Some truly rare stuff there, so pleased you shared it. Loved to see LNER A4 Class "Dwight D. Eisenhower" on its way to its new home. The 182 car ore train was properly impressive, too. Thanks!
The Steam Giants, Magnificent Machines that almost seem alive!.. Great Colorized Video.. Only thing missing is the shaking of the ground and vibration in the air, as they pass!
Great video I got to see the 4017 up close at the national railroad museum in Green Bay Wisconsin man what a behemoth! It sure wash nice to see him in action on this video.
Love the Big Boys. I remember the very last steam train that passed through here during the night. It blew it's whistle though town and had to run backwards as the turn table had been removed as well as the return tracks.
Great footage. Thank you for the privilege of allowing us to watch-especially with the resurrection of the 4014. We are all fired-up and ready to go-even though the 4014 has not yet arrived in Cheyenne for her much-awaited for 'return to steam'.
My favorite kind of trains. The Ore Trains. I remember the days of running out of Superior / Duluth with these monsters. They really can put the engineer to the test in train handling and slack control. I was certify on one of these trains minus the 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone of course.
Thanks for the great film. Love how everyone's a critic here. Would love to see some of their work LOL. I miss the old Wisconsin circus train, train 2 here. Watched it as a kid.
This is a great mix-up of action between the UP "big boys" and the DM&IR "Yellowstone" class. These two locomotive classes are some of my top all time favorite articulated steam locomotive designs, I am glad this footage was captured while they were still in service.
How fortuitous that you happened by a yard sale when you did. I wish there were a way for all of us who love steam locomotives to repay you for your hard work and thoughtfulness.
I become mesmerized at the sight of the dual sets of connecting rods moving in tandem. It gives me a fantasy--I want to shed my human form and become the Big Boy chugging through the hills and dales as my story of life! Stupid? May be but I cannot help. The dream moves me to tears of joy,
When I was about 10 or 11 years old I would walk a block and a half to the UP line and watch these steam locomotives operate for real. Never got tired of watching them spin the drive wheels when starting out. It was wonderful to see, I have never lost the love that I had for these big mechanical machines and never will. Now I'm 73 and can only watch video of these magnificent machines but I like to watch and think back to when I saw them for real.
i personally would love to see steam engines used again, i saw a video of Challenger 3985 pulling a tain of 198 double stack cars by itself, a smaller set of UP EMD diesels were pulling maybe 70 of the same cars and there were 4 of them
Great capture of the Sir Nigel Gresley designed Pacific A4 "Dwight D Eisenhower" and then the man himself. It's said that Ettore Bugatti advised on the streamlining.
I come to this video just by browsing ( was looking for something else ) but I liked it, I did read some comments here, if you added all sound by yourself you did a great job and I like this video, and disregard negative comments here :). You gave to people something nice to watch and some of them do - booo , disregard it, job well done :)
Some nice shots showing some well-weathered Big Boys in action. I saw Dwight D. Eisenhower two years ago at York when they assembles all six remaining A4 Pacifics at the National Railway Museum. It was quite a sight! Thanks for taking the effort to upload this, I notice several negative comments about the naff guitar music but surely even that can't detract from some fine footage?
What a wonderful treasure you likey saved, Con! Why so many in the big locomotives? The whole idea of big locomotives was more power from less engines and crews. My great uncle and his fireman were the only ones operating his huge 4-8-4 locomotive.
Wow, I havnt seen a steam locomotive pull a classic circus train in a long time....its always road now, but before was the classic steam railroad way...
+godzilla691138MW3 Actually, Ringling Bros. & Barum & Bailey still uses circus trains as a means of travel even today. The ones you see go by road are smaller circuses traveling shorter distances.
These are indeed some terrific historical archival scenes of steam poser on the rails. Excellent. Thanks for posting. At 5:55, I know No. 222, is in fact a 2-8-8-4, but looking at it roll by here, it appears to be a 2-6-6-4. I can't make out the full set of drivers here. Strange. It is No. 222 though, no question about that. You can really thrill to the sight of grotesquely incomplete combustion in some of these run-by's. Whew.
