Fast paced compilation of U.K steam running at speed. I could do without the techno mix yet I did enjoy it, so I thought I would share this find. The in cab shot at 2:56 looks as they were sitting in the nose cone of a steam powered missile. Brakes, what brakes?..applying them at that speed would seem naive.
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Some great video there, they were really moving. I saw the 614 in there also....very nice.
Its amazing the rods don't fly off of the wheels...especially when they're run like postwar Lionel. This ones silly at :54.
I could do without the techno mix...
I could only handle about 20 seconds of that silly audio, then it was all over for me.
I moved on...
NIce medley of fast steamers
Thank you
>>>Its amazing the rods don't fly off of the wheels...especially when they're run like postwar Lionel.<<
When I see films like that with all that linkage spinning, it amazes me too..
Often wondered which American RR ran the fastest steamers on a normal scheduled route? I once read it was the MR but I'm not sure..
Joe
Philadelphia & Reading Boardwalk Flyers between Camden and Atlantic City were the fastest regularly scheduled trains in the world in the 1890's. Camelback 4-4-2 No. 1027 ran so fast that the Pennsy built Camelback E-1 4-4-2's with European three-axle tenders for the competing route to the shore. These locomotives led to the E-6 Atlantics.
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