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I hope the dude is okay...

Interesting the Big Boy had higher horsepower

The GTEL turbines, 10k plus HP.

The Taupo Totara Timber company in New Zealand is a 3'6" 2-4-4-2 Alco built Mallet preserved at GVR near Auckland.

Similar to the Skookum locomotive, but a little bit bigger.

Going off memory- the original Pioneer Zephyr did the Chicago-Denver run in about 15 hrs. The eye opening part was the fuel cost- as I recall it was around $10

Did they have a nuclear powered train!?? Omg

Thank you for this content ❤

I just got my own model of 9000

The Union Pacific Northern Pacific Southern Pacific and The DMIR all should Have Built Wheel arrangements That are the 4-28-28-28-28-28-4 Wheel Arrangement.

Great Video! I recently bought a 2-4-4-2 in On30 to run on my club layout, the Moose Creek Logging Company. The history makes this engine even more unique. A great look into it's history.

That thing is nuts. It intimidates me

The NP had the first yellowstones, hence the name. Ive seen the one in the Duluth museum, and the one at Two Harbors. Amazing machines!.

Thank you for making and posting this video. My grandfather was a yardmaster for the B&O. I saw the magnificent EM-1 locomotives run as a young boy. Thanks for the memories.

The N&W did NOT fuck around with steam, and I love that

I just bought my first ho scale AC-9 brass locomotive last month. The town I grew up in had a Southern Pacific yard and that's the main road I saw all the time. I had to have this in my collection.

Worked on the Milwaukee Road for 42 years Ending with the CP Love it ❤

I still question what whistle this thing has

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Where'd you go bro😢

The iron ore used to make the steel that went into some of the Big Boys could have been hauled to the Lake Superior ore docks by Yellowstones.

Retire and preserve it.

Alot of people may love steam engines more than diesel engines, but I prefer diesel engines over steam engines because they're stronger, far more efficient to run requiring much less maintenance to operate, and are cooler to me, especially the different variety of train horns usually being louder on average compared to steam train whistles, and I really enjoy the geometrical shape design that alot of modern diesel engines often seen running nowadays have. I was born when diesel trains already took over steam trains becoming the king of the rails years ago anyways, and both are equally iconic types of trains in their own right. Steam is popular with successful franchises, such as Thomas & Friends, and historic railroads like Strasburg Railroad often doing excursions with the steam engines pulling them. Diesel however is iconic with class 1 freight railroads including CSX, Norfolk Southern, BNSF, and Union Pacific. Also in many Hollywood movies diesel engines have been represented plenty of times. I still definitely enjoy steam engines too. Though diesel engines will always be the superior types of locomotives to steam engines, despite steam having its few advantages over diesel.🛤

Can't run blue steam least amount in a boiler maybe sight glass problem ?

Can't run blue steam the least amount of water in boiler, sight glass problem?

Interesting Video , Thanks for Sharing !

A very nice video. As an enthusiast of original UP/CPRR RR, have been to Sherman Summit, entertained by the ghosts of the past, and still marvel at what those folks accomplished...The Casements, Grenville Dodge, even Thomas, LOL., brought about the fulfillment of Manifest Destiny. Thanks.

N&W's Y6b were much better for heavy coal hauling at slow speeds than the H8.

Favorite passenger steam locomotive is the T1 4-4-4-4 duplex. Favorite freight steam locomotives is the J1a 2-10-4 texas, the Q2 is a close second. The S2 is a very unique, beautiful loco, pity they built just one. Not my favorite, but I can see why so many others love it so.

I would probably choose the Hiawatha or Yellowstone.

I hope for a new build of this engine. The collection of Berkshires preserved in the US just feels incomplete without one.

its nice seeing some CGW love

PRR had really lost its way by the end of WWII. Here was a massively expensive and powerful high speed freight locomotive for a railroad that didn't run high speed freight trains. No wonder they went broke.

Interstingly, PRR owned 1/3 of N&W and had influence over the company....but PRR steam was somewhat more antiquated than N&W steam.

Wow!

Big boy i knew it

While the mikado handled the road’s freights for years, the main reason these engines were bought for the new expansion to Connellsville (which opened in 1930-32) Also good luck trying to find what chime whistle the class had.

Can you imagine one of these restored and running anywhere in the U.S.? Would make a lot of towns, cities, and people very upset; not to mention cost the Union Pacific tons of money to run one of these units.

🔥Beautiful Beasts!🔥

Almost sixteen minutes of narration and not photo one. Fool me once shame on you.

Union Pacific coal turbine was my favorite experimental locomotive.

I have been trying to find the specs for this locomotive all over Google to no avail. I wish there was a scale model of the P38 more widely available for hobbyists & enthusiasts alike. Yet, I'm still left with one unanswered question: which locomotive is larger & heavier? The Soviet P38 or the Union Pacific Big Boy? Too bad none of the P38s survived for historical preservation.

The 4-8-4 was NOT limited ro much of anything. On october 17th 1944, a CB&Q O-5 ran an 82 car mail train unassisted. The timken 4 aces locomotive is credited with starting and pulling a coal train weighing 9,864 tons on her own while on the C&O. Even the GS class engines with their high drivers had a very good factor of adhesion. Thats what its all about with steam, the factor of adhesion. It also greatly helps if the engine has proper spring equalization too. A GS-4 could handle a 22 car coast daylight then comfortably handle a heavy drag freight in or out of the San Joaquin valley or LA basin and they did too. Though there arent many photos or videos of it, SP's philosophy was if it could be put on a train at that second get it the hell down the line with that train on its ass and do it NOW! The ATSF "heavy mountains" as they called their 4-8-4s could handle raton and Cajon pass no problem with a 15 to 20 car passenger train or get down on their knees with a long heavy drag and take it in stride.

What's the actual length of the Southern Pacific AC-9 locomotives?

The Alleghany officially put down 7500 hp

Thank you

Cool

Where is the super thank button?

was tyhe alleghevy a steam turbine loco

I would go for the NKP s. Class Berkshire.