Peremarquette1225 Maybe we better just go see it in person! I never have. Have you? So I rewatched the footage of 222, and in spite of how things look like 2-6-6-4 at 5:55, between 6:00 and 6:05 you can clearly catch momentary glimpses of the 4th driver, both in the front set and in the rear. In each set, it is the front-most driver that is almost unseen, unseeable in these shots. But between 6:00 and 6:05 you see glimpses of that 4th front driver in each set, just at the bottom, where they are in direct contact with the rail. The problem is that the cylinders are either mounted out from the body more than usual, or are just a bit abnormally large or something, but they obscure those front drivers, almost completely from the angles in these run-by shots. Almost, but not entirely! You can see them looking more closely than I did. So I also just rewatched this whole set of stuff. Fabulous. About as good set of informal historical shots as I can remember finding on YT. In the slow roll-by of BB 4017 just before 222's celebrity footage, is that the actual sound?? Or something dubbed in? I think dubbed in? There's no steam sounds at all (that I can make out). Maybe the diesel engine sound would make sense. But I think there would have to be some of the steam sounds as well if this was the real audio. Probably from a silent clip I'd guess.
Peremarquette1225 I lived in MN a long time, back when when 222 did run. Moved away quite awhile ago so did not know she was gone. Looked up the records: retired 1962, sold for scrap.
Bassfanatic94 , Well I'm already thinking of that. theses are just video clips of the main films. I have close to 6 hours worth of railroad action on film. from 16mm to 8 ,Supper 8 mm film. So who knows. we'll see. Thanks for stopping by. Len.
Awesome find. Do you know if you have any completely unique footage in this collection? By that I'm referring to any footage that may be the only existing video record of a certain class locomotive running in existence.
Steam, the oldest and still the most powerful type of propulsion. Big Boys could pull a five mile train over a flat surface. Count the number of even our modern diesels it would take today
+talesin- god of the internet Basically true, but there were water pans between the tracks for on-the-move re-watering as well extending the runs. No matter steam rules
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choochoo3985 that was an NYC thing but the 4000's worked in the mountains. i dunno if they could keep the water from running downhill fun fact: using water pans was called "jerking water" after the need to use buckets of water from streams or track ponds to fill the tender by hand because the town did not have a water tower a town so small and insignificant that it did not even have a water tower was referred to as a "jerkwater town"
+talesin- god of the internet Yeah, the labor costs are higher. But the Big Boys were so tremendously powerful that they racked up 18 years in service during a time when railroads were starting to dieselize to shorten their employee rosters, only being retired when the cost of coal rose past a certain point. But 4014 is being converted to oil-burning, and there's always canteen tenders...
+talesin- god of the internet Not quite correct, at least after a time. "Jerkwater" meant that it only rated a water and fuel stop, not an actual station. It referred to jerking the chain that opened the water tower's release valve. And according to what I've read, use of track pans was referred to as "jerking soup", comparing the lowering of the water scoop to dunking a ladle into a soup pot. Track pans weren't used much in the west, no. There were flat stretches were you could build a pan, but the issue would be getting the water to it. A lot of the railroad trackage in the west is through Miles and Miles of Bloody Desert. No convenient aquifers to pipe the water into the pans from, plus you have the issue of evaporation...
hmm :/ i know all the southern pacific engines like the back of my hand(especially the "Articulated Consolidations" and "Golden State/General Service") and i can name a good chunk of the pennsy arsenal, but when it comes to any union pacific engine accept for the big boy or the challenger... well i cant even tell what class they are.
trainboy94 , You might have seen the same locations, I know I have in other railroad video's but not of the same filming. this video was made out of short film clips of only 1 to 2 mintues long. they were spiced together by him onto a small reel of film. I have other railroad film that I haven't transferd yet by another person. this film is also 16mm but in black and white. It's of PRSL Class G's and a cable laying in the harbor. Len.
If you had not purchased these films, would they have been discarded? 16 mm color was not cheap. Nice job of adding and timing the audio! Wish that Robert had followed the engines as they passed by instead of letting them roll out of view. Thank you for posting these for everyone to see. Robert would be pleased.
Great Mallet action. Some of the video shots are from the same places as was used in an official UP video from the 50's: "Last Of the Giants". They may have used the shots in this video for theirs! Check it out ...
It's such a tragedy that all those trains and railroads are gone. If we could only bring back the trains, cars, morals, patriotism, and prices from a better time, while retaining our computers, Nintendo, Cartoon Network, current Pope, etc...
