I lived 20ft from this train in Durango for 25 years. That whistle is stuck in my head. Look on Google maps 'Animas View Drive Durango 81301' I lived in the little house on that road
very true, those air horns have a good range if someone has fine control over their hands. Transport trucks can do a pretty similar one, as long as the truck has a good compressor. And the difference between a low tone and higher is only a fraction of a pound of force.
The whistle sounds good as several have already stated. But that old engine chugging away as it starts up under a load is also fine music to the ears of a motor head. Pull that load old engine!
The main reason is because a steam locomotive is drawing its noise from its lungs essentially. Where is a diesel is pulling its noise from its batteries. Which is why a steam engine whistle sounds more like a yell, and an electric diesel sounds more like a tone of electricity. But yeah steam engines always sound cooler! 😆😁🤠
Nah. For this it would have needed a Ford F150 Painted in Red-White-Blue with a couple of fat folk on the truck bed waving their guns around and screaming "'muricaaaa!".
We had a neighbor I could sit and listen to his stories all day. He worked on the Durango. Silverton line leading pack mules to the shacks for the railman. I loved his stories. He passed away in the late 80s. The stories he would tell about the pack mules and the Durango Silverton line. I loved it.
@@talesofapunkrockking I think I rode that in 1988. I don't remember it turning around. I do remember playing pool somewhere in Silverton and having to pay a dollar for bouncing the cue ball off the table. 🤣🤣🤣
The smell of and sight of the smoke from a coal fired steam locomotive is absolutely unique, nostalgic, and an experience that is so wonderful. That's something that using oil can't replicate. The two are totally different in the way you experience them through your senses. I've always loved that unique smell and feeling I'd experience from a coal fired steam locomotive. It's hard to explain to someone who doesn't know and put into words, period. Hate to see any steam locomotive not originally designed and built to run off oil converted to do so. It's better in some situations like this to change, and I understand it's to help stop wildfires starting from sparks, but it still feels wrong to me to do. 👍
I understand the sentiment, and I wish they didn't have to be converted, but if it's to prevent fires or even the perception that fires may be started by the locomotives, I don't mind. An oil-fired steam locomotive is still a steam locomotive, and if converting to oil will help these locomotives run for another hundred years, then I'm all for it.
I find it funny to. I mean Here in Australia we run on coal. What we actually do is Steam Ban during the bushfire season. December to March. It's not a time people want to work Steam locomotives due to heat and it allows you time to get them sorted.
We rode the Grand Canyon Railroad summer of 2023 from Williams to the South Rim of the Canyon. They only run the steamers on certain days as it is but didn’t run them because of the dry conditions and potential for causing a forest fire.🔥
Heard that nearly every day for 45 years. Early 70s, it still hauled mine supplies. You could ride to Silverton for a couple bucks. You could load your horse on the stock car and get off high in the mountains for a pack trip. If you come, stay at the Strater Hotel. Original and historically correct. And really haunted.
I rode this train on vacation. I highly recommend this train ride from Durango to Silverton and back. It's an epic experience thru the mountains of Colorado.
Here in England 99%of our coal mines closed I the 70s and 80s. Many communities are still struggling to find a new identity and permanent jobs elsewhere. As the coal age ended, the tech age arose, and many educated only for the coal industry, have fallen down the gap on transition
It's incredibly sad 😢, I'm a Steam Enthusiast myself and love the smell of a coal fired steam locomotive, it's a smell you can't explain as it's so unique, It makes no sense at all does it?, they shut nearly all our coal mines here in the United Kingdom, where we have plenty of good quality Steam coal still, to bring coal here from countries thousands of miles away, They keep going on about carbon emissions, yet close nearly all our coal mines to ship coal thousands of miles to here, Mining ⛏️ and transporting coal to heritage railways in the UK, would create far less emissions than bringing it here from countries thousands of miles away on ships, then having to transport it to the heritage railways too.
My dad worked for the railroad and he could tell you what every screw, nut, bolt and carriage weighed..he knew pretty much everything about the trains.. whenever we would get stuck at a crossing he would start telling us stuff about the individual parts of the train and what it did or what it was used for..
Yeah misleading title, apparently they have quality restrictions on coal, and thus ita cheaper and easier to convert from coal burning to oil burning. A conversion that's been done since steam was a tween.
