SUPER Cool F7 Santa Fe WARBONNETS START UP! Galveston Railroad museum
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Really cool to see and hear these Icons start up and run. Be sure to visit this museum when you're in town. Visit them online for details. Support these facilities because without them our history is forgotten. Thank you for watching.
*EMD foamers please rise for our anthem*
😂🤣😂🤣I think Alco foamers would stand too!
@@joeystrains.9316 sick 😂😂😂
incorrect, Gevos are underfoamed
so they are the best
OoOoOoH sAy CaN yOu SeE, bY tHe LoCo'S hEaDlIgHt.
@@northeastrailfanproduction9199 😂🤣😂
Oh wow. Man those F7s are just absolutely gorgeous! Some of the most beautiful and amazing American Engineering ever. A real little piece of the USA right here. Would love to go don and see these some day. On my list now.
Excellent, they're always nice to see and hear running.
Incredible engineering. Pure genius behind it all. And the Art work on the loco is pure loco !!
The best Ive seen in a while. Great all the way around.
It's something else. Eye Candy also.
Such beautiful locomotives- my favorite diesels of all time. Definitely a bucket list item to head out and run on an excursion train some day.
They are a sight to see and hear.
F and E units have been my favorite since I was a little kid in the early 1960’s.
@@dougobrien4877 E units are monsters and sound great.
@@joeystrains.9316 I lived in Toledo, Ohio in the early 1990’s. I was headed back home from my parents and passed the train station on the way. I saw an unusual passenger train parked at the station so I went to investigate. It was a super fancy train with a variety of passenger cars. It was lit up inside as it was night. It looked like a palace. The train was pulled by two EMD E units. The entire train was painted in a dark green with Conrail as the railroad. The entire train was immaculate. I wonder what became of the E units and passenger cars.
@@dougobrien4877 unfortunately, the majority of retired locomotives are scrapped. It's as sad as a 55 Chevy or 69 Camaro being crushed. That's what is special about seeing an icon like this running.
Them locomotives looked pretty realistic. The only thing missing was the center rail! LOL
Hehe, wouldn't it be cool if someone with authority had them place a third rail?
@@joeystrains.9316 Have to change the number to 2343.
@@fredsafarowic3149 Let's do it.
The all new Lionel 1/1 Scale! *"So real, you'll need to buy a entire state city to run them"*
You cracked me up with your comment Ken!!! 🤣😆😅😉
I had the Santa Fe war bonnet Lionel Super O gauge loco in the early 60's. My favorite toy. This brings back so many wonderful memories. Thanx for posting!
Thank you. I have several of the Warbonnets in o scale, my weakness.
Feel like a kid again seeing that beautiful engine.
I felt like one and I am 56!
I've stood right in in front of these two F7's. You are one of the luckiest people ever to be there while they are running because they hardly ever run them. Great video of the the Museum.
Thank you, they should probably let everyone know when they are run.
This was just incredible to watch! Amazing Joey!! 💯😎
@@TwistedMacGyversTrains Thanks Frank, they sound great.
Made me feel old bud! I'm 58 now and remember when my first HO train set had an F7 (or F3) as the loco. Then I went on to the "F" series. Imagine all the people that rode these monsters! Shout-out to those who operated them!! Hard to imagine that switcher was an 80 tonner!!
Thank you, I'm right there with you! I have several Lionels like it and they're older than us. Time is flying.
I Love Trains how about N scale
Thanks for sharing! Half a century old equipment, yet still awesome and impressive alike! Good luck, and stay healthy. Salutes from Innsbruck, Austria, Europe
Thank you for your kind comments and exciting to hear from Austrian train fans.
I was fortunate got to ride in cab of an f7 for 25 miles
That would be nice. I'm going to ask how much it costs to ride up front. You never know.
@@joeystrains.9316 nothing extra ,I was wearing my outfit with my engineer cap that said engineer on it, the conductor saw it and said would you like to ride in the engine and the rest was history, of course I videoed it
@@kb2sbl you scored!
The first railroad I went to work for had more than a dozen of these after they had been thru Cleburne. They were called CF-7s and they sounded, acted and felt like a F7. They kinda looked like a U18-B though with the short, squatty nose and long engine hood.
CF7s are F7s without the cowl and have a standard cab instead of being a cab unit
@@UnionCountyPhotography the Cleburne shops of the Santa Fe pulled off a literal miracle when they engineered the CF7. The EMD F unit was a monocoque design-the body of the locomotive was the structure. Cleburne had to engineer from scratch a GP-like frame, and attached spare EMD hood unit parts to the back. The ATSF Ry approached EMD about making new locomotives from traded in F7 components (generator, prime mover, trucks, traction motors) but EMD turned them down flat. It was the success of two projects-Santa Fe's CF7's and Illinois Central GP10's, that convinced EMD to get into the rebuilding game. EMD's first rebuilt product was the GP15T.
