I love the turntable. My father in law used to work at the "roundhouse" when Powell Valve used it.
@leepenlack55483 ай бұрын
i worked their to , back 1977-78, ran a miles muti way machine.. the round house was huge but it wae cold in the winter lol.
@peterkleinhenz2 жыл бұрын
That is my dad and my grandpa hanging out the train at the very end of this video.
@NormanSilv3 ай бұрын
B & O= Best and Only
@frederickwise52382 жыл бұрын
Thanks for more Bellefontaine footage. I wish tho there was "more time" to watch the valve gear. Unfamiliar type, Im still trying to figure oout how the reverse th valve action. Walschert is fairly easy, This (Baker ??) is not. LOL
@dennis-ul5ht2 жыл бұрын
Ohio residents were fortunate in that the B & O, PRR, NYC, N & W, and NP all had significant steam operations all through the state in 1956...
@michaelrief44242 жыл бұрын
NP ?
@dennis-ul5ht2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelrief4424 Nickel Plate
@michaelrief44242 жыл бұрын
@@dennis-ul5ht Okay thanks & got it now. If it had been NKP I would known instantly. As a little boy I remember visiting my Aunt and Uncle up in northern Ohio and being inthralled by the NKP fast freight trains. It was a very cool name for a Railroad also.
@dennis-ul5ht2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelrief4424 I mostly missed the steam era but recall when Mike 4070 came through Norwalk on the former NKP (got it right!) in the early '80's..
@michaelrief44242 жыл бұрын
@@dennis-ul5ht I was born in 1946 so Steam was on the way out and Diesels were talking over quickly. But as a little boy I have fond memories of listening to steam trains whistling through our neighborhood in the summer when the windows of our house were open and the days before air conditioning. I used to hide under the bed sheets and check the RR timetables with a flashlight to identify which train it was. I grew up in Norwood Ohio so I got to watch the B&O SW, Pennsylvania, N&W and the CL&N railroads and the occasional NYC when they were rerouted. I got in trouble a many a time when I would be coming back home from the movies on Saturday and I would get to watch one train after another on the B&O Pennsylvania line. One train would go past and another headlight would appear in the distance. IF I saw Smoke there was No Way I would be leaving the bridge over the underpass. There is nothing more exciting than a Steam Locomotive at speed.
@doc10073 ай бұрын
These must have been the last weeks of steam.
@maxwellwalcher64202 жыл бұрын
what Hudson you like.
@user-pp1ni2jy3f5 ай бұрын
I thought the NYC retired all steam east of Indiana by 1954.
@neimrxcharix5742 жыл бұрын
Any idea why NYC locos are that far west of New York. Is it a simmilar thing were the loco rail road rented them out like the PRR did with the Santa Fe Texas class steamers?
@Toledo19402 жыл бұрын
No, the NYC ran all the way to Chicago...and to St. Louis; the NYC was operating its own steam locos on its own tracks.
@Toledo19402 жыл бұрын
The NYC ran as far west as Chicago and St. Louis.
@frederickwise52382 жыл бұрын
Actually not much different than seeing Union Pacific and Southern Pacific in St Louis or Chicago. even Cincinnati.
@maxwellwalcher64202 жыл бұрын
@@Toledo1940 did you love Hudsons i love them too.
@Toledo19402 жыл бұрын
@@maxwellwalcher6420 Yes. In fact, I was able to photograph some of them.