Working on a Steam Locomotive [4K]
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- •This video shows various points of work that goes into running a steam locomotive every day.
•The locomotive seen in the video is Denver and Rio Grande Western (D&RGW) mikado (2-8-2) #491, one of the largest narrow gauge locomotives ever created. It now runs at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. It has ~37,100 pounds of tractive effort, and weighs ~150 tons or ~302,000 pounds. It was built in 1928 by the D&RGW Burnham shops in Denver, Colorado using the boiler off of a standard gauge D&RGW 2-8-0. #491 is a pristine example of a locomotive perfectly suited for rugged, mountain climbing work.
•Copyright 2017 Jeff Berrier All Rights Reserved - Наука та технологія
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*_New videos are in the works!_*
Sorry it has taken so long, but this has been a very busy year for me so far!
*_An Update:_*
• In January, _The Walt Disney Company_ found me and presented an offer I could not decline to join their roundhouse crew that takes care of the 5 steam locomotives as well as the steamboat at Disneyland.
• The roundhouse at Disneyland is very much so off limits to the public so creating videos there is not permitted (as of right now).
• I travel back home (Colorado) very frequently to help out as well as do contract work with the various railroads in the state (Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, Colorado Railroad Museum, etc.).
• During these trips to work on the locomotives out in Colorado, I come up with new ideas for videos and collect all the footage I can to create them.
Thanks for everyone's patience and new videos will be out very soon!
-Jeff Berrier
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Excellent--congratulations on your new job and thanks for sharing such fantastic videos. I have watched them several times--enjoying every minute!
You have a verry COOL JOB! my man!
Congratulations!! It is evident that you are fulfilling a lifelong dream! Your work with steam locomotives is one of the ways to preserve that chapter of American transportation history. With your contract work, and the work at Disney, it is evident that you are very good in what you do! Maybe we should also bestowed upon you the title of “Traveling Engineer.” May your job give you great success and happiness!
Thats a nice looking shay
You gotta do what’s best for you, but leave it to Disney to prohibit any video taking that in somehow doesn’t make them $$$$. Best wishes!👍🏻
Such a complex machine for it's day. Today we may have more complex machines like an airplane but that doesnt require mechanical labor like running one of these great huge mechanical marvels, hats off to you. love your videos. they are so well detailed and informative. Thomas the train has my full respect now too.
airplanes and steam locomotives were still being developed at the same time. steam wasnt phased out until the early 1950's
I can see why my dad and grandfather's loved being engineers, thanks for your dedication in preserving those pieces of history. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
My maternal grandfather "Cap" Kelly ran a steam locomotive for the Long Island RR, and then the first diesel that replaced them
I love that you captioned details of what you're doing in your videos. They've totally demystified steam locomotives for me. I've learned so much. Thanks and keep them coming!
Your videos are absolutely the best of their kind that I've ever seen on UA-cam! It's the kind of thing I've been searching for years for. Thank you so much for taking the trouble to make them!
Thanks for ALL the videos,without your trouble to set the camera Everywhere we would not get to see this awsome stuff sitting clean behind the iPad.
To me ,impatient as I am at work like this, it’s so much trouble to work, weld , grind,build, much less moving a camera and narrating.
So thank you for showing us this awsome steam machinery of a time past . Without guys like you it will be lost. The malineals of today will never appreciate this or ever care about STEAM.
I LUV THIS STUFF
WADE, IN Louisiana
Another thought, it’s not just a machine, it’s a living thing. One has to care about it as you do,wipe it with oil to prevent rust, like lotion on our hands and body.
This shows an attitude that people are losing. Most workers are just there for a check.
You show a great quality as an engineer, patient ,caring ,climbing all over that engine.
Good man!
Wade
Awesome stuff Jeff. Thanks again for giving us a glimpse into your work. 👍
Wonderful display of people who care and know what they are doing. The behind the scenes view of what goes on before the passengers are seen and board the train. Lovely video, showing a steam loco in all glory, rust leaks and steam just as they are, a working beast. The fireman working round the firebox with coal before starting put me back on a footplate and had my hand twitching to have a shovel in my hand once more. Great work all round. Amacf
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Thank you Jeff for the videos. My dad started as a fireman on steam locomotives in the late 1930’s. By the time I came along, he was an engineer. Eventually, the company phased in diesel. I am happy to say that I was the son of a locomotive engineer and proud of it. Now, to binge watch your channel. Earl
I used to work a preserved railroad here in the UK it is great fun working with machines similar to this
Keep your videos coming. This is a lot of fun to watch. Thanks for taking the time.
