D&RGW Rotary OY Move East From Chama 6/13/19
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- "Rotary OY Chama To Cumbres Pass". The C&TS RR's K27 #463 locomotive moved the D&RGW OY Rotary Snow Plow from Chama to Antonito for some mechanical and cosmetic work in anticipation of a winter 2020 demonstration that will kick off the railroad’s 50th anniversary year.
Very awesome video. So refreshing to get a glimpse of the way things once were on a regular basis. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Ed, Thanks for watching and your "Awesome" comment.
Outstanding video. Love the "Hooter" whistle. Lots of "stack talk" on this video.
Hi Joel, Thanks for watching and commenting.
I wish to thank you for sharing this awesome railroad video with me .
Sorry for the late response, Glad you enjoyed it
I just found this, another great video. Keep them coming. 👍👍👍
Thanks, will do!
It’s so good to restore the Rotary OY!
The sound of that whistle gave me goose bumps
Hi Kyle, Thanks for watching and commenting. The whistle is different than most!
A great video, very nice the hall of the steam whistle. A great historic railway with very nice locomotives and topp railway technology. Thank you for showing me.
Greetings Wolfgang
Greetings Wolfgang, Thanks for watching and your "Nice" comments.
One of the very best sounding video I have seen, and filmed by an artist! Bravo
Hi Vlieger, Thanks for watching and your kind comments. The sound is one of the things I like about steam and video!
That eerie echo at 6:09 from 463's whistle makes perfect sense why it was said about steam whistles having a "haunting sound" to them.
Awesome. Wish I was out that way enjoying it too! Love the videos Bob. Thanks
Hi ddrums31, Thanks for watching and your "Awesome" comments.
I always wondered how they managed to keep all that land manicured so well...now I know, a million sheep, LOL!
That's for sharing this moment!! BEAUTIFUL!
Thanks for watching and commenting.
Useful for clearing snow and herding sheep.
Hi Jerry, Thanks for watching and commenting on my video. It was a pretty cool scene in person. Unfortunately I cut some of the flock spreading out of the video
Sehr gut gelungen macht weiter so
Really nice video! Wish I could’ve chased it longer, but I had to get on my train
Hi MPT, Thanks for watching and your "Nice" comments. Did you video from the train and will you be posting?
Bob Whitney you’re quite welcome. Yes I am currently working on editing that video and should be posted in the next couple days.
Great video, Bob!
Hi Mark, Thanks for watching and your "Great" comment.
OOHH YEAH, when OY is back in service, it will be just like that one time when it snowed during the month of May back in the 1990's
I have to make sure i get to see this. I never went out to the C&T
narrow gauge trains, sheep and horses what a video
Hi Darin, Thanks for watching and your nice comment. The wave of movement was pretty cool. Unfortunately I cut some more cool stuff from that shot too.
Nice
"Little Engines _CAN_ do big things!"
- Thomas
Hi MJ, Thanks for watching and commenting.
Hope they can put the OY Rotary Snow Plow back in service in the future like in the 1990's, that'll be awesome to hear!!!!!
Brian Falzon that’s why they moved it... they are restoring it in Antonito
@@MPT_Productions great thanks for the info
Brian Falzon you’re welcome
What would be good, is if the co ordinates could be added to the footage somehow or if we could get to see the co ords at a particular spot and then we can view that on Google earth. The Quora web page offers photographers from all around the world a place to show their pictures and with just about every one, I need to ask where it is or where was it taken.
I'm a bit of a Tom Sawyer. I grew up on the river. Go take a look. Lat South 31.95 Lon 115.90.
Hi Tom Tee, Thanks for watching and commenting. Google earth Chama.
We all know what OY’s whistle sounds like. It sounds exactly like a PRR Banshee whistle.
THAT ECHO THOUGH!!!!!!!!!
sexy
Is this plow that heavy to cause wheel-slip?
Hi Buntik, Thanks for watching and commenting. OY and tender weigh over 100 Tons, a 4% grade, on a curve and trying to pick up speed. I think its OK. Besides I love the Wheel-slip sound.
You usually see one or two of the k-36s pushing this thing. But i guess k-27 #463 was the only engine available to take it on such short notice that day
Hi Katerina..., they were just moving the rotary to the other end of the line to prepair it for use. It was not going to be used. See other's videos for operation Feb. 2020 with two engines blowing snow. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thank you Sir.