@@dodgy1779 Partly because of wildfires. Coal run trains are very ashy and throw sparks. Oil run trains burn cleanly. The black smoke you see from any steam engine is just them doing it for the camera, because that's wasted fuel out the stack.
Thats like saying "oh we should keep using medieval medical techniques and technology". It's just uneconomical, inefficient and unsafe. All coals have a tendancy to self-heat and expel methane gas into the air, which is toxic. And coal is just really inefficient and wasteful because a lot of potential energy gets converted into wasted heat energy, meaning they are only around 12-35% efficient.
why, exactly? Have you rode it before? you pick cinders ouf of your hair for days afterwards, it pollutes everything along its route. I'd even be curious about how profitable it is. Also a boring ride after about the first hour. If you love it so much, start your own!
@@michaellewis4632 The nostalgia is still there. They are steam locomotives built in the 1920s and before, and that's NOT changing. Coal-burning locomotives have been converted to oil before now, and a few oil-burning locomotives have even been converted to coal in the past, and they were ALL still steam locomotives--fire breathing, whistling, bellowing STEAM LOCOMOTIVES! And these ones are, too; and they're still wonderful machines.
@@ericemmons3040I appreciate your attempt and it made me feel 83% better. That last 17% is still pissing me off though as it's just another kick in the nuts by the same people that are bringing on the destruction of the United States for no other reason than to gain power and to kill babies. Yeah I said it.
I’ve been riding on this train for over 40 years. Apparently they’ve been converting the fireboxes to burn oil instead of coal after coal embers started a wildfire in 2020. When I rode in 2022, I hadn’t noticed the change, as it’s still the same engine billowing steam and smoke, but with slightly less destructive smoke. It’s still totally worth riding and is still my favorite train to ride on in Colorado.
I Lived Next To The Train Tracks in West Virginia... I LOVE The Train Sound.. Now in Dayton Ohio at 11:34pm Every Night I Hear Our Train Whistle ❤I Sleep Because i Feel Safe.. Like I'm Back Home😔
I love that blessed whistle. It is a shame that these types of trains no longer run normally. They are so iconic! you feel like you're on a magical journey ❤
Visit San Diego railway museum and campo railway museum Campo had train rides most days... A nice ride but nothing compared to big trees railroad or Durango and Silverton trip big trees ride my favorite enjoy friends
Imagine being clueless and waking up to that sound. I did, I've lived by trains my whole life and can tell what direction they are going (diesel). When I heard this, it took me a second. That's NOT a diesel... It was the local Soo Line 1003 and she only runs like 2 times a year. Needless to say I now know when she runs. It's an awesome machine, ran by an awesome crew.
Train to MacDonald's. "Attention passengers, our train arrives at McDonald's station, the stop is five minutes, you can buy something from drinks, snacks and hot dishes!".
this is an era that shouldnt have ended. its a fantastic felling standing next to one of these behemeths and listening to there sweet sounds. i got a chance to see the 4014 and what a treat!!! i own a steam tractor but its nothing compaired to these irons!!!!
It’s a shame to shut down that old train. I’m 72 and remember laying in my bed at night at my Grandparent’s home in Wayne ,Nebraska and hearing that wonderful whistle from across town. It sounded so mournful .
First six years of my life were living with the sound and beauty of that train in Durango. Let her run as designed. She is and always has been amazing.
I live in Durango. They had a crazy fire happen from the coal or whatever on the steam train. I do wonder if it will still have a smoke machine emitting fake smoke to keep the old school feeling alive?
each engineer has their own unique whistle, it was how they knew who wss coming and going, for station personnel and other train drivers alike, and it's true today as well, with so many rebuilt steam trains around.
We rode the Grand Canyon Railroad summer of 2023 from Williams to the South Rim of the Canyon. They only run the steamers on certain days as it is but didn’t run them because of the dry conditions and potential for causing a forest fire.🔥
I will forever in love with Steam Engine Train or any old classic trains that ever exist.. i just love how amazing they looked especially their wheel part
Being converted to oil has nothing to do with that, it's for ease of use and maintenance, and cheaper cost to run. Burning oil is also bad for the environment.
They would but because of a larger risk of fires the railroad limit burn coal during the winter. However burning coal and oil both is expensive, so the railroad decided to use oil instead of both coal and oil.
