This is an excellent summary of the 9000 type. Very well written and technically sound. You can’t say that about every railroad video you find on RU-vid these days.
Thanks. There's a claim to be made, and a valid one that they represent the evolutionary end for three-cylinder power - rather than simply being the last in any given line before dieselisation took over.
This has been a spectacular series on the UP locomotives. Thank you. I have subscribed and I am looking forward to the discussion of the challenger and Big Boy locomotives.
By far- this is one of most informative summaries about steam motive power I’ve come across. Well explained and some of the best photos I’ve seen of pre - articulated Union Pacific brutes. Thanks for posting this. These are the best b & w photos I’ve seen of U.P.’s 4-10-2s. I grew up near Lima, Ohio and love the machines that came from there. BTW….in Ohio, everyone pronounces Lima like “lime-ahh”, not Leem-ahh.
It was about half way through season five of "Glee" that it occurred to me that maybe it's "Lima," like the locomotive works and they are just saying it wrong. Anyway, the Digital Archive at Denver Public Library is outstanding, and Otto C. Perry was prolific as a photographer. It's streets ahead of any other archive I've found.
Thanks for your comment. That must have been quite something. I'm too young to have seen steam in revenue service, and was at high school by the time preserved locomotives were allowed to run on the main line - and a Big Nine's 'weight on drivers' is comfortably more than our "Ka" class engine and tender combined. One day I'll get back to North America to see some big live steam.
The only Ho scale road locomotive I retained from the train sets of my childhood is a GWR "Hall" class by Triang-Hornby. A big Nine on the same scale would be twice the size!
Not sure if you're aware or interested but there is a program that's been put on RU-vid that has some color footage of the 9000s sprinkled in. "Steam over Sherman 1984" also some shots of engines running light which I never seen before of those types.
I’ve seen it in person. I am fortunate enough to live about 30 mins away from it, so I can see it in person. I am actually a new member of the museum where it is. It is quite the remarkable beast indeed. While it’s currently not in the best of condition, it is still quite the sight!
@@thepiratepilot1507 It's on my list. Every time I look at a photograph of a big nine part of my brain yells "photoshopped!" as if someone has taken a photo of a 4-8-2 and spliced in another couple of axles.
@@theimaginationstation1899 If you do ever end up heading to Pomona, just remember: RailGiants (the museum) is only open on the second weekend of each month.
I've heard that, but also that since the valve sits alongside one of the outside valves they share a common exhaust. But then again the centre cylinder has a lesser volume to exhaust. So I remain in the "who knows" camp.
Just a short comment. You have done well on research and presentation. But gee whiz, mallet is pronounced mallet (long a or ee for the et)- drop the ‘t’ as in French and Lima is not Lema. Lima ( long i) as in Ohio, Lima (long e for i) as in Peru. I think you probably knew this but this is nit-picking on my part. Otherwise, nicely done.
Thanks for your comment. Oh, like in Glee! To be honest, I knew that. But I do enjoy the intentional miss-steps over pronouncing shared words. My favourite is how Australians say Blenheim. It's hard to change a habit of a lifetime, though with Mallet! How'd I go with Berkshire?
