First time seeing this thanks for posting 👍👍

Best paceing vid of 1218 👍👍👍

Grand video

Pulling 3 cars 17 18 coach 5

Is like 1960

Tweetsie railroad 1985

It going to be restored to operation by us sugar

This locomotive is getting a lease on life now

Hey everyone, there a youtuber call Chris Eden-Green who is a freelance film-maker and he specialize in camera operation, researching, editing and presenting that makes his own webseries called SLIP and who would love to review these locomotives, but he needs your help. He's trying to go to the USA and review and film these unique and majestic locomotives but it's expensive and he need your donation to review these locos; For £5,000, they can review the Jones & Laughlin Steelworks 0-4-0 Porter Switchers For £10,000, they can review the above, the Mount Washington Cog locos and the Forney 0-4-4s of the Maine Narrow Gauge For £15,000, they can review all of the above, the Denver & Rio Grande Mikados and the classic ‘American’ 4-4-0s For £20,000, they can review all of the above and the numerous Shay geared locos For £30,000, they can review all of the above, the Union Pacific Big Boys, the numerous Berkshire 2-8-4s and Sierra Railway No3 (the engine that stared in Back To The Future 3, The Great Race, Petticoat Junction, etc.) and if surpass that, they can review even more locomotives! ( such examples are N&W611, Daylight, UP844, Reading T1, etc. ) Currently the donation stand on £19,242.21 so please donate if you can and tell your friends and family. For more imformation, check out his website www.e-gmedia.co.uk/slipsintheusa (if you're also wondering, here is his youtube channel kzbin.info ) . The donation is open till 31st March 2022. Stay safe and healthy everyone.

Shes now on her way to being restored sniff sniff

This is the absolute best 190's Southern Crosby has ever sounded!!!

Great news: US Sugar Express just acquired 1504 and plans to return it to steam, maybe a future doubleheader with 148 and 1504 can happen one day!

May the A run again someday

Thank you for posting this, I live next to MP 317 chased these trips for over 15 years.

Why were the drivers welded shut?

The good ol’ days...

How many cars on 611s train in that video

Not sure how many passenger cars 611 had in this video. I’m thinking 19-22.

We have the old number 250 here in Wilmington. It is not operational.

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is the atlantic coast line 1504 is being restored to operating condition

I have a antique ACL railroad spike

Note some of the small wheels are moving. Unless their axle journals were polished and lubricated (doubtful), the soft, babbitt-faced bearings were being damaged by the rusty journals turning against them. These, however, are more easily removable and can be scraped or re-metaled as necessary. The drivers, however, are another story. For those who don't know, the journal is the smooth part of the axle that turns against the bearing.

Better to slide the drivers than let them roll without proper preparation (polishing/greasing) of the journals. Rolling them without doing that grinds the rusty underside of the journal up into the soft metal of the bearing brasses, scoring them badly. Many locomotives have been damaged that way when well-meaning but uninformed people start a "let's move the old train" project.

19:30 OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT

there is one bracket on each side welded preventing the 1504 from moving... 15 mins with a grinder and she is free... she will run again... she is a mighty engine who is just been asleep but she will have steam again!!!!!!

I don't understand the reason for welding the drivers.

That whistle sounds very haunting ly beautiful like a ghost train on Halloween.

Beautiful old video. Just what we should have. Video and no more.

Through out the whole trip 610 changes whistles do you guys agree

They welded the running gear I assume for safety reasons so the loco. wouldn't roll. but they didn't weld the firebox doors shut?

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She was only survivor 2-6-6-4 locomotive

N&W 1218's excursion 1987-1991

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Outstanding video!! 5/5

That's the fastest I've seen her go. I hope she gets restored!

Absolutely fantastic! Favorite 630 video and top 3 out of all the train videos. Were some of these shots apart of another video, like the pacing shots at the end?

Down in Miami at the Gold Coast Railroad there are two locomotives, Light Pacifics, the 153 and 113. Both are restorable. The 113 was the last operational in the early 90's. There has been discussions with Spencer NCTM and Steam Ops who restored the 611 and they are ready to go, just need a grass routs push and funding to get one of these steamers inspected and moved to restoration.

At about 1:16, I see myself leaning out of one of the windows of the car behind the tool car. The return run was made in total darkness and I was leaning out a window on the opposite side of the same car. It was like INSIDE a O. Winston Link photo.Thanks for the memories by posting this!

To be honest, that's my favorite N&W "J class" whistle the ole girl used in 1985 and 86. The whistle today doesn't hold a candle to the powerful and mournful N&W whistle. If Preston Claytor aint ever come back, VMT PLEASE put a better whistle on 611 that should like a real N&W engine.

The shot at 7:07.......... doesn't get much better than that. 5 stars.

Does anyone else know why, in earlier exercusions, 1218's face was black, but in later years (like when she journied to St. Louis for the 1990 NRHS convention) it was silver?

What horrible waste of good piece of machinery.

Thanks for posting. It is not easy to move something like a steam locomotive. The weight alone is a major hurdle. Then you and in clearance of traffic lights, wires, power poles, bridge restrictions,etc. It is still a impressive feat. I know this was 1986 but I saw a lot of unsafe actions done by the works. Holy Cow! If the cable broke..... boards crush....bolts snap.... There was no excuse for some of the actions done by the workers. Then you had all of the big wigs standing around and you could tell that they were stretching for solutions. Now the loco sits and finishes rusting away never to run again. And THAT is the worst part of all.

Where was the overpass shot taken.

Nice video! I rode both trips. Good times!

Where on Lookout mountain were those shots taken?