As a Brit in Devon in the 1970's the record that started the highly illegal, underground AM CB movement... (at 14 I bought a Cobra 19X for £100 at midnight in a multi-storey car park) ...was "Convoy" by C. W. McCall. We got the album &, from the late 70's, I can still remember "Here comes the Silverton up from Durango, Here comes the Silverton a'shovelin' coal." And now I've seen her! Thanks chaps, that's a 46 year circle closed. Kinda sad it's the old girl's last trip mind! Although "Marybeth's wig was on the floor & Arnold's feet was out the door, When we shined our flashlight in Arnold's startled eyes!" was more fun! 😆 The Home Office started to clamp down on the illegal American AM rigs but not quite in time for the solar cycle maximum early 1980. I heard an American accent coming in on daytime skip S5 yo S7. He was shouting gor a copy so I jumped in as soon ss he de-keyed. "Yup, I got a cooy, what's your 20?" When he said "On the bridge" I said asked which one. When he said "Golden Gate" I nearly had kittens! 4 Watts, homemade ½ wave dipole in the loft! Duplex across half a planet! I couldn't get any further without coning back again! So that was it for me. The legal UK 4 Watts FM was pants! I think the illegality & being 16 helped. I lost interest after tfat... But thanks for a glimpse of the Durango & Silverton guys! Talk about nostalgia! Much appreciated! 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸
Saying Cole is so bad for the environment, saying it’s a fossil fuel, but lithium for those electronic batteries that they use for their cards also made out of toxic fossil fuels too. That lithium is extremely toxic.
The answer is ultimately neither is good, just one will destroy the earth faster. If our energy grid was completely green based we could run coal train excursions without any significant side-effects. You want to save the steam engines, you gotta get the rest of the world to go green.
@geraldfriend256 bullshit. I live in Pennsylvania country. There are hundreds of mines and at least 10 coal power plants within a 45 minute drive of where I am. 0 pollution, 0 smog, 0 impact.
@Azure_Fire I'm an avid outdoorsman. I couldn't be more objective. The people that complain that most about coal are the people that know least about coal.
I firstcrote the Durango and Silverton steam train back in 1969. I think the adult tickets were $15 and that was a lot of money back then. Anyway, I love steam trains, and that one in Colorado is my favorite!😊
Rode this train back in 2018 up to Silverton and back down to Durango. Great experience. I think it took us about 3 hours to get up there. They had a great snack bar on board and due to its slow speed, we were able to take some stellar photos and video. Very memorable trip for my kiddo for sure.
I saw the Durango and Silverton railroad they have a bit of locomotives
🎉
Where is this at?
@@DewJoy Durango Colorado To Silverton line
Imagine getting a Big Mac, looking outside and a giant-ass steam engine is rolling past
Imagine being on a train ride, and i look out the window, and see you eating a big mac
@@SouthWestCrossingsUK imagine just standing there and watching two men staring each other down. one eating a bigmac and one on a train.
Ahhh.. America
@@ABR48YTWhere are the angry protester kids? 🇺🇸🤓🇺🇸
I pictured that like the opening of polar express where the room lights up but its the delivery window lol
That whistle is the coolest sound ever!!
A locomotiva é linda. 😍😍😍
And you have an engineer who knows how to play it.
I lived 20ft from this train in Durango for 25 years. That whistle is stuck in my head. Look on Google maps 'Animas View Drive Durango 81301' I lived in the little house on that road
very true, those air horns have a good range if someone has fine control over their hands. Transport trucks can do a pretty similar one, as long as the truck has a good compressor. And the difference between a low tone and higher is only a fraction of a pound of force.
Thinking the same thing bro
So glad this was captured for eternity. Huge respect the men who built maintained and opertes these majestic beasts
And to think, it's just steam, making all those tons of steel move so inexorably along the tracks.
Mr. Watt, what an inventor.
Hell yeah totally gotta respect the McDonald's workers
The McDonald’s manager?
And to the women who never got the chance
That would be me, Worked at that station for years. The Round house is haunted.....All my Jeans still smell like Axel grease.
Those old steam horns sound so much better than the diesel trains today, though some sound better than others.
The whistle sounds good as several have already stated. But that old engine chugging away as it starts up under a load is also fine music to the ears of a motor head. Pull that load old engine!
