Restored f units arrive in Galveston,Tx.

[@darthgrundle2349]

The most beautiful engines ever built. It's great to see them in all their beautiful glory. Hats off to the men that helped bring these beauties back to life!!!!

[@bitterclinger5876]

Wow, this takes me back. My grandad was Superintendent of Special Service (Chief Detective) for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe -- headquartered in this very same Galveston depot -- for many years until retiring in 1965. As a kid I made many a trip with him behind the old F units. A time long gone now, when people actually groomed themselves and dressed neatly to travel!

[@johnlimke9313]

I asked for the War Bonnet train set every Christmas when I was a kid, never got one, I absolutely loved that train and that's coming from a GNRY, Omaha orange and Pullman green fan!!

[@garyolsen3409]

Santa Fe Warbonnets , one of the most iconic loco's of all time, and my all time favorite. I have some on my HO layout. I grew up in a RR town when steam was being phased.

[@dburns8381]

That is the best looking locomotive ever designed. The Warbonnet paint job is the best too.

[@gordonsnell6735]

Pretty cool, I like the warbonnet paint scheme 😊😊

[@jodiemarieelectrolys]

I love how the paint lines match up so nicely with the two engines back to back.

[@ffjsb]

Uh, that's how they designed it...and why that design was so iconic...

[@jodiemarieelectrolys]

@@ffjsb Thanks and yes, you're right, it all starts with the design.

[@johnniewelbornjr.8940]

Image was a serious factor taken into consideration during this era. Paint schemes and frequent washings were simply a matter of course compared to today's "get by with the bare minimum" philosophy. ;)

[@williamritter771]

Out of all the paint schemes, the Warbonnet was the most famous. Ask Lionel.

[@gupadre8255]

I’ll ask Lionel then I guess

[@intuitive7274]

The streamliners were the best looking of all locomotives ever built

[@ejkvideo]

@ The Amtrak locomotives are awful looking,looks like the box they came in.

@@ejkvideo Sad but true.

[@David-lt6lt]

@@Tadfafty We've gotten so greedy that possibly having to spend a few extra dollars to make something have individuality and make it memorable is gone.

[@lancomedic]

@@Tadfafty In the era that these were designed "streamlining" was more about styling than efficiency at speed. During this period refrigerators, toasters and even clothing was streamlined. The slight curvature of an "F" units nose won't have much of an effect on efficiency considering the frontal mass of the locomotive and the sped that it usually travels. Look at the high speed European trains and you will see how much streamlining is necessary to affect efficiency. The nose tapers down to almost nothing.

[@charlessmileyvideos]

@@TadfaftyAgreed. My 2015 Mustang GT is about the only exception. :) For a 4 door car, the most beautiful is the Dodge Charger.

[@robertpoudrette4483]

I'm just happy to see these beautiful machines being restored and being shown moving around.

[@ocsrc]

Moving at 5 mph, what a shame. These locomotives used to fly down the tracks over 100 mph from city to city I remember hearing the horn a mile away and the gates would go down and 15 seconds later the train would blast by so fast it was a blurr The passengers having a meal or drinks or taking in the sights as the train flew through towns

[@johnniewelbornjr.8940]

Thanks for sharing the vid... I grew up with both ATSF F's and the Espee F's, so I enjoy these old Southern Pacific units in Santa Fe paint all the same. Yep, a lot of different details between the two railroad's units (horns, pilots/plows, tanks, skirting over the tanks, lighting arrangements) but these still look nice. Ditch lights look weird, of course, but a required evil these days.

[@Dalts1985]

Johnnie Welborn, Jr. - Yet the Dutch lights could be better integrated to the car body, by placing/locating ‘em, into the Anti-climber arrangement at the bottom of the car body next to the coupler housing, infact placing them here, one would be none~the~wiser it wasn’t original....

[@jamesshanks2614]

Regarding the restoration they had as to what updates were done depends on who is funding the rebuild and the what the budget is. I forget who owns them but I was shown through a rebuilt set of F-7A units that looked like F-7A's on the outside but were totally modern on the inside. V-16 645E series engines instead of the 567C engines, replaced the DC main generator with an alternator as when they were done and kicked them out of the shop you had 2 F-7A car body's with GP-38-2 innards inside making them far easier to maintain and operate and raising the horsepower to 2000 each. The power plant upgrade also eliminated the need for transition on the locomotive's thus providing a smoother ride and when rebuilding the trucks upgraded them to so the trucks got GP38-2 traction motors. If your going to rebuild 1950's era locomotive's for the company office train why not do it right? From the outside no one would know and you wouldn't have electricians scratching their heads asking another electrician, you familiar with these?

