Top 5 More Scrapped American Excursion Stars 

Thunderbolt I'm from Paducah and we also tried to save 2613 but unfortunately we were unable to raise what the Illinois Central Railroad wanted for her which was what she would bring for scrap.

Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised by PRR 612’s inclusion here. She did pull some trips before being scrapped, and she was an iconic Pennsy K4. Awesome video as always, Thunder!

Love The Amazing Digital Circus music in this well documented video! A big shame these engines weren't preserved!

In my model railroad’s lore, they were able to save several steam locomotives from scrapping, including a PRR K4, a New York Central J3a Hudson, and an Atlantic Coast Line 4-6-2, all of which are still running. They also saved two Baldwin 2-10-0 Russians of their own.

Was not expecting a Delorean on a flatbed lol 👍🏼 3:19

I’ll be looking forward on seeing this premier tomorrow night, I’m already curious on which former scrapped excursion stars are gonna be in the second part. Guess I’ll have ti wait and find out soon.

As for the rest of the other steam locomotives. Texas & Pacific 638: Could’ve been displayed at the Museum of American Railroad located in Frisco, Texas. New Haven 3020: Could’ve been displayed at the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum in Lenox, Massachusetts. Illinois Central 2524: Could’ve been in operation at the Steam Railroading Institute located in Owosso, Michigan. Illinois Central 2612: Could’ve been displayed at the Henry Ford Museum located in Dearborn, Michigan. Illinois Central 2802: Could’ve been in operation in Fort Worth, Texas by BNSF with their own steam excursion program (Which also could’ve happened). Illinois Central 2807: Could’ve been displayed at the Arizona State Railroad Museum located in Williams, Arizona. Illinois Central 2739: Could’ve been displayed at the Douglas Railroad Interpretive Center located in Douglas, Wyoming. Pennsylvania Railroad 1737: Could’ve been displayed at Steamtown National Historic Site located in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

I live in Paducah. Not only 2613 was painted on a mural of the locomotive, one of its sisters, 1518, is up on display in Downtown Paducah by the mural wall.

New Haven 3006, 3016, and 3020 were set aside for snow melting duties in Boston, New Haven, and Providence respectively. All three later saw the torch. My coworker has a photo of him taken in the cab of 3020 as a child.

Northern Pacific: We will not repair any engines that we do not own. Also Northern Pacific: *buys the engine and fixes the problem* Just found that hilarious.

We need another one of this. I’m SO interested in these lost steam stars.

Thanks for talking about New Haven 3016. My mom loved Doris Day, so I saw "It Happened to Jane" multiple times with the steam train being my biggest draw. I figured that she was a New Haven loco, but didn't have much info about it until now. A shame she wasn't actually preserved like her movie counterpart.

It’s tragic that these beautiful historical steam locomotives were destroyed

Aye I see a few of my suggestion lost steam excursion stars managed to be in the video. Thank you for that man!

Reading T-1 No. 2123, although it wasn't an excursion star engine, it was one of the members of the T-1 class, built in 1924 as an I-10sa 2-8-0 Consolidation, but was later rebuilt as an 4-8-4 on 1947 by Reading themselves, 2123 was retired in 1959, it was originally to be scrapped but it was saved to be used as a spare parts source for other T-1s used on the Iron Horse Rambles excursions, which are Reading 2100, 2101, 2102 and 2124, on 1966, 2123 was finally scrapped after being cannibalized for parts.

The 2613s tender was not sold to Richard Jensen, IC 2612 and 2614s tenders were. Both were cut up in the early 2010s

Great video again, Nicholas. It is sad that these excursions stars couldn't be saved from the scrappers torch. But they will always live on in the memories of simulators and models too. Can't wait for part 3!

Great video! I also quite loved how at 7:40 you used the the Moon Festival theme music from Angry Birds seasons. I had quite a laugh when I heard that.

On PRR 612's entry I couldn't stop myself from whistling The Amazing Digital Circus Theme. and i myself as a PRR fan will miss 612, Think of her along side N&W 611 since both almost have the same numbers. That would've been cool to see.

ANOTHER CAB FORWARD MY FRIEND LOVES THOSE ENGINES!!!!!!!

Such a sad but very interesting video. Even tho all your videos are always well put together but this one really hit home!

Whoa! Nicely done! Can’t wait for part 3!

I'm glad you mentioned 6315 in the honorable mentions. That is such an underrated engine that no one mentions.

R.I.P to our steam locomotives that do not survive the museum saving them

I hope someday we will have enough new build locomotives to make up for these poor engines that were gone too soon.

IC 4-8-2 2500 was saved at Centralia, IL

I love the Thomas And Friends music in the background

"Friction bearings" were a marketing term Timken invented to sell more roller bearings to make plain bearings seem like bad juju.

