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Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Amazing Indoor and Outdoor Collection!
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- čas přidán 3. 02. 2022
- Welcome back to another railroad adventure, today we are in Lancaster Pennsylvania exploring the amazing Railroad Museum of PA. Their collection contains pieces from all railroads from across the state. The collection represents a vast range of new and old locomotives as well as rolling stock.
Museum link found here - rrmuseumpa.org/
Happy Railroading!
Preservation of US Railroad heritage, hasn't quite reached the level it has in Britain. Where we are very lucky to have over 800 steam locos preserved, with around 60% of them in working order at any one time. Indeed we are so in love with the steam locomotive we have started buildind NEW ones of types we scrapped, before we realised what a MEGA business steam trains are. Steam train tourism in Britain is now worth over $9.5 BILLION U.S DOLLARS Annually. Steam train tourism has also added over 1 Million extra full time jobs. Not bad when you realise the whole of Britain will fit into Texas more than twice !!!
Beautiful old train and rolling stock what a amazing place
Isn’t it amazing ?! Such an amazing place. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tour,now that I'm retired it's time for a road trip
Thanks so much for watching! Definitely should come out. They also have cab tours of some
Of their locomotives
Use to travel to Lancaster County on business for many years. Always made sure to take a day and visit the museum. Great place. Am retired now and we decided to travel back in 2021. Good times.
Thanks so much for watching, I’m probably at that museum a couple times a year. They recently started doing cab tours again which makes this museum a great place to learn 🚂💨
It's wonderful the Pennsy set aside pieces of it's heritage. I just wish they had included a J1, or T1 in the Collection. But just the fact they did that is fabulous.
Thanks so much for watching! Definitely amazing they did that. Unfortunately the Northumberland Roundhouse where everything was kept has been torn down for years
That was very cool to see these engines were some what saved.
Thanks for tour big guy.
Thanks so much for watching!
I love steams too
FYI--What you were pointing to under the Fireman's side of the cab, is the Stoker engine. There is also a water injector on that side of the engine, which does put water in the boiler.
Joe Bliss, Plymouth, Mi.
I haven’t been there for a long time. I need to get back there! My favorite locomotive is the 6755!
That’s a great loco! Definitely worth checking it out. Thanks so much for watching!
Hi Nick.
That shay that you were looking at was the very first engine that the Museum got back in the 60s. I got to ride on it when it was brought to Strasburg from the lumber company. I have pictures of me as a kid on the front of that engine. I was 4 years old then.
The other power and light engine is sitting out at oak's PA.
Hey! That’s amazing! I had no idea Strasburg had that engine. Would be really cool to see one of those work again. I think the one I saw was at an abandoned station and it was yellow almost looking like a yellow-belly Hudson. Thanks for watching! 🚂💨
THANK YOU THAT WAS A GREAT TOUR.....SUSIE😂
Years ago, I took my wife, and girls there to ride the Strasburg, and see the Museum
I shot 5 rolls (36 exposures), of 35mm slides at the Museum alone.
Nice video, and thanks for sharing!
Joe
Thanks for watching! Wow that has to look so cool on film! I use to take stills with my cannon EOS first gen. Loved that camera
@@NixCrossing Mine is a Canon T50 auto winder, with the AE-1 lens system.
Great video and a very cool museum. Nicely done.
Thanks so much!
Thanks so much for posting Nick. Loved watching. Looks like train heaven!
Not a problem! Thanks for watching! It definitely is 🚂💨💨
I finally saw one of your videos. Very cool. I wish we could have had more time.
Thanks so much for watching! I hope to be back soon once they finish up some of the other pieces
The silver Budd cars used to go from Ocean City to Stratford then to Philly. This was back in 60s. Dad drive a fuel truck that on Saturday would fuel the train as the train ran over the weekend in winter time. Took train several times to Philly to visit the zoo. Ah the memories!
That would have been so cool to take a budliner to OC! I have traced those old tracks from Easton and Cambridge- they all lead to Philly. On certain maps, it still shows they are owned by PC
So many fabulous exhibits there! My favorites are of course the GG1's and the Budd RDC. You definitely have to ride the Reading & Northern RDC, it's quite an experience! Nice seeing that old Metroliner and so many others too. I do need to visit that museum myself one of these days. In the meantime, thanks for showing us around!
Jaime, where can I ride that reading and northern budd car you mention? Gary
@@TheTrainboard it runs every weekend from early May through Christmas Eve from Reading to Jim Thorpe and back. Full-day excursion, and totally worth it IMO. www.rbmnrr-passenger.com/osjt
Great video! I am going to pause it now and finish it later. Looking forward to it.
Thanks so much! I know it’s a long one 😂
So much awesome stuff there. Love the museum. Great video Nick.
Thanks so much! You gotta check it out! 🚂💨
The “hook ups” are for multiple unit controls that allowed one engineer control more than one loco.
Nick what an awesome video! Thanks for the tour of this museum. This was always part of York weekends for me as my Uncle knew someone who volunteered at the museum. In fact if memory serves there is a learning center there for kids and there is picture of me with my uncle and some of his friends. I really need to get back there soon to see old blackjack! Love that GG-1 they have on display there!!
That’s awesome! Thanks so much for watching! I didn’t have time for the learning / interactive center unfortunately. There’s so much to do in that museum lol 🚂💨
That was an excellent tour Nick!
Thanks so much! 🚂💨
Okay, gotta flex. I've been inside that GG1. I was explaining the "F mark" to my wife as one of the curators walked by, asked if we wanted to go inside it. Of course we did. Sadly its electric motors have been removed from it. EDIT You mention PCBs and transformers, that was the part that was removed, I remember the curator telling us this.
