Great video, my grandfather was an engineer in this class of engine for the Lake Erie & Western. It is nice to see this class of engine still in operation. Thanks for bringing it to my home.
Me and a group of guys were over there back in 2016 as part of the NRHS's RailCamp program, and we actually participated in some of the restoration work. Nice to see the museum's efforts, as well as our small contributions, finally pay off.
Phenomenal footage and she looks and runs so incredibly smooth, warms my heart to see people pt this much care into preserving these beautiful machines.😌
Oh thank you so much for this video. What a beautiful locomotive. Looks like they did an excellent restoration job. Kudos to all involved. I love steam locomotives. Thanks again!!!
It looks even better in person than a video will ever show. The "Russian Blue" iron jacket shines in the sun like it just rolled out of the factory. And it runs as smooth as a Swiss watch. Pretty good for 122 years old.
I've seen the 924 back in 2016 before it was restored. Me and my parents made a quick stop to the museum there while we were visiting in Washington and I saw the old engine when it was sitting in that siding along with the other old steam engines they had. Considering the state it was in then, I never would've thought it'd be restored to steam again. BTW, have you heard about Chris Eden-Green's crowdfunding campaign to bring _Steam Locos in Profile_ to the US, and have you considered donating to it?
Happy "Early" Valentine's Day, Mister Mike Armstrong! I Hope You Have a Great Valentine's Day Celebration with your Families and Friends, Dude. I Love You, Man. I Love You. :-D
@@northernhillbilly2882 | yes it's a wood burner because I have more videos of it on my channel. But I'm saying because it goes fast it throws some embers. Happened during Santa limited last year, but never set fire to any of the coaches r anything because if so I would've probably known about it cause I'm part of the museum.
@@northernhillbilly2882 | we are making it like the 1908 appearance. If we do that we'd ruin the look of it. Also wouldn't be a steam engine if it didn't do that stuff now would it.
The St.P&D also played a role in a Disaster known as the Hinkley fire. A Minnesota wildfire obliterated the town of Hinkley, MN, where two roads, The Eastern Minnesota RR and the St.P&D, crisscrossed at a diamond. In the midst of the chaos, two crowded trains clattered backwards out of Hinkley. One of them was the ST.P&D "Duluth Limited", behind #69, a 4-4-0. At the throttle was james root. Root had seen a body of water outside of hinkley, which turned out to be Skunk lake, A low lying swamp. There was a mass exodus off the train as it caught fire. The survivors spent 4 hours in the water. By th es time the fire was gone, The Train had been nearly obliterated. The fire was so hot that the train had effectively been welded to the tracks.
In a way, it's probably lucky that it is isolated from the giant railroad network. Otherwise, it would be nothing but another "rails-to-trails" hiking path. Or a bike lane. Or, god forbid, nothing but a driveway to a subdivision of McMansion's. Being "isolated" is probably the only thing that saved it. Just as being "forgotten" is the only thing that saved NP 924 from being turned into razor blades and rebar.
It’s most likely there for increased braking or support. Usually they run diesels behind steamers when the steamer can’t turn around and pull the train back to the station or when the steam locomotive can’t supply enough air to the train brakes. I figure that in this scenario it’s for both braking and for helping the train run backwards. It’s a dangerous game to push a train backwards for a long ways
I volunteer at the Northwest Railway museum. We have two ex us army twin Baldwin Rs4Tc locomotives, 4012 & 4024. Both were painted burgundy, but only recently did they repaint the 4024 that bright orange. The purpose of using one of the two diesels on the rear isn't for dynamic braking, but only for support/backup power incase something were to go wrong with the 924, as it's restoration was completed just recently and are still adjusting and working out the hiccups.
Dynamic breaking is when a diesel locomotive runs its traction motors backwards to create electrical energy which causes static friction on the wheels, slowing them and thus slowing the train. Steam locomotives don’t have that capability because they don’t have traction motors like diesels
@@RedRiverRailfan precisely. The Way steam engines power their wheels are through their pistons and connecting rods. So the only way to slow down is by reducing steam being fed to the pistons, and good old-fashioned brake shoes. I have seen on the first last of the Giants documentary on the big boy steam engines; that the steam was also used to apply brakes on the whole train. Maybe that was experimental depending on which chapter of steam locomotive history you look at. I’m yet to learn more about this, yet dynamic braking is a technology exclusive to diesels and possibly electric engines. Because steam engines are so mechanical with how they power their wheels, they were the technology before dynamic braking was even invented as far as I am aware of. The only way for steam engines to have dynamic braking is to have resistive traction motors on their wheel axles. There is one documented example of steam and diesel technology combined in a particular British steam engine you can find here on TH-cam. Other than that, I hope we explained enough.
