Rio Grande Southern 41 Leaves Durango For The Final Time
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- View Part One Here: • Rio Grande Southern 41...
Hey Everyone, it's Big Diehl and we're back with something big... but small...
It's a C-19 Consolidation, which is MUCH smaller than what we're used to seeing here on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge... But What is this locomotive? Is this the 42 that's in the Roundhouse Museum? No! But, the tender has the same logo... Wait, a C-19? That's the same class as what Hyce ( @Hyce777 ) runs at the Colorado Railroad Museum ( @crrm )... But curses, No, it's not his 346, and its not his 20, though the logo again is of the long gone Rio Grande Southern that ran from Durango to Telluride and on to Ridgeway and Ouray (some flatlanders just can't handle US Highway 550 and the Million Dollar Highway... all scared cause there's a 400-foot drop and no guard rail).
Nope, this is the long ago left for California # 41 from the Rio Grande Southern and has just finished up her rebuild. After years of going and making right turn after right turn at Knott's Berry Farm where it's been on the Ghost Town and Calico Railroad since the 1950's we watch as it goes for A LEFT TURN! After a complete frame off rebuild by the Durango Shop forces in the roundhouse, the 41 left on the 18th of November for a trip to Rockwood and back.
But now we're back on the 27th to watch the final run of a Rio Grande Southern locomotive out Durango for the foreseeable future. Join us as we head to Cascade Canyon and back on the famed 41 of the Ghost Town and Calico Railroad at Knotts Berry Farm in more appropriate surroundings.
Oh... Did we mention the cab ride? Yes, we get up and take a cabride in this historic piece of equipment as it makes left hand curves.
By the time you’re reading this, the venerable consolidation will be heading west to cross the trestle of Ghost Rider, under the shadows of Silver Bullet, the ghost of Montezooma's Revenge and salute at Camp Snoopy… all to get some of Mrs Knott’s Fried Chicken and boysenberry pie.
So let’s make that left turn look for that Distant Signal, oh wait, we’re not delay in block even though we’re out of Yard Limit (though his calling card appears) as we follow this coasterfan adjunct locomotive.
I worked as conductor for this locomotive at Knott's Berry Farm several years in the early 90's. To see it running in its native environment is magical to say the least.
Please give credit to Knotts Berry Farm for preserving this Gem. Hats off to the Durango and Silverton for the superb work done to make it run again for all of us to enjoy no matter where it’s at.
Knowing that 41’s last run at D&S would be in the snow was a wonderful set off before returning back to my home state of California.
What a beautiful site. I'm glad Knott's sent her out to get repaired. #41 is a big part of Knott's Berry Farm History.
What happened to her anyway?
@@thesocalrailfan She was old and needed a rebuild. Now #41 is back at Knott's
Already, when did it go back?
@@thesocalrailfan Dec 1st
Ok is it running or in the shed ??
That must have been a fun ride on the tender deck . Great video as always
It was!
Wow you got to ride in the cab that is so cool what a grand finale for 41 before her return back to California in the future sister engine 42 will someday return to steam since she was converted to burn oil sometime during her final years on the RGS 42 would make a great engine to run on the Durango and Silverton since all of the engines are being converted to burn oil with the exception of engine 481 which is the last coal fired steam engine on the roster but for now currently the attention is taking K-28 number 478 out of the museum to be put back into service due to increase in ridership and for the first time since the 1990s soon all 3 K-28 Class logo motors will be in service once again now that all three engines have turned 100 years as of this year
The #42 is a C-17 and was converted to burn oil when she was at the Maguc Mountain enterprise in Golden, CO backnin the 60s
@@williamdickman7917 I did not know that very interesting it would be nice if she would return to steam someday
STUNNING footage. At times, it looked like something out of a movie or even an 1890s photograph!
A fantastic video of the C-19#41 in wintry Colorado. The scene from the locomotive's cab is great.
A beautiful drive through the snowy landscape. Great video, thanks for showing it, best wishes and Merry Christmas.
This things a beauty and I remeber riding her at knotts and during that time I always through that she should go faster and farther. This is litterly a dream come true.
Glad I could help you with this! I was really neat to see. Who knows what will happen in the future
@@Big_Diehl Honstly I feel bad for theme park locomotives there’s just an oval of track they run on 24/7 mabey never getting the chance going faster, no scenery to past by and just concrete everywhere you go.
@@TheTransportationFanfromCA cant you say the same about most locomotives at museums?
@@kbfbest oh yeah
I love that you can physically see in the video the engine 41s lurching and it corresponding with the 4 consecutive chuffs. Amazing video
What you love is an out of balance running gear. And engine that lurches is tearing is bearing apart. It is not something to be happy about. Maybe you don't understand how engines or big machinery works.
@@organbuilder272 well by love I meant I love that you can see it through the video I know that a lurching engine is due to multiple factors, there is out of timing running gear, broken suspension, as well as the infamous way that a lot of geared engines just jump violently due to their construction in general.
I don't necessarily love seeing the engine doing that. Lol
I must admit that it is curious to see an engine, followed by its consist rocking down unwell rails. You wonder how they get where they are going. But the rocking you speak of in purely one of imbalance. Interesting thought, however.@@NowhereMan260
OUTSTANDING....Loved how you captured water fills and the cab ride. One of your best!