Nice 🎉
The new engines are electric with a diesel generator.
The main reason is because a steam locomotive is drawing its noise from its lungs essentially.
Where is a diesel is pulling its noise from its batteries.
Which is why a steam engine whistle sounds more like a yell, and an electric diesel sounds more like a tone of electricity.
But yeah steam engines always sound cooler! 😆😁🤠
@CC-2224_Commander_Cody I'm surprised it took three weeks for someone to point that out.
God those steam engine whistles make it sound like a caged beast
Because it is
I love the 3 whistle ones. But they all sound amazing. Hearing them signal always makes my hairs stand up
Most American video on the internet
Nah is probably Donald trump and Obama beat box videos
I wouldn’t really call trains or coal an American thing 😂
@@65mcmanexactly
Nah. For this it would have needed a Ford F150 Painted in Red-White-Blue with a couple of fat folk on the truck bed waving their guns around and screaming "'muricaaaa!".
@@joshiderniemalslacht8398 and a bunch of big macs and beers beside him and a bald eagle on his shoulder
Of course there's a McDonald's in the background
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Good advertising, Have lunch while waiting for the train
At least the coal smoke would smell more appetizeing than the stench from Mc d's
AMERICA! FU€K YEAH!!!
@@UTUBESUXS2024 😂😂😂😂😂
We had a neighbor I could sit and listen to his stories all day. He worked on the Durango. Silverton line leading pack mules to the shacks for the railman. I loved his stories. He passed away in the late 80s. The stories he would tell about the pack mules and the Durango Silverton line. I loved it.
Could u tell one pls ? Am interested
I would love to hear some stories!
Post a video after your own and tag us! Please, I mean. Not demanding, but kind of demanding this to happen. Please.
The stories? The man was a history book. 👍
YOU need to write a book and preserve his stories.
Those machines deserve a dedicated track rather than put into museums
The dog being absolutely petrified in the background 😂
Of course it’s an Aussie too..
Doesn't matter what breed of dog the owner is stupid for standing there
Idk what she expected lmao. She didn't even try to comfort it or anything beforehand. Total facepalm.
@@joeylantis22 it has nothing to do with it be an Aussie
She's just a stupid owner who has put her dog in a stressful situation for no reason
Brian dead owner doesn’t even care about the train or the dog she’s just standing there forcing the dog to have its eardrums ruptured.
I rode this as a kid. It had open cars. I was covered in coal soot.
Hehe ya and it stopping in the middle of the forest to turn back around
Same!!
i was in one of the closed cars but i had my head so far out the window it made no difference
@@talesofapunkrockking I think I rode that in 1988. I don't remember it turning around. I do remember playing pool somewhere in Silverton and having to pay a dollar for bouncing the cue ball off the table. 🤣🤣🤣
Rode behind the N&W 611 on the mainline. Was washing cinders out of my hair for 3 days afterwards. Totally worth it!!!
*stops train*
"Can I get a big Mac with fries?"
That'll be 30 bucks please.
A drive thru for trains would be epic. They'd probably get their food free just because of how cool it is they have a drive thru for trains.
@@thud105f that's crazy expensive, that food from that franchise was supposed to be cheap.
I’ve done that at a different burger joint lol
😂
The smell of and sight of the smoke from a coal fired steam locomotive is absolutely unique, nostalgic, and an experience that is so wonderful. That's something that using oil can't replicate. The two are totally different in the way you experience them through your senses. I've always loved that unique smell and feeling I'd experience from a coal fired steam locomotive. It's hard to explain to someone who doesn't know and put into words, period. Hate to see any steam locomotive not originally designed and built to run off oil converted to do so. It's better in some situations like this to change, and I understand it's to help stop wildfires starting from sparks, but it still feels wrong to me to do. 👍
I understand the sentiment, and I wish they didn't have to be converted, but if it's to prevent fires or even the perception that fires may be started by the locomotives, I don't mind. An oil-fired steam locomotive is still a steam locomotive, and if converting to oil will help these locomotives run for another hundred years, then I'm all for it.
I find it funny to. I mean Here in Australia we run on coal. What we actually do is Steam Ban during the bushfire season. December to March. It's not a time people want to work Steam locomotives due to heat and it allows you time to get them sorted.
