USA Steam Freight Train on the Brecon Mountain Railway - Baldwin "Santa Teresa No. 1"

[@noahgallant2753]

I'm from Maine and this looks right out of a picture from back when Maine had lots of 2ft tender engines!

[@neilthompson42]

A fabulous record of the days activities given the weather conditions we were having to work around, it was an enjoyable day. Look forward to welcoming you back again for some more American Narrow Gauge Steam in Wales.

[@preservedrailway]

Thank you, was a great day, very well ran. Had never been down before, but will definitely be back!

[@fernandosantiagorodrigueze5532]

@@preservedrailway ya pueden hacer allí películas del lejano oeste con ese tren

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

There is a classic railroad book called 'The Maine Two Footers" by Linwood Moody, first published in 1958. Though she was never in Maine, this engine appears in the book in an index called "Two Footers from other parts of the World". Her Baldwin builders photo is in there as Eastern Province Cement Company #2. In that picture she has a British style cab. In her restored form, she much more closely resembles Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes #23 or #24. At the time I first read this book maybe 40 years ago, I had no idea she was still in existence! The fact that she is is a great thing since none of the Maine tender engines survived and the two Brecon Mountain Baldwins are the best chance left to experience one in person.

[@pannierprairie7884]

Wow, some truly excellent shots Lee, both the scenery and the train complement each other very nicely👍

[@Mikado463]

Wonderful to see American steam in the U.K.; the number 1 looks beautiful and well done on the resto and conversion. The two-foot gauge was very prevalent in the state of Maine ...and there are some fine restored examples running today. Now, what Santa Teresa really needs is a right proper whistle ...I'm afraid that "tea kettle" tooter just doesn't do her justice. And you need an engineer (what I guess you folks call a "driver") to actually *blow* that whistle. Let it resonate and echo throughout the hills and dales and moors so the rest of the neighbors know she's out and about! And while you can get away with the steamy show when the weather allows ...you really need to make some *smoke*! Stack talk and smoke! I'm sure the no. 1 runs on oil so getting her to billow a bit of smoke shouldn't be that hard. You want vintage American steam on display you need a whistle, good stack talk and some smoke to make it complete.

[@StaffsTransport]

Locomotive and landscape. Certainly worth all the hiking and climbing. I'd be interested to see what you could do at Rudyard Lake Steam Railway. Very nicely done. As my grandad told me, "In a film, every scene is a perfect photograph."

[@topgear3487]

Excellent Video for a Welsh locomotive named Santa Teresa No. 1

[@joelightrailway2362]

Excellent video of the amazing USA narrow gauge freight plus mixed train working at Brecon 👍👍 It feels magical that fact you are in South Wales, it does fill that you were at a heritage railway in the USA. The freight wagons or cars are so well designed by the railway volunteers and I hope they do cattle wagons to add to it. I would like to see the two USA locos double heading together on a service train operations during a weekend as that would be site to be amazed.

[@geoffreyhampson3993]

And a few stake sided lumber flats too. Then it could pass for Maine, though you may want a Forney to really top it off.

[@neilthompson42]

@@geoffreyhampson3993 We are very slowly building a replica Forney based on SR&RL No.10.

[@sirrichardlangfordii7247]

Awesome train! I love it!

[@stamrly418]

Absolutely fabulous . Great shots lovely sound and the steam effects were just so classical they mad you drool.. The last silhouette and steam drifting into the valley magnificent. I travels on the line in early October and was cheered by the quality of the operation stock and it all. Great all round work Amacf

[@Spud607]

It's great to see so many foreign engines in the UK where people who can't exactly afford to go across the pond can get a chance to see what they have over there from home (or Ireland in my case). Hopefully we can get the C&L 4-4-0T back to Ireland with another American engine alongside for good measure! 😂😂

[@Rob789-2]

It's interesting to see this rolling stock without knuckle couplers.

[@zmkferreofan]

actually she's from brazil, she was a 2-6-0 for companhia mogiana, then she was sold for a plant and then she was sent to the uk, where she was converted to a 2-6-2 and put back to life, but still, seh is amazing!!!!

[@preservedrailway]

Worked in Brazil, built USA

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Very enjoyable to watch, nice view points, lovely scenery. Thanks for sharing 🙂

[@crewkerne40]

Amazing video,No 1 and train really look the part,also love that whistle!.

[@Bubbarain717]

Great video! Another amazing locomotive!

[@SimonTog]

Very well done video Lee, some good locations, big thumbs up :)

[@fleetwoodvo8673]

Damned Yankees! What a gorgeous machine.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

This locomotive was originally built for operation in South Africa, this particular one served the Eastern Province Cement Company situated at the end of a branch that leaves the Port Elisabeth - Avontuur railway at Chelsea. The design was based on similar locomotives built for South African Railways as class NG10, but this one has a more American look despite all the NG10 also been built by Baldwin. The locomotive was extensively rebuilt by the Brecon Mountain Railway (should be Railroad with its American theme) as it came as a crash victim from SA. With these cars behind it gives a good idea what the 2ft gauge railroads in Maine looked like.

[@preservedrailway]

Think that is Brecon's other America loco, Baldwin 61269 of 1930. This one was built for work in Brazil.

[@neilthompson42]

This loco is Baldwin 15511 originally built in 1897 for the Mogyana Railway in Brazil, now rebuilt at the BMR from a 2-6-0 to a 2-6-2.

[@welsh_Witch]

thats No.2 which is currently in bits at pant

[@Tom-Lahaye]

@@preservedrailway Then I have mistaken this loco as the EPCC one, but you are right, numbers do not match as EPCC's one had no.2

[@YoshanBisanka]

great

[@malcolmbrown3532]

Brecon's take on Alister Maclean's Breakheart Pass....

[@eliotreader8220]

this would make a great film set for a westen

[@rogerlollar4325]

It's not often you see an American locomotive in Britain

[@kineticrail]

Great stuff. How do you come across all these charters I know of 30742 and timeline but can't seem to come across others

[@ThomasIronworks]

How can I find out more about these charters run by David Williams and Bob Branch

[@kingcheesemus6307]

I would also like to know this, this looks amazing!

[@romanbunce2367]

That is not USA that's UK and it's not a freight train

[@geoffcapper769]

What a boring film,just a steam train with five wagons in one clip then six in another,all empty,just wasting my time watching it.