The old blue bay-window caboose was my favorite ....Glad you were able to see Horseshow Curve this trip . Lots to see ..thanks for taking the time to share the fun !

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Only took 3 times to finally see the view around the curve.

You caught Horseshoe curve!! Wow! you were not kidding we were going to have some amazing adventures!! You know to save you my rambling I loved every second Jay! Just incredible. Thanks so much. You captured it all just perfect. So fun.🥰

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Third times the charm haha. That footage was from later that day on my way back to Pittsburgh for more adventures.

I believe the equipment you were seeing in the closed section of the roundhouse at the end of the video are parts of the actual 1361 K4 locomotive. Hopefully they will get it running again at some point. Thanks for visiting Altoona!!

So glad the museum finally reopened and that you got to go. Amtrak worked out well for getting you there and back, and you finally got a lovely view of Horseshoe Curve as you passed through. So many neat things to see at the museum, I'm definitely looking forward to visiting it.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Its a must see if in town.

JP that was awesome on the horseshoe curve I love that part thank you very much for taking us with you have a great day and stay safe

Wow, that place is more incredible then i thought. Had to stop halfway for now since i want to see this for myself. So much history. Great footage and editing. You really brought this museum into a different light.

Awesome JP! This video is packed with so much awesomeness! That museum has alot more to see than I would've figured! My favorite part was all of it! Such a great video! Thanks for bringing us along!

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

I didnt plan on making such a long video, but there was so much to show.

Amazing travel and train video😷👍👍👍👍

That was a great idea using the train to go and see more trains.I always enjoy going along with you and this one was not disappointing. You are one heck of a tour guide,thanks for one great video.

I always enjoy going along with you. Jay you are one heck of a tour guide thanks for taking us along on another awesome trip.

Great video, Jay. Brings back many memories of boyhood. My one grandfather worked in the old roundhouse in his youth. The Cathedral in the background was my parish where I received the sacraments and elementary school education. The large flag behind the Cathedral is located on top of Gospel Hill Park where I spent a lot of time playing. My dad took my brothers and me to the 17th Street bridge and the Horseshoe Curve to watch trains. I remember all of the old shops. The museum has a fantastic offering. The train display reminds me of ones in Altoona in the 1950s - at the old Webster School and in Central Electric's store window on 11th Avenue. Thanks for sharing.

wow, that old red engine looks so cool@JPVideos

Ahem! A "Crow's Nest" is a lookout high up on an ocean ship's mast for a lookout or two to scan for anything that might get in the ship's way---like the icebergs the Titanic's lookouts couldn't see because the glassy stillness of the ocean didn't outline their bases with foam (and also the fact that their binoculars had been left behind). On cabooses (or, in model railroading, sometimes called "cabeese"), they're usually called "cupolas" or sometimes "lookouts," where the rear brakemen could keep an eye on the train for problems, such as "hotboxes," where the oil-soaked "cotton waste" for lubricating axle bearings could catch fire. Locomotives and cabooses get the most interest of train lovers ("railfans" and model railroaders). Thanks for the continued train coverage, Jay, I know you're a fan like me, who's been a train nut for more than 70 years. Stay safe, everyone.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

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The drop center car is the predessor of the Schnabel cars of the 70's used by Westinghouse to transport Large generators and turbines made in East Pittsburgh plant.

I love the history about trains and all brother

That was really nice to see the GG1, and that was the first time for me, to see a conrail quality Caboose. Great video JP👍👍👍👍

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed the longer video

@dr.leonardhofstadtersavage6413

3 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 i really did enjoy the longer video. Thanks JP👍👍👍👍

Hi JP enjoyed the history the home of course the trains thanks for showing👍

What a great place. I could spend a whole day there. Has a whole lot more than I imagined. Like you Jay, I'd be pushing all the buttons (lol). Thanks for taking me along. 😉👍✌🚂🚅

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Better add it to your list of places to visit.

@frankforrest1597

3 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 It already is, when I visit Horseshoe Curve 😉👍

Excellent video, as always. So glad you got to tour the Railroaders Memorial Museum. It is one of my favorite railroad museums ever! Looking forward to the K4 1361 to steam again. I also really like the commerative plaques honoring the railroad workers.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

How lucky you got to watch two trains moving also at the same time hope you and your family are doing okay JP

Went there as part of my honeymoon. Loved it!

this was fun and interesting too loved the ride and the music

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Ty

Amazing museum, glad you got souvenirs, their awesome.

I was there the day after they opened for this year. It was also my first time there ever. It was a great day. I hope one day the Pennsy 1361 will be running eventually.

So enjoyable to watch this. ALOT to see. Informative and interesting for sure! Thank you for doing the leg work and taking us along!🚃🚃🚃

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Was a very enjoyable place to tour. So many interesting and surprising things were there which makes this place a must see.