@@rodm5968 in Colorado the weather is nice during wildfire season and tons of people come to the area on summer vacation
We rode the Grand Canyon Railroad summer of 2023 from Williams to the South Rim of the Canyon. They only run the steamers on certain days as it is but didn’t run them because of the dry conditions and potential for causing a forest fire.🔥
The smell of burning raked leaves in the street every fall
Heard that nearly every day for 45 years. Early 70s, it still hauled mine supplies. You could ride to Silverton for a couple bucks. You could load your horse on the stock car and get off high in the mountains for a pack trip. If you come, stay at the Strater Hotel. Original and historically correct. And really haunted.
I rode this train on vacation. I highly recommend this train ride from Durango to Silverton and back. It's an epic experience thru the mountains of Colorado.
@richbrindley8944 We did this a couple summers ago. It is a fun trip.
Same here
My dad and I want to wear a Sasquatch suit to prank the passengers
Didn't you check the title. It is the last coal train.
@@durgacharandhruvanth4279 yeah last coal train with passenger cars
Thats a fantastic whistle
I'm replaying and replaying, just for the whistle
This is a master work of train whistles
Scary 😳 I will run for life in hearing that sound.
@@suzannegagnon4764And good engineers knew how to get different sounds out of the whistle. Just like the changes of tone in this video.
@@ronfullerton3162 Swan's song for sure.
Here in England 99%of our coal mines closed I the 70s and 80s. Many communities are still struggling to find a new identity and permanent jobs elsewhere. As the coal age ended, the tech age arose, and many educated only for the coal industry, have fallen down the gap on transition
Same in Kentucky USA
Thanks to you, Maggie Thatcher. It's sad to see all the shuttered colliers in the UK. There are people behind those jobs
sad.
It's incredibly sad 😢,
I'm a Steam Enthusiast myself and love the smell of a coal fired steam locomotive, it's a smell you can't explain as it's so unique,
It makes no sense at all does it?, they shut nearly all our coal mines here in the United Kingdom, where we have plenty of good quality Steam coal still, to bring coal here from countries thousands of miles away,
They keep going on about carbon emissions, yet close nearly all our coal mines to ship coal thousands of miles to here,
Mining ⛏️ and transporting coal to heritage railways in the UK, would create far less emissions than bringing it here from countries thousands of miles away on ships, then having to transport it to the heritage railways too.
@@dhandley8893spot on mate.
Those 2 guys in overalls were 1000% crying
My dad worked for the railroad and he could tell you what every screw, nut, bolt and carriage weighed..he knew pretty much everything about the trains.. whenever we would get stuck at a crossing he would start telling us stuff about the individual parts of the train and what it did or what it was used for..
WHY is it the last run...??
Steam Locomotives bring REAL CHARACTER in rail travellings everywhere they operate.
The steam engines are still running there just not burning burning coal anymore
Yeah misleading title, apparently they have quality restrictions on coal, and thus ita cheaper and easier to convert from coal burning to oil burning. A conversion that's been done since steam was a tween.
@@YMS09DI think the issue was actually wildfires, but I’m not sure
@@dodgy1779 Partly because of wildfires. Coal run trains are very ashy and throw sparks. Oil run trains burn cleanly. The black smoke you see from any steam engine is just them doing it for the camera, because that's wasted fuel out the stack.
@@YMS09D not misleading, OP is just stupid and can’t read the title
I rode it. When I was 15. It was am awesome experience.
Nice 🎉
Nice 🎉
I agree leave it coal , leave history alone , blessings to silverton /derango
Thats like saying "oh we should keep using medieval medical techniques and technology". It's just uneconomical, inefficient and unsafe. All coals have a tendancy to self-heat and expel methane gas into the air, which is toxic. And coal is just really inefficient and wasteful because a lot of potential energy gets converted into wasted heat energy, meaning they are only around 12-35% efficient.
The liberals of Colorado don’t like its polluting level!
why, exactly? Have you rode it before? you pick cinders ouf of your hair for days afterwards, it pollutes everything along its route. I'd even be curious about how profitable it is. Also a boring ride after about the first hour. If you love it so much, start your own!
