Rode this as a kid years ago, good memories, thank you. God bless. Jesus loves you!

This brought back some childhood memories. My grandfather was a mechanic in the Santa Fe Cleburne TX shops and worked on steam engines and the early diesels. When we go to visit him we'd go to Six Flags. I always remember him going and talking to the engine crew and they would let him ride in the engine. He loved steam engines. I can understand why so do I. I hired out for the Santa Fe as a conductor out of Galveston in 1979. There were still qualified steam engineers left working at that time. I won't forget them or the stories they told me because they knew I loved trains.

Hey Cliff! Former SF&T engineer brethren here, 96-99. Now a line haul truck driver moving double pups to and fro. Started there as a conductor as did my wife of 25 years. Currently injured nursing a broken wrist. Thank you and the rest of the crew for this. It did my heart good. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of my first loves Mary Ann and Lydia P. I am so amazed at how things have changed but also stayed the same. I laughed so hard when seeing the rail being greased. I thought "they will be a dropping sand later on the inside rail." Then the wheel slip in the same places followed by sand being dropped on the inside rail. I got a face full of sand by an inexperienced engineer one time during a similar sand out as in this video. They did a great job! Also loved seeing my Lydia (CJP) having her cameo at the end. Again- Thank You and enjoy it every day! PS- I got to work Goodtimes Depot, make full loops while they built Boomtown Depot and was one of the ride supervisors" there when Boomtown opened 😊

@DustyWingsProductions

5 ай бұрын

I'm really glad you enjoyed this. I started as conductor originally back in 1980 and moved up to fireman. Moved to the river for the 82 (last) season. Came back I'm 2014 and am still having a ball. If you haven't already, be sure to check out all the other videos on the channel. Lydia has her own show on one.

So much love for this railroad! Will never take for granted how fun it was to work with this amazing crew.

SFOT should use this as a training video. haha TRAINing

I just recently retired from the Union Pacific Railroad Shop in Fort Worth and I really love your video...thank you for sharing, now I really miss the railroad again!

@DustyWingsProductions

23 күн бұрын

I'm glad you liked it. You can always come join us!

Cliff...this video was AWESOME!! A very interesting and informative video that can not only teach people who are not familiar with what all goes on in the background, but it's a great instructional video for people who are "train savey" as well . All I can say is EXCELLENT 😀!!

@DustyWingsProductions

11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Great video! It's amazing to see those old locos running well and looking great after more than a century

A day on the railroad, but no mid-trip relight to wake the neighbors? Those were my favorite… It’s been a few years since I worked with y’all. Good to see some of you are still around over there. I hope ol’ Red’s running well since she’s not in the video, unless Kirby broke her. Miss y’all. -R

@DustyWingsProductions

23 күн бұрын

Red is the only one out at the moment. Sam is going through some major refurbishments

What a FANTASTIC video! Thank you Cliff for all of your hard work on this! And thank you for all that you do for the SF&TRR!

@DustyWingsProductions

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! It is a labor of love for sure.

I miss this engine running I love the red engine but my favorite one is the green one though

It would be cool to see Kings Island do something like this

@DustyWingsProductions

10 ай бұрын

I'd do it for 'em if they wanted.

Nice work. Glad to see you guys seem to have survived the heat this year.

@DustyWingsProductions

10 ай бұрын

Thanks! It got to a couple of us here and there.... but we did come out on the good side

@royreynolds108

Ай бұрын

Mike, remember me at the Jefferson & Cypress Bayou RR in Jefferson, TX. I was there off and on until 1/92.

@mikemcabee5830

Ай бұрын

@@royreynolds108 That's a serious way back memory, Roy. Hope you're doing well!

There would be no SF without the train, thank you for this video.

@DustyWingsProductions

10 ай бұрын

You are most welcome!

Another great video!

@DustyWingsProductions

9 ай бұрын

..... Said one if the featured people. But really, thank you.

I love this man. And hey, I’m gonna be in your area next month!

Sanding out below 130psi? Charlie would have a few words to say about that. :-) Love the video though!!!

@DustyWingsProductions

9 күн бұрын

Green just doesn't hold pressure like she used to. Getting to the sand out point at 130 is good these days.

