1080p HD: NKP "Berkshire" 765 barrels through Deerfield, IL at 74mph.
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- High Speed Service by Steam at its finest:
To conclude this successful chase of NKP Lima Works 2-8-4 765 on "The Varsity", the passenger special roars past a group of excited railroad photographers/railfans and the endangered Milwaukee Road era searchlight signals at Deerfield IL.
While filming this, NKP 765 blew coal dust and steam towards us, making this experience one to never forget.
Filmed on 6/12/2016
I love hearing the guys at the end, "OH YEEEAH!!!" Proper railfans they are!
so true. that's how to love and enjoy a fast steam engine and it gets the adrenaline kicking.
It's also a bit rare to see 765 at 74mph. So, they were celebrating something that is not just probably once in a lifetime but also for a while with the 765.
Diesel is diesel. Diesels are common to see and are found literally everywhere.
You don't, however, see a beautiful and incredibly historical steam locomotive pulling a 17 car passenger train at more than 70 miles per hour, which is nearing its maximum speed limit, which for this engine class happens to be 80 miles per hour.
Truly wish I could go out and watch one of these gorgeous workhorses consisting of nothing but steel, water, coal and fire while bursting out smoke and steam. The howl of that whistle is just incredible!
hell kid these babies could and did run at 80 -90 and even 199 mph on a daily basis tou could be driving down the highway at 65 mph, paralelling the tracks
and these biscuits would catch and pass you like you were in reverse
@@williammoses6232 what do you mean they could hit 199??
Now that's true Nickel Plate High Speed Service!
Well said
I watched the whole train speed by and I'm like "No diesels!!!" I knew these steamers didn't need some wimpy diesel to help them.
This steamer was actually created to haul heavy freight loads so these passenger cars are too light for this hauler
Taylor Williams 765 never needed diesel help on the New River Trains in West Virginia, up to 36 cars over the years.
@@haroldfannin9554 33 at the max actually. Hit that number on one of the first runs of the 1992 NRT. Granted, I'm omitting the aux tender and tool car from that count, so all in all, it was 35 at its absolute largest. You can find video of it in the shots before the 15-ish minute mark here:
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611 at this speed and SP4460 restored and my life is complete
Hell yeah love steam engines running like the wind they sound alive
Música para mis oídos, ,,saludos desde Argentina.
I remember back in the 1980s when the Southern Railway leased the Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 #2839 for excursion service. That engine would pull at 70 mph, and it was a train of all heavyweight cars. Sitting in an open window coach at 70 mph was deafening but great fun.
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I was on this trip in the middle dome and my gps tracker topped 76 mph at one point on this return trip !
there is no maximum speed per say for steam locomotives its a matter of firing boiler pressure valve capability driver size an balance an nerve of the engineer !
steam locomotives ability was often a calculation of the mechanical ability of the actual parts used an speculation of the efficiency of all of those parts working together not a actual test of the locomotive 10mph per inch of drivers plus 10 is the formula used for obtaining a maximum speed. again not accurate just guesstimates example NW 611 drivers roughly the same size achieved over 100mph .
well technically their is a maximum speed. the spoiler pressure isnt the only thing that matters as you should also look at the side rods. take mallard for example. sure, it'd the worlds fastest steam locomotive, but even at top speed it was barely holding itself together, almost falling apart and rocking itself all over. some minor things probably fell off too.
The side rods and pistons have the same dynamics as a car's engine. if they Over-rev, the side rods can either break apart/fling itself away and derail the train, or the pistons could break open or throw a piece.