@@billycliffe don't like it / don't ride it, it was just an opinion, have a blessed day
coal doesn't pollute anything. soot is a fertilizer
Amazing.. I wonder what they’ll do upon retiring this grand ol’ girl? Scrap, recycle or museum, either way looks like she’ll run forever! 😊
Covert it to burn oil instead of coal
no ones scrapping steam locomotives in 21st century north america
@@azaabazha That's true for the most part. At most old parts (wheels, boiler tubes) would get melted down to be remade back into the parts it was.
@@azaabazha Reassuring to know, thanks 🙏
@@Johndoe-jd Good to know, certainly a majestic beast 😊
That thing looks so complex. To imagine we were engineering these since the early 1800's.
And without computers
I was planning to go back to Colorado to ride the D&S but if they’re getting rid of the steamers I’m canceling
They're not getting rid of the steam locomotives. They're all being, or have been converted, to burn oil.
Reminds me of that old song, Last train to San Fernando.
Exactly there’s no point to ride it anymore the nostalgia is gone
@@michaellewis4632 The nostalgia is still there. They are steam locomotives built in the 1920s and before, and that's NOT changing. Coal-burning locomotives have been converted to oil before now, and a few oil-burning locomotives have even been converted to coal in the past, and they were ALL still steam locomotives--fire breathing, whistling, bellowing STEAM LOCOMOTIVES! And these ones are, too; and they're still wonderful machines.
@@ericemmons3040I appreciate your attempt and it made me feel 83% better. That last 17% is still pissing me off though as it's just another kick in the nuts by the same people that are bringing on the destruction of the United States for no other reason than to gain power and to kill babies. Yeah I said it.
I’ve been riding on this train for over 40 years. Apparently they’ve been converting the fireboxes to burn oil instead of coal after coal embers started a wildfire in 2020. When I rode in 2022, I hadn’t noticed the change, as it’s still the same engine billowing steam and smoke, but with slightly less destructive smoke. It’s still totally worth riding and is still my favorite train to ride on in Colorado.
I Lived Next To The Train Tracks in West Virginia... I LOVE The Train Sound.. Now in Dayton Ohio at 11:34pm Every Night I Hear Our Train Whistle ❤I Sleep Because i Feel Safe.. Like I'm Back Home😔
Rest Ye Well!
Totally random BUT what are some good railfanning spots in Dayton? I want to take my dad. Thx
Was it next to the Cass RR? We had a great time there in the 90s.
Memories of childhood in West Virginia. Raleigh County for me.
i've ridden on this railroad before on a vacation before. it was handsdown the most beautiful landscape i have seen to date.
I love that blessed whistle. It is a shame that these types of trains no longer run normally. They are so iconic! you feel like you're on a magical journey ❤
It's the Polar Express wrapping around Engineer Pass!
Not a main line but Dollywood runs 2 locomotives on a daily basis one named Cinderella and another named Klondike Katie
Visit San Diego railway museum and campo railway museum Campo had train rides most days... A nice ride but nothing compared to big trees railroad or Durango and Silverton trip big trees ride my favorite enjoy friends
They still run diesel trains multiple times a day that sound the same
Imagine being clueless and waking up to that sound. I did, I've lived by trains my whole life and can tell what direction they are going (diesel). When I heard this, it took me a second. That's NOT a diesel...
It was the local Soo Line 1003 and she only runs like 2 times a year. Needless to say I now know when she runs. It's an awesome machine, ran by an awesome crew.
It's sad to see the coal disappear from this line, but at least we have another coal burning narrow gauge railroad here in PA.
Where ? I would like to ride it.
Well atleast we see the line is still running.
I saw a coal car, what do you mean?
Train to MacDonald's.
"Attention passengers, our train arrives at McDonald's station, the stop is five minutes, you can buy something from drinks, snacks and hot dishes!".
But the ice cream machine is broke and mc cafe closed at 10 sorry
Came here to say I bet the old timers remember when you could get an ice cream cone at McDonald's!
There's a train station next to a Macdonald's in my city. The station only opened this year actually, so... I mean it's not all that odd.
5 mins? not enough time.
@@bigred7931 Always with the machine.
That whistle sounds haunted!
Hell yeah
Lovely sound. A legend.
This ride to Silverton was awesome!