There is somthing about driving a steam Loco they are a Breathing Lady and i used to walk our line an pick up any coal to burn in our stove at night it would Burn all Night plenty of hot water . And would find a few other things on the line as the toilet went Straight down on the Track,s
It was mostly downhill from the Iron Range of Minnesota to the ports of Duluth-Superior and Two Harbors on Lake Superior. Pulling the cars up the steep grade back to the Iron Range for reloading was often tougher than pulling them down the grade.
I can't imagine one diesel electric doing the same amount of work as "one" of the big steam engines that were pulling those ore cars, but then again I don't know.
+chick mcgee , Before I added the chugging there was none. A lot of the steam locomotive sound came of steam locomotive records I have. You should be glad I shared them out. I could have just done nothing.
+chick mcgee Agree. The music is utterly out of sync with the era seen on the video. Any text found on tags or stickers on the reels would contain valuable info like date, places etc. which should be added in your video tag. Nice job sharing the movies with us, thx.
+chick mcgee Agree. The music is utterly out of sync with the era seen on the video. Any text found on tags or stickers on the reels would contain valuable info like date, places etc. which should be added in your video tag. Nice job sharing the movies with us, thx.
You need to turn the sound down a few notchs.when you show the big boys, barely had the sound up and it scared me when the sound started. great video other wise.
If any there would be a steamer that could handle today's freight trains, it would be a DM&IR Yellowstone. Most freight trains aren't 18,000-19,000 tons (but that doesn't mean there aren't any trains that heavy today, they're probably out there somewhere). I would say around 6,000-15,000 tons. This is my guess.
same im a huge union pacfic steam program fan I have acualy been to the shops @ Cheyenne im hoping me and my dad go in march! If you have a question I can ask if Ed Dickens might tour with us he is the Senior manager and heritage operations! Me and my dad are good friends with him and he lets me ride in the cab of Famous 844 Steam engine one of my favorites my next favorite Up 4014! 09trainman
that sucks! I live in the area of Union pacfic me and my dad know people that work @ the passenger car shops and the guy we tour some reason knows Ed dickens Senior manager of the operations I also get to Blow the whistle and Scare the Crap out of people but I have to wear ear plugs because I get sensitive with sounds! im not for sure if it will be only me or me and my dad if it is just me that will be awesome! plus the train will go over the Missiouri river now that will be interesting I HATE Wating! 09trainman
THERE IS VERY FEW OF THESE TRAINS DELUTH MISOBII AND IRON RANGE THEY HAD TWO 2 8 8 4 ENGINES THEY WERE LIKE THE CAB AHEAD ENGINES THAT SOUTHERN PACAFIC HAD THESE WERE BAB BEHIND THEY HAULD ORE FROM THE IRON RANGEMOUNTAINS.
At 3:30, that is a hell bunch of black smoke, guess you need that much power for a big steam locomotive and a long heavy train. Must be puffing on a bunch of coal, hope enough water is in it, and also Id hate to be the guy who has to clean the inside if the boiler when she's parked.
The blackness of the smoke is just the soot. The volume of the 'smoke' is deceptive. Steam locomotives use the spent steam from the steam cylinders to draft the fire in the firebox thus making fire burn hotter and cleaner. The soot and smoke from the fire and steam mix and then are shot out the stack. The steam still has lots of energy left to expand and thus does once it leaves the stack so it does, darkened by the soot it looks like a huge amount of smoke but is actually composed of almost entirely of water vapor aka steam. In comparison if you are interested look up video of the South African Class 25 condenser trains that did not use steam draft and used forced air turbine (water is precious and hard to supply there) Even on a high ball run on a grade climb they produce very little 'smoke' in comparison because the steam isn't being ejected and is instead being sent to the condensers to get cooled back down into water to use again.
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Well done -for saving these movies and making them available for all to see, Len.
Thank you (from across the "pond")
I think the late Robert Sage is quite happy his old train movies are being enjoyed by more than 194,000 people and counting!
LOVED seeing the Yellowstone! Only one Ive seen in any films.
Some truly rare stuff there, so pleased you shared it. Loved to see LNER A4 Class "Dwight D. Eisenhower" on its way to its new home. The 182 car ore train was properly impressive, too. Thanks!
The circus train looks like it's from a kid's storybook. Bravo!
Nice work! When I saw "All audio has been added" I rolled my eyes, but the ambient sounds you added were well chosen and well timed. Thank you!
