Leviathan Week at Steam Into History - Leviathan 63 and York 17

[@vettebecker1]

It looked like the Great locomotive Chase!! Both are beautiful works of art!

[@raymondleggs5508]

Locomotive is based off of the same locomotives original apperance

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

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[@jacksalvin364]

4-4-0 American Locomotive 63 rolls out of the shops of Kloke Locomotive Works in 2009.

[@Steven_Rowe]

thankyou. I love these engines. How lovely that not only were they functional ut also built with love and craftsmanship. The american woodburners were very elegant. I love the brass and the beautiful cabs made from timber

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed

[@Hendo56]

Love your videos. I was there 2 of those 3 days- and this is a nice overall representation of the LEVIATHAN's visit!

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed

[@BCSchmerker]

*Great minds work alike.* Kloke and O'Connor independently re-created two locomotives of the Central Pacific Jupiter Class, a lot of four 4-4-0's built at the Schenectady (NY, USA) Locomotive Works in 1868; O'Connor tackled the SerNo 505 replica (Central Pacific 60 _Jupiter_) for the U. S. Department of the Interior, who wanted a dead-ringer of the original for Golden Spike National Historic Site, Promontory Summit, UT, USA. Kloke's is a replica of SerNo 508 (Central Pacific 63 _Leviathan_). Both Kloke and O'Connor also re-created similar 4-4-0's as delivered to different lines by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, NJ, USA, where the Union Pacific ordered a lot of five (which I suspect were called Class E-16) in 1868 (road numbers 116 through 120); Northern Central 17 _York_ is in a forest-green Victorian scheme, while NPS 119 (based on Rogers L & M SerNo 1558; as Union Pacific 119) is in the henna-red-backed artwork that the UP used in 1869 advertisements.

[@TrevorPalVA]

Its nice these 2 met again since Elgin at Kloke Construction.

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

It was a fitting tribute to their operation

[@ThomasFlansburg]

I done mind replicas either. They have beautiful voices too.

[@hansemist]

Loved to see more built!

[@edimejia3611]

Thomas Flansburg there kinda both like the Lincoln funeral train

[@kaotica69]

Thomas Flansbur

[@marckbryanbalang9315]

I love these 2 beautiful locomotives tho

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

So do we

[@raymondleggs5508]

* hope they do a cp Huntington replica next or a pioneer.

[@AhmearClayIombo-dj6di]

I Love Leviathan 63 and York 17

[@blueyondervideo9598]

Very nice

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed

[@threehornedgaming]

Wow that last shot!

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@SidneyPratt]

Thanks.

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

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[@johnerikson7094]

Anybody know when the leviathan will steam again? The website has been gone for some time now, and I'm not sure what the plan is with the leviathan now that the 2015 funeral train tour is finished.

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

New owners, it's at the Star Barn in Elizabethtown, PA since 2018.

[@tristanmundis3040]

Cool video.

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed

[@shoeahorse]

Looking at your night time scenes...I notice the ground reflection of the fireboxes, which made me wonder about the ash pans...If the light gets through, surely ash would too...So seeing no wood in the tender... prompted me to enquire...Have the locos be converted to oil burning...? Just another thought its a pity both whistles sound the same...

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

The engines were built as oil burners, by the Kloke Locomotive Works of Elgin Illinois. Leviathan was completed in 2009, and York in 2013.

[@niguelbootboy55]

hey Dynamo, I was wondering if the headlights on BOTH York & also Leviathan are powered by Karosene or some other kind of oil?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

No, the Leviathan's was from what we were told; however the lamp needed some work, so for the event she had an LED light. The York has light bulbs and a diesel generator under her back-up light. The generator is almost never audible, as the steam engine drowns it out. For those who are going to wonder why they didn't build the 17 with a steam generator the reason is because the steam generator would have been much harder to hide, and the whine of a dynamo would be audible even if concealed.

[@EDWARDSAful]

what whistle on day 2 I heard besides the York and Leviathan?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

That was a passing truck that had an air whistle. His route took him by the event a few times over the week, this was not the only time we heard him whistling off to the 17 and 63.

