One of my favorite things to do at NC Transportation Museum

Engineer John, making memories to last a life time. I worked with John a few days ago. Indeed a great fellow, one of the many awesome folks who keep history alive. I work with the train crew as conductor and brakeman. Thank you for sharing this great video with us. Come back and visit us again soon!

@PiedmontCentralRailroad

11 күн бұрын

Thank you and thanks for all that you do! All of you at the NCTM are pretty special folks. We are so blessed that you are preserving this history.

I paid for a cab ride on the Royal Gorge Route RR circa 2005. I forget the exact model, but an F7 I believe. Exciting. I was saddened by the death of a conductor many years later.

I run a GP7, GP10 and a 1920 060 coal fired steam engine at the HVSY in Nelsonville Ohio and it's a blast

@PiedmontCentralRailroad

23 күн бұрын

I will have to check that out!

Awesome video! The engineer is super nice! Met him when I rode on a cab ride in 2601, keep up the fantastic work man!

they should build more track!

@PiedmontCentralRailroad

19 сағат бұрын

No truer words have ever been said. NS owns all the track around them and I have heard a rumor that building track costs 1 million per mile.

5:50 And I am happy to see the original control stand and 24RL brake equipment

@PiedmontCentralRailroad

Ай бұрын

You sound like someone who knows what they are talking about. Nice!

@iblskeith

Ай бұрын

@@PiedmontCentralRailroadI am a retired Lehigh Valley RR engineer. And I used to run ex. Southern F units after they came to New Jersey for Conrail commuter service

@PiedmontCentralRailroad

Ай бұрын

@iblskeith That is amazing. I would love to sit and listen to you talk about your experiences.

25:48 the good old shave in a hair cut.

@PiedmontCentralRailroad

Ай бұрын

I loved that part. Did you see that truck with the locomotive sized air horns? I think that is my next big purchase.

If I can ask why did the enginemen leave his seat? If there was a safety control foot pedal the train would've stopped. 😕

@PiedmontCentralRailroad

9 күн бұрын

Can you tell me what minute on the video that happened? I do not recall at any point when we were actually moving that he left his seat. There was a point where we switched back to forward from reverse...it may have been then, but we were at a full stop.

@RailroadEngineer123

9 күн бұрын

@@PiedmontCentralRailroad it's at 24:19. The locomotive was moving in reverse.

@PiedmontCentralRailroad

8 күн бұрын

You are right! I wish I knew the specifics, but I think there is something back there he needs to do when changing direction. As you are a real engineer, I'm sure you know more than I do about these things. I do know there is a crew member in the caboose with a radio when moving backwards so not completely blind to pending issues on track. I do remember now wanting to ask what he did back there but needed to respect the instructions not to talk to him while operating

@PiedmontCentralRailroad

8 күн бұрын

At minute 19 he didn't have to go to back when going from forward to backward so that throws off my whole theory.😄

@RailroadEngineer123

7 күн бұрын

@@PiedmontCentralRailroad I'm no certified enginenmen. But yeah, it's sort of a head scratcher on why he got up from his seat. If there was an emergency, a few seconds like that could be catastrophic. That's the first time I've ever seen an engineer get up from his seat to go back to the engine compartment while the locomotive was in motion. I was just very surprised to see that. 😮