Liked both features in this edition. Good to see the Alco finally getting loved, and the Electric P-Way Trolley Experiment looks really interesting, who knows where that might lead to with the rapid progress of battery tech, maybe one day the railway will have a battery electric loco which can do a whole days passenger service with plenty of charge to spare. One for the future perhaps.
@@nigelgarvey2046 with everyone trying to be green as they can I imagine the trolly with a very useful bit of kit for track repairs. one wonders what the reaction of people like Alan Peglar would have been if he'd seen it.
@@eliotreader8220 Hopefully he'd be pleased that the railway he rescued was showing the foreward thinking and innovation that made it famous in the 1800s and that it hadn't just become a museum. Hopefully he'd be pleased it was starting to think about reducing its carbon footprint and its contribution to the climate change that's been burning and flooding people out of their homes across the world recently, which is probably contributing to the famine in Somalia, and which may eventually lead to the loss of Porthmadog and the lower part of the line if sea levels rise as much as is feared.
Great to see the first electric powered trolley. Probably the first Wickham Trolley with battery power anywhere? Sounds a lot more enjoyable for the crew as, having done many miles on the petrol ones in my younger days as a P-Way man. They used to pop and bang and were so noisy that you were almost deafened after a mile or two, and we won't go into trying to start them on a frosty morning! Thanks for the video. Brought back some happy memories!
This "Moving Pictures" was greatly appreciated by this ex-pat here in Ohio. Mountaineer is one of my favorite locomotives (probably because it is an Alco!), & I enjoyed riding behind it years ago. Imagine my surprise when I also saw the electric Wickham Trolley! For over 10 years I owned a 3' gauge ex-East Broad Top RR Fairmont motor car (an ST2-Z36) and operated it on the EBT, and also used it to rebuild a 3' gauge section (2.5 miles) of the old East Tennessee & Western North Carolina RR in the Doe River Gorge in eastern Tennessee. The Fairmont has now been returned to some volunteers at the EBT, and the ET&WNC (DRG "Division") built its own battery powered open motor car about 10 years ago! It is 4-wheel drive, and can pull 2 passenger trailers (with 16 & 24 passengers), plus a trailer loaded with 24 large inner tubes (for floating back down the rapids!) up the 2.5+% grade up the gorge! DRG is now finishing up rebuilding its first steam locomotive.
Nice to see an update on the ALCO project, I’ll be following that with great interest. Yesterday I finished watching through the whole archive of ‘Moving Pictures’ films on your channel, so It’s a nice surprise to have another one to watch!
Another great video from ,Moving Pictures'! The electric Wickham is a great example of innervation from our 'Younger' engineers. As for the ALCO; if over the pond they managed to restore the largest ever ALCO, the Union Pacific 'Big Boy' #4014, it will be great to see 'Mountaineer' restored too. (I don't think they did the rope hauling thing).
Why was Mountaineer pulled across The Cob like if they actually managed to pull Henry out of the tunnel? Were you recreating some past event, or are there weight restrictions that precluded both Upnor and Mountaineer being on The Cob simultaneously?
Since the object's presumably to get rid of the internal combustion engine altogether and to use free energy from company's solar panels, that would be a pointless exercise. But it would be good if the FR's near-continuous gradient could be leveraged for regenerative braking!
I was wondering why the trolley needs a centrifugal clutch. Usually electric motors can be directly connected to the wheels (one of the advantages over combustion engines), and using a clutch seems to prevent the motor from being used as a brake and/or to charge the batteries while running downhill.
What is that unattractive collection of car brake pipes seen on the front of the right hand tank on mountaineer? They were not present on the Locomotive in the 70s.They look ugly and vulnerable I hope they can go or disappear out of sight.
Liked both features in this edition. Good to see the Alco finally getting loved, and the Electric P-Way Trolley Experiment looks really interesting, who knows where that might lead to with the rapid progress of battery tech, maybe one day the railway will have a battery electric loco which can do a whole days passenger service with plenty of charge to spare. One for the future perhaps.
Indeed. Let's hope the trolley leads to bigger things!
