You probably noticed I didn't announce which locomotive I was gonna talk about next in this series. Reason for that being is with some of the other NYC locomotives out there, I'm not sure how many free to use/public domain pictures or videos of them are out there. In other words, I don't want to announce "I'm doing (X) unit next!" and end up having to cancel it because of a lack of resources. So I'm just going to decide what the next episode will be on my own time. Just stay tuned and you'll eventually find out lol. Also thanks for watching this video!

I’m happy to say that the S-Motor #6000 and T-Motor #278 have been saved from the scrapper’s torch and moved to the Danbury Railway Museum for restoration!

An S motor was shown a few minutes after the beginning of the movie 12 Hours to Kill in 1960 coming out of the Park Avenue tunnel. The movie starred Barbara Eden.

Always found US electrics fascinating. Looking forward to more of these.

My grandfather was a car knocker and maintenance man for the NYC, and worked in the Mott Haven yard in the Bronx, where cars were cleaned and light repairs were done, before they were moved across the East Rive and transferred to Grand Central Terminal. He retired just before the merger. My other grandfather was a maintenance man in the 180 St. Yard of the Subway system, so I have a bit of a soft spot for railroading in New York City.

I figured a few lasted to PC, but Conrail?! That's crazy one of them was kept so long! Also wonderful we have three of them left, two in the same class no less!

My Uncle John had a Lionel NYC S-Motor. It was the very first Lionel locomotive he ever got. My Uncle has passed away in 2017. However my Aunt Nancy does still have the Lionel NYC S-Motor, along with the other Lionel models.

So THAT'S what those old Lionel electric engines were based on! Nice video as always, love your choices for the background music as well

I love the look of the S Motors. My dad used to have a prewar Lionel train based on the S Motor

I like the use of Linus and Lucy when introducing the s motors, overall a very interesting episode

Thing about the Park Ave. Tunnel crash was that although the smoke and steam was blamed, the engineer running the express that crashed into the back of the commuter train was known to be notoriously impatient and always in a hurry. It was wasn't just a signal that was missed, it was a set of bright flares, and a loud gong bell that could be heard over the sound of the trains that was missed. Anywho, the steam ban is still very much on the books. When Flying Scotsman visited New York during its USA tour, it had to have its fire dropped and be towed into the city by a GG1 electric loco. As there was still a head of steam even without the fire as the boiler was still hot while this was going on, they opened the regulator so Scotsman would be huffing and puffing anyway.

Very cool to learn about the history of the S motor. I'm a massive PC fan myself, so i naturally have a ton of pics of them in PC paint

Steam locomotives had horrid luck in preservation because the company's president at the time, Alfred E Perlman hated steam locomotive preservation, thinking it would make New York Central look outdated, and so ordered to have all steam locomotives cut up. It was due to that policy almost all NYC steam locomotives classes, including the Hudsons went extinct. But that still didn't stop 6721, 999, 3001, and 2933 from escaping in various ways that were all miraculous.

Lionel did a nice job with their S Motor models in the prewar era, where they looked very much like the real New York Central S Motors, although it's a bit strange to me that they didn't offer a [prototypical] New York Central version of it then (for both wheel arrangement and paint scheme combination). It goes to show that the New York Central S Motor electric locomotives were a good design to make a locomotive out of tinplate tooling where it can retain a resemblance to the original, full-size locomotive. One thing I should mention is that when electrification was put into place, and when the steam locomotive ban was put in place in New York City in 1908, that only applied to Manhattan. Remember, New York City is made up of five boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. The other boroughs of New York City did have steam locomotives run well into the 1950s in total, it depends on the railroad(s) in question of course. Don't worry, you're not the first to make this error, I've seen/heard it in other videos before, and you do have another great video here. Great work!

Brilliant video, excellent start to finish. Been a massive fan of early Electrics for decades, and theres all too few enjoyable videos and publications. This is really added to the library. You make great videos :)

Love the way you narrate! And interesting piece from America’s railway history!

Well done AmtrakGuy365 I have a great idea for another engines of series and I think this one should be considered the arch rival of the New York central engines of Pennsylvania (Engines of PRR). I think it should be mentioned because a lot of their engines have been preserved one is being built from the rails up from the ashes of them not being preserved and one that was a former excursion star is undergoing its second restoration back in the service and the two engines mentioned is T1 duplex number 5550 of the T1 Trust and K4 pacific number 1361 of the railroad museum in Altoona Pennsylvania it’s also historically noted that my great great great grandfather was an engineer for the Pennsylvania railroad and that was one of the engines he drove. I have an original Pennsylvania railroad rulebook and his original railroad pocket watch. It would be great if we did a series on engines of Pennsylvania railroad. Give this, I like if you’d like to see this come true.