Absolutely beautiful looking picture of the country side of Pennsylvania

Wow!! That’s a very cool place! I love that kind of stuff! Gonna have to go there someday! Great video JP!

If I remember correctly that is a combination car where you can put baggage and do the mail separating and paperwork for the trip.

The gg1 that sits in Harrisburg at the Amtrak train station is one of them my uncle used to operate

@JPVideos81

Жыл бұрын

Oh nice. I enjoy seeing her when I'm riding Amtrak there.

In that Caboose and what you were calling the Crow's Nest is also the cupola of the Caboose

The stretch of tracks that used to be behind my house (long since been torn up) was once owned by the pennsylvania railroad.

Can't wait for 1361 restoration

oh man. That looks like a place I could have a blast. all the buttons to push you must of been like a kid in a candy store.. lol thanks for the preview

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Good thing there were no little kids getting in my way

What a great place, ty for sharing!!! Awesome!!!!

Enjoyed the train journey & the tour.

Looks like an amazing museum. I can’t wait to check it out in June 😄🚂💨. Awesome video

thanks for sharing this jp So much history. Great footage and editing.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

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the boiler inside is from 1361 which is being restored once again very slowly, the tender behind it is a new one (if I recall) and the one outside is the original tender

Love the train museum very cool

The GG-1 Was used on the eastern side of the state. If I remember right, they ran from Philly to New York.

that was amazing to see thanks JP.

Thank you for sharing this video brother and I really enjoyed it alot 😊 💜 ❤ 😀 👍

I believe there are two other buildings from the Altoona Machine Shops still standing. One is Erecting Shop #3, now used by Altoona Pipe & Steel for railcar repairs, and the other being the firehouse directly behind the Master Mechanic's Building, which houses AP&S's offices. The PRR had its own private fire department for the shop complex, and city even owns one of the fire trucks that served out of that house, a Mack L-85.

Great tour, the GG1 is something I would love to see in person. I was at the curve last year it was great. Need to get to the museum. It was cool you got to ride the curve on the train. Seeing how you been on the ground so many times. Thank for the fun JP.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Third times a charm

How fun to take the Amtrak again and we got to see Horseshoe Curve too, so beautiful! This was so interesting and the museum is so cool! The railroad worker home and the bar are so neat, I loved seeing the vintage furniture and decorations and so forth. Train layout was awesome and it was so neat to see the inside of the caboose too. You got a lot of cool stuff in the store too. By the way, it is so good to hear that chocolate is nourishing! lol Really awesome video JP, thank you so much!

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

The chocolate news was best news I heard all day 😁

Glad to know that it has reopened again

Thank you. Very enjoyable video. Stay well.

really good tour and great describing facts

Years ago I went to a railroad museum in Galveston Tx.It was a blast and you could tour inside the Pullman cars.We ate inside a railroad car and it was simulated to move and shake.It was fun.I really enjoyed this tour Jay.I liked your souvenirs.There is so much history with trains esp in Pennsylvania.

Nice lunch now I'm hungry thanks JP for bringing us more videos can't wait till we get back up on the road and drive and drive

Wow thank you for a great video. It made my day and made me feel better. Keep up showing great places. Hope you and your family are doing good.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

So glad to hear it made your day better 😊

love me some trains ty JP

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

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That pen Central car is a ore car/coal car, and a nice bay window caboose

Awesome video! Loved the railroad museum.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Very neat museum, last one I had visited was way back in the 90s in Denver. I do know one of those movies Very well. It was ROBIN HOOD it was made in my back yard. Well close in was in Chico California Bidwell Park. And the park was at the end of the backyard property line. Thanks again for the video

Thanks for sharing,cheers

Beautiful

That train memorial museum is so cool and I wish I could go to one of them

Òoòo... those life size figures really make it and my favourite place ...the shop! X

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Even the peeping tom woman? Haha 😄

@lingling7761

3 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 ha ha no she definitely on the creepy side!!!! X

The navy base in Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania has a bunch of different types of those 500, 000 pound train car's and I have seen them many of times from the other side of the fence on the base and also in use on the main line.

Thank you for this video! 👍

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure mel

Awesome video 🚂👍🚄

This museum is so cool . I have to go there some time...🚂🚃🚃🚃

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

I highly recommend it

10 minutes in the bar in you're already arguing with the mannequins LOL. Really enjoyed this video, it was a nice little tour of the place. I think my favorite locomotive was that one you showed outside. Can't remember what kind it was but 4913.. the shape of it, those lines going down the side and then down the front, just a beautiful Art Deco style to it. Good stuff, thank you for taking us along

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Haha. You definitely need to check this place out.

