It took me a little research, but here is the answer for the random train. It is an EMD-GP50 for the Indiana & Ohio Railroad. It is crossing OH-73 in New Vienna, OH. I found the town by looking up Engine House Pizza which has 4.3 stars from 119 reviews. I found the model number of the train by looking just left of the engine number under the engineer's side window. BNSF runs EMDs here in Phoenix/Glendale AZ, so I knew which brand it was. How did I do?
I identified the location by essentially the same method but I didn't bother posting because of the two lingering shots of the "New Vienna" sign at the end of the video, which kinda give the game away!
Yes indeed - water on board the old fashioned way! Every time I hear a steam whistle, I remember how great that sound is. This engineer plays music with the whistle! Icing on the cake - the I&O short line :)
Love the sound of the whistle, and the engineer’s skill at making it sing! Back when the Whitewater Valley Railroad had Baldwin Prairie #100, some engineers owned their own steam whistle, which they would mount on the engine during their run. The crews always knew who was running the steam engine by the sound(s) of the whistle.
Invented by a Michigan logger to operate on rough track. It won't go fast but it will move heavy loads on grades. The train you see would not even make it up the grades there with the BL-2 Diesel. In fact, it was limited to 1 car because the Diesels do not have the traction that one of the Shays have. But even two of them can slip on the grades in the fall when the leaves are on the track and coated with dew.
Beautiful video, absolutely great audio!! I love some of the modern train horns but NOTHING can compare to a steam horn/whistle!!! It gives me chills every time I hear one! Thanks for sharing!
If it isn't smoking, it isn't working. I can fire an oil burner to where there is very little smoke and keep the pressure up but a coal burner is a whole 'nother beast. I wish Cass had kept the one oil burner they had as an oil burner so that people could see the difference. PC #2 was that oil burner.
What a treat to see an old steam engine! That whistle is hauntingly melodic. I think during the turn of the century, maybe late 1800s, people used to ride on top of the cars and they would get off covered in soot. Really cool to see the water tower in action and seeing the engineer's assistant putting coal into the furnace. LOVED IT!! Thank you!!
Vicki Paying passengers have never been allowed atop railroad cars in this country, save for the first few years of railroading when the cars were converted stagecoach bodies. Think 1825. Conductors and brake men did ride the tops, but only because the brakes were applied by turning a brake wheel on the top of each car, which pulled a chain connecting to the brake shoes. It was dirty, dangerous work, and many brake men were killed falling off the narrow running boards on the top of cars. Others were swept off by bridges or tunnels with low clearances, if they failed to duck in time. They did get sooty, cold in winter, hot in summer. This practice lasted until the government finally forced the railroads to install the newly invented air brakes on all their equipment. After around 1900, give or take, brake men mostly stayed off the tops when the trains were moving. As tar as soot, everyone on early trains got dirty, including passengers. If not from the locomotive smoke, from the wood stoves that were used tonheat each passenger car. In some third world countries, notably India, passengers do ride on top of cars due to the extreme crowding inside. They also die at alarming rates!
@@stevenkarnisky411 Thank you for the great information! It was many years ago that I saw, (if my memory serves), a documentary on early railroads and trains. I saw the people leaving the top of the cars, covered in soot. It's very possible it was in another country that this was filmed from. Yes, I am aware of the overloaded trains in India with passengers dangerously on top. My daughter-in-law came over from Mumbai, India. Wasn't it Westinghouse that introduced the new, critical braking system for locomotives? I very much appreciate the history you've shared. I love trains, but I'm a bit of a novice. I sure do appreciate the old steam engines. They're a lot of fun to see. Indeed, very dangerous for engineers and operators on these old trains back in the 1800s. Yikes!! We've come a long way. 😊
@@VickiCampbell-1216 Yes it was George Westinghouse that patented it but it was for the whole train. Not just the loco. Before that the locos had steam jamb brakes. That also was common on earlier Shays and ones that were only used on logging railroads. Steam jamb brakes operate as the name implies. Steam is applied to a cylinder which by linkages force the brake shoes against the wheels. It was also common for Shays to have both types.
