1957! Wow! Two years before I was born! This is an incredible historical event that should be celebrated for all Californians especially the foamers like me ❤🎉👍🚂🚂🚂💣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I lived in Sacto, for 10 years. Working @ McClellan AFB, back in the 80s, I had NO IDEA that the trains I enjoyed watching -- were headed to DONNERS PASS...
@@user-ob2hl7ec2b Only one cab forward(#4294) remains and it is displayed at the California State Railway Museum. Also the video was actually produced by Video Rails in 1991 and came out on DVD by Pentrex in 2004.
@@user-ob2hl7ec2b SP 4274 was scrapped, however a sister locomotive #4294 is preserved in a Museum in California, it is the only surviving Cab Forward.
That folks, is history. A class I very much enjoyed, US History, and state history, two classes that were mandatory in order to graduate high school many years ago. When you know your history as well as world history, it is knowledge, knowledge is power, and that is the biggest threat to governments of every country. Since 1985, the US governmental bureaucrats have done everything in their power to dumb down our educational institutions. History classes need to be reintroduced to our higher educational institutions, without it, many will miss the telling signs that have doomed many countries. Without knowledge, history tends to repeat itself, both good and bad, ...mostly bad!
It is a shame that 4274 wasn’t saved from scrap for pulling this excursion train, as the last cab forward to run over Donner Pass. Oh well, at least 4294 was saved!
Wow, what a monster and thanks !! I currently live about three miles from the old Baldwin Locomotive Works, located in Eddystone, Pa. When I was a young boy, my grandfather worked at the guard shack at the entrance of the facility. Little did I know then that I would hire on with Penn Central in 1973 at the age of 19, eventually becoming a freight and passenger conductor. Retired in 2014, after 41 years of service. When I was in freight service, Westinghouse had leased one of the old back shops to build these huge nuclear turbine fans, that were shipped all around the world. They were completely balanced and had to be handled with kid gloves, while transporting, as not to damage them. I once also conducted a special train to transport one to Baltimore, for the port. The final destination was to be Saudi Arabia. Thanks again for the great video.
The cab forward locomotives are definitely one of my favorite types. They truly proved to be good engines on the Southern Pacific and at least one of these gigantic monsters got saved from being scrapped!!👍👍
This Cab-Forward, #4274, should have NEVER met the scrappers torch! I know of many steam locomotives, such as B&O Class EM-1 #7600, N&W Class Y6b #2176 and GTW 4-6-2 Pacific #5629, that should have been preserved and donated to railroad museums. I am glad that someone had the foresight to film a Cab-Forward in operation on Donner Pass!
It’s n&w 2174 not 76. And yeah, same goes for at least one of the NYC Hudsons and Niagara’s. 5629 was screwed over, as was 7600 who was supposed to be preserved yet some dumbass scrapped it anyway
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Remember the " Donner party fiasco of 1847 winter snow.⛄trip-??? Cannibalism at it's finest -!!! 😋.
Wonderful video! Thank you. Were engineers concerned about no protection in collisions? Were railroads so needing money that they had to scrap magnificent locomotives for the little income derived? Or were they also eliminating continual co$ts?
My uncle George was a towerman at SP's Bayshore Yard in San Francisco, and a big railfan - if there was any way for him to go see 4274’s farewell tour I'm sure he did!
It looks at first so weird going about as if it's always in reverse which of course it's really not. Keeping one is better than none but I wish a few more cab forwards could have been saved. Maybe some rich railfans can have them recreated as they've done in England with the Tornado and "soon" 12 other types.
They state she and her sisters were sidelined because of the advent of diesel power yet she could pull a load by herself that would later take 4 to 6 diesels in tandem to do. Tell which was/is inefficient. Those snow sheds have since been replaced by steel reinforced concrete, they used to be wood.
The advantage of the diesel is in significant cost savings and could be operated in tandem whereas a steam locomotive needed to be individually operated with its own crew and requires its own parade of shop crews to keep that singular loco operational.
Ahhhh......dang. I thought she was put up somewhere. I realy dislike scrappers but more so those without foresight to save a couple examples. Now granted theres scrap , like the regular stuff , most of todays cookie cutter throw away cars , some machinery , even some loco's , but man , still today parts of our historic journeys are scrapped. I have seen miles of old engines sidelined waiting for scrap , were any kept? People bring in sought after vehicles yet today but getting very scarce. All kinds of items. We would like a caboose for our depot museum , at one point some were come get one , bet I cant find one very easy today. Shipping alone would be high enough. Nobody thinks ahead , like throwing out those old game systems or computers away years ago. All kinds of stuff.
@@DeathValleyLumberCompany Northwest Ks. I used to drive truck for years and my relation and another 2 places I ran for all here so I could get a break on price. But we have dwindled down to a few people and no funds to get anything done now , its sad. S.P.P.A , Almena Ks. We had the Rock Island and Burlington both run through along US 36.
I think it's funny they blow the whistle when there's no grade crossing and use 2 distinct whistles, the sound men didn't have a clue about railroads and the narrator talked to much.
