A 17 car passenger train (not counting auxiliary tender and crew car) is quite hefty, no doubt; but she's easily pulled 32 car passenger trains at relatively the same speed(s); with ease I might add.
I was lucky enough to see 765 in revenue service when I was 10 years old, hauling a long freight train into Buffalo on the last weekend the NKP ran steam locomotives (late June 1958). The end had been publicized in the newspapers, so the folks my family was visiting offered to take us kids down to the crossing when the late-afternoon run was due to arrive. We were at the Cloverbank Rd. crossing in Hamburg Township overlooking Lake Erie and well outside the city, so 765 was only beginning to slow down (it had another 5 miles or so before it reached the switchyards) -- but seemed to me like it was going almost as fast as it did in this clip.
Sorry but NKP 765 was assigned to the west end of the NKP, west of Bellevue, in her last couple of years. In fact, because of the ATS signal system, she usually worked west of Fort Wayne.
@@wayneyork2400 thanks for that info. It's possible I've misremembered the engine #, though I'm pretty sure it was 76* (7-6-something). -- but that fancy font below the cab's side window was hard to make out as it rushed by, so it could've been a 75* series loco as well (but definitely NOT a 77* however!).
Back in the day.. there were machines that can Drink water and feast on coal in their stomachs of fire, expelling clouds of smoke and steam, their steel bodies were more durable than cars, like body armor. if you stand next to one of these machines, you could swear it was alive, they hiss, rumble, and roar. they were Daunting, yet Captivating. Heavy and lumbering but faster than a Grayhound. Their rapturous cries can be heard for miles around like thunder on a dark stormy day. These machines were the most phonominal in all of human history. they were the Steam Locomotives.
Not just ANY steam locomotive, but one of the BEST steam locomotives ever, horsepower at SPEED. Direct descendant of Will Woodard's pioneering A-1, the first 2-8-4. Lima's and Woodard's A-1 was the DAWN of Super-Power. They pulled railroading right out of the drag freight era.
This is American ingenuity! This train sounds proud and powerful! Can you just imagine the feeling the engineer must have operating this beauty and masterpiece along with the crew and the passengers?
This video brings back memories, one of them with the 765 disguised as C&O 2765 in 1993,The CSX roadmaster asked engineer Tom Stephens if he could leave St Albans going east and be in Huntington in 35 minutes, Tom brought her in at the 32 minute mark.
Awesome. 63 years ago, I lived in Melrose Park in Chicago. The rails ran about 100 feet from our house. I watched the last of the Steamers blast by my house on the way to Gary, carrying coal from Wyoming. I still remember it.
The ground hummed and thobbed, the whistle got louder, the steam blasting from the stack and valves got more intense, and amid this chaos out from the cab leaned a friendly face and a happy wave to a very excited kit. Mr. Cool in the cab. I knew I wanted to be an engineer and flog that big steel monster. Time marches on. By the time I would have been able to get the job, it was gone into the steamy mist of a lost era.
The NKP 765 will always be one of my favorites because, -It can pull 18 passenger cars by itself, AT 70 MPH -I love that whistle -And because every year it comes yo my town.
Yeah, he wasn't kidding. These things could easily kill you at 30 MPH. at 74 MPH (the actual top speed she was going) you're going to die. No question. That speed could kill you, even if you were in a modern day car.
This is the definitive steam engine clip to me. I keep coming back for some reason, must be that whistle, it’s about as close to perfection as I can tell.
Definitely felt like she has an attitude with that whistle as she flies past. 😂 I feel like she was basically shouting to any of the other trains around "pfft you guys are cute; let me show you how it's done".
Greetings from England! Wow, look at 765 go, I like it when a steam locomotive runs at 70 miles an hour. As a British Steam Locomotive Enthusiast, I also love international steam locomotives from different countries around the world including your steam locomotives like 765, such a awesome looking steam locomotive and very powerful too. 😉
Kieran Bricker If it did, it would have to never touch the rails. It’s too big, powerful, and heavy for British rails. That’s why British locos have visited the US more than a few times while US locos haven’t visited the UK much or at all. British locos are lighter and smaller.
