Streamliners at Spencer: 27 Historic Diesels Together
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- In May 2014, a gathering of 27 historic streamlined diesels, including EMD E units, F units, Alcos, plus an unrestored Norfolk & Western 611 were brought to the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. It was an incredible gathering of diesel power, with historical rarities, historic firsts and lasts, and some of the most stylistic diesels in one place.
We cannot thank NCTM and Norfolk Southern enough for their cooperation in making this a reality, as well the many private operations and partners that helped made the event happen.
Locomotives featured include:
-Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 611. The only streamlined steam engine at the event, brought down from Virginia Museum of Transportation. After the event it was rebuilt to service within a year.
-Southern E8A 6900, first Southern E unit. NCTM owned.
-Union Pacific E9A 949, one of three Union Pacific E9s kept in Cheyenne, WY.
-Pennsylvania Railroad E8A 5711 and 5809, owned by Juniata Terminal in Pennsylvania.
-Iowa Pacific E8A 515, painted for Illinois Central colors. Originally C&NW 5029B.
-Canadian National FPA4 6789, owned by Monticello Railway Museum in Monticello, Illinois.
-Atlantic Coast Line E3A 501, only surviving E3 diesel. NCTM owned.
-Delaware, Lackawanna & Western F3A 663, 664 and 664B. Originally Bangor & Aroostook, brought in from Scranton, PA.
-Wabash F7A 1189, brought in from Monticello Railway Museum.
-Baltimore & Ohio F7A 722, originally Bessemer & Lake Erie. Brought in from Potomac Eagle in Romney, WV.
-Soo Line FP7 2500, brought in from Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, MN.
-Chicago & Northwestern F7A 411, brought in from Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL.
-Southern FP7 6133, NCTM owned.
-Chicago, Burlington & Quincy E5A 9911A "Silver Pilot". Only surviving E5 unit, owned by IRM.
-New Haven FL9 2019, brought in from Railroad Museum of New England. Youngest streamliner at the event.
-Nickel Plate Road PA 190, one of the only surviving Alco PAs, owned by Doyle McCormick in Portland, OR. Under restoration.
-Wabash E8A 1009, notably the 10,000 EMD produced engine. Not operable, brought in from VMT.
-Reading F7A 284, originally C&NW. Brought in from United Railway Historical Society, not operable.
-Erie E8A 833, only surviving Erie E unit. Brought in from Port Jervis, NY.
-Chesapeake & Ohio F3A 8016A, originally Clinchfield 800. Owned by C&O Historical Society, brought in from Potomac Eagle. Since this video, it has been repainted as Clinchfield 800.
-Pan Am FP9 #1, executive unit. Originally Canadian National 6505.
-Norfolk Southern FP9A 4270 and 4271, Norfolk Southern's executive units, since sold in 2020.
-EMD FT Demonstrator 103. The diesel that kicked off the diesel craze, brought in from Museum of Transportation in St. Louis. Oldest diesel at the event, not operable. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
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Man I wish trains still looked like this.
So sleek.
So colorful.
The modern diesels are probably built more boxy so that they are easier to mass produce and rebuild and repair after accidents.
They do....
i love these old carbodies, and they do look a lot better, but honestly, in America at least, our modern diesels dont look that bad. The wide nosed diesel even bare a vague resemblance to these
@@whispofwords2590 They look a hell of a lot better than diesels in other countries
@@goldenstateaviation2861 yes, most of them are boxes with unimaginative and weird cabs tacked on.
It truly warms my Heart knowing that this much historical motive power has been preserved, including the beautiful work done by Union Pacific. People who cannot appreciate this stuff and feel it should be scraped, themselves should be scraped.
...themselves should be scraped.. ..and probably have
Like a beauty pageant on that turntable. Then they go down the track runway to show off all their beauty. I never get tired of looking at them.
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The E's and F's are the most handsome faced diesel locomotives ever built, IMO. Especially that Burlington Route E5, holy smokes!! Clad in stainless steel with that angled nose, takes my breath away every time.