@BrianGordon-r7l

8 күн бұрын

@@DustyWingsProductions Maybe so, but I didn't see the fireman getting the firebox hot before pulling out of Boomtown. That makes all the difference IMHO. Just happy to see the old girl run and appreciate the video. Thank you! I made it a life mission to sand out at no less than 145psi. I might be a bit OCD though. I'd have to open both injectors and the dynmo, to keep from popping off. I know it's not easy on Sam to keep the pressure up when the engineer is using so much steam. I'd go into notch 3 as early as boomtown crossing as the engineer and through the tunnel until putting it into 1 to sand out. It seemed to help the fireman keep the pressure up. Now, it is harder to play catch up on CJP, but once you have 150psi on him/her, not much the engineer can do to prevent me from being at 150psi the whole run. If the pop-off valves were not teasing me, I wasn't keeping enough pressure on a sand out! Once I fired and engineered the MBL/CJP, I totally see why it was Charlie's favorite engine! :-)

Great Video Cliff, THANK YOU.

@DustyWingsProductions

10 ай бұрын

You are welcome!

Amazing job, Cliff. I miss working with you guys on the train so much.

@DustyWingsProductions

10 ай бұрын

Miss you being here

I give this video a thumb up

@DustyWingsProductions

11 ай бұрын

Twice? That's two thumbs up total. I feel special!

we got a 2-4-2 tender engine oil fired

I alway wondered how hot the cab gets in there

@DustyWingsProductions

9 ай бұрын

In 1980 ot got as high as 130 or so. You can generally say it's about 15°‐ 20° hotter in the cab than thr ambient temperature

@royreynolds108

Ай бұрын

@@DustyWingsProductions In the cab of No 7 on the J&CB, the thermometer in the cab could easily hit 140* F. She burned propane, and the cab was steel.

@DustyWingsProductions

Ай бұрын

@@royreynolds108 I've seen the General get up to 135 in the heat wave of 1980. It usually stays around 120 during the hottest months.

How can I do this

Cliff you know ceder point also has a hk porter steam engine on there railroad they have 4 or 5 steam engines I think all built for different services

@DustyWingsProductions

8 ай бұрын

I have heard that

@gradymcclintock6160

8 ай бұрын

I dont remember what there hk porter engine was built for though but I think theres is slightly newer then the over texas one

@royreynolds108

Ай бұрын

@@gradymcclintock6160 The oldest Porter engine at Cedar Point was a 2-6-0 sugar plantation engine with only link-n-pin couplers, no air brakes, and also asbestos insulation unless that has been removed. It survived because it was a replacement for a beautiful little 4-4-0 someone had bought from a plantation and had been scrapped without permission.

Just curious why the metal plate on the back of the whistle? It’s covering up the back chimes

@DustyWingsProductions

6 ай бұрын

The whistles are right in front of the engineer's faces with no windows in the front of the cabs. It's to keep the water/steam out of our faces. I've come up with some ideas to back that plate up a bit and let all five chimes sing proud.... but they haven't done anything with it yet. But I'm hopeful

@royreynolds108

Ай бұрын

@@DustyWingsProductions The shield could be set out a bit more and still prevent the distribution of steam and hot water toward the engine crew.

@DustyWingsProductions

Ай бұрын

@@royreynolds108 Yep! And I've been trying to get them to do that very thing!

Wish the ga six flags was still steam

@DustyWingsProductions

6 ай бұрын

We really feel special to still have ours. I think it's just Tx and SL that still run steam.

@gradymcclintock6160

3 ай бұрын

1 the owners wont alow it 2 even if they did I doubt six flags would be able to get a moter in the tender anyway

How can I do what you did

@DustyWingsProductions

10 ай бұрын

What is it that I did that you want to do?

@Texasrailfan89

10 ай бұрын

@@DustyWingsProductionsgo inside the steam shop, and gets behind the scenes

@DustyWingsProductions

10 ай бұрын

​@@Texasrailfan89 Well... it helps that I'm an engineer there. That's me that takes over for Johnny there at 19:20

@Texasrailfan89

9 ай бұрын

@@DustyWingsProductions so is there no other way I can take a vip tour behind the scenes

@DustyWingsProductions

9 ай бұрын

@@Texasrailfan89 As of right now, not that I know of unless you're part of some special group event. But that's it.