End of the Line
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- This documentary short offers a nostalgic look at the steam locomotive as it passes from reality to history. In its heyday, the big smoke-belching steam engine seemed immortal. Now, powerful and efficient diesels are pushing the old coal-burning locomotives to the sidelines, and the lonely echo of their whistles may soon be a thing of the past.
Directed by Terence Macartney-Filgate - 1959
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My uncle Ed was a locomotive engineer in New Jersey. When the last steam engine was taken off the line he put in for early retirement. He said, 'there was no more fun in it; the romance was gone.' R.I.P uncle Ed and the steam engine.
Obviously your uncle Ed was a smart man! Thanks for sharing his thoughts 👍
I’m sure a lot of people felt that way. They phased choo choos out way too soon Many of the steam engines were fairly new and they were thrown away 20 years too soon.
"there's no more fun in it..." Same exact words from my Grandfather who worked for NY Central from 1916 to 1961. He hated diesels. Said they had no souls.
@@OneLastHitB4IGo I was disappointed in the video. I hoped to see steam locos being chopped apart with cutting torches for recycling, but it was just two old codgers mouthing off about nothing. No decent scrapping footage.
SteamLocoScrapper
I’d rather see and hear these old timers talking about their experience with these machines than watch these wonderful pieces of equipment get destroyed.
My father ran a coal dealership across from the B&O roundhouse in Lorain Ohio. I have vivid memories as a child of what we called “double headers” pulling coal cars that never seemed to end headed for the steel plant. When they slowly went by the ground actually shook. The sound, the smell, the excitement is a all a time gone by, just like this wonderful documentary so wonderfully depicts.
us still 2nd place in coal burning
As a railwayman in the UK I really appreciated this film, well edited and very nostalgic . My uncle who was a driver in steam days would have been in his element!!
Spring 1963 was the last time I was on a steam driven train. St. Johns N.B. to Montreal Quebec, going home from the Canadian Navy, regular run but I never saw another one after that. It was exciting to see them, huge beast puffing smoke and steam. I think the best part was actually seeing all the moving parts driving the wheels. Lots of good memories from those times. Still love trains though, time marches on.
I agree
Steam trains are still here
Oh really why don't you go on a steam train again
Sorry to correct you, but it's Saint John, N.B.
"The guy at 12:20" (aka 'the distinguished Canadian composer') was Eldon Rathburn, who was, in fact the leading in-house composer for the NFB for many years. Rathburn remains something of an unknown quantity here and in Canada - and in film composing on the whole- a pity since he could write music in almost any style and was a master at the 'high Modernity' that you hear in many NFB films of this period. His music for 'Universe' is an exemplar of this style, and his opening theme for 'Drylanders' offers a knowing twist on the Aaron Copland 'Americana' sound.
Very interesting. I'm guessing he composed the "high modernity" opening theme for this one.
The men that operated them were the heart sir!!!
At 34 years old, all I can say is man was I born in the wrong times !!
Beautiful machines !!!
I'm 67, when I was maybe 9, 10, 11, I got my 1 and only active service steam train ride, what I now realize must have been one of the last steam trains, in an overnite sleeper from Toronto to Lake Temagami to stay at Camp Temagami in 'northern' Ontario that summer. No parents, no family member, nobody I knew. I was all alone on my own, In fact I didn't even know what it was all about at the time. I thought I was being sent off in the 'belly of a Black Dragon' to a gulag for kids, for the rest of my life. I cried and cried. Couple of older kids, girls going to the girls camp, took pity on me and comforted me. Then miracle of miracles, a big ferry boat to Camp Temagami and the best damn summer of my childhood. These days I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning, but, I hope I never forget that long ago memory.
I am 65. We had the policy of putting diesels on the passenger trains. So when I was VERY young everything was steam but by the time I was old enough to remember only goods trains were steam.
Which is sort of funny because the greatest savings from diesels were their ability to haul substantially heavier trains longer distances. Not their ability on lightweight fast passenger services.
Of course steam engines were always used on special trains or extra services. In NSW they had spent less money on diesels so I still went behind a pair of steam engines in 1956 on an interstate service. But that was the last scheduled service I had with steam.
oh I loved this. thank you for sharing it!
Thanks )))
What a fantastic little documentary, done at the right time in a changing era...
So thankful you shared this...