Still better than modern US railways
I volunteerd on coal train my white shirtcuffs were black loved it
Where abouts?
one of the most badass vehicles in existance
Fighter jets have to take number one in terms of badass, but trains are up there too.
didnt say THE most
@@M1ck9 I know, just saying fighter jets are number 1.
@@Ajokeiguess yeah your right
this is an era that shouldnt have ended. its a fantastic felling standing next to one of these behemeths and listening to there sweet sounds. i got a chance to see the 4014 and what a treat!!! i own a steam
tractor but its nothing compaired to these irons!!!!
My dream is to stand next to her!❤
@@SighDown i have i posted a video of me my dad and my son standing next to her and shes roaring to life what a treat it was.
It’s a shame to shut down that old train. I’m 72 and remember laying in my bed at night at my Grandparent’s home in Wayne ,Nebraska and hearing that wonderful whistle from across town. It sounded so mournful .
Worry not she’s still running!
It’s just this particular locomotive that’s getting rebuilt
They did not shut it down. They are converting it to burn oil.
My dad started his engineering career in a steam locomotive. Those things are big.
Tucuruvi ghost on how you are you and you are you and me up
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First six years of my life were living with the sound and beauty of that train in Durango. Let her run as designed. She is and always has been amazing.
My son lives near Durango so I go twice a year and get to see a and hear that great train
Also train lovers try roaring camp big trees railroad in Santa Cruz California equal to dur a go imho anyone been on it?
that sounds is just W O W
I live in Durango. They had a crazy fire happen from the coal or whatever on the steam train. I do wonder if it will still have a smoke machine emitting fake smoke to keep the old school feeling alive?
That whistle was the best
One the best steam locomotives to ever be used❤
wow just gorgeous!! and that whistle.. 😮 just love it! would love to take my grandsons to see it in person!
The engineer is an artist with that whistle. Bravo.
each engineer has their own unique whistle, it was how they knew who wss coming and going, for station personnel and other train drivers alike, and it's true today as well, with so many rebuilt steam trains around.
Yes he is.
The way the whistle is blown, is like a skill or art, I always think about a "Soul Train", for Humor.
Listen to Orange Blossom Special lol its a good song that uses this exact sound
@@greyisbister3973 Wow
God steam engine are such a cool piece of history. Everything about them just screams cool as cucumber.
Beautiful piece of railroad history 👍🏻😎
The sound itself takes you back
to the past its beautiful
The trip is well worth it. It was a blast from the past. Beautiful scenery in the mountains all the way up to Silverton and back!
Agree
Absolute Magnificense....No wonder men are obsessed with calling theirs "STEEL" LYAO 😭
We rode the Grand Canyon Railroad summer of 2023 from Williams to the South Rim of the Canyon. They only run the steamers on certain days as it is but didn’t run them because of the dry conditions and potential for causing a forest fire.🔥
Took kids on grand canyon train they liked cowboy fight
You got to have the coals burning and the wheels turning
That sound is absolutely beautiful and that whistle. 😍
Really clean-running for a coal engine.
That boy knows how to make that horn talk. Best horn blowing I've heard.
Hell yeah
All I hear is orange blossom special playing!!! Such a beautiful sound. I love these trains. That whistle goes right to the soul!
Yes it do.
That K36 whistle is incredible 🗣️
Chills when you hear that whistle!
I was not expecting that BIG BLACK TRAIN
I will forever in love with Steam Engine Train or any old classic trains that ever exist.. i just love how amazing they looked especially their wheel part
Everyone should ride this fantastic train at least once!
So agree
It’s a preserved piece of history and a working railway sod the green fascists burn coal!
lol
Being converted to oil has nothing to do with that, it's for ease of use and maintenance, and cheaper cost to run. Burning oil is also bad for the environment.
I’m 36 yrs old love the sound of those trains
I saw this exact steam engine while sitting in the drive thru of that exact McDonald’s. Those steam engines are crazy loud.
The huge black cowcatcher and soot all over the front makes it so industrial and imposing. Looks badass!
Now that’s a train 👍
Nice looking out train
Why does every McDonald's look like Auschwitz now?
Bro looks cool as fuck driving the train. That’s awesome.
Wow.. the sight of these mammoth machines have always sent a spark of joy and happiness
If you think this is big check out the Union Pacific Big Boys
Great, long view of the McDonalds!