Wait until you see "Big Boy" 4014. Absolute MONSTER. I've heard that It's the biggest steam engine in the world. Sometimes it runs through Texarkana on the border with Texas and Arkansas.
It’s one thing to see one of these beautiful beasts well-preserved in a museum, but to see one with the regulator all the way open, the way she was meant to be...truly magical.
I'm not into trains and I accidentally found your Channel. I found myself watching this 3 times! It's a great video thank you for sharing it. It's not something you see everyday.
Thank-you to the men and women who make video's available. I remember the 5th avenue tracks of N&W in Columbus Ohio in the early 60's. They come to life.
A symphony in steam.What a glorious sight.I should love to have ridden behind that magnificent beast.Best Wishes from England."They flash upon that Inward eye...then my heart with pleasure fills"
Your right, its a very rare occasion here in the US to see this. Its all politics and red tape. Our railroads aren't operated by 'railroad' people. Its a paycheck to them and steam operations are considered a nuisance and a liability. Thus why we praise organizations that operate and maintain steam and fight against the status quo showing steam has a valuable and useful worth in this country. It IS nice to see when they win once and a while.
Depends on the railroad and the track. Union Pacific regularly runs their steamers at 70+ out on the long straight track out west, but steamers on eastern roads will often run slower, especially through towns and mountains and valleys. However, while 611 seldom runs above 40-50 mph nowadays, she was clocked at over 100 mph running on the flat through eastern Virginia on her last run before her first retirement.
Back in the 30's 40's and early 50's when passenger trains were still worth running and depending where it was 90 mph was common. The Illinois Central,s train "The City Of New Orleans ran at 90mph for miles on her rip south
Max Medaglia I love 611 don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think it would put on a show like that. 611 is beautiful because it’s refined, a little less loud, smoother personality type for a locomotive. This was just pure and raw brute force, steel wheels on steel rains railroading.
Try C&O 614 at 80 mph from the sky,611 is limited to 40 mph,And the 611 CAN get very LOUD when working hard on a steep hill or running fast with a heavy train, search for 611 video from the early 80's on former Nickel Plate lines for some fabulous high speed running.
I made the coolest video ever in the late eighties of 765 blasting through Vandalia Ohio beneath the steam era signal bridge. Showed the video to relatives and their machine ate the tape. Haven't taken a video since, so I'll just watch yours! I was physically sick over that! Thanks for sharing yours!
Many years ago, back in the 1800s, a phenomenal machine was made. A giant steel beast capable of hauling immense loads, as well as a fast way to get people where they had to go. They roamed the hills, open fields, mountains and valleys of the land, with prosperity, popularity and business following them wherever they went. Today, the glory days of these machines are long gone, but many have been preserved and some are operational today, and they live to tell the tales of the past. They spoke with their heart and soul through their whistles, which echoed across the countryside, and made their presence in the various communities known with their signature chuffing sound that they always made. These machines weren’t just any machines, they were one of man’s greatest technological achievements: *The steam engine*
Though I never got to see them, I sure heard them roar through Fostoria , Ohio , usually Westbound , in the mid '50's ,just like this. You could hear them for many, many blocks away - like a rocket through town !! I was 4, 5, and 6 years old at the time visiting Grandparents. Most of my memories though, were of the slow moving Lake Erie &Western district or "Sandusky Division " of the Nickel Plate through Fostoria, Ohio as it slithered it's way through town and out to Archadia, Ohio. Many memories of waiting at crossings watching 1917 vintage 2-8-2's do switching by the Lake Erie & Western Depot in town !!
I saw her in Binghamton when I was about 3 years old back around 1970. One of my earliest memories and left quite an impression. She was pulled up just past the DL&W station and underneath the old Chenango Street viaduct.
Wonderful video of Nickel Plate Road 765 going extremely fast at 70 MPH. Clearly on going. I would like to see this 2-8-4 “Berkshire” in service at it’s current home. Great video. Another beautiful locomotive.
