118 year old Steam Engine pulling modern Freight

[@lawnmowerdude]

Now who’s saying my layout is prototypically inaccurate.

[@Ndoggy1127]

This comment is underrated 😂

[@bryank424]

@@Ndoggy1127it’s a day old, give it time 😂

[@crakkbone]

Hahaha best comment.

[@modelrailfan37]

I won’t lol! Rivet counters are soooooo annoying 😂

[@badwolf2331]

Exactly

[@TealGuy]

Literally "The little engine that could"

[@NW-gi1cp]

Time traveler: moves rock The timeline:

[@jwalster9412]

Time traveler: *steps on butterfly* This comment:

[@OwlEye2010]

The Pioneers: *Rides rock* Squidward: *Ran over*

[@thomasyip1925]

Time Traveller: Steps onto LEGO The Timeline:

[@cameronfarley5910]

Me: Oh, that’s pretty cool. My brain: “And here we see the lone worker ant; venturing out to forage and bringing back a seed more than twice its size.”

[@Yaivenov]

My brain: *subvocalizes this with David Attenborough's voice*

[@Tchtm]

My reaction to that specific informative text paragraph that is so of topic due to the video it has been discovered on: *what*

[@CPorter]

Finally, a actual instance of someone using what are these engines from over a century old in a practical way, and not only that but really opening her up instead of staying at like 15 or 20 miles per hour the whole time.

[@jacehackworth6413]

Not steam but the electric engines at the Iowa Traction Railway are all over 100 years old and move freight regularly. The 1980’s Chinese built 2-10-2’s in Iowa also ran quite a few revenue earning biodiesel trains when they were in service until relatively recently.

[@Handlesarestoopid]

Many ancient locomotives are run very sparingly and at low speed and power to preserve their boilers and limit stress put on them

[@LVRR-e5f]

They did that with R&N 2012 after the restoration they got it going like 40

[@ArchTeryx00]

Just shows you how durable those little tank switchers were even during the balloon-stack era. Hauled the modern freight car like it weighted nothing. Fantastic work by both the restorers and maintainers of that little switcher.

[@TheRedFloofball_Foxy]

well i can assume it’s empty and also it’s only one car

[@ArchTeryx00]

@@TheRedFloofball_Foxy Well, little switchers like that never were meant to move many cars, and cars weighted FAR less when it was contemporary than in modern times. Can't tell if it's empty or not, but it could probably move a full one, or a small string of empties, just as well.

[@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

@@ArchTeryx00, also, even if loaded, those roller bearing will make it roll quite easily.

[@TransferPoint9346]

That autorack is easily twice the height of the engine pulling it. Nice.

[@АндрейМилованов-у9у]

It's amazing that was no problem with start-off.

[@gonzoengineering4894]

​@@АндрейМилованов-у9у steam power is generally really good at starting trains. A deisel at a similar power level would be crying

[@davidfuller581]

@@gonzoengineering4894 other way around, steam has very limited starting TE.

[@davidlagerbom3404]

give this ol' steamer some credit!

[@jacobschahczinski1441]

this is a real David vs Goliath situation with size comparison between the loco and the car

[@paytongauthier6452]

This is the definition of (little engines can do big things)

[@gingerschatshow]

I love it when they combine the old and New methods. :D

[@ForrestHanchar-dz8so]

Boy! For a steam locomotive 🚂 that old 🧓, it sure can pull twice its weight! Ingenious!

[@VinnyMartello]

Several times itsvweight! Steam makes a lot of torque even in a small package!

[@FoxIslandRailroadCo]

Man this is so much fun to watch, the height difference is mind-boggling!! Thanks very much for sharing 🔥

[@dutchmansmine9053]

Looks like you're pulling a yacht trailer with a '90s hilux! She is a beautiful machine, take good care of her.

[@YurtFerguson]

So happy for him! Little dude putting in work!

[@tonyansill3093]

Gives a new meaning to the little engine that could.

[@rottenroads1982]

It is crazy to think how Trains & Locomotives have evolved over the centuries. They started out so small & so tiny, and they have grown to be the giant powerful machines that we see so often, and that drive the economy of our nation, and quite possibly our world.

[@railroadenthusiast6246]

I think that's the maximum capacity for that little one.

[@jasongoodman3495]

To be fair she was probably designed for switching coaches

[@cowcatcherstudios5759]

@@jasongoodman3495 nope, logging. Even then, most switchers did have a lot of power, since all their weight is on the drivers.

[@badwolf2331]

​@@cowcatcherstudios5759so theoretically it would be able to pull a LOT more?

