As my uncle once said, “You’re GOD DAMN RIGHT”

To quote Blake Shelton: Hell Right!

The hoppers are empty, the train is 2900 tons according to another video, but still an impressive haul considering this is around the same load they used to test 1218 - a 2-6-6-4 heavy articulated, and she seemed to be working pretty hard on her test runs. A testament to the raw pulling power of the 2-10-0 type, explaining why they were so popular on so many railroads for so long despite being technically made "obsolete" decades before diesels even entered the