This video is wild for me. I am from Centralia, Illinois where ICRR 2500 is in static display in Fairview Park right across the street from the Fairview Shopping Plaza. I now live in Paducah, Kentucky (after living in the Lehigh Valley for 8 years). I see 2513 in display too right in front of the Carson Center and the mural. Paducah also has a railroad museum here and the Paducah and Louisville Railroad here. I live right behind their railyard. Kind of cool to see trains passing by!

Here’s the list for part 3 5-CB&Q 6315 4-SP 4443 3-NP 1372 2-CN 90 1-UP 3967

So 4443 was one of my honorable mentions for other retired excursion star videos

As a bit of a Pennsy fan, I can agree that 612, along with 1737, should've been preserved. Then we could've had all four PRR K4's in preservation.

I really like that you mentioned NP S-4 1372 on this list. Even though she's gone, she does have a few surviving sisters (NP 1354, 1356, 1364, and 1382). In addition to that, one of 1372's cousins, NP S-10 328, has also been preserved. 328 had a very lengthy excursion career herself (1981 to 2001), and my very own Great-Great Grandfather actually drove her!

The old lesson they didn't know what they had until it was gone.

I love 4274! I will always miss her! R.I.P. 4274! ❤🙏😔

SP 4460 is preserved at the St Louis Museum of Transport

Pennsylvania RR 612 also has another train sister still in existence: the all too familiar and famous K4 611... I would love to c a vid of that one...

Which instrumental version of “The Wreck of Old 97” did you use as the background music for number four?

Some other PRR excursion engines that got away were 2 G5s, and E6 1000 and a E3. I knew many a PRR engine man growing up. Most only liked the K4 because it could haul heavier trains easier. But they said the E6 rode better and handled better “they rode like a baby buggy” than a K4 which felt it would derail at any moment over 100mph! In addition the E6 was very sure footed for an Atlantic and was easier to fire than a K4 even after stokers were added. While not an Excursion star Reading G3 219 was almost saved. The Reading tried to donate her to the City of Reading to be placed in City park. The Mayor of Reading at the time was a member of the Reading Society of Model Engineers and a knew most of the Reading Brass reportedly. But the donation was refused because The Reading wanted the city to pay for the truck to get it from the rails to the park. The mayor wouldn’t spend $50 for the lowboy truck to save her !!!

NP superpower locomotives really got the short end of the stick with preservation

I loved locomotives when I was 5 ,but it is sad to see one gone.

4:51 I’ve seen this SP cab forward at the CSRM before!

Yes plz do a video about CB&Q 6315!!!

15:36 thunder bolt activity simping over the 8in drive wheels 😂 (not being offensive just thought it was funny)

Back again! BTW,my grandmother was the secretary to the plant manager during WWII @ Timken Bearing plant here in Columbus OH. She got the position because she was Valor Dictorian of her school in Del Co. I can remember the plant here in Cols,it was huge took up like 150 acres just east of downtown Cols. Buckeye castings,was another huge plant located on the south side of Cols,owed by the Bush family of presidential fame. They made lots of railroad parts i.e. wheel,trucks,couplers,etc.

15:39 "why am I so weird..." *looks at my steam locomotive waifus* Good question

icr 2613 we will miss you now it is time for you to venture were trains can run forever in peace and no scrap in site thank you for your time with our world.

I would like to see another scrapped excursion star video

28:48 Just as a point of clarification, there is no current rework of the Timken 1111 Four Aces in progress for Trainz Forge. A team member I asked personally on the matter said "a Timken rework is not in the pipeline".

Here’s how I would imagine if all of these steam locomotives could’ve been preserved at to this day. Along with the two I mentioned previously of another video from last year. Southern Pacific Cab Forward 4274: Could’ve been displayed at the Western Railway Museum located in Suisun City, California. New Haven 3016: Could’ve been in operation at the Strasburg Railroad located in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. Illinois Central 2613: Could’ve been displayed at the Illinois Railway Museum located in Union, Illinois. Pennsylvania Railroad 612: Could’ve been displayed at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum located in Baltimore, Maryland. Timken 1111 (A.K.A Northern Pacific 2626): Could’ve been in operation at the North Shore Scenic Railroad located in Duluth, Minnesota (Located near the Lake Superior Railroad Museum). As for the honorable mentions. Southern Pacific 4443: Could’ve been displayed at the San Francisco 4th and King Street Train Station located in San Francisco, California. Northern Pacific 1372: Could’ve been in operation at the Mid Continent Railway Museum located in North Freedom, Wisconsin. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 6315: Could’ve been displayed at the Galveston Railroad Museum located in Galveston, Texas.

