Just found yer video by a random YT search - but enjoyed all 1H 43 mins, it was a stunning display, and a big shoutout to yer Narrator - he told the story so you actually felt you were actually there, and hes a brilliant storyteller and brings a lot of interesting history into the video - big thank you for a great trainride! - And happy 100th Anniversary to the locomotives in advance in 2025 (its only 2.5 years away)
The water/fire tender reminded me my old land lord would tell stories of he and the kids in his rail stop town would follow the steam engines in and out of town with wet blankets in the summer to put out the fires that would pop up in the fields. He made it sound like a game. Gate, Washington.
I had a great grandmother in Sidney, Montana who would do that. She eventually lost her sense of smell because of all the smoke. At least that was what I was told.
Excellent video. I have ridden this train from Chama to Antonito and it is worth every penny of the ticket. As you said, the lunch provided is very good, filling and well organized. Thanks for posting! Chuck Shockley
Wow what a great video that Big Strong Train Rollin Coal threw the mountains in fall man it dont get any better than that !!! Great job on the production of this video Great stuff !
I assume you are referring to the conversion to oil. Note that both the Carson National Forest & the Rio Grande National Forest are closed on various levels as of Thursday, May 19. I can only speculate but that conversion to oil just may be what keeps the trains running at all this year. We will see on or about June 12.
The sound of the whistles in The Valley is a haunting sound something that American steam locomotives have over any other On Earth the haunting moan of the whistle
Good Footage, but I am doing something impressive with this scenic line, my first Scenic Railroad to be brought into sprite form, all locomotives, the 44-ton diesels later on.
18:14 I will have to respectfully and politely disagree….the Rio Grande was its proper lettering! Great video and beautiful railroad! The history of the DRGW is fascinating, especially with how they were still using steam power for regular freight operations late into the 1960s after all the other class 1’s had long been dieselized. Of course the DRGW was a tale of two personalities, the standard gauge side was already dieselized and using big diesels like the SD45s, while the narrow gauge was still using steam with the K-28 and K-36. You could work for the same company and have two totally different aspects of railroading! Pretty neat in my book. It’s a shame they abandoned the chama to Durango section though. Thank you for including the old footage!
Still some great cinematography and history! Definitely enjoyed the long valley shots with the echo of the whistle bouncing off. Just a overall fantastic and well done video. Glad to see they still have some dual gauge track in the yard, albeit it doesn’t appear to be connected to anything. There’s some neat old footage in Alamosa in the 60s with the Rio Grande K-36 and K-37 locomotives running through the yard with standard gauge Rio Grande high hood GP’s rolling through the yard alongside. One of the diesels had dual couplers so it could switch both standard and narrow gauge equipment.
Amazing work in this footage & upload! Sadly, the lunch is only a shadow of what it once was. First rode C&T in October of 2013, and the lunch was amazingly good (turkey/gravy) Rode it last week, and it is so bad you can't hardly eat it at all (wife agreed, so did family members who had ridden recently), and I mean ALL of it. Even the desserts. Next time I will stay outside and simply watch the engines & patrol switching. Much better use of my time.
i would like to see one of those rare PRR S2 6200 Models. a steam turbine locomotive. a technique that unfortunately did not catch on at the time. i never found a video here on youtube about this piece of history. i want to see her in action, rollin. did somebody know if drivable models exists today?
@@7ideaproductions You should visit the Midwest central railroad and the Midwest electric railway in Mount Pleasant Iowa because they have a full roster of historic locomotives and rolling stock
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