@@brentboswell1294 I remember seeing the ICG Paducah Geeps in Orange & White as an kid in the 1980s going through Willow Springs Illinois ( Small Suburb of Chicago ) on the former GM&O Chicago to St. Louis line with some former GM&O locomotives. Also when some were repainted Red & White for Chicago Central.
actually the CF-7 were rebuilt F7s cause the Santa Fe had more F7 locos then needed so they converted them into road switchers
@@IndustrialParrot2816 in the early 1970's, the Santa Fe had a shortage of power suitable for branchlines and secondary trains. They had a plethora of F units, however by this time management considered cowl body locomotives unsuitable for anything other than passenger trains and through freight trains. In the past, EMD had rebuilt really old, obsolete E units (like any E unit that had a model lower than E7) into more modern power for the railroad (the E8M). Management thought that they could convince EMD to do the same, converting traded F units into new hood units, reusing the major components. However, EMD wasn't keen at all on that idea. So when EMD said no, Santa Fe turned to their talented major repair shops, and got their money's worth out of their substantial F7 fleet, both passenger and freight. Santa Fe didn't need the higher horsepower ratings of units like the GP38 on the trains that they intended those units for. They also used them to replace switchers in yards, and that is why the Santa Fe never ordered third generation switch engines like SW1500's or MP15's from EMD.
Thank you for sharing. F-units are my favorite American locomotive. I recommend visiting the WP museum at Portola, where you can operate a real F7. Here in Norway we can still see the NoHAB locomotives with the EMD 567 prime mover inside. I love the sound!
It does have a unique sound. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you watching.
I remember decades ago when this train was in private ownership by a man in Houston that use to run weekend excursions from the Houston Heights railroad station to Galveston and back.
I remember when that train ran along Hwy 3.
My wife and I rode that train back in the early 1990's.
@@bubbabiker5653 I need to catch a ride on it.
Awesome sharing
@@mccoy79productions66 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I did enjoy this, thank you.
Thank you, very glad you liked it.
Thanks for the upload, she’s purrrty!
She is!
You got my family on video! It was awesome to see them start the engine.
Awesome, you're going to be stars now!
Thx for sharing!
Thank you, glad you liked it.
I was born in 1960 and lived near Oklahoma City. I remember many times as a young boy in the mid '60s my mother and I taking the Santa Fe to see her sister in Houston. Great memories.
If you get a chance, go visit the museum. They're a sight.
Sure love those Santa Fe F7.
There’s nothing cooler than a covered wagon. LOL
Agreed, they are a rare sight.
Awesome video, That F7 is sweet and how it started up super cool 😎
Thank you Jorge, they are classic locomotives.
Excellent Enterprising Endeavor 🤝
Thank you.
My favorite locomotive 💕💯🇺🇸
Thank you, it's a beauty.
That warbonnet is unbelievable Both of them.
They are nice locomotives. Thank you.
Just love the sound of those big old diesels purring along.
You and me both! It's like background music to my ears.
Wow what a treat……thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you, glad you liked it.
Wow man this was such an awesome scene and video. So awesome to see that classic F7 running
Thank you, it's a rare occurrence to see a running F7.
Who hasn't ever wanted to jump on a pump trolley and take her down the tracks? Puts me in mind of Blazing Saddles...lol
Great clip, thanks.
Blazing Saddles! Classic 😂
Oooh the camp town ladies sing this song, DU DA DU DA !!!!🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂😆😆😆😆😆🍺🍺🍺
Aww shucks, that was lucky! Darn near lost a $400 hand cart.
@@SD40Fan_Jason 😂🤣
Oh Yeah… everybody’s first Christmas train… thanks for bringing us along and truly great timing catching the start ups.
Thank you for your kind comments, glad you liked it. If you get a chance, check them out.
The most beautiful Diesel locomotives the F7 EMD General Motors Built engines so classic and powerful 16 cylinders ever built. Real trains for passengers of a bygone era in railroad transport from the 1940's nostalgic.
Agreed! Never get tired of them.
The sound brings back memories of when I used to hang out at the station when passenger trains stopped there, NP F9's and F7's. I can still smell them.
Thank you, it's an experience you won't forget.
What a beautiful sound. Nothing. Better
Thank you, agreed.
What a sound from the past, the early non-turbo 567 series engine.
That's right. Almost as good as a hemi(but as cool as a slant)
there is no way you can mistake the sound of a 1950's EMD 16-567B starting! damn, my childhood memories are flooding back to me with this starting. I was born in 1976, and I lived in Texas at that time, but I did hear a lot of 16-567B's in our Union Pacific GP7's from traded in F7s. Damn....the childhood memories, nostalgia.