Regards from Australia 🇦🇺
6:43 CN 4-6-4t #47 is actually preserved at Steamtown. She briefly ran excursions in New hampshire during the summer of 1961 before being sidelined due to the Maintinence Records being burned in a CN roundhouse fire. She is in horrible shape today after being exposed to the elements.
CN 47 should be scrapped it's just sitting there taking up space and rotting away
@@rogerlollar4325ofc your not gonna care about her, shes in the wrong country. She should be back in Canada and be repaired and back in service running in her proper home
@@SoldierFox1393 no she should be melted down to make new things
@@rogerlollar4325 no she shouldn't, you guys don't deserve her at all.
She deserves to be repaired but we don't have her blue prints to restore her. Also hell no you don't deserve her back. your country was scraping her so we bought her. Do it suck that she is sitting rotting away YES. Do you think we want it to rust? NO. WE need money and more places that build parts for locomotives.
The end of a era, changing of the guard. Back in the 70s I used to find occasional chunks of coal along the older lines of the C&O in my city.
I found one along an abeondeoned C&NW line.
I found a whole bunch in the ballast in upstate NY.
@@JohnSmith-sj5fl Erie Lackawanna railroad..?
One of the best documentary's i have seen about the steam locomotive and one of the saddest breaks my heart to see all those locomotives going to scrap. But we will never forget them so few of man's inventions and machine have been so iconic and so alive the closest man has ever come to creating life. We will never forget them for they live on in those preserved and in our hearts and memories.
Rest assured, the railroad companies couldn't get rid of the steam engines fast enough. They were a maintenance nightmare, required so much coal and water and an army of men to keep them going. In the 50s, diesel oil...as they called it then, was 6 cents a gallon. Diesels required no fireman, blacksmiths, boilermakers, pipefitters, machinists, water spouts and tanks, fire watchmen, coal docks, etc.
Machinists became diesel mechanics, electricians replaced boilermakers, pipe fitters only serviced air lines. Gone was the filth, the cinders in your eyes, the drafty cabs, the scorching heat of the firebox....nostalgia is one thing, but the diesel was a godsend.
@@mark-wn5ek Some people may have thought them were a nightmare but they were more then that when you built and worked around them your whole life and those men and women knew that. The diesel may be a godsend to some if you understand what some of these men explained in this film but to me there just a glorified streetcar and I have not much care for them or ever will.
Superb documentary ! Amazing to experience the 1959 cinematographic and interviewing techniques that made this splendid masterpiece. A great tribute to the steam locomotive, that is !
The testimony of the composer brought me to tears. Probably I am as sentimental about it all, as he is. I was quite lucky to live in Belgium, so I could visit the German steam activity, that continued until the mid seventies. In Belgium, steam stopped in the mid sixties, was too young then... But I have a vidid memory of the heavy trains pulled by those magnificent 10 wheelers, three cilinder engined BR 44 class... Pure nature power.
In 1959 as a child, the family lived in London ON., close to a breaking yard for dozens upon dozens of old Mogul Locos.I had not known what they were or what was going on,but instantly recognized the distinctive lines here.13:50 Eldon Rathburn seems to have put his finger on the sentiment I felt then.Thanks for this informative vid.
These folks who were interviewed for this, who worked in the industry going back to the early 1900s - while their world was certainly different than mine, I certainly understand their fascination with steam. And even though it was 60 years ago, I get the railfans who lined that route to catch a glimpse of and photograph an historic event. UP Big Boy 4014 is undergoing restoration and will soon steam back to life. I’m not a trainspotter like those guys, but I’m sure going to show up to see her run the first chance I get.
I'm 66 now. I work in technology and have seen all kinds of amazing innovations. But nothing matches my memory of riding with the engineer up front in a still-running Milwaukee Road Hiawatha passenger train steam locomotive when it was going full tilt. It's streamlining made it look like something that was out of the future. That sensation I felt as a kid has stayed with me. This wonderful film, especially the locomotive designer's description of riding up front at night, brought back those memories.
I have always regretted that my short period working in Montreal from July 1963 just missed the last of steam on Canadian railways. I have always been a steam fan as many of those of us were who lived near the line along which Mallard had set the world speed record. From the house we could hear and see these these speedy trains. I went to Steamtown and Delson and rode a steam special but it was not the same as steaking into a roundhouse to see what visitors were inside.
After Canada I caught steam in Japan, Malaysia, Thailand,Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Iraq, Syria, Turkey before getting home to Lincolnshire. But the Canadian experience made me aware of the need to photograph British steam before, it too, succumbed to diesel and electricity.
