TRAINS GONE WILD 2 - SANTA FE 4-6-2 PACIFIC ENGINEERED BY 12 YEAR OLD

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Ever dream of running a steam locomotive? Well, this is the wrong way as kids almost get killed. Young crazy rail fans on the loose in this 1924 release. Mickey and Joe manage to climb into the engine car in the rail yard cause all kinds of mischief until they are thrown out.... so they build their own railroad! The cops chase them until they come to the edge of a steep street and then.............
Compounds and Superheaters
An inventory of main-line steam locomotives in the United States as of 1904 shows that, of 233 Pacifics in service, 85 were four cylinder compounds. The reasons for the introduction of compounds, to oversimplify, was that they were more economical on fuel, and, a factor particularly important to those railroads out West where water supplies were limited, and the water was of poor quality, compounds also used less water. Thus, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, which had compounds in many wheel arrangements, built 196 four cylinder "balanced" compound Pacifics between 1905 and 1914, although it should be pointed out that at the same time the road was also buying two cylinder simples of the same wheel arrangement. 4
The reason for the decline of the compound rigid frame locomotive in the United States was the general introduction of the Schmidt type superheater, which offered both fuel economy and better performance without the maintenance and construction costs of the compounds, although, in all truth, superheaters presented problems as well. So, most of the Santa Fe compound Pacifics were converted to two cylinder superheated locomotives, and enjoyed a long and successful service life. (During the mid 1920s, largely promoted by ALCO, there was considerable interest in three cylinder simple locomotives. There were a few three cylinder Pacifics built for Mexican service, but there was no series production of such Pacifics for any US or Canadian line.)
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[@Ramon73]

Sister locomotive number 1339 played an important role in the 1926 movie "FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE" with Harold Lloyd.

[@captainmorgan757]

This reminds me of what happened one afternoon on the railroad that I once was employed. My conductor and I were walking to the Yard building, when we heard whistle blasts from a group of locomotives that were near the diesel tracks. It turned out that a ten year old boy wondered into the freight yard and onto a parked locomotive!! It's a good thing that he didn't have a reverser with him!!

[@rogersalerno7154]

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[@andrewscolari5724]

This was back when railroading was still railroading.

[@brownpcsuncedu]

"Their parents had warned them to stay out of danger -- so they played in the railroad yards --" I guess they couldn't find anything safer. No open-hearth steel mills or ammunition depots in the neighborhood, so... :-)

[@Ramon73]

We see the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4-6-2 number 1344. Build in 1912 by Baldwin 4-6-2 Pacific, 73" drivers, 210 psi boiler pressure, compound cylinders simplified between 1922-27, engine weight of 284,230lb, tractive effort of 30,741 lb. Gone by 1954.

[@bluecomet390]

Great old film. Lots of fun. The days before "don't try this at home".

[@williamschlenger1518]

Great movie clip.Love the old steam locomotives.

[@andyjay729]

"You kids stay off this engine till I get back!" Now if that's not tempting fate, I don't know what is.

[@staplerpit1]

Movies of this serie were famous in Germany, during the seventys, as "Die kleinen Strolche". I liked it so..

[@allaprimalady]

So funny ! (though made me nervous)!

[@alexander1485]

i like the underside of the steam engine view.

[@johnwaller2886]

3.14 THAT'S IN CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO!!!

[@joshbreck3489]

WELL THESE KIDZ SURE WERE GROUNDED

[@engineerskalinera]

Now that is what I call "YOLO"! :)

[@Revolverben190]

I wonder where these people went with their lives

[@SPNGLovato18]

Dude there is a dream railroad, it’s actually trainz

[@sentineldg8]

what can i say everyones said it for me.....class

[@NoL0__]

Im pretty sure that was the point...Buzz Killington!

[@theunluckyy7244]

@Southern pacific it was in old years and trainz want there yet

[@garbeard3748]

anyone else bothered they really made a young kid get run over by a loco??

[@theunluckyy7244]

Lol if i was the steam locomotive i whould say stooooppppp thiiiis behavier

[@theunluckyy7244]

@@azaabazha ik the face is creppy but (if u know thomas and friends) i tried to drawn a face to this engine in the pic u ser but when i try to do the eyeballs they came to big so that is ehy there is this strange face om the profile pic

[@theunluckyy7244]

And btw the engine u see is an fs 880 class tank engine of italy

[@theunluckyy7244]

I think they made it when diesel engines where invented

[@AlexKhvedor]

Ha-Ha-Ha! A class film!!

[@TheClaudHamilton]

So simple that you just have to pull a few levers in some random order? Obviously those kids had no real understanding of engines, or else there wouldn't have been so much wheelspin every time the engine tried to move!! lol

[@johnwaller2886]

I suppose that's what happens -when previous generations have killed "all the Buffalo" and shot all the Red Indians "They get BORED"!