A Nickel Plated Horseshoe - NKP 765 On The NS Pittsburgh Line

[@slipperyelmful]

Excellent footage. Thank you for leaving so much time before we actually see the train. That is so much part of seeing it, as well. It was really working hard to tackle the grade at the curve! I had not seen footage until now of it around the curve. Really great footage, again. Thanks for posting it.

[@brianfalzon92]

I'm going to ride behind the 765 on the Dover Harbor for the Horseshoe Curve Special on Memorial Day Weekend! I'm very excited that the 765 is returning to Pennsylvania! I once saw her in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for the first time ever back in 2012 for the Employee Excursion trips, my mom and I chased her and watched the train going over the Susquehanna River Bridge! It was beautiful and my mom said it was majestic! But I'm glad to see the 765 pulling public excursions this year!

[@chrisras62]

Outstanding! This is by far the BEST video I have seen of NKP 765. Well done!!!

[@PhillyUnion767]

The engineer of that train is probably the luckiest person alive. I'm 14 and I still love trains

[@animal16365]

PhillyUnion767 the engineer of the 765 was Rich Melvin

[@amtrak_121]

I’ve been obsessed with trains my whole life, and I always will be!

[@Mojave511]

Best video I've seen of the 765 as well. Great job!

[@trainkid16]

Great job! I've purposely ignored 765 videos up to this point just to see the best of them. Thanks for this, I loved it!

[@SignalHillProds]

Definitely one of the best rail-related videos on KZbin.

[@cobra02411]

Beautiful! I read about this trip, going around the curve NS8100, the GE44AC loco was along for the ride, it was just the Berkshire pulling 1,200 tons of train up that 1.7% grade at a GPS verified speed of 10.9mph. Boiler pressure was at 245, just under the popoff pressure and the fireman was spot on, no billowing black smoke. Before they got to the curve NS8100 was delivering about 40% power and they were making 23mph. You can hear some wheelspin on the wet rails. Thanks for the video!

[@jamesmccann1097]

Fort Wayne added a second whistle back in the begining. The original whistle is located on the steam dome the second is up front near the smokebox. If you listen they are very close but sound just slightly different. On some New River trips 765 sported a C and O Hudson whistle also really close to 611. All in all the steam boat style whistles sound good. Remember Pennsy had controlling stock in NW until NYC merger. An A class was actually test run here.

[@BlueCometProductions]

That is an actual 8" diameter 3 chime Lunkenheimer. Eltonjohnfan100 is right

[@BalticFilms144]

The fact this is going on 6 years ago already makes it seem so unreal.

[@FastFlyingVirginian]

Agreed. Get them while you can, you never know how long it will be until you see them again.

[@WorldOfNothin]

This was what i wanted to see and hear! The engines raw power as it came streaming up the Horseshoe Curve!

[@eltonjohnfan100]

just to clear everything up, the lowed pitch Whistle is an 8'' diameter 3 Chime Lunkenheimer

[@willibill1]

Man you captured some fantastic video of the 765, great job, i will probley go out and help clean her up when she gets back home.

[@maxm2317]

I'm convinced that the Pennsy had their fair share of rarely-used steamboat whistles, and the Pennsy whistle that 765 was wearing for the westbound run is one of the steamboat whistles.

[@amtrak_121]

That’s a PRR whistle? I thought they only used 3 chimes and Banshees

[@maxm2317]

@@amtrak_121 Apparently so.

[@willibill1]

I think the lower tone whistle is one that they put on for this trip, they have them both operating if you listen close

[@xenaphile815]

I watched the new one. Beautiful train and beautiful video. Good job.

[@CentralPennRailProductions]

The stack talk at the curve must have echoed for miles!

[@NickelPlateRoad779]

You know your video is good, when the organization that owns the locomotive in your footage contacts you for some of the footage for a documentary. great job man! :D

[@DelayInBlockProductions]

Sounds good! Just let me know when you're ready. Have a good one!

[@DASCO2136]

Listen at 5:50, when its coming around the curve at Cassandra. I know its the Altoona shop whistle but dont you guys think that the sound and echo of the whistle almost sounds identical to 611s whistle?

