A preview of our DVD "ARTICULATEDS America's Biggest Steam" Formatted for Widescreen TV, features some of the largest steam locomotives ever built for American railroads. Released on November 10, 2021 by Herron Rail Video.
I thank God almighty for the Union Pacific and their steam heritage program. Because of them we got to see a couple of these big articulated beasts like the Challenger and now Big Boy 4014 in action in modern times and the present.
Articulated meant that the front drive wheels could rotate right or left as if being steered even though they followed the tracks. Some tracks had been laid with too sharp a turn for those long engines to navigate, so they built them such that the front drivers would appear to operate as if they were on a swivel, thus allowing the long engines to navigate sharp turns without binding the wheels on the rails.
Of the eighteen built, three survive and are on display in Minnesota: No. 225 at Proctor, No. 227 at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth and No. 229 at Two Harbors.
In overall length, yes the S-1 was bigger. The tender was about 10 ft longer which made the overall length about 8 ft longer. In terms of just the locomotive, the big boy was bigger; it was wider, longer, and taller.
the N&W Y6b's can easily muster over 155,000 lbs of tractive effort making em more powerful than the Yellowstones albeit this was only when the locomotive was in simple operation. When in compound the engines musterd around 126,000 lbs of tractive effort
@@cdangelo1843 the S1 was not a failure! It was perfectly functional, it was successful enough to last till the PRR fell on hard times, just wasn't successful enough to inspire anymore to be built.
If you’re just talking about articulateds, then you had the 2-8-8-0s, 2-8-8-2, 0-8-8-0s, 2-6-6-2s, 2-6-6-4s, 4-6-6-4s, 2-8-8-4s, 4-8-8-2, and the 4-8-8-4s. Certain engine types had names or class designations depending on the railroad that class served on. On the N&W 2-8-8-2s were called the “Y” class and the 2-6-6-4s were called “A” class. The 2-8-8-4s were generally known as “Yellowstones” and the 4-6-6-4s were generally known as “Challengers”. The 4-8-8-4s were referred to as the “4000” class by the men who ran them back in the 1940s and 1950s and were only called “Big Boys” in advertisements by the Union Pacific back in the day.
The 1309 itself isn’t included but the narrator does mention 1309 and how it’s being restored. Sister locomotives to the 1309 are shown though in regular steam service.
I get a big laugh out of the way these guys think hard-bitten railroaders would have been concerned about a proper Belgian pronunciation of "mallet." 😆 Even then, they don't. 🤣
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