This crossed my Facebook news feed this morning, and is quite enjoyable. It is available in 720p, so I would suggest you expand this to full screen and make sure the "HD" button is lit up.
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I enjoyed this video of 4501. Well done video!
That is one of the finest steam railroad videos I have ever seen. The research and writing that went into this production is astounding.
VERY well done.
Being in the television / video business, I tend to analyze a video for quality issues such as bad edits, audio pops and similar things that most people wouldn't see or hear. I watched this video last nite, online, sitting in front of my computer in a not so comfy chair. I didn't leave that chair for the entire duration of the video!! That's how well done it is. The story flows, keeps your attention and the production values and quality are top notch. I watched it again this morning...that's how well done this video is!
Totally agree, Dave. A tremendous amount of work went into producing this video. And that work was done by a group of video production pros who really know what they're doing.
I just watched this a few hours ago and was really impressed with what I saw as well. I have never seen many pictures/videos of 4501 pre-1966. Very well done program on this great steam locomotive!
What an exceptional video, this is something I will watch again and a again.
I actually ran across the video on youtube today quite by accident. A tremendous amount of luck for such an old engine to fair. The entire video had me glued. I wonder if it has been ever modeled in its black paint scheme, or even its original design before being transformed by the USRA upgrades?
Just watched the great documentary by TVRR on 4501. As a past member of TVRM and sometime volunteer
(we moved away a few years ago), I remember her well and this brought back a lot of memories. Cudos to
NS for helping in what may be the final restoration of this beautiful locomotive and putting her back on the rails once again. TVRM is a fine organization and dedicated to keeping steam alive and past railroad history for younger generations.
Dan
Rich said it best! My family and I were both participants and volunteers on many of those excursions between 1974-1994. I personally knew the following gentlemen: Bob & Robert M. Soule, Paul Merriman, Randall & Steven Freer, George Walker, Bill & Sara Purdy, Jim Bistline, Robert & Graham Claytor, Grady Ragan, Paul Brock, Tim Andrews and many others over the course of 20 years. I was a qualified TVRM fireman and have fired 630 and 722 . TVRM folks are the GREATEST! Southern Railway and Norfolk Southern were also great sponsors of STEAM! :-)
4501 fans should also read David Morgan's book about this engine, and Steam's Camelot by Jim Wrinn about the Southern and NS steam program.
Dave: Thanx for "finding" this video and putting it back on the forum. I missed it last year when it was shown here but watched the whole thing just now. Very well done! My first exposure to the #4501 was back in the late 1960's when it ran some excursions in Northern Illinois. And then one of the greatest memories was riding behind it on the Circus train from Baraboo to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Talk about bringing crowds out to see it, there had to be 50,000 people viewing the train on that trip!
Hope to see her again, under steam, one of these days.
Paul Fischer
You were very lucky to ride on that circus train! :-)