[@Edyth_Hedd]

Thanks for the details on the rebuild. Those old F units sound pretty amazing. It's cool that these old EMD products can be rebuilt over and over - kind like 60s muscle cars...

[@tommythomason6187]

I think it is Norfolk Southern that upped the horsepower on their Office Car F9s to 2000hp, over the old engine, which produced 1750hp.

[@1940limited]

As long as the car body is original, I dont' mind upgrades on the internals. Parts for the original engines are hard or impossible to find.

[@DonVideoGuy007]

@@tommythomason6187 - Actually, the 2 A Units were purchased from MARC and they were F9A's with the turbocharged EMD 567C prime mover rated at 1,800 hp; and the 2 B units were F7B's with the turbocharged EMD 567D2 prime mover rated at 2,000 hp, and were originally owned by the Chicago Great Western railroad. Norfolk Southern decide to rebuild all 4 units by equipping each of them with an EMD 645, and upgrading them with the innards of the GP38-2 locomotives that the prime movers came from. Personally, I think of 2 of them as an F38-2A unit and the other 2 as an F38-2B unit. All 4 were sold to 2 different small railroads, each getting an A-B set during 2019.

[@choochooleo]

Glad to see them up and running. Terrific job Galveston!

[@divox9pqr]

Beautiful..Those units pulled my family on the California Zephyr in the 60’s. A great adventure awaited us as we pulled out of Chicago. Back then I think the terminus was Oakland not Emeryville.

[@scottsmith1525]

I always like the silver running gear of the SF, UP, and the D&H...to name a few

[@luciusvorenus9445]

Nice Warbonnets on those covered wagons!

[@jimlove8144]

How can a huge machine be so beautiful.

[@railroadvelocipedeproducti2020]

Amtrak Diesel And Santa Fe Diesel looks so great together

[@dpohunter]

I wish one of these units had participated in Streamliners At Spencer a year later. The classic Warbonnet scheme was conspicuous by its absence.

[@Random.Channel_]

dpohunter well it’s fake warbonet because these units are actually ex SP

[@billemmith5281]

I always thought that Santa Fe Diesel the most beautiful locomotive ever.

It's in my top 3 for sure!!! If a machine could talk, she'd scream AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL.

[@maxwellharris507]

Early diesel engines certainly have their own charm, especially ones in the classic Santa Fe paint job.

[@johntapp1411]

The melodic sound of those horns. Man, they shook the ground whenever those locomotives passed by.

[@CodyJohnstonbaugh]

I love me some F units! By far my favorite locomotives to ever be produced!

[@melrose9252]

Cody Johnstonbaugh I agree!

[@craft-o-matic2377]

Me too!!!

[@diesellocomotivefan5400]

Same here. Saw the video of these two Mrs. America as they came out of the beauty parlor. Great Locomotives and awesome Santa Fe paint scheme.

[@anthonyf.9170]

Beautiful majestic engines. 🇺🇸👍

[@gregorygordon8747]

I grew up with the Santa Fa. I miss it.

[@kennyjohnson8081]

Gregory Gordon - I grew up with the Northern Pacific north coast limited vista dome. I miss it.

[@AzTrailRider57]

Love that unmistakable sound of the Leslie S5

[@forwhomthebelltolls392]

I prefer the PA's and E8/E9's, but the F3 and F7 were beautiful. Many is the time I rode the El Capitan between Los Angeles and Amarillo, La Junta and Chicago.

[@ojofelixnm3608]

I don't recall the El Capitan ever passing through Amarillo. Maybe if they were rerouted through Belen,NM because of weather?

[@johnfahey7681]

Me too.

[@RobbieSongwriter]

Glory days warbonnet paint scheme looks great. I think it looked even better on the ALCO PA/PB units with that long hood. If you Google "ALCO PA locomotives", theres a great shot, "Alco Pa-1 51 Santa Fe Chief Diesel Locomotive Chicago 1946." Always got a thrill hearing the superchargers whine as they passed my grandma's house on the way to San Diego. Glad to see these historical engines restored.

[@craigpalmer5693]

Nice video galivston Texas old school locomotives Amtrak also awesome keep it up bless you

[@ejkvideo]

Thank You

[@yixnorb5971]

On the thumbnail it looked so clean I though it was a model.

