My favorite hobby is Real and Model Trains. Pictured above is the New York Central station in Syracuse NY.
Steam is the best for me but Diesel will do also. I have an outdoor G-Scale 1:29 layout with around 200 feet of main line track with sidings and yards. I also have a small MTH HO Christmas display at the Holiday season primarily with steam passenger and Freight trains with village.(Sound is awesome) I belong to the CNYLSRS which has a club layout at Drivers Village in Cicero, NY where our trains can be run in the winter time.
The primary rail line is the New York Central Railroad in both scales. My childhood was spent going to work with dad, Uncle Jim and Grandfather Carl. Going to work with dad in the Minoa, East Syracuse was fun but getting to ride on the 20th Century Limited in the late 1940's and early 1950's E-7/8 diesel blowing the grade crossings to Buffalo and back was still to this day the most exciting way to get trains in your blood. Jim Exner
It's a true crime that there were almost 300 Hudsons built, but not one of them was preserved. Same for the Niagaras. Blame management of the NYC for that
Half of these comments are idiots, the other half is trying to explain stuff to the idiots but the idiots just say "no, thats wrong, my info from the lionel train magazine is right"
Crappy dubbed in audio. Puffing out of sync with the movement of the locomotives, I keep hearing the same three sound clips on what seems like a continuous loop, sounds don’t even match the locomotives they’re dubbed over.
And what a coincidence it’s also a 4-6-2, unless if it really is PRR 1361 temporarily working for its arch rival railroad with an altered headlight position…
The "fast run" mentioned in the description is in Barneveld , ( Trenton) NY, not Minetto. Great video, and I continue to watch it. Glad it's still here !
WOW, great video. I find watching steam engine videos like this relaxing. As a 30 year old, yes I like comforts of airplanes and cars, but I'm sad I never got to see the big steam locomotive infrastructure in the US.
As someone from Toledo, OH who lived for a while around Rochester, NY, and who now lives in Chicago, I have driven the entirety of the Water Level Route and it sort of traces a lifetime for me...
Nice video... sad that it's the only way we can still appreciate the NYC Niagara (6000) class locomotive. The editing of this video, leaves a lil to be desired though, the narrator talks of Niagara's, when we see Pacifics and even a 60s series diesel doing run bys..... but still nice to see the 4-8-4's.
I learned when I was young my grandpa has worked on the railroad from the steam age on Niagara’s for the NYC all the way to Amtrak Truboliners until he died around the 80’s
Steam Locomotives will always be know as the iron horses that made America Prosper, it's too bad some of these railways replaced them with Diesel. It's understandable because of the high maintenance and money it cost to keep them running but I wish they kept at last half of the units and would be nice to see them now still hauling freight and not only being used for museums and excursions. Maybe one day it will return who knows
Imagine being in 1910 and someone told you to appreciate the steam engines; because, in the near future they will be gone.. The same today: Appreciate the diesels because the Establishment will have nothing but pure electric drive in the near future.