Absolutely tremendous. Brilliant. Astonishing.
Your work and that locomotive are certified superlative generators!
I really enjoy these videos, Jeff. I quite like the title-based narration too. Feels like you are right there in the shop watching.
Yeah the best part of NOT having some silly voice narration OR stupid music track!!!
Ok, so who can identify what the levers do? I think I figured out the long horizontal one is the throttle, and maybe the tall vertical lever is the brake, but what about the two smaller brass levers to his left that he opened and shut?
@@HobbyOrganist tall lever is the gears-forward back- and the two small ones are the brakes. Sorry for being 4 years late.
Wow what a great video Jeff! Thanks for sharing with us!!
Very interesting video of all works that have to be done to run a steam locomotive. Descriptions, camera work and cut are perfect, thank you. You are a very young team running this aged engine ;-) Thank you for preserving and running this relict of a important phase of our engineering history.
Got into this channel from your starting up the train video, this is another great one to watch. Thank you for this!
You guys are the best PJLINY! THANK YOU!
I visited a train museum in Portland that restores trains just last week, it’s was super cool. Keep up the good work people
Thank you for another amazing video! Happy holidays and have a great 2018! Hope to see more!
Jeff, I have watched & enjoyed all 3 of your videos hopefully, there are many more to come. I especially enjoy your shooting and editing technique.
Like feeding and watering a giant pet! Thanks for your efforts in providing and educating us from a era past👍🏻🇺🇸
Just recently discovered your videos and enjoy them very much. A dream come true, really!
I grew up in Durango in the 60s. My friend and I would ride our bikes down to the roundhouse to see the locomotives (all K-28s at that time as I remember). Now, as a mechanical/aero engineer, I really appreciate seeing your videos on the inner workings of my beloved D&RGW engines. So cool! I love the cab ride videos as well. My brother and I plan on riding the Cumbres Toltec this summer. I've never been there to see it in person. Keep the videos coming and congratulations on your Disneyland gig.
Great work and great footage. Thank you.
Before I forget: HAPPY NEWYEAR,Jeff, also for all the crew-members!!
I think this isn't just a JOB for you....this is Really a labor of Love.
I've much enjoyed your videos, Jeff. They bring back great memories of running ex-Florida East Coast #113 in Miami, Florida during the late 80s/early 90s. 113 was a light Pacific, oil-fired, and was very much my "baby." Absolutely loved that engine! Alas, unless some munificent benefactor comes along, she'll never run again. Requires a major rebuild, including a new firebox and new tires.
Someday I hope to have a chance to run a steamer again. Watching you and seeing the cab, I can STILL feel my hand on the throttle and brakestand, and all the little (but important) things that must be remembered when running, like keeping an occasional eye on the hydrostat, and opening the cylinder cocks once in a while.
And knowing that the blowdown is a very effective means of extinguishing a small trackside wildfire that thank goodness was on the same side of the engine as the blowdowns! Passengers got quite a show that day.
As far as hands-on jobs go, you have a good one. What a rare experience to be able to see a true steam engine up close, let alone work on one. I'm sure you have several jealous viewers.
This is awesome. Working on 1800s locomotives while recording and sharing content with modern technology.
Amazing video man!!
Thanks again for another great video!
Another great video Jeff! Definitely a beast from the Good Ole Days! Merry Christmas!!
Awesome video!
Wow! Excellent video. Great history. Like re-living it all over again.
Outstanding. It's not as easy as people might think.
Ive worked on steam tractors before, but always envied working on a steam loco.
What an incredibly filmed video. Excellent in all regards. Im a train nut , so this is right up my alley. Thx.
I was enthralled by it all. respect from MAINE USA .
Fantastic video, thank you!
You sir are a professional. I hope you make a good living doing this. I would trust my safety to your good hands. This video put a smile on my face And I wish they would bring back steam locomotives on a limited basis. They are feats of engineering and there is a beauty in their ruggedness.
It is exciting watching him play with the adjustable wrenches!
I don't know if you'll see this comment but, if you do, I just wanted to tell you this. I'm a pretty frequent visitor at Disneyland and I've seen you and another roundhouse crew member running Ernest S. Marsh (my favorite locomotive) occasionally. You guys seriously put on quite a show and demonstrate how a locomotive should truly be run. Its awesome to see such a love and passion for steam power that it has rubbed of onto me. Starting in October, I'm going to start volunteering to do maintenance on Ventura County Railway #2 at the Orange Empire Railway Museum.
