I love the sound of that whistle echoing through the hills and valleys for miles. Beautiful and to me haunting at the same time. I grew up in the 50's and 60's across from a loading and switching yard and would hear that in the wee hrs of the morning.
I totally agree with you. I love hearing the steam whistle echo through the valleys and yet it's almost haunting to. Haunting because it's like hearing the past come to life. Awesome
I noticed that the hotbox detectors are going off and alerting the crew of 765 of a defect, I can imagine the crew were thinking,"Shut up, that's just the steam".
Essa Maria fumaça ela tá brava kkk gente porque tanta fumaça não deixa de linda mais!Olha ó que está acontecendo no mundo tantas gente doente depois vão jogar Culpa em quem, pra que tanta fumaça poluindo a floresta!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔?????????????
My wife's grandfather, Leslie Enders was an engineer on the PRR and did duty between Altoona, thru the curve, to Youngwood, Pa. for most of his career. I can only imagine what it must have been like to make that run as many times as he must have done.
I grew up in a house about two miles from the Horseshoe Curve. I am 82. In the summer, when we had the windows in the house open, I frequently could hear the steam locomotives working the grade up to and through the curve. What is the purpose of the diesel locomotive behind NKP 765. Was it assisting the steam locomotive?
NKP 765: trying to look proud in front of her fans NKP 8100: feeling useless in the back PRR:7048 wishing he and 8100 were given appreciation and recognition
Got to see Horseshoe Curve the first time Sunday just past and it was an amazing experience. Every one was spread out until some one called train, then the rush to the fence with cameras and phones out.
It's truly amazing The Horseshoe Curve. I was there my first time with my grandparents as a child around early 1980's. And went back numerous times. Just to think and be able to watch what a sight it would have been to see the old steamers go through back in the 30's or so
Maybe 50 years ago, I worked for a salvage company in Pittsburgh (about 90 miles from Altoona) that would buy up and resell materials damaged on a train. A lot of it was things like dented refrigerators when cars were humped while building the trains. But about once a year (it seemed) we'd get a call from Altoona for a train that had derailed. Cars would be lying on their sides filled with everything from cases of soup cans to lumber, which was the worst to unload.
I think 🤔🤔 it would've been respectful to trim those trees down to get a better look at the steamer rounding the curve. I bet some of the people filming wished the same thing.
Yah, this was so long ago it was the first time I had used a smartphone to take a video like this. The interruptions in the sound are from the phone itself doing the haptic feedback. It was so incredibly annoying. That phone was the original Motorola Droid Razr.
i WAS UP THEIR QUITE A FEW TIMES BACK IN THE '40s WHEN THEIR WAS NO FENCE AROUND IT. WAS WITH MY BROOTHER & DAD, NOT SURE BUT I DON'T THINK MY MOM CAME UP. YOU HAD TO WALK UP BACK THEN
sounds to me that they have 2 seprate whistles on that loco, the lower tone 1 is dif a chime whistle from a prr,k-4 or prr m-1, any way it was great just to see steam agin on the ex prr main line.
Could anyone help me understand why there is a diesel locomotive attached to steam-powered trains? This big 2-8-2 seem powerful enough to pull this train by itself! What is the role of the diesel?
The 765 has always been what it is. When Fort Wayne asked for a locomotive for display, they specifically asked for the 767 because it was the first for some special event ages ago. Because of the exceptionally poor (or possibly scrapped) condition of the actual 767, the NKP pulled a fast one on the city of Fort Wayne and renumbered the 765 after retirement to 767. When the "767" was pulled from its display to be rebuilt, it was eventually discovered that the NKP did this "switch-a-roo" and 765 was restored to its original number.
Once in a lifetime. This was the return trip to Indiana from employee specials in Enola/Harrisburg. The next year they returned to PA and ran two public excursions from Lewistown to the curve and Altoona and return. The 21st century steam program ended after several years.