Agreed, being there and hearing it in person was epic. Visit them if you can, have a good day.
Fav F7 war. Thanks
Thank you.
Joey: You Lionel freaks outta like this.
Me: DAMN RIGHT 😃😃😃. Thank you Joey, hope your test comes back good.
I'm one too. Thank you, I'm good.
I am a self-admitted Lionel freak, and have several F3 diesel sets from 1952, 1953, and 1954. Your unit was an F7, and actually pulled the Texas Chief passenger train.
@@paulmatulavich7321 I'm a Lionel freak myself; 7 sets of 2343s and one set of 2353s with 3 B units. Recently acquired a 2356 ABA set. Check out my other videos. Thanks.
@@joeystrains.9316 Sounds awesome! The one set that eludes me is #2190W from 1952. Called the Super Speedliner Set. Was the first set to have 2343s pulling the new aluminum passenger cars. Want the set in mint condition, so hard to find one.
@@paulmatulavich7321 I would like to have that set also. Pretty expensive, wife would crack my skull.
That was awesome great timing and I thank you for sharing.
Thank you, glad you liked it.
love the old iron.
Thank you. They're beasts.
Awesome video, Joey 👏 You arrived at the right time. That start up sequence of those F units is amazing. 😲 Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you, I got lucky. Sweet sounding EMD diesels.
A beautiful machine
Isn't it? Thanks for watching.
Awesome! That Case steam tractor is awesome. Those F units are so iconic!
The tractor would be a treat to watch operating. I like John Deere tractors especially.
@@joeystrains.9316 It sure would be! I just did a oil change on a John Deere B.
@@ericcoffedgp40 Cool, I would like to have a 70 diesel.
@@joeystrains.9316 Yep! The 70s are awesome!
Love the sound of EMD GM Diesel. Used listen and watch their freight counter part engines doing road switches
They have a unique sound. I like ALCOS too with their chugging but haven't been near one yet.
EMD 567
@@joeystrains.9316 GE ES/ET44’s have a good chug at notch 8
@@UnionCountyPhotography yes they do, I'm about 3/4 of a mile from the track near a bayou and trees and I can hear the chugging through it all. Hi ball territory.
Amazing…thank you so much…this has been my favourite loco since my Märklin catalogue of 1961…have never ever seen a real one😀🇬🇧
Thank you, glad you liked it. Seeing one running live is hard to beat.
The most beautiful Locomotive ever built !! 😍
You got that right!
That is awesome! I can imagine you feel the sound!
Yes, you have to be there.
Awsome!
Thank you.
You caught that Santa fa starting up.👍♐♐♐♐♐
Got lucky
Trains are a good hobby , I hope you enjoy plenty more of them and in good health, best wishes from 🇨🇦
They are and thanks for your kind words.
Very nice! Thank you! This engine model was common in my youth.
Thank you, me too.
AWESOME!!! WORK OF ART, BEAUTIFUL DESIGN!!!
Agreed
Love those old F7 units...Nice video bud!!
Thank you, glad you liked it. They are classic.
Saw many of these playing in my backyard in California. Had 4 tracks and a station nearby.
If you get a chance, visit the museum. Your backyard was a great place for railfanning. Thank you.
nice visit
Yes it was, thanks.
Fantastic video Joey.! Thanks for the video.! Hope all goes well with your test.! Beautiful F7s. BIG 👍🏻 😊
Thank you, they are great locomotives.
Great memories, cool video🚂
Time is flying by, haven't seen them on the line in years.
I remember the F 7 when I was a kid I’m 65 now
You're still a kid. Hope you liked it.
You da man! Thank you, Lucky Bastid!
It's about time I caught something cool 😎!
@@joeystrains.9316 Go back soon and Demand that ride they owe you.
12 minutes ago! Hello, joey.
Outstanding video, thanks for sharing. Dave
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, glad you liked it.
I don't care what anyone says... those F7 santa fe war bonnets are the best looking locomotives ever to ride the rails.
Agreed.
Nah, ALCO PA and PB Warbonnets are. These are close second though.
Pretty Santa Fes
They are eye candy. Thanks.
Joey: - yes, you DID have a good day, nice when that occurs. Congrats on a fine production ! Subscribed.
Thank you, glad you liked it. It was a good day.
I think the 50s were the ultimate in romantic transportation, both railway and airlines.
Agreed
Hey bro and whoever you listening that are trained fans I love the sound of gp15s especially when they roar up
I wished I knew where some gp15s were at that was working so I can video tape them roaringup maybe somebody could do that there used to be a switch crew in Lawton Oklahoma that had one it was Burlington Northern I used to love going down there hearing them switch on
The F7 is very cool. Great looking locomotive
Agreed.
Beautiful engines.
Thanks, they are.
