Nice train video

Talk about air pollution!!

Very nice. Any information as to when and where that was?

That's a great video Chuck! and the sound is fantastic, even from a distance. Did you use a special mic?

 

Emile

That's Helmstetter's Curve on the Western Maryland Scenic RR.  According to the video on YouTube, this was December 1989.  The locomotive was former CP 4-6-2 #1238, owned by Jack Showalter and lettered "Allegheny Central".

Thanks for posting the video as it brought back good memories for me. The 1238 and two sisters, the 1278 and 1286, were my introduction to mainline steam railroading in the late 60s when Ross Rowland's High Iron Company ran many passenger specials with these locomotives in the Northeast. The 1278, repainted and renumbered as the Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern 127, was part of Nelson Blount's Steamtown collection and I believe the 1238 and 1286 were owned by George Hart at the time. The Canadian Pacific G-5s performed well on a consistent basis and I recall crewmen, many of whom had worked with steam power of the home roads just 10-15 years earlier, speaking very highly of them. I've attached several images of them in excursion service during that era. The photos of the 127 were taken at stop for a runby on the return trip to Elizabeth and Jersey City from Jim Thorpe on the CNJ in '66. Note the 127 had been modified with an Elesco feedwater heater after its inclusion in the Steamtown collection. I believe Mr. Rowland was once quoted as saying the 127 was the best engine he ever ran.

 

Bob

  

I did not record this , someone just shared it on facebook and I shared it here.

Bob

Thanks for posting. Ive taken the Steamtown excursion some years ago out of Scranton Pa. Nice ride and plenty photo op as they reposition the engine for the return trip

Steve

Very cool!

 

Peter

That was a good video...thnx.