It's what she was built to do. It was her very purpose for being. I understand, rationally, why diesel replaced steam. But I think we lost something substantial in the trade.
A steam locomotive has life in her that no diesel or electric locomotive can duplicate. Seeing those pistons and connecting rods pulsing it is a beautiful sight. This video gave me an inner satisfaction that is pure pleasure.
She was built for fast freight drags that why she can go at 70mph easily!, or haul 20 heavyweights at speed Berkshires are perfect for everything unless if its pulling weight above their pulling power limit
as a lifelong train enthusiast, there is nothing greater to me than a steam train at full speed with its whistle screaming. Legit gives me an adreniline rush just watching a video so, can only image what it'd be like irl
Love the Nikel Plate Road 765, the steam locomotive that runs on the Trans-Continental Railroad, revolutionised the world!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I remember I used to go to the siding in front of my house in Jasper , Virginia and find a joint in the track and go sit beside it off the ballast and when the coal trains would come I could feel the thumping of the excursion steam engines , like the 4501 , and when the coal trains would come it would be flanges screeching and thumping and horns and whistle and such . My favorite noises
This is a great catch. Not only did you catch an NKP 765, but you caught a FAST TRAVELING NKP 765. As a railfan, I'm jealous that I haven't caught this live yet. Anyway, great catch!
James, I pretty like the Nickel Plate Road 765 steam locomotive whooshess and whistles through the level crossing when it passed through the trees... 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
If they have another Nickel Plate run on the Rock Island line I'm going to have to get some tickets! Get to Blue Island, Il for some of the best train watching you will EVER have!
When it ran on the NS 21st Century Steam excursions NS imposed a 40 mph limit. I was on two of them in PA. The first was Horseshoe Curve on May 25, 2013, and the second was a lot closer to me from near Bethlehem through Allentown to Pittston and back over NS and RBMN on August 22, 2015.
The fact that this thing can run at mainline speed, with it being so old is amazing to me. The folks who restored this thing did one of the best jobs restoring a steam locomotives of all time
That is magnificent, but what I really took away from this video is how little time there is between the barrier dropping and the train arriving. Here in the UK, certainly where I live, you usually have to wait two to three minutes for the train to arrive. I timed this at around 25 seconds!
And its very rare to see this. Once upon a time is was taken for granted. An everyday occurance. But now? its as rare as seeing an Apollo mission to the moon.
That kind of speed does damage to things both on and off a locomotive that old that can be difficult to both repair and maintain. Dynamic augment for one turns the driver's into hammers and tends to link the rails. Then there's the wear and tear on driver crankpins and cylinder walls.
@@yerkees01 --- welllll -- I've seen videos of the last of NKP steam in the 50's and they did not go that fast. NKP was known for its fast freights and they were faster than most, but their fast freights rarely went as high as 70mph. Go look at some videos featuring NKP steam in the 50's. NKP 50's videos ua-cam.com/video/XWwGAhhrTtw/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/_hc9dJPvt0M/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/0SpC0UzEYLU/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/O9tNx921EQk/v-deo.html
Beautiful just beautiful. I grew up in a CPR company house that sat between the Canadian Pacific mainline and the Canadian National mainline and saw the end of steam. I was nuts about trains and steam engines and I had my fill every day until they disappeared.
Brings back fond memories of 759 on the Golden Spike Centennial train in 1969, when it came through Illinois, but not going quite that fast. I do have a few pictures of it, and also the model of it.
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Folks is it just me or I could watch that clip over and over again. Gets my adrenaline going every time.
Me too mate.
@@jimregan2006 Me also. A wonderful engine in full flight, and not a diesel in sight!
@@jimregan2006 same here
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Oh same! Nothing like 404 tons of steel barreling down at you going 70mph!
Wow! A lengthy train, at 70mph, under her own power, no diesel help, all steam! Incredible!
A 17 car passenger train (not counting auxiliary tender and crew car) is quite hefty, no doubt; but she's easily pulled 32 car passenger trains at relatively the same speed(s); with ease I might add.
