Operating a Vulcan Iron Works 0-4-0T Steam Locomotive
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Come along for a cab ride in the Georgia Museum of Agriculture's 1917 Vulcan Iron Works 0-4-0T Steam Locomotive! We will go through the process of firing this tank engine as well as tell you the history of this operational narrow gauge steam locomotive.
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For a self-shot "amateur" video, this is extremely good. You are clear spoken and articulate. I've seen many professional presentations that are not this good.
God damn I miss this era of locomotives. They were alive, more so that other machines out there. They eat, drink, run, and even have a voice. Just nothing like the sound of a steam engine to me, such a powerfully beautiful heartbeat, that I'm happy to know is well preserved here. Thank you so much for making this video.
You must be old...
So true,honda can make plastic robot after plastic robot and nothing will have more personality then a steam locomotive.
+Walkertongdee I'm only 58 but on some of the spur lines you could still see steamers pulling freight in the early 60s by 1970 the were all gone.
I'm fascinated by steam power as well.
And they won't last more then 10 years, but that locomotive was made in 1917, and it still works great after 100 years.
"Bad things can happen..." he could do a whole segment on that statement when it comes to steam locomotive boilers.
That is one of the best videos I have ever watched on UA-cam and I bet I've watched 5,000. All of your videos have the same tenor and flow. You are so descriptive and methodical. Combined with your naturally patient style, it makes for great teaching. I hope you know how gifted you are as a teacher and I hope you will continue posting videos on UA-cam.
That was fun and informative. I am so glad there are folks like Mr. Rucker to maintain and operate the great old machines of yesteryear. Thanks for the ride.
I totally agree.....Nice video...
Keith, it's 2 Am here in Adelaide South Australia and I'm off to bed with the biggest grin on my face. Thank you so much for the ride. Love that whistle.
Cheers Eric
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Keith, just for grins get you a whistle off a Mikado loco and all of Georgia will know when you are running.
You lucky son of a gun!!!! I am very impressed with your knowledge of this locomotive. Keep her running.
Looking at this world from the cab of a locomotive is a view few men have been blessed with and even fewer will ever see.
If ever I saw a man who was happy at his work, it's you Mr Rucker.
Highlight, you gave those kids a memory to last a lifetime!
My father is a train wather. He has hundreds of hours of steam engines. I'm forwarding this to him because it is bettr than any he has shown me. WELL done.
Thanks Mr. Rucker. My happiest days were when I was one of the engineers at Kings Dominion near Richmond, VA. I worked for around 10 years on weekends and holidays firing and driving one of two 3 ft. Crown Locomotive Works engines. Generally our routine was similar to your's. We pulled 5 steel passenger cars with knuckle couplers and Westinghouse air brakes. It looks like you are as proud and happy as I was to do that job. Every day I would give thanks to God for the privilege of being paid to do exactly what I wanted and to seem the looks of wonder on the faces of young and old alike. Best wishes to you and if I'm ever near Tifton I'll stop by and say hi.
What a beautiful little engine running in beautiful countryside....
and a Very good presentation by the engineer
Thank you
I found this video very satisfying.
Ever since I was a small boy I've loved steam powered things. In fact I even liked my mom's steam iron a bit. In any case, steam engines, especially in a train, are more than just power plants, they seem to me to almost be alive and breathing with all the heat, bellowing and breathing.
I complement and congratulate those folks and organizations that take the time and spend the considerable funds to restore steam powered machinery.
Thank You!!!
Absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for taking me on this ride and sharing the history of this little locomotive. Excellent video!!
Years ago when I worked for Northern Indiana Public Service Company, I maintained the GE remote radio control electronics links at the Dean H Mitchell Electric Generating Plant in Coal Handling.. And was taught how start and to run the tandem dual 100 ton diesel locomotives. These were used to move the unit train car by car to dump coal in the dumper shed. With Radio control, only one man was needed to run the whole operation. What a thrill and can imagine you feel the same, AND, you get to work on the mechanics too...!!1 WOW Lloyd - DigiTek
It is quite a privilege to get to sit in the cab of this locomotive and serve as its engineer!