[@DelayInBlockProductions]

Hey man, do you think I could use this footage in a video I'm making on 765 in 2012? I need some footage from Horseshoe Curve, or else the video wouldn't be complete. I'll give you full credit and link the video to your Channel. Most likely, I won't make much money off of the KZbin adverts, but I could pay your royalties if you'd like.

[@2102FAN]

Breathtaking video! Very well composed shots! Great job man

[@whistlepost36]

Now I do know that this one is a PRR three chime, it was the Altoona Works shop whistle or so on. I do believe the PRR cast that whistle themselves since they had the ability to cast their own whistles.

[@animal16365]

Do they use the diesel for dynamic braking when going down hill? And also for power to the coaches? I know they use it to push the NKP 765 thro the gallitzin tunnel

[@rwk360]

I wish it would have ran on the ex-Reading lines through Reading and Allentown, PA and perhaps further on the ex-Lehigh Valley to NJ. It ran on those lines before with public excursions in July and August, 1988 from Bound Brook to Reading, PA and the BM&R Railroad at Temple, PA. The routes 765 ran on in 1988 in NJ and PA were Conrail at the time. But, there was a red NS obs. on the train in 1988 owned by a private party. Perhaps we'll see more steam on NS in PA with this program in the future.

[@OhioRails]

Great video! Very proud of you! You'll have to show me how to get up to the back side of the curve sometime!

[@EMDFAN1988]

Dude, Awesome video! I'm really picky as to whose content I follow. Your footage is amazing. Keep up the good stuff!

[@tigermki]

My uncle is taking me for a ride on this beautiful engine tomorrow for the NS employee excursion.

[@Boots1282]

Did you catch the Penn Central unit it was on 64J same day as the 765 on the 20th

[@trainmanjg611]

is that whistle in the beginning 765's originial whistle used in the 80's and 90's?

[@PeaceyPraps]

I have to go see the 765 some day. This is so COOL!! :D

[@FastFlyingVirginian]

If you haven't already, check out the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society page at www.fwrhs.org/ . They have a mailing list to be notified when the 2015 excursion schedule is released.

[@xenaphile815]

Beautiful. It gave me chills!

[@OhioTrainVideos]

Everyone needs to reed the description,, it's an amazingly written monologue thats just as good as the video!

[@bryanchincy]

The low pitch is an altoona works prr steam whistle and the high pitch is a regular Nathan 6 chime

[@willibill1]

Ya, i think you are right, this one is one for the books for sure.

[@AliceInChains243]

You made the right decision, the sanity-questioning death march up the embankment to the west side of the curve will always be worth it, though how that little outcropping on the hill managed to fit all of those people is still something I can't quite bring myself to understand. The sound of the 765 approaching the curve is too good to have a word attached to it, wow. And Cassandra wasn't mobbed HOW? Forget Cresson, everything during that time of day favors Cassandra!

[@maxm2317]

Looks like the FWRHS finally got 765's Nathan 6 Chime to sound like it did back in the 1970s, '80s, and the early '90s.

[@bryanchincy]

do you know the 765 is coming back to pa over memorial day weekend and running public excursions from Lewistown to horseshoe curve? may 25, 26 and 27th.

[@DASCO2136]

How long did it take you to climb up to the spot where you shot it around the curve and to get back down to set up at Cassandra? Me and a friend are gonna try to beat it to the top of the grade at Galitizen after shooting it at the curve from the same spot you were at

[@CarterUP1998]

How do you get access to that area of the Curve.

[@SteveLipmanMusic]

Enjoyed this! Well done

[@J800613]

Not really a loco guy but that old girl is awesome, especially when shes barking her guts out going up that grade! wow!

[@DASCO2136]

The 2nd whistle that 765 had mounted on for this trip (not her original whistle), is that by any chance from a Wabash steam engine?

[@animal16365]

the one whistle is the pennsy 6 chime banshi. its the higher pitch one

[@slikkarl]

Wow Great shots!

[@amtrakandcsxrailfanning164]

get awesome video and catches of this steamers on this line around the hoeshoe curve nice whistle action too

[@TrainVidsWithTom]

Amazing sound, great video!