Great video for those who can only dream. Thanks for posting.
once again a fantastic video. Thank you
Fascinating video series. Very cool and great to see young people doing this work to preserve the history and knowledge.
Thanks for the videos. Very astonishing
Thank you for a great video. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Jeff: give my compliments also for the person who made this video!!
You really captured it. well done
Excellent Camera work -- editing is wonderful. So much can be learned from your filming skills.
Very atmospheric and informative video, great stuff.!
>> 38:30 : I loved the warm welcome to the engineer from the townsfolk as he headed through the station area. !!
Great video! Awesome to see a K37 live on.
Dear Jeff! Of course i could write a whole story about your videos; but i say: AMAZING!!! greetings from Holland.
Thank you for this wonderful video. Good work.... YVO
being next to a steam locomotive is the maximum! working on your maintenance is for few good work at all
I like the petrol lamp inside the cabin...❤️❤️❤️ This video is living history. Thanks. you make me feel so good watch this video.
love what you get to do buddy, living the dream
Hey, we need more videos! Excellent work!
I just found your videos. Fantastic! I'm an airline pilot but I've always secretly dreamed of being a train engineer...steam only of course! Thanks for your great videos and to your devotion to these great machines!
Awesome Jeff - I enjoy these videos! So funny, just as I was thinking to myself "man if that were me I'd take some oil and a rag and wipe down the rods...then, lo and behold at 10:05/06!! Nice to know I'm of the same mind as the guys I look up to.
Jeff, Thanks again for the nice video. Keep going!!
Great video! Love your series. Visited the CRRM last summer with my dad and saw 491 under steam on display that day. I would like to see a video about putting the engine to bed for the night, I've wondered how that's done. I've heard of a few methods (banking the fire, capping the stack, "breaking" the injectors, etc.), but would like to see how you guys do it. Keep up the great work, Jeff! Cheers from Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
I'd love to see this too, as well as what has to be done to take her down all the way cold.
Another good, and informative one.
Really really interesting, enjoyed every minute of it and only the music from the train, great 👍😊
Thanks for sharing. It's a lot easier to understand now why engineer used to be such a dream job.
This. Was. Glorious. ...and I was thinking about the people that had to have performed a full-on F.R.A. Certified restoration. Mad Skilz, labors of love.
Fantastic job, Jeff! All three videos are outstanding. The photography and editing is excellent as is the depth of the content, showing the grit and grime of these magnificent beasts and the herculean effort necessary to make them run. If only you could include the heat and smell, too. My only gripe is with youtube itself and the placement of their stupid ads over your text. Nice work.
Very well work, thank you!
Fascinating video, excellent photography and content. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing.
so good to see a man who truly works and cares about the machinery it is the old way I have a million questions but only two I will ask is this your favorite ? do you have names for the engines ?
Awesome Stuff !!!!
Thank you Jeff,I was confused thinking the push rods where stainless steel,I cant believe the amount of work you do to fool a old man in thinking they are not SS.LOL.Very cool..Ty73s
First time here and this was very good..I have some catching up to do..Merry Christmas..
This is where engineers and repairmen get very good practice.
Wonderful videos!!!!
Keep em up!
Thank you . Clever ,strong and a handsome guy you are !!!
You are awesome!
Un grand merci pour le partage de cette très belle vidéo qui est très intéressante . Vivement une prochaine vidéo . Encore merci. ( À big thank you for sharing this very beautiful video very interresting...eagerly a next video. Thanks again ) 👌👍
thank you great
job
How did you learn so much of this at the age you are, it's pretty extraordinary.
WHAT CAN I SAY, HAVING THE AMERICAN STEAM TRAIN ENGINEER JOB REALLY IS FOR EVERYONE OF AMERICA!!!! AND WE LOVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVES SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D
felicitats un gran video / congratulations a great video! ;-)
this is my dream job
thanks for sharing I work on the 4-8-4 #261
I my work is mostly on the passengers cars
@Jeff Berrier what oil do you use on the rods? when I've done that on my loco in the UK I've used paraffin and oil mix
Interesting to view, family worked on the Wabash line after the Civil War.
Потрясающая работа :D
Zen and the Art of Steam Locomotive Maintenance
👍🏻👍🏻😊😊👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️. Good video. Very very good.
Another silent video, nice.
You seem to what is happening, when and where. GREAT VIDEO?
That young man knows how to operate that locomotive!