Great work mate, love your content! Love from Australia

75 years holy crap!

The one at IRM ran for a short period of time before the motors crapped out but even after that it was used as a shop compressor until that also died.

I gotta tell you the music choice for this was amazing!

one thing that fascinates me for American electric trains is their really long lifespan

So you mean to tell me these little things from multiple years before WW1 were operating regularly into the 1960s? *…damn…*

Never thought I'd hear Omori music on a train video but I am not complaining!

NICE Amtrakguy365 this is now my favorite episode I never knew the S motors where steeplecabs I love their Westinghouse Trombone Air whistles

You’re the best Jared!!!!

Another episode of Engines of New York Central the S-Motor. He's shedding light on the locomotives left behind with the merger between New York Central System and Pennsylvania Railroad for Penn Central Transportation Company or scrapped.

Cool train video.

Personally I like the T-motors a lot more - the ones from after the reclassification of the S-motors.

One of my favorites

Please upload more of these!

I remember them mostly because of Railroad Tycoon 3 as the first electric locomotive you can get.

Great! New video Very good I like it 👍🏾

if you consider subways to be part of railroading then no the park avenue crash wasn't the deadliest in the cty, that would be the Malbone St wreck

Just Itching at the moment a T-Motor video will come out

They we good little shunters

3:48, that's some Looney Tunes type stuff 😂 Like one guy's glasses get taken off and another guy's button on his pants gets taken.

"I thought you said "Whistle Toot", but you said "Toot Whistle"."

I remember these (or at least a very similar steeplecab) from an OpenTTD play through I did with US trains, I never found these all that useful due to the low speed and somewhat low power, I mainly used electric interurbans and for my commuter and transfer networks, these were more expensive and not much stronger, and they were too weak and slow for my bigger trains. Trains like this really do make me wonder why the US electrified so little of their lines, so many railways could have run much more efficient trains with lower running costs…

Does any1 remember the " Worms?" They had a large platform like front. And how about the " Centipedes?" These models had lots of wheels mounted underneath, both of these types were used in the East only.

Its finally here

Just curious, would you ever do any of the nyc tank engines or the ple berkshires?

hey jared i have a cool idea ! you should complete engines of new york central part 5!!!

ooooo me havent seen chanel longggg. now see. goooodddd.

Nice!

You could say this train was, 'Magnetising'..... I'll get my coat.....

Aren't these the same locomotives featured in RT3 as "2-D-2"? Or are we talking about different units?

3:52 How did they get the S Motor down to the subway station? Apologies for my snarkiness but of course it happened at Grand Central Terminal.

Great video! One thing I've always about these locos though, what are the smallish pantographs just off the cab ends? Were they used to power the locomotives from overhead wires while in a maintenance shop, third rail supposedly being too dangerous for the maintenance crews?

75 tears of service for a few of the S-motors ! That's definitely getting your money's worth...lol.

I really like these locomotives they are the best

I've always wondered what are those little pantographs on the roof for.

Nice , Will you mention NYC F12 and K11 soon?

The third preserved S-Motor has a full-size pantograph. I understand that the miniature pantographs also seen on the other units were for contacting a wire or rail on the ceiling when passing through track junctions where the side third rail had gaps, but what's the full-size pantograph for?

Quick Question: If the S Motors were powered via Third Rail, why do they have little pantographs?

I’m just making a guess that it might be the NYC K5 Pacific’s

nice

I hope the P and T motors are next

I have a lionel train that looks really similar to it but its green and from the 1930s

Are you going to make an video about NYC's P motors?

Charlie Brown music. Very nice.

Why did they have pantographs when they were 3rd rail powered?

Woohoo from GeoTrax

What were their Horns/Whistles?

I have the Lionel model of The S motors

What horn did the S Motor use?

smol electric

0:51

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what are going to disguss next?

5:13 dude there's 2 mowhakes

Hello!

Sadly engine 100 is at risk of behing scapped due to issues

Dang im 21 mina late

:rodney:

Mario music eh?

B o x

Its the shmotor

goofy little engine :))

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I want, that, steam engine!

Third

S Motor wheelbase at high-speed GO BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Mmmm~ one of my personal NYC favorites. So much so that I made an OC of one

nice