Can’t wait to see her stretch her legs once more galloping over 50mph on the open mainline! Keep it up guys!

Queen of Santa Fe

@atsf2926

9 ай бұрын

Nay nay. There's already a queen of Santa fe madame queen number 5000. However we've come up with a title. 2926 is the Dutchess of Duke City.

@gharrison2595

8 ай бұрын

Seeing that there are (relatively) lots of 4-8-4s in excursion service now, why is a Santa Fe 4-8-4 better for mainline excursion service than a Santa Fe 2-10-4?

Her whistle sounds soo amazing!! Almost sounds like a Nickel Plate Road 765 whistle but close enough!

Brought a tear to my eyes when the Indian necklace were given out.

25:55 this little shave and a hair cut with the ET44 and 2926 was cute, I loved that same with Amtrak!

@atsf2926

9 ай бұрын

26:46 Two bits!!

Adept engineer knows how to run his engine nice and easy; NO wheel slips! Plus, he's quite the musician. Now lessie is BNSF will break out one of the Frisco (that BN took over) steamers here in Missouri. Thank you NMHR.

Steam always wins in my eyes no matter what hearing a whistle vs horn Sweet!!

I wish U.P. would let our SP 2472 run on the mainline San Francisco to San Jose. But a bunch of sissies and tightwads. I had the thrill of operating her in the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in the early 90's. Her 6 chime whistle is pure heaven!

What a great accomplishment.

2926 whistle really can sing and talk good job Rizzoli

And seeing 2926 go over the Central street bridge is such an iconic shot

What a great accomplishment. I hope to see it make the trip to Santa Fe or Lamy some day.👍🏽

Hopefully it will pull excursions one day. 15:25-15:28 she sounded so happy, and thankful.

What a wonderful group of volunteers. Keep up the great work 😊

all aboard

i am literally cying thank you guys for keeping history alive

amazing video, whoever chooses the music has great taste lmao i hope 2926 starts pulling full excursion trains on the mainline

I can’t wait until it runs its first excursion with a longer train

Well, Nate, you've done it again. A masterpiece. Thanks from the crew yet again.

@atsf2926

9 ай бұрын

Thanks tom! As long as you volunteers are happy with my work im happy!

What a mile stone. To look at where NMHR started and what you started with, to where your group is today is amazing. I can't imagen the temptation to open the throttle "a little" more, she'd put those Amtrak diesels to shame that's for sure.

Great vid Thank you… What a magnificent engine. Truly an icon from the past and her spectacular whistle sound echoing all around yes she stretched her legs a little which those who worked on her for all those years dreamed off and am sure a little trepidation in case something went wrong but she was magnificent in her splendour!! Can’t wait to see her at speed. Now coming from Ireland we have few locos which either steam or diesel which can match her or the BNSF diesel splendour on show. I don’t have a great love for diesel engines but for nostalgic reasons I love the US ones because in the 40,/50s they sped across the plains of the USA and it maybe a Hollywood scenario but I don’t think so, of small towns in the 50,s at Christmas, Main Street snow covered as kids went into brightly lit shops looking at much more sophisticated toys that we had ( not that my parents could afford them lol) but it’s just a nostalgic sense of that time that I love so I do enjoy seeing the older diesels as well as the new ones all gleaming on show, but nothing can beat the “living machine” which is a steam engine

Amazing video of 2926!!!!

If you’re looking to take it way out on a mainline the Raton Sub would be perfect as it only sees two trains a day and no freight trains

Great coverage! I live on the East coast so hopefully I can go see 2926 when it runs on Ratón Pass one day

Need to do a double header with Santa Fe 3751!

@polarguyinak1

4 күн бұрын

That would be amazing! I'm sure it will happen eventually! I hope it's publicly announced with enough notice that I can get to that side of the country to see it!

If you can't get BNSF to let you run the locomotive on their track, I would reach out to local class 3 and 2 railroads since they might be a little more open. Really want to see this engine cruising at 80mph+ on the mainline like she was built for. Great video.

@chooch1764

3 ай бұрын

The society is working with New Mexico DOT to eventually have mainline excursions from Albuquerque to Las Vegas, NM.

i love it. every second of it. mainly that you guys used more gun in the video.

That is a massive locomotive

Well done New Mexico Heritage Rail. She's now on her way to the mainline excursion service. ATSF #2926 took her first steps on the Mainline back on September 30th 2023.

I'm a engineer on the HVSY in Nelsonville Oh and we have a 1920 coal fired steam engine that I run along with the GP 7 and GP 10

Nice! I hope to have ATSF 5011 restored sometime in the next 30 or so years, and as the NMOT doesn't care about around half of their collection, I don't think it would be too hard to get.

Wow, was für eine Schönheit ❤️😍❤️. Sie bewegt sich wie eine Diva auf dem Laufsteg 👍👍👍👍👍. Großartige Arbeit

The music is OK, but I prefer to listen to the locomotive.

Love it. Can you post a version without music so we can just hear the engine? The sounds are half of the experience of a steamer and a shame to miss any of them!

