Gorgeous locomotive. That C&O 6 makes it even better 2:55
@rgj8044Ай бұрын
What a shame it is sitting dormant out in the weather now. Stupid in my opinion.
@NewEnglandFoamerАй бұрын
I live near former Boston and Maine and Maine Central tracks that were bought by Pan Am and now CSX so I consider this my railroad heritage (through CSX), and it makes me feel connected to 3985 without ever seeing her in person.
@Snorky_882 ай бұрын
Grew up in port jeff my whole life. Took the train many times and used to hang out in the woods right near the tracks.
@RaisedLetter2 ай бұрын
MP15's running regular passenger service. Only in Long Island
@gretchenchadwick83432 ай бұрын
My son is special needs and he loves trains 🚆🛤🚋🚞🚝🚊🚉🚈🚇🚅🚄🚃🚂 especially F Units like those he thinks they along with E units are highly underrated and all should be preserved, restored, and put back into service pulling and pushing passengers and freight. He also thinks that Progress Rail, Siemens, or any other company that builds railroad equipment should build full size working replicas of F Units and E units with updated features like recycled ♻️ aluminum bodies and frames, LED headlights, ditch lights and strobe light, Cummins and Caterpillar genset diesel motors that run on biodiesel or renewable diesel with mufflers and catalytic converters, Plexiglas and safety glass windows 🪟 , head end power.
@yankinga2 ай бұрын
That’s quite a list of particulars. He sounds like a fine young man. 👍. I’m glad he enjoyed my video. I didn’t include it in my description, but as an interesting side note there was a rare earthquake early that morning. It’s epicenter was in Westchester County, New York, not far from where much of this excursion took place. It woke me up in my apartment in Queens. It’s the only tremor I have ever experienced. I now live near Atlanta, but my brother and sister on Long Island recently experienced 2 earthquakes in the same day. They were located on the same Ramapo Fault, but further to the west, in New Jersey.
@gretchenchadwick83432 ай бұрын
@@yankinga He is he's on the autism spectrum and dreams big.
@gretchenchadwick83432 ай бұрын
@@yankinga Well thank you for your reply we appreciate it God bless you 🙏🥀🤴✡✝️🐑🕊👑🔥🌅🪨🍞🦅🦁🐏❤😇👼🗡🛡 John 3:16
@fnaf123982 ай бұрын
700 LIKES!!!!
@robertspringer97663 ай бұрын
What happened to #1271
@yankinga3 ай бұрын
That was CN 3254 posing as a fictitious DL&W Mikado. She has been officially retired by “Steam-LESS-town”.
@robertspringer97663 ай бұрын
@@yankinga yea sadly your right
@kaedenthecsxamtrakandthoma83183 ай бұрын
I wonder what happened to cn 3254 and her whistle
@yankinga3 ай бұрын
She has been retired. Sometime during her active service life, she collided with a Great Northern locomotive. As a result of the collision, she was left with a bent frame and was a rough rider. I can attest to that, having ridden in her cab once. It felt like she had square wheels. B&M Pacific 3713 is supposed to take her place once it’s been restored. (They’ve been restoring it since the dawn of time.) Don’t hold your breath. Steamtown is as hapless and hopeless as the rest of the federal government.
@kaedenthecsxamtrakandthoma83183 ай бұрын
@@yankinga but what happened to her old whitstle though
@yankinga3 ай бұрын
@@kaedenthecsxamtrakandthoma8318 I have no idea. I would imagine it’s still on the engine. It’s horribly out of tune and doesn’t fit with any other locomotive so why not leave it where it is?
@jmream26183 ай бұрын
I hope C&O 614 gets restored
@CyborgClydeGamingEdits1213 ай бұрын
Funny how no one comments this video for him only that guy who commented 1mo ago and btw, i saw your channel description just how old are you now?