FYI: THE NUMBER OF COVER CARS REQUIRED ON HAZ MAT CARS. A RR Educational Moment. As a retired road engineer I was asked to settle a discussion on the Wide World Of Trains channel concerning the number of cover cars needed on Hazardous Material. I thought i would post it here on JT’s channel and one more that I watch also. It may not be much of an issue on the short line RRs. I was asked to clarify an issue about cover cars for Hazardous Materials. As with most Federal Regulations they are minimum requirements. IE, if the regulation calls for 5 cars of cover an individual RR can require more, but not less. Also this regulation has a lot of IFs, and changes with circumstances. I will give a couple examples but I will also include the regulation title so each of y’all can research this issue to your own desires. According to 49 CFR § 174.85 a loaded tank car with Hazardous Material must have, IF TRAIN LENGTH PERMITS, 5 cars of cover between any occupied engine or caboose. So the nearest the loaded Haz Mat tank car can be to an engine is the sixth car. NOTE: The units of an engine behind the lead / control unit can not be counted or used as cover. If the tank car that was carrying Hazardous Material is empty it must have at least one car of cover, IF TRAIN LENGTH PERMITS, between the occupied engine or occupied caboose. Also certain Haz Mat cars can not be next to other certain types of Haz Mat cars, regardless of where they are in the train. As you can see from this short explanation this can be a very complicated issue. With the use of computers it made the task much easier. We use to have a whole day of class, with a test, each year just on Haz Mat placement in the train and cover requirements. Then on top of that one or two days of rules classes and testing each year also.
Awesome picture haw tooth west Virginia really like to take a vacation spend the night don't know how much is cheap or expensive be safe out there friend bless you keep bringing new videos soon
Fantastic!!! More good catches of the "must see" Cass Scenic Railroad...! The last part of the video shows the S South st. crossing in New Vienna, Ohio 😉👍
@@JawTooth The most is 18 and they don't ride well at that speed. It also is hard on the engine. Normal speed is in the 10MPH range. With occasion spells of 5 or so such as on the 10% grade just before Whittaker and the 14% at Bald Knob.
Got to love that whistle. It's been decades since I heard a steam engine whistle. By the way, New Vienna is nice. Did you ever go to the Dairy Corner? I know it closed down. I think the owner was on up in age. We had Cow Corner here and it was the best. The milkshakes were those old fashioned thick kind made with real ice cream and those mixers you used a steel cup with. The same thing happened to it. Sad. I always watch your videos. I might not always comment but I never miss one. I really like em. Shout outs to the family!
0:55 - That roadway at left is where coal delivery trucks back up to dump into the coal dock. Until the early 1980s, Cass got their coal in via hopper cars and there was a steep track up the ramp for dumping. I think the grade was about 20 percent, but it was short and only a car or two at a time were handled.
@@JawTooth Toward the end the coal came via the Western Maryland at Durbin, but I think this stopped long before the WM line was removed circa 1983. The demise of the 50Ton hopper probably played a role the decision to go to trucks. They also got tank cars of oil for the "Mt. Emily" Shay #3! They spotted the oil car on the coal dock for gravity feed to Three's tender. No. 3 went back to the Pacific Northwest around 1990, via flatcars.
Big Trees and Roaring Camp in Felton would be a good place for you to visit. Narrow gauge Shay but not as steep of a grades there. And I have been to both. :-)
@@jasonking2943 I know, boy do I know. FEMA always had answers for questions not even asked. They would send out paperwork one day only to tell you after sending it in that it changed in the afternoon and so you need to resubmit it on the new form. The NRC was the same way as dad worked for the local power company on the nuke units. The company would get in a new piece of equipment that the NRC required only to be told the specs had changed and you need to use a different unit. And no, you cannot use the item you just got in.