Looks too young to know how to operate a locomotive, must have had a really good teacher.
👏👏👏👏👏👏very cool.
Those adjustable wrenches you were using look like the tools the guy at jiffy lube used on my 2018 BMW 750. That's probably why the light is on.
Can you make a video where you show all steam trains what you got in your train depot, Jeff :) ?
I just love being on the footplate.
Hi Jeff! You've made a great video. I have a few questions:
1. Why the throttle needs to be jerked? I'm asking because my only practice with steam engines is from MSTS.
2. What is the wrapped pipe on the boiler side? It looks like kind of steam condenser.
3. Do the blower must be always turn on at to keep fire in the firebox when loco stays idle for a longer period of time?
4. What happens when you put to much water in the boiler?
5. Why is the leakage from the tender?
Thanks, and I'm waiting for more videos
You can jerk the throttle if it is a floating throttle. It allows a little steam to enter the cylinders just enough to move the locomotive in small increments
I am not Jeff, but I will add some points:
1:
Jerking the throttle is just to control the amount of steam to the cylinders on slow operations. Steams entering from the throttle valve the following super heaters, which are a huge space. If you open the throttle to wide, there is so much steam feed into this space, so the cylinders will do much more revolutions under steam power, as you wanted, so you fill the superheaters by jerking the throttle - or pumping. So the steam enters and with a delay, the cylinders get this steam, and operate. You reopen the throttle, just so inject another impulse of steam from the boiler - and so on, so you can control the engine pretty well, especialy on engines without a front throttle.
2:
It's not a steam condenser, this is a air cooler. Compressed air from the air compressor/air pump is usually warm, and occasioanlly hot. So to prevent damage to the fittings and reservoirs, many US locomotives use air coolers, just to ensure no overheating of the air lines and reservoirs.
3:
No, you can shut down the blower, if no drought is needed. this depends, on how much heat you need. If you stay longer in the station, the fireman will slowly reduce the blower to minimum, and if the locomotive stays much longer, he will shut it of. But to raise the fire, and raise temperature - thus rainign the pressure, the blower is adjusted, just to ensure a good draft and thus a good combustion of the coal.
Usually locomotives stay in stations with a little blower, just to keep the fire alive, but on several stops, i.e. before the trains starts rolling down a longer gradient, the blower remains shut, as no strong combustion and firemans work is need, but will be opened BEFORE the driver wil reopen the throttle, because after long downhill rides, the fire needed to be put back into full working order, and this required some time, approximately about 15 minutes... during this reworking the blower is open, just to ensure the fresh coal is well lit and the pressure is raised, BEFORE the driver will reopen the throttle.
4:
A serious problem. If the driver opens the throttle, the same happens with a soda can, which was shaken: The gases in the liquid a kept in the liquid by the pressure. As sson as you open the can, the pressure drops and the gases from a huge amount of bubbles, like in a wild jacuzzi... in a soda can the can will just spill over, but in a boiler this spill over will cause water entering the superheaters and fill them up. Because boiler water is a kind of liquified steam, this huge amout of water will evaporate uncontrolable, causing non stopable wheel spinning really wild, could blew of the superheaters or blew of the cylinder or valve lids...
So such a spill over or carry over as firemans call it, have to be avoid under all ocations, so keep the water level down...
A good fireman doesn't require to adjust the water level by the blow down valve. Usually you open the blow down valve, because to remove the slurry and mud from the foundation ring, which build up because of salt and lime content in the water. The water level is usually adjusted by operation of the water pump according to the steam demand by the driver - so you regulate the water by feed pump operations.
5:
Well you might spot, that Jeff just overfilled the tender and had a little spill over.
So the water level if more of usual in the tender, so because of overfill, some parts get hit by a water level to high and water will spill of any point... as the water level will come down to normal, this little "leakage" will just not occur... so a tender slightly over filled with water, then water might come of some ventilation holes, probe holes or even some not sealed fitting of water draining pipings leading back into the tender... this happens and isn't serious, just a sign of: There is a little to much water in the tender tank....
You probably won't see this, however what are the requirements to becoming a locomotive engineer? I'm thinking about going into the field. I've always been great at working with my hands and I can possibly use my experience of building robots (competitively) to help me in this profession. I suppose that's quite a time travel going from working on new tech to tech hundreds of years ago haha. Thank you so much for keeping these huge beautiful machines running fresh like the day they were built. 🙏
Not sure if question was asked but is there anthracite mixed in since you’re getting blue flames.
jeff, i worked on that R&R in 1970.