I really love how this is actually a lost media for Steam locomotives. It's satisfying to find rare footage of PRR S1 6100 that was not seen before, back then all we found were photos.
@@Tankproduction2022 The question is how much footage of steam locomotives are lost to time while only photos are available evidence of said steam locomotives that actually exists?
@@Tankproduction2022 And yeah glad to see the lost footage of PRR S1 have been resurfaced. Speaking of lost media, did you know there is a new screenshot of Down the Mine 1983 pilot recently found?
Very cool!!!! Wish it was longer. My wife's uncle was on the PRR S1 crew that ran the loco at the 39 World's Fair. I have a O scale model oof the loco.
Wow that would be so cool to hear stories not just from that but from the World's Fair in general. It's also funny how you to have an O scale S1 if you see my profile pic I have all 4 of the Duplexes in 2 rail o scale.
This video is super cool because there is next to no footage of this locomotive. It's a shame it didn't fair to well on the PRR. Maybe them they would've produced more and preserved one.
It didn’t stop, the engineer let off of the throttle because the drive wheels were slipping. The S-1 and T-1’s were notorious for their inability to hold the rail.
The one thing that's sad about this is that this thing was actually a failure and it's just sad that a huge monster-sized legend has gone extinct from railroading across the planet 😭
I highly doubt she could even fit on a turntable, considering the fact that she was 140ft long in total, with the engine itself being 77ft long. Which was sadly one of her problems, she couldn't go around a lot of curves, and was limited to the PRR mainline.
Okay I got a question why where the people that build those long locomotive and yet some where failure and some where not like the prr s1 it was a good train but it had fucking damn problems but it still run until was scrapped in 1949
It did have a whistle. It's not known which type, but it was most likely a Pennsylvania 3 Chime. It only wore a single chime horn for a few years amd it was later removed.
That would be really cool, but the design. Would need some serious tweaking. Along with the fact that the original locomotive was so long it could only just make along Pennsylvania’s main line. Still one of my favorites though😉
@@liamlittle2494 I think sometime in the future, they will probably make new engines that have been scrapped a short time of their lives like the Milwaukee Road Hiawatha 4-6-4 Hudson, The B&O Cincinnatian, The Southern Tennessean Pacific, The Pennsylvania Q2, and the Southern Pacific Sunbeam 4-6-2
@@GudrezBilly I heard that before, maybe if they already restored the B&O P7 5300 and shrouded into the streamlined Cincinnatian 5301 style, that would be awesome!
I was looking for footage on Google when I came up on this page. cs.trains.com/ctr/f/3/t/119405.aspx It reads "I was excited to come across this RU-vid Green Frog video preview with a few shots of the PRR S1 in what looks like Englewood, Illinois," with a link attached. I clicked on the link and it brought me to a Green Frog documentary with super rare footage of Pennsylvania 6100.
6100 had to have truck repairs in 1945 but they were repaired. It wasn't until about May of 1946 it was retired in favor of the more efficient T1s. It was scrapped in 1949.
If you didn't know this is the largest locomotive to exist in America and in the world being that is larger than long than big boy since the Length of the S1 is 140ft while the big boy length is 132ft
The S1 5550 is currently being built. The builders are going to attempt to beat the world record for steam locomotive speed. It should be finished by 2030.
When the locomotive is having wheel slip very near the beginning, the sound does in fact speed up, and then slows back down when they let off the throttle, so I think it's real.
It did have a whistle (nobody know for sure what kind, but it was most likely a Pennsylvania 3 chime). It did have a horn in I believe 1941, but it was later removed.
Lots of research (because it's my favorite steam locomotive). I was looking for footage on Google when I came up on this page. cs.trains.com/ctr/f/3/t/119405.aspx It reads "I was excited to come across this RU-vid Green Frog video preview with a few shots of the PRR S1 in what looks like Englewood, Illinois," with a link attached. I clicked on the link and it brought me to a Green Frog documentary with super rare footage of Pennsylvania 6100.
