Unliky to ever see such a Celebration of Engineering ever again in _moving format._ Amazing collection of functioning engines. Remarkable movie showing developmental sequence. Great upload, thank you!
A magnificent event with incredible motive power! How I wish I could have attended! A thoroughly excellent tribute to American railroads at one of their peaks!!!
Wow. This is fantastic. Wish I could have seen those magnificent beasts, and gone to this Fair. However, since my mom and dad were only one-year-olds at the time, that's a No. My granddad retired from C&O at Union Station in DC. I love trains. I miss them. Thanx so very much for sharing this little treasure.
Thank you for sharing this footage. I've read about the 1927 expo, but this is the first time I've seen actual film of the event. Amazing. They did a great job showing all the early examples of locomotives, and having the participants in period correct clothing for the eras presented was very well done.
Vintage historic actual trains of the past with pageantry that today would cost millions just to view for a week. But the B&O Railroad Museum is one really magical reality of the past kept up well now in the 21st century. Thanks for sharing this treasured film. 10+ star review. WOW!!!!!!
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Thanks! At 22:21 , the movie references the new "New York Central Engine." It was the 4-6-4 Hudson which rail fans claim was the finest US Steam Engine ever made, even for looks. Not one of these survived the scrap yard and none were thus saved by the NYCRR, Sad.
Understandable, but this action by Perlman didn't endear him to steam preservationists and set him up to become the subject of memes by individuals like #HistoryInTheDark. But we can take a little solace in the fact that Canadian Pacific #2816 is a distant relative to those NYC Hudsons, since it was built by the Montreal Locomotive Works, Alco's Canadian subsidiary.
Very cool film. Must have been impressive as anything for people back then. Wish the window burns were in a different place, or had been omitted, but ah well. Good job anyway.
Most do, I believe. Some were destroyed in the 2003 snowstorm that destroyed the roundhouse. (That was before the planned similar fair, that same year, so put the kibosh on having such.)
A few do - the John Bull, the William Mason, the Thatcher Perkins, two Pennsy K4 Pacifics, and a couple of others. Sadly, none of the NYC Hudsons survived, nor did most of the big B&O passenger engines, and of those shown in this video that do still exist, none are currently in working condition that I'm aware of. The last one to run was the William Mason, which was operated occasionally at the B&O Railroad Museum until 2014.
Another example of the need for CRT how Black Americans are written out of history. The slave labor used for building these railroads is still not acknowledged let alone compensated.
Really? How much was actually slaves building the B&O? Not much. Sorry for your not being able to inject your racial whining into everything. And Communist Race Theory (That's "Critical Theory", in genuine communism) can go to hell, as it already is.
Not useless. Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous TH-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do. Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.
What an absolute treasure to see this wonderful video nearing 100 years ago.
Glad you appreciate it!
This is beyond amazing. Why cant things like this be done anymore?
Unliky to ever see such a Celebration of Engineering ever again in _moving format._ Amazing collection of functioning engines. Remarkable movie showing developmental sequence. Great upload, thank you!
A magnificent event with incredible motive power! How I wish I could have attended! A thoroughly excellent tribute to American railroads at one of their peaks!!!
Wow. This is fantastic.
Wish I could have seen those magnificent beasts, and gone to this Fair. However, since my mom and dad were only one-year-olds at the time, that's a No.
My granddad retired from C&O at Union Station in DC.
I love trains.
I miss them.
Thanx so very much for sharing this little treasure.
My dad was very happy as a member of B&O Museum to help restore and repaint the Pres. Washington, back in the day. Nice to see it working.
Thank you for sharing this footage. I've read about the 1927 expo, but this is the first time I've seen actual film of the event. Amazing. They did a great job showing all the early examples of locomotives, and having the participants in period correct clothing for the eras presented was very well done.
Vintage historic actual trains of the past with pageantry that today would cost millions just to view for a week. But the B&O Railroad Museum is one really magical reality of the past kept up well now in the 21st century.
Thanks for sharing this treasured film. 10+ star review. WOW!!!!!!
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Thanks very much! Glad you appreciate it!
Thanks! At 22:21 , the movie references the new "New York Central Engine." It was the 4-6-4 Hudson which rail fans claim was the finest US Steam Engine ever made, even for looks. Not one of these survived the scrap yard and none were thus saved by the NYCRR, Sad.
Yes very sad Perlman was not an understanding ceo
@rogerlollar4325 Actually he did it out to keep the company afloat because the NYC was in very bad shape in the 50s
Understandable, but this action by Perlman didn't endear him to steam preservationists and set him up to become the subject of memes by individuals like #HistoryInTheDark.
But we can take a little solace in the fact that Canadian Pacific #2816 is a distant relative to those NYC Hudsons, since it was built by the Montreal Locomotive Works, Alco's Canadian subsidiary.
thanks, thats impressive view of development, maybe very useful in perspective at least
Is this considered the only known footage of GWR 6000 "King George V" in GWR livery?
Looks like it is, unless there's some amateur film of this locomotive wearing this livery in some dusty attic in the UK...
Any other fans of the Memnon here?
Is this part of a DVD collection, available for purchase?
No. But you can watch for free on TH-cam!
Great film but the music doesn't fit at all.
You could have just played Cardi Bs WAP over it and been satisfied!
I thought it was haunting, and fitting, since many of these magnificent beasts are only ghosts now.
Very cool film. Must have been impressive as anything for people back then. Wish the window burns were in a different place, or had been omitted, but ah well. Good job anyway.
The music sounds like Brian Eno.
Do most of those early locomotives survive?
They seem to still exist. The tree I looked up did
some in UK do
Most do, I believe. Some were destroyed in the 2003 snowstorm that destroyed the roundhouse. (That was before the planned similar fair, that same year, so put the kibosh on having such.)
A few do - the John Bull, the William Mason, the Thatcher Perkins, two Pennsy K4 Pacifics, and a couple of others. Sadly, none of the NYC Hudsons survived, nor did most of the big B&O passenger engines, and of those shown in this video that do still exist, none are currently in working condition that I'm aware of. The last one to run was the William Mason, which was operated occasionally at the B&O Railroad Museum until 2014.
Another example of the need for CRT how Black Americans are written out of history. The slave labor used for building these railroads is still not acknowledged let alone compensated.
Really? How much was actually slaves building the B&O? Not much. Sorry for your not being able to inject your racial whining into everything. And Communist Race Theory (That's "Critical Theory", in genuine communism) can go to hell, as it already is.
USELESS! The counter blocks views of the wheels. Why add that? Pfft!
Not useless. Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous TH-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do.
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