@yankinga3 ай бұрын
Born 8/29/57 66 Years old. The other commenter is a pal of mine. The part about "bashing passenger trains" is an inside joke. "Bashing" is a British thing. It involves riding behind every locomotive of a particular class and trying to log 1000 miles. We both know a British transplant who "bashes" Amtrak P42s. It is totally meaningless to me because A) I way prefer railfanning trackside and chasing over riding trains and B) I couldn't care less about Amtrak and commuter trains. To me, the P42s are ugly and the Siemens Chargers are uglier still. The only reason to ride for me is for the mountain scenery. I've ridden the Coast Starlight, the California Zephyr, the Sunset Limited and the Southwest Chief a couple of times each. I'm done with those. I rode the Empire Builder once, out of Portland. The Columbia River Gorge and the section of the Rockies that we passed in daylight were nice, but too much of the best scenic locations are passed in the dark. From Havre Mt. to Chicago is a boring nothingburger. Won't be doing that train again. I've ridden over Sand Patch on the Capitol Limited. Th only remaining routes I want' to cover are the Pennsylvanian over Horseshoe Curve and The LA to San Diego run, once they've stabilized the railroad. I rode it once but they were substituting buses for the best part of the route. The construction work is still ongoing.
@CyborgClydeGamingEdits1213 ай бұрын
@@yankinga 66 years old wow but just saying you record thr footage of trains and idk who edits your video.
@jamesevans11043 ай бұрын
Always reverse the polarity on the drive axles to prevent Lock ups on drive wheels. By rolling back. That's the scientific view point . Harvard rules!! Any one here with a degree from any Ivey league schools ??
@yankinga3 ай бұрын
Reversing polarity on traction motors would simply trip the circuit breakers. I am a trade school graduate but I can spell "Ivy", genius. Class dismissed.
@ausnzjjhcr23 ай бұрын
Before railfanning was cool
@kingofthemonsters37123 ай бұрын
8:26 I use that whistle as my personal wake-up alarm.
@username_666663 ай бұрын
nobody cares
@Battleship612344 ай бұрын
Incredible sound. I climb up here every few months when I get the chance, would've loved to have seen the days of Pennsy and Big Blue here. Thanks for an incredible video!
@davidstrawn92724 ай бұрын
2:56 I love seeing 1225 run at that speed, sick and tired of seeing her running slow from Owosso to Alma in back!
@trainknut4 ай бұрын
Erie tracks; Reading whistle, C&O locomotive, and an NJT consist. C&O 614 is one of the few locomotives I can think of that looks just as good on foreign rails pulling modern equipment as she does in home territory on the C&O/Chessie.
@nathancorcoran53474 ай бұрын
Chesapeake & Ohio 614 running along the mainline back in the spring of 1997 while pulling the Erie Limited.
@cpdispr4 ай бұрын
Mighty fine job buddy.I love it when a plan comes together. And it's better than bashing passenger trains too! 😆🤣😂
@KCTopDawg5 ай бұрын
Wow
@gabrielawvr777redbirdelfer75 ай бұрын
6:27 El Nostálgico Silbato de CN 3254
@maxwellwalcher64205 ай бұрын
would a steam engine carry this train,
@yankinga5 ай бұрын
Not sure exactly what you mean, so I’ll answer it in two parts. Is there a restored and operating steam locomotive that is capable of pulling this train ? Absolutely. There are a number of them. Does CSX have such a locomotive, or care to make arrangements to use one of the existing ones? Absolutely not. Apart from Union Pacific, no class one railroad is “steam friendly” and UP will only allow the two that they own (844 & 4014) to operate on their system.
@user-fy9wc4hx2c5 ай бұрын
Great video!
@aidanmurray37045 ай бұрын
It's always a good day when you post!
@AhmearClayIombo-dj6di5 ай бұрын
Awesome Catches
@cooltraingabes37965 ай бұрын
where was that at 2:33
@yankinga5 ай бұрын
Approximately here: maps.app.goo.gl/G9pje4Yjn2zxdgJr6. Street View maps.app.goo.gl/aerL11ampbeF4QRF8. Same basic location of this shot of Milw 261 on a photo freight: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWPYZWx-aK14eJosi=pSyUN25qtevL2ZOF&t=763
@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont5 ай бұрын
At that time, ALTO, AR and MO were still controlling traffic - and on occasion MG when a track was out of service for whatever reason. Thanks for posting this series.
@user-wu1ds2sz3w6 ай бұрын
Excellent! I truly appreciate you sharing these wonderful moments in history. Great story telling here too.
@JayTheTrainFan6 ай бұрын
6:27
@TrainLover-wt9ix6 ай бұрын
Union Pacific- *Builds Challengers* Other railroads- TAKE NOTE PEOPLE, TAKE NOTES
@RunnerisNumber17 ай бұрын
1:13 This sound effect is used in So much Super Mario media, like Double Dash, Sunshine, Mario Party 9, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and 2, etc.!
@RunnerisNumber17 ай бұрын
6:27 Mario Kart Double Dash’s Barrel train!