That is one of the loudest steam whistles that I have heard. Maybe it's the frequency compared to others, but holy shit! Loud! That thing could wake the dead. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that style of steam locomotive not more commonly used in logging or mining operations? Just an observation. I'm not familiar with that area so that could part of the area history.
That was a very interesting drive mechanism for the wheels-- instead of in-line pistons on each side, there were multiple pistons perpendicular to the drive shaft, which then presumably drove the wheels through a rack and pinion gear (the pinion being on the drive shaft, and the rack a part of the wheels). This allows for a high gear ratio between the engine and the wheels, similar to the drive mechanism used on automobiles: the engine runs at a much higher rpm than the wheels. This type of drive provides much higher torque than the usual in-line pistons. Also note the Pacific Coast logo on the locomotive. I am guessing this engine was used in an area which had a very steep grade, something which is usually found along the Pacific Coast.
Route 60 close to Charleston the road is a 8 percent grade. Theres signs. My gps avoids tolls on i 77. I dont know how close that is to this but 8% grade on back rds
Bevel gears are what is used. In the case of PC #2, I think it is a 2.43 to 1 ratio on the gearing or 14.5 power strokes per turn of the axle. Pacific Coast was the name that Lima chose for their improved Shay to compete with a company called Willamette Iron and Steel Works of Portland, Oregon who built a loco that was very similar to a Shay but improved on the older designs. An easy way to tell the difference in the two is to look at the cylinders. A Shay will have the valves for them in line while a Willamette will have the valves all facing out.
These shays were used extensively on the logging railways of Vancouver Island, BC in Canada. In fact, I believe on of them was aquired by the Cass railroad.
It took me a little research, but here is the answer for the random train. It is an EMD-GP50 for the Indiana & Ohio Railroad. It is crossing OH-73 in New Vienna, OH. I found the town by looking up Engine House Pizza which has 4.3 stars from 119 reviews. I found the model number of the train by looking just left of the engine number under the engineer's side window. BNSF runs EMDs here in Phoenix/Glendale AZ, so I knew which brand it was. How did I do?
I don’t know but that was pretty impressive!
I identified the location by essentially the same method but I didn't bother posting because of the two lingering shots of the "New Vienna" sign at the end of the video, which kinda give the game away!
Right after he finished filling the tender with water the whistle sounded so good echoing through those mountains.
Live Action!
But Wait, there’s more. 😬👍
What a joy to see and hear this. There's no diesel-electric horn that can match the majesty of a steam whistle.
Well, the K5LA is pretty sweet.
I love steam and I gotta git back!
Yep, diesel horns are one note charlies. Steam whistles have a soul. A good engineer can make one sing.
Yes indeed - water on board the old fashioned way! Every time I hear a steam whistle, I remember how great that sound is. This engineer plays music with the whistle! Icing on the cake - the I&O short line :)
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, you are correct
You can keep these steam engine videos coming!!! Those are great!! Love the whistles❤
Thanks!
Love that train whistle! It's like the train is singing.
Love the sound of the whistle, and the engineer’s skill at making it sing! Back when the Whitewater Valley Railroad had Baldwin Prairie #100, some engineers owned their own steam whistle, which they would mount on the engine during their run. The crews always knew who was running the steam engine by the sound(s) of the whistle.
Awesome comments thanks!
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There's nothing better than watching blue sky black smoke and at whistle thank you another good one
I agree and thanks James!
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The sound of that steam whistle instantly transports me back in time to old west. Love it 🚂
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That water tank is massive! And the fill rate is fast
Thanks for watching!
Love the sound of that whistle. Great video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow Superb !!
There’s nothing better than a new Jaw Tooth video on a Saturday morning.
I always love seeing Cass. Brings back fine memories. Loved seeing the observation platform on Bald Knob.
Thanks for watching!
A beautiful steam loco with a weird multi-wheel drive system!