[@raymondbermudez5660]

A few years ago I was stopped at the railroad tracks waiting for a Union Pacific freight train to pass but to my surprise the two lead locomotives was the Union Pacific F units

[@JungleYT]

Amazing how many of the F-Units are still around... The pneumatics on the older ones sounded like a shot gun when they went off!!! "Pop!!!, Pop!!!", then the chug, lug, lug of the pumps...

[@Jim-hw1xr]

To all you guys complaining about the paint. Let me pass along what an old German engineer told me once. "Bad beer is better than no beer at all." Discuss

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

By your own logic then, one could go to a junkyard, pull out a rusted old F-hulk that is full of holes, won't turn over and is falling apart and you would love and feel the same way about it in that condition.

[@ThePaulv12]

Re the beer, you obviously haven't drunk West End from South Australia. Trust me, you're better off having a soft drink...

[@M1chael42O1]

dont mind me just having my popcorn enjoying this

[@charlesgreathouse7376]

To the complainers, how did your F7 paint job turn out?

[@epistte]

What is wrong with the paint? It looks great to me.

[@houseoftrainsgarcia9794]

I love to that engine make stop in San Bernardino CA . Now that would make history . An Icon .

[@JamesKeno]

WOW! I remember riding the Texas Chief to Oklahoma City as a child.

[@anetajohnson8446]

A part of RR history, brought back to life! thanks to all those who made it possiable! now, are they going to use it on excursions?Dinner trains? Just wondering, who pays for the restoration? Santa Fe? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, The silver bullet of the Burlington Zepher looks great, so do many othe paint scemes. The War bonnet is super! and most popular!

[@ejkvideo]

The Galveston RR. Museum paid for the restoration.They have been used on a few excursions and they use them for the museums Polar Express train.

[@emdman1959]

They look beautiful

[@davidvincent1093]

what a lovely restoration

[@Argentx1965]

Yay! This museum is amazing it's a very fun place to take the kids 💯

[@YouSimon1000]

It's a beautiful restoration...but those horns! No vintage pair exists anywhere in the US?

[@RobbinsScott]

Beautiful machine.

[@bennetfox]

Those FD40s look so awesome with that war bonnet paint scheme! There should be a B unit between those two A units!

[@Joe-d7m6k]

FD40????????

[@marcopeluzio9948]

the fantastic machines.

[@chrismiller5198]

These are gorgeous units but it's too bad about those anachronistic ditch lights. I think historical equipment should be exempt from that regulation.

[@williamschlenger1518]

Beautiful design. Made Lionel rich.

[@eottoe2001]

When they do a restoration do they install new diesel engines and generators, and new electronic or to they restore and rebuild what is there? Thank you in advance.

[@ejkvideo]

Not sure about the engines and generators,but the control stands are modern updates

[@johntapp1411]

I guess it would depend on how good a shape the original equipment is. Right here it sounds like the old 567 diesels with the Roots blowers have been fixed up.

[@Aurik-Kal-Durin]

Now if only they could get a Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 to run again... I've been to see the No. 4935 GG1 "Blackjack" in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. She looks beautiful, but it's sad seeing her cooped up in the museum when she could be riding the rails again...

[@voidjavelin23]

impossible to run a GG-1 with todays infrastructure

[@ncsxtrain7044]

Santa Fe In are hearts forever

[@mikehawk2003]

They arent even sante fe engines. they are southern pacific

[@dorothygale5896]

The RR museum in Galveston is well worth the visit. It's and the end of the Strand.

[@heavydutyrepair64]

Those old EMD 2 strokes last forever

[@Jhihmoac]

I'd say almost everything is restored...With the newer GE Genesis and its computerization as the 3rd loco, I'm wondering if the F units have more up-to-date controls and control interfaces, especially with Amtrak featuring nostalgic flairs on some of its cross-country journeys now...Also looks like there's some fine old comfort and first class service in some of those cars!

[@elektrosoundwave]

If I remember right, these were restored in Greenville, SC.

[@tommyhunter1817]

I wanted a set of model F units in Santa Fe warbonnet SO BAD when I was a kid, but never got them.

[@alcopower5710]

Tommy Hunter .....did you ever get one?

[@ohgary]

Have you checked eBay?

[@Rebel9668]

Now they need a B unit betwixt em.

[@kennyjohnson8081]

Rebel9668 - ...need a B unit and another A unit for the classic ABAA The first A forward and the aft A's backward. (A lash-up for besting the Rocky mountains.)