Thanks so much for watching! That had to be a really cool experience 🚂💨 I might be able to get in those if I use my “Amtrak” card haha 😂 we shall see
Great vid Nick, Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Nic this was great
Thanks so much!
The k4 has a steam stoker engine. The 2 cylinders contained pistons which ran the stoker.
Nice video, love your explanations and knowledge. Gary
Thank You Nick the tour and your knowledge was fantastic what a pleasant time!!!
Thanks so much for watching! We were there last weekend and I always learn something new ever time I’m there 🚂💨
Great video 🚂😎👍👍👍👍👍
Thanx for taking us along ❤️👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for watching!
The Pennslvania Railroad was electrified all the way from Pittsburg to New Haven. Both the electric locos seen including the GG1 are pre WW2 designs. The first GG1 entering service on Jan 28th 1935. Indeed the Pennsy's electrified mainline is the only long distance electrified route remaining in the USA ! In Europe virtually ALL mainlines & many secondary routes are electrified, for the simple reason that ONE electric loco can do the work of 2 or even 3 diesel locos, are fare less affected by gradients, & produce almost NO pollution !
Though the Pennsylvania Railroad studied electrifying the line over the mountains to Pittsburgh, it never built the catenary for that. WWII and the development of diesels ended the need for electric operation west of Harrisburg.
1251 probably built at Reading z shops. Note it was in use into the early 1960’s.
The car is built on a Mack truck frame with a Mack engine. The radiator device is a “Mack” design. Similar to any other car badge.
A very nice video. My grandmother lived out in Lancaster County, and would take me on the Strasburg Railroad (and to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania) when I was little. I credit these places, as well as a certain blue tank engine, with instilling a deep love for trains and railroads within me.
Thanks so much for watching! My dad and I have done a similar tradition for many years. Such an amazing location for train activities 🚂💨
@@NixCrossing Indeed. Between the RR Museum, the Strasburg Railroad, the Toy Train Museum, the Red Caboose Motel, and the Shops at Traintown, I'd say a train enthusiast could spend a few days in the area.
I see that twice a year, when I come down from Connecticut for the York show.
I have to tell you, Nick, I rode an RDC back in the 70s between Montreal and Quebec City. It was positively the most uncomfortable, noisy, worst train ride of my life. And I ride Metro North frequently from New Haven to New York.
Ahh man! R&Ns ride like a cloud lol thanks for watching!
Great place I go every year I love outside boneyard
Thanks so much for watching! It’s one of my favorites
The 3750 K4s locomotive is targeted for cosmetic restoration and will be housed in the new roundhouse that will eventually be built around one side of the outside turntable in the yard.
That would be fantastic! K4s are my favorite steam locomotives 🚂💨
The WM car is probably a “PV” or Private Vehicle, ie a private car. Or it could be an office car for a senior railroad manager,
I hope 6755 can be cosmetically restored at least. I don't really care if it never runs again, but I don't want it to rust away.
Awesome video 🚂👍🚄
Great tour of the museum. V&T RR, Virginia & Truckee Railroad. I have a model of one of those.
That’s awesome! Thanks for watching!
Wood cars cannot be allowed in electrified tunnels. A wooden car would splinter and the wood wood catch fire from the third rail.
This museum is in Strasburg in Lancaster County
I love the Conrail paint scheme too bad Conrail was not still around today
My favorite type of a locomotives are diesel electric ⚡
Send them to the Monticello, Il museum!
good vid
Thanks so much!
there ARE plans to build an outdoor complex to shelter the outside pieces, but I'm not sure when that's going to happen
They have been talking about that for 10 plus years. I heard they had a lot of issues get the funding / contractors to appease the state. It’s very unfortunate
Excellent. Thank you for the documentary! I am on a committee to resuscitate a rail line in Canada. All others want a hydrgen powered machine. I would very much like steam driven coal powered. Are there any for sale?
Recently I learned that the term, ''maintenance-away" was incorrect. I now understand that the proper term is, ''Maintenance-of-Way".
A lot of the guys I’ve talked to cut “Of” and just say MW. I miss the old cars that saw “MOW”.
3750 needs some TLC!
Yeah she does , poor engine has a lot of history tired to her
@@NixCrossing 520 and 6755 do too
I don’t want to say too much just in case if 611 needs a stoker Pennsy 520 has it for her I don’t want to jinx anything
The museum collection is incomplete. The two platform S1 and T1 are missing.
I noticed something on the front of that gg1 it has an Amtrak sign logo
It’s related to a 50th anniversary style exhibit experience
Nice tour. I wonder how the V & T RR got all the way from Nevada to Pennsylvania?
Thanks so much! I think it was donated haha
Are any of them locomotives in working order cuz they sure don't look it
The steam engines - no. The diesels - yes
51.00 Is a SHAY logging, Narrow gauge. Not a GEAR locomotive, Sorry.
More likely Mack not Mopar
HEARSE!!!!!!!!!!
Antique hearse! You’ll need horses to pull this one haha
So you don't have to pay the museum fee to go see those trains
The museum costs $10 , but the GG1 4800 and DD1s are in the driveway out front. Everything else is within the museum fence that requires the admission fee.
@@NixCrossing oh thank you $10 isn't bad
@@ErikVince they also do $1 for AAA members. The B&O museum in Baltimore is almost 3 times the cost lol
@@NixCrossing well that's a very interesting if you're an AAA member you get it for a dollar
Place looks like something owned by Fred Sanford...stuff in such sad shape...and they call it a "museum"....🤔❓
Their are plans to refurbish and cover the rolling stock that are stored outside. When that will happen is contingent on raising funds for each of those projects. I'm sure the museum would gladly accept your financial support!
Some museums don't make it - research the Indiana Transportation Museum of Noblesville, IN for one such museum which imploded.