Steam Locomotive Gets Water From Creek! Durbin & Greenbrier Scenic Railroad, Durbin West Virginia
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- Heisler steam locomotive pushes a train with cabooses to switch out a caboose for camping. This steam train is on the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad in Durbin, West Virginia and the Heisler steam engine was built in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1929AD. The train works on a 5 mile Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad branch line that is connected to the Cass Scenic Railroad in Cass , West Virginia. The tracks are almost put back into service between Cass and Durbin. They had been washed out for decades. We rode the train to the present end of line at Hevener Station and back. They let us off the train near the end of the active line and they set out a caboose for people to camp overnight in. After we got back on the train stopped at a creek and I filmed it being loaded with water. The engineer told us about a town that use to stand right at the water spot. The big white house that you see in the video was the home of the railroad president and has no road access. I learned that the hard way when I was filming one of the trains. I have more Cass and Durbin steam train videos in my Steam Train playlist so check them out son! Filmed July 16, 2020. The slide show is at the end. Thanks for watching! Please thumbs up and watch another JawTooth video to help my channel.
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Hey everyone, I’m in Cass West Virginia right now for the weekend
What is the price on the train rides
ENJOY with the girls, what a beautiful family, the girls are beautifully respectful and sweet, your family and you are a blessing to God
@@eugenekleis3836 It’s available on line
Lucky you. :-)
Hey buddy love you videos. You and Jason Asselin have inspired me to creat my own channel and I'd love to learn from the pros of ya could contact me it would be a Dre come true my email is joshozment52@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
Love that whistle WOOOOOO.OOOOOO.........oooo...OH!
Beautiful scenic railway Jawtooth! Thanks for sharing!
FYI: A RR Teaching Moment. The humming noise you hear in the background is the dynamo / generator on the steam locomotive. It is driven with steam to make electricity to power the headlight, cab lighting, possibly a radio, etc,etc.
Don't overspeed your mini steam turbine.
Stone Faith Patriot I’m involved with LASTA.org. We operate and maintain a Mikado 2-8-2 New Orleans built steam locomotive SPX-745. I don’t remember what brand our dynamo is but it will run the headlight, the ditch lights, number boards, class lights, the radio, the cab lights, and charge a couple 12 volt batteries.
Railfanning Points 2.0 There is a governor on it to maintain the proper RPMS. I just noticed that this line, which I typed in the first message disappeared.
@@billmorris2613 Don't scale, pit, and corrode your boiler water and steam side by using raw creek water like they do in West Virginia. Always used softened or demineralized and chemically treated feedwater.
Railfanning Points 2.0 They may have put the chemicals in before adding the creek water. I would think that they would test the water either before or after filling the tender. They may already know the makeup of the creek. It may be the same all the time or it may change. I would think there is some runoff from the farming along that creek with heavy rains. Most fertilizers are corrosive. When we are out running we get our water from different cities. Then we test it in the tender and add the chemicals as needed. Doing a blow down of the boiler will help get rid of the solids, called mud. Also during each inspection we do a boiler wash and when we first start the water is brown from the mud that collects at the bottom of the firebox, which is called the mud ring. This will also remove the scale.
I have never seen or knew that they could get water like that. Sleeping in the Caboose I think would be very nice.
If the cabooses is a rockin', don't come a knockin'
A steam ejector. Steam goes into a venturi, where it lifts the water. But the cold water also condenses the steam, warming the water as it does.
They were more commonplace on steam tractors than locomotives, as railways tended to have water stops at regular intervals while tractors would be out in fields and forests without infrastructure. But it makes sense for a logging locomotive to have one on it, since they tended to not build as much infrastructure as passenger rail did.
West-Virginia is one of the most beautiful states of the US.
I agree!
I totally 100 percent agree with both of you! My dad is from West Virginia and I love it every time I go!
Yup.
@@mattfoltz7752 My dad is from Wheeling, West Virginia, but I love southern West Virginia. Fayette County! Thurmond is a very cool little town with awesome coal trains! I would love to live in a town like that with only 5 residents. I can't stand Fayetteville, N.C. but I love Fayetteville, West Virginia! New River gorge is so BEAUTIFUL!
@@horror-metal-mike4320 I live over in the Eastern Panhandle. Not too far off the CSX main.