[@csx6025gamer]

Rebel9668 I Agree

[@brianblessing9123]

I had a model freight train with a santa fe warbonnet locomotive .it almost looks the same as the one in this video.the only difference is mine only had one headlight ,and on both sides of the locomotive had round sie vents,or windows where the power plant of the locomotive would be located at

[@JohnPatterson-kz8jr]

Saw them when they went to Brenham in November 2016. Took our Xmas card Pic with them. Just the way God and Lionel wanted it!!😮😅

[@haroldreardon8070]

Former SP F units. They left the modified snow plows on along with non standard horns and unfortunately have the ditch lights on them as well as the RPCX initials. Can't do much about the initials other than make them smaller.

[@telsport]

Just how gorgeous can you get?

[@Greenkiller21]

nice catch!

[@KaciCooperations]

Vought_F4U_Corsair Very rare catch!!

[@robbieb8833]

Great video!

[@ejkvideo]

Thank You

[@dusteerhodes]

anyone know the horns used on these? Kind of a very low pitched horn, like a fog horn. It can be heard in the theme opening of the old "Fugitive" TV series.

[@voidjavelin23]

its a Leslie S5

[@Sam808Sch]

I see when Amtrak is short of power they will lease units from anywhere.

[@maxrailroad]

Great video! What is Amtrak going to do with these engines?

[@ejkvideo]

maxrailroad The Galveston RR. Museum actually owns the F units.Hopefully some day they can offer excursion rides.

[@maxrailroad]

Oh okay, so Amtrak was just towing them I guess.

[@hansfriess]

Are these f units originally Santa Fe locomotives

[@edwardkosar2038]

No,I think they were Southern Pacific or T&NO

[@drrgperrin]

What's the story behind this? Are the F-7s going to see revenue service or any kind? Or will they be used for excursion only? Surely, they're not just for museum display, not after being restored to running condition(?). Who knows, please?

[@ejkvideo]

They made a few special excursions since being restored,but nothing this year.The museum is having a Polar Express event,but I don't know if they are using the F-7s for power.They do not have a working steam locomotive.

[@philiphilgersom6791]

Are the two blue/cream cars ex American Orient Express? (Cars now have Creative Charters on their sides). Does anyone know what happened to the cars of the AOE that once were parked in California?

[@engineersdash]

Nice sounding Leslie horn.

[@vettebecker1]

Sharp units!!!!

[@sunriseanbu2533]

Locomotive looks like wcm1,5 London locomotive works

[@Guillotines_For_Globalists]

Did they upgrade the horns? Most traditional F units have horns that sound like a single note tuba.

[@TFN5459]

+Blaine Bugaski A good number of F's received different horns later on in their lives, particularly the passenger units. The Santa Fe put S3Ls on some of their passenger units and Western Pacific for example put five chime M5 horns on their California Zephyr FP7's

[@Guillotines_For_Globalists]

I will agree, the old horns are not as attention grabbing, but they are classic and nostalgic.

[@dusteerhodes]

I liked that old horn. In another post I was asking if anyone knew what type it was, or the code name of it.

[@thehernandezmediacorporation]

According to the museum's website, the horns, along with other parts, were salvaged from the museum's previous Texas Limited F7's, which, unfortunately, corroded in the midst of Hurricane Ike.

[@Ferrocarril_Chicago]

That's something. What's the P42 and Amfleets doing in the consist?

[@ejkvideo]

The train was run as an Amtrak special from Houston to Galveston

[@JamesEllison69]

Looks like amtrak is replaying their rainbow era as an excursion.

[@clothsloth]

0:55 Moron "parents"... Let the kids running aside the track, meanwhile the loco coming! Congrat!

[@jamesmcdonald6047]

Cloth Sloth, you sound like a railroader to me. That worry is engrained with years of experience!!!

[@weewoodeal]

A kid that old has no business running around a moving loco. I was taught how to be safe around trains at a early age because I lived next to a switching yard. Had to cross the tracks often to go places. Parents would have never let me do that.

[@michaelglass4701]

Looooooove your video.

[@ejkvideo]

Thank You

[@ljbanen]

WOW great video.

[@ejkvideo]

Thank You

[@njteech]

Carnival Cruiseship in town

[@alansklenar4920]

The ditch lights are required by law

[@Tricky929]

These remind me of an N Scale Mini-trix F9 painted up to look like Santa Fe F7's. They are old SP F Units now painted into the Santa Fe Warbonnet. Not real crazy about them. RickH.