@@e-train765 weren’t the Berkshires built for that? Long trains at high speed iirc
@therago1456 Yes, the Lima Locomotive Works A1 2-8-4 is the grandfather of all Superpower Locomotives.
That video was amazing!
The diesel locomotive purpose was primarily for dynamic braking. (parts for steam locomotives aren't readily available like they used to be)
0:38 The best sound in my opinion.
Just the sound of the whistle as the engine races past the camera is just so satisfying.
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More like 0:34
I was lucky enough to see 765 in revenue service when I was 10 years old, hauling a long freight train into Buffalo on the last weekend the NKP ran steam locomotives (late June 1958). The end had been publicized in the newspapers, so the folks my family was visiting offered to take us kids down to the crossing when the late-afternoon run was due to arrive. We were at the Cloverbank Rd. crossing in Hamburg Township overlooking Lake Erie and well outside the city, so 765 was only beginning to slow down (it had another 5 miles or so before it reached the switchyards) -- but seemed to me like it was going almost as fast as it did in this clip.
Sorry but NKP 765 was assigned to the west end of the NKP, west of Bellevue, in her last couple of years. In fact, because of the ATS signal system, she usually worked west of Fort Wayne.
@@wayneyork2400 thanks for that info. It's possible I've misremembered the engine #, though I'm pretty sure it was 76* (7-6-something). -- but that fancy font below the cab's side window was hard to make out as it rushed by, so it could've been a 75* series loco as well (but definitely NOT a 77* however!).
@@markabbott3936if you saw 763, 757, or 755 that’s still lucky cause all those are preserved
Back in the day.. there were machines that can Drink water and feast on coal in their stomachs of fire, expelling clouds of smoke and steam, their steel bodies were more durable than cars, like body armor. if you stand next to one of these machines, you could swear it was alive, they hiss, rumble, and roar. they were Daunting, yet Captivating. Heavy and lumbering but faster than a Grayhound. Their rapturous cries can be heard for miles around like thunder on a dark stormy day. These machines were the most phonominal in all of human history. they were the Steam Locomotives.
They weren't called iron horses for nothing.
Not just ANY steam locomotive, but one of the BEST steam locomotives ever, horsepower at SPEED. Direct descendant of Will Woodard's pioneering A-1, the first 2-8-4. Lima's and Woodard's A-1 was the DAWN of Super-Power. They pulled railroading right out of the drag freight era.
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Well said
That’s called a Franklin stove
This is how steam should operate! Like in the old days, when the PRRs Broadway Limited and NW's Roanoke to Norfolk runs usually averaged 80mph!
Or when the Hiawathas got up to 100
Or when the New York Central's 20th Century Limited had a Right on time streak.
Blame modern insurance.
Amen for that
Don't forget when the PRR and NYC would regularly go up against each other in what was effectively the U.S equivalent of Britains Races to the North.
409 Tons of sheer beauty at 70 MPH. And she has a voice. Sounds like music!
Amen
Maybe 50
That Nathan 6 Chime whistle is beautiful.
Amen for that
It's art, really. Similar story with 844, give or take a few tons...
This is American ingenuity! This train sounds proud and powerful! Can you just imagine the feeling the engineer must have operating this beauty and masterpiece along with the crew and the passengers?
The engineer is The Master of the Rails. 🔥🔥🔥🚂🚂🚂
For years, I've been wanting to see a steam engine reach 70 mph, and now 765 has done it! This is awesome, thank you for capturing this moment.
ThomasZoey3000 search up Union Pacific 844
Or search any other steam locomotive that has ran excursions on the main line.
Also search "765 on New River Trains". A couple youtube vids exist of that subject. Oh Man! Blow your socks off!
NJTransit Productions .... have you even heard of an A4 Mallard?
Up844 does it all the time...
This video brings back memories, one of them with the 765 disguised as C&O 2765 in 1993,The CSX roadmaster asked engineer Tom Stephens if he could leave St Albans going east and be in Huntington in 35 minutes, Tom brought her in at the 32 minute mark.
I was on that expedition! It was indescribable! It felt like we were traveling with a celebrity and when she’d scream we’d all shiver. It was amazing.
