Okay, so if the caboose is in front of the helper it's pretty much smashed with a capital S
@CarolinaCycloneJamesАй бұрын
I had a DVD with this Locomotive but it was from the Vanishing Age of Steam and had narration
@carlnapp44124 ай бұрын
What boilers must they have, the pop valves are still slightly blowing.
@swag-a-dellaman65555 ай бұрын
That is a lot of coal trucks!
@ricardotimm7 ай бұрын
A love this vídeo
@cavemanballistics63387 ай бұрын
Looking at the way those fireman were over stoking, I think they burned more coal than they hauled over the hill!😂
@TigerDominic-uh1dv8 ай бұрын
Look at Those Babies Work ❤ It 😊
@iMadeAPromise429 ай бұрын
Comment #700. Steam locomotives are of custom design, carefully engineered for very specific assignments and terrain. There's no use comparing UP locomotives to N&W locomotives when the two railroads served completely different geography than one another. It makes more sense to compare the A to the H-8 because they served similar geography.
@tootired769 ай бұрын
Only the Yellowstones of Duluth, Missabe And Iron Range pulled heavier loads!
@fulviolevati980510 ай бұрын
Spettacolo!!!
@EastEndProductionsArchiv-lm3lq Жыл бұрын
Excellent! I love how the helpers are white from the copious use of sand.
@hamiltonharris9876 Жыл бұрын
I love seeing the steam engine pushing the train up the hill!
@ostlandr Жыл бұрын
Those Class Ys could have used some TLC from L. D. Porta or Andre Chapelon. But like most American locomotives,. they were designed to get the most work out of every pound of locomotive, not every pound of coal.
@santaiaja9871 Жыл бұрын
One of my beautiful childhood memories.., I can't forget it
@lucmarchand617 Жыл бұрын
Head office of this railroad knew build the locomotive for this job hat off n&w personnel.
@JamesBrown-ux9ds Жыл бұрын
Yes and today the US makes her money way different: She holds 30 Trillion US Dollars of debt, and with an inflation of 10% she can make 3 Trillion US Dollars a year, getting rid of 2.7 Trillion US Dollars of 20 years of Afghanistan war in one year for instance and making an additional plus of 300 Billion US Dollars. Some of that the US middle class pays for, the rest do all the surrounding foreigners ('part of the US hegemony/empire') pay for This works as long as - everybody uses the US Dollar, - this use may be enforced by US means multidimensional if people or states try to turn away, without equal sized outside counterforces balancing opposite direction, - all the others keep on working.(1) Three levers towards the US go with it. We see all in action today.(2) 1 - The only available lever of them three to the individual of course - 'Why keep on working - let's spend our money before it's too late' - but fashism arrises, takes away such freedom. Blames it. 2 - The earlier the shift to China for the rest, the earlier the rest bottoms out. It's not propaganda, stupid, we see real forces at work.
@TheMetGuy Жыл бұрын
How many coal hoppers did it have!
@redmunchkin Жыл бұрын
Awesome! Very similar to this one half way across the world in Germany. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKulo6OPoa6bgck
@TheGhostRonin Жыл бұрын
Heavy!
@ernaadelheidsommer495 Жыл бұрын
Schön dass es diese Zeit noch immer gibt das wahr noch Sound der Dampfloks aber das zeigt wie diese Männer noch arbeiten müssten
@wvbygraceofgod5508 Жыл бұрын
What’s the second tender for. I know one is for coal, the other one looks like the kind of tender like the oil tender for the Big Boy that Union Pacific restored. Did these steam engines use both coal and oil. Any info, please, is appreciated.
@RailheadProductions9 ай бұрын
The second tender is a Water tender
@nikolatesla6565 Жыл бұрын
This looks like PRR Q2....
@squirrellover1000 Жыл бұрын
Look at those ladies workin!
@JETZcorp Жыл бұрын
Look at the energy in that exhaust! You never see steam working hard like this in excursion service. These things are making POWER. Think of how many GP7s it must have taken to replace this.
@mdhazeldine Жыл бұрын
Great video. Thanks for posting!
@symulatoryinietylko47572 жыл бұрын
Did someone know how fast were these trains with all that load?
@tedmaas35882 жыл бұрын
Amazing power those steam loco's had..
@mariahhaarstick5912 жыл бұрын
Awesome footage
@beeble20032 жыл бұрын
Something I've been wondering for a long time -- British firemen were always taught that the locomotive exhaust should be a pale grey colour, and dense black smoke like you see here was indicative of the locomotive being over-fuelled, giving an inefficient fire. But American steam locomotives always seem to be belching solid black smoke. What's the reason for that?
@09JDCTrainMan2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes it's for show, but black smoke means the fuel is unburned, and therefore wasted.
