This was a great watch! Its sad that its no longer over here in North Idaho, but im glad its in good hands! Nowadays Burke is one of the coolest ghost towns!

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

3 ай бұрын

Thank you.

This was really cool to see! I saw this locomotive for sale on Discover Live steam last year and was curious what happened to it!

I was wondering about the odd boiler. Looking forward to seeing the life of the porter continue!

Amazing video and info. Love to see anything from the old mines or narrow gauges. Thank you.

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and we're glad you enjoyed it! We'll have some more informative videos coming out later on for sure.

Thank you Diz for saving the engine....Good heath to you and Vicky....

Enjoyed this a lot. Thank you folks again for sharing all of this with us! God bless!

Thanks for sharing this! Really cool hearing the story about that engine

great video and content!

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

2 ай бұрын

Thanks

Hi from the Netherlands. Super interesting content. Thanks for posting

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

2 ай бұрын

Hello! Thank you! And you're welcome! We hope you enjoy our channel.

Wow how awesome, the in-depth information and history backed with documentation on this train. What a great video so far.

Built in 1896, Man-O-man what a Gem of a preservation story. @40:30 I am surprised that the smoke box is still original because they were built to replaced long before a new boiler would ever be needed. That fact may be due to the fact that it was used as an air-pressure loco before being converted to actual steam power. This is a great preservation story and I want to remind all viewers that even if you dream of doing such a project like this but lack the necessary funds, you can still support individual projects like this or any railroad preservation society near you or railroad Museums and also volunteer your time and get to work on a real steam locomotive or help rebuild track and get to do all of the behind the scenes type of stuff that goes into running a real steam locomotive, it is nothing like inserting the key to your car and turning on the engine in 2-seconds and it runs. At the same time. I would like to shout out to all the people that preserve this type of history, be it real steam locomotives or a steam tractor, a stationary steam engine or a River Boat and also the preservation of documentations and all the paperwork that most people would just throw away like a junk mail. So, if any of you ever have an elder loved one that passes away and they some sort of paperwork or items you don't understand, PLEASE DO NOT THROW them away! Contact your local historical society and even if they don't want them for their own collection, they will know what to do with them or put you in contact with someone that will want them. I would also like to say that I think has the most massive railroad lantern collection I have ever seen, and I mean like Smithsonian Institute Museum size, and I hope he has a plan in place to donate all of them as a collection or to respective individual Museum's for more people to enjoy seeing them.

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

2 ай бұрын

Believe me I was as shocked to find it in as good of condition (mostly all original parts still on it) when I did :) To the best of our knowledge the box was not added until the Hecla Mining Company converted the locomotive to run on steam (sometime in the 1940s). I've stared at the builder photos for hours going over each detail to see what parts are still with it and which were scrapped in the conversion. As to how the box survived for this long we can only assume it stayed that way due to its relatively low run time during its service as a steam locomotive in Idaho. We may never know exactly what happened as those records were most likely destroyed in the fire of 1926 in Burke, Idaho. But you never know, something may turn up yet! Thank you for the comment and thank you for watching! We'll put any further information we find out on this amazing machine in a future video. I'll reach out to Diz in the future regarding his lanterns. We might have some more footage of them hidden away!

Cool info. Thanks for sharing.

I lived 5 miles north of this and had no idea this existed. Man what the hell I gotta see if i can do something

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

2 ай бұрын

It was a privilege to go meet Diz and see how he built his railroad. From what I understand he would run the train for friends and neighbors throughout the year. However, we do plan to open up our railroad to the public sometime in 2025. If you're ever in Northern Michigan look us up and come say hello! The engine is in great condition and we look forward to running it as much as we can for folks.

That must be a fun locomotive to operate. I think it needs another steam loco friend in the shed with it.

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

3 ай бұрын

I think you are right !!!

Im a fan of rr history and all history. Im gonna like following this, I can tell already fellas. I'll hit the bell 🔔 as well Ty very much... 😷🚕🛣️😊✌️🌞

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching, and we're happy you enjoyed this story! We're in the hight of railroading season as of now but we will always try to make room for historically based videos in the future. Thank you for commenting and we hope to see you on future uploads! 🚂

nice history now you guys need a rail bus also our narrow gauge here in northern california has a lot of equipment and an engine that was in the movies for decades..nice story

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Maybe I will have to build one.

Nice stuff now is this railroad going to be a public thing

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

3 ай бұрын

That is the plan!! Let's hope it all goes well.

@wyatttrainworld

3 ай бұрын

@@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway ok cool

Greetings sir, what a beautiful piece of machinery hello 0.4.0 Porter excellent most actually you done a beautiful job and original owner done a great job on it. Also nice to have a big property 2 foot gauge track work and have some fun. Well done to you guys. All the best Jeff Melbourne, Australia

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!! And thanks for your support!!! We appreciate it more than you know.

@ThePTBRULES

2 ай бұрын

0-4-0 - That means # of leading wheels, Drivers and trailing wheels.

With all of Diz's lanterns, I wonder if he has one for the Lynchburg and Durham.

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

2 ай бұрын

No idea. He does have a lot.

I knew the smokebox looked odd! An air loco from a mine makes a lot of sense. Do you plan to make a smokebox door?

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

2 ай бұрын

Appreciate the comment! There should be one on the locomotive already. We haven't been able to get any footage of it running lately due to the weather, but we are planning on firing it sometime early next month and we'll get some closeups of the door in that video. Stay tuned 😎🚂

@cmw184

2 ай бұрын

@@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailwaysweet! I hadnt watched the video all the way, didnt realize it opened lol But man, i had no idea the bow rr existed, ive lived 5 miles north of there for 15 years. Man thats a missed opportunity.

So is she oil or coal fired?

@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway

2 ай бұрын

We use wood. But when we open it the public we will use a little coal if we can't keep up with wood.