Meet the woman behind Dollywood’s steam trains

Julie Collins, Dollywood’s first female engineer, takes a lot of pride in getting Dollywood’s two steam trains up and running for the season.
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[@JungleYT]

*That's real cool that Dolly had enough vision to incorporate "real" steamers at her park, instead of some dumb crap with a propane or motor cycle engine in it, etc. Reminds me of the old steam locos at Knott's Berry Farm out here in California. The rumble from the boilers is quite unique. The Disneyland steamers are more "toy like" and run on Diesel oil...*

[@davidwayne9982]

GREAT JOB!!!!! THANKS -- super good video too..

[@djsi38t]

Amazing woman..I wanna go to Dollywood!

[@brianfalzon6739]

Awesome!

[@bobbicatalano]

So cool!

[@Amigafur]

Inspiring, I'm a gal who loves steam locomotives too. I hope to be an engineer someday.

[@genislebastard3491]

Do you want to drive historical locomotives or do you want to work on a big company railroad or maybe a small branch line.

[@genislebastard3491]

If I didn't have the farm here I'd move to Colorado and work on one of the narrow gauge lines

[@evanstauffer4470]

@@genislebastard3491 In North America, we do not "drive" locomotives: The correct term Is "run" a locomotive / train.

[@frogcatdog]

I hope you get to achieve that!

[@josephbennett3482]

Three days to start up that thing DANG so that means in order for them to take passengers when the park opens after some time of being closed the employees have to go into work several days ahead of opening day just to prepare the locomotives.

[@miken3260]

Yes but when running a railroad there are always other thing that need repair or adjustments and lubrication. You can do those while the boiler is heating up. You want to heat it slowly because it’s better for it and it will need less repairs if you don’t hurry it.

[@andrewtreece3708]

3 days is a bit of stretch. The local organization I was with an a couple other I know we do it slowly to not stress anything at about a day. During the steam era you could do it in 6 hours

[@EastboundProductions643]

@@andrewtreece3708yeahhhhh, 3 days seems like a lot when we get our engine to a sustainable pressure if it’s a good day it could be 4 hours

[@Boilermaker-Rick]

Awesome video thanks for sharing it 😊

[@kevp9601]

NOT BAD, GIRL ! NOT BAD AT ALL ! ! 👍😃👍

[@Iplayfortnite]

That is actually my friend engineer jouly

[@slim6707]

I remember her 15 20 years ago a place called the circle

[@jamesabner6410]

😮

[@TreasureWOMAN]

😊

[@RichardAndewSwayne]

"Tender care"

[@Danis8Pastry]

What about the men?

[@nicholasdruce5346]

Mikado

[@rileysanesh5203]

Why is steam train 70 sitting in the shed it’s supposed to be running too

[@Codyrhodes800]

The smoke stack is being worked on and the wheels to

[@tommymartin4827]

Now that's my type of Lady ❤

[@judsmi9699]

I think men should. This is a heavy job. Not saying girls cannot be as strong.

[@brentwest5389]

I just wanted to see the train and not be force feed diversity..

[@yeoldeseawitch]

pollution making relics...should be discarded and the park should use electric-power

[@Jacktoro44]

gotta love an obvious troll/12 year old/both ;)

[@cesare8270]

Getting rid of these would not help anything and they hardly produce any pollution. And using energy would be worse as oil, coal, and gas are burned to create the electricity that powers electric vehicles and crap.

[@whitepassyukon1953]

lol bro the EPA actually tested these exact locomotives and the pollution levels they measured were so low it did not even register. Oh and if you think the environmental impact from these steam locomotives are bad, just wait until you see the mining process for the materials used to build electric car batteries.

[@cesare8270]

@@whitepassyukon1953 Bro ikr they are horrible

[@Amigafur]

if you think steam locomotives are bad, compare them to diesels. SO much worse. Also, Mackwell Locomotive Works in New Zealand builds zero emissions steam locomotives.

[@DollywoodExpressVlog]

Awesome!