1911 Locomotive Found in a Scrap Yard! 

Naw. Was just yesterday

this was the shit back in my day. used to do drivebys in em.

That's true, But It would mean 1151 would be in worse condition

@@EngineerDaylight Worse condition? I have no idea what you're talking about. It's already in rough shape. Aside from scrapping, it doesn't get much more rough than it already is.

@@m611martin she’s no worse then some that was pulled out of Barry in uk I think she could be restored given the money and will

@@doggerbendrailway6002 I don't disagree with your statement at all. However, there are a lot of factors as to why it's unlikely that 1151 won't get restored; especially not to service. 1) The museum does not have the money to restore the engine. This is something that most railroad museums have a problem with; just having the funds to maintain their collection is hard enough let alone return a steam locomotive to operation. 2) VMT doesn't have a shop to work on the engine. While they don't have to have one persay, it would be very helpful for them to have an enclosed environment to do the repairs for the engine given that it would be preferable to have a drop pit so that the wheels could be removed as they are locked in place. 3) The museum does not have enough trackage for this engine to run on. The cost of restoring the engine to operation would be one thing, but to operate it is another. If you have plenty of track (and I mean a lot of it), than restoration of an engine like this would be cost effect (as it gets anyway). Restoring an engine the size of 1151 to only operate on less than a mile of track doesn't make any sense whatsoever. If you have a shortline railroad nearby, than sure. Go ahead. 4) The engine just needs way too much work in general to be made presentable again, let alone return to operation. Is it possible? Sure it is. Is it likely to happen? Probably not. That's not so much being negative about it; it's just realistic and we all need to be that way about certain things. I want to see 1151 restored just as much as anyone else would, but the reality is that unless there is a serious amount of money thrown at the engine from a (or many) interested parties, she will stay where she is. Likely, that's pretty much it.

@@m611martin Schnitt das dampfloks mit das acetylen-brenners. Danke für die Schrottbilder. Die Dampflokomotiven einschmelzen.

how cool I would love to have one on the ranch !

Same video i started following Chris with..... mt. St. Helens! His style of video and commentary is great.

That was the video I first watched as well

Thanks!

Boilers probably shot

Parting the diesels out ?

I'd move right in that thing!

Just a sad shell of it's former self.

The Brits brought back into use hundreds of locos in similar condition from a single South Wales scrapyard known as Barry

@@stephenchappell7512 Brought back from where?? The loco in the first part of the video is in the USA.

BARRY SCRAPYARD in South Wales had nearly 200 steamers from British Rail that were going to be scrapped around the 1970s. Yet the owner was a steam fan who kept the the steamers, but scrapped many freight waggons. Then in the 1979 when Britain was celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the ROCKET 0-2-2 and the Rainhill loco trials in 1829, built by the son and father team of Mr. George and Robert Stephenson, there was a massive wave of nostalgia and national pride, with many many heritage railways being started on the old abandoned lines that were cut in the 1960s Beeching era and ripped off to build new highways. But many of these heritage railways were barely a few miles long. And started with an old diesel shunter pulling brakevans. In America we would say a ALCO switcher and caboose. Yet many of those heritage lines wanted steamers, and started with tiny 0-4-0-Tanks , and 0-6-0 Tender engines. And moving up with more coaches. Soon they needed even larger and more Powerful locos that changed the heritage lines from only a weekend hobby, into a full time railroad!! And the larger locos were the 4-6-0 Ten wheelers named for Kings anD Castlesand Saints. And the 2-8-0 Consolidation of the W.D. Class built in the 1940s during WW2. BUT...Other museums were keeping their locos and not letting them go. So the newer lines went to BARRY to buy those steamers that had been sitting outside nearly 30 years and rusted full of holes like Swiss cheese. Then there were many years of fund raising, but before they could even start rebuilding. And getting replacement parts. And swapping pieces with another sister and donor loco. And fabricating complete new pieces like Boilers. Or cabs or tenders. Skillfully the Volunteers labored for years!! Until at last their loco is rebuilt. Sometimes up to 90% new, and retaining a few pieces like cylinders. And updating with new roller bearings. And Westinghouse air brakes to replace the older style vacuum brakes. Then there is much joy and celebration, when the old and rusty BARRY loco is newly rebuilt to highball the mainline at 60 mph. Once more. Also they have many 4-6-2 Pacific's that race at 70 mph. And on a test run the Streamlined A-4 RACED up to 92 M.P.H.!! And "TORNADO-60130" that set a speed record of 101+M.P.H. in the new Excursion Era of 2000s, and TORNADO was completely Scratch built using the original blueprints of the 1950s. Which would be the equivalent of the U.S.A. building the New 20th Century Limited J3A 4-6-4 HUDSON Streamliner of the ART DECO Era built by ALCO in 1938. and with new roller Bearings to allow speeds of 130+M.P.H.!!!!!!!! WOW 👌 👏 😍 👍 🥰 ☺!!!!! LET'S GO NEW STEAM!!!!! ALLELUIA!!!!! AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 GOD BLESS THE QUEEN 👸 🙏 🙌 ❤ AND TORONTO ✌ ❤ XXXXX ///, AND THE U.S.A!!!!! 2022A.D.