Glad you enjoyed it! I try to present a decent product
Nice work on the departing shot at Hermosa. That was a good show.
Looks like I might have to take a trip to Knotts next Spring(2024). See the old girl again and take a ride. Been decades since I seen it last.
That was spellbinding!!!
Outstanding footage, I hope you don’t mind I’ve shared it on the knotts berry farm fan groups on Facebook. Now if I could make this my tv screen saver 😂
Thank You... I hope she made it back safe, they were supposed to have it loaded up two days after I left it.
Another FABULOUS video, great job.
AWESOMENESS! Another excellent video on my favorite RR! A video on the move to KBFRR wou be an idea 😉 My model RR has a few consolidations that are very similar to this Steam engine!
I could have been… but a pre planned trip of drinking at Caesars Palace and a concert Wednesday was pre planned… 🤣
Great video, but the description, on point.
Spectacular video!
Many thanks!
Awesome video! A fitting last trip before being sent back to Knott's Berry Farm. At 6:52 , found it interesting they were putting flue sand in the firebox like that. Any reason as to why they add that in?
Sanding the flues is a normal practice on oil burning locomotives. The soot sticks to the side of the flues and in a coal burner the particulates scrape these off. So on the oil burners, the soot is cleaned off by putting sand through the fire door.
I would like to see Rio Grande Southern #41 running.
She’s back up and running as of yesterday at Knott’s!
That joke at the end was 'Rio Grande'!!!
I thought it went pretty south…
And I always thought Bob was Big Diehl.
No Bob’s in our part of the family tree
Looks like she has some packing issues with blow-by at the cylinders.
They were fresh and still setting.
What could be next, one of Disneyland's engines end up here.
Lol... No... nope... uh uhh... nada... I mean, if you do, there wont be this for sure...
Disneyland engines are too small and delicate for the kind of work required on the D&SNG. . .
When will she arrive back home at Knotts?
She’s already there. I’ve seen photos of it in the barn already
Will RGS #41 ever come back?
Who knows... I hope, she's obviously able to now...
16:47take on some water at the needleton tank and then a struggle up a 2.5 grade, for the last time.😢
Track is OOS to Needleton
this engine seems a bit too F A M I L I A R
What do you mean?
@@CoreythelordoftheIsles it’s the same engine from calico railroad at Knotts berry farm
Why did the engineer over-run the water tank? The fireman or brakeman was giving him signals.
He’s been spotting, the same class of locomotive here for nearly 30 years… Probably force of habit…
@@Big_Diehl Right, Marks on the ties. Hey Thanks for the video. Good job on keeping the shots steady. Nice scenic views too.
Do you think 41 will ever come back to visit the D&SNG again sometime in the future?
I wouldn’t hold my breath… but I wouldn’t completely rule it out.
Doesn’t have to be the final time.
True, but unless Six Flags/Cedar Fair makes it happen….
Honestly looks like something out of MSTS, I wouldn’t have walked out my back door to see this
Part of me wonders if Knotts Berry would ever consider 41 reunite with RGS 20 sometime in the future.
That is a very far out question…
It's sad to see 41 return to Knott's Berry Farm after such a short time at it's home, the locomotive is a piece of history, it does not deserve to be a theme park ride, only going 5 miles per hour. It deservers to be where it belongs, on the Silverton line, charging up the grade, doing what it was built to do. It was built to haul proper trains, up a grade, through the mountains, and past the Animas River. It doesn't deserve to be at Knott's Berry Farm, it deserves to be at it's home, in Durango. At Durango, it can be appreciated as a piece of history, not a theme park ride built for people's pleasure. It's not Ghost Town and Calico Railroad number 41, it's Rio Grande Southern number 41. think the same can be said about D&RGW 340.
Yeah #41 is part of Knott's history so it needs to stay at Knott's.
#41 has been at Knotts longer than it was on D&RGW or RGS!!!! Get used to it.
@@williamdickman7917#41 was treated far better at DRGW and RGS. Get used to it.
@@riverforkrailfanner1024 LOL What does that mean? Knott's hired Durango to rebuild her. That's good thing. What is with people having this opinion?
how do you know how 41 is treated at knotts or how she was treated on the RGS and D&RGW?
Livapayannuhday
You are a big deal!
Do they have to ring the cockamamie bell 90% of the time? 😂 I've really enjoyed all #41's recent videos and am sorry to see her departure.
Are you sure you’re not watching the Eureka video from 2012? 🤣.
They’re ringing the bell where they’re required by rule such as engine service areas, approaching crossings at grade, etc. there’s nothing superfluous I saw.
I don't understand this. Why is this engine going to Knott's Berry Farm? What are they going to do with it. That's in California - how will it get there. It is std gauge? No.
What's going on? What with the D&RG do without that engine?
knotts has owned the locomotive since 1951.
This locomotive has historically been with Knotts Berry Farm longer than any time in Colorado. It came on a truck to Colorado a couple years ago and is already back at Knott’s Berry Farm.