@beeble20032 жыл бұрын
@@09JDCTrainMan Right, so that's basically my question -- since it is wasteful of fuel, why did American firemen consistently not seem to care about that?
@09JDCTrainMan2 жыл бұрын
@@beeble2003 From what I hear, the fireman does it on purpose for the camera. Apparently dramatic shots were more important than efficiently firing the locomotive. Another reason could be inexperience, but I think he didn't care in this case cuz he wanted to make a dramatic shot
@jgbalamearth2 жыл бұрын
This is the 1st tine I’ve seen an engine behind the caboose.
@nsl.49942 жыл бұрын
A single BIG BOY steam engine can do the job.
@09JDCTrainMan2 жыл бұрын
Not even close, if a single Y6 can't do it alone, then there's no way a single Big Boy can, and the Y6 has a good deal higher tractive effort than the Big Boy N&W Y6: 166,000 lbf Big Boy: 135,375 lbf
@Train_Tok_Man2 жыл бұрын
My friend, you couldn’t be more wrong even if you tried.
@christopherdibble58722 жыл бұрын
But the engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954
@christopherdibble58722 жыл бұрын
Still get a tear in my eye when I hear an old train in the night.
@lyndatilton24252 жыл бұрын
What state was this in?
@09JDCTrainMan2 жыл бұрын
Mostly likely Virginia
@jeffbrown39632 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a show!
@irfanqadir38402 жыл бұрын
The steam beauties are really champions of hauling unbelievable load which is their proud love to watch such a great fabulous marvellous superb nice video
@DiscothecaImperialis2 жыл бұрын
Did Y6b needs backup water tank in addition to normal tender?
@09JDCTrainMan2 жыл бұрын
Not just the Y6s, the class As too. This was done to reduce the amount of water stops for both classes, and in the A's case, increase gross ton-miles per train hour.
@eugeeropel55722 жыл бұрын
Really. 175 wagons loaded with coal pulled on an upgrade by two steam locomotives PLUS, two auxiliary tenders and one pusher on the rear, can you imagine how many modern locomotives it would take to accomplish that today. I reiterate, steam locomotives are anything but junk, they indeed rock and some have been restored back to roll.
@markantony38752 жыл бұрын
This was a 12,000 ton train, very light by todays standards in the U.S. Norfolk Southern would only assign 2 ES44AC to such a light train on the same route today.
@beeble20032 жыл бұрын
Although it's 175 cars, they're only carrying 50-75 tons each, compared to a modern car carrying 100 tons. Can I imagine how many modern locomotives it would take? Two or three. Operated by one crew. And the diesels wouldn't require eight hours of maintenance and cleaning every night.
@doctordeath.57162 жыл бұрын
How very cool, I really like it.
@proactiveomnipresentvessel65692 жыл бұрын
I would like their road number pls
@michaelmontgomerymountainm26352 жыл бұрын
Completely savage even till this day. 3 engines pulling around 12,000 tons with 175 coal cars. Super impressive.
@rogerlollar43252 жыл бұрын
The y class is like the Eastern version of the big boy
@markantony38752 жыл бұрын
Not really. The Y class are really not that big and have poor power over 25 mph. The 2-8-8-4 B&O EM-1 was designed to be operated like the Big Boy. Moving tonnage at speed.
@rogerlollar43252 жыл бұрын
@@markantony3875 well the A class is like the eastern version of the challenger
@markantony38752 жыл бұрын
@@rogerlollar4325 Yes, the Class A and various versions of the 4-6-6-4 design were very similar.
@Train_Tok_Man2 жыл бұрын
@@markantony3875 And the A’s were more powerful and smaller.
@markantony38752 жыл бұрын
@@Train_Tok_Man The A's had 5,400 HP as documented by N&W archived test reports. What were they more powerful than?
@thomasblack7362 жыл бұрын
What’s the next show that has Steam related? Steam around the Great Plains 1987-2017!
@hoppercar3 жыл бұрын
In this country there freight cars, not wagon loads.....get that British crap outta here
@pscully19693 жыл бұрын
I'll always love the ole' steam giants! So glad O. Winston Lake photo documented this nostalgic era.
@1940limited3 жыл бұрын
Sometimes pushers operated tender first. I've seen N&W archival footage of it.
@jeremypreece8703 жыл бұрын
Amazing film, but what year was this taken?
@waiting4aliens3 жыл бұрын
?one tender is for coal, the other water?
@sharkheadism3 жыл бұрын
The tender next to the locomotive had coal and water, the trailing tender just carried water.
@neilmansfield83293 жыл бұрын
This is a great video
@That_Thicc_Cat3 жыл бұрын
Norfolk and Western sure knew how to make amazing steam locomotives!