Welcome back big Jim we all thought you retired but it's great to see you still doing videos. Wilmington and western railroad #58 will be pulling the July 4th train this year and 98 will be running the fall excursions train of this year. Great video.
Doesn’t this C&O H6 (H 1-5 too) have a very unique trailing truck where the truck frame is almost stationary while the wheels move side to side while negotiating curves on an axle within an axle? Must be an interesting story behind that development.
A good, well-trained steam Locomotive Engineer would NEVER steam through a passenger station with his Cylinder Drain Cocks OPEN as depicted here from @ 4:20 to 4:37 ..... I am certain this is in violation of most railroad operating rules..... but the scene effects look great "on camera"!! At least the Station got its platform steam-cleaned.....!! :-)
They are reopening the tracks the other way from Rockhill/Orbisonia toward Pogue, Saltillo and beyond. The tracks were unused since April 1956 and require a complete rebuild and regrading. They already reopened the 5 mile tourist era line north to Colgate Grove wye. The railroad was reopened with new owners, the Kovalchicks sold the railroad to them. The Mt. Union end was not included in the sale.
These bells and the non stop use of it all the time anywhere, make me watch modern day train videos muted. I love the American railroad, but I am glad not to live near them.
Hi great video nice catch. I like trains. Question Do any of these freight trains have cabooses at the end? Just curious. I like to see the caboose at the end of freight trains. You see cabooses just at the state borders for long hauls. Other places they use a caboose once in a blue moon not too often. The deliveries they make are local runs. That's probably why you don't see cabooses that much anymore.
A beautiful place to live and so awesome that the train goes by, and doesn't sound the whistle. That would be great to go to sleep to the sound of that train.