Absolutely right! It just screams "look at me" I am the REAL streamliner and don't you forget it! Used to run my legs off down to the 3 track mainline in Hinsdale, Il, to watch the Zephyr's fly by and I do mean fly! Great memories!
It is a sight to behold! Love it for the same reasons, striking looks! A lot of them also have very stylish paint jobs too!
Hey let's not forget the champion
Yeah and with a zephyr set preserved its so nice
Agree
This video is just excellent, lots of lovely classic locomotives. Sitting watching this in the UK. 🏴 👍
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This is simply one of the most bad ass railroad videos I have ever seen! Thank you for sharing this!
Azka😎😍😭😓
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Beautiful! The PRR was just breathtaking!
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Well done and great job old girls; for years of service and still going! Big thanks to those whose hard work and donations help to make this happen!!
with people like you, these will never die!
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These streamlined engines had class and individualism. Nothing like the no style and bland engines we see today. My father worked for the C&O for 45 years so I was thrilled to see the C&O engine. Wish I could have seen it in motion, but no complaints here! Thank you so much for sharing this preservation.
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It is great to know we still have these locomotives!! And in running condition 😎😍😎
they're running but not working. australian equivalents are still getting flogged in victoria australia.
@@vsvnrg3263 guy hu
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@@vsvnrg3263 I kinda disagree. A lot of these are still moving passenger trains at Tourist or preservation lines, The NS ones also were doing the OCS trains on NS
@@NishnaValleyRailVideos , i'm just stirring you up. its a good thing that they still exist and still get used. in the south east states of australia the australian equivalents are still getting flogged, doing what they were designed for - notch 8. notch 8 daily.
My goodness! What beautiful, mesmerizing machines! A true testament to man's skill and ingenuity. Wonderful filmography/production as well. Thank you for this!
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Outstanding! What a beautifully shot and well-compiled video showing the early years of the locomotive. It's amazing that these have all been preserved and looking pristine. Using the turntable was like the railroad version of a cat-walk.
It doesn't get much better than that. Glad you enjoyed
a seriously impressive array of massive machinery.
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They sure don't make them like they used to.
Nothing is made with any class these days.
This is just plain fun, and thanks for sharing it! Good lord, all these historic locos look so shiny and healthy, it's a joy to see and hear them running!
Can you imagine using one on your job, better yet getting paid!
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EMD E and F series .. I love them . So classy and always will be
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Wow, absolutely beautiful diesel locos. Excellent presentation. Greetings from me and Germany.
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Beautiful... neatly placed and restored... just so beautiful...
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A magnificent display. It's one thing to see the beautiful paint schemes from the glory days of railroads but to actually see them move under their own power is just plain awesome. I know the video has been around for awhile and I may have even seen it before when it was first uploaded, so I may be repeating myself here. When I clicked on this I figured most of these have to be cosmetic retorations. Watching them work is quite a thrill for a train nerd!!
It would be a pleasure if I could just walk around these beautiful machines but I didn’t see The Santa Fe F-9 !
WHO can actually DISLIKE this???
Idiots who try to get attention.
Its possible to enthuse over diesel and steam . Or tin cans and living breathing locos.
TheBrickGuy7939 Environmentalists who don’t appreciate our history.
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Now I understand the term “rail porn”. This Dynamo Productions video is gorgeous and waaaay too enjoyable. 5 Stars, 10, A+ - none do it justice.
Danny McCarty what a great collection of history, I enjoyed this clip, best yet.
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I found the Pan Am Streamliner parked on a siding in Westford Mass. last fall. I took a bunch of pictures. This train was from my childhood and I was thrilled. It is (was) pristine.
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Great video! Good show! The Burlington Silver Pilot is the epitome of the streamlining era. The different horns and whistles were a special treat. Hope they plan to put on this event every year.
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That Burlington E5 is just beautiful!