[@frozen_waffle_cosplay]

While walking the trail the other day I found out that they really did not spike those gold spikes in the rails haha they just spiked it right in the tie xD

[@Travelinmatt1976]

+The_Frozen_Waffle I'm a little confused by your comment, did you not know that the spikes are driven into the ties?

[@frozen_waffle_cosplay]

no i mean not driven into the rail like normal, into the middle is what I ment

[@DeathValleyLumberCompany]

why would someone dislike this

[@capitollimitedproductions211]

PopsProductions124 The British

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Casual audiences just aren't into it

[@bastouneuroatypicmusic6885]

Americans locomotives : the beautifulest of the world !!!!

[@johndoe-zk1yu]

what does it cost to build a loco like that?how is the trip?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

+john doe The York 17 cost 2.5 million to build. Although the quality of the ride may be a matter of opinion, in our opinion it is a first rate operation, one well worth visiting and riding.

[@johndoe-zk1yu]

Dynamo Productions I meant the length of the trips

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

+john doe The Hanover Jct. runs are 2 and a half hours long, a round trip of 20 miles. The shorter Glen Rock bound excursions last an hour, and are a round trip of 10 miles.

[@johndoe-zk1yu]

thank you.

[@jakethomas2519]

john doe

[@tristanmundis3040]

Did this train run from New Freedom to Glen Rock Pa?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

New Freedom to Hanover Junction, running through Glen Rock.

[@tristanmundis3040]

Thank you

[@billporter9494]

yeah man!, all together now!,LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!, remember looking up and peruseing matirial on this topic., these machines were rocket science back at that time, and each engineer was assingned a locomotive and was extremely fond of his charge., nice recreations of the people and the sructures dateing from that period., very nice, who did the bulk of the heavy fabricateing?, who rolled the boiler shell?, welded or riveted? , who cast the frame and cylinder saddle?, who cast the wheels& c?, wood or coal?, and did the federals require you to install Westinghouse air brake appliances,. Thought I saw link& pin coupleing devices

[@everettmeehling]

To my understanding David Kloke's shop did all of the work. Both engines burn oil, neither has ever burned coal nor wood. Yes both engines have air brakes, both are up to current FRA code, as they are legally required to. The link and pin coupler on the front of Leviathan is the only one on either engine, the rear coupler on Leviathan is a knuckle coupler, as are both of York's. The link and pin coupler that Leviathan has is purely for show, for the aesthetic, it is not used to haul anything.

[@billporter9494]

Everett Meehling ah kosher.,guys did a really nice job, I am always a sucker for brass and oak, keep them polished and shiny side up.

[@MrChickennugget360]

wood be great for making movies with. Have the run any double headers?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

No, they did not run any doubleheaders. The railroad lacks the means to turn any equipment around, so it was not possible.

[@jimmywalker1568]

Walker road heard that name before

[@playmarket5725]

Красота.

[@Geardproductions]

How many locomotives do they have there?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Steam Into History owns one Locomotive, the York 17. They have a small diesel switcher on loan from Stewartstown, and the Leviathan is a visiting engine owned by David Kloke of Kloke Locomotive Works.

[@Geardproductions]

Sounds like they need more locomotives.

[@frozen_waffle_cosplay]

Geardproductions Its not the amount of locomotives we have, but the people that bring them together.

[@TrainmanBrando]

do those coaches have electricity?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Yes they do

[@SaccoccioFilms]

Why did they have one engine following the other?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

The reenactment events all called for separate locomotives, and sometimes separate trains, and during the regular runs, such as the Veterans Day Trip, the railroad wanted to have an engine leading both way, but did not want to have 2 engines on a 2 car train, so the one engine followed the train in reverse and hauled it forward when it was headed in the direction it was aimed.

[@SaccoccioFilms]

oh thank you, i was curious, I've never seen that done in such a way, usually they either have another locomotive waiting at the other end or a turn table.

[@FreeManFreeThought]

The only thing I don't like is the whiteness of the lights. They could have gone with a yellower light more in keeping with the original while keeping the brightness required for modern safety. But I'm nitpicking.

[@severinoantonio86]

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