When I first watched this video, I didn’t know that PRR 612 was another K4 excursion star besides 1361. It’s awesome to see two K4s still here to this day, but still, there should’ve been more K4s with streamlined bodies and unique modifications in the hands of preservation. It’s still sad that many thousands of steam engines had to face the cutter’s torch. Even the engines that have changed railroading forever should’ve been preserved. I can go on and on about having more steam engines being preserved just to make preservation better. And I didn’t know that there was a New Haven steam locomotive. And yes, I do know that the New Haven along with the Lehigh Valley don’t have any steam locomotives preserved with a few parts preserved. For example: A Lehigh Valley locomotive had its bell preserved at the Railroad Museum Of Pennsylvania aka my favorite railroad museum of all time. Really love this video. 10/10

I don't think the FRA had anything to do with plain journals being blocked from interchange. The AAR is the interchange organization you are thinking of.

Shame 3016 was scrapped, I remember watching It Happened to Jane when I was a child with my momma.

4:58 no there are not. There was water left in her boiler and now it’s rusted out. That’s gonna just gonna be for show.

3:43 there’s my Rivarossi model!!!

I heard about port of tillamok bay railroad 4406 + 4716 (maybe) they both gave train attractions until 2007, there were left to rot after a storm caused damage to the rails and were left to rot What remains of the POTB railroad is Potb no.101 and the railcars and are still there today

what is the sad music of 2613 at 11:49?

Was not expecting TADC music in this video.

I live literally a block from the Worthington Railway Museum, where they have the N&W 578 It's too bad that they can't get any corporate sponsors to donate to our local Museum. I have even tried to get Anhiser Busch to come on board,but they replied that isn't a endeavor that they would be willing to take part in.. shameful, since our Railway Museum is literally across the tracks from their Columbus bottling mega brewery. We need our locomotive to go to age of steam round house for restoration! Save our beluigered Railway history!

That interesting you featured New Haven steam locomotives, cause I all ways wondered what happened to those steam locomotives made by New Haven. That steam engine 3025, I've seen that steam engine several times at the Essex steam train ride, but I didn't know its a Chinese locomotive in disguise. Thats Unfortunate the New Haven locomotive you mentioned was scrapped, but at least it lives on in that movie. Nice video by the way.

I think Illinois railway museum wanted to buy 2613 for preservation

Can u do another top 5 scrapped excursion star

Amazing video! How about the next video of this caliber be about the most underrated preserved American Steam Locomotives in operation

Im gonna be honest with you, both 5629s and 2613s stories are frustrating. (one engine I think deserves a replica is the 4 aces because of how it was the best advertisement and the reason why roller bearing are used on trains today)

I Think the type of engine in the thumbnail is still alive in Brazil, but i Can be wrong

I enjoy your videos. I would like to make a suggestion for your next project. I would love to see you make a video about the Livingston, Louisiana train Derailment of 1982.

I have a feeling that 2613 is going to take number one on this

It's sad to see a Steam Train get scrapped, Steam Locomotives are one of the most amazing man-made Transportation Mode. It's sad to see a iron giant like a Steam Locomotive be scrapped just because other powerful and faster Trains were made. In my opinion, Steam Trains should've been saved for freight or something...

Hey the K4 doesn’t look bad on freight trains

Love the Delorean, TH&B at 3:31, CN etc.

I think Gordon and Scotsman should show Hank more respect.

It's really sad that these trains were scrapped but great top 5 video 6:10

We need that third installment

Oh wow it's too bad these locomotives are gone

Give us part 3

Mentioned that there's a deloran from back from the future

I’ve heard of steam locomotives being scrapped before, including the scrapped American excursion stars.

Dang If only the age of steam roundhouse would’ve existed back then…

YIPPIE ITS FINNALY HERE

15:36 LOL! 😆

Yes I have my honorable mentions

I recognize gene Rayburn from match game.

What about Union Pacific Challenger 3967? From what I heard, it pulled an excursion, too.

2613 isn’t number one on this list it’s my favorite scrapped steam excursion star alongside 5629😢

Are their any videos about the cab forward that don't include commentary about smokey tunnels and that being the reason they exist, or does it have to be gone through with all of them.

Wow mr conductors sparkle sound from shining time station 25:42

YO I LOVE 4274

2613 x 5629?

Pls do pt 3 with honorable mentions

This only for railfans RU-vidr not object shows fans

Hey thunderbolt 1000 l have a some question what kind of music that you like and can I talk to you. Thanks.

Since you love the K4s so much, why don't make a video of the history of K4s?

Oh yeah! Another scrapped excursion stars video! And I suspect even after you already talked about 5629 and 5632 last year, you’ll still be mentioning a certain Chicagoan here, huh?

yes make a 3rd part

Hello! I love watching you videos but I am requesting a video on the Sandusky train derailment and also east Palestine train derailment. Thank you!

If you do a part 3, may I narrate a section?

Wait didn't Richard Jensen saved GTW 5629 and abandoned her?

Save 1361

Make a K4 documentary lollll

Your voice changed when you started the list. Are you feeling ok?