It's been a while. Always love the steam trains though. They are my favorite
Have a GREAT weekend Jawtooth!!
FYI: A RR Teaching Moment. Starting at 17:50 thru 18:04 the intermittent sound of steam exhausting is the air pump / compressor starting and stopping a cycle. You can see it during the last few seconds of that cycle. The steam is exhausting toward the ground just in front of the middle truck. It provides the compressed air for the air brake system and possibly other appliances like the ringer for the bell. Like most compressed air systems it starts a cycle when the pressure drops below the minimum setting in the main reservoir and shuts off when it reaches the max. Max. Is probably between 120 to 140 lbs, minimum is probably 20 to 30 lbs lower. There is an adjustable governor that controls the start and stop of each cycle. Their air brake pressure is probably around 80 to 90 lbs.
Wow....you know stuff! Thanks for sharing the info!
Sanddab Z Thanks. I’m a retired road engineer off the UP in New Orleans, LA. Shortly after I retired I got involved with an organization, LASTA.org, that rebuilt to FRA standards a Mikado 2-8-2 steam locomotive that was built in New Orleans at the SP shops. I fired, ran, and worked on her for 15 years. She is currently undergoing a second rebuild and major inspection.
If interested there are several videos here on You Tube of her out running on the main lines of class one and short line railroads. Just search SPX-745. You can also google search, or check out our website for links to the videos.
Cool how they use the steam boiler to draw in more water from the stream. Love the echo of the steam whistle.
Very cool JT! Reminds me of the Skunk Train in many ways.
It is almost heaven. Beautiful country.
Nice! I always enjoy the history and facts you provide with your videos! Thanks!
I have not ever see the running Heisler. Today i can see and hear and running caboose. Thank you nice meet you.
I like the sound of the whistle being sent back from the hills.
Amazing! I've never seen a steam engine draw water from a creek before
Steam boiler fundamentals 101: proper boiler water filtration and chemistry is very important to prevent scale and corrosion. Scaling and corrosion of water side and steam side components, leads to damage, leaks, and failures.
Don't do this except in a case of an emergency if there's no properly filtered (softened or demineralized) and chemically treated feedwater (treated with amine and phosphate).
There are several historical write ups of the evacuation of the wounded from Gettysburg. Nose to tail trains 5 at a time refilling water and wood at Creek stops, at times the soldiers were using bucket brigades for the water, cutting wood between runs of the trains. Supplies and materials in soldiers out.
I've gotten water for my car's radiator on occasion like this, ; so the concept is familiar. Just on a different scale. :-)
@@railfanningpoints2.045 Very few locomotives get filled with properly treated water. Most of them take what the tower has in it, and apply the water treatment once it is in the tender.
It is unusual to see a locomotive making use of an ejector like this to pick up creek water. Such was more common in steam tractors than locomotives, as tractors were often in fields and forests without infrastructure while railroads usually had water stops along the way. But it makes sense for a logging locomotive to be equipped, as their right of way usually had less infrastructure along it.
@@renegadeoflife87 It's 2021 not the 19th century. If they want to protect their boiler from corrosion, they would use treated water. After all this an excursion railroad with limited funds for maintenance.
Jaw Tooth coming through with all the videos of my home away from home. I think West Virginia is one of the most beautiful states. You get a great view from any window.
You know, I've always heard of Bird Dogs but never knew they actually ROOSTED IN TREES. LOL Great video! LOVE, LOVE LOVE these old Steam Engines!!
Wait till you have a German Shepard up a tree.
And jaw tooth and that's cool train video in Dearborn ❤😊
Love these old railways so rich in history , Great work son !
Interesting: B&O cabooses on an EX C&O line. Excellent Video as usual!
B&O and C&O were the original merging railroads that created what is todays CSX, one of the 4 major Class A railroads in the US. B&O and C&O cars of all types have literally been owned by the same company for over a half century by now.
*_Sensational recordings and fantastic video! The steam locomotive is absolutely fascinating._* 👍😊
*_Many thanks for sharing. Best regards :-)_*
Thank you too!
I grew up next to a coal railroad, if you have seen Rocky the motion picture, you have seen that railroad. there were what had become creeks by the time I was little. Those were originally dug and filled with water. the steam locomotives had a scoop mounted to the side. Those scoops picked up water from the ditches they dug. very cleaver. That railroad was the reading railroad, now part of Conrail.