Awesome. 63 years ago, I lived in Melrose Park in Chicago. The rails ran about 100 feet from our house. I watched the last of the Steamers blast by my house on the way to Gary, carrying coal from Wyoming. I still remember it.
i- wow, that's the kind of childhood i wish i had.
Me too, just by Indiana Harbor Belt, Soo Line, and Milwaukee Road lines in Franklin Park. Plus my Dad was a Trainman, so I saw lots.
The ground hummed and thobbed, the whistle got louder, the steam blasting from the stack and valves got more intense,
and amid this chaos out from the cab leaned a friendly face and a happy wave to a very excited kit. Mr. Cool in the cab. I knew I wanted to be an engineer and flog that big steel monster. Time marches on. By the time I would have been able to get the job, it was gone into the steamy mist of a lost era.
Truely one of the best and most visceral displays of the collimation of the mechanical art.
Wow! Absolute beauty and power. She was really flying down those tracks. I wish I was there.
Listen to that stack and that whistle, it's a thing of beauty!
The NKP 765 will always be one of my favorites because,
-It can pull 18 passenger cars by itself, AT 70 MPH
-I love that whistle
-And because every year it comes yo my town.
She could pull more than 18 without breakin a sweat
she can pull them faster than that if you let her get the bit in her teeth
Y’all think that’s good? N&W 611 can pull 25 cars at speeds of 110mph!
Stafford Northern Railroad You think *thats* good? UP 844 can pull 30-40 cars at over 100 mph.
@@wtf-hc3tp Right I know a locomotive, the NR3562 that can pull a 80 car load at 130 mph, and that's without even trying.
Almost 2 years later and it still wells me up. Good on ya 765!
That's right up there with watching a Saturn 5 launch or Secretariat at the Belmont. Rare and awesome as hell.
Buck Rogers, Both programs And Star Trek all rolled into one
Manly things designed by men!
@@fhowland Hear! Hear!
Superb observation, and great picks. The Shuttle launches weren't too shabby either.
Perfect 10!!! What I liked about it no diesel assistance.
james watson at that speed, there would be no "assisting" involved. Any diesel in the consist would just be along for the ride.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!
And that is what made this such a beauty!!
yeah, I DO love it that there are no diesels, but Marke is right. Steam does achieve its maximum horsepower at a much higher speed than most diesels.
But diesel suport is meant to provide elecricity to the train.
As it should be
I’ve been watching trains since I was about 5 and I’ve never seen a train like that. That was incredible.
as my dad would say..." you kids get the hell back!!"
LOL
Yeah, he wasn't kidding. These things could easily kill you at 30 MPH. at 74 MPH (the actual top speed she was going) you're going to die. No question. That speed could kill you, even if you were in a modern day car.
Then proceeds to walk closer himself
This is the definitive steam engine clip to me. I keep coming back for some reason, must be that whistle, it’s about as close to perfection as I can tell.
What a great feeling it must have been to be a steam locomotive engineer, they are a feat of incredible engineering.
Definitely felt like she has an attitude with that whistle as she flies past. 😂 I feel like she was basically shouting to any of the other trains around "pfft you guys are cute; let me show you how it's done".
Those jointed rails and old searchlight signals push this video even closer to a perfect 1940s anachronism. Great job!
What a site! I’m so glad I got to see her at full speed as well. Hopefully she’ll get to stretch her legs again in 2020
Greetings from England!
Wow, look at 765 go, I like it when a steam locomotive runs at 70 miles an hour.
As a British Steam Locomotive Enthusiast, I also love international steam locomotives from different countries around the world including your steam locomotives like 765, such a awesome looking steam locomotive and very powerful too. 😉
Jordan Shingler it should make a visit to England!
Kieran Bricker If it did, it would have to never touch the rails. It’s too big, powerful, and heavy for British rails. That’s why British locos have visited the US more than a few times while US locos haven’t visited the UK much or at all. British locos are lighter and smaller.