Invented by a Michigan logger to operate on rough track. It won't go fast but it will move heavy loads on grades. The train you see would not even make it up the grades there with the BL-2 Diesel. In fact, it was limited to 1 car because the Diesels do not have the traction that one of the Shays have. But even two of them can slip on the grades in the fall when the leaves are on the track and coated with dew.
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New Vienna.Someone else gave you the answer before I watched the video.Thumbs Up.
Extraordinary shot.
Thanks!
That engineer knows exactly how to make his engine’s whistle talk!!
Thanks for sharing your trip with us Mr JT. Steam was big in South Africa until the mid 70's.
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful video, absolutely great audio!! I love some of the modern train horns but NOTHING can compare to a steam horn/whistle!!! It gives me chills every time I hear one! Thanks for sharing!
Outstanding video JT. Really cool to see how fast the water transfer is. Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend 👍
Thanks, you too!
That whistle sounds amazing!
It does!
Oh boy, another addition to my bucket list. Now I have to go check out the Cass RR in person!
Hey Jawtooth!
I'm watching this sitting on a ridge above milepost 239 along the mainline in Altoona, PA!
Thanks for posting!
Awesome! I will be there this year sometime soon!
Awesome video! That's pretty neat to see that action! I'd love to go there someday! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Haha, JT. You appear from any and everywhere (the little structure at the end)
Hey Jaw Tooth I work as a Brakeman for the Cass Scenic Railroad now you totally gotta come up this year
I’m coming to Cass! Hopefully this month for live Action!
How long have you been working there? Our first trip there was in 1972.
@@JawTooth awesome looking forward to meeting you and being apart of the Live Action
@@gravelydon7072 just started I work all the bald knob trips
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Just was at Cass today!!! Beautiful there!!!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the sound of these!! Wish they still ran around here. The final shot looks like New Vienna, OH.
O.M.G. This video just gave me Goosebumps, First time watching this "live" action. I wish to see this in person :}
Thanks for watching! I have more videos of this railroad that I need to post before I go back there in a few weeks
I love the whistle .Too much smoke.I remember as a kid the smell of cinders.Great video.
If it isn't smoking, it isn't working. I can fire an oil burner to where there is very little smoke and keep the pressure up but a coal burner is a whole 'nother beast. I wish Cass had kept the one oil burner they had as an oil burner so that people could see the difference. PC #2 was that oil burner.
Nice! Thanks always for your support! 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
Love the old coal burners! Great steam whistle!
Same here!
What a treat to see an old steam engine! That whistle is hauntingly melodic. I think during the turn of the century, maybe late 1800s, people used to ride on top of the cars and they would get off covered in soot. Really cool to see the water tower in action and seeing the engineer's assistant putting coal into the furnace. LOVED IT!! Thank you!!
Thanks for watching and commenting Vicki! I want to get more steam train videos this year like I did in 2019
Vicki Paying passengers have never been allowed atop railroad cars in this country, save for the first few years of railroading when the cars were converted stagecoach bodies. Think 1825.
Conductors and brake men did ride the tops, but only because the brakes were applied by turning a brake wheel on the top of each car, which pulled a chain connecting to the brake shoes. It was dirty, dangerous work, and many brake men were killed falling off the narrow running boards on the top of cars. Others were swept off by bridges or tunnels with low clearances, if they failed to duck in time.
They did get sooty, cold in winter, hot in summer. This practice lasted until the government finally forced the railroads to install the newly invented air brakes on all their equipment. After around 1900, give or take, brake men mostly stayed off the tops when the trains were moving.
As tar as soot, everyone on early trains got dirty, including passengers. If not from the locomotive smoke, from the wood stoves that were used tonheat each passenger car.
In some third world countries, notably India, passengers do ride on top of cars due to the extreme crowding inside. They also die at alarming rates!