I came to the museum sometime in the mid 2000's. I got to get into the cab. I also got to walk down to the train house and look and take some pics of the locomotive from the toy museum. However I did not see you, it was a younger man with long black curly hair and beard and a older gentleman with white hair and white beard smoking a pipe. Very nice fellows. Talked to them for a while. I was by myself. Can't wait to come back one day with my wife. Off topic spoke to a older lady in the schoolhouse ( school teacher) for a long time. Her first gift from husband was an iron. Such a lovely lady. Love the museum. Hopefully the train will be around for a long time. Do not know of any "working" steam locomotives in Georgia anymore. Keep it up PLEASE!
Love the old steam engines. I had a great uncle that was an engineer years ago on a steam engine. Love those whistles!
You just got a fourty-year old grown man feel like the awestruck kid allowed to ride in the engine with the machinist... thank you for that.
I love steam and miss the days when I wad fireman on a coal fired steam locomotive. I literally had tears in my eyes. Thank you Keith.
Well done Keith. Brings back lots of memories of when my grandfather was an engineer on the Northern Pacific. Got to ride one time in the cab on a short trip between Auburn, Wa to just outside of Tacoma. He retired along with his locomotive in the early 50's but that single trip will remain fixed in my mind forever.
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One of the best most informative steam engine programs ever. Very well done.
+Scott C Thank you!
Kieth, you are a very natural speaker. Obviously you are knowledgeable on the subject material, but that is not what I am talking about. It is your very natural, conversational style that makes it so enjoyable to listen to you speak. Well done. Thank you.
+Stillsleepy Thanks for the kind words!
Every video you make is teaching the next generation how to make those next new parts. Keep going, and thank you very much. Well done.
+Servo Engr. Thank you!
30 years ago I was given the opportunity to be "fireman" on a hand built half scale Shay in Kinzers, Pa. This video took me back to that experience. Stuck inside, 4/17/2020 during the Wuhan flu shut down, Thanks so much for putting this up.
Brilliant piece of history together with a scenic route. Live it.
That was so cool! I played the video on my living room TV and the kids loved it!... and my son and daughter liked it, too :-)
Man you really have a knack for video making. All the different angles and perspectives, inserts of clips here and there, motion of even still pictures.. very well done, Keith!
Thanks Keith enjoyable ride on the steam engine. I especially enjoy it because in the neighborhood I grew up in there were several people who worked for the Santa Fe Railroad, a couple of engineers and a conductor. One guy named Wallace, an engineer lived directly across the street from me and he would be dressed exactly as you were in the video so that brings back old times for me of my youth in the 1940's and 50's. Then there was the spooky old conductor who we kids called "Gruesome Grover", a dead ringer for Boris Karloff.
Keith that is a top little video. How can you not love steam, its the only machine that comes alive and takes on a persona.
@34:20, Farmer say, "Well now son, I got me a purdy green tractor"!
No, but seriously this Locomotive is amazing and he has obviously devoted a lot of time to restoring a bit of history.
A big thank you!
This is one of the best and most informative videos on steam Locomotives ive ever seen! Thank you
Vulcan - may steam live long and prosper
I really related to this video. I served my apprenticeship with a general engineering firm that, from the 1890's to the mid 1940's, built a wide range of steam locomotives from small shunters [switchers] to main line Pacifics. One range of their bush locomotives had 16 drivers [8 per side]. The drive was from a vertical engine in the cab and through a long shaft and bevel gears on the axles. While I was with them a lot of the Pacifics were coming back for rebuilding. It took three months for a complete strip and rebuild. With three locomotives on the go at once, they put out one per month. I never worked in the locomotive shop but machined a lot of parts for them. I particularly remember firebox stays with 1" dia threads at one end and 1 1/8" under the head. The thread pitches had to be identical and in perfect pitch so that both ends could screw in together. A special stepped tap was used to cut the threads. I notice that nowadays firebox stays are welded into place. Much more simple.