25:56 just adorable

Who was the engineer for this run?

No 't' in Duchess. Apart from that, what a truly magnificent sight!!!! I've never noticed the 'doubled-up' connecting rods before - is this a feature of this class of locomotive?

16:08 good rolling side view of engine 2926 with valve gear, linkage and drive wheels. (plus some happy folks in the cab)

great, even the trains can talk like me

I am impressed by the sheer size of 2926. What was the most difficult part/project in terms of restoring her?

@atsf2926

9 ай бұрын

Thats a very good question. It's hard for me to say because I wasn't there but I did read about it. out of all of the restoration it was probably be the boiler overhaul everything from each of the 272-flue tubed, piece of superheater tubing and each stay bolt had to be completely overhauled. so, a long process of removing the flues redoing them then than putting them back and welding the flue sheet back together began over the next couple years which finished with testing the boiler to 500 psi.

@Stooltoad5017

9 ай бұрын

@@atsf2926Impressive work.

@williamgunter6801

8 ай бұрын

That would be the boiler work and recertification, and wheel bearings!

@phbaynes4237

6 ай бұрын

Getting up at 6am on work days. Otherwise the computer homework which was twice as many hours.

Someone here asked in the comments section what was the most difficult part of 2926's restoration. My answer to that question, based on my many years of following this restoration, would be just about 'everything'! Clearly without the many hours of volunteer/professional hours of service and organization 2926's return to the rails would have never happened, Congratulations all!

2926 is muscular

Nice choice of camera mount, with close view of 2926's driver wheels and linkage. At 3:44 Is the pressure gauge shown on Left for air brake pressure? (with pipe T and valve below it to drain out any water condensation) Great to see 2926 fully restored and out on mainline rail !!

There's a correction to your statement there are only two railroads represented their, the Santa Fe and Amtrak. BNSF will always be known as the Santa Fe.

@atsf2926

9 ай бұрын

I said "two separate railroad companies" unless I said it another time in the video that im not remembering. There are only three railroad companies that joined this event us the NMHR, amtrak and BNSF. in 1995 BN bought the entirety of the ATSF and then merged BN and ATSF in 1996. The Burlington and Northern and Santa fe railway was born and in 2005 they shortened their name to BNSF. So im gunna call them bnsf. Because santa fe hasn't been a separate railroad for atleast 20 years now. And I don't wanna confuse people in the video on the side of the locomotive it says BNSF not santa fe

@jeremyjohnson457

9 ай бұрын

@@atsf2926 you don't get it do you 2 Santa Fe locomotives and one Amtrak

@atsf2926

9 ай бұрын

Oh oops. I see what your saying my bad

Her whistle sounds very similar to 2101.

I wish BNSF would take notice and run an excursion with y’all. Perhaps for their 30th anniversary?

@chooch1764

3 ай бұрын

The society is working with New Mexico DOT to eventually have mainline excursions from Albuquerque to Las Vegas, NM.

@zwmrailfan

3 ай бұрын

@@chooch1764 So cool!

@chooch1764

3 ай бұрын

@@zwmrailfan It sure is. It’s great to see the state of New Mexico support the 2926. They must understand the value of this locomotive.

25:37

Get to Back home to Belen and pull freight to Gallup and stretch her legs at 65

A little constructive criticizm here and please know that this is purely from my own personal taste. Leave the music off. It's a great video. It would have been nice to listen to the sounds of 2926 without having to discern them from the music. Again, excellent video quality, excellent camera work, etc. Just could've done without the music.

@atsf2926

8 ай бұрын

I understand that but I think its simply a clash of taste because how the video is how i like it, I can understand thats not for everybody. However I spend alot of time to make sure you can hear the locomotive when it sounds the best and when the engine makes little to no noise the music steps forward and takes the stage.

@barleyeducated8714

6 ай бұрын

Why not just upload one without the music then, edit away!@@atsf2926

Man all the junk and graffiti on the 1st street crossing is disgusting

@atsf2926

9 ай бұрын

That alley smells like cheese to there is a cheese factory there. So its stinky

@TheSteamGuy5125

9 ай бұрын

@@atsf2926 but still great video, 2926 is my all time favorite and congratulations on getting her running once again and putting her on the mainline and she finally returned home at the railyards, and by the way any update on the turntable?

@atsf2926

9 ай бұрын

​​@@TheSteamGuy5125because of this event and the previous one the work on the turntable has come to a hualt. However soon we shall resume the next step would probably be to pull all the ties off the deck

@TheSteamGuy5125

9 ай бұрын

@@atsf2926 nice, can't wait for the next video, keep up the hard work and continue your great content this was truly a historic event. Hopefully one day we can see 2926 with 3751 and I heard that they're gonna try and restore ATSF 1129 in LV, NM

Why do you put that annoying music in the background? It takes away from the Locomotive sounds! I want to hear her sounds not that stupid annoying music!!!

@atsf2926

7 ай бұрын

Because I can and like to