I have got to see the tender of one of these former KCS Articulated Steam Locomotives which was back in October 2023 while in the car before and after starting and finishing each days at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois.
To get those locomotives from Texarkana to Shreveport, they had to be cold, water drained from the boiler, and towed across the Caddo Lake bridge at a walk because the weight of the locomotive dry was at the load limit of the bridge.
It is sad that none of the KCS Mallets have survived. Be looking forward to seeing the video on the GB&W Mikados. One of my favorite short line railroads in the US.
Thanks for your very interesting and informative video presentation about these locomotives. I stumbled upon your channel and subscribed to your channel.
Nice, these are pretty underrated locomotives, and I've seen the tender myself. I'm making a video about an obscure class myself (though more a weird aspect of it than the class in general), so I feel you in that information can be hard to come by.
Those tender trucks are pretty unique. Never seen a design like that before. Very similar to the Barber S2 design seen on many freight cars, yet so different...
I belong to an organization the has the only surviving Southern Pacific New Orleans built Mikado. After WW1 the SP built 11 Mikados in it Algiers shops and 1 in Houston. Algiers is part of New Orleans on the West Bank of the Mississippi River. There are several videos of her out running on the KCS and other Class One Railroads in Louisiana and Mississippi. Search SPX745 Steam Locomotive. She was rebuilt in the early 2000s and operated between April 2004 and April 2019. She should start her next rebuild in the near future as grants have been obtained and those moneys should be available pretty soon.
I have got to see the tender of one of these former KCS Articulated Steam Locomotives which was back in October 2023 while in the car before and after starting and finishing each days at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois.
Volunteer and crewman at IRM, I always wondered where that thing came from.
To get those locomotives from Texarkana to Shreveport, they had to be cold, water drained from the boiler, and towed across the Caddo Lake bridge at a walk because the weight of the locomotive dry was at the load limit of the bridge.
Excellent video! Thank you!
god thats a beautiful engine, i also like the editing, i shall watch your career with great interest good sir
It is sad that none of the KCS Mallets have survived. Be looking forward to seeing the video on the GB&W Mikados. One of my favorite short line railroads in the US.
that video will be out in a day or two. I got a little busy that's why it took a while
Thanks for your very interesting and informative video presentation about these locomotives.
I stumbled upon your channel and subscribed to your channel.
Thank you for the slice of history!
This is a great video. Just when I thought I knew everything, you blew me away with KCS articulateds.
So I subscribed.
Nice, these are pretty underrated locomotives, and I've seen the tender myself. I'm making a video about an obscure class myself (though more a weird aspect of it than the class in general), so I feel you in that information can be hard to come by.
Those tender trucks are pretty unique. Never seen a design like that before. Very similar to the Barber S2 design seen on many freight cars, yet so different...
I belong to an organization the has the only surviving Southern Pacific New Orleans built Mikado. After WW1 the SP built 11 Mikados in it Algiers shops and 1 in Houston. Algiers is part of New Orleans on the West Bank of the Mississippi River. There are several videos of her out running on the KCS and other Class One Railroads in Louisiana and Mississippi. Search SPX745 Steam Locomotive. She was rebuilt in the early 2000s and operated between April 2004 and April 2019. She should start her next rebuild in the near future as grants have been obtained and those moneys should be available pretty soon.
Thanks,great work.
I lived in Grandview Mo for three years when I was a young boy. Why were the two engines double headed ?
it was to commemorate the opening of the line to that town I believe
Well done, very handsome locomotive. What is that on the tender in some pictures, A structure just aft of the fuel bunker.
It is called a "dog house" and is used by the head brakeman.
@@royreynolds108 you beat me to it, nice
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@2:58 RIP Headphone users
Even without headphones it scared the crap out of me😂😂😂😂😂
So no explanation of the two larger tender designs applied to some of them? Enquiring minds want to know?
I wish I had an answer for you. information is very hard to find on these locomotives