Railroad Video

[jbsmith]

Here is something you do not see everyday, a CSX train hauling what appears to be railroad rails.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evusDw5IWLg


Post your own finds here!

[jbsmith]

*****56k dial up alert****
Cable or DSL users should be OK on this one.

My personal favorite train video on You Tube.

Pere Marquette 1225 and Nickel Plate Road 765.

Best seen in 720p resolution, full screen, if your video card and monitor can handle it.

Lots of great shots and sound, the makers of the video really did a 1st Class Job.
There is even a turntable scene, the Berkshire just fits, and the night time run by is awesome too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXJ9eKwYSpU&hd=1

[jbsmith]

One more for tonight

Southern Pacific 4449 and Union Pacific 844 run by, and some Union Pacific diesels meet.
kind of an interesting Past meets the pressent theme in this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt8S5DIzDmo

[Doneldon]

jb -

Big steam in revenue service.  Be still my beating heart.  Thank you profusely.

                                                                    -- D

[jbsmith]

******************SHAY ALERT!***********

This is for our SHAY fans!  Looks like one to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjKTVzv4hio

[pdlethbridge]

JB, I wonder if the rail came from Atlas or micro engineering?

[J3a-614]

Jonathan will cry, "Too much input!"  In reality, this is an embarassment of riches here!

We'll start with those Shays at Cass, West Virginia, operated by the State Park System; No. 5 (which shows up in the double header sequence) is unusual in having been at Cass for all the operators there since 1905.  It is also the protoype for Bachmann's HO model. 

At least one other commentator on Railway Preservation News noted that most of the employees at Cass look to be these thin, wiry guys.  The clips of the fireman in the cab help to explain why this is so.

This Cass clip is neat because it shows something of how steep this railroad is, and take note of the grease trail on one side of the track from the shaft and gears of the Shays:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DC4tpQll48&feature=related

One of the neat things about this clip at Cass is the restart at Oats Run tank at 5:00; this is a routine start on this railroad, on an 8% grade!  Cass averages 5%, has several stretches of 7% or more, two stretches of 11%, and at one time had a section of 13%.  Sometimes even this was not enough; the road still has two switchbacks, and curves of up to 40 degrees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDJkzW7ligQ

Some of the view at the top:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xGgnVxp9sQ&feature=related

Cass Scenic started out with three inherited locomotives from Mower Lumber; No. 1 (now in the B&O Museum, and Nos. 4 and 5.  Here, these two Mower veterans are at work together, as WM 6 was out of service that day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGHWJkdrqCE

It is tough, very, very tough, to outclass Cass.  If there is one road that can do it, I nominate it to be the East Broad Top for its really old and authentic atmosphere:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5dNa7K9aUY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFC_9szfA5c

Among the more unusual equipment on the EBT is its narrow-gauge Brill doodlebug, the M-1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sef7hUOjDXY&feature=related

In common with many standard gauge counterparts, the operator on the M-1 shares his space with the main engine; it's noisy in there, and at least one operator from this road is as deaf as a stone today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzr0xw1WiTI&NR=1

The EBT has a fleet of speeders, some of which are still used in track maintenance.  The ones I've ridden on didn't have much in the way of springs; they are a first-class adventure, particularly the Flying Devil, which not only lacks springs, but nothing at all to hang on to, like a handgrab or railing, and with the flywheel of its hit-and-miss engine right in front of your knees:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgsIMlysWYk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8kpj53hWg4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtdskHoZkdU&feature=related

Some other clips featuring the NKP's 765:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d550S68EpBw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3L0I6sJ_cU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkbdsuQ1PMU&feature=related

You've seen these before, but I can't leave out my personal favorite, a Chesapeake & Ohio J-3a numbered 614:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rmKYGEicP4

New River footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-8xMA7JjjA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIS3DM-5Usk&feature=related

Articulated action on the Norfolk & Western:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV8rA3UE-lc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF-6FKD0pr0&feature=related

As we go back in time, we will work in a few public relation films, some of which are about half an hour or so; among them is this one on the New Haven, with what I consider a wonderful opening sequence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_ltuSo9-Y

My favorite line out of this Norfolk & Western film is an "employee" narrator who states, "Coal is the fuel we use--and like."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mXo_ya-kAE

Somehow the PR films from the AAR in the 1940s, including this WW II vintage film, have a wonderful "America the Beautiful" feel, even in the middle of a war:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX5ydugXsJg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeiEMK4bnIY

SP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM2VzVtEOWg

We go abroad now, to China and India.  Why?  I see in these clips the way we used to be just over 100 years ago; I see my father and both my grandfathers in the Chinese miner in the second clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwd6Ra6mDzU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KLvVk37CbQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZdgPYT7AGU&feature=related

Industrial clay hauler for a bricworks in China; a translation of the boss from the second clip might be interesting, but I wonder if it would belong on a family-friendly forum, which this is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p53mEpq-vCc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3aie80dXqk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXp8Kyzf1ls&feature=related

Coal road in India:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEikzycEJ3k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frh3PHnGFO0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-rnblPaPrk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYArdE4CAGo&feature=related

Back to China, logging:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k7i9pvNjIk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtQr_CJ6qdM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZh9-VRF4s&feature=related

The recollections of old-timers are invaluable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKnDZSP1mo&feature=related

Diesel era logger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMRapBFp5IA&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ARQZrq5-Dk&feature=channel

Something you think you shouldn't be seeing--SP freight action with 4-8-0s in 1898!  This is followed by other clips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKnko3mBhWE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMQIBTC8mkE&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGOedTV5RDE&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mCxbvzGrDY&feature=channel

I wonder how good this one is; the preview looks interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUEHG6zx7aY&feature=related

Whew!  Too much output!  Hope you enjoy all this anyway!

[J3a-614]

A little arty, and it's French, but music is a classical piece, and it's interesting to watch the wheels groove through switches and the workings of Walscharts valve gear set up to work poppet valves on these compound 4-6-2s, or, as the French would classify them by axles, 231s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw-DukkgAmk

[jonathan]

Finally got a chance to view the videos.  Is it any wonder we love old trains so much?

Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Jonathan