USATC 2-8-0 S160

[@fuzzyhead878]

Awesome video. We have an S160 in running condition here in the US as well, Great Smoky Mountains Railroad 1702. There is also another on being restored in Alaska, 557. They’re all the same type, but it’s crazy how different they became (visually) under their postwar owners.

[@T128Productions]

There’s also another S160 class at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) #610, and yet another one at the Age Of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek Ohio.

[@SouRwy4501Productions]

@@T128Productions actually, TVRM 610 is an s160A, not an s160. The s160A has a larger diameter boiler than the original s160. The key spotting feature between the two is that the s160 has its steam dome and sandbox conjoined by a cover. The s160A excluded that feature.

[@kristoffermangila]

There is still one S160 awaiting restoration at Eckhart Mines, Maryland. #USATC611 stayed in the US during the war, spending much of its time at Fort Eustis in Virginia. Its unique in the fact that it has Franklin Type D rotary-cam poppet valves, fitted by the USATC in the 1950s.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

Very distinct exhaust note, and nice chime whistle. The Yanks surely did what they could to fit a large as possible locomotive within the British loading gauge and 2-8-0 wheel arrangement, the result a powerful and easy to maintain engine. The features enabling ease of maintenance can be seen in later British designs like the 76xxx which doubleheads somewhere in the video, and makes a good figure couples to a S160.

[@timu438]

Wonderful. I'm about 1/3 of the way through, and was wowed at the vignette at 9:28. Anyway, back to the show. Thank you for sharing this.

[@brianhollins75]

Great to see these iconic machines. Performing on this picturesque rural line in the Churnet valley.

[@HowardR-gy2pw]

All the shots of the three S160 were done on the Super Power Weekend at the Chrunet Valley Railway on 1st and 2nd Feb 2020. Various combination were use but the last trip on both days had a triple header s160 with every available coach and two deisels at the back. One dead in to the other just to get back with as the train was too long for any locos to run around at Ipstone.

[@Han-wh5ie]

Mooie machine's. De drijfstangen van deze serie maken een bijzonder geluid. In Duits de bijnaam "Klapperschlangen" Mij lijkt het geluid van een ratelslang toch echt iets anders.... Mooie video !

[@SouRwy4501Productions]

I am personally a big fan of the s160 steam locomotives. The first steam locomotive I ever got a ride behind was an s160 in the United States, engine 610 at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. I do have one minor issue with the ones featured in this video: they don’t have bells and large smokebox-mounted headlamps. They are American engines after all, and bells and headlamps and bells are standard features on American locomotives. Other than that, they’re great locomotives. I even custom made a Lego model of how one would look with a headlamp and a bell. I’m working on custom making a model of one using 3d printed parts drawn by myself, electrical components from a Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0 and the mechanism from an IHC 2-8-0.

[@kineticrail]

I do enjoy seeing a S160 they have a unusual charm all of their own....... oh yes and just big noise.

[@SimonTog]

Wonderful video :)

[@kristoffermangila]

Great video! Too bad there's no preserved S160 that was built by Alco in operating condition in the UK, wouod have been nice seeing S160s from all three American steam locomotive builders.

[@Sonny_JC]

Would love to see all of them together at a big gala🤩

[@Keikdv]

You have 3 on 1 line!!! We in Europe have nothing! Bee glad with them.

[@Sonny_JC]

Is it just me or does the one at the KWVR deserves a proper Nameboard and be oifficialy named "Big JIm

[@jlrosiefan9848]

That'd be great. Enough people nickname it Big Jim now that it deserves one.

[@plagueman5641]

Baldwin made big locomotives before it was cool

[@voidjavelin23]

ALCo make it more cooler

[@fernandosantiagorodrigueze5532]

2:02 un Sierra Menera

[@SouRwy4501Productions]

What?

[@bobbymcloughlin3452]

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