Cool! I have seen videos of that
@@JawTooth We would catch tadpoles in those man made creeks, the railroad dicks would leave us alone as long as we did not go on the tracks. The meanest one we called robin hood. sometimes he would hassle us but always with a smile. Then he would give us a tootsie roll. that man loved tootsie rolls, always had a pocket full of them.
I'm retired from a 41 year career with Norfolk Southern, which was created by the merger of the Norfolk and Western Rwy I hired on with in 1974 and the Southern Rwy. Conrail was split up between NS and the CSX during my career when Conrail was ready to go belly up. It's amazing how many smaller railroads were merged to create the 4 Class A railroads in the US. My father hired on with the Virginian shortly before it's merger with NW long about 1956 I believe. As a child I got to ride the NW passenger trains between Norfolk and Bluefield to visit relatives every summer.
Durbin west Virginia awesome picture jaw tooth really love to take train ride sounds fun steam locomotive backwards bless you keep you safe out there
My wife and I enjoyed this video very much. Great to see shots of your family too!
From what you show West Virginia is a beautiful State. We plan on visiting it also.
Keep up the great video's in your travels.
nice place voor a BBQ,beautyful nature.and a nice looking train.almost 100 yaers rails,coool.Brian.
Thanks JT, I always wanted to ride these trains in WV, You made my day!
Thank you for the ride, love every bit of it. at end of show, love the train bell, just got goosebumps again.
Well worth the show
You’re Always moving and shakin and it’s always around trains. 😎 Thanks fir sharing, Brian! 😬👍
So cool! Thanks! Who knew there was a "Hooterville"so recently?! That whistle.. there's nothing like it.
Nice to see. Fascinating history.
Thanks for another very cool video Mr JT.
An awesome ride in a very scenic state. Thanks for taking us along!
Great video Mr. Jaw Tooth! Man, you just gotta love that area. Makes your mind go back to how it was when they built that place.
I have to go there ny the end of this year.Thanks for posting this Brian.
Great report! Thank you very much Mr. Jaw Tooth!😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Nice! That old Heisler was built in 1929 for a former coal and clay company in the town of the one station that I work at. There’s an old turn table pit beside the bike trail where this girl may have spun a few times interchanging with the Pennsy.
Great views from the train. Looks very nice
Awesome Steam Video, Job WELL DONE!
Been there, done that! Been in the caboose and in the cab of the Heisler, doesn't get much better than that! Saw eagles flying along the river too! Stayed at Graceland in Elkins. Oh, to hear the whistle blow in the valley.
Very unusual steam engine! You manage to catch them and I think they are very cool!
Cool cool cool, great video from beginning to end, I felt like I was there !!
Looks like your daughters had a good time too, I used to take my daughter to the Trolley Museum here in Maine, and she enjoyed it too.
Thanks man !! 👍
This went on my bucket list TODAY.
This was cool! Loved the history lesson!
Great video jawtooth luv them steam locomotives
That was a great trip , a very nice video 👍 👌 😃 Greeting Ulli
That is such beautiful country. Last time I was there was 1986.
Always love the area there. WV is such a Beautiful state 💯❤.
It really is!
Great video Sir thank you.
Wow! Two tourist trains within just miles of each other! Very cool. Great work.
Actually there are 3 trains in the region, the Cass Scenic Rwy train, the Durbin Scenic and the Tygart Flyer out of Elkins. But the Elkins train uses a diesel engine rather than steam. The Tygart train can be used to hook up to the Cass Scenic train on top of Cheat Mountain for an overnight excursion.
Thank you very much!
I have ridden all three of them lol
Steam loco , my favorite .
Cool railroad & beautiful place.
Great stuff 👍😁
Many thanks!
How nice to see the building whit vertical steamcylinders and brings the power to the axels off the locomotive and tender by cardanaxels. Great video mr Jaw Tooth.
Thank you very much!
Blast from the Past. Great Stuff
I have canoed and tubed the Greenbriar River many times as a kid. I have been on that line but it was a Budd Car and it was called the Salamander. Way cool video!