Wait until you see "Big Boy" 4014. Absolute MONSTER. I've heard that It's the biggest steam engine in the world. Sometimes it runs through Texarkana on the border with Texas and Arkansas.
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It always does my heart good to see a steamer high balling it.
It’s one thing to see one of these beautiful beasts well-preserved in a museum, but to see one with the regulator all the way open, the way she was meant to be...truly magical.
I'm not into trains and I accidentally found your Channel. I found myself watching this 3 times! It's a great video thank you for sharing it. It's not something you see everyday.
That's a good excuse for you to go railfanning some time lol😂
I love the haunting yet romantic howel of the steam train before you see it then it comes around the corner. Love it
That is the definition of "Highballing".
There's sonething about a steam whistle......Love it!
man I got chills....felt like I was really there! Epic video!
Thank-you to the men and women who make video's available. I remember the 5th avenue tracks of N&W in Columbus Ohio in the early 60's. They come to life.
A symphony in steam.What a glorious sight.I should love to have ridden behind that magnificent beast.Best Wishes from England."They flash upon that Inward eye...then my heart with pleasure fills"
Whilst steam specials travelling at speeds in the 70's is commonplace here in the UK, it is obviously not so in the USA...nice to see!
Your right, its a very rare occasion here in the US to see this. Its all politics and red tape. Our railroads aren't operated by 'railroad' people. Its a paycheck to them and steam operations are considered a nuisance and a liability. Thus why we praise organizations that operate and maintain steam and fight against the status quo showing steam has a valuable and useful worth in this country. It IS nice to see when they win once and a while.
Depends on the railroad and the track. Union Pacific regularly runs their steamers at 70+ out on the long straight track out west, but steamers on eastern roads will often run slower, especially through towns and mountains and valleys. However, while 611 seldom runs above 40-50 mph nowadays, she was clocked at over 100 mph running on the flat through eastern Virginia on her last run before her first retirement.
Back in the 30's 40's and early 50's when passenger trains were still worth running and depending where it was 90 mph was common. The Illinois Central,s train "The City Of New Orleans ran at 90mph for miles on her rip south
70 mph is the top speed for Amtrak where where permitted
FS2K4Pilot for the record, The 611 has been restricted to a MAXIMUM top speed of 40 mph on all excursions since late 1985.
Best train video on UA-cam hands down. This is just something that can not be matched.
Bill Palmer
Hey, if 611 is used on a similar trip this year, I hope you're ready to eat those words.
Max Medaglia I love 611 don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think it would put on a show like that. 611 is beautiful because it’s refined, a little less loud, smoother personality type for a locomotive. This was just pure and raw brute force, steel wheels on steel rains railroading.
Try C&O 614 at 80 mph from the sky,611 is limited to 40 mph,And the 611 CAN get very LOUD when working hard on a steep hill or running fast with a heavy train, search for 611 video from the early 80's on former Nickel Plate lines for some fabulous high speed running.
I made the coolest video ever in the late eighties of 765 blasting through Vandalia Ohio beneath the steam era signal bridge. Showed the video to relatives and their machine ate the tape. Haven't taken a video since, so I'll just watch yours! I was physically sick over that! Thanks for sharing yours!
That's the way to run an excursion! No diesel backup. I love it.
Many years ago, back in the 1800s, a phenomenal machine was made. A giant steel beast capable of hauling immense loads, as well as a fast way to get people where they had to go. They roamed the hills, open fields, mountains and valleys of the land, with prosperity, popularity and business following them wherever they went. Today, the glory days of these machines are long gone, but many have been preserved and some are operational today, and they live to tell the tales of the past. They spoke with their heart and soul through their whistles, which echoed across the countryside, and made their presence in the various communities known with their signature chuffing sound that they always made. These machines weren’t just any machines, they were one of man’s greatest technological achievements: *The steam engine*
This HAS to be one of the best steam videos EVER!!
