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The C&O engineers that tested the T1s had experience with the C&O’s large articulated locomotives. They knew how to ease a big one into motion.
Smaller wheels mean it can pull heavier trains. Basically Yellowstone was even more specialized on freight than the big boy.
A waste of time and money.
The Phoebe Snow!!
"One should have been preserved." By who? Who was supposed to pay to keep one of these pieces of junk?
My top 4 is: 1. N&W Y6B 2. N&W Mallets 3. UP Challenger 4. Yellowstone
I also think that the Pennsylvania railroad experimental Steam Turbine Locomotive is very handsome. I recently purchased an MTH O-Scale S-2 locomotive. It is a very heavy and handsome steam locomotive. Thanks Much!
Canada should have built the 4-24-24-24-24-24-4 Articulated Steam Locomotives of all times.
If all SP 2-8-8-4 Locomotives were saved from scrap I’ll donate 3 SP 2-8-8-4 Yellowstones to the city of Portland and convert them to burn vegetable oil burning in case they had coal tenders and I would get them running again. And I’ll drive one of my favorite locomotives of all times.
You make one of the best train videos. You are the best.
East Palestine anyone? Since were talking maintenance negligence.
The description mentions "The only gas turbine locomotive to ever operate" but that is definitely NOT the case. United Aircraft produced the Turbotrain, ANF and Rohr both produced Turbine powered trains. France had a Gas Turbine locomotive back in 1952. Sweden and Russia had versions as well. Bombardier built a high speed Gas Turbine locomotive in the early 2000s as a potential way to add HSR to non electrified routes. So no, UP certainly did not have the only Gas Turbine locomotives to ever operate. They didn't even have the the first models and weren't the last either. UP certainly had the largest and most powerful, but definitely not the only ones.
No railroad could move coal like the Virginian, even in our modern world. Great video, I wish the VGN was still around I grew up on one of its branch lines, I would’ve loved to see it in its golden years. Norfolk Southern has tried its hardest to erase the history of the Virginian. The one nice thing the company did was run the Virginian heritage unit on several coal trains here in recognition. Also as a WV native I have to tell you that pronunciation of “Kanawha” was atrocious lol, couldn’t let that go without addressing it 😂 It’s “Ka-Naw-wuh” not “Cana-Wha”
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You make a great presentation! I especially like the fact that you include the blueprint and stats to give the viewer a better understanding of each machine. I also want to say that you opening logo of Nickel Plate and the yellow signis swell. The great train whistle is music to my ears!❤
Such a shame that not even ONE was spared for future education! I actually like the way it looks even better than the Big Boy.. The protruding front end looks mean. I'm going to buy a model of one of these!
A lot of people overlook the Virginian, and a lot of people assume it was insignificant or simply unimportant given its location of operation and main commodity being coal and not having fancy passenger trains or fast priority freights, however it was the best most experienced and frankly most efficient coal hauling railroad in the entire world even today in the modern era, its nickname was the “Conveyor Belt” for its continuous coal movements to the ports and it was really a modern technologically superior railroad compared to its rivals. Electrified mainline, and complex compound steam locomotives, with the modern even by today’s standard 150T battleship coal gondola. It’s quite a shame the lack of respect Norfolk Southern has shown to the old VGN knocking down every standing remnant and ruin, the entire massive shop structure at Mullens was wrecked by NS contractors and the site bulldozed, Elmore yard just looks like a featureless tangle of steel rail. I grew up on a branch line of the old VGN along a creek where the VGN and C&O crammed their rails onto the opposite banks of each other. I have a great love of the Virginian in retrospect as I wasn’t alive to witness it in its golden years.
Man, what a locomotive!
I am Surprised that nobody tried the Doble system for steam power?!? 🤔
I know personally that there is a Yellowstone on static display in Two Harbours MN. I thought at first it was a Big Boy but started to notice differences. After careful study I can definitely state, that the locomotive in Two Harbours, is a Yellowstone.
Wow!, 140 mph is pretty impressive for a train at that time!