I remember that. I took pictures of it crossing the highway. That Was years ago
must have been an awesome trip
Nice job draw tooth on the scenic railroad video you never let me down with any of your videos I'm also a die-hard rail fan I specially like the narrow gauge you going up the mountains keep on sending them videos buddy
Thank you very much!
Cool video Brian
Those trees are beautiful!
Great video Jawtooth loved the live action steam train another great railroad nice creek and everything millenniumforce would love this
That was no creek for most of the journey in this video. That's the West Fork of the Greenbriar River, a tributary of the main stem Greenbriar, which flows into the New River at Hinton, WV a good 100 miles or more South of Durbin.
Great, thanks love every minute
You're very welcome!
This was really neat!!
SOooooo
Beautiful...
Thank you
Awesome video of history in WV JT!!!
Thanks Jeff! I’m there right now
@@JawTooth You're welcome!!!
Excellent video. Next time I visit the USA I will try and fit in a visit to this railway.
Have fun!
Very beautiful mountains and very cool old houses. Another awesome steam locomotive pulling a cool passenger train through the mountains of Wild and Wonderful West Virginia. I love those fresh water mountain creeks and the picnic areas to. Very nice B and O caboose cars at the end of the train. I've definitely got to take a ride on the Durbin Rocket Jaw Tooth! This one looks more fun than the Cass Scenic Railroad! The old Cabash caboose was really awesome to. Very beautiful scenery!
Glad you enjoyed it! I just got home from visiting Durbin and Cass again
Actually I think the Cass Scenic RR train is a much better experience. The Shay locomotives are serious logging units and the train ride actually takes you up on Cheat Mtn using switchbacks to accomplish the tightest turns. In addition the various buildings open for touring or rental in Cass are fascinating architecture from times long gone by but exceptionally well preserved. Best I recall your ticket purchase actually includes a film inside the station that details the history of logging on Cheat Mtn. It's a much more well rounded and complete experience IMO.
@@paulherring8959 I'm in Fayetteville, North Carolina, but I love the state of West Virginia. My dad's family live in Wheeling, West Virginia. He lived on a mountain in a neighborhood called Windsor Heights. Its right by the Ohio river. I do plan on going up there sometime and taking a train. Ride. That Cass Scenic railroad does look like fun and the scenery is just BEAUTIFUL!! Me, my brother, and two nephews already done it white water rafting on the New river and we had a blast. We also went to Thurmond, West Virginia and it was really AWESOME! If you want to see our videos go to Braun bros and briar on CZcams. That's my younger brothers channel. We use to do pipe tobacco reviews but I quit smoking tobacco.
@@horror-metal-mike4320 Next time you head to southern WV try out the Upper Gauley on a raft trip during the fall release season. The UG is an even better run than the New and by quite a bit.
@@paulherring8959 I heard the upper Gauley is the best!
great video!!
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I love the real shutters on a house instead of fake shutters like most places.
3rd or 2nd? idk, well its nice they preserved this steam locomtive, and farming from wildlife at the same time! Nice video, if this one was conected to a mainline it could become a very small short line
Can't connect this logging railroad to any main line. Different gauges.
How's that horn sound 🔊, travelling over them Hills. Wowza. Gotta love summers man. Kewl JT. But wait, some new soy bean updates, must be spraying soon. Growth? Thank you brother!!
Always before i watch, i put like 👍👍👍👍
I like that steam smoke from the locomotive as well.
Great stuff never seen that before. Chris from England.
Great video
Hi. UK in the house. Lovely video and some great scenic views. I think that the railway stuff at the side of the line on preserved lines are really interesting. Taking in water from the stream: Did you know that once, in the UK, they took in water into the 'Flying Scotsman' from a canal (not usual practice). The water pipes became blocked and the locomotive dangerously overheated. It turned out that some live fish had been taken onboard in error. These caused blockages that could have had disastrous consequences.
There was a screen on the intake just in case, and the locomotive was using an ejector to lift the water.
Kool video son, nice footage
Thank You Jaw Tooth God Bless!!!
Good morning from SE Louisiana 18 Jun 21.
Awesome! Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
For an hour ago, I have seen in a German tv series "railway romantic", a tv show which exist since decades in Germany 45 minutes a report about these senic railways. It's very interesting the different look on the same stuff, Jaw Tooth and a German tv Team.