@@stevenkarnisky411 Thank you for the great information! It was many years ago that I saw, (if my memory serves), a documentary on early railroads and trains. I saw the people leaving the top of the cars, covered in soot. It's very possible it was in another country that this was filmed from. Yes, I am aware of the overloaded trains in India with passengers dangerously on top. My daughter-in-law came over from Mumbai, India.
Wasn't it Westinghouse that introduced the new, critical braking system for locomotives? I very much appreciate the history you've shared. I love trains, but I'm a bit of a novice. I sure do appreciate the old steam engines. They're a lot of fun to see. Indeed, very dangerous for engineers and operators on these old trains back in the 1800s. Yikes!! We've come a long way. 😊
@@JawTooth Enjoy your time in West Virginia! Hope to see more steam engine trains when you can catch one. Thanks again!
@@VickiCampbell-1216 Yes it was George Westinghouse that patented it but it was for the whole train. Not just the loco. Before that the locos had steam jamb brakes. That also was common on earlier Shays and ones that were only used on logging railroads. Steam jamb brakes operate as the name implies. Steam is applied to a cylinder which by linkages force the brake shoes against the wheels. It was also common for Shays to have both types.
Thanks great video again. Chris from England.
Thanks JT, really enjoyed your video. I guess like so many others steam locomotives really capture my interest and imagination as well.
Many thanks!
FYI: THE NUMBER OF COVER CARS REQUIRED ON HAZ MAT CARS. A RR Educational Moment.
As a retired road engineer I was asked to settle a discussion on the Wide World Of Trains channel concerning the number of cover cars needed on Hazardous Material. I thought i would post it here on JT’s channel and one more that I watch also. It may not be much of an issue on the short line RRs.
I was asked to clarify an issue about cover cars for Hazardous Materials. As with most Federal Regulations they are minimum requirements. IE, if the regulation calls for 5 cars of cover an individual RR can require more, but not less. Also this regulation has a lot of IFs, and changes with circumstances. I will give a couple examples but I will also include the regulation title so each of y’all can research this issue to your own desires.
According to 49 CFR § 174.85 a loaded tank car with Hazardous Material must have, IF TRAIN LENGTH PERMITS, 5 cars of cover between any occupied engine or caboose. So the nearest the loaded Haz Mat tank car can be to an engine is the sixth car. NOTE: The units of an engine behind the lead / control unit can not be counted or used as cover.
If the tank car that was carrying Hazardous Material is empty it must have at least one car of cover, IF TRAIN LENGTH PERMITS, between the occupied engine or occupied caboose.
Also certain Haz Mat cars can not be next to other certain types of Haz Mat cars, regardless of where they are in the train.
As you can see from this short explanation this can be a very complicated issue. With the use of computers it made the task much easier. We use to have a whole day of class, with a test, each year just on Haz Mat placement in the train and cover requirements. Then on top of that one or two days of rules classes and testing each year also.
I went last year and it wasn't the easiest place to get to. Covid kept us from riding the train but I still enjoyed the trip!
Those steam engines are so precious, I Love the horn, it sounds so cute! Thank you Jaw Tooth for sharing this!!
Awesome picture haw tooth west Virginia really like to take a vacation spend the night don't know how much is cheap or expensive be safe out there friend bless you keep bringing new videos soon
Pretty cool railroad.
Awesome, more Cass steam railroad 🚂 Love it, thanks, great video ‼️ 👍
Lovely footage love the sound of that whistle
Fantastic!!! More good catches of the "must see" Cass Scenic Railroad...!
The last part of the video shows the S South st. crossing in New Vienna, Ohio 😉👍
Thank you very much! Yes you are correct
Nice whistle work by the engineer .
Great whistle
Those Shays always sound like they're running 100 mph even at 20 mph.
I don’t think they will even run at 20mph. Lol
@@JawTooth The most is 18 and they don't ride well at that speed. It also is hard on the engine. Normal speed is in the 10MPH range. With occasion spells of 5 or so such as on the 10% grade just before Whittaker and the 14% at Bald Knob.
great scenery in that location.
