I can remember when the AT&SF was still running steam in the 50s...everything about them was awesome...the noise, the smell and the way the ground shook when they came around the curve outside of town running flat out...
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There's a pretty good one about the NYC water line with period footage. Apparently, the models with balanced running gear and pin bearings were made to run in sustained excess of 80mph.
The old yard in Cheyenne has an excellent museum. A video I watched there showed the old multi acre inclosed shop. It said anything required to service the old engines could be made from scratch at that shop.
Once Upon A Town by Bob Greene Chronicals a station at North Platte NE during WWII.. A volunteer canteen was run there for soldiers in transit. It said most all troops passed through there. It was an excellent read. Id like a closer look at the old depot there.
For anyone interested. There's a video of a train called The Flying Scotsman doing 100mph that can be found on youtube. Its spectacular.
If it's the one I saw, the description below the video pretty much say it's what "The Flying Scotsman" would look like IF it was doing 100 mph. I take that to mean he's computer edited it to make it appear to be going that fast
"Just a little bit of fun. Did a couple of (rough) calculations and worked out that this is how 'Flying Scotsman' would be like, if she was doing 100mph in steam days. "
Its this one.
Either my screen is too small to see all of content or I don't know how to correctly youtube? It looked real on my little phone.
Some of the content Ive been viewing said that various commuter lines had to have trains capable of 80 mph to keep rail schedules. Some of the period footage is really cool!
Nice! The tunnel scene reminded me of this one (diesel, not steam):
(Watch to the end)
That smoke rolling out the tunnel is something that was a problem back in the steam powered days. Being as I sometimes hunted in places not accessed by the general public I saw how they handled that back in the 1800s. TN has a lot of railroad tunnels in some places only accessible by some hard hiking in the hills. A lot of those hills the tunnels go through have one or more vertical shafts that were made to get the smoke out of the tunnel and not asphyxiate the passengers on the train. Most I saw were 8 feet square or larger, and they didn't have any railings around them to keep you from falling down the shaft. I guess people weren't stupid back then like they are now.
Anyway, if you know where any RR tunnels go through hills, it's worth a hike and a look to see if any of these vertical air shafts exist if for no other reason than to see them and the workmanship involved in building them.
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For anyone interested. There's a video of a train called The Flying Scotsman doing 100mph that can be found on youtube. Its spectacular.
The old yard in Cheyenne has an excellent museum. A video I watched there showed the old multi acre
inclosed shop. It said anything required to service the old engines could be made from scratch at that shop.
Once Upon A Town by Bob Greene Chronicals a station at North Platte NE during WWII.. A volunteer canteen was run there for soldiers in transit. It said most all troops passed through there. It was an excellent read. Id like a closer look at the old depot there.
Either my screen is too small to see all of content or I don't know how to correctly youtube? It looked real on my little phone.
That text don't show on my screen. Ill have to double check some of this stuff with my son. He can tell better than me when its real or memorex.
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