@Uwe J. Meyer
hello
how are you doing
Hey good video
thanks again for this amazing video,have a nice weekend all. greetz:Peer.
Hi Peerke! I’m in Cass West Virginia right now. I filmed 3 steam locomotives today and tomorrow I will film 5
@@JawTooth okikidoooo,wel i see it coming,manny greetings on the girls and Jackie,have a graeth weekend. whe had here haevy rain with 1 tornado,nomal they coming never here.verry strange.
Son , you need to come to Dollywood and ride the train 🚂🚂🚂 great video as usual ...
My wife talked them into letting me ride in a steam locomotive at Dollywood. That was awesome!
I just hope they did not catch any fish. "Fish don't suit you Thomas." -Sir Topham Hatt.
@Christopher Carey
hello
how are you doing
It looked like a fun ride
That house would have scared the living daylights out of me when I was a little girl. After living in the country in NJ for a short time, I hated the idea of being stuck out in the middle of nowhere. Nowadays I'd probably enjoy myself watching trains go by.
It’s cool that one can sit at the top of the caboose.
Hey Sawtooth I'm from Lima and my granddad worked right across from Lima locomotive works builder of those shays he worked at Westinghouse which made the train's air braking systems My next big scenic ride ( I may be going to Cuyahoga scenic to ride behind their Alco around Labor day ) will be Cass scenic I doubt my wife let's me visit 2 in one trip lol so will have to be on another vacation when I'm not coming home to Ohio to visit family!! How about a tour around your regular CET ( IS THAT their reporting marks forgive me but chemo makes my brain go scattering sometimes ) I especially wanna get some photos and videos around and of that poor little red caboose you feature in a lot of your videos and that strange ( looks like 3 rds merge or converge may be a better word) crossing in Sardinia !! Anyway great video in Durbin WV esp love the cabeese in this video or if you prefer HACK Crummie or BOBBER lol love the ol'timers terms in railroading !! Keep up the good videos looking forward to seeing you and Jason together !! And Meigs co. Railroad too I just heard loved his work on the 402 I might have to model it as well !! Have fun on your scenic adventure oh wow in the caboose now cool Wabash caboose !!
Sorry I hate autocorrect I was commenting on my phone as I was watching on my TV didn't notice it corrected to sawtooth my apologies Jawtooth!!!
Good afternoon from Brunswick county Virginia Freeman Virginia today this Eugene Kleis hello jaw tooth train man good how are you doing today.
Cool steam engine
If you ever get out west, JT, you must ride the Durango to Silverton RR. Trust me!
N i c e video son!!
Nice Coverage
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I saw the old Odd Fellows Lodge Building in Durbin. The red four story building. 👍😊🇺🇸
I dream of being able to ride a train like that. Very interesting
You should!
Soon, maybe July 2021, that line will be completely rehabilitated connecting Cass and Durbin. All that needs to be completed is a bridge over a creek feeding into the Greenbrier River. Remnants of Hurricane Juan in 1985, and subsequent severe flooding washed out this line and killed 38 in the region.
I would really love to ride from Cass to Durbin. That is the only piece I haven’t ridden on yet but I walked most of it
Back before the Hurricane, WM 6 ran the line with the train to Durbin. Glad to see the Heisler doing these runs as WM 6 just never had a load on it whereas the Heisler is better suited. Would love for them to get 604 rebuilt and used on the run.
@@JawTooth Have you taken the Tygart Flyer out of Elkins about 30 miles West of Durbin? You can already use that diesel excursion train to hook up with the Cass Scenic train and spend overnight in Cass to return the next day I believe. The exchange of train rides is done on top of Cheat Mountain. Both the long and shorter Tygart Flyer trains stop at the High Falls of the Cheat (Shaver's Fork of the Cheat to be accurate) which is a 25 ft waterfall on a large (by WV standards) class V river reach.
Cool!
Heisler's are my favorite geared locomotive should have brought your dog
When I saw the first siding with a picnic table, I wondered if you could rent a caboose for a few days.
Actually I believe that's why they drop those cabs off at those sidings. I think you'll find the cabs are occupied by paying guests who rent the cabs overnight and the cabs are then picked up by the next days train. The cabs have been converted to some extent for precisely that purpose, though the conversions are deliberately minimized to preserve their authenticity.
that nature is almost jurasic,but no raptors to see,lol.