Thank you, Leonard, and also Mr. Sage. Well done.
Amazing footage! Wish I was alive when these giants were still under steam! Thanks for sharing
steam trains are freaking awesome. Wish I could go back when they did everything
The Steam Giants, Magnificent Machines that almost seem alive!..
Great Colorized Video.. Only thing missing is the shaking of the ground and vibration in the air, as they pass!
loving the fact the first two locomotives were soo line
Great video I got to see the 4017 up close at the national railroad museum in Green Bay Wisconsin man what a behemoth! It sure wash nice to see him in action on this video.
This footage is beautiful, thanks for all the work you did to get it on youtube. 4003, 4013, 4017. What a treasure trove!
Love the Big Boys. I remember the very last steam train that passed through here during the night. It blew it's whistle though town and had to run backwards as the turn table had been removed as well as the return tracks.
This was cool to see back in time...Thank you for sharing...
Great footage. Thank you for the privilege of allowing us to watch-especially with the resurrection of the 4014. We are all fired-up and ready to go-even though the 4014 has not yet arrived in Cheyenne for her much-awaited for 'return to steam'.
My favorite kind of trains. The Ore Trains. I remember the days of running out of Superior / Duluth with these monsters. They really can put the engineer to the test in train handling and slack control. I was certify on one of these trains minus the 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone of course.
Nice video! You should sell this awesome footage as a DVD! Everything in it is great! Love the Big Boy and Yellowstone action! Thanks for sharing!
I agree
Bang on ! showing this to Pop, he'll love it
Steam Locomotives!!...My favorites !!,,,Classic sound!!.
Thanks for the great film. Love how everyone's a critic here. Would love to see some of their work LOL. I miss the old Wisconsin circus train, train 2 here. Watched it as a kid.
A step back in time before my time. Thank you !
Up hill pull sounds like music to me, beautiful!;
Loved the old-style circus train.
I’ve been looking for this video forever! Glad I found it now!
This is a great mix-up of action between the UP "big boys" and the DM&IR "Yellowstone" class. These two locomotive classes are some of my top all time favorite articulated steam locomotive designs, I am glad this footage was captured while they were still in service.
How fortuitous that you happened by a yard sale when you did. I wish there were a way for all of us who love steam locomotives to repay you for your hard work and thoughtfulness.
I become mesmerized at the sight of the dual sets of connecting rods moving in tandem. It gives me a fantasy--I want to shed my human form and become the Big Boy chugging through the hills and dales as my story of life! Stupid? May be but I cannot help. The dream moves me to tears of joy,
When I was about 10 or 11 years old I would walk a block and a half to the UP line and watch these steam locomotives operate for real. Never got tired of watching them spin the drive wheels when starting out. It was wonderful to see, I have never lost the love that I had for these big mechanical machines and never will. Now I'm 73 and can only watch video of these magnificent machines but I like to watch and think back to when I saw them for real.
Very awesome find there, Mr. Sage was very good with his camera too. Thank you.
awesome man! love the circus train! just beautiful images and very sharp! love the UP action!!
Thanks for creating this video!
i personally would love to see steam engines used again, i saw a video of Challenger 3985 pulling a tain of 198 double stack cars by itself, a smaller set of UP EMD diesels were pulling maybe 70 of the same cars and there were 4 of them
Great capture of the Sir Nigel Gresley designed Pacific A4 "Dwight D Eisenhower" and then the man himself. It's said that Ettore Bugatti advised on the streamlining.
I come to this video just by browsing ( was looking for something else ) but I liked it, I did read some comments here, if you added all sound by yourself you did a great job and I like this video, and disregard negative comments here :). You gave to people something nice to watch and some of them do - booo , disregard it, job well done :)
Great catch of Ike. I have put a good many miles on the old Baldwin Steamers for ATSF, these old Alco Big Boys were great steamers. Great film :-)
Some nice shots showing some well-weathered Big Boys in action. I saw Dwight D. Eisenhower two years ago at York when they assembles all six remaining A4 Pacifics at the National Railway Museum. It was quite a sight! Thanks for taking the effort to upload this, I notice several negative comments about the naff guitar music but surely even that can't detract from some fine footage?
There’s one Union Pacific big boy back in action, and it is none other than #4014.
Great vid. Excellent editing. Like the music and the fade… Good job..
Awesome!!! It's great going back in time to the era of steam. Did you know Mr. Sage personally. What a great collection. Loved it.
