It is always fun to see the Pere Marquette 1225 running on the main lines on Michigan Rails. • Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway

Now THIS is what the GoPro is made for! Take a lesson would-be videographers. Beautiful job!

That is among the best sounds of a steam train I have ever heard, incredible video.

Sound and perspective are awesome!!

Try listening at a faster speed! It sounds like it's highballing! Also the sound is amazing, thanks so much for posting

When ever I have a problem falling asleep I listen to this exhaust sound.

Wow I was on that train and didn't even know there was a camera on the front.

Manton was our Summer Vacation destination during my entire Childhood and Teenage years. The occasional TSBY train was a treat. Very neat!

It’s amazing seeing her power through the countryside from this view

@matthewwilson5019

Жыл бұрын

yup he sure has power thats for sure

Nice Footage. Glad to see you got to place your camera!

Brilliant work, thanks for posting

the real life polar express your awesome

Great footage man!!!

Another great video.....your videos are absolutely amazing!

Awesome! What a neat perspective.

Really cool video. Thx for the upload.

Absolutely awesome!!!

That is a good place for the Camera I like this

@ironhorsestudios5068

7 жыл бұрын

I actually think down by the cylinders is good. I like my moving parts.

@lowrangemaniac5326

4 жыл бұрын

@@ironhorsestudios5068 mechanical porn! 😀

Pulling into Selma yard, she sounds like she needs a grease job! great video

Awesome video!! . Put this on the big screen with a set of high def headphones and its just like riding on the front great job!!!

Very unique perspective. I'm impressed that you could stand there so still for so long!!! ;)

@armagonarmagon3980

8 жыл бұрын

This was a go pro camera attached to the foothold on the from of the Smokebox. Standing here would be virtually impossible because of all of the shaking. If that didn't bother you, then the impressive sound of the engine that close would, as it would ruin your ears!

@journeythroughtherails5294

4 жыл бұрын

are you in Massachusetts?! Cuz I see the MBTA Commuter

very nice well done video

Perfect 👌

very cool

Great video, nice catch on the Clinchfield gondola. Also, on the row of Maintenance of Way cars, I could have swore I saw a very very faded Western Maryland logo in the speed paint scheme on one of the gondolas. I had to look at it really good. I just can't tell because it's just that faded. It's at 41:23

@SynchroScore

3 жыл бұрын

Also see the L&N at 42:15

The sound at 34:00 on, that the air pump?

At 10:00, my dad and I were on the motorcycle doing a pace shot

All aboard PERE MARQUETTE 1225

Nice ride' thank you I'm glad I brought my goggles I got one bug square on one lens. Around minute 23 there was a squeak squawk starting to make itself known, which got quite loud by the end of the run. What was drying out?...Hal

Great Video and great content! Was that a go pro you used to get the footage

how did you get your camera on the engine and how did you get it back

How did you get your camera back?

Maybe one day I’ll operate the 1225!

Very impressive. It would have been even better if you would have shown the train and the engine at the start 😊

Nice - but rather than just a shot of the track ahead I would rather see a video taken from behind the engineer looking along the side of the loco.

Great video! I have been listening to some Winston Link tapes he made in the 1950's, and he describes recording the sound of the valve gear and the slap of the drivers on the rail. I noted in your video that the sound changed dramatically once she crested the grade - is what we are hearing mostly stack talk, or the drive gear?

@Patriot1776

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul Bookbinder Mostly stack talk. The reason the sound changed dramatically was because at that point the descent had begun and the engineer then then closed the throttle mostly and the engine was pretty much drifting the rest of the way, coasting, and braking. Sounds to me like the diesel helper wasn't even using any dynamic braking though, or they couldn't be heard with the camera location.

Christmas in July :3

I thought this line was pulled up when the Michigan Northern went bust?

do they do this every year?

I’m also not addicted to go animate anymore either.

the true polar express is the pere marquette 1225

Awesome footage! I like the angle too. I put my GoPro on the plow of a couple of locomotives. Did you use a GoPro too?

@TheViRoCo

9 жыл бұрын

***** I use a bike mount that the GoPro company makes. I get permission because I know one of the engineers who works there.

@trainfansgamingchannel2778

8 жыл бұрын

***** welcome, and alright ill be sure to add the transportation museum to my "to do list" and thanks for suggesting it!

Very nice video! Really cool camera placement! At 33:18, are those Metra bi-level commuter cars? What are they doing in Michigan?

@JAILRail

8 жыл бұрын

+msj191961 There is a passenger service in Michigan that uses them.

@SynchroScore

3 жыл бұрын

@@JAILRail I was wondering about that myself. Those are from the original Budd order for CB&Q bilevels, the first bilevel commuter cars ever built. I'm pretty curious how they ended up in Cadillac, because I don't know of any passenger operation outside of the Amtrak services and the occasional special like this. There aren't any other commuter services, though I know that they've been trying to get one going between Detroit and Ann Arbor.

@rivertownproductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@SynchroScore they are trying to get a service going from Ann Arbor to traverse city but I haven’t heard much more about that. Didn’t know about the Detroit to Ann Arbor one but doesn’t Amtrak already do that on the Wolverine service?

@SynchroScore

2 жыл бұрын

@@rivertownproductions I wasn't aware of any service all the way to Traverse City, but that would be a nice ride. Amtrak does have the Wolverine Service, but the proposed commuter service would add four trains in each direction, with additional stops at Wayne, Ypsilanti, and possibly other stations that Amtrak doesn't currently serve. And with Metra finalizing a contract for new bilevels, the older stainless-steel Budd and Morrison-Knudsen cars could probably be had for pretty cheap by new startups.

When did that happen

I've always wondered; how do you get permission for this kind of stuff?

Nice! And what kind of grade does man ton hill have? Like what is the rise per mile ratio

@draytonblackgrove

9 жыл бұрын

Manton Hill is a 11.65 mile long hill that rises 1.6 feet per 100 feet in distance.

@mattsmocs3281

9 жыл бұрын

alright hat is a pretty shallow grade. some steep tracks that i know its one sister engine the NKP 765 will be testing is a 40 mile line with a steep 6 feet per half mile with at least a 2 foot over 300 feet.

@DelayInBlockProductions

9 жыл бұрын

Matt`s Mocs That's still a 1.5% grade.

@kots3028

9 жыл бұрын

Matt`s Mocs It's actually a pretty tough grade in railroad terms. The Blue Ridge grade at Villamont, Va is ~1.3%, and that made 611 work pretty hard on her trip home. 765 took on the NS Pittsburgh Line (ex-PRR Mountain Division), which runs 1.76% from Altoona to Horseshoe Curve and 1.86% from HSC to Gallitzin over a total of 12 miles...when doing the Employee specials, the FWRHS crew dropped the power off NS 8100 trailing them and the locomotive actually struggled a bit. They were down to under 10 mph recreating a scene Ross Rowland made nearly 40 years ago...but 1.3% is still tough.

@mattsmocs3281

9 жыл бұрын

hmm i think i remember another grade on the DL main line. I forget the grade rise but it is an engine killer. It broke american, british mexican and canadian locomotives within its operation with this group. Famously it ruined the 3254`s last run pulling the first full legnth train under the phoebe snow name. having the train end being two DL engines with a third miles away with the 3254 being pulled back. it also put the 928 Repton out of service and back to england. plus made a quiet fearful ride on the Baldwin 26 switcher. That is just with steamtown there is a high wreck up rate due to it starting in the middle of the yard and up in to the top of the mountians itself.

Howell melon Fest in Howell Michigan

ALL ABOARD This Is The Polar Express

Great! But any chance of adding a map reference to Google maps for where it starts? Us Brits have no idea :)

@pm1225cp

9 жыл бұрын

Search for Manton, MI. It is uphill almost the whole way from Manton to Cadillac.

@unhban

9 жыл бұрын

pm1225cp Thanks, but what is MI?

@highlandwinterwolf8589

9 жыл бұрын

unhban MI is the state abbreviation for Michigan. like CO is the abbreviation for the state of Colorado in the USA. All 50 states have two-letter abbreviations.

Why in the minute 17:13 the normal sound of the train changed?

@thatoneguy611

3 жыл бұрын

The engine went into a coast as it descended the grade

@Formulaz5

3 жыл бұрын

@@thatoneguy611 thanks.

The engineer has to get out his oilcan.

Eh... Weird seeing the MI train bilevels in a place soo far from Detroit. Man, you are lucky to always being able to do stuff like this.

No whistle?

@Eire1916.

6 жыл бұрын

Sean: it whistled

What a magnificent locomotive (SP 4449s better). Awesome video.

I would know how long the terai was the famed 611 you might have seen took 17 plus extra t ender over Blue ridge summet at about 25 mph its I would say about a one %grade I did not think there were such stiff grades any weres in Michigan let h hope the berk can run on home track again

kzread.info/dash/bejne/eGd8r9Goh9XAico.html This video shows 10:00 from my point of view

Fails to blow whistle at some grade crossings. Why? 34:00 Squeaking does not sound healthy.

@johnjesus971

8 жыл бұрын

+Robert Gift the squeaking is the steam powered air compressor

@ct737

7 жыл бұрын

It did you just can't here it because the gopro mics aren't that great.

@Eire1916.

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Gift: it blew its whistle. I heard it. And you don’t have to blow the whistle/horn at private crossings. Not required

Sounds like the cross hatched spurving rotanators need some grease, to improve roticularity.