Train Mountain | 2022 Triennial | June 20th Director's Cut

[@wolfgangwolfdogplaysguitar701]

I love steam locomotives they're so beautiful it's like they're alive and breathing

[@FB-tq5ln]

I am grateful to see your video so many beautiful engine and engineers at work. Greetings from Dublin Ireland take care.

[@wolfgangpfeilergartenbahnd6530]

This selection of locomotives and passenger and freight cars is phenomenal. Great this workshop and the great working conditions. A fantastic railway system and a very nice video. Greetings from Germany

[@jaymechanic1228]

28.11 what a stunning steam loco. Absolutely beautiful to watch and hear. I only wish i could hear and smell it in person. Watching from the uk

[@vettebecker1]

Definitely a place on my bucket list to visit!! A lot of nice equipment, but love Scott’s BN SD40 centennial locomotive. Had the chance to see it once in person in Anderson South Carolina, at Palmetto live steamers.

[@bigsparky65]

All those beautiful STEAM LOCOMOTIVES 🚂, i wish that i was able to travel to see this fabulous display of locomotives 🚂

[@trainspottersforlife9182]

I love rideable trains 🚂 ❤

[@hallstuart6604]

Dam that is gorgeous!!

[@Alpha555]

Wow.. I’d love to travel in this 😍

[@NEAFarmKid4010]

Does Train Mountain still only allow propane fired engines, or do they allow oil fired as well?

[@louisxlive]

Good Video. What kind of camera did you use?

[@robertdonaldson6584]

I enjoyed it.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

I’m guessing that you need boiling certificates for each steam locomotive you bring there? Two of my brothers are in a group running an antique farm show 3-4 days every summer. There was steam tractors there the last time I went and my brother said that they can only let them run if they have a boiler certificate.

[@russkepler]

Train Mountain is now performing a boiler safety inspection - checking safeties, water glass, etc. but not performing a hydro test.

[@weaselmotorsports9057]

Any video of a 2-8-0 outside frame consolidation that was recently built?

[@TheSteamChannel]

Oh yeah, there is a good amount of you guys double-heading. It will be in upcoming videos

[@northpennvalleysteamrailroad]

Nice!

[@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226]

Hay guys a good idea would be when you visit one of your railroads might won’t to have a quick video of the safety rules of that railroad and how long would it take you to make a full run around TM if you took the long run

[@TheSteamChannel]

I’m not in the business of making safety videos covering the rules of each railroad. That’s the job of that organization and the Train Mountain Railroad Museum has already published a safety video on KZbin that visiting operators must watch detailing their rules and regs. As for the time, Monday we left the yard at 1400 hours, went out to Hope circle, and didn’t get back until 1800 hours. Very large railroad

[@shanelipe2552]

@@TheSteamChannel Well said.. LoL 😂😆

[@Navarrete993]

When is the next triennel?

[@TheSteamChannel]

June of 2025

[@AshAndSteam]

I have a question! With the live steam locomotives do you have to sand the flues, or is that just for the real scale locomotives?

[@kleetus92]

Typically no, if you're running propane you don't have to clean them at all. But with oil, coal, or wood, usually once a day either before you fire up or after it's cooled down. And like the real ones, if you fire right it's usually not bad, but if you overfire, well, you're gonna get good at cleaning!

[@AshAndSteam]

@@kleetus92 Thanks for the info, I have another question! When you say "before you fire up" or "after it's cooled down" what do you mean? Because I thought that you only sand them when you have a very strong draft in the fire, and not when its cooled down.

[@kleetus92]

@@AshAndSteam Sanding really isn't the way to clean the the flues, even in full size. It was a makeshift, kinda get out of jail free, kinda thing that road crews would do once in a while if they over fired or got a bad batch of coal. Reason being, you generally aren't going to have a supply of sand in the cab in the first place, and second, sucking it through the flues wears the facing edge of the tube sheet. When you 'punch' the flues, you use a brush similar to rifle bore brush to shove it down and pull back to the smokebox to clean the flues, so the wear if any, is even throughout the tube. By sanding, you're sucking it in the firebox end and abrading that face first and continually as you add more to clean the total length of the flues. Another problem is if you're running hard enough to pull a serious draft to pull sand off a shovel in the firebox door, your fire is blindingly bright and hot, and now you're mixing it with ambient air which is several hundred degrees colder... so you're getting some odd thermal action going on in an otherwise stable thermal system which again doesn't bode well for mechanical longevity. On our models, I'm honestly not sure if you could sand them under a heavy load because most places you won't have a grade long enough to sand on before you have to slow down or top the hill, and, all that crap is going to come out the stack... and right into your face! Cinders are bad enough I always wear some kind of glasses or goggles, now add sand to the mix... it would just be a huge gritty carbony mess.

[@russkepler]

​@@AshAndSteam He's talking about cleaning the tubes and smoke box. I don't think sanding works in smaller scales because you don't have the same airflow (besides it would be hard to find scale sand 🤔)

[@AshAndSteam]

@@russkepler Oh, thanks! 😃

[@elleryparsons2433]

A lot of Beautiful Engines if I had to Chose a Engine I would Have a Problem but I wouldn’t Mind it.

[@elleryparsons2433]

If My Wife Friend and I were to go and See this We Would love it and Become Spechless and Love It.

[@AustNRail]

I look forward to when the nonsense stops and coal regains its proper place.