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40 million tons pulled by ONE locomotive. That's impressive
I wonder if any EM-1 2884 Yellowstones exist for restoration? It would be interesting to compare side by side a 2884 with Union Pacifics Big Boy!
The Pere Marquette Berks will always be #1 in my book... And I was a fan long before #1225 became the inspiration for the Polar Express! Thanks for the interesting history lesson!
My favorite to look at is the GG1. CHANGE MY MIND!
I grew up in Oelwein about 3 blocks South of the Roundhouse. Both of my grandfathers, an uncle and a great grandfather worked for the CGW. I was 12 years old when the merger occurred. The CNW dealt a blow to Oelwein by what it did to the CGW. The UP didn't help. Fortunately Iowa Northern stepped in when theUP abandoned Oelwein. It breaks my heart to see how much is gone every time I visit Oelwein. The Hub City Railroad Museum is doing what it can to keep the memory alive. I love it when I see things like this video that helps kept the CGW memory alive. Thanks for posting it.
Trancso stepped up and acquired the line from Dewar to Oelwein and formed the D&W Railroad. Intial plans was for Transco to also operate the line. Iowa Northern was interested as the operator, and operated it after Transco replaced about every 4th or 5th cross tie. A few years later the Flint Hills ethanol plant selected the location in Fairbank. And Iowa Northern benefitted greatly. It wasn't until 2020 that Iowa Northern acquired the line. Now with Canadian National acquiring Iowa Northern, it creates yet again another limbo situation if a down turn in traffic or industrial plant closure occurs.
I particularly like this locomotive so much that I recently purchased a Ho-United scale model and I'm working on it to bring it as close to reality as possible. This video will help me a lot in my work, thank you for sharing this precious document.
Was there ever a certified scale anywhere that could have settled this dispute?
I wish atleast one was preserved. I AM BEGGING THE PAST FROM THE FUTURE!
I wish the electrified shops in Mullens was preserved and turned into a Virginian museum *glares at Norfolk Southern So much of the VGN has been erased, I’ve not even found a discarded tie plate with Virginian markings while scouring along its branch lines. Found some rail still in use that was dated from 1958 and was marked N&W rail that is older than the merge of N&W and the Virginian 😂
The shame is the steam locomotive was being perfected. When Diesel Electric locomotives eventually replaced them. I truly believe that if the steam locomotives had another 10 years. Scrubbers would have been added to the smoke stack and very little water would have been wasted to the outside atmosphere. Through condensers most of the steam would have been cooled back to water. It would still require at least 1 man to stoke the coal or feed the fuel oil on each trailing steam locomotives. Using jumper cables the lead steam locomotive would have control of the traction effort of any trailing Steam Locomotives,creating a multiple unit, single steam locomotive. Just like diesel electric all electric locomotives and control Cab cars do today Diesel Electric locomotives would not have never become the locomotive of today. Except for switching locomotives. Of course the all electric locomotives would still have their place on electrified railroads. The Pennsylvania and New York Central along with some other railroads. Owned their own coal mines. Then again back then. The Pennsylvania Railroad and other railroads actually built their own steam and electric locomotives. Made the majority of the parts. My great grandfather worked at Altoona/Juniata shops and was directly involved in casting the GG-1s articulating trucks for the 12 traction motors. He told me that they were cast in the ground under the shop floors. The GG-1 was way ahead of its time. Then again the GG-1 was a pantograph,to tap switch transformer either a 21 or 22 position throttle, to the AC traction motors. If you ever look at the spoked driver wheels on thf GG-2. There are rubber faced starter motors to get the GG-1 up to speed so the AC traction motors could engage. In LETP we were taught they were tickler motors. Once the AC Traction Motors Engaged. You could easily draw 2,250 amps and have no wheel slip of wheel slip started to occur. You could either turn a valve that dropped sand on the leading drivers. Or push down the automatic brake valve handle that would engage a lever that would drop sand on all sanders. I believe the Automatic Brake valve was either a 24 or 26 RL. It’s been over 40 years since I operated a GG-1. I not once didn’t make it from point A to point B operating a GG-1. No one could just get on a GG-1 and operate it. I had to be taught how to operate the GG-1. It took a few months to know what I needed to know about the locomotive. Just operating the steam generator. You had to know what you were doing. There was 2 water tanks,one on each end of the locomotive if the number 1 water tank was starting to run low. You had to know how to siphon the water from the B water tank. Using steam. Nowadays no railroads that I can of. Don’t even cast their own brake shoes no less spare parts for locomotives.
