The Promontory Odyssey! - Finishing the First Transcontinental Railroad 

More like ugly look all American trains are

@@PoopooR Take one look at American streamliners like The Hiawatha and The Chessie

I also like 1860 steam locomotives

@@PoopooR yet there was a train that made passengers sick because of it’s “next generation” tilting technology train made by Britain

@railroad fan I mean the British steam engines like the e2 or peppercorn a1

What was it the engines said??? Pilots touching head to head. Facing on a single track. Half a world behind each back. (Both engine's): OMG I wasn't even supposed to be here.

Ur rigth, atleast the two saved their respective trains.

Everyone knows it was Snoopy who drove the spike in!

yes

Kanefan701 have u finally returned to RU-vid??

@@michaelpham8368 I'm still here. But still taking a long needed abcent since I have more to do outside the internet nowadays and being with my family and trying to search for a job.

Kanefan701 That makes sense. When did u say u we’re going to return?

@@michaelpham8368 I don't know when I'll come back. But you can be assured that I will.

Kanefan701 Good to know

HERE HERE!

YES WHOOO HOOO

Where can I download these?

@@sbinfo7979 trainz forge

anthony aint orignal so he can eat his words

He IS technically STILL an American type..

Cp had no real access to coal at the time so they had to use wood. There was coal availabe for up out east. Up also struggled to get wood which was used for ties and bridge construction. They had to use coal since thier hardest supply was wood. Cp also used lots of wood for ties, fuel, bridges, but also snowsheds in the sierra mountains. But they were rolling in wood.

Antelope after it hits the log: UhUuhHuuUUhhh WhAt HaPeNeD?

Just how many documentaries on anything have YOU seen? 3 or 4?

@@walshrd I've seen documentaries about your mother 🗿🗿🗿🗿

These were company assets, and were subject to taxes. Even if cp (then sp) put them on display they would have had to have paid taxes on them. Its the tax codes of the day to blame for their destruction. Had they been exempt from taxes is very possible they would have beed stord for future museum displays. The only objects left are 3 of the 4 spikes, possibly a ring and fob, and the trophy is central pacifics directors car which is now in a museum as virgina and truckee coach 17, at the nevada state railroad museum. Also jupiters sister Leviathan #63 is still around.

Michael Pham yes this was In trainz 2019. The graphics in trainz 2019 are higher and better in trainz a new era

The parts were made in boston then shipped throgh the panama canal, and assembled by central pacific shops.

Confederate actually.

YES! Thank you! Someone is paying attention after all!

To explain my stake in the situation - Brian consulted pretty heavily with me throughout this, and I made the engine models. Overall, I think your points have some merits, but a few comments: First, this is just an etiquette thing, but your opening line reads as though there are so many errors you don't know where to begin. Then you only list three, which is a bit anticlimactic. This isn't Nothing Like it in the World, it doesn't grossly misrepresent the building of the roads as a whole in its first iteration, so spare us the drama, please. The three Golden spikes was a mistake in my research, Stillman's account mentions that "the munificence of private citizens of San Francisco had contributed two gold spikes" each of which I took to be separate from the Hewes family spike, for whatever reason. That's on me, although again, I don't see entirely why such a grand reaction be donated to as trivial an error as that. The Piedmont issue I am entirely unqualified to comment. Assuming you've done your research, I will believe that, and considering one of the bents had completely sunk from the flood, it tracks that that - more than a staged strike - would be what delayed the ceremony two days. I have most comment on the locomotives. The makeup and motive power on the Promontory train is generally pretty unclear. Certainly Jupiter arrived at Monument Point carrying a single water car, the provision car and the director's car - but we don't really have definite photos that we can identify as the director's train before then. There are no Hart stereoviews at all throughout Utah - which would be something of a wasted opportunity if Hart had boarded the Director's train at or before Argenta. Combine this with the fact that Stager is photographed on both sides of the division point at Carlin, which doesn't track with the notion that locos were changed at every division point, at least for the director's train. There were plenty of locos at Carlin to take the director's train; why would Stager not stop there? An alternate theory - stereoviews 343 through 349 are taken earlier in 1869, during a US Railway Commissioners' inspection of the line. The inspectors used the Stanford car and subsistence car - tacked onto normal passenger services. Hart catches the train at Argenta, and follows it at least through Elko and probably to the Utah border. On the return trip, he catches a passenger train led by Leviathan through Peko and Deeth - you can tell it's headed westbound because Mount Halleck is in the background, which means the camera is looking north. Shots 350-364 are then shot from the Promontory train - there's nothing to suggest Hart was on the train through California or even Nevada, since the first shot we see after the westbound passenger train at Deeth is at Victory. A final note about the division points - as I established earlier, since the division point was at Carlin, we see trains both in 1869 (the USRC inspection) and in 1876 (the Lightning Express) run straight through division points. So what's to say that Stanford's train changed locos beyond Wadsworth?