If Thats your takeaway you are an idiot.
No more coal?? How are we going to power our EV cars? 😂. Just kidding. Love the trains
Coal is a staple in a steam train ride. They should have a few excursion a year with coal.
They would but because of a larger risk of fires the railroad limit burn coal during the winter. However burning coal and oil both is expensive, so the railroad decided to use oil instead of both coal and oil.
I knew the direction the train was coming from when I saw that man not walking away from the opposite direction track.
Only in Colorado would you find a 100 year old *narrow gauge* steam locomotive passing a freaking McDonalds 😂
Yo that horn hits at a different frequency frfr
everyone in McDonald's:
"👁️👄👁️........"
I wish trains still looked this beautiful today 😭
Big Boy 4014 is on tour now, perhaps it will come to your town. it's the largest steam locomotive ever made.
As a Brit in Devon in the 1970's the record that started the highly illegal, underground AM CB movement...
(at 14 I bought a Cobra 19X for £100 at midnight in a multi-storey car park)
...was "Convoy" by C. W. McCall. We got the album &, from the late 70's, I can still remember "Here comes the Silverton up from Durango, Here comes the Silverton a'shovelin' coal."
And now I've seen her! Thanks chaps, that's a 46 year circle closed. Kinda sad it's the old girl's last trip mind!
Although "Marybeth's wig was on the floor & Arnold's feet was out the door, When we shined our flashlight in Arnold's startled eyes!" was more fun! 😆
The Home Office started to clamp down on the illegal American AM rigs but not quite in time for the solar cycle maximum early 1980.
I heard an American accent coming in on daytime skip S5 yo S7.
He was shouting gor a copy so I jumped in as soon ss he de-keyed.
"Yup, I got a cooy, what's your 20?"
When he said "On the bridge" I said asked which one. When he said "Golden Gate" I nearly had kittens!
4 Watts, homemade ½ wave dipole in the loft! Duplex across half a planet!
I couldn't get any further without coning back again! So that was it for me. The legal UK 4 Watts FM was pants! I think the illegality & being 16 helped. I lost interest after tfat...
But thanks for a glimpse of the Durango & Silverton guys! Talk about nostalgia!
Much appreciated! 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸
Wow,,watched 50times❤❤❤Hobart Tasmania Australia 🇦🇺 👌 😋
Good memories old is gold ❤❤
I would love that horn on my car!
Steam power will never cease to amaze me. Its just so raw and visceral and hypnotic to watch.
Everyone is gansta until "sir please stop my son wants mcdonalds" appeared
Wow . Wonderful loco
Absolutely awesome!!!!👍👍
Saying Cole is so bad for the environment, saying it’s a fossil fuel, but lithium for those electronic batteries that they use for their cards also made out of toxic fossil fuels too. That lithium is extremely toxic.
Electric cars are covertly an ecological nightmare but. But coal is hideous too
The answer is ultimately neither is good, just one will destroy the earth faster. If our energy grid was completely green based we could run coal train excursions without any significant side-effects.
You want to save the steam engines, you gotta get the rest of the world to go green.
@geraldfriend256 bullshit. I live in Pennsylvania country. There are hundreds of mines and at least 10 coal power plants within a 45 minute drive of where I am. 0 pollution, 0 smog, 0 impact.
@@newmanattack That sounds subjective
@Azure_Fire I'm an avid outdoorsman. I couldn't be more objective.
The people that complain that most about coal are the people that know least about coal.
a dream come true fast food right next to a railroad that runs steam trains.
The only honest sound left in America damn the emissions
The firebox of a steam locomotive is the only place it's acceptable to burn coal. I'm looking at you, Germany.
I firstcrote the Durango and Silverton steam train back in 1969. I think the adult tickets were $15 and that was a lot of money back then. Anyway, I love steam trains, and that one in Colorado is my favorite!😊
“Oh look, a long train! Why don’t you film it with your phone vertical!”
Love that horn whistle and smoke coming out that stack
Rode this train back in 2018 up to Silverton and back down to Durango. Great experience. I think it took us about 3 hours to get up there. They had a great snack bar on board and due to its slow speed, we were able to take some stellar photos and video. Very memorable trip for my kiddo for sure.
Anybody else expecting a delorean in front of that loco??? Lol😊
Nothing more American lol