The Final Hurrah: Grand Canyon Railway 29
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Grand Canyon Railway 29 is a 2-8-0 Consolidation type built by ALCO in 1906. It pulled iron ore trains for the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad until 1960 when it was retired. In 1989 it was bought by the Grand Canyon Railway and was restored to operating condition in 1990. In 1995 the engines was taken out of service for a rebuild and came back in 2004. When Xanterra Resorts took ownership of the railroad, one of their goals was to better protect the environment with less emissions, and ended daily steam operations to the canyon. This resulted in 29 once again going out of service and would be put on display at either the canyon or Williams, AZ. In August 2016, the National Park Service was about to celebrate its centennial, and for the occasion, steam would operate for 4 consecutive days, and 29 was brought back to a service to help celebrate. The last day of steam featured a doubleheader with 2-8-2 4960.
Since 2016, 29 has been used to pull regular excursions to the Grand Canyon National Park, and was used in a photo charter in 2017. However, it’s boiler was close to expiring, meaning it would need to go back out of service to be taken apart, inspected, and reassembled. This is known as 15-year rebuilt, meaning this process happens every 15 years, or after 1472 days of operation.
Trains Magazine hosted a special photo train with 29, only days before the engines would go down for its inspections. The 2-Day event featured 29 pulling classic Harriman coaches on day 1, while day 2 featured yard shoots with a freight train, side-by-side runbys, doubleheader, and 29 pulling Harriman coaches. It’s unknown how long 29 will be out, or whether it’ll be brought back altogether, but we can just hope it’s not for long.
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29 is a beautiful Consolidation steam locomotive. I'm visiting the Grand Canyon Railway on December 23rd 2019, on the Polar Express.
Awesome find those ATSF Boxcars & ATSF Flat car my favorite ATSF Railway i'm super happy that those ATSF freight cars are still around today!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍
I really wish I got to see 29 before her removal from service but I unfortunately wasn't able to :( and I feel so jealous my uncle to got see her and 4960 back in September for the doubleheader run and hope this next overhaul doesn't take another decade to complete
Agreed! I went to the Grand Canyon once in like 2007 and our train was pulled by 29. Which makes it my favorite locomotive of them all
Gcry #29 is a female train
@@nadaydradavis9285 Bruh
Great video man! Was great meeting you there to.
Great catches and nice video
Hi friend! I love the southwest chief to! :D also nice video and keep it up
It’s like being there!
They did that during my birthday on Oct 27
29 is running in the Canyon and I know where 4960 is it’s in the shed
29's rebuild is supposed to start this 2020
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Cool!
The GCRY needs to operate their steam power more often!
They operate their steam engines quite often actually, at least once a month during the spring and summer.
@@centralcaliforniarail I already knew that. That's not nearly often enough!
@@amtrak_121 That’s way more than most other steam operations. Not sure why you’re complaining
@@centralcaliforniarail because steam locomotives are awesome. And no actually it's not.
@@amtrak_121 Have you ever done any basic research about maintaining a locomotive? A 1472 boiler inspection/overhaul happens for every 1472 service days. If the GCR or really any steam locomotives ran for every single day then that would mean the FRA boiler inspection would happen every four years which would result in the locomotive being out of service for a long ass time. Constant running would wear the locomotive down and it would cost a fortune to get it fixed and it would take YEARS. It already take a long time dismantling locomotives for it's inspection and checking every single nut and screw, it takes double, sometimes triple to overhaul it. I can understand wanting to see steam locomotives running more frequently but it isn't the steam era anymore, there aren't locomotive shops that can keep them maintained in a matter of days, museums only have donations and volunteers, and most parts that need replacing need to be made from scratch which also costs a lot.
I live near lake superior
I think I recognize the beginning music from the Intro of LazerJet's videos. (He's a British UA-camr who streams Train Simulator)
What whistle does grand canyon 29 have? I know its a Five Chime or something.
it's a custom 5 chime
R the ALCO locomotives on the GCRY still in service?
Some are, not all
Only FPA 6793
Whistle sounds clogged
It’s a homemade 5 chime whistle.
To be honest, I would say that the Star Brass 5 chime (or was it a Chinese 5 chime or an SP Desert 5 chime? I don’t remember what kind of whistle it was) sounded way better on the 29 compared to the homemade 5 chime.
CameraManRailFan i saw one of your train crash documentaries so can you make the 1990 Back Bay train collision documentary do it right now
Sorry I'm not doing that one
@@CameraManRailFan ok
@@RandomRetroTrainGuy82 Thunderbolt did it.
@@harrisonofcolorado8886 I Already know
Do it right now? You need to work on your phrasing man, that sounds extremely rude
Not 29 again.