@@rypatmackrock thanks for the nice comment! And you are somewhat correct about the train brakes. They didn’t usually use steam to power the train brakes on the coaches, rather they used air. As you may know, train car automatic brakes are always in the closed (applied) position when not powered. When in motion, the locomotive provides compressed air that opens the brakes through a series of pneumatic or hydraulic pistons attached to the brake shoes. They can control the application of these brakes by slowly bleeding air from the system through the automatic brake handle in the locomotive cab. Completely dumping the air puts the train in emergency. This whole system is ingenious because it means if the train unexpectedly splits or derails, the brakes are automatically applied to help stop the incident. God bless friend!
@@RedRiverRailfan thanks for refreshing my memory. This is something explained in the early 2000s Microsoft train simulator that I used to play all the time, and it is the subject of a source material Thomas the Tank Engine episode, where James the red engine is hauling a passenger train very hastily, and he suddenly has to stop because his brakes locked on; due to a hole in one of the connecting brake pipes that was famously repaired with a newspaper and a bootlace. It is one of the original episodes in the literary source material book that is the railway series, and it was adapted into the first season of the TV series. When it comes to my explanation from last of the Giants, it is briefly explained where they show one of the big boys hauling a long train of box cars, and you can see steam drifting away from the box cars as the narrator explains the braking system. Of course it was released in the early 60s originally, then remastered by Pentrex in the 90s. That is my honest view, and thanks again for refreshing my memory when it comes to train breaks.
Rolling stock: Northern pacific 0-6-0 924 Us army rs-4-tc 4012 and 4024 Ohio match heisler 2 Great northern 2-8-0 1246 St regis paper switcher 463 A orange plymouth switcher Weyerhaeuser h-12-44 1 Us army 45 ton 7320 And canadian collieries 4-6-0 and 2-6-0 14 and 17
Mike, on the website that you have put in your biography it gives me "403: Access Forbidden - Your location (ES) has been disallowed.", that's why I can't enter your website, sorry.
I have Two questions. 1.) Does 924 have LED’s in it’s headlamp and if so why? 2.) Is 924 a wood burner or is that wood on the top of the tender for show?
Amazing in fact Northern Pacific only has 2 Excursion stars locomotive and those were 328 Which is a 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler and of course 924 which is an 0-6-0 Switcher as we all know
@@mrsaturngamingandstories | It was an excursion locomotive. It's at the lake Whatcom Railway and used to do the train up there. No longer works as I said but that's way more popular than 924.
What makes me nervous when watching the videos is the condition of the rails. You can see how they partially bend under the load and how the train "wobbles around". Now, on the one hand, I know that there is rail infrastructure in the U.S. that is in much worse condition, and on the other hand, this type of travel may even be what makes these trains / this route so appealing to train passengers. I, for one, just think to myself as I watch, "This is a derailment waiting to happen!"
Hey, +CoasterFan2105, Are You Going To Make A "New" TH-cam Video About How Does a Steam Locomotive Engineer Drive a Steam Locomotive? Are Ya? Are Ya? Are Ya? Are Ya? :-D
Great video, my grandfather was an engineer in this class of engine for the Lake Erie & Western. It is nice to see this class of engine still in operation. Thanks for bringing it to my home.
Me and a group of guys were over there back in 2016 as part of the NRHS's RailCamp program, and we actually participated in some of the restoration work. Nice to see the museum's efforts, as well as our small contributions, finally pay off.
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Phenomenal video, a great steam engine with great sound and a beautiful vintage train. Thank you for showing.
Phenomenal footage and she looks and runs so incredibly smooth, warms my heart to see people pt this much care into preserving these beautiful machines.😌
super nice vid - I absolutely love hearing the steam whistle in the valley
Wow it's so beautiful
Yes it is!
924 is a neat 0-6-0 Switcher locomotive!