[@cowcatcherstudios5759]

@@badwolf2331 wouldn't doubt it, I don't see her working very hard in the video. Then again, it's a Forney commuter engine that worked for a lumber company for the longest time, so who knows.

[@badwolf2331]

@@cowcatcherstudios5759 all comes down to speed and power

[@OvermarsGaming]

A very well maintained small locomotive. Good video!

[@merlinandmurdoch7837]

The exhaustion from the steam breathing.

[@Brickticks]

Size matters not, little engine. Go on, be the Yoda, little 0-4-4T, be the Yoda. May the Coal be with You!

[@billirwin3558]

There's life in the old girl yet! Even though I assume the rolling stock is empty. A little info about the engine would be appreciated.

[@TaylorMMontgomery]

This is one of the coolest and cutest things I've seen in a while on KZbin ☺️

[@user-AZ-phil]

Boy! She's hauling that "rack" like it's hardly there! She's so small that she nearly dissappears against that "rack." A real little gem with a big locomotive will! ❤😂🎉

[@christopherjames6602]

This steam train is the definition of the phrase, "age does not matter." 😊

[@epicredhead13]

I’d love to see the big boy hauling real freight again but this is a good thing too

[@tracynation2820]

Super, almost like a model railroad. 💙 T.E.N.

[@workinghardusa]

Great video Ashton, well done!

[@theseventhgeneration6910]

The closest I've ever heard, a train that sounds like it's doing intense cardio! Inspiring

[@icemaster-]

You're gotta appreciate the camera angles and film style. Great job!

[@1930-Ford]

Who would have thought you can move Freight with a few sticks of firewood. Rolling through a landscape of renewable energy😅

[@generalpattonpending7256]

awesome decoder sounds so real great scenery work

[@StephentrainboyRailfanbrony]

It’s like the little engine that could in real life

[@raystarky3896]

Great video! little engine pulls a good load! I also LOVE that upper dark green door on the 2nd floor that has no stairs going up to them From what i heard IS FOR the people who got FIRED would have been pushed out from onto the walk way.

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

Steam engines are surprisingly powerful, more powerful than a diesel locomotive! There are still a few places where a steam engine will assist diesel locomotives getting a train over a hill above Timberline! A machine shop in the 1850s ran off one boiler and a lot of belts!!

[@mfbfreak]

Hate to break it to you, but this is simply not true. You can design any diesel locomotive to get to the same parameters of a steam locomotive, and also much better. The big downside to steam traction is the intermittent nature of the power delivery of the oscillating steam engine, meaning that it's much harder to prevent it from breaking traction at standstill.

[@martinsims1273]

​@@mfbfreakso then, why did they have to develop anti slip devices for diesel electric locomotives? All the earlier diesel electric locomotives were prone to wheelspin when hauling heavy loads, even at high speeds.

[@Historymaker-2001]

@@martinsims1273anti slip devices are just a natural progression of technology. They didn’t have to develop them, but it certainly made train handling even easier. Steamers are very easy to slip, even when already in motion, and unlike diesels, only a small percentage of their weight is on the powered axles (the drivers). A diesel, all of the weight of the locomotive can be placed on the powered axles.

[@servicetrucker5564]

Look at that little thing I love it!

[@asteroidrules]

Running her cab-forward too. One of the features of these forney locomotives was that they could run reasonably well in both directions, which is somewhat rare for steam.

[@maestromecanico597]

“No welding on doors.” Doesn’t say anything about soot.

[@Hugofreddie]

Lovely job ,seems to be primimg a bit but lovely restoration nice to see a forny tank working , would love to see it on an elevated line

[@pattonkesselring4247]

Feels like a Thomas episode

[@AlTilleyTheBum-pt4mx]

I was thinking something similar.

[@stauffjt]

0:48 The dichotomy here is so overwhelming….

[@geralderdek282]

Loved the sound of that steam exhausting while working hard!

[@doskraut]

The little train that did.

[@trainsplanesmore]

This is just TOO cool! Thanks for posting. 😀

[@allanegleston4931]

where is this ? lovely loc!!!!!! dosent take much tractive effort to get train car going.

[@Nowheres_Channel]

"Oh so NOW you want me to work for you?"

[@darkstone_official_2427]

This new Railroads Online update looks dope.

[@Theropicinquestion]

Little engines can do big things they said.

[@glifencible]

You could put 8 of those engines on that autorack

[@subnormality5854]

Or that engine could pull 8 autoracks

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

Better living through roller bearings. 😂

[@tonydeleo3642]

Why do they have the cylinder draincock open in many shots?