I highly recommend the narrow gauge steam railways in the old East Germany plus a visit to the Dresden Steam Festival.
Thanks for the film. Very evocative and very heartfelt feelings expressed.
"End of the line" was an amazing documentary!! And that's coming from a 20 year old! It'll be a trip in the near future once internal combustion engine are phased out! The documentary gave me chills the whole video thinking about fossil fuels coming to an end!!!! Thanks for sharing this with us!!
Yeah
One of the best, if not THE best, RR documentary I've seen. Thanks for posting.
watching this during 2018 50 years after the end of steam on biritish railways makes this english steam fan feel sort of emotional and sort of sad
An absolutely brilliant documentary. Thank you for sharing it.
Love how it starts on a diesel but ends with a steamer, and one that still survives!
Wow, how'd I miss this gem all these yrs! Well done, great job filming, and sound is excellent.
Being born in the 80s, i never grew up with steam locomotives. My first experience on a steam train was a ride aboard the Arcade & Attica in New York. As a young boy, the steam locomotive looked and sounded alive. Brings back memories of watching Thomas The Tank Engine on PBS. My 2nd experience with steam was riding the Texas State Railroad between Rusk and Palestine. I rode the Disney trains in Disney World, but those locomotives are not real steam locomotives as they burn #2 diesel. My favorite all-time steam experience was witnessing UP #844. It was awesome! Growing up around diesels, i have to say a lot of respect has to be shown to steam railroaders and the steam locomotives from a bygone era. UP is the only class 1 railroad with a prideful steam history campaign and preservation. At least 6 Bigboys, close to 5 Challengers, several Northerns, and i am sure there are more preserved steam locomotives from the UP. I wish other railroads have as much drive to preserve steam railroading like the UP.
Too bad you weren't born in the 1880's, like my grandparents. They rode a lot of steam-powered trains. The down side is you wouldn't be alive any more.
Has any other machine ever been more romanticised than the steam locomotive?. The word over the same sentiments are expressed. Even now when a steam locomotive special travels along the main line it always catches the attention of people young and old who stop to look, whether they be railfans or not.
Very good documentary. To this day the old steam whistles brings up an emotion. Can’t explain it. Miss them. Thank you.
6:49 it's ironic that the particular locomotive in this shot as the narrator talks about steam locomotives going to the scrap heap was actually preserved and is now at Steamtown.
True, but today it’s not in good condition at all.
Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm "preserved"
Steamtown may as well be a scrapyard
I set my little boy in front of this documentary and now he wants to become a Canadian, Thank you NFB
People were so polite, well mannered, well spoken and well dressed.
In Canada and in the USA both back in those days.
Well, Canada is traditionally known as "our polite neighbor to the north".
Less distracted living... people enjoyed each others company. They didn't anonymously text away each day like I'm doing....
@@whiteknightcat I refer to Canada as the best damn neighbor to the North ever.
@@squirrelguy2195 It's your only neighbor to the north anyway.
Thank you for posting this video. It's one of the best I've seen on TH-cam or anywhere else. It is saved and will forever as far as I know will hold a place in my heart, and into this thing they call a hard drive, as far as I know they say is permanent, but as we all know, nothing is permanent. It's as permanent as I can make it. There's some beautiful literature here and I wish these "times gone by" were now the present. It seemed like everybody was happy then as opposed to now. It's like I don't even recognize this world now. Maybe they looked back and felt the same, who knows? Maybe it's just a matter of perspective. I know I just know I don't like it here now. I feel the same as the men that's retiring, wishing things were different, even though I'm 62 years old, I find myself not knowing what to do or which way to go. Just sad.
this documentary was ahead of its time. A great time document of enormous value.
The technology of the steam locomotive is incredibly intricate;it takes SO much knowledge and experience just to get one to MOVE,much less pull a train! Not so much the diesel/electric,but that's progress so they say!
That's why it took an "engineer" to operate them. My grandfather was an engineer for many years, way back when. The closest I got to riding a live engine was in a yard with my engineer uncle. I was only about 8 or 10 then. Very impressive.
I love steam locomotives,the most fascinating piece of transportation equipment ever conceived in the mind of man!!!!
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Nice glimpse of railroad and steam locomotives.
Thank you. 🎉🎉🎉
I love and miss the old steam locomotives they were classic Americana.
