Also you notice how there would be tons of diesels on the curve to move the trains while the M1s, I1sas, and even K4s could manage it in doubleheaders or alone. Also the crews were more friendly to railfans too
Dad started working on the PRR right after WWII. We took many free trips when they still ran passenger service. The most memorable was always boarding the trains at Union Terminal station in Cincinnati. Many a trip from that grand station on our way to sunny Florida. Wonderful memories.
The Pennsylvania rr had an impressive variety of steam locomotive types and many including the duplex designs were attractive and unique in appearance. It's a shame however that the PRR didn't preserve one example of their J1 class 2-10-4 type locomotives, I would really like to see one of the j1's on display in a park or museum today.
@mocus1 It doesn't say in the program when this was shot, but it's doubtful it was shot anytime after 1947, since that was when PRR began the "modernization" of it's steam fleet...(switching headlight and generator positions, cast drop pilots)...and all the engines in this video still have the old configuration. My guess is early to mid 40's.
Great steam action on the engineering marvel of Horseshoe Curve, achieving a climbable 2% grade over those high mountains by taking a circuitous route as opposed to building a shorter route with expensive bridges and its attendant steeper and more difficult grade. Even that 2% grade required helpers on many occasions.
Nice vid, even if it is old. I've been around Horseshoe Curve on PRR as a kid, when my parents & I traveled to NYC. It was long after steam was no longer being used, but I do remember the conductor coming thru and calling out "Horseshoe Curve" and everyone moving over to the other side of the coach car to look out the windows at this engineering marvel.
Can't wait for a friend of mine to get done with rebuilding part of the PRR on trainz the Rockville bridge will be on the route and way more like the Pittsburgh station and even Philadelphia and also the Horseshoe curve. It's gonna be a monster!
Interesting that those PRR men were also up there on the curve watching the action. The one looked like he was off of a passenger run. The other maybe a Brakeman.
Standard railroad of the world is no oversight, the Pennsy rained true to it's word for many years, always in hard competing with the New York Central as well
@ :31 you can see the Glen White branch/siding at HSC 1:52 I love the tractors, Olivers I believe 2:00 train with a HIPPO on the head end would of been king on the PRR's Elmira Branch (my hometown named line) 2:15 Ive never seen a car like that one on that train.
That is a clearance car. It has "fingers" that go out and find out how big tunnels, bridges etc... are. Usually ran ahead of an important oversized load. Lasers and scanning has replaced it.
how long were the k4 pacifics without the tender? I'm just curious, I want to do a math experiment with tender-to-engine length ratios and coal and water capacities.
Who does the narration on this Herron video? I've heard his voice several times on some of the RFD-TV shows called Trains & Locomotives. Some of the shows were produced by Herron. It's impossible to read the credits at the end of the shows. I always thought the narrator's voice exemplified someone with a vast railroad knowledge and it was perfect for a train show. I've watched every train show on RFD-TV since they 1st started broadcasting them 12+ years ago. I thought Ralph E. Morse did the narration, but I can't confirm that via Google. Can anyone tell me the narrator's name?
Théâtrale ,Spectaculaire Nos si chers convois tracté par des locomotives a vapeurs Ne les oublions jamais A 71 ans j'ai eue la chance de connaître ce matériel PARIS/NORD>LAON en deux heures ! Le Dijonnais Calais Bâle !
depends on the condition of the fire and the ratio of air to coal. They smoke when feeding a lot of fuel and burn clean once the volatile fraction of the coal has gone and the fire is mainly coke. The skill of the fireman has a big effect on it too as a good one can make it burn clean most of the time.
@steelflexable No offense, but how can you tell what model year the car is from when all you see is the wheel and part of the headlight? Even if it is a 1930s model car, that doesn't mean that's the time period it's currently in. This is 2010, but not everyone drives a 2010-model car. 8mm or 16mm cameras capable of taking color footage weren't even made widely available to consumers until 1937 at the earliest.
Ed Riddle this is summer/autumn 1940 or 1941. The film color saturation is unique to prewar ASA 10 daylight Kodachrome, the formula of which changed in early November 1941. It cannot be earlier than that, as the Oliver tractors on the flat car were introduced in April 1940....