Thanks for the footage giving us an almost 360 degree view of these wonderful workhorses all decked out and looking fine.
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Totally agree. They are really handsome looking beasts. I love the colourful liveries of all the different companies.
Man, I always loved the sleek look of the Streamliners
These beautiful ladies will live on to show future generations the halcyon days of elegant passenger service in North America. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
So envious of anyone who was there to witness this incredible pageant. Overcast skies were actually the best lighting to bring out the rich colors and you did a great job capturing these magnificent beauties. Wish I was there.
Thanks
Hard to believe these are old trains. What a timeless design on the E's and F's -- all of them for that matter..
Diesels kind of peaked with the streamlined design
As much as I love the steam engines I really love the classic streamliners!
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What a collection of power and beauty! When trains looked like art deco.
Couldn't agree more
That was just wonderful. Like a real life Lionel train collection on display. Marvelous! 😃👍🏾
The E5, epitome of the locomotive builders art
My goodness, the amount of work and money that has gone into restoring and preserving these trains had and has to be enormous, thank you.
It was an incredible display and we’re glad that people are enjoying it shown here
Wow!!! After watching this fabulous video of stunning diesel-electric locomotives, I feel so happy and grateful that I am the proud owner of three Overland Models HO scale brass F-unit A-B-A trainsets and 1 factory painted HO brass F-unit A-B trainset, also from Overland Models. Someday, I'll get, at least, one of the 3 F-unit A-B-A trainsets painted. Not all of the them. The painted F-unit trainset in the A-B formation is adorned in the famous AT&SF red and silver warbonnet paint scheme and looks absolutely beautiful. I plan to add more HO brass F-units, from Overland Models, to my growing HO scale brass engine and rolling stock collection. 😊 I truly enjoyed this video, and I will watch it again and again and again. 👏😁 I also want to add, your cinematography is excellent! 👍 📽️ 📸
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Every single engine in this video looks stunning and Epic. Thank you very much for sharing this.
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I attended this event and I was absolutely floored that I was fortunate enough to see so many historic units in one place. I was doubly astounded that an Alco PA managed to come back from the grave in time to make the event.
It was certainly one of the most memorable events I've been to
@@DynamoProductions-trains I attended this and the heritage unit event. Both were well put-together and I saw paint schemes in motion that I thought I would only see in my dreams.
This must have been an amazing experience. Thank you for sharing!
This was a once in a lifetime opportunity, nothing quite like it
Turntable is kind of a CATWALK for Beautiful Engines.
Love these old F and E locos ! So beautiful.
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I always liked the Alco carbody models better. The Nickel Plate 190 (Alco PA) is one of my all time favorites, partly due to its history. It never powered a Nickel Plate route AFAIK.
It’s a Santa Fe PA.
I feel like a lot of people tend to forget this happened. A real shame, it has to have been one of the greatest locomotive gatherings of the 2010’s!
Beautiful streamliner's, great video, thanks much...
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Thank you for helping to preserve this historic legacy.
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It’s great to see these locomotives still on the rails
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It is a shame that they do not have one of the premier F7's, the beautifully colored Southern Pacific Daylight locomotives.
Yes, the Daylight should have been here.
Scheduling commitments. A lot of effort went into getting the Alco PA
Didn't know there were any Alco PAs left. Unforgetable, as a little kid, hearing the whine of those engines out of the station 3 blocks north past my grandma's house (about 75' from the tracks). E units were OK, but that long hood in Santa Fe warbonnet and the sound of them accelerating was just AWESOME. A-B or A-B-A on the way to San Diego. Thanks for this. UNFORGETABLE: Late in the Korean War, about 2AM, I was awoke by the the RARE sound of a loud steam whistles, and looked out the window in awe, as 3 HUGE Santa Fe steam engines roared by, hauling a military train bound for San Diego - endless flat cars loaded with tanks, cannons, and other military vehicles, plus box cars, I assume, that were laden with ammo/small arms. Another helper was cut in 3/4 back in the LONG consist. I was only 5+, but I think they were 2-10-4s. Then, very close behind, came the blair of the horns from 4 ALCO PA/PB units hauling a long troop train of old heavy weight passenger cars. Don't know how I ever got back to sleep.