[@ATrainVideo]

Awesome video.

[@tarheelpatch3386]

Thats on the hoosier valley rr museum.Doubt that car is loaded with out a load it not very heavy.The No1 was rebuilt with brand new boiler operating at 160 psi.As long as it can get it rolling not to hard on flat track. That locomorive work hard pulling flat cars loaded with lumber down in Archer Fl most of it life.Totaly rebuilt in the 80 and 90s. Size don't matter it the weight.

[@OliverT-qt1gn]

Nice to see a Forney at work but no problem at all for a locomotive like that...small drivers w/most of the weight over the drivers...and a modern roller-bearing-equipped freight car that - even loaded - can be moved w/a crowbar. I noticed hard wood in the tenderm and wondered if they were really firing it w/wood...? Yep! That's wood smoke...

[@JTT0509]

Thats a cute little forney

[@christopherstory2136]

Good things come in small packages. Eat your heart out, Big Boy😂😂😂😂

[@ffjsb]

So what was the reason it was pulling this freight car?? Just for show?

[@isaacdyer6556]

0:46 -Listen to that steam-talk just before they blow the whistle. Doesn't that sound a bit like the Imperial March from Star Wars?

[@STho205]

Beautifully restored engine. Where is this?

[@cliffleigh7450]

Needs a stack extension!

[@robertheinkel6225]

Where and why? Nice to see the engine at work. I am guessing the auto rack was pulled out of service for repair, and repositioned on the mainline.

[@alasdairblack393]

US steam locos seem to use most of their steam on the whistle.

[@Mlanzem]

Little engines can do big things -Thomas the tank engine

[@rgi9509]

Wonder what kind of grade this could scale?

[@KevinRichards-my5oj]

That old engine looks tiny next to that railcar.

[@DJmcRUSH]

The problem isn't pulling the car, it's stopping

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Great video. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.

[@tomlewis6533]

Where is this?

[@markvogel5872]

North Judson Indiana. Hoosier Valley Railroad.

[@richardbause2453]

Where was this 🤔? Failed to disclose 😮🤔?

[@mitchmatthews6713]

What a sweetheart!

[@dennisgauck7526]

I know I can, I know i can.......

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Great video...👍

[@thesouthforlife]

How does one get that job? Because I want it

[@christsogaugetrains]

Question is why is it pulling modern freight?

[@beagleissleeping5359]

My town is building an RV park to try and attract tourists. I think we need a steam locomotive like this instead 😊❤

[@katho8472]

Oh yeah, what a tiny loco compared to that car. But I hear stories like that in Germany quite often, there is even something called "Plandampf" which means "planned steam". Thats always a win-win because steam engines get a meaningful job to do and at the same time they (well, their owners) get paid for it - which they can invest into repair and maintenance.

[@thomasm1964]

Is it weird that I was cheering that little engine on? Talk about David and Goliath!

[@mmdoof]

A modern locomotive pulling postmodern cargo

[@Sunset4Semaphores]

What kind of freight customer orders a single autorack?

[@billyd7628]

could be custom orders maybe.

[@subnormality5854]

Its the rail equivalent of a big teenager being led around by his 4'9'' mother.

[@SnowLepGaming]

Look it goo. This shows age doesn't matter for the power of steam!

[@Blitz_46]

Little engines can do big things!

[@M0no-o12]

“I think i can!” Looking ahh train💀💀💀

[@JointSpecialistTV]

That's adorable.

[@AlTilleyTheBum-pt4mx]

As Montell Jordan would say, “this is how we do it.”

[@frederickbooth7970]

Amazing! Wood fired loco too!

[@foamymcfoamface7328]

I can’t help but laugh every time I watch this, it’s so ridiculous

[@martinsims1273]

But it works! :-)

[@TheNorthwestWind]

is this a revenue run?

[@rdgk1se3019]

Where is this at?

[@hmsjr0154]

Looks like Mutt and Jeff. But still cool!

[@timothywalker4563]

Small but mighty 😊

[@Pyrotrainthing]

Look at that little Forney go!

[@theletsplayer9503]

Cant argue, pretty sure that fuel is renewable

[@neilgibson9959]

Who knows? This engine may have originally had 'link & pin' couplers!!

[@toasatoshi]

I NEED the context for this

[@charlesreineke8386]

Literally The little engine that did

[@BashirTheTrainMaster]

Did this in Railroad Tycoon 3.

[@andyolin3988]

The little engine that's GONNA!

[@noahengelhardt3596]

Comes to show how powerful Steam really is.

[@SimplyTakuma]

Thats cute!