You do realize that these are Canadian steam locomotives right? The entire world had them, not just America
@@thebrantfordrailfan Ahem............ NORTH AMERICA, BITCH
Still remember the old Mikado's running through town... Damn. I'm old! lol
When I was young, I was a big fan of the diesel. They generally pulled the passenger trains, while freight was pulled by Steam. In 53 I remember getting very upset when our passenger train was pulled by steam. I was not getting on it. Now! I love the old steam.
You still love diesels though.
The reality was that train crews couldnt have been happier with the transition, Steam engines exposed cabs were hot and freezing at the same time, sooty messy uncomfortable and extremely complicated in comparison to the new diesels, which once the crews experienced the easier to operate, climate protected enclosed cabs, their reticence quickly disappeared.
I grow up in Belleville ont , and in 1958 the steam locomotives disapeared I was 6 years old.
Steam disappeared in BC earlier because diesel was cheaper to run in the mountains.
THE QUALITY OF THIS FILM IS FANTASTIC!!!!!
What a marvellous little film! That is the Canada that my parents were born in.
Travelling Tom , spot on mate, my life has been connected to steam, the repair of, done my time at Newport Workshops, Victoria, Australia. These skills took me around the world. A wonderful life ensured. Still love the big buggers.
You can still see steam and old diesel trains at Exporail, the Canadian railway museum in Delson(named after the Delaware and Hudson railway)/St. Constant, just south of Montreal. As well as hundreds of artifacts, and a working old Tramway car from Montreal.
That was great I graduated from high school in 1959 but didn’t realize that was the last of the steam train. O well . Yep Hoya Hoya Gramps on the couch.
i was born in forty eight, we lived near the dundas bloor train station in Toronto the tracks were at the end of my fathers house i can still see the train in the station the smell of the steam the coal watch the engineer the man with the big oil can topping up the bearings, the train station with the most beautiful tulip gardens. i miss that still,. 69 years old now almost time to go the way of the steam engine. one thing i wish i new is how much fun i had then. friends family brothers sisters gone. glad i lived then.
it's been a LONG time since CBC produced ANYTHING that really represented Canada.
Another excellent NFB documentary.
This NFB station is incredible...
My love of trains started when I was a little girl and the steam trains flew through our town. My dad took me to see one of these monstrous machines and I remember the man lifting me from my Dad's arms, up into the oven like room with an enormous fire burning in a big cavernous door that was open. I must have been about 2yrs old. Then came the NEW fresh from England, electric engines. My spare time was spent on the overhead bridge watching these beautiful engines shunting on the tracks there. Now, 60yrs later, the bridge has long gone and those beautiful dark blue and yellow engines have been dismantled and scrapped . The new streamlined trains have nothing to compare to the beautiful old engines of the past. I know modernisation has to happen... but I really do miss the smell and sounds of the old steam trains.
yes me to i grew up with steam locos and there is still nothing to touch them
DWP, a subsidiary of CN, had a small railyard just up the street from where I grew up. I was too young to remember when DWP transitioned from steam to diesels in 1957. Family photographs taken in our yard show the "deadline" in the background with a coal tender. In 1984 DWP relocated to WI. The roundhouse, machine shop and other buildings, the trestle and rails were eventually removed. Now, only a paved bike path passes through that vacant property and one could hardly imagine that a railyard once occupied that location.
Wow what an incredible time to be alive, I wish I could have lived through it. Everyone was so sincere and innocent you can see it in body language and their eyes. That old time operator from Moose Jaw.
Our society has become so corrupted.
Having been born in 1955, I guess it was just the cusp of the era. My mother kept a commercialy produced baby's log that made note of the childs firsts including his first train ride. Now it is just an experience that is part and parcel of our common history. My older brother was fortunate enough to be taken by my grandfather to view the locomotive that was pulling the train that they were on and I remember my jealousy when I learned of this, but imagine my disappointment the first time I saw a locomotive to find that it was diesel and not steam. As a child I just took it for granted that it would be steam and I felt terribly let down that that was not so. Steam just seems so much more alive with the sight and sound of it and to hear the sound of a lonely steam whistle far off in the night is something that I feel I have sorely missed.
Excellent documentary. One problem: I wish it was longer.
I'm 69. I remember while going to school in Montreal I would pass by the CPR graveyard at the Angus Shops in Montreal. In the mid sixties there were literally a hundred steam locos rusting and awaiting the scrap yard. Wish I would have taken some photos then.
12:20 I love how This Guy Explains His feelings for The Diesel
These guys need to know that diesels have personalities too.