Oh thank you so much for this video. What a beautiful locomotive. Looks like they did an excellent restoration job. Kudos to all involved. I love steam locomotives. Thanks again!!!
It looks even better in person than a video will ever show. The "Russian Blue" iron jacket shines in the sun like it just rolled out of the factory. And it runs as smooth as a Swiss watch.
Pretty good for 122 years old.
Love this! Great video Mike! I gotta make a trip up there
Thanks so much! It's a neat museum!
5:34, dude, shot is awesome, one of the best shots of 924 ever!
Amazing to see another steamer back in operation! Great video Mike!
Indeed it is! Thanks for watching!
@@CoasterFan2105 qwzz so q
Super cool train last Sunday I went to the Golden Spike it was fun
Great Video Mike!!!
Many thanks!
Northern Pacific 924 Is a very nice engine
It's really cool!
I know right
What an excellent video! There’s nothing like hearing/seeing a steam engine coming! Thanks for this one!
Fantastic the Northern pacific is back.
Great Scenery Too!!!!
Good one!
Thanks!
Excellent, Mike!
Nice video Mike!
Thank you, Austin!
I've seen the 924 back in 2016 before it was restored. Me and my parents made a quick stop to the museum there while we were visiting in Washington and I saw the old engine when it was sitting in that siding along with the other old steam engines they had. Considering the state it was in then, I never would've thought it'd be restored to steam again.
BTW, have you heard about Chris Eden-Green's crowdfunding campaign to bring _Steam Locos in Profile_ to the US, and have you considered donating to it?
Ok
Absolutely love this steam engine beautyfull
I Do, I Do, I Do Super Love Steam Locomotives the Most. :-D
Happy "Early" Valentine's Day, Mister Mike Armstrong! I Hope You Have a Great Valentine's Day Celebration with your Families and Friends, Dude. I Love You, Man. I Love You. :-D
That is a cool steam locomotive it kinda reminds me of Fillmore and western 14!🙂
Northern Pacific returns!
Like 96 beautiful video, greetings from Asturias 🚂👍🙋♂️
Thank you and greetings!
I remember going to the Northwest Railway Museum in the early 2010s, and one of the photos that my dad has is one of 924 before restoration
Nice video!
Thank you!
Nice Video Mike
That 3 chime sounds epic on the return of 924.
That’s very good👍🏻!
Many thanks!
@@CoasterFan2105 you’re welcome
Awesome video Mike! I use to have a model locomotive that looks just like NP 924.
Awesome 😎
Very cool video of this RR and area.
Sweet video. ❤️💖 ;)
Nice
Thank you!
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Yay i love trains mike
Excellent informative video I enjoyed watching it.👍😁😁😁😁🇬🇧🚂
When we were there in June 2021, the spark arrestor was so backed up it was throwing up ashy embers, one of which set fire to the coach behind it.
Yeah, it does that when it goes faster, still haven't figured out a reason why.
@@Subpowerzero66 because it's a wood burner ( I think).
@@northernhillbilly2882 | yes it's a wood burner because I have more videos of it on my channel. But I'm saying because it goes fast it throws some embers. Happened during Santa limited last year, but never set fire to any of the coaches r anything because if so I would've probably known about it cause I'm part of the museum.
@@Subpowerzero66 perhaps it would benefit from a spark arrestor, or one of those big diamond smoke stalks.
@@northernhillbilly2882 | we are making it like the 1908 appearance. If we do that we'd ruin the look of it. Also wouldn't be a steam engine if it didn't do that stuff now would it.
Fun fact, i work there and got to fire 924.
Excellently produced video. Great catch of the train
Nice video Mike, love that 0-6-0 steam locomotive. That whistle as a very nice Pacific Northern West sound.
The whistle itself is the original whistle when the engine was built.
Awesome video my dude. Love me some steam!
Thanks man! Glad you liked it.
The St.P&D also played a role in a Disaster known as the Hinkley fire. A Minnesota wildfire obliterated the town of Hinkley, MN, where two roads, The Eastern Minnesota RR and the St.P&D, crisscrossed at a diamond. In the midst of the chaos, two crowded trains clattered backwards out of Hinkley. One of them was the ST.P&D "Duluth Limited", behind #69, a 4-4-0. At the throttle was james root. Root had seen a body of water outside of hinkley, which turned out to be Skunk lake, A low lying swamp. There was a mass exodus off the train as it caught fire. The survivors spent 4 hours in the water. By th es time the fire was gone, The Train had been nearly obliterated. The fire was so hot that the train had effectively been welded to the tracks.