Comments like this are what make posting these videos worthwhile, thanks
these machines are beautiful
an alco fpa and the one of the 2 surviving alco pa wow how lucky to see the alco pa and other e and f units :D
I was there at this event and I will have to say it was a spectacular show !!
Agreed, easily one of the most impressive events I've done
Great train video. A lot of old trains in one spot.. thank you so much.
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The Silver Pilot. The most beautiful locomotive ever
Totally agree! A classic!
Agreed
Beautiful collection (if only for a few days). I'd never seen the Erie paint scheme like that before. And my favorite scheme was at 10:42 - B&O passenger blue & gray. :-)
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Look at those pretty Alcos!
It doesn't get much better than that
A polished out Burlington E-5. Absolutely stunning.
Agreed
Beautiful..just beautiful. the signt of the Crescent lokey makes me want to whistle Dixie !
I’m so glad that I can never forget those hang bars on top of that prr emd e unit.
No disrespect to the NS Heritage Fleet, but this Streamliner Lineup was SO much better!
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These F units are beautiful
Agreed
That E8 515 ran our Batesville, Mississippi to Pope, Mississippi "Christmas Train". Last year though the coaches derailed, the engine was much less intact and fine, still on the rails. Grenada railway had to cancel all preceding Christmas trains on their track, so 812 returned home. It was nice seeing you every year and hope to see you again 812!
What an event! Nice of the weather to cooperate to culminate the spectacular logistics, planning and magnificent confluence of these beautifully preserved representatives of the age of the streamliners. So many classic roads represented with fabulous livery. Hats off to all who worked to make this happen, and document and upload!
It was one of the most impressive events I've been to. A gathering like this doesn't happen often, and is starting to feel like it won't happen again
Wow, what a treat! Such an awesome gathering of beautiful and historic machines. Reminds me of an air show where so many classic airplanes are brought together. Can only imagine how many skilled and dedicated folks there are keeping these running so well. And, kudos to the organizers of the event- how in the heck do you get all these engines together at once!? Thanks for posting this.
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I always loved that style of locomotive.thaxx 4 the upload.
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America the beautiful... beautiful livery of historic railroads.
They have never built a better looking locomotive than these
The way to go is with Dynamo! I really like the N&W 611, but here she seemed out of place, since the emphasis was on Diesel Streamliners...
I was glad it was there, since an event called Streamliners, meaning "passenger trains" would be incomplete without an example of a streamlined steam engine. I was worried that 611 would end up hogging the spotlight meant for diesels, but it was thankfully downplayed
It would not have been if it had been steamed up! Guess I'm one of those "obsessive types" that likes to group things in minute categories- Steam Streamliners, Electric Streamliners, Diesel Streamliners. Drive myself crazy sometimes.
The streamliners started and got their fame with steam locos with great shrouding. The diesels just inherited those name trains and since streamlining was a hot thing they obviously needed to be to be considered fit to pull passenger trains at the time.
I thought the first streamliner was a diesel? The Zephyrs?
Maravilhoso !!! Adoro essa design streamliner das locomotivas !! Semelhantes as GE EP4 elétricas !!! 🇧🇷
An air whistle on the FL9! Amazing!
All these gorgeous engine's. Really impressive. I like Union Pacific
the best. But all of them were great!!
I would say the Pennsylvania and the Burlington route. The Union Pacific is nice, but I LOVE the stainless shiny steel and the streamlined front of the Burlington one.
Being from Omaha, I'm partial to UP too. Several family members worked for UP. I think they are all beautiful. The F's and E's will always be my favorites.
I live near Spencer now so I try to getup there at least twice a year, it never gets old.
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I never liked the extreme angle on the early E’s.