@@nigelgarvey2046 with everyone trying to be green as they can I imagine the trolly with a very useful bit of kit for track repairs.
one wonders what the reaction of people like Alan Peglar would have been if he'd seen it.
@@eliotreader8220 Hopefully he'd be pleased that the railway he rescued was showing the foreward thinking and innovation that made it famous in the 1800s and that it hadn't just become a museum. Hopefully he'd be pleased it was starting to think about reducing its carbon footprint and its contribution to the climate change that's been burning and flooding people out of their homes across the world recently, which is probably contributing to the famine in Somalia, and which may eventually lead to the loss of Porthmadog and the lower part of the line if sea levels rise as much as is feared.
Great to see the first electric powered trolley. Probably the first Wickham Trolley with battery power anywhere? Sounds a lot more enjoyable for the crew as, having done many miles on the petrol ones in my younger days as a P-Way man. They used to pop and bang and were so noisy that you were almost deafened after a mile or two, and we won't go into trying to start them on a frosty morning!
Thanks for the video. Brought back some happy memories!
This "Moving Pictures" was greatly appreciated by this ex-pat here in Ohio. Mountaineer is one of my favorite locomotives (probably because it is an Alco!), & I enjoyed riding behind it years ago. Imagine my surprise when I also saw the electric Wickham Trolley! For over 10 years I owned a 3' gauge ex-East Broad Top RR Fairmont motor car (an ST2-Z36) and operated it on the EBT, and also used it to rebuild a 3' gauge section (2.5 miles) of the old East Tennessee & Western North Carolina RR in the Doe River Gorge in eastern Tennessee. The Fairmont has now been returned to some volunteers at the EBT, and the ET&WNC (DRG "Division") built its own battery powered open motor car about 10 years ago! It is 4-wheel drive, and can pull 2 passenger trailers (with 16 & 24 passengers), plus a trailer loaded with 24 large inner tubes (for floating back down the rapids!) up the 2.5+% grade up the gorge! DRG is now finishing up rebuilding its first steam locomotive.
Nice to see an update on the ALCO project, I’ll be following that with great interest.
Yesterday I finished watching through the whole archive of ‘Moving Pictures’ films on your channel, so It’s a nice surprise to have another one to watch!
I hope the leg motion is not a replacement for steam? Great effort by all the rope hauliers. Well done with the trolley conversion.
Another great video from ,Moving Pictures'! The electric Wickham is a great example of innervation from our 'Younger' engineers. As for the ALCO; if over the pond they managed to restore the largest ever ALCO, the Union Pacific 'Big Boy' #4014, it will be great to see 'Mountaineer' restored too. (I don't think they did the rope hauling thing).
Very interesting as always! Looking forward to seeing Mountaineer II working again. I do still hope to visit one day when I get the chance.
Very nice! bTell me why Mountaineer has 3 domeson the boiler please.
V good edition
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*French Kiss*
I seem to have missed something - why was Mountaineer towed across the Cob? - - Nice electric Wickhams.
If you look at the previous episode from about 26 minutes, Patrick explains the plan.
Why was Mountaineer pulled across The Cob like if they actually managed to pull Henry out of the tunnel? Were you recreating some past event, or are there weight restrictions that precluded both Upnor and Mountaineer being on The Cob simultaneously?
It was pulled as a sponsored event to raise money towards the eventual restoration.
@@FfWHR-MovingPictures Ah, that makes sense.
Surprising what you can do with a fairly cheap model aircraft motor!
And what if I told you I could turn that Wickham Trolley into a self charging Hybrid no need to plug it in again!
Since the object's presumably to get rid of the internal combustion engine altogether and to use free energy from company's solar panels, that would be a pointless exercise. But it would be good if the FR's near-continuous gradient could be leveraged for regenerative braking!
I was wondering why the trolley needs a centrifugal clutch. Usually electric motors can be directly connected to the wheels (one of the advantages over combustion engines), and using a clutch seems to prevent the motor from being used as a brake and/or to charge the batteries while running downhill.
What is that unattractive collection of car brake pipes seen on the front of the right hand tank on mountaineer? They were not present on the Locomotive in the 70s.They look ugly and vulnerable I hope they can go or disappear out of sight.
Mechanical lubricator…I think