-Watch in High Quality for best picture- A lot of quality was lost in the upload to RU-vid, which is unusual. 2-8-2 #190, the "Yukon Queen," runs on the Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock, NC. Filmed 7/29/08.
I love this video. Mr. McLeod sure knows his way around a steam whistle. It's music to my ears, and brings back fond childhood memories. Three cheers to the maintenance crew who keeps this treasure safely rolling down the tracks.
USA whistle signals are inherently longer. Yes, some showing off is involved, here in this video but the standard road crossing signal is 2 long blasts, a short blast, followed by a long blast.
I had an opportunity to ride in the cab of a steam engine one time. I found that to be one of the top 10 events of my life. The engineer said "man you flew an airplane down here and you're excited about sitting up here?" I said "Yep!" I felt like Dr. Emmet Brown on Back to the Future when he let me blow the whistle!
Very nice! I have the pleasure of driving and firing one of her sister locos in Australia (218) from time to time. When I get to visit the US, I have every intention of checking out 190, she looks and sounds beautiful. It is obvious the TRR crews look after her very well.
190,is a beast....Scott is a hell of an engineer.....I spent all day yesterday,shoveling 5 tons of Virginia coal into her firebox....pushing Thomas the tank engine around the mountains...love my job.
choctawman100 hey I have a question how do you become a engineer at tweetsie I fell in love with tweetsie because of the whistle the tune they play on the whistle is just incredible especially if Scott is driving he inspired me to want to work at tweetsie I love the history behind the two locomotives i feel like tweetsie has not been the same without Scott behind 190 and I don’t know the other engineers name but he was the engineer for #12 the year I remember him in #12 was in 2011 not trying to be rude but he was the fat guy him and Scott are the perfect engineer for the two trains. Tweetsie has not been the same with out them that’s why I want to work at tweetsie and work as the engineer for #12 or 190 which one does not matter to me as long as I’m doing what I can to keep these trains running and driving them and making peoples day that’s all I want to do.
Is there a reason that all american loco drivers seem to hold on to the whistle chord almost constantly? Is it just showing off for the cameras or is it actually done so much normally?
It looks like the fireman prepared the fire for the engine to handle it's normal load of 5 cars, but it had 4 here for whatever reason. I had thought that was a bit much smoke for this section of the railroad ;)
Occasionally one of their excursion cars has to go down for maintenance, as everything does, so that's probably why they have 4 cars on the train. As for the fireman stoking too much coal, you've gotta keep a constant string of coal coming into the firebox, or else it'll die down, and then you'd be in serious trouble.
The American Crossing is 4 blasts. 2 longs, 1 short, and the last is very long. It's because the rails go over a lot of crossings, and one blast would not be enough.
no just for the heritage weekend and besides, the whistle that 190 isn't wearing her actual whistle but they used here original whistle on 2008 heritage weekend
***** You obviously know NOTHING about what you're shooting off about on the internet. It was the ET&WNC, not "EC&WNC", it went to Boone-not Blowing Rock (or "rolling rock"), and the Southern Railway had NO ownership in the railroad whatsoever. The ET&WNC (in this case, Linville River Rwy.) also only came within several miles away from the park, and probably not within whistle range. That part of the line was abandoned in 1940, and the park wasn't even started until 1957.