Again your content is always amazing, your shots are perfectly set and from years of chasing you always know were to catch the best echo I really enjoyed the steady cam out the window from the low cut.
Also thank you for the info on SP#18 the princess will be better than new in short order.
Which area do you enjoy the most D&S or C&T?
Safe travels Sir!!
We are kinda ready for the slim princess to leave but it should be out by the end of the month
Hi David, Thanks for watching and your "Amazing" comments. Both RR's have features the other doesn't. You can wander around the more intact C&T yard is a big plus but I live in Durango and was a machinist at the D&S for a few years.
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Thank you Sir, that Loco is just amazing to me as in power to weight, Everyone is overtaken by the mikados but in my studies the smaller locos were the back bone in the 40s and 50s. I assume you work in the round house, How is the conversion work going on the mikado.
I understand if its top secret!😎
Mainly because the army took most of the mikados for wartime
Is the rotary plow in working condition, or is it being restored/repaired, or just being put on display? Thank you.
Hi Mike, thanks for watching. My understanding is it ran when they parked it 22 years or so ago. They plan some mechanical and cosmetic work in anticipation of a winter 2020 demonstration that will kick off the railroad’s 50th anniversary year. They moved it to Antonito to take a good look to see exactly what it needs.
What is the whistle on D&RGW #463?
A D&RGW Hooter (1 Chime)
It’s original one, I absolutely adore it. The bell recently has been clapper rung as all the others are due to availability of parts, but historically was always piston rung, up to a few years ago. The whistle has had some work done over the past 30 years, but supposedly would rattle an engine crews fillings loose.
I bet they were practicing for February 2020 that's my guess
Man, sounds like she's really working hard! How much does the rotary weigh??
I was wondering that same thing...I have a feeling some of it might have been done for effect.
Hi jon , thanks for watching, The weight in working order of just the rotary is 156000 pounds as delivered without tender. The engine weight is 136650 pounds. So on 4% grade it's a good push I think.
4%?! That explains it! Great sound, especially when they pull away from the water tank!
Why didn't they just tow it backwards at the rear of the train ?
Hi Farmer Dave, Thanks for watching. Good question. They pushed it up hill for photo opportunities and safety. In a worst case scenario (brakes fail) and the rotary came loose on end of train going up hill it could run away down hill. They did turn and put it on end going down hill for same but opposite safety reason. I will post the rotary turn and short down hill run soon.
Rip 497. Why'd they retire it again?
where did you hear that?
@@kevdoom2 It's been down awhile now, that engine sitting in the yard missing it's headlight ws likely the 497, from what I hear it was too big for them at the time, when it came time for an overhaul thay just retired it and left it for another day.
@@CoalChrome The locomotive sitting in the yard is almost definitely 483 the smoke box door isn't the right style for a 37 and that's the spot 483 has been occupying for many years now. 497 is somewhat disliked because the k37's in general are harder on the track. It's not retired, just awaiting it's overhaul which is pretty far down the list because of how rough on the tracks it is. I'm sure it'll run again but it's pretty far down the line. I just thought by your comment they officially said it's over and done with.
@@kevdoom2 ah, ok. So the 483 kicked the bucket when exactly? I know in the 90s the D&S traded the 497 for the 482 and I think the 483 ran at that point but I have no idea.
N&W 2156 Y6a around the 70s
Don't like that whistle, put a D&RGW 5-chime on it.
Amen to that but at the same time that was one of its original whistles
That's the hooter whistle, it's what a majority of the locomotives on the narrow guage wore at some point, especially early on
sevendoubletwo yeah, same with standard gauge engines, but you don’t see a hooter on the Big Boy.
This is my favourite D&RGW whistle and what most engines carried up to the 1940s. Everything else has Chime whistles, so it is fitting to have a hooter on 1, which 463 carries. It is original. Same as 4501 carries the Princeton 3 Chime at TVRM, it is not a pretty whistle, but authentic to the engine. As for Big Boy, it never had a hooter, always a long bell. N&W used hooters, which 1218 kept, as did Reading which 2102 has. Authenticity is important and people today seem to forget that all too often. 473 carries a passenger whistle at Durango and for years everything else was a “standard” 5 chime, as it was restored in 2006 to compliment the bumble bee paintscheme.