This is very good viewing I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foAtqmDpAQ0
Bob
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Wonderful video. I love the sight and sound of double headed steam locomotives.
The Stantier "Black 5" 4-6-0, Michael Palin's favourite steam engine (as per Great Railway Journeys of the World).
Stuart
One of my favorite videos..the high speed passes, the wonderful sound..
Nice sharp bark, the engines are beautiful, and it sure looks and sounds like the men on the throttle know what their doing.
Ed
Wow! Rugged scenery, cold weather, fluffy white steam, pretty much captures why us folks love steam locomotives. Prompted a thought - in the last 50 years of North American steam operation, was there ever a situation where double-headed ten-wheelers handled a long, mainline passenger train? Long Island RR? Southern Pacific?
I'm impressed. I'll buy a round for both engine crews.
Very impressive video.Thanks for posting it!
What the heck - - - I'll answer my own question ! The Southern Pacific ran a fan trip on on Oct 17th, 1954 with Ten Wheelers's #'s 2335 and 2350 (with auxiliary water cars for each !) in California; don't know the from/to locations. The Canadian Pacific ran double headed Ten Wheelers, #'s 1092 and 1098, on an NRHS Buffalo Chapter trip on/or about July 17th 1959, to Orangeville, ONT. This amazing trip also featured two GP's, double headed Mikados and, for a fast run back to Toronto, double headed Pacifics. Then, the CPR ran the famous triple headed May 1st, 1960 trip, with 4-4-0 #136 and 4-6-0's #'s 815 and 1057.
Hot Water should like this one, I think they only blew the whistle one time, coming out of the tunnel. Sure makes it fun to listen to the chuff. One other thing, the high speed pass at around 3 minutes was awesome, wonder what the speed was.
Ed
Ed Mullan posted:Hot Water should like this one, I think they only blew the whistle one time, coming out of the tunnel. Sure makes it fun to listen to the chuff. One other thing, the high speed pass at around 3 minutes was awesome, wonder what the speed was.
Ed
You are indeed correct, Ed. Although those British, as well as the German, whistles are very nice sounding, luckily the whistles are used VERY sparingly. Thus, the exhaust music, is spectacular. Concerning speeds, if I'm not mistaken any/all of the steam locomotives in the United Kingdom that are "certified" for main line service, MUST prove themselves to be trouble free at sustained speeds of 60, 70, and 80 PMH on passenger-free "qualification trains". After becoming "certified", their excursion trains MUST "keep up with the traffic"!
Also worthy of note is that excellent railfan apartment on the second or third floor of the "tunnel house". On the other hand if you hate trains it could probably make someone go crazy...
