The bell, whistle, and chuffing of the locomotive echoing out of the Piney Woods of east Texas is like a love song to my soul. Thank you for this wonderful video.
Gets me even more pumped and excited for soon the return of our number 60 here in the east on BR&W. Can't wait to finally be up close and personal, working a shift with her, whenever that day comes around. For now, it's just the good old SW9, that personally is one of my favorites of the roster so far.
Awesome video! I became good friends with one of the crew members of TRPA. The Texas State Railroad is definitely doing an amazing job with their operations. I look forward to one day making a trip out to Texas and ride this railroad.
Great video LRP, Love seeing and hearing steam locomotives at work. I caught ex-Southern Pacific 6379 yesterday on ZAILA first in Doyline then once again behind the Sciport theater in Shreveport.
I thought the last short line to use steam in regular revenue service was the Crab Orchard & Egyptian RR as they were using it up until the early 1980's.
Gonna have to say it: Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas was still serving an asphalt plant in the 70s. The stuff was too thick to flow through a pipeline. Steam powered mixed trains, daily except Sundays, IIRC.
Here is an interesting fact this locomotive is my third oldest friend in Steam locomotion the first being Grapevine Vintage Railroad 10 wheeler number 2248 and the second being the green train at Six Flags over Texas I got to ride behind the 400 from Rusk to Palestine and one thing I remember was seeing her sitting next to the water tower in Palestine with her centered headlight versus the headlight mounted what all three of my old friends and steam locomotion sharing comments that they are over 100 years old 400 being over 100 since 2017
Why does my 18 year old neurotypical female college classmate Jocelyn Castro who is a volleyball player and played volleyball ever since 8th grade know a lot about NBA basketball, but not a lot about steam trains, especially not this steam train from the Texas State Railroad?
Why does my 18 year old neurotypical female college classmate Jocelyn Castro who is a volleyball player and played volleyball ever since 8th grade know a lot about NBA basketball, but not a lot about steam trains, especially not this steam train from the Texas State Railroad?
Why does my 18 year old neurotypical female college classmate Jocelyn Castro who is a volleyball player and played volleyball ever since 8th grade know a lot about NBA basketball, but not a lot about steam trains, especially not this steam train from the Texas State Railroad?
when I was in boy scouts we camped there, then went for a ride on that train over the weekend. the parents were hyping us up for a steam engine the whole way there. we walked to the station and the run before ours came in with one of the steam engines leading. they then proceeded to cut it off and swap a diesel on :/ I guess they had issues on the previous run. anyway, after our ride we were left to our own for a bit while the adults went inside for something. we found some of the diesels parked nearby and turned off. we went over and started checking them out, one of the boys ended up opening the door on the nose. at that point someone from the railroad wrangled us up and returned us to the adults and everyone got in trouble. fun times, now Ive gone in hundreds of locomotives, get to use the controls, mainly the brakes though, and i get paid for the privilege. :} interesting, the diesel we were caught messing with was definitely a more modern one than what is shown in the video, maybe it was on loan. do they still do the "train robber" bit I remember that as well, but not much of it.
@@ericemmons3040 look under location changes and retirement on this link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_and_Pacific_610#Location_changes_and_second_retirement
They sold the 22 a few years ago. Couldn’t tell you who to though. Just remember seeing pictures of it being loaded up to leave. Pretty sure they took it out on a truck trailer.
@@LouisianaRailProductions man, I’ve been trying to find pictures of them loading it up or shipping it. Just wanted to see what it looked like outside the Palestine shop walls.
Word is the TSRR is redoing all of their track with 115 pound per yard rail and redoing their bridges to handle more weight. I smell the possibility of the restoration of a Texan titan.
Why does my 18 year old neurotypical female college classmate Jocelyn Castro who is a volleyball player and played volleyball ever since 8th grade know a lot about NBA basketball, but not a lot about steam trains, especially not this steam train from the Texas State Railroad?
Hey Bishop, I have a rather-significant correction to your video: The Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania is a commercially operated shortline railroad, NOT a pure tourist operation. And Strasburg still uses steam for freight revenue service to this day. So the Magma Arizona is NOT the last shortline to use steam for revenue service. That honor belongs to the Strasburg. Other than that, good video.
