I mean, being retired to Exhibition service on a tourist railroad with good maintenance is hardly the worst fate an old narrow gauge locomotive can have. Certainly better than being scrapped like a lot are.

I would rather get scraped 💀💀💀

And your boiler was removed and replaced with one of a different size, and your cab replaced with one made of fiberglass! 😢

Fiberglass cab is BS, conversion is just a facelift, the frame and basically everything else is the same. And the tenders were probably clapped and rotted out with rust, but at least the trucks are there. I’ve been neck deep in restoration work for several years now, it’s really helped me understand just how much you have to sacrifice sometime to keep an old gem running. And let’s face it, there’s no way they were gonna used the original boilers for something that runs as much as those. I mean technically it might be possible, but they run almost every day of the week. Don’t even want to think about maintaining the OG systems.

@@haydenbritt1237 I didn’t even say anything like that tf

Makes you wonder what else they lie about because it “sounds more romantic”

Bro it sucks that it got misrouted

​@@trainknutthe price of dreams is actually $59.99 with food and drink is not include. And a burger set cause $20

@@trainknut Almost everything. You go there to escape the real world, you don't find much there that doesn't calm the mind, even if your wallet takes a huge hit. "Welcome to Fantasy Island!"

Wonder how many kids have gone missing there over the years?

They run on propane? Hank Hill would be proud.

I never knew that

Idependent brakes for locomotives were available from Baldwin all the way back to the 1880's. However they were optional and alot of railroads early on didnt want to pay the extra money for them, which is why they dont have locomotive brakes.

@@rockytopgaming6820 While the earliest WDWRR engine was built in 1916 (and the earliest on the DRR in California is from 1890), I believe the idea was that their base wheel arrangements were around in the MID 1800s, and that was the era their restoration was targeting aesthetically. Tho, as you say, even in the late 19th century and early 20th, them being available didn’t necessarily mean every loco had it.

Some similar locomotives to the Jupiter have since been built by Kloke Locomotive Works of Elgin, Illinois.

Nevada Northern Railroad is currently building a new steam locomotive.

FURFAG

so far there's a new T1 in the works this very minute

Not really, considering boiler replacements were common during the steam days. Sometimes a engine could have multiple boilers in its lifetime, but with the same frame and running gear.

Unfortunately it’s pretty much necessary to safely operate a steam engine that hasn’t been meticulously maintained its entire life. Any major weaknesses in a boiler can cause them to literally explode, so the choice is to replace the boiler or leave it as purely a display piece-too dangerous to ever actually fire up.

Boilers on locos in service would sometimes be swapped every couple of years, they’re just a consumable item

Besides the usual boilers are usually replaced anyways, why should you care if its not running the original boiler, if it runs, it runs

@@nitsu2947 true, I think it might be a loosing some historical value to me, also with all the thing everyone is saying, how do they replace boilers in the Thomas universe? Like, in a serious sense. Do they like, have to die and then be brought back to life or something

It lives on in the others.

Someone would have either bought it and kept it running or help ship it back to the UK

And ruin them for entertainment, i mean, fair, it's good that these things aren't spoons now, but you get what i mean, right?

better than rusting away in a museum or scrapyard

​@@ukaszwalczak1154how did they ruin them? They still run, they're active almost everyday, and they arent scrapped

@@therailfanman2078 I just have a distain for their liveries on the Disney RR, and for Disney, and mainly just that. Yes, i am incredibly biased i know.

No. It was based on where the locomotives ran. Which fuel was more Abundant and the flammability of its surroundings

It's actually dependent on where the engines ran. If you have yourself a railway running through, say, a forest, you wouldn't want a forest fire caused by one of the engines, would you? The diamond stacks were used on the engines that ran on railways in forest.

They didn’t save them

@@Green-ader then why was it brought to use huh??

@@sebastianchangco5707 they ruined them

@@Green-ader they killed them? They dump them into lava? They trashed them? They crushed them?

​@@Green-ader shut up you loser. You dont understand anything about locomotives

When Disneyland in California was built the Train was the personal property of Walt Disney and not the Corporation.

You wouldn't want to run a junkyard boiler. And a smaller one is perfectly OK for an engine repurposed for amusement park rides.

Boilers are almost always replaced. Would you rather they use the unsafe and rusted boilers?

@@therailfanman2078 I said "different". When you restore something you put "original" parts on something. Let's say you're restoring a rifle, you take a Carcano action and barrel and fit it on a Springfield stock, you haven't "restored" it, you bubba'd it. Same thing here, they could've just stuck with a newly made same type of boiler, rather than just taking one from a different model of engine entirely. But eh, those cheap asses at Disney would make you use your phone's flashlight instead of the park light if they thought cutting that corner would make them save enough