Diesel locomotives are the greatest for hauling steam locomotives after they have been under the scrappers torches.
A machine like this requires the care and attention of the men who operate it to perform at it's best. You cannot simply turn on a steam engine and drive it around. You have to care for it, know it's foibles, and understand its nature to operate it.
Any machine that requires such care and attention inevitably engenders such feelings in the minds of the men who operate and maintain it. They imbue within the machine a human soul, and that soul resonates within the mind and heart of the men who experience it. I think the romanticism of the steam engine is explained thusly.
They were all living creatures in their own way, and we just threw them away chopped up for scrap.
One thing for sure, steam went in places totally unknown to diesels. They belong to a long past era when track web was going everywhere in all directions.
For so many remote small farming burgs, being on a rail line was synonym of modernity and prosperity. When rails are finally pulled up and track torn down, no steam or diesel passed through these communities. The era of young boys running to train station watching the magic of these huge steel machines bringing people, mail and merchandise was over.
No more train whistle day or night. Big plume of smoke in cold winter days belong to the past.
We call it modernity, the way of future. Today it´s a bike path....
I am very happy I am not one of the people who down voted this. I would hate to live in those shoes. Excellent documentary.
Good film, I enjoyed it.
At 16:13 a railfan with an Argus C-3 camera! I had one of those.
As a kid, I was a railfan of the Reading Railroad (all diesel then) shortly before that line's demise here in southwestern PA. The Reading brought coal down from the coal fields of upstate Pennsylvania, iron ore up to the steel mills of Bethlehem, and finished steel goods back from the mills, a long time ago...
Excellent film. Many thanks.
I love steam locomotives I ❤️ steam locomotives I absolutely adore steam locomotives I want to see steam locomotives return
Steam would always hold a special place in those hearts. Engines come and engines go waiting too be preserved the age of steam has come to a end gone but not forgotten.
I would also love to see the GG1 return too
Gracious ,beautiful,romantic and majestic.I wish I could have ridden one but its long gone before I was born. :(
Brilliant, thanks so much for sharing & I thought that us Brits were the only ones to see the end of steam. WRONG.
there is nothing like the sound of a steam whistle, love them!
AMEN!👍👍👍👍.
Am I the only one who often reaches the end of a line before getting to send off my packets over the internet in reply to a comment on the internet while no commercial is on?
True, the diesel engine is infinitely more economical and much cleaner than the steam locomotive. However, you can have a dozen diesel engines parked in a row and nobody even glances at them. Let a steam locomotive come to town, and hundreds of people with kids will show up. I was once at a swanky resort where there were BMWs, Mercedes and even a Lamborghini parked out front and everybody tried to look blase' about them being there. Then this guy pulled up in a 1930's Packard and all the blase' people crowded round like kids!
I get the same reaction every time I take my 1967 chevy out for a drive. Everyone ignores the 2019 model trucks, but seems drawn to the older models
How do the diesels feel they don’t get much attention.
Then why did I see that in the NFS reunion, a lot of people were intrigued and astounded by the diesels there? Huh?
Astounding film, I can't stop rewatching it. Though I have to say, what are the odds that the engine captured on film at 27:32 is none other than the 2816? One that would be destined to survive, and eventually live again in the 21st century? Crazy.
Your right is 2816 it’s my favourite steam locomotive every one day I want to see it run one day
@@Dylan9758-w1y It will in 2023
I do know one thing. Had I been born around the year 1900, this would have been the job I've wanted to do in life. I've had a love for steam engines and trains in general. Being a railroad man is something I've wanted to do my whole life, but there isn't any opportunities for that in the place I live in.
LOVE IT AND LOVE OLD LOCAMOTIVE
Wow, some spectacular shots. Such a thoughtful look at historical change. The NFB at its best.
Was surprised to hear those 3 boys saying they like diesel more !! Go figure ! Great documentary. Wish it were longer.....
I worked on the North Clyde route through Glasgow and there was a story of an old driver interviewed by a reporter. In 1961 the route had been electrified. Due to some teething problems steam locos were put back in service for a couple of months. When asked what he thought of that the Driver's Glaswegian response could not be printed.
The LOCOMOTIVE #2816, Canadian Hudson 4-6-4, was restored by Canadian Pacific RR in the early 2000s. This locomotive is shown at the end of this presentation. 2816 is featured in the 2011 IMAX film "Rocky Mountain Express". Ronn
"End of the line"
Everyone gonna remember big smoke
Mr Omer Lavallée at 9:23 was a well known figure in railway historical circles has a street named in his honor in Montreal, a housing development on the grounds of the old CPR Angus shops and re-using many of the old factory buildings.