Thanks for watching!
Wow! That is Steam!! Great Video Mr.Jaw Tooth!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks 👍
this is so cool i gotta go there one day for the Cass railroad Shy Steamer
of course hun
how are you doing
WOW WOW that is amazing, keep up you GREAT videos
Thank you, I will
Great video. Thanks for sharing this fantastic video.
You have to admit rail fans are all so nice they always wave when they see you videoing.
This is true
Cass is always a great ride.
Got to love that whistle. It's been decades since I heard a steam engine whistle.
By the way, New Vienna is nice. Did you ever go to the Dairy Corner? I know it closed down. I think the owner was on up in age. We had Cow Corner here and it was the best. The milkshakes were those old fashioned thick kind made with real ice cream and those mixers you used a steel cup with. The same thing happened to it. Sad.
I always watch your videos. I might not always comment but I never miss one. I really like em. Shout outs to the family!
Thanks for watching my videos and thanks for your support!
0:55 - That roadway at left is where coal delivery trucks back up to dump into the coal dock. Until the early 1980s, Cass got their coal in via hopper cars and there was a steep track up the ramp for dumping. I think the grade was about 20 percent, but it was short and only a car or two at a time were handled.
I wonder how long a rail car of coal would last Cass. I wish they still shipped it by rail but it would be difficult going over the mountain
@@JawTooth Toward the end the coal came via the Western Maryland at Durbin, but I think this stopped long before the WM line was removed circa 1983. The demise of the 50Ton hopper probably played a role the decision to go to trucks. They also got tank cars of oil for the "Mt. Emily" Shay #3! They spotted the oil car on the coal dock for gravity feed to Three's tender. No. 3 went back to the Pacific Northwest around 1990, via flatcars.
Very Cool!! Thanks for posting!!
Thanks!
Very very cool video sir! Those old shay’s are so cool.
Yes they are!
@@JawTooth thank you for sharing!
Good Saturday Morning Jawtooth!!
Have a GREAT weekend!!
Thanks and I hope you have a great weekend also
Was that the doghouse you stay in when you and the Misses disagree ?😂😂😂 ... Good video Son ...
I was in a time out. Lol
@@JawTooth That's what you get for being a baaaad boy. (hee, hee)
Like your time out location. Good place to get in big trouble. Have a lovely evening. Thumbs up for you.
Hello Mr Jaw Tooth - UK calling again. Nice video. Are we still awaiting the decent and return video?
Yes, soon, but I keep getting distracted making it. My friend from Florida is up and we did some railfanning
Great video Jawtooth pretty cool live action steam train there wonder how much water that steam engine takes
Good question! I knew but I forgot
3,000 gallons.
That's some pretty fancy train chasing.nice🚂🚃🇨🇦
Yes indeed!
Smitty SF-3751
Try New Vienna there is a town sign to the left of the crossing.
Yes, lol
Beautiful..just Beautiful..thank you JawTooth
New Vienna towards the end. Always wanted to go to Cass, maybe this year.
Just do it, you won't regret it.
Cool 😎 video of a cool train! I saw a dual DPU today on a NS train!
Cool! Where was that at?
That beautiful train all way here train horn song sound so good box car. Train song
Great whistle on that steam train!
It sure is!
Great video jawtooth, luv the sound and smell of steam locomotives
Many thanks!
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Very nice locomotive Jaw 🚂😍🙏
thanks voor the video Brian,have a nice weekend with yor familie.greetz:Peer en Tony.
Greetings to Tony and you from my family!
@@JawTooth i will do that Brian.laterzzzz.
Very good Video !!! JAW !!!!! Like !!!!)))
Many thanks!!
An Old beauty! Wow!
Awesome video!!!
Thanks!!
@@JawTooth You're welcome JT!!!!
Good video! You were in Highland, Oh. Where the the tracks cross N South St. 😁
Correct!