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70 years ago the old-timers considered such beauties intruders into the rightful domain of Steam. They would have scoffed at the idea that diesels could ever be objects of nostalgia. How wrong they would have been.
Agreed, the covered wagons have earned a place of respect just like steam engines have
The Streamliners are Art Deco masterpieces !
Agreed
Best train set ever...thanx.
611 was not fully restored then, so they didn’t put it under steam.
611 has been operational since the 80s I believe
It was brought down for the event from the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Immediately after this event, it went into NCTM for rebuild.
Wonderful video. Atlantic Coast Line went through Florence when I was growing up. Good to see that one and all the beautiful engines.
Amazing collection!
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Spec effin’ tacular!
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A bit different than UK diesels.
I moved to Australia 48 years ago, we have many similar diesels, emds Goodwin AlCO.
Only America could come up with such a magnificent collection of heritage diesels?
A feast of colour, some beautiful liveries indeed.
I would love to have been there.
Very nice diesels 👍 the looks are way better than the modern loco,s
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That's an impressive collection. The F and E units always looked sharp.
Agreed
That they're all gorgeous but like most of you said, that E5 is in a class by itself - it's from the age when people wore tuxedo's and gowns for a night out- if a train could be said to be wearing a tuxedo - it's that Zephyr.
If you've seen the video's of the inside of the cabs they're a little disappointing. I would design the interior to look as sharp as the exterior.
Awesome. How the 'F' do you thumbs down this?
Aussie Rob because those people weren't there to see it
because there are unhappy people trolling the internet just looking around to upset people. they need to get a better attitude to life. this is not a perfect world. i need to add, before i worked out how the like and dislike buttons work i accidentally disliked something. i had to work out what i had done and then work out how to reverse it. i may have accidentally liked or disliked other videos prior to this without realising it. sloppy cursor work. i make a point of never "disliking" anything intentionally.
@@mattbrinson9950 Exactly!
@@vsvnrg3263 Exactly!
People who don't understand the value in anything historical...ignorance really.
Shalom friends. Nice video. Excelent from beginning to end. Thanks for sharing.
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WOW!
A great, great video....
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I once saw the Southern Crescent headed by classic Southern Railways colors in Wilmington, Delaware once. A huge storm of very fine snow driven by heavy winds had laid up all the GG1s.
Outstanding video, what a awesome day for you. All of the engines are beautiful: I couldn't pick just one as my favorite! Thank you for sharing this wonderful event.
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This video was a very nice piece of work!
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I am sure that as a kid I saw many PRR diesels just like the one in this video. Thanks for posting.
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Earlier I posted the question of why the old locomotives had portholes in them. At first I thought loco's had extra rooms in them, which they don't. But I saw a fillm of the interior of one, and it turns out that they have hallways in them, that are lined with machinery, but for some reason are not lighted. The portholes, it appears, are the only sources of light that allows the crews to operate the engines and generators and such, and well as giving them access to rear doors that many of the old loco's had, far behind the cabs.
Marvellous! Thanks a million for uploading!
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Beautiful Job!
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These are so beautiful , they take my breath away.
Those engines had style. They were before their time.
Beautiful colors I love these F3s . How nice is to see them so we'll restored
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These streamlined diesel locomotives and J class #611 are beautiful. The C&O F3 is actually Clinchfield #800 just in C&O paint scheme and a different number #8016. These streamliners are old but still looking mighty fine.
Short lived engineering marvels. Thanks for preserving these classic machines. Well done.
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I'm not sure what it is about those old E-units that's so appealing. The newer diesels are so utilitarian in comparison.
The Pennsy E8😍😍😍
I live in Southern California, the tourist railroads we have down here aren't nearly as big, minus the State Railroad Museum but I haven't bee there is over 10 years. This transportation museum looks awesome!
AWESOME !!! I loved it. I'll be back and Thumbs UP!
Pete Linster Thanks! Check out our channel and subscribe for more railroading videos if you're interested, there certainly are plenty on there!
like wise here in Texas