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They started around 1947 and worked through until the early 1960's. Some of the locos that came out of the shop [in brand new condition] towards the end only worked 4 or 5 years before being cut up for scrap. New Zealand started converting to diesels around 1956 and the last official steam haul was in 1972. The Railways workshops built their last steam engine in 1954. It is still running on main line trips for a preservation society.
Excellent video with clear explanations plus an interesting ride. Takes me back many years when these engines were in common use.
It's so cool to see another engine like the one I help run start up.
The cab looks almost exactly like the cab in our Steam Locomotive #1 in Fairbanks Alaska.
We've had the same coal problems, but since she only runs in a park, it's easy to manage. We get top-quality coal donated from the local power plant when we run, and half of our volunteers are just spraying the tracks down to prevent ember fires.
Very cool! I would love to come up there and visit you guys sometime. I love Alaska!
5th time watched this particular video for me. Raised in a small town in California that was a water stop for the big Southern Pacific steamers as they traveled north & south, I fell in love with those big, black monsters. I truly love your signature steam whistle "melody", a sound that the yung'uns nowadays can only hear in great places like your museum. Not to sound too mushy, but you are a treasure in my eyes and may you keep up the GREAT work, deeds and service you do.
Thank you Roy. I grew up long past the age of steam had passed so I never got to see those big steam locomotives on the main lines. Treasure your memories - I only wish I had similar ones. As to being able to do what I do, I am truly blessed to have the opportunity!
Thank you for showing this amazing locomotive. Vulcan was located in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. As a child my father marveled at watching raw iron enter the locomotive works and steam locomotives exit the other end. The Vulcan custom built locomotives, and, I believe, became the third largest locomotive builder in the world. Thank you.
I'm watching current (9-4-2023) video of you repairing a part for this locomotive. I wanted to know more about this machine and found this video. Very informative and entertaining. You haven't changed much at all in the last 9 years.
Thanks for posting ! wonderful presentation and history, also the ride-a-long was fantastic. I just love those little "tea kettle" locomotives. thank-you!
Video was very enjoyable and informative, a pleasure through and through. Thanks from my son and myself!
keith that remindes me of the train at dolly wood i grew up with steam trains in maryland 60 years ago thank you.
Keith has done a wonderful job with this video. A detailed video in a format that enhances understanding in an enjoyable manner. Well done, Keith!
Thank you!
Thank you.. this show really brings back the smell of wood/coal fired steamers.. I really miss those wonderful smell ..
I've watched a lot of your videos and somehow I just found this one and it was truly a joy to watch. These locomotives have always been the interest to young boys and men for years, as you probably know. That's probably why we still have so many HO scale train setups. Being the engineer on one is probably the dream of just about every young boy who grew up during the time that these things were created and even many after. Great video and great museum. Also, as a wheelchair user, I was happy to see that your loading platform was ramped and accessible. I will have to come visit someone when I'm down south.
After the war... My father got work on the CPR as a brakeman then a conductor on Freight.... and sometimes on passenger ....which I got to along from Montreal to points North... stayed in baggage car mostly with him.... however on one trip I got to ride in the Engine ... Engineer of this CPR 2600 was a Mr Ploueff..I sat on what I called the coal tunnel (auger Feed) ... It was pure racket... and so ROUGH no cushion rattled my teeth... the fireman and Ploueff adding to my confusion by shouting back and forth over the noise ... guess it was about signals and whistle alerts... still remember every moment....one of my childhood highlights.
Keith- Probably your best video yet! Camera angles, editing, shot length, sound and content all outstanding! Thanks so much for sharing!
What a nice segment, very nicely filmed and edited. Smiling all the way through !!
Thanks for the ride Keith!
Thanks for a ride around the loop Keith. Great video.
Hi keith, wonderfull video, I worked on the footplate (U K) for 45 years and let me loose on "mallard" one day,13/8/88, a week later they put her to sleep in York museum, thank you very much, john.
Thank You for the great video on the train.. I learned alot how the engine operates and the ride was so much fun to see
Thanks Keith, really enjoyed this. Especially liked the arty shadow shots showing steam out of the chimney and whistle.
