My grandparents lived in Cincinnati in 1956. Their house was close to a N&W yard just up from a crossing. My mom and brothers took the B&O to the Queen City almost every summer to visit and as soon as we greeted our grands, we boys would go train watching until supper time. We loved the Y6s.
More groups are restoring classic trains AND railroad lines/ tracks so you can still see or ride on them. There are also lots if great train museums. Especially in PA. We have had the N&W J 611 visiting in Strasburg all summer. ~ Take Care
THE finest, imho. My step grandfather was a pipefitter at the N&W Roanoke shops. My parents actually rode the Pocahontas several times from Princeton/ Bluefield, WV to Roanoke.
This was an outstanding video. The narration pages were great also. Absolutely love the couple shots that showed some mid 50's cars driving by. This country was a manufacturing powerhouse back in those days.
For those who don’t what the person who said that’s 2156, the Y6 class 2156 was retired from service in 1959 and was bought and preserved by the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri where it still currently resides
Hope your week is going relly well amazing video as allways a ture legend and a big 👍 from me keep up that hard work and looking forward to the next one
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There is little point to have the trouble of a mobile nuclear reactor with all of its shielding and additional supply systems when you can have a nuclear power plant that stays in place and supply the power by overhead wire. On top of that, loading gauge limits the size of the reactor, especially if you want to also have shielding. Also, for places where electrification wasn't viable, diesel locomotives were good enough not to bother either.
@@paulwomack5866 understood, but they could have moved it just enough when text was on the screen so that one could read the text, or they could have read the text with voice over.
Luckily, it doesn't block much of the historic facts being given. With a little work we can piece together what was being shared. O.T. Didn't realize until recently that people were copying/ plagiarizing others' popular works and then passing them off as their own purely for monetization / viewer status.
No, there were plenty of steam locomotives with more horsepower than the Y Class. The C&O H8 Allegheny was pretty much the limit of a single steam locomotive with over 2000 more HP than a Class Y. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-6-6-6 and ua-cam.com/video/C7eTRkSNvOs/v-deo.html
The trouble with the Allegheny was that it had too much weight on undriven axles, in excess of 260,000 lbs whereas the Y6 only had some 60,000 lbs on undriven axles and it a had an adhesive weight some 15,000 lbs greater than the H8. It was a far better machine for the work that it had to do. The extra horsepower of the H8 came at a great expense in extra weight which did nothing to allow these engines to deliver their power successfully. @@markantony3875
These locomotives working hard pulling these heavy trains uphill sounded amazing.
Nice to see a train without graffiti.
Lol so true
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My grandparents lived in Cincinnati in 1956. Their house was close to a N&W yard just up from a crossing. My mom and brothers took the B&O to the Queen City almost every summer to visit and as soon as we greeted our grands, we boys would go train watching until supper time. We loved the Y6s.
I can tell I'll like this already.
I was lucky to watch these great trains as a kid and still buy Lionel locomotives from this era.
Lionel still makes amazing products like there vision line
More groups are restoring classic trains AND railroad lines/ tracks so you can still see or ride on them. There are also lots if great train museums. Especially in PA.
We have had the N&W J 611 visiting in Strasburg all summer. ~ Take Care
Cool
Tkx for posting this video. It has all the elements I need to help me out making train sets in my HO layout 🤜🤛
Great video! Thanks for posting
Glad you enjoyed it!
The N&W built some of the finest steam power in the world!
aGREE, rOANOKE,vA. sHOPS
THE finest, imho. My step grandfather was a pipefitter at the N&W Roanoke shops. My parents actually rode the Pocahontas several times from Princeton/ Bluefield, WV to Roanoke.
Master piece❤❤❤:seal of approval by Aeros
My favorite road because they made their own great engineering
This was an outstanding video. The narration pages were great also. Absolutely love the couple shots that showed some mid 50's cars driving by. This country was a manufacturing powerhouse back in those days.
For those who don’t what the person who said that’s 2156, the Y6 class 2156 was retired from service in 1959 and was bought and preserved by the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri where it still currently resides
Yeah, back when he had a life
I really enjoyed watching the various locomotives and the explanations about what was happening. Thanks...!!
Hope your week is going relly well amazing video as allways a ture legend and a big 👍 from me keep up that hard work and looking forward to the next one
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Any old films on the N & W electric operations and Virginian Railway would be nice to see.
very very beautiful traine❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Electric trains might still be around a million years from now. Unless they invent an anti gravity machine.
Cool to see 2156 as the pusher. Thanks for uploading!
Ugh. The watermark obscures the text... Great footage otherwise!
Most of the scenes incorporated in this film where photographed in 1957's nw 1217 N&W
The trains have a lot of head end cars,mail and packages . That was before UPS and FedEx.
That situation might well return to a degree in the years to come.
16:55 that’s 2156!
Back when he had a life compared to now
Trains without graffiti. I miss America.
It takes a lot less steam engines to get it over the hill compared to diesels
Do the bells and whistles sound different!?
Yes. At least, the whistles did. They had various numbers of "chimes" tuned differently.
am typing this while look in bright light ahead come closer
They're cargo movin people from n&w railway
I wonder if someone thought about heating steam train with nuclear control rods after the war like air craft carriers today
There is little point to have the trouble of a mobile nuclear reactor with all of its shielding and additional supply systems when you can have a nuclear power plant that stays in place and supply the power by overhead wire. On top of that, loading gauge limits the size of the reactor, especially if you want to also have shielding. Also, for places where electrification wasn't viable, diesel locomotives were good enough not to bother either.
@@tz8785 Not to mention a potential nuclear accident in the event of a wreck.
I see it mentioned already but the number and timer being in the frame shows disdain for your viewers.
It's only an inconvenience if you intend to pirate the video, Doug.
@@zackstewart4109 no it’s a pain if you are trying to read the text behind it on the screen.
They used to have smaller number/timer and their film were repeatedly pirated. So "that's why we can't have nice things"
@@paulwomack5866 understood, but they could have moved it just enough when text was on the screen so that one could read the text, or they could have read the text with voice over.
Luckily, it doesn't block much of the historic facts being given. With a little work we can piece together what was being shared. O.T. Didn't realize until recently that people were copying/ plagiarizing others' popular works and then passing them off as their own purely for monetization / viewer status.
Pretty much the upper limit for steam engine power
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_and_Western_2156
No, there were plenty of steam locomotives with more horsepower than the Y Class. The C&O H8 Allegheny was pretty much the limit of a single steam locomotive with over 2000 more HP than a Class Y.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-6-6-6 and ua-cam.com/video/C7eTRkSNvOs/v-deo.html
@@markantony3875 thank you
@@paulwomack5866 You are welcome.
The trouble with the Allegheny was that it had too much weight on undriven axles, in excess of 260,000 lbs whereas the Y6 only had some 60,000 lbs on undriven axles and it a had an adhesive weight some 15,000 lbs greater than the H8. It was a far better machine for the work that it had to do. The extra horsepower of the H8 came at a great expense in extra weight which did nothing to allow these engines to deliver their power successfully. @@markantony3875
And so as the big boi