Nice looking locomotives. I worked at a power plant in North Texas that had two F9 B units for diesel generators. They were cool. EMD V16 2 strokes. full speed was 720 rpm with a 1250kw (if I remember correctly) generator. They had about 3 foot of 6 or 8 inch exhaust with a clapper. At full speed they just roared. you couldn't hear the cylinders firing any more. Definitely had to wear plugs and muffs running them.
I didn't know that they were used in that application but they are generators. They have a great sound thru out the rpm range. Thank you.
@@joeystrains.9316 They were simple just had a little control room with a switch panel. There there was the main engine room. The generator was on one end of the engine and drive shaft came out the other side to a gear box that ran the cooling fan in the roof that pulled air through the radiators on either side of the unit. I worked for a city and they had bought them out of the Florida keys somewhere and brought them back. they cut the trucks off and put them down on one railroad ties. being stationary we were unable to get full load out of them due to lack of airflow. We use to run them up to 900 kw and could hold it there and not over heat.
@@josephkordinak1591 fascinating setup.
Beautiful looking locomotives.
Thank you, they're nice.
hello nice video thanks. saludos
Thank you.
hi, greetings from england, wish we had these F7 locos here in england,,no wonder Glen Campbell was singing about Galverstone. i can see why, super locos.
Hi,glad you liked it. He must have driven in one.
the dude starts climbing into the train he he good vid man like
Love the blower whine!
Oh, yeah, it has that certain sound during idling. Thank you.
Awesome ❤️😎👍👍great video
Thank you, glad you liked it.
I love Galveston Railroad Museum. I go every time i'm on the island. I have a video somewhere of me at the controls of that 80-tonner during a short run.
I would like to see that. I may try to get a job there when I retire.
Love the Santa Fe color scheme.
Thank you, it is eye catching.
Awesome catch man! You know how much we all love the sound of those!
Thank you. Glad you liked it. They are music to my ears.
Awesome video!!
Thank you.
Love the Hummin of those old F7s
They're ear candy and eye candy.
Awesome trains Joey 😊😊👍👍😎😎
Thank you.
I lived in Houston for 12 years and of course visited Galveston multiple times and I never knew Galveston had a train museum. Dang it! Thanks for the wonderful video.
I only discovered it about 4 years ago and I've lived in the area for fifty something years. It needs more advertising.
@@joeystrains.9316 I agree. I would have visited multiple times. Hopefully your wonderful video helps.
@@CeeJai_K Thanks again.
very nice F7 i 3d printed one thanks for sharing
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Nice video!
Thank you.
Your welcome @@joeystrains.9316
MAN! I love the F7
It's awesome, isn't it!?
when i was a teenager in the 70's and 80's a local R+R ran a F unit all the time
It be nice to see them on the rails again.
That is a sweet sounding diesel. Good catch.
Thanks, they do sound great.
Emd 567, Really appreciate you sharing this with us! Didn’t know they’re any in existence in SF livery’s
What the doc say
@@scottyrocktrains5649 He said that I'm addicted to trains😂🤣
You a trainaholic lol
@@scottyrocktrains5649 The cure is more train bell
The California State Railroad Museum has F7A No. 347C and F3B No. 347B in the Warbonnet scheme.
i like the video
Thank you.
Best paint ever !!!!🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺😀😀
Yes it is.
@@joeystrains.9316 🚂🚂🍺🍺😀😀
It was reported a few years ago after a hurricane flooded Galveston( the Museum had 3-5 ft. of water submerging the traction motors on these engines) that they may never run again. I hope the date on this posting is accurate. Great video.
Workers told me they ran Christmas. The flood did damage the model train room and buildings.
These aren't the same locomotives. The ones that were damaged were the two that were used on the 'Texas Limited' excursion trains and were painted silver and yellow.
Way too cool!.
Isn't it? Thanks.
Nice F7A engines. They were made the same year(1953) as the 2 FP7 engines we have on the Verde Canyon Railroad. Our were built for the Alaska Railroad originally. Only 2 of 8 left running in the country
Cool. That's why we appreciate the restoration and upkeep of these icons. They could be scrapped anytime. Thanks for watching.
My Grandfather was an Engineer for the B&O railroad in md back in 1915 to i think 1950
He saw a lot.
Nice Locomotives! Start ups remind me of the power plant I operated in the service. They were 2 16 cylinder supercharged units from early 60s era. Huge engines & loved the sound. Under load exhaust not visible a testament to how well they were built & maintained.
Thanks, it is a sweet sound.
Those are the SEXIEST looking locomotives ever built!!😁👍
Agreed.
Nice Forefront six-pack
It is.
nice
Thank you.
That motor sounds brand new. EMD quad horn sounds so nice. The MARS lights look so cool.
Thanks, they are completely perfect.
These units don't have Mars lights.