-8-2 No. 31 (16:15) - Okefenokee Heritage Center, Waycross, GA - Display
- Brimstone Railroad Shay No. 36 (18:13) - Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, Cass, WV - Stored
- Kentucky & Tennessee 2-8-2 No. 12, aka Southern Railway No. 4501 (19:39) - Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Chattanooga, TN - Operational
- Mobile & Gulf 2-6-0 No. 97 (20:07) - Indiana Railway Museum, French Lick, IN - Display
- Mississippian Railway 2-8-0 No. 76, aka Baltimore & Ohio No. 476 (20:24) - Oakland B&O Railroad Museum, Oakland, MD - Display
- Bonhomie & Hattiesburg Southern 2-6-2 No. 250 (22:15) - Edaville USA, South Carver, MA - Display
- Bonhomie & Hattiesburg Southern 2-8-2 No. 300 (28:52) - Southern Depot, Hattiesburg, MS - Display
- Moscow, Camden & San Augustine 2-8-0 No. 6 (29:06) - Texas Transportation Museum, San Antonio, TX - Display
- Moscow, Camden & San Augustine 2-6-0 No. 201 (32:03) - Sherley Heritage Park, Anna, TX - Display
- W. T. Carter Lumber 2-8-2 No. 14 (36:07) - W. T. Carter Estate, Camden, TX - Display
Your information on the Rockton & Rion Rwy is incorrect. R&R bought it last steam locomotive No. 31 in 1963. The railroad ran steam until 1968.
Fairly confident he didn't make this documentary. Calm down
Been behind Morehead and North Fork #12 and in its' cab.