No aficionado here, but engines, especially steam, always intrigued me. This video is well worth a watch if big steam engines capture your heart like they do me.
Just Love Steam Trains
- Thread starter Terry Cox
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Amazing.
Especially impressive in that Winter air.
My great grandfather was an engineer out of Chicago before and during the Depression.
-Will (Dragonfly)
Especially impressive in that Winter air.
My great grandfather was an engineer out of Chicago before and during the Depression.
-Will (Dragonfly)
@Will Gilmore
Thank you sir. Enjoyed them. @Meriachee will enjoy this as well. Thank you for sharing. On my bucket list is to ride the train over the Himalayas which is pressurized and beautiful. First will be across Canada first. You all take care
Thank you sir. Enjoyed them. @Meriachee will enjoy this as well. Thank you for sharing. On my bucket list is to ride the train over the Himalayas which is pressurized and beautiful. First will be across Canada first. You all take care
Those remind me of the Lionel model train I played with when young. I’ve loved steam locomotives ever since. Now I paint them.
coal fired, steam engines, were around on the great lakes in the 70's . i sailed many years on S.S. vessels both up and downers and turbine. yep, all the pipes were wrapped in asbestos and painted with lead paint. old school
terry, your video has that engine being pushed by diesel engines. she has enough steam to blow the whistle but not much else. california prolly won't allow the pollution to wind that baby up. even with it burning oil vrs. coal
fun thing about steam power is you get 100% horse power as fast as you open the steam valve. there is no 'wind up' like a gas engine. also there is no combustion in the engine so everything is super clean.
the fire box ain't the engine Will. operating a steam locomotive is pollution big time.
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Pride of the Norfolk and Western Railway, Roanoke East End shops, the J-Class 611. World’s fastest steam locomotive since 1950:
Got to learn a good bit about them while working on national boiler code stuff .. I was surprised to find so much detail in the code books.. Very cool machines.. We had a few good sized steam driven piston pumps form the 40's that were still in operation .. they were fun to work with and were very much like the big drivers for locomotives..
@Gunni
Live 50 minutes from the N & W 611. As a sailboat dealer locally, I was asked to travel to a sailboat to repair it owned by Bob Clayton who was big Cheese for NS. Bill was substantial. Quietly, I got to sit in the engineer’s seat with a train attached driving it with the Engineer behind me telling me what to do as payment for working on the sailboat. I can tell you what an experience that was. Glad the federal boys were not around. Lost the photos of me driving but it was a dream come true.
Dave Condon
Live 50 minutes from the N & W 611. As a sailboat dealer locally, I was asked to travel to a sailboat to repair it owned by Bob Clayton who was big Cheese for NS. Bill was substantial. Quietly, I got to sit in the engineer’s seat with a train attached driving it with the Engineer behind me telling me what to do as payment for working on the sailboat. I can tell you what an experience that was. Glad the federal boys were not around. Lost the photos of me driving but it was a dream come true.
Dave Condon
Hi Jon, in reading the article the steamer was the engine pulling, the diesel was there to supply electricity to the coaches as well as dynamic braking.
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Best to begin the trip soon Crazy Dave. Time waits for no man...