Rio Grande Southern #20: Second Test Run (4K)

This video is about the second test run of Rio Grande Southern locomotive #20 at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. The test took place on Thursday, July 9th, 2020.

[@billgrierson840]

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Giant Kudos to all involved. I first went to the CRRM in 1959 and always marveled at RGS 20 learning it's history. Never did I ever think it would steam again. Never say never, right? Again thanks to all and thanks for posting.

[@neiltate6309]

What a truly magnificent job . Congratulations to everybody for the return of a grand old lady of the rails.

[@LukeLovesTrains-Mr.RailYard]

Glad to see another Denver and Rio Grande southern steam locomotive back in the service

[@AlextheHistorian]

This was truly a sight. I also appreciate that this was in 4k. I enjoyed watching it on my tv.

[@johnmeixel9928]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@brootheboomer]

The fact that starting a loco is the same as starting a coal forge is a total meme ps: rgs 20 is my favorite looking locomotive at the crrm

[@thewatcher2928]

In case anyone is interested, this locomotive is THE locomotive that starred in the 1950 American Western film TICKET TO TOMAHAWK as the locomotive "Emma Sweeny" Here is the link to the movie if you wish to see kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4mvdaBsjJlpoc0 It's good to see this engine in action again

[@scoopmmr]

So wonderful to see and hear her running again. Thanks for sharing and well done CRRM. Laurie in Australia.

[@GTgyro]

That steam turbine is really noisy. Love the locomotive, though. Nice work guys.

[@amberlantern9328]

Crazy it looks this amazing, brand spanking new! Whilst I'm sure itll make it's way to Chama or Durango, I sure hope they can truck it to Dolores and or Ridgeway for a short visit, even though they dont have much track it would be nice. Well, anyway I'm sure they have something in mind!

[@JDsHouseofHobbies]

Man. I wish that I could like this more than once!

[@paulw.woodring7304]

Uncle Bob (Richardson) would have been happy.

[@southernrailwayfan1338]

This locomotive should visit the cumber and Toltec railroad where it can meet fellow early rio grande locomotive like 168 and 315 maybe a triple header

[@The123pcr]

great good work done :-)

[@EdWhizAviationTrains]

This is awesome, I Love this, reminds me of the trains at Knott's Berry Farm - I Subscribed 😎👍

[@stephensfarms7165]

Thanks 🙏

[@johnmeixel9928]

Thank you!

[@donniecain3138]

Fabulous

[@tomas5376]

Sure is nice to see this beauty run! Can they quiet the steam turbine?👍✌️😊🙏🏼🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

[@donniecain3138]

I Got RGS 20 In LGB Scale.

[@jml8975]

The Berlyn model??

[@vincentberkan605]

Do narrow gauge steam locomotives take a shorter amount of time to fire up than standard gauge steam locomotives?

[@johnmeixel9928]

I honestly don't know but I would guess so since their boilers are smaller.

[@pubbarian]

I would imagine it's roughly the same. Smaller boiler yes, but also smaller fire box to heat it. In the case of 491 it is a standard gauge boiler and fire box just mounted on a narrow gauge frame and running gear.

[@WGBrendaFan]

I watched two guys turn that engine. Is the round table that well balanced?

[@johnmeixel9928]

Yes it's balanced when the engineer moves the engine to make it balanced. In the video you can see him move it a little a few times to balance it.

[@nielsleenknegt5839]

Apparently (look up the channel of Hyce) they can turn that 50 ton heavy turntable and 150 tons of K37 loco (D&RGW n° 491) with only one person if the train is perfectly balenced

[@RocketStephen618]

Anyone know what Union Pacific Locomotive is at the left side of the screen at the start?

[@johnmeixel9928]

That is Union Pacific 0-6-0 switcher 4455.

[@RocketStephen618]

@@johnmeixel9928 Thank you so much!

[@Redwagon2012]

What happened to the cow catcher on 20

[@johnmeixel9928]

The damage was from its time working on the RGS. The museum will not repair it because they want to preserve its history.

[@Redwagon2012]

Oh

[@dempseyguidry5433]

Is this train for sale?

[@jml8975]

LMAO!!!