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I like Soviet locomotives. If I purchase a Soviet locomotive I would convert it to standard gauge in China before delivering it to the US and Canada.
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Thank you, TRC. Could thengineer have prevented this from happening? Why would a transient close a valve? Should caboose personnehave noticed the insufficient brakeline pressure in the brakeline pressure meter? Cannot blame people for picking up wreckage usable items.
I don't recall hearing of any Garratts in Europe outside of Britain?
*diagonal cylinders* Climax's catalog surely must have grinded Lima's gears.
The C & O crews reporting on the actual weight of the Alleghaeny locomotive is accurate because they worked on them.
Can you do a video about the Union Pacific quadraplex and the Union pacific hexaplex please
Can you please make a video about the union Pacific quadraplex and the union Pacific hexaplex
You people do realize the loaded ore trains where being moved DOWNHILL correct? The mines are far above Lake Superior. It wasn't much work to pull a 18,000 ton train downhill as gravity is doing all the work. The DM&IR locomotives faced their hardest work pulling the much lighter empty trains uphill back to the mines.
Many railfans will complain about the Allegheny's operating steam pressure of 260 psi. Steam pressure doesn't create the power. It is all about the heat of the steam. Steam locomotives work on thermodynamic principles, they do not work on steam pressure. They are a Heat Engine, not a pneumatic tool like an air tool that a mechanic would use.
Tractive effort is the most misunderstood thing about steam locomotives. Tractive effort is not power. It is the calculated starting pull at 0 mph. A steam locomotives calculated starting pull has nothing to do with how much power it can produce at speed.
The valve to allow high pressure steam steam into the low pressure cylinders did not operate at "all" speeds as you stated. They only operated at low starting speeds to increase the starting pull. But as you stated, this could make the Y6 slippery. If left open, it would literally drain the boiler steam into the large low pressure cylinders. The operating procedure was to open the valve when starting to get some extra pull, then close the valve ASAP and operate in compound mode. The Y6 actually had a relatively small boiler for an articulated locomotive, basically the same size as a 4-8-4s boiler.
@machinist1879 So how does that make you an expert on the Y6? Oh, yeah by reading books written by a person who has no actual facts like Ed King and playing with toy trains in your basement. What you stated has NOTHING to do with N&W steam. The joke is on you because since you have no actual knowledge on how steam works, you waste what little money you earn to buy make-believe railfan drivel.
Kid, you've got a lot to learn. I never said that I was an expert on the Y6. I certainly don't owe you any qualification for what I know and what I've experienced. Pretend and troll on elsewhere, although you might want to take enough time off to get a driver's license.
@@machinist1879 LOL I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. A good chunk of my time is working with railroads on technical solutions. Maybe try communicating with me when you get an actual education. Maybe you should take some time off to finish your high school degree.
@@markantony3875 Sure you do!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@machinist1879 Yes, and I don't have to play with toy trains in my mommy's basement either.
@machinist1879 Yes, and I don't have to play with toy trains in my mommy's basement either.
I would tried to keep them in service in hopes of solving their problems. But if not, I would have at least kept one or two to be donated to a museum.
I like the smaller N&W steam, like the class M 4-8-0 and the class Z mallet
Pennsylvania is known for 3 things. Dumpster railroad, Voter fraud, Drunk and fighting eagles fans.
The ACs proved very adaptable engines and were used all over the SP empire. Notably, they were used as passenger power for both the Pacific Limited and Owl over the Donner and Tehachapi segments respectively. Their last days were spent pulling freights on the Southern Pacific's Western Division between Oakland and Roseville.
Thank you! I love the 2-8-2 Mikados! They are my favorite steam locomotives! (Specificly Nickel Plate Road 587) :D