Thanks Keith for the ride injoyed
Thank you Mr. Rucker, that was fun! Always liked trains but have never been on one.
Hi Keith
Super video...great info and video production!
The shadow video was outstanding....
Chuck
Hi Keith, thanks so much! I've been looking forward to this ever since you mentioned it... You did a great job with this whole video.. The history lesson on the train was as enjoyable as the ride, and the awesome camera work. You put a lot into all of it... It's going into my favorites, and I'm sure going to watch it some more, and show it for some more of my family! Thanks again! :o)
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This is an excellent video. Very informative. There are tons of videos showing steam locomotives running, and I enjoy them. But there are very few who take the time to explain in detail how they function. Thank you very much for taking the time.
Very Enjoyable & Very Well Presented Keith Thxs For Sharing !!!
Thanks so much for your excellent narration. What a wonderful experience!
Hello Keith,
A huge THANK YOU for your comments and explanations for the reasons you do things and the sequence. It answered one of my questions of why air is going up through the boiler .
Take care and hope you have enough major parts off the Locomotive to be able to see and or remedy any other unseen problems.
mrbluenun
Thank's for the ride Keith !
Been a while since I have been to the Agrirama. Dad was on the board originally and was there when the engine was acquired. Tifton Machine put it a lot of time and helped transport and repair that engine when the museum first got it, nice to see it is still going.
Thanks for all of your content Keith. I am sure it's more work to create than all of us watching know.
My nephew and son really like this video!
Keith Rucker, I just want to say thanks for such a clear explanation of how to run The Locomotive! That is a marvelous little engine! :)
+badazrod Thank you!
I was quite surprised to hear that a locomotive built as late as 1917 had a lap seam boiler. In my years of operating and maintaining steam locomotives I came to rely on a book titled "Steam Locomotives, Their Break Downs and how to Repair Them". The copy that I had was printed around 1910. A very good reference book for those inclined to follow this nearly dying art. It looked to me that you might have to remove the blower and nozzle to punch the tubes. I made a handy tool for that from tubing with a tube brush mounted on one end and a vacuum on the other. As one of my mentors said "Steam Forever".
That's so interesting. I almost feel I could operate a steam train myself. Thanks, Keith.
One more thing. Have you noticed, No matter how good your video is, there is always two guys that have to give it a thumbs down? I wish these trolls would get a life :-)
Love your videos. Keep them coming.
Just got around to watching this. Nice video Keith and your narration/demonstration was really great. Thanks.
Wow! Excellent video! I love that you read the history of the engine while it was running in the background. I love these locomotives. Excellent job, excellent.
***** Is your 0-4-0 is something like this:
taplines.net/locos/PORTER1195.jpg
The #15 page on BEDT website:
members.trainweb.com/bedt/bedt/BEDT15.html
These were wonderful machines.
Thanks for a great train ride Keith!
This man certainly knows where the bones are buried. Does not include the history, just knowledge.
Thanks Keith. Outstanding presentation.
VERY well done video! Just what any tech savvy person of interest wishes for. No BS, just what a mechanical student would wish for.
***** I think even the larger ones are toys too - if you get to work on them and play with them. I'd enjoy working on it. Does she have a name?
Keith,
Thanks. I thoroughly enjoyed watching that.
Ian Butler Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
I just joined the North Georgia Live Steamers club Keith-this is the best video on the net for learning how steam creates motion...thank you for creating it! I will have to come down from Atlanta one of these days to ride it and meet you! I appreciate you using a lavalier mic-that firebox makes a ton of noise along with the blower. LOL
Will do Keith Rucker!!! We will plan it one of these weekends! Soon!!!
Hi Keith,
This brings back memories from the early 50's, where in the Eastern Townships in province of Quebec, they were still running steam engines. Your video just made the memories alive, the sounds, the smells everything... The train was just passing behind my Grand Parents house and the station was about 500 feet away.
