12 steam engines running together. Notice I didn't use the "L" word.
http://www.wimp.com/locomotiveparade/
Don
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12 steam engines running together. Notice I didn't use the "L" word.
http://www.wimp.com/locomotiveparade/
Don
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Now, that is one major league lash-up ()!
Impressive.
Thanks, Don, for that great steam "fix"!
Very cool, thanks for posting
dave
Very cool video.
Thanks
Neat, too bad we can't get that in our country!
Me and my youngest daughter just watched it. She then told me that "now I know why you like trains" since that clip was in Poland. I just have to love her!
Now THAT is a lot of steam!!!!!!!
Rick
Wow...Thanks Don, that was one great video.
Neat, too bad we can't get that in our country!
It's a lot slower....and not 12 but more like 6.....but this weekend at Cass WV you can get dang close! They have a 'race' among the geared locos thats pretty neat!
Don, did you copy this to Mike Wolfe perchance?
That first steamer was especially handsome...
Oh wow! The locos look beautiful, too. What a treat to see. The most I've ever seen steaming was five, at Scranton Steamtown's grand opening, and they weren't together.
Neat, too bad we can't get that in our country!
So, you didn't make to the various California State Railroad Museum Rail Fairs?
Any question on why most people love steam so much?
Very cool Don, thanks.
I've always considered myself lucky to have spent some time in southern Japan in the 1969-71 time frame when steam was still active on some JNR lines. The station and roundhouse people were always friendly and I got some great pics. Exactly where they are amongst all my stuff I'm not sure, but I'd like to find them so I can get 'em put on a CD.
Good thing the EPA wasn't watching!!! (LOL)
I've seen several other videos from that festival. I missed attending one about like it by two days while on a business trip a number of years ago - but no amount of finagling my schedule could not make it work. It must be a fantastic sight, sound, and "feel" to the air.
Neat, too bad we can't get that in our country!
It's a lot slower....and not 12 but more like 6.....but this weekend at Cass WV you can get dang close! They have a 'race' among the geared locos thats pretty neat!
Slow is ok...hope someone can nail down a vid of it..
Neat, too bad we can't get that in our country!
So, you didn't make to the various California State Railroad Museum Rail Fairs?
No, been to california as a kid, saw the cable cars run, the redwoods and alot of the beaches up highway 1...but nothing like that. Locally, we've gone to IRM and rode the thomas train{not real} and rode a few other engines{real ones}...saw the freedom train here in otwn eons ago as well as the last steamer roughly 12yra ago that ran thru town...but that's it.
The "last steamer" through the Chicago area was SP 4449 in June of 2009, while enroute to Michigan for Train Festival.
Very impressive indeed!
Thanks for posting this Don. That is quite a lineup of steam power. You have made my day.
That was cool. All polished up and looking beautiful.
Thanks Don.
That was a most impressive lash up. And synchronized whistles too!
The last one looked like a Dummy though....
Well, one reason that we "can't get that in our country" is that European railways were
government-owned (originally or eventually), and had a much more responsible attitude toward preserving a bit of what was done and where it came from. And there is a culture
that expects it.
Here? Hah. Everything's always been for sale. Everything. No buyer? Junk it. "That's
progress." Hah. That's destruction.
Not really. Thanks to the former "planned" economy, most of those were still found on Polish revenue lines well into the 80s and early 90s. Lot easier to save something thats still in service and maintained.
Ask someone in Great Britian sometime how its possible that None of the 100 or so battleships built in the Late 19th/ 20th century were perserved? The only capitol ship present at the surrender of the High Seas Fleet in 1918, that still exists, is the USS Texas. None of the great ships of WW2, other than a single light cruiser, was saved either. Thats history lost, and thats sad.
Frankly, in the 20 or so years following WW2, no one anywhere was interested in saving history, wanting just to forget it, and its artifacts. American steam fell into that period. Sic transit gloria . . .
None of the great ships of WW2, other than a single light cruiser, was saved either. Thats history lost, and thats sad.
How do you explain the Iowa, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and the Missouri?
Ah, you miss the point about asking some one in GREAT BRITIAN? Legendary ships like Warspite, Rodney, King George V, Duke of York, Renown, Invincible . . .
Which of course, makes my point. THe US saved these ships, as well as the Alabama and North Carolina. The 4 Iowa class came up for preservation in the 1990s, and were eagerly aquired. In the 1940s and 50s, ships and locomotives all over the world were scrapped left and right because no one at THAT time was interested.
I like a train run by except for the whistles. They drown out the sounds I like to hear. : the chuffing, the clanking of side rods, the wheels on the rails etc.
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Dennis
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