Thank you for a well done video of one of my favorite steam locomotives. I much prefer the whistle she sported for the 1997 season over some of the others. C&O 614 and I were both built in 1948. How much more 614 material do you have?
My husband took me on this ride twice one time we were in a chair car you could open the windows we were given goggles after that ride and a few days of washing hair to remove cinders from scalp I understood why in novels I read set in the steam era women always had to “freshen up “ when they arrived at the final destination ty vm
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western had an entire advertising campaign based around a fictional woman named Phoebe Snow, who only wore white. The ads read something like this: On her way to Buffalo Phoebe Snow would go Her dress would stay clean and white Upon the Road of Anthracite!
Too bad something like this couldn’t be done now. I heard that ridership fell off making the trips uneconomic. Problem was back them they hadn’t adopted the service days system for inspection so you had to run the engine while you had flue time. Today you could space the trips out more so you could fill the trains better. Transit has a unique location for this type of thing. Lines that already have passenger operations are near large population centers and have interesting destinations. I don’t know how PTC enters into all this though, maybe that puts the kybosh on everything.
Really!?! There are over 200 steam locomotives currently operating in excursion service today in the US. Perhaps RR did more for the preservation of steam than even he thought possible.
As a steam lover, this coverage is right subject, wrong cutaways.........I don't like or appreciate SHORT SNIPPETS like this amateur did. I like long drawn out shots of Approaching, In Your Face filming, and a Long Goodbye. This has very little of that........gave it a thumbs down for the lousy presentation of a great sounding engine.