[@supersnake2099]

Rick Howland - If it were a gift to you and you had a very nice place to keep it, I am assuming you would not turn it down, or does it bother you that much? Me, I would take it. :)

[@zr1rob]

I thought so, those are the extended fuel tanks that SP used. Do you know if those are the old WAG F's?

[@Joe-d7m6k]

​@@zr1robYes, they are!!!

[@SegaMario]

A Windows Movie Maker video in 2013? Impossible.

[@rlstowe3]

Great restoration except for horn placement.

[@whatthehellol1610]

They must have had them hidden, I just seen them two days ago.

[@flfun1684]

Santa Fe original!!

[@A._Dot]

Why in the heck is a Northeast Regional car in Texas, it’s supposed to be on the Northeast Corridor

[@BossSpringsteen69]

Beautiful

[@suppylarue220]

1:1 models of Santa Fe F's . playing trains.

[@BenthetrainkidReturns]

What horn is this?

[@Ferromexfan4081]

RS5T

[@JamesEllison69]

That's 1 killer rs5t.

[@infinity3jif]

sounds so mean as it throttles up 4:32

[@johnhabeck6153]

BAMPER horn ! 🤗

[@haroldreardon8070]

Both need the plows changed out, remove the horrid horns and replace, get rid of those horrid ditch lights and the HEP exhaust systems on the roof. Otherwise, not too bad.

[@jaswmclark]

Follow your requests, and they will be confined to a museum, and never allowed on the road, unless piloted by a more modern, and legal unit. Your choice.

[@tnrpvideo1414]

the horn is *B S E T* tho

[@andyevans9369]

James Clark a

[@tommythomason6187]

Striking locomotives. They aren't powered here? Santa Fe was a great passenger carrier.

[@ejkvideo]

Yes they are powered,they had to travel here as an Amtrak train thus the Amtrak locomotive.

[@anner.5347]

My daddy rode (and liked) trips on the El Capitan.

[@Timmothy2012]

Too bad they have mostly just sat there since then

[@alanhutchins5916]

Why are they called 'f' Units???

[@ejkvideo]

The F originally meant fourteen as in fourteen hundred horsepower.They also made E units which were longer and were eighteen hundred horsepower thus the e unit designation.

[@arunbhoopathyt6503]

Tonish glosih 2good luck

[@pokeyrailfanning]

Get that p42 outa here and give her a B unit and some SF passenger cars

[@ethanpeters9827]

I think they ruined the F units when they went ahead and mounted ditch lights on the front of them these engines never had ditch lights on them and they never should even ask the railroads have a ball that says every engine should be equipped with Ditch lights nowadays I think that should be right except for the F unit should stay the way they were years ago they look so much better that way gives it more classic look I think it's so stupid when they put the ditch lights on there that is ruined the look of the engines they were never made to have ditch lights than ever had its lights on back then and they shouldn't have ditch lights on now I think somebody should say something about that the railroad practical it is ruined the classic looking engine my car won't up some lights on the bottom of it weren't there originally who's with me

[@richardgerlach5156]

Great grammar.

[@kyleb3754]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@brianblessing9123]

please excuse my spelling erroron my previous comment .I ment to say side vents.[oops my bad}

[@1940limited]

I hate ditch lights on F units. They look awful.

[@jayfmiller]

+g bridgman Yeah, they look like zits on that nice chin .

[@ethanpeters9827]

g bridgman I'm with you on this to man I think they need to take the ditch lights off the F units that they've already put on them and just stick with the Mars light I think it does it mighty fine job it's work fine for years itsy the engine coming down the tracks that Mars light and he said you could see that thing for hundreds of miles he said nowadays when he sees a train coming the ditch light don't shine as far as that Mars I did years ago and he was a kid so what they did was ruin it I'm all for with you good job hope a lot more people get the picture and the railroad companies get the picture to quit coughing up ditch lights on these old classic F units and the ones that they already put the ditch lights on need to take them back off and put the engine back to its original look thanks love your message hope you love mine too see if we can get more people involved and solve this problem

[@1940limited]

@@ethanpeters9827 Maybe the only thing worse is putting them on steam locomotives. That happens, too. I see other comments on this thread from guys who don't like them on vintage diesels.

[@Tricky929]

They should have flipped the ditch lights down. They are in the wrong place to impress me. Again RickH.