I bet you can hear that steam whistle for miles up through the valley. ❤
They do echo off the hills.
Good morning from SE Louisiana 5 Jun 21.
Good morning Bill!
Thank you
You're welcome
In the Cass shot at the crossing I'm pretty sure I saw a bear doing something in the woods as I saw a roll of tp hanging from a tree.
I would love to go on that scenic train ride in Virginia ! Pretty cool! But I live in southern California.lol
Well Cass RR is WEST Virginia....u don't need to go to Virginia!!! LOL
Big Trees and Roaring Camp in Felton would be a good place for you to visit. Narrow gauge Shay but not as steep of a grades there. And I have been to both. :-)
Awesome!
Glad you think so!
@@JawTooth I sure do! Thank You for all your time and effort to bring these fantastic videos to us! Love your format too! So fun!
Awesome Video! Nice whistles!
looks like a cool place to visit.
Steam looking good Jaw tooth Awesome Video son I know that train was loud 🤭 🚂🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃
You got that right
Beautiful Video
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Nice!
Looks like they need to clean the air and fuel filter and add some dep. :)
DEP don't come as a powder. ;-)
@@gravelydon7072 but you know the current government has an answer for everything
@@jasonking2943 I know, boy do I know. FEMA always had answers for questions not even asked. They would send out paperwork one day only to tell you after sending it in that it changed in the afternoon and so you need to resubmit it on the new form. The NRC was the same way as dad worked for the local power company on the nuke units. The company would get in a new piece of equipment that the NRC required only to be told the specs had changed and you need to use a different unit. And no, you cannot use the item you just got in.
That is one of the loudest steam whistles that I have heard. Maybe it's the frequency compared to others, but holy shit! Loud! That thing could wake the dead.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that style of steam locomotive not more commonly used in logging or mining operations? Just an observation. I'm not familiar with that area so that could part of the area history.
HEY it's the cannonball express!!!!!
nice clean cap.you must see mine haevy used,lol.
Hi from Vienna, Europe !
Hello Erich!
@@JawTooth hi Tooth!!!
Your in New Vienna Ohio.
That was a very interesting drive mechanism for the wheels-- instead of in-line pistons on each side, there were multiple pistons perpendicular to the drive shaft, which then presumably drove the wheels through a rack and pinion gear (the pinion being on the drive shaft, and the rack a part of the wheels). This allows for a high gear ratio between the engine and the wheels, similar to the drive mechanism used on automobiles: the engine runs at a much higher rpm than the wheels. This type of drive provides much higher torque than the usual in-line pistons. Also note the Pacific Coast logo on the locomotive. I am guessing this engine was used in an area which had a very steep grade, something which is usually found along the Pacific Coast.
Route 60 close to Charleston the road is a 8 percent grade. Theres signs. My gps avoids tolls on i 77. I dont know how close that is to this but 8% grade on back rds
Bevel gears are what is used. In the case of PC #2, I think it is a 2.43 to 1 ratio on the gearing or 14.5 power strokes per turn of the axle. Pacific Coast was the name that Lima chose for their improved Shay to compete with a company called Willamette Iron and Steel Works of Portland, Oregon who built a loco that was very similar to a Shay but improved on the older designs. An easy way to tell the difference in the two is to look at the cylinders. A Shay will have the valves for them in line while a Willamette will have the valves all facing out.
I went there once in 2008 and even stayed in that exact little hotel/general store
Ever see the Durbin Rocket get its water from the nearby creek?
Yes. I filmed it but I haven't posted it yet
4:32ff did it really sound like this in real life!? Or some sound engineering?
Yes they do. But each whistle and even each engineer with the same whistle has a different sound.
Awesome
Thanks Celio!
These shays were used extensively on the logging railways of Vancouver Island, BC in Canada. In fact, I believe on of them was aquired by the Cass railroad.
That should take care of the Pesky Mosquitoes🦟 🦟in West Virginia in the Summer of 2021.😬👍