USATC 2-8-0 S160
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2021
- United States Army Transportation Corps
S160 Class
We take a look at the 2-8-0 locomotives built for the war effort during the Second World War. Built in the USA and shipped in the UK, before deployment over Europe and further afield.
2253 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1943. The loco was shedded at Neville Hill, Leeds before being shipped to France in 1944. The locomotive became Polish State Railway TR203-288 after the war, being returned to the UK in 1992 for use on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. We first see the locomotive on display at Locomotion, the NRM at Shildon. The locomotive is then seen in its new red livery and named Omaha after its most recent overhaul. The locomotive is seen at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and Churnet Valley Railway. The loco is now based at the Dartmouth Steam Railway.
5197 was built by Lima Locomotive Works, Ohio in 1945. The locomotive was exported to China in 1946, classified as KD6 by the Chinese State Railways and numbered KD6.463. The locomotive was brought to the UK in 1995 and overhauled at Llangollen, emerging from overhaul in 1998. The locomotive is nowadays based at the Churnet Valley Railway were the locomotive is seen, solo and with 6046 and 2253.
6046 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1945. The locomotive was delivered by France, before moving to Hungary. The locomotive was 411.144 of the MAV 411 class for Hungarian State Railways. The locomotive was restored and entered traffic at the Churnet Valley Railway in 2012. We see the well travelled locomotive in action on the Churnet Valley Railway, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, West Somerset Railway and Didcot Railway Centre. This was not the first visit of an S160 to Didcot, with members of the class shedded and operating out of the depot during the war.
5820 'Big Jim' was built at the Lima Locomotive Works, Ohio in 1945. The locomotive was shipped to Poland and was numbered by Poland State Railways as TR203-474. The locomotive moved to the UK in 1977 (having travelled from Szczecin to Hull), being based ever since on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
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(C) Lee Andrew Davies 2021
Awesome video. We have an S160 in running condition here in the US as well, Great Smoky Mountains Railroad 1702. There is also another on being restored in Alaska, 557. They’re all the same type, but it’s crazy how different they became (visually) under their postwar owners.
There’s also another S160 class at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) #610, and yet another one at the Age Of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek Ohio.
@@T128Productions actually, TVRM 610 is an s160A, not an s160. The s160A has a larger diameter boiler than the original s160. The key spotting feature between the two is that the s160 has its steam dome and sandbox conjoined by a cover. The s160A excluded that feature.
There is still one S160 awaiting restoration at Eckhart Mines, Maryland. #USATC611 stayed in the US during the war, spending much of its time at Fort Eustis in Virginia. Its unique in the fact that it has Franklin Type D rotary-cam poppet valves, fitted by the USATC in the 1950s.
I am personally a big fan of the s160 steam locomotives. The first steam locomotive I ever got a ride behind was an s160 in the United States, engine 610 at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. I do have one minor issue with the ones featured in this video: they don’t have bells and large smokebox-mounted headlamps. They are American engines after all, and bells and headlamps and bells are standard features on American locomotives. Other than that, they’re great locomotives. I even custom made a Lego model of how one would look with a headlamp and a bell. I’m working on custom making a model of one using 3d printed parts drawn by myself, electrical components from a Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0 and the mechanism from an IHC 2-8-0.
Very distinct exhaust note, and nice chime whistle.
The Yanks surely did what they could to fit a large as possible locomotive within the British loading gauge and 2-8-0 wheel arrangement, the result a powerful and easy to maintain engine.
The features enabling ease of maintenance can be seen in later British designs like the 76xxx which doubleheads somewhere in the video, and makes a good figure couples to a S160.
Wonderful. I'm about 1/3 of the way through, and was wowed at the vignette at 9:28. Anyway, back to the show. Thank you for sharing this.
Great to see these iconic machines. Performing on this picturesque rural line in the Churnet valley.
Mooie machine's. De drijfstangen van deze serie maken een bijzonder geluid. In Duits de bijnaam "Klapperschlangen"
Mij lijkt het geluid van een ratelslang toch echt iets anders.... Mooie video !
All the shots of the three S160 were done on the Super Power Weekend at the Chrunet Valley Railway on 1st and 2nd Feb 2020. Various combination were use but the last trip on both days had a triple header s160 with every available coach and two deisels at the back. One dead in to the other just to get back with as the train was too long for any locos to run around at Ipstone.
Great video! Too bad there's no preserved S160 that was built by Alco in operating condition in the UK, wouod have been nice seeing S160s from all three American steam locomotive builders.
I do enjoy seeing a S160 they have a unusual charm all of their own.......
oh yes and just big noise.
Wonderful video :)
Would love to see all of them together at a big gala🤩
You have 3 on 1 line!!! We in Europe have nothing! Bee glad with them.
Is it just me or does the one at the KWVR deserves a proper Nameboard and be oifficialy named "Big JIm
That'd be great. Enough people nickname it Big Jim now that it deserves one.
Baldwin made big locomotives before it was cool
ALCo make it more cooler
2:02 un Sierra Menera
What?
712 Of Locomotives Are Built By English Immigrants Or Their Descendants (Baldwin)
712 English Tender Locomotives For The U.S.A. Transportation Corps
1677 - 1826
2242 - 2382
2590 - 2775
3380 - 3559
6024 - 6078