@@skydive7054 Not true actually as I mentioned before you are speaking of weaknesses that don't actually apply to fast running steam locomotives for instance the driver size is the way to directly lower the piston speed which is why fast running passenger type steam locomotive had larger drivers the reason being that slowed piston travel speed and allowed for high-speed efficient running providing great use of mechanical leverage and steam, secondly if a locomotive for example that mallard was coming apart as you say it is due to and number of things that either was not checked prior to making the run or improper parts used that failed under stress, with the proper valve setting and type, the proper driver size, the proper lubrication of bearing and wear surfaces, a good head of steam including blast pipe for exhaust , petticoat pipe position, proper boiler water treatment, a healthy fire, proper bolts, cotter pins and locking nuts, precise reverse gear, and throttle linkage with very little to no loss of motion, properly maintained superheaters injector and feed water pump with a good head of steam and clear rightway again you would find steam usage/management to be the weak point and not mechanical limitations,as long as you can put full or close to full boiler pressure on the piston, you can continue to increase speed until that no longer happens then you have top speed again based more of of boiler capacity not mechanical limitations. getting steam at boiler pressure in the cylinders allowing it to expand and getting it out very very fast is the primary limitation because of backpressure the amount of steam admitted in the cylinders increase even after cutoff due to expansion so at the end of the stroke you actually have more steam then you initially let into the cylinders which become a challenge to get out of the cylinder very quickly which is why I mentioned blast pipe and petticoat pipe as part of the list of things required to get to a maintain high-speed steam running an advanced exhaust system is a fix for this issue helping to decrease backpressure and possibly even eliminate it.
Cheers
Michael Brandon
Class 1 Railroad Mechanic
@@MB_Videos1 Effectively you're saying that steam CAN be designed to any top speed, given sufficient horsepower. That's not really unique to steam. Just as you can use driver size and other factors to keep parts within tolerance, you can use high gear ratios on electric or IC engines. The limit is always horsepower. But for a given as-designed vehicle, there will be a limit speed as determined by the parameters set in it's design. Mallard mildly exceeded it's design limits during it's record run, overstressing and damaging a bearing, much as would happen if you brought a car 1,000rpm past red line. Since steam engines are single-speed, higher top speed tends to correspond with poorer acceleration, all else equal. If the speed limit over the route is 75mph, a designer who built his steam locomotive or geared his diesel-electric to do 140mph would only reduce the acceleration performance.
@@JETZcorp pressure is where the propulsion comes from as you increase the pressure the acceleration increases obviously within limits of tractive effort and adhesion. but pressure can be built and maintained and targeted in a way that it allows an increase of speed as long as the necessary pressure is there an as the speed increases you would need less pressure to accelerate/increase speed due to the equipment already being in motion!
@@MB_Videos1 In summary. Your point is if the laws of physics didn't apply to anything but the boiler. Than because of the laws of physics the boiler could support any speed.
I'll try telling the lottery that if they ignore the other 5 numbers, the one number I matched supports me winning the jackpot.
NKP 765 should doublehead with MILW 261 in Illinois.
DOC! THE RES LOG’S ABOUT TO BLOW!
50 mph? On board I must have seen 5 or 6 different - that is independent readings- cell phones with the speedometer app showing 72 to 74 mph. I sure didn't check all the phones- just the ones thrust into my face.
the whistle just kept getting louder as it approaches
YEAH!
Final image download?
This is the way God intended for locomotives to run!
We should bring steam back for good I think
Longer than a amtrak!
And could probably run faster and keep to time better. 😂
version of nkp berkshire 765 pere marquette 1225 the polar express 1225
This is the polar express in real life
That would be #1225
this video has 765 likes. no one touch it.
Holy Shit
I'm thinking back to that video of those two idiots who were on the tracks at a railroad station and then a passenger train went by but on the other track thankfully.
Now just imagine if THIS was the locomotive and not some pathetic electric thing. Now that would've killed those two from fright alone xD
81 mph!
You see your lucky I don't get this. only if a new haven steam locomotive was preserved
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That was a nice video but,
OMG... The truth is -
that was
NO WAY EVEN CLOSE to 74 mph !!!
I hate it when these people mislead everyone like this. This train wasn't going over 45 - 50 mph tops !
I've watched trains passing by
enough to know that for a fact.
Not to say that that Train couldn't go that fast because it most likely easily can but Still in this video it is Not. It's moving at a fairly decent pace of around 50 mph max here,
Not 74 !
Uh.. You can literally calculate the speed of the locomotive in this clip by knowing the driver size and watching the counter weights rotate around the wheel... Now Im not gonna do the math but NPK 765 has been recorded numerous time and on multiple occasions doing 70mph.. So safe to say shes doing 70mph+ in this clip. Theres also videos of UP 844 doing 80+ mph and if you compare the speeds its easy to see shes doing 70.
I loved the steam locomotives 🌳___🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃_______🌲🌲🌲🏔⛰