-Ted
Man I came here to hear the chugging of the trains!!! Not some crappy 1980s music!
Calm down.
Another great find. Thanks for sharing.
What a wonderful treasure you likey saved, Con!
Why so many in the big locomotives?
The whole idea of big locomotives was more power from less engines and crews.
My great uncle and his fireman were the only ones operating his huge 4-8-4 locomotive.
Excellent !!!
Nice collection of old Steam power, and a circus train
Just to say there wasn't a big boy until 2:11. still great footage though!
A beautiful memory!
Wow, I havnt seen a steam locomotive pull a classic circus train in a long time....its always road now, but before was the classic steam railroad way...
+godzilla691138MW3 Actually, Ringling Bros. & Barum & Bailey still uses circus trains as a means of travel even today. The ones you see go by road are smaller circuses traveling shorter distances.
+ZeldaTheSwordsman That's cool.
Love the scene of the 4003 with big black smoke pouring out of her stack. Way cool!
These are indeed some terrific historical archival scenes of steam poser on the rails. Excellent. Thanks for posting.
At 5:55, I know No. 222, is in fact a 2-8-8-4, but looking at it roll by here, it appears to be a 2-6-6-4. I can't make out the full set of drivers here. Strange. It is No. 222 though, no question about that.
You can really thrill to the sight of grotesquely incomplete combustion in some of these run-by's. Whew.
Yeah, it does look like 222 is a 2-6-6-4.
Peremarquette1225 Maybe we better just go see it in person! I never have. Have you?
So I rewatched the footage of 222, and in spite of how things look like 2-6-6-4 at 5:55, between 6:00 and 6:05 you can clearly catch momentary glimpses of the 4th driver, both in the front set and in the rear. In each set, it is the front-most driver that is almost unseen, unseeable in these shots. But between 6:00 and 6:05 you see glimpses of that 4th front driver in each set, just at the bottom, where they are in direct contact with the rail. The problem is that the cylinders are either mounted out from the body more than usual, or are just a bit abnormally large or something, but they obscure those front drivers, almost completely from the angles in these run-by shots. Almost, but not entirely! You can see them looking more closely than I did.
So I also just rewatched this whole set of stuff. Fabulous. About as good set of informal historical shots as I can remember finding on YT. In the slow roll-by of BB 4017 just before 222's celebrity footage, is that the actual sound?? Or something dubbed in? I think dubbed in? There's no steam sounds at all (that I can make out). Maybe the diesel engine sound would make sense. But I think there would have to be some of the steam sounds as well if this was the real audio. Probably from a silent clip I'd guess.
Cyclist0623 222 doesn't exist, but 3 of its fellow Yellowstones survive.
And no, I haven't seen it.
Peremarquette1225 I lived in MN a long time, back when when 222 did run. Moved away quite awhile ago so did not know she was gone. Looked up the records: retired 1962, sold for scrap.
Cyclist0623 at 8:01 if paused you can see the space for the extra wheel And bottom of the wheel itself look for the this white stripe
Amazing,thanks
Thanks, my Marklin 4-8-8-4 BIG BOY is the special Members Only 4013.
Good score at a garage sale!. If the sound and the music is too much, turn it down.
Pretty hi tech shots for the '50's. Very nice.
Bassfanatic94 , Well I'm already thinking of that. theses are just video clips of the main films. I have close to 6 hours worth of railroad action on film. from 16mm to 8 ,Supper 8 mm film. So who knows. we'll see.
Thanks for stopping by.
Len.
In the 1950's
Thanks for stopping by.
Len.
Awesome find. Do you know if you have any completely unique footage in this collection? By that I'm referring to any footage that may be the only existing video record of a certain class locomotive running in existence.
Great Videos !! Really liked it.
Steam, the oldest and still the most powerful type of propulsion. Big Boys could pull a five mile train over a flat surface. Count the number of even our modern diesels it would take today
+talesin- god of the internet Basically true, but there were water pans between the tracks for on-the-move re-watering as well extending the runs. No matter steam rules
choochoo3985 that was an NYC thing
but the 4000's worked in the mountains. i dunno if they could keep the water from running downhill
fun fact: using water pans was called "jerking water" after the need to use buckets of water from streams or track ponds to fill the tender by hand because the town did not have a water tower
a town so small and insignificant that it did not even have a water tower was referred to as a "jerkwater town"
+talesin- god of the internet Great feedback, thanks, Ted
+talesin- god of the internet Yeah, the labor costs are higher. But the Big Boys were so tremendously powerful that they racked up 18 years in service during a time when railroads were starting to dieselize to shorten their employee rosters, only being retired when the cost of coal rose past a certain point.
