Wreck of the Old 97
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- 116 years ago today. The infamous "Wreck of the Old 97" occurred. This would inspire a ballad, and the ballad became the first million-selling country music release in the American record industry. This is my tribute to the event. I hope you all enjoy!
Thank you to my fellow members at the Blissfield Model Railroad Club for allowing me to make this possible.
DISCLAIMER: The music in this video is not mine, all rights to the song go to the respective copyright holders. No copyright infringement intended. The footage of the trains in this video however is mine, and may not be used without my permission.
I like how you change the road number to the accurate number most people don't take the time to do that.
Thank you! I do wish I had the correct engine type as well. But the number is good enough.
@@GreatLakesRailProductions Roundhouse do/did a Harriman ten-wheeler which is a reasonable likeness of the real engine.
I can remember taking many railroad trips in my youth (1950's-60's). I soon learned that the numbers shown on the station boards referred to the scheduled trains, rather than the locomotives pulling them. There were a lot of stops in Monroe, VA, too.
Love this song, long live engineer, Joe Steve Brody, true American hero.🤠☕
That looks a really nice layout - the rural scenery is particularly good. I once met an American gentleman down in Cornwall (England) who didn't think I'd have heard of his 'li'l ol' home town', Danville Kentucky, When I said, "Oh, you mean the place where Jeff Broady wrecked Old 97, the Southern's fast mail, on the Cherry Creek trestle," he was amazed, that a Limey knew the song, never mind the story behind it.
Cool to see how stories like that get around. Even in the most unlikely of places.
Cool
wonderful video
Thank you very much!
And btw that is a really nice engine
Good train song, Why the train haves Number “1102" Instead “97"?
The reason its numbered like that is because the locomotive that pulled the train was numbered #1102. The train itself was #97.
*oh no! our 1102! It’s broken!*
Nice model RR. Song's not bad either.
Someday I'll get an engine with that valve gear
Is that a pennsylvania railroad h10 class
Yep it sure is! I would have used a proper 4-6-0 like the real locomotive but the h10 was all I had at the time
Did #1102 crash
Yes, it did. It was repaired soon after.
Southern 1102 was the engine at the head of the train that wreck (Fast mail #97)
97 was a 10 wheeler. A 4-6-0.
Yeah, i didn't really have access to a proper engine at the time so I had to settle on my 2-8-0 consolidation as a stand in.
@@GreatLakesRailProductions
Its ok ^^
@Ethan Schmid Very close, but not quite. The model i used in the video is an H-10s built for the Pennsylvania Railroad throughout the 1910s. GSM #1702 is an S160 built by baldwin for the war effort between 1942-1945. Both are beautiful engines in my opinion.
@Ethan Schmid It's funny how preservation works sometimes. because the S160s were made to last 3 months but yet they have almost 30 surviving examples, but as for the PRR H class, only 3 remain. An H3, an H6, and an H10. But either way its good to know people cared enough to save them.
@@GreatLakesRailProductions We have two here in the UK, and one is a film star in its own right, having appeared in 'Yanks'. The engines proved popular with Iron Curtain countries, after one or two improvements to enhance crew safety and served for a very long time. Their little sisters, the USATC 0-6-0 tank switchers also had long and popular lives with both British, French and Yugoslavian railways - indeed the Yugoslavs found them such useful, handy machines that they built copies, again with minor changes and improvements because they couldn't get any more of the originals. And, again, there are several of them preserved in GB.
(One of the original USA 2-8-0s disgraced itself at Derby. There was so much slop in the coupled axle boxes that when traversing a diamond crossing the two leading pairs of wheels went one way, and the two trailing ones went the other. The engines were promptly withdrawn until improvements had been made!)
Bro if u already didn't know 1102 is a 2-6-0 not a 2-8-0
dont expect this guy to have a 2-6-0 and plus i dont thing they have made a 1102 yet.
actually the locomotive was a 4-6-0
its number 97 not 1102
The number of the train was #97. The locomotive that pulled it was #1102.
Ehsan u lied
@@GreatLakesRailProductions correct
Well the locomotive on mail train #97 was numbered 1102