@Awriahsss7 ай бұрын
the thing thats cool about this train is that it has the most overused train whistle
@woods8407 ай бұрын
Ah, the 80s. When men were men!
@alishamcdonald73167 ай бұрын
3:02 8:01 8:06 8:25
@rodonis888 ай бұрын
What kind of locomotive is leading the train that passes? With the offset horn on the engineers side?
@yankinga8 ай бұрын
Ex-Erie Lackawanna SD45-2s They were in helper service at that time. Based in Cresson.
@trackingangle9298 ай бұрын
I was on that train. What a blast!
@aidanmurray37048 ай бұрын
One of my favorite videos of yours. I find the date ironic since it (4/1/86) was the 10 year anniversary of Conrail's creation.
@lembriggs10758 ай бұрын
Hard to believe he just lets this locomotive sit outside in the elements with all the jacketing on it. What a shame! What a shame!
@andywomack34148 ай бұрын
I hope the creator of these movies is still at it. The shot locations were excellent, well away from the whistle blow-zone. I like the sound of the engines and boilers. The whistle from a distance is filled with romance, close up it's overwhelming and annoying. Monster passenger train, 30 cars. I know a bit of the railroads around Huntington, WV. The rails run along the Ohio River and the gradients approach 0%. I don't think it would take much of a hill to stall that locomotive with that train.
@amtrakandcsxrailfanning3518 ай бұрын
GREAT AWSPME CATCHES AND VIDEO WITH NICE WHSTLE ACTION TOO OF UP 3985 PULLING THIS SANTA TRAIN NUBERD AS 676 TO PULL THIS TRAIN ON THE CLINCHFIELD NICE WHSTLE ACTION TOO
@bobbybrisk6438 ай бұрын
Born and raised in Northport, the old spur was literally 500 ft from my house on Pine Hill Ct. rode the PJ Line alot as a kid and even paced the the WBs out of ENP.
@yardkartretreads8 ай бұрын
The early to mid 90’s was a heck of time to be a little kid. I got to see 3985 come through Cincinnati on the way to go do this Santa train. Rode behind 611 up and down the old N&W Peavine from Cincinnati to Portsmouth(missed school the next day because my eyes were glued shut from all the cinders.) Stood on the walkway of an old control tower on the C&O bridge coming into Cincinnati while came through when she was painted up at C&O 2765( in place of 2716). The southbound freight that passed before scarred me to death with all the vibration the diesels caused. When 765 came through everything was as smooth as glass, very little vibration. Everything changed after Amtrak and CSX changed their policies on insurance and age of equipment, but for about 5-7 years in the late 80’s and early 90’s vintage steam reigned supreme.
@alex.k31669 ай бұрын
so steep even the trucks on the road are struggling
@yankinga9 ай бұрын
To be fair, the highway is much steeper than the railroad. Whereas the tracks snake through what seem to be endless curves, including the famous loop, Hwy 58 goes straight up the pass. On the other hand, each truck only moves a pittance of the weight of a train. The advantage of trucks is that they can take your freight from your loading dock directly to the other guy's loading dock. Railroads have the advantage over distances greater than 400 miles. That is why you see so many JB Hunt, Schneider, Amazon, FedEx and UPS, etc. vehicles on trains. Most of them are containers but UPS still prefers complete trailers on piggyback flat cars. The railroads don't like piggyback because of the higher tare weight and wind resistance at higher speeds, versus 2 containers per well (platform) on articulated double stack cars. I believe that UPS's reasoning is that their trailers have a below-floor-level cargo space that is built integrally with the chassis and can not be separated and stacked like containers can.
@Tyrael7-bf1ld6zu6s9 ай бұрын
Very amazing infrastructure in the US
@JayTheTrainFan9 ай бұрын
0:07 K&L Trainz N&W 611 Whistle
@EngineerDaylight9 ай бұрын
Full head of steam, loaded consist and a clear track to Ashville, annihilaing Saluda grade in the process, 611 was a real beast in the 90s.
@JayTheTrainFan9 ай бұрын
0:01 0:20 1:13 8:18 Joshua(BHCRR 110)’s CN old 5 Chime from #3254
@gottasay47669 ай бұрын
Was that bridge towards the end the one before the grade to Saluda?😊
@jamesrussell612310 ай бұрын
I used to see a N&W run through Harrisburg NC each time Norfolk Southern have a steam excursion