Oh, you'll love the Jubes (as they are nicknamed). A bit iffy on delivery - bad chimney dimensions being the main problem - but they settled down to being really good engines.
To answer the question of 6023 having the name of the older king and 6024 having the name of the younger king: The reason is, the prototype 6000 was named after the then current king of the UK King George V. It was from there the succeeding king were given the names of kings in reverse order of ascending the throne. So 6001 was the named after the king before George V, and so on.
Thanks for the close up look and the explanations to go with! Beautiful iron, there, to be sure. The switchers are beyond cool, and I like the looks of both the Hudson with giant drivers and the semi-streamlined 'reconstructed Russian'. btw, The condensing tender seems like a good idea, but trying to collect steam without soot makes me wonder, even if with an oil fired boiler. Then there'd be system maintenance, my guess as a reason the concept didn't catch on if it worked well at all. Hmm..
"Reconstructed Russian?" You mean the 01.5? I wouldn't call it Russian, as other countries like China, Australia, Canada and the United States were no strangers to similar bits of steam locomotive innovation that the 01.5s wound up having.
@@Jimboliah3985 Yeah lol I was playing on any Russian reference of their mods as reconstruction vs improvements/upgrades, if that was their term. Cold war Russia, and IMO could be like someone changing sparkplugs and saying they did a tune up.
Jimmy, get well soon. btw, could there be a brief look/update of your display(s) and contents one day, or have I missed something. Some great looking iron there from what I could see. 00?
You ain’t alone pal. It drives me, my family, and many other local friends nuts every time we see anything Christmas themed in public before American thanksgiving
Actually Jim, rumor has it that one prr j1 is still around. All be it in a rather surprising and unusually way. I'd recommend checking out History in the Dark's video about that.
Actually Jim, rumor as it that one prr j1 is still around. All be it in a rather surprising and unusually way. I'd recommend checking out History in the Dark's video about that.
I wish 1218,1214 & 1240 did a triple header together because I think seeing 3 class A locomotives triple heading a train together would be spectacular to see in person😃
You say that in a *very dismissive* way, as if an A on a passenger train is a bad thing. Like most articulateds, the A class engines were mainly designed and built for high-speed heavy freight service. As such, you had both a high tractive effort, and a pretty high speed as well. But that high speed, around 70 to 75 MPH, adds to their versatility, so if there was a heavy passenger train on the roster, too heavy for smaller engines usually assigned to it, an A class engine is a very good pick to do the work.
5021 one of my favorite 4-10-2's love how a model of her was used in sometimes they come back both in the flashback sequence and as the ghost train with N&W 1218's whistle.
why so against streamlining wtf. It looked so cool like it was 50 years ahead in aesthetics when it was built in 1930s. It looked like alien tech almost. Very very cool. No need to hate on it..
As far as preserved british 2-4-0 tender engines go I'm more of a MR 158A fan but I can still appreciate one from my personal favorite pre LNER constituent railway
It's great to have Jimmy posting again after a break in the action. (time flies) btw, that he doesn't have 20k subscribers by now is a complete mystery to me. Sure, like & subscribe but share this channel with other lovers of trains. If they don't thank you, are they really your friends? 🙂
We all have our moments of being salty. I got salty talking about the Penney’s K5’s. Atleast it’s not another failed duplex. I do agree with the idea of preserving a J1 despite its C&O origins. Afterall C&O I think was a close partner with the New York Central. Heck NYC initially did want to merge with C&O.
"...it was just a utilitarian freight locomotive." Same could be said for the LMS 8Fs, BR 9Fs, and DB 44s, 50s, and 52s, or any other type of freight locomotive in preservation.
If you're going to compare the I1s to all of those, I do have the guts to ask a rather important question. Were the I1s ever used on passenger trains? Because the 8Fs, 9F,s 44s, 50s and 52s were also used on passenger services from time to time in steam days.
But I'm asking it about the I1s. If the J1s were confined to freight service, I wouldn't have minded as much, because they went against the Pennsy's philosophy, and I think they looked much cooler than the I1s ever did.
@@Jimboliah3985 As far as I'm aware, no they were not. But I think there were some cases of the H10s 2-8-0's on the LIRR being used on passenger trains. (P.S. you forgot the T in against)
There are a few rumors of the J1’s preservation. There’s one in my head where one was recorded not to be scrapped. The J1 in questioning is 6435. After 6435’s retirement in the early 50s, some PRR employees managed to hid it under a bridge near a railyard in Pennsylvania. Not only a J1 that was buried there but a E6 atlantic too. Though I’m not sure if it’s true or not because a friend of mine on discord told me that atlantic is buried where the j1 is. However someone from a reddit post said that this rumor is false as someone managed to found the actual scrap record of 6435 and possibly the unknown number e6. Another rumor is that a J1 derailed during WW. Location of the derailment is unknown. Instead of scrapping it, the PRR employees just buried somewhere else. This rumor again false and plus a very stupid one from someone on reddit. In conclusion, the rumors of the J1 class’s preservation are false due to false scrap records and a rumor that doesn’t make any sense. If u want to know what reddit post i found, here it is: www.reddit.com/r/trains/comments/18whwnd/has_there_been_any_news_about_the_buried_prr_j1/ Edit: bro really hates every single prr steam locomotive design especially this locomotive design
