We gotta thank to the Chineses QJs for leading us to a better place because of what they did is to help the railways in the US a railway relationship between America and China
@@TM24_MBP its not the Chinese's fault that some parts of America didn't take it seriously. Plus these trains came to America 14-15 years before the virus came
Thanks for posting this awesome video. My friend and I were in the dome car that day. One of the best days of my life. This brought back some great memories.
Thanks for subscribing dude! I don't know how long till my next video. I can't believe you made this video! I used to watch this all the time. it is one of the best videos of the days of the QJ's.
Thanks...I miss seeing them out running. It has been five years and the outfit that controls them (Central States Steam Preservation) has made little progress in four years.
I stood up girlfriend 2nd date out to ride that train lol and it was worth it and needless to say i sit and type this she gave me another chance lol now my wife so it all worked out for me .... And we cant forget RJ Corman had a hand in that excursion
Where was the bell located on 6988 at the time since most American steam locomotives from Britain, China just like 6988 and 7081 they need bells I’m just wondering
might be on the underside like N&W 611, and als a lil bit info: british trains dont need a bell since theres fences along the line, most of the time it has a bell is because of personal cosmetic
Well...both are in this video, and there is a third. None were donated. Railroad Development Corp, parent of the Iowa Interstate, purchased the 6988 and 7081. The 7081 pulled its last excursion in 2013 and is stored at Newton, Iowa. The 6988 is at Silvis awaiting overhaul. Both were donated to the Central States Steam Preservation Association. RJ Corman acquired a third, 7040, in 2008. It operated for five years and was recently donated to the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp.
@@bn13814 Well I know 6988 is waiting for its overhaul in Silvis and it will get soon probably after the group is done working on 3985 and 5511 or they’ll probably start sooner with more donations. but I only found data info that only one QJ was donated to America to work in Iowa as the interstate locomotive ever since the Chinese government was phasing out steam from mainland work in China and yet they’ve actually kept maybe some steam operational for display use or somewhat, and I never knew of two others but hopefully there’s a chance for those other two to run again and hopefully they’re not just static displays the rest of their lives.
Regular Chinese steam operations ended in December 2005, and Railroad Development Corporation CEO Henry Posner wanted to preserve some of the locomotives (which were based on American designs). Here is the February 2007 TRAINS Magazine article explaining the story behind RDC's purchase and the brief steam era on his Iowa Interstate Railroad. www.rrdc.com/article_02_2007_coming_to_America_TRAINS.pdf
QJs are more less based on the Russian P38s and there 2-10-0s and 2-8-2 as well as there 2-10-2s. China mades some very beautiful steam engines. For being Mikado's they were very strong for there engine types.
Henry Posner of Rail Development Corporation (Iowa Interstate's parent) purchased two QJ's in 2006 and optioned three more to preserve examples of the last steam engines to work in heavy duty mainline service anyway on earth.
@@willberestartingthischanne9984 Posner wanted to demonstrate their value to tourists lines. They were far newer (mid-1980s) than American-built steam. In fact, they were the newest locomotives on the property from delivery (2006) to when the first ES44ACs arrived in 2008!
@@bn13814 And when the other Chinese locos had been built and shipped, the cost of a new one was inline with an overhaul of an older US loco. But you had a brand new loco that had only been steamed up for the run to the port. Interesting thing about how they got here, they went thru the port of Jacksonville on the way to Houston while the SYs went thru the port of Jacksonville on the way to Baltimore. My one and only time being in the hold of a Chinese ship and in the captain's cabin also was when I inspected the SYs to make sure they had been properly drained. And to get dimensions so that when they got to Baltimore, the same thing wouldn't happen as happened in CA.
They didn't. Henry Posner III saw them as an opportunity to purchase and then sell to tourists railroads. He wasn't very successful in that venture but was successful in operating them on his Iowa Interstate Railroad in excursion service.