Though I never got to see them, I sure heard them roar through Fostoria , Ohio , usually Westbound , in the mid '50's ,just like this. You could hear them for many, many blocks away - like a rocket through town !! I was 4, 5, and 6 years old at the time visiting Grandparents. Most of my memories though, were of the slow moving Lake Erie &Western district or "Sandusky Division " of the Nickel Plate through Fostoria, Ohio as it slithered it's way through town and out to Archadia, Ohio. Many memories of waiting at crossings watching 1917 vintage 2-8-2's do switching by the Lake Erie & Western Depot in town !!
It's not that often one sees a American steam engine running that fast, even with few cars! Excellent video!
I saw her in Binghamton when I was about 3 years old back around 1970. One of my earliest memories and left quite an impression. She was pulled up just past the DL&W station and underneath the old Chenango Street viaduct.
A very-lovely video. The steam-engine moves smoothly and effortlessly. And the train looks good.
Una Maravilla,,no me canso de verlo marchar,,,agraciados, quien todavía Lo tienen. Saludos desde Argentina.
No diesel engines connected.
it's beautiful what raw power such an old engine can do!
Wonderful video of Nickel Plate Road 765 going extremely fast at 70 MPH. Clearly on going. I would like to see this 2-8-4 “Berkshire” in service at it’s current home. Great video. Another beautiful locomotive.
That 'Ol girl is MOVING!
It's what she was built to do. It was her very purpose for being.
I understand, rationally, why diesel replaced steam. But I think we lost something substantial in the trade.
without a shadow of a doubt,the most noble and innovative invention ever conceived in the mind of man!!!!
Love it! Like John Wright said, she sounds like an unleashed beast! I love that locomotive!
A steam locomotive has life in her that no diesel or electric locomotive can duplicate. Seeing those pistons and connecting rods pulsing it is a beautiful sight.
This video gave me an inner satisfaction that is pure pleasure.
Gyod she is FIERCE! Coming thru, everything and everybody get the heck outta’ the way!!!!
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Unreal video - and sublime camera work here! Must have been something else to see in person!
She was built for fast freight drags that why she can go at 70mph easily!, or haul 20 heavyweights at speed
Berkshires are perfect for everything unless if its pulling weight above their pulling power limit
as a lifelong train enthusiast, there is nothing greater to me than a steam train at full speed with its whistle screaming. Legit gives me an adreniline rush just watching a video so, can only image what it'd be like irl
I saw her coming through Raymond, IL about ten years ago. She was speed limited on N&W main to 40 mph, but still magnificent.
This honestly overwhelms me with emotion. Beauty and Power at it's finest!
I don’t care what anybody says, the Berkshire is the best 2-cylinder freight loco design ever to grace the rails.
Great whistling sound of the Nickel Plate Road 765...... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Love the Nikel Plate Road 765, the steam locomotive that runs on the Trans-Continental Railroad, revolutionised the world!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I pretty like that...
I pretty like that Nikel Plate Road 765... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
It was clocked at 74 actually
Donna Ross
Metra163 - HD Video Productions, how do you know?
Sigh, there's always one, with a non-essential "well actually... ". Congrats with the minor correction. Enjoy sniffing your own farts.
@@Janszler Absolutely Brilliant, . . . and 100% correct, they give me the shits !!, cheers.
Ackshually
I remember I used to go to the siding in front of my house in Jasper , Virginia and find a joint in the track and go sit beside it off the ballast and when the coal trains would come I could feel the thumping of the excursion steam engines , like the 4501 , and when the coal trains would come it would be flanges screeching and thumping and horns and whistle and such . My favorite noises
Nothing more powerful than Steam! Great filming.
This is a great catch. Not only did you catch an NKP 765, but you caught a FAST TRAVELING NKP 765. As a railfan, I'm jealous that I haven't caught this live yet. Anyway, great catch!
So beautiful it makes me emotional. Thank you!
What a glory! A train-full of gratitude for posting
that was borderline violent and i loved it
She's a sight 20 feet from the ballast at that speed
I must watch this video 5 or more times a week for the past 3 years now! And I never get tired of it 😂
I would love to see this locomotive come to Canada!
Such a long train carrying many bogies, amazing. Never seen such a long steam train. Nice capture.
My god, it sounds like it's screaming.