Such a good feel to it, thanks,
Pierre
Your a very busy man: engineer, fireman and brakeman. Great video
You absolutely have the best job in the world!!! Tim
+tbertw If only I got paid for it....
This was a nice ride Keith. I saw the people riding on the back of the train really nice. Thank you for sharing.
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for taking the time to put it together.
I have a 0-4-0 Porter steam loco in G scale. The bores are half inch. Its fired with butane. Bowande in China made it. Lucky for you to have that job. I learn a lot watching your videos. Thanks for posting!
Hello Keith,
Many thanx for writing me the tip from this video I never have seen, and great to see that little locomotive working. Also great how you explain how it works and than the ride at almost the end of the video.
Thanx for the tip and great video !
Many greetings from Roel !
RoelTyros Glad that you found the video! It is one of my more popular ones based on views.
The Little Engine That Could.. ;) That little engine did a lot of hard work over it's life. Take care of her buddy !
Great video. Thanks for taking the time to show it to us!
What I love about this video is that my grandfather has one of these trains on his ranch
Really nice video I was a welder at Bethlehem Steel car shop division In Johnstown Pennsylvania. I have welded 1000s of rail cars. Everything is gone now all that there is a empty field. We made some of the best rail road cars in the world. 16 120 ton coal cars a day.
+58belvedere Cool stuff - part of our great history!
Started on SP in 71 as a brakeman and got to be around some live steam stuff. I must say even though yours is small it's not much different in theory than the mainline stuff. The 4449 the old daylight is the biggest I've been on that was working but put some of the display units on spot in the Railroad Museum in Sacramento after it was built. The old SP back shops was leased by the state that did a lot of the restoration It was awesome with all belt driven machines and the men doing the work were impressive. Some of the Baldwin prints used for restoration were printed on lined because of the quality was better than paper at the time. You keep up the good work and thanks, I enjoy your channel.
Barry
Excellent video! Nothing like the sound and feel of a steam engine.. I remember the steam locomotives as a very young boy as the transition to diesels was almost complete. We grew up near a train staging station where rarely a steam locomotive in service would appear. I like'ed putting penny's on the tracks. Thanks, Harvey
when i was a kid in the mid 80's, i rode this train down that one way track.... for a kid, that was awesome.
+b1pig Back then, it was a one way track. When I first started running that locomotive in the late 1980's that is the way it was. In the mind '90's they made a loop around the museum site and most of the old one way track is no longer even used.
I saw this and just wanted to say what a fantastic job you have made of this video and the loco. An excellent bit of work. Regards, a fellow narrow gauge engineer from England.
great fun and really all around excellent presentation. Looking forward to a visit !
Thanks for sharing this wonderful video with us.
Getting to ride along with you was very cool Keith. I enjoyed that very much.
Colin
Great video! Very informative. Im sure converting it to burn oil/fuel makes being both engineer and fireman together a heck of a lot easier. Would be a really cool engine for a "hands on the throttle" experience!
Steve ????? wasup!!!! keep up good work with trainz love your engines you make
Great Video!! I could really see the effort you made to make this video enjoyable. Thank You!
Thank you so very much for a great video, Keith. I loved all the extra angles of camera, track view, run-over view, changing the points in the forest, shadow and steam view and connecting rod/valve rod view. You made it so very interesting. Not just a cab ride. Excellent. This is a Gem, first class.
I thought I might as well watch this one too. You make a fine engineer, pal. Right at home. I also saw the 2-banger Deere John that you were pulling the Vance with. FINE video!
Thanks!
IOf you just had a mill and a lathe in there you could do projects on the fly!
You know Keith, I really love my job, I really do. But you my friend.... I think you have one of the best jobs in the world. To be able to go to work and do something that your passionate about speaks volumes. Consider me subscribed, gonna be a lot of sleepless night watching you videos.
What a great video!! Now we all know the REAL reason Keith works at the museum, he gets to drive the train! Particularly liked the shot of the train shadow on the field, nice touch. It was very interesting for someone on the west coast to see a little bit of the scenery too.
Thanks so much for sharing, Keith!