That's a good point

There are protocols for testing boilers before returning to operation, starting with an ultrasound to check the thickness of the plate, staybolts are replaced wherever necessary, all new flues and tubes, and then a hydrostatic test where it is filled with water and then fully pressurized. Getting the boiler ready for and doing the work needed to get to each next step is the part of why it's so expensive to restore a steam locomotive, especially with only volunteer work and funding.

“Johnny’s Home!” Great classic!

@@tomrogers9467 It's my favorite!

It definitely looks awesome the way it sits now

I would save sister Steam Locomotives of 1218.

If would help save all sister engines of 1218.

I love her too.

Actually each locomotive has only one diesel engine. Each locomotive is called a "unit". One or more units make a locomotive.

@@strobx1 there are many diesel engines that have more than one motor, E8, Baldwin centipede, etc

@@danielhemple8649 That is true.Add the DDA40X,Alco AC855, GE U50B & U50C. But for the most part, Diesel Locomotives have only one prime mover. I forgot about those others. The Centipede were designed to hold 8 De La Vergne engines mounted cross wise to give 6,000 hp. But were later only 4 giving 3,000 hp.

@@strobx1 thanks for that info man on the centipede I never knew they were going to try to make one that had 6,000 horsepower with all those engines (I have a o gauge model of a seaboard unit) the small town I live in still runs EMD gp9s well only a few Baldwin engines still run with original prime mover thanks for the info

Roanoke, Virginia

@@t700e thank you

Well great news you can travel back in the old days with that DeLorean there 👍

One of my favorites too

Not sure what engine size was (383 or 440 or legendary 426 hemi) though I saw what looks like a factory sunroof. A rare find indeed. Looks like a great museum with tons to see .

70 Charger R/T... Mixed in with tons of vintage trains... Could spend days there!!! Great find and great video!!!

I think you'll find those are rivets, not bolts.

@@vibingwithvinyl yes! I was thinking big rivets and said bolts lol Thank you!

4:20 is an EMD SDP45. Conrail 6670, former Erie Lackawanna 3639. This is the sole surviving example, BNSF never had any. SDP45s were literally just steam generator equipped variants of the SD45, they had the same 20-cylinder primemover and everything. What you describe almost sounds like the DDA40X, which only Union Pacific had. UP 6936 is/was the last operating example. or did you mean the one in the background at 4:27? that's a former Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac E8A. E8As were standard passenger locomotives, they're not hybrids, they just had two primemovers. BNSF has never owned E-units either

@@Panzer-535 Thanks, didn't know that. I was only going by what a friend had told me (he sounded like he knew what he was talking about). My specialty is fire engines/fire trucks.

@@Panzer-535 BNSF actually had SDP40's, which were similar to the SDP45's, but with 16-cylinder engines instead of 20-cylinder engines. (Basically, they were SD40's with steam generators.) They were originally owned by BN predecessor Great Northern. GN did order 8 SDP45's, and Southern Pacific ordered 10. None of these survive today. The CR 6670/EL 3639 is not a true SDP45 - all 34 of the units that Erie Lackawanna ordered (3635-3668) did not come with steam generators. EL purchased them for their 5,000-gallon fuel tanks. Technically, they were SD45M's. This is the only surviving *ORIGINAL* SD45M - there is one other unit (3657) that was wrecked on EL and rebuilt with an SD45-2 long hood by EMD. That unit recently (2020) operated on the Cincinnati East Terminal Railway in southwest Ohio. I believe it's now operating in Washington State (somewhere around Walla Walla).

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