Good video, MACF2105!
Thanks!
Steam Locomotives RULE! :-D
Happy Friday, By The Way, Mister Mike Armstrong!
COOL!
Thanks!
The white color of the box matches the historic rolling stock 😉
Awesome
Have a good weekend mike
Awesome video! I also noticed with freight trains you dont film the whole thing
Thank you! I do film the entire train, but I often cut out part of the middle.
Got it
Sweet little train line
Been there done that :) And even still, I'll continue to watch it blow by...
Great footage! It's a shame that this railroad is isolated from the rest of the American rail network.
In a way, it's probably lucky that it is isolated from the giant railroad network.
Otherwise, it would be nothing but another "rails-to-trails" hiking path. Or a bike lane. Or, god forbid, nothing but a driveway to a subdivision of McMansion's.
Being "isolated" is probably the only thing that saved it.
Just as being "forgotten" is the only thing that saved NP 924 from being turned into razor blades and rebar.
Nice Video
Thanks!
@@CoasterFan2105 you are welcome
Neet video! Is this locomotive burning wood instead of coal?
Yes as a current volunteer, it was economical and practical as coal can't be sourced at a good price nearby.
924 video is 9:23….oooooo so close! 😁
Beautiful train!!!!
You should do more videos on the Northwest Railway Museum.
I have a question. Why is the orange Diesel engine on the back? What’s it there for?
It’s most likely there for increased braking or support. Usually they run diesels behind steamers when the steamer can’t turn around and pull the train back to the station or when the steam locomotive can’t supply enough air to the train brakes. I figure that in this scenario it’s for both braking and for helping the train run backwards. It’s a dangerous game to push a train backwards for a long ways
I'll tell you, Mr. Asbery, because the steam train doesn't have two faces, there's only one face, the train can't turn either.
@@RedRiverRailfan You are right!
I volunteer at the Northwest Railway museum. We have two ex us army twin Baldwin Rs4Tc locomotives, 4012 & 4024. Both were painted burgundy, but only recently did they repaint the 4024 that bright orange. The purpose of using one of the two diesels on the rear isn't for dynamic braking, but only for support/backup power incase something were to go wrong with the 924, as it's restoration was completed just recently and are still adjusting and working out the hiccups.
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Excellent Video
Nice 👍
Hi Mike, why don't steam locomotives have dynamic breaking technology?
Dynamic breaking is when a diesel locomotive runs its traction motors backwards to create electrical energy which causes static friction on the wheels, slowing them and thus slowing the train. Steam locomotives don’t have that capability because they don’t have traction motors like diesels
No offense but that’s kinda like asking “why don’t cars have afterburners?”
@@RedRiverRailfan precisely. The Way steam engines power their wheels are through their pistons and connecting rods. So the only way to slow down is by reducing steam being fed to the pistons, and good old-fashioned brake shoes.
I have seen on the first last of the Giants documentary on the big boy steam engines; that the steam was also used to apply brakes on the whole train. Maybe that was experimental depending on which chapter of steam locomotive history you look at. I’m yet to learn more about this, yet dynamic braking is a technology exclusive to diesels and possibly electric engines.
Because steam engines are so mechanical with how they power their wheels, they were the technology before dynamic braking was even invented as far as I am aware of.
The only way for steam engines to have dynamic braking is to have resistive traction motors on their wheel axles.
There is one documented example of steam and diesel technology combined in a particular British steam engine you can find here on TH-cam. Other than that, I hope we explained enough.
@@rypatmackrock thanks for the nice comment! And you are somewhat correct about the train brakes. They didn’t usually use steam to power the train brakes on the coaches, rather they used air.
As you may know, train car automatic brakes are always in the closed (applied) position when not powered. When in motion, the locomotive provides compressed air that opens the brakes through a series of pneumatic or hydraulic pistons attached to the brake shoes. They can control the application of these brakes by slowly bleeding air from the system through the automatic brake handle in the locomotive cab. Completely dumping the air puts the train in emergency. This whole system is ingenious because it means if the train unexpectedly splits or derails, the brakes are automatically applied to help stop the incident.