But 4014 is being converted to oil-burning, and there's always canteen tenders...
+talesin- god of the internet Not quite correct, at least after a time. "Jerkwater" meant that it only rated a water and fuel stop, not an actual station. It referred to jerking the chain that opened the water tower's release valve. And according to what I've read, use of track pans was referred to as "jerking soup", comparing the lowering of the water scoop to dunking a ladle into a soup pot.
Track pans weren't used much in the west, no. There were flat stretches were you could build a pan, but the issue would be getting the water to it. A lot of the railroad trackage in the west is through Miles and Miles of Bloody Desert. No convenient aquifers to pipe the water into the pans from, plus you have the issue of evaporation...
Wow, thank you !
Wunderbare Aufnahmen, wie im wilden Westen :-)
hmm :/
i know all the southern pacific engines like the back of my hand(especially the "Articulated Consolidations" and "Golden State/General Service") and i can name a good chunk of the pennsy arsenal, but when it comes to any union pacific engine accept for the big boy or the challenger... well i cant even tell what class they are.
Title's a bit misleading considering that it doesn't get to the Big Boys until 2 minutes in, and not everything in it's a Big Boy.
2719 is located at the Duluth MN museum now.
that SOO line locomotive at the very beginning... we have that.
Great video!!!!
I note that when it said UP Big Boy on Sherman Hill there appeared to only be one track then?
yes, and is used in excursions.
trainboy94 , You might have seen the same locations, I know I have in other railroad video's but not of the same filming. this video was made out of short film clips of only 1 to 2 mintues long. they were spiced together by him onto a small reel of film.
I have other railroad film that I haven't transferd yet by another person. this film is also 16mm but in black and white. It's of PRSL Class G's and a cable laying in the harbor.
Len.
If you had not purchased these films, would they have been discarded?
16 mm color was not cheap.
Nice job of adding and timing the audio!
Wish that Robert had followed the engines as they passed by instead of letting them roll out of view.
Thank you for posting these for everyone to see. Robert would be pleased.
Fireheart528, Thanks and your welcome.
The city of Duluth has that locomotive of the Lake Superior Scenic Railroad.
I'll try to get a video up.
Lovely seeing 60008 in her newfound homeland, but compete with Union Flag on the front...
---> Molto bello, prezioso e interessante video, complimenti !
---> Very nice, valuable and interesting video, congratulations!
hes talking about the railway museum in Duluth Minnesota
Great Mallet action. Some of the video shots are from the same places as was used in an official UP video from the 50's: "Last Of the Giants". They may have used the shots in this video for theirs! Check it out ...
It's A4 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower. Its in Green Bay Wisconsin.
Shame about the annoying background music. Did you really have to add that over the sound of the locos???"!!!!!!
Ummm, what's with the music? Err, Muzak?? Is this a '90s asset protection training video from the Sears personnel department?
Wot a crackin film..Thanks very much for sharing
Please explain " We have that" ?
Len.
Why use music that sounds like an info-mercial for BASS-O-MATIC?
What's wrong with Bass-O-Matic? lol
It's such a tragedy that all those trains and railroads are gone. If we could only bring back the trains, cars, morals, patriotism, and prices from a better time, while retaining our computers, Nintendo, Cartoon Network, current Pope, etc...
There is somthing about driving a steam Loco they are a Breathing Lady and i used to walk our line an pick up any coal to burn in our stove at night it would Burn all Night plenty of hot water .
And would find a few other things on the line as the toilet went Straight down on the Track,s
5:58 only one locomotive pulling 182 full ore cars!?
It was mostly downhill from the Iron Range of Minnesota to the ports of Duluth-Superior and Two Harbors on Lake Superior. Pulling the cars up the steep grade back to the Iron Range for reloading was often tougher than pulling them down the grade.
I can't imagine one diesel electric doing the same amount of work as "one" of the big steam engines that were pulling those ore cars, but then again I don't know.
Lol i came to the comment section to ask about the music (what song it was) and suprise suprise everyone is dissing the music.
less music, more chugga chugga!