@@LTTRR My research into this topic stems from my work on a documentary on the construction of the Pacific Railroad. I have consulted and interviewed established experts on both railroads, including Wendell Huffman, Kevin Bunker, and Kyle Wyatt, the latter having spoken on camera regarding which locomotives may or may not have pulled Stanford's train. There is evidence showing the Stager and Leviathan pulled the special (Hart photo 343 and 349 show the Stager and Leviathan heading the train. This IS Stanford's special attached to the regular passenger train, as ordinarily the Subsistence Car and the Director's car were the only cars in their train) As to the specifics of where exactly the locomotives were changed, that is hard to say, and has likely been lost to history. My previous comment uses the aforementioned stations as an example. It's also hard to say one way or another why Hart did not expose any photographs in Utah before arriving at Monument Point. One would have to be there to know for sure. The problem with researching this subject is that nearly every published work on the First Transcontinental Railroad contains a degree of fiction. I myself went into these interviews with preconceived notions that were soundly proven false. My reaction comes from irritation, due to the long uphill battle required to kill these long perpetuated myths. This is a critical aspect of American history, and deserves more than to be interpreted as a children's fairytale. That said, though my previous comment does not express it, the visual representation is very impressive.

​@@SierraRailway Those credentials are sound, thank you. I can understand where it's obnoxious to research something tirelessly only to find people carrying on the same old story. But trying to research through published accounts, it doesn't read well. I know these are all reasonable people, but trying to cross-reference what you were saying earlier, I frankly got sick of the sheer number of times I saw the word NOT in all caps in the middle of a sentence. I understand people want to emphasize it, but italics were invented for a reason, and I only wish they were usable in RU-vid comments so I can demonstrate... As for the details - I was wrong about the directionality of the train at Deeth. Further examination tells me "Mount Halleck" is probably Ruby Dome/Lee Peak, which would place the train eastbound. The reconfiguration of the train seems a bit odd to me, but I'll have to look into that later today.

Yes thank you@@SierraRailway . If you want to help me with researching my next narrated video about Casey Jones, drop me a line.

Actually other than paint and a few details the trains were quite similar.

Yes.

Nevada-solid silver spike. Arizona-gold and silver plated steel. The 35 other states-nah we are good just use a regular iron spike for us.

I've been working on the railroad.

Surprisingly, it’s the real deals livery which is inaccurate. No evidence exists suggesting that Jupiter ever wore Royal Blue in its service life, but nonetheless looks stunning on her.

It says at 12:08.

@@HighIron thank you so much

Some of it were modules specifically designed for the video. Other scenes were on the Yosemite Valley Railroad, available from the DLS

Brian McDonnell ok thanks man

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Those were made by one of the Trainz Forge guys specifically for this video. He plans to release them once they're fully finished.

@@HighIron when will they be done?

@@JonathanHopkinsMarkiplierFan When he feels like it.

Brian McDonnell ok

I've been working on the railroad.

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Those were the first verses of a poem by Francis Bret Harte

Thx

DLS laddy

Music:Hans Zimmer(2013)(The Lone Ranger)

Directed by:Gore Verbinski

1869-1933

All special and visual effects, courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic and Moving Picture Company