[@GTRailFanProductions]

What is that second whistle on her?

[@FastFlyingVirginian]

It's a Pennsy whistle borrowed from the Juniata Shops.

[@GTRailFanProductions]

+FastFlyingVirginian Really? That is a beautiful Whistle

[@GTRailFanProductions]

+FastFlyingVirginian She is now NKP 767. she will be running excursions for the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RR and I am going on Sept. 24th

[@GTRailFanProductions]

+FastFlyingVirginian only for the rest of the year

[@indie1361]

Beautiful video man!

[@usstiger_cd4165]

was the diesel used for the climb up to horseshoe curve?

[@FastFlyingVirginian]

To conserve coal and help with braking as necessary. The story I've heard is that the CEO of Norfolk Southern was in the cab that day and asked that the diesel be throttled back for at least some of the distance so the 765 could do more of the work and thus make more noise. I'm not sure how much that's true, but I sure didn't pick up the sound of the diesel on the approach to the Curve. 😃

[@bryanchincy]

they are teaming up with Amtrak for the return. they are going to have extra cars on the train including observation cars

[@divanola]

beautiful sound!!!!

[@tigermki]

Thanks, I might try to go out and record her as well.

[@sooline3854]

The only think that would make this better would be if it was doubleheaded K4s, or if she had a line of reefers on her drawbar.

[@maxm2317]

I assume that Pennsylvania Railroad 3 Chime is a modified Lunkenheimer 3 Chime.

[@jakecollins3669]

That's Mr. Conductor's whistle!

[@jamesmccann1097]

The deep whistle is the Altoona shop whistle.

[@scrambler250r]

What was up with the freight cars at the end? Was that like extra coal or something?

[@animal16365]

scrambler250r Yes. They usually have gondolas filled with coal on really big excursions

[@buntik1687]

Now that is a working steam engine! Love it!!

[@davidwojtkowiak4977]

Simply AWESOME!

[@FastFlyingVirginian]

Thank you sir, glad you enjoyed it!

[@agentM1991]

When you were at Horseshoe Curve, are you aloud there?

[@manchesteralan3013]

Beautiful Railway

[@amtrak_121]

Fingers crossed that the next steam locomotive over the curve will be 1361!

[@ianm.hapsias1596]

I want my years supply of rice-a-roni for being the 10, 000th viewer.

[@leslie0965]

great job love it!!!

[@fortwaynerailroad]

We'd like to incorporate some of your footage in our documentary. Let us know if you could make available an uncompressed version for download. Feel free to message us here or at [e-mail]

[@2007markb]

Great job!

[@GreatLakesRailProductions]

That is very very cool!!!

[@FormD1282]

GREAT VIDEO!!!!!

[@RFandPRailfan]

They needed something to pull that GE

[@eltonjohnfan100]

i have a photo of the whistle...and its an 8'' lunkie...

[@TrainmanBrando]

listen to that pennsy whistle echo!

[@leslie0965]

great love it

[@GTRailFanProductions]

Your videos are in a NKP #765 movie because I have it.

[@FastFlyingVirginian]

The Horseshoe Curve scene was included in Blue Ridge Video's 'Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam'. I also submitted my 765 footage (both this clip and the footage seen in Nickel-Plated Horseshoe Part II) to Delay In Block Productions for possible inclusion in their documentary on 765 and Pere Marquette 1225. If you've seen it somewhere else, I'd be curious to know. :)

[@CullenTabaczynski]

3:37 2 whistles

[@blackstone1a]

oh, well the only steam train ive ever seen are propane burning narrow gauge steamers at Busch Gardens

[@RyanChugg]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@drewguild3879]

J1a on the curve. Oops. I just woke up after fainting.

[@wasted6666]

That was Fuckin Awesome Brutha

[@PhillyUnion767]

If I saw that when I was going by a crossing.... I would flip

[@PhillyUnion767]

No matter what my friends say

[@NickelPlateRoad779]

Your welcome :)

[@michaelmelcher1130]

Love the steam hate the diesel

[@blackstone1a]

errr, any1 realize the MoW cars