Hi Jay. This was interesting. Hope you are doing great. Awesome video.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

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You were like a kid in a candy store! Nice wardrobe choices from the gift shop.I actually have the signal you were changing the lights on by the train layout. It is a PRR PL-4 signal. I bought it from a guy in Scranton. Doesn’t look like it but that sucker weighs 100 pounds! Great video, really enjoyed it.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Great piece. Does yours light up?

you have gotten my subscription my dude!

@JPVideos81

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

Those are the Pantagraph poles that reach up to grab the electricity from the power cable line's

41:08 The Penn Central car is an ore jenny. They where built by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

At 43:53 that is an RPO car. Railway Post Office car. It may be in combination with baggage. You are correct about a bar missing. It was more than just a bar. It was a mechanism for snagging bags of new mail to be sorted for a destination ahead. Workers were PO employees and each was armed with a side arm. Most had bars on the windows which this one doesn't.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

I recognized that bar area because steamtown has a mail car with the actual arm attached. Thanks for giving me the info.

@oldenweery7510

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that bag-catcher hook was an interesting item, used to snag the hour-glass shaped mail bags from the standards next to the track. A mail clerk would swing it up from its normally vertical position, the open end would catch the bag in the middle, pulling it off the standard, and the clerk would shove his lever back up vertically, bringing the mailbag into the car. Bags to be delivered were tossed out the door to be picked up by someone. What caught my eye were the plates, shaped like rectangular targets, on either side of the catcher hooks' location, for the bags to bang against. I don't know what they're called, but don't think I saw them on any RPO cars other than the "Pennsy." If you see video of a fast train picking up mail "on the fly," it's almost too quick to see it! About the bars on the windows: I seem to recall that US Mail clerks were armed with revolvers to protect the mail! "Neither rain nor snow..." right?!

Pretty sure that's 1361 in the closed off section. I heard there restoring it to run again

We just went there

WOW ! This was a Cool trip. JP you always make things come to life the way you just talk about them. Thank you for Sharing. How does Jill like her earrings? I know Lil likes those little animals that I got her. I am no longer worried about the Gifts I send.. Thank you for reminding me that its the thought that counts.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

I believe she wore them for work a few times and Lili has the plushies in her room 😊💙

I have been there once in 1999 for railfest. PRR 6509 is a "BM70nb" baggage - mail

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that info. I wasn't too far off lol

I think you can go to the curve 1st and get a ticket for both as well if you're coming from the West Eastward.

Cool video

They also use that type of car as a construction car to reenact a 50-car train and the pooling and stuff like that

I'm sure it's your favorite because of its blue

When your were in the round house that boiler and tender is the k4 that they took it off of the horseshoe curve and restore it ... well sort of 😞😞 well to make a long story short you can look up the videos of them rebuilding it in the shops... and the reason she will never she the rails again unless she gets a new boiler... it’s very sad wanted to see her come Thur Johnstown and over the stone bridge one more time like she did when it was built ...

Hey JP. This is cool, plan on coming up Altoona June 12 13 for the amusement park and Sunday on the curve, watch nicks stream he mentioned it.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

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They need to hurry up on 1361

I love the old 1960s or 1970s or 1980s cabooses there and what siding line is the sapost to go to across that bridge there jp

you do see the heavy weight flat cars today. we get transformers shipped to us on them. all different sizes of them in todays fleets

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Not in my part of Pennsylvania unfortunately

@sparky107107

3 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 they arrived in new Haven and was all rail till it got to Kitchener Ontario.

I didn't know Penn Central was established in 1968 but we had Penn Central in bicknell Indiana so I'm just wondering if there was anything in there from bicknell Indiana JP

Railroad folks.. Is the GG1 considered a "cantenary" system?

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Have you ever been to the train museum outside of Lancaster in Ronks, PA across from Strasburg?

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

It's on my list

@dianaroth9073

3 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 awesome. we hope to get out that way this fall to visit Strasburg & the Museum.

what year is that old red engine?@JPVideos

REST IN PICE TOYS R US 😞😓😩 and if I remember correctly Jeffrey the giraffe.

That boiler and tender are 1361

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

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That Drive-In trailer is leaning to the right and has a nuclear sign on the bottom left hand corner that it has hog nuclear waste

Love your video's. But what happened to the closed captioning?? I am deaf and like to follow along. Thanks.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

I didnt turn it off. Ill have to check.

@donaldnorris5659

3 жыл бұрын

Got your reply. Thanks.

@donaldnorris5659

3 жыл бұрын

I just checked back and the closed caption is back on. Thanks.

The boiler is 1361.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

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Yes that is a toilet jp

oh a conrail hoodie.. so kind of you. do you have my address or do you need it, so you can send it. lol

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

You might fit in one of the sleeves

1st

Im not going to question why there is a Nazi Flag in a Railroad Museum