God bless friend!
@@RedRiverRailfan thanks for refreshing my memory. This is something explained in the early 2000s Microsoft train simulator that I used to play all the time, and it is the subject of a source material Thomas the Tank Engine episode, where James the red engine is hauling a passenger train very hastily, and he suddenly has to stop because his brakes locked on; due to a hole in one of the connecting brake pipes that was famously repaired with a newspaper and a bootlace.
It is one of the original episodes in the literary source material book that is the railway series, and it was adapted into the first season of the TV series.
When it comes to my explanation from last of the Giants, it is briefly explained where they show one of the big boys hauling a long train of box cars, and you can see steam drifting away from the box cars as the narrator explains the braking system. Of course it was released in the early 60s originally, then remastered by Pentrex in the 90s.
That is my honest view, and thanks again for refreshing my memory when it comes to train breaks.
I still can't believe they actually ran it without a roof on the cab.
Testing and because during the summer it gets so freaking hot in the cab you need to cool off some how.
A house in southern NH has a similar era passenger car as these just festering on the property.
Rolling stock:
Northern pacific 0-6-0 924
Us army rs-4-tc 4012 and 4024
Ohio match heisler 2
Great northern 2-8-0 1246
St regis paper switcher 463
A orange plymouth switcher
Weyerhaeuser h-12-44 1
Us army 45 ton 7320
And canadian collieries 4-6-0 and 2-6-0 14 and 17
Is this the steam train you haven’t seen yet that you were talking about?
I like this steam train
I have a question, what did you use to record audio, I am in need of something to get audio with, thanks!
Is np 924 a coal burner or a oil burner?
It was originally built as a coal burner, however as one of the volunteers at the museum the management decided to convert it to wood.
Ok
@@chrisgoodman2312 it was originally a wood burner
@@mratsfrailfan1894 according the archives the museum had, it was built as a coal burner.
Mike, on the website that you have put in your biography it gives me "403: Access Forbidden - Your location (ES) has been disallowed.", that's why I can't enter your website, sorry.
Are you talking about the museum website that I put in the description?
@@CoasterFan2105 Yes, of course!
I have Two questions.
1.) Does 924 have LED’s in it’s headlamp and if so why?
2.) Is 924 a wood burner or is that wood on the top of the tender for show?
4:10 It's Rap music!
What happened to the cab roof? (3:52)
Will you Go to Film ATSF 3751 And SP 2472 When they Do their First Run?
Amazing in fact Northern Pacific only has 2 Excursion stars locomotive and those were 328 Which is a 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler and of course 924 which is an 0-6-0 Switcher as we all know
Don't forget 1070 that was in a movie and is still around. Not used but a star.
1070 is also an 0-6-0 Switcher but was never used as an Excursion Locomotive but instead used for a movie so yeah
@@mrsaturngamingandstories | It was an excursion locomotive. It's at the lake Whatcom Railway and used to do the train up there. No longer works as I said but that's way more popular than 924.
So there are 3 Northern Pacific Excursion engines
@@mrsaturngamingandstories Yeh
What makes me nervous when watching the videos is the condition of the rails. You can see how they partially bend under the load and how the train "wobbles around".
Now, on the one hand, I know that there is rail infrastructure in the U.S. that is in much worse condition, and on the other hand, this type of travel may even be what makes these trains / this route so appealing to train passengers.
I, for one, just think to myself as I watch, "This is a derailment waiting to happen!"
Why does it say mike Armstrong 2021 when it was 2022? I just found that
Go, +CoasterFan2105, Go! :-D
Do they push it with the diesel because it's too old to make enough steam? Seems kind of fake.
What whistle is on her? it's not an NP 5 chime for sure...
It's a 5" Lonergan 3 chime. They definitely have a unique sound.
Hello sir have you want to go my country including Ambarawa Museum Railways?
DON'T DELETE THIS TH-cam VIDEO! :-D
What type of engine is the orange one
Hey, +CoasterFan2105, Are You Going To Make A "New" TH-cam Video About How Does a Steam Locomotive Engineer Drive a Steam Locomotive? Are Ya? Are Ya? Are Ya? Are Ya? :-D
A wood burner... with no spark arrestor!?
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Nice video!