I just noticed Pete Seeger provided some of the music for this. I guess he was playing the banjo. He was well known in the folk music scene as an excellent song writer.
Didn't know the phrase "rail fan" was used back then.
My fondest railroad memory was riding on the famous Milwaukee Road Hiawatha pulled by a massive steam engine, from Chicago to Milwaukee in the 50s.
Hi from Green Bay, Go Packers. The Milwaukee Road HIAWATHA was pulled by steamers like the famous Class A 4-4-2 Atlantic and also called Milwaukee types to honor these 1935 Beauties from ALCO.....In 1938 ALCO built the much larger 4-6-4 Baltic/Hudson types, but they ran less than 20 years until the mid 1950s when diesels came, then steam was Scrapped. This is why the early Rail Museums were started, like here at the National Railroad Museum. And Steamtown in Bellows Falls, VT. And their Founders knew each other. Mr. FULLER here in GB., also knew Mr. BLOUNT of Steamtown. And Mr. Alan Pegler with the Flying Scotsman 4472 in England. It was a world wide fraternity. A true society of Gentlemen. God Bless them all, Amen+++!!!
i love how the 2816 is still going.
Yes! A steam engine has a heart because man put it there!
The Scappers torches are my thing and all of those obsolete steam engines should be blessed with the flames to make better things for the future. These are machines and not living beings with a soul.
Excellent documentary.... I wish I could give it two thumbs up!!
Great video and great music!
Nobody does it better than the NFB! Railroading has never been the same without steam! Canada should be increasing railroads not ripping them up! Millions of trucks on the roads, polluting, increasing chances of accidents, when railroads should be used as main ways to transport goods! Most of the rest of the world knows this....why not them here??
I live half a mile from the CSX S-line in Florida. How weird to listen to that gentleman reciting steam-engineer poetry as a roaring freight goes speeding by just up the street, horn blasting "I am the future realized" ...
The kids today have no concept of what the Railroad has accomplished for North America..
woxnerw yes I do
in college I wrote a paper about how the railroads built America and it seemed like every bit more of research I did the more I learned about how it shaped the country and I imagine the same is the case in Canada. my thesis was that, while industrialization had began in coastal cities, the US only matured because of the railroads. of course now, we have many technologies that can serve the same purpose, but it was the railroads that carried us here.
Only in the history books, and TH-cam of course...
And why should they, when railway lines are being abandoned all across the country?
@@heronimousbrapson863 their building a $90+ Billion dollar high speed rail system
in California.... most expensive project in the US.
I am happy I was able to travel on a steam engine as a child many years ago
Like all railfans, I like steam over diesel; but one thing always stood out in the 60 years that I have been trackside:
CPR steam locomotives were always cleaner (more polished), than their CNR counterparts; which for the most part, except for crack trains, we’re generally grimy; as CNR then belonged to the Canadian Government, and employees cares less than with CPR; which was always privately-owned.
This film shows well (down to the lighted number boards), how grimy CNR steam locos were.
6:02 Canadian national railways 1395 is a 4-6-0 ten wheeler that still survives to this day in coopersville Michigan but in pretty bad shape she is property to the coopersville and Marne Scenic Railroad in coopersville Michigan
Thank you, NFB, for sharing this.
27:56 Wig-wag signal? Locomotive is ringing its bell for the grade crossing. Can't see whistle steam.
My great uncle loved his huge 4-8-4 freight locomotive. But said Dieselocomotives were so much better.
The whistle of the old steam locomotive are far more sonorous than the horns of today. And the same may be said with the clear crisp "ding" of yesterday's bell, rather than the digital bell of today.
Boy! Mr. Austin Cross sure can talk a blue streak. 😂
As much as I enjoyed this great story, I felt very sad hearing all those old timers, long gone, telling how much a steam train was such a emotional and attached they were to them, and that indeed those old steam trains had a heart, such a sad ending
This is such a vibe
Steam Locomotives are still my love.
Great video!
Often make me wonder where all the hundreds of feet of cine film and photographs actually ended up today and to realise that after my generation passes on very few will ever know the experience of a steam locomotive.
Wonderful video.
This is a fabulous video!! A keeper. See also the NKP 765 Coca Cola commercial.