Beautiful sound
This has got to be the most viral train video on UA-cam. I swear I see it everywhere
Never get sick of seeing that.
James, I pretty like the Nickel Plate Road 765 steam locomotive whooshess and whistles through the level crossing when it passed through the
trees... 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
I pretty like the 765 steam locomotive.... 🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I pretty like the steam train.... 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
I pretty like the steam locomotive.... 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
I pretty like that sound of the steam locomotive.... 🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I pretty like the steam locomotive.... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
You just got to love the 765 sweet whistle
If they have another Nickel Plate run on the Rock Island line I'm going to have to get some tickets! Get to Blue Island, Il for some of the best train watching you will EVER have!
I love the noise it makes when it first starts to come up the tracks 😀
😡 another hibbs
@@davidhibbs6989 sit on it and spin 😠
When it ran on the NS 21st Century Steam excursions NS imposed a 40 mph limit. I was on two of them in PA. The first was Horseshoe Curve on May 25, 2013, and the second was a lot closer to me from near Bethlehem through Allentown to Pittston and back over NS and RBMN on August 22, 2015.
Wow that looks like it's been close to 80mph
Rode home one night from Jim Thorpe, PA on a High Iron excursion behind 765 doing about 60mph, what a thrill that was, beautiful engine.
High Iron Co. operated the NKP 759 from 1968 to 1973.
Gives a whole new meaning to pouring the coals to it. Just beautiful!
Bravo STV.com...thanks for as mighty pass-by roar.
Poetry in motion.
The fact that this thing can run at mainline speed, with it being so old is amazing to me. The folks who restored this thing did one of the best jobs restoring a steam locomotives of all time
Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 S-2 Berkshire #765 speeds at 70 miles per hour on her way back.
That is magnificent, but what I really took away from this video is how little time there is between the barrier dropping and the train arriving. Here in the UK, certainly where I live, you usually have to wait two to three minutes for the train to arrive. I timed this at around 25 seconds!
She ran at 60+ mph routinely with NKP hotshots. Just another day in the life for this ol girl!
This just makes me happy. I keep rewatching it. :)
It's amazing no EMD or GE locos on the train
The perfect video.
The track noise, the whistle, the look.
I never seen that Nickel Plate locomotive go that fast
Eddie the steam train fan that's how fast she was designed to go :)
And its very rare to see this. Once upon a time is was taken for granted. An everyday occurance. But now? its as rare as seeing an Apollo mission to the moon.
That kind of speed does damage to things both on and off a locomotive that old that can be difficult to both repair and maintain. Dynamic augment for one turns the driver's into hammers and tends to link the rails. Then there's the wear and tear on driver crankpins and cylinder walls.
@@ericgriswold1268 It doesn't, the train is more balanced at 70mph, than it is at 25mph.
@@yerkees01 --- welllll -- I've seen videos of the last of NKP steam in the 50's and they did not go that fast. NKP was known for its fast freights and they were faster than most, but their fast freights rarely went as high as 70mph. Go look at some videos featuring NKP steam in the 50's. NKP 50's videos ua-cam.com/video/XWwGAhhrTtw/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/_hc9dJPvt0M/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/0SpC0UzEYLU/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/O9tNx921EQk/v-deo.html
Beautiful just beautiful. I grew up in a CPR company house that sat between the Canadian Pacific mainline and the Canadian National mainline and saw the end of steam. I was nuts about trains and steam engines and I had my fill every day until they disappeared.
0:38 It looks like those wheels are gonna spontaneously combust.
Awesome! Just listen to her talk. I had a chance to see her 3 times through the years but not once was she roaring at this speed.
What a beauty
Holy cow! That stack talk sounds like machine gun fire! Great footage!
The sheer power and grace of that locomotive is phenomenal! The movement of the side and main rods look like blurs!
I probably watch this at least once a day lol
Brings back fond memories of 759 on the Golden Spike Centennial train in 1969, when it came through Illinois, but not going quite that fast. I do have a few pictures of it, and also the model of it.
Satisfying. I watched it 5 times