+chick mcgee , Before I added the chugging there was none. A lot of the steam locomotive sound came of steam locomotive records I have. You should be glad I shared them out. I could have just done nothing.
You should delete the 80s music!!!!
+chick mcgee Agree. The music is utterly out of sync with the era seen on the video.
Any text found on tags or stickers on the reels would contain valuable info like date, places etc. which should be added in your video tag.
Nice job sharing the movies with us, thx.
+chick mcgee Agree. The music is utterly out of sync with the era seen on the video.
Any text found on tags or stickers on the reels would contain valuable info like date, places etc. which should be added in your video tag.
Nice job sharing the movies with us, thx.
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What is the name of this music? Its awesome!
It's just a rock song loop that my editing program has. No known name. sorry.
Music of the locomotives is all we needed. Please remove it and re-post. Great videos!
You need to turn the sound down a few notchs.when you show the big boys, barely had the sound up and it scared me when the sound started. great video other wise.
Thumbs up if you clicked this video just for bigboy
dessler cannon
real shame about the dated sound... I'm gathering there was real sound available, why put some Journey (or whatever) on top of it?
chartwel1990 , Your welcome!!
If any there would be a steamer that could handle today's freight trains, it would be a DM&IR Yellowstone. Most freight trains aren't 18,000-19,000 tons (but that doesn't mean there aren't any trains that heavy today, they're probably out there somewhere). I would say around 6,000-15,000 tons. This is my guess.
+09trainman Union pacific is restoring 4014 in 2019 one of the sessions might be pulling long freights over Sherman hill for Union pacific!
I heard, and I'd love for that to happen!
same im a huge union pacfic steam program fan I have acualy been to the shops @ Cheyenne im hoping me and my dad go in march! If you have a question I can ask if Ed Dickens might tour with us he is the Senior manager and heritage operations! Me and my dad are good friends with him and he lets me ride in the cab of Famous 844 Steam engine one of my favorites my next favorite Up 4014! 09trainman
up4014 steam train fan How luck can one be? A cab ride on the only never retired American steam locomotive! But sadly, I live in the southeastern U.S.
that sucks! I live in the area of Union pacfic me and my dad know people that work @ the passenger car shops and the guy we tour some reason knows Ed dickens Senior manager of the operations I also get to Blow the whistle and Scare the Crap out of people but I have to wear ear plugs because I get sensitive with sounds! im not for sure if it will be only me or me and my dad if it is just me that will be awesome! plus the train will go over the Missiouri river now that will be interesting I HATE Wating! 09trainman
It's sister A4 Pacific Mallard ran at 126mph and holds the record for the fastest steam locomotive.
THERE IS VERY FEW OF THESE TRAINS DELUTH MISOBII AND IRON RANGE THEY HAD TWO 2 8 8 4 ENGINES THEY WERE LIKE THE CAB AHEAD ENGINES THAT SOUTHERN PACAFIC HAD THESE WERE BAB BEHIND THEY HAULD ORE FROM THE IRON RANGEMOUNTAINS.
At 3:30, that is a hell bunch of black smoke, guess you need that much power for a big steam locomotive and a long heavy train. Must be puffing on a bunch of coal, hope enough water is in it, and also Id hate to be the guy who has to clean the inside if the boiler when she's parked.
The blackness of the smoke is just the soot. The volume of the 'smoke' is deceptive. Steam locomotives use the spent steam from the steam cylinders to draft the fire in the firebox thus making fire burn hotter and cleaner. The soot and smoke from the fire and steam mix and then are shot out the stack. The steam still has lots of energy left to expand and thus does once it leaves the stack so it does, darkened by the soot it looks like a huge amount of smoke but is actually composed of almost entirely of water vapor aka steam.
In comparison if you are interested look up video of the South African Class 25 condenser trains that did not use steam draft and used forced air turbine (water is precious and hard to supply there) Even on a high ball run on a grade climb they produce very little 'smoke' in comparison because the steam isn't being ejected and is instead being sent to the condensers to get cooled back down into water to use again.
Did anybody notic dwight d eisenhower at the end of a freight, this dates the clip to 1963 when it was donated to the usa
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I HAVE A BOUGHT DVD WITH PRETTY MUCH THE SAME CONTENT,YOURS HAS A FEW EXTRAS.