Pennsylvania 643 Steam Train
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Operated by the Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association, this Pennsylvania 0-6-0 runs back and forth on a 3/4 loop at Dillsburg, PA. Recent arrival Whitcomb #52 is also used for switching as well as backup motive power.
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I got the chance to operate 643 for an hour on May 30th. It was a great experience and it's a nice perk to see her in a video and know I was at the throttle beforehand.
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I am fairly certain that is a Lunkenheimer 3-chime whistle; I recognize the sound from Nevada Northern #40's Lunkenheimer
PRR 643 is a 0-6-0 “switcher” built by the Altoona Works in 1901.
She was rejected, refused, and denied. Then when all the other engines better than her were gone or retired, she still ran. What a legend.
I'm pretty sure I'm correct about this but have there only been 4 steam locomotives from the Pennsylvania railroad that have run in the preservation thoses being 1223, 7002, 1361 and of course 643? That is also the only operational Pennsylvania railroad steam locomotive as off now but soon 1361 will be running in the future
@Spence Pots that won't be ready for another decade
Kind of miss the old girl, should go see her some more this year
0:58 Nice....Reeeeaaalll nice
What type of whistle did she have in this video? A PRR 3 Chime I'm going to assume.
i dont know but she has had an old J1 3 chime
Lunkenhimer 3 chime, a sister to a Pennsy, conmen mistake
low steam on the engine in the beginning of the video. They pulled the locomotive off the train and put it in the siding and ran the train with the desiel as we built up enough steam to resume operation. If you can see in the video, while 643 is sitting in the siding, the blower is on full blast. I was still fairly new at firing 643 and well obviously...wasnt having a good day! lol I fired too light on the previous trip and well..learned not to do that again.
Low steam, eh? I noticed 643 has not one, but TWO dynamos on the front... my experience with dynamos while at Hesston is that they are extremely hungry for steam, to the point we turn on the headlight to quickly alleviate an imminent pop off! Completely possible your fire seemed too light because of this reason. Cheers
if memory serves me, i think we blew out the flues thoroughly and after that she fired pretty well after that, right?
Which class is she? I know she isn’t a B6sb since she would have a belpaire firebox. Didn’t the b6sa’s have round shoulder? Or could she be an early B class? Either way she doesn’t look Pennsy at all.
643 is a much older design from the late 1800s, even though 643 herself was built in 1901. She's a PRR B4a from the Juniata shops, although she no longer has the original boiler, the boiler she has now is not identical to her original, which probably makes her look a little less "Pennsy" as you noted.
Dynamo Productions thank you for the response. I was wondering because someone acting as they are from the group runner her stated they weren’t aloud to use the belpaire firebox for some reason. A boiler switch makes way more sense.
It would be awesome one day if 75, 126 and 643 could triplehead together!
i am so glad we fixed that leaky whistle!
Nice Job I was there again on July 15TH this year and I will be back there again on Labor Day weekend for there big fall steam show tractor parade they do every Labor Day weekend in September of each year
Imagine 643, 26, and 113 all side by side. It would be epic.
Who’s 26 and 113?
@@jeremyasher297 26 is Baldwin 26 at steamtown. 113 is the CNJ steam loco in minersville
Oh yeah. Those two.
awesome video! but what was the problem at the beginning?
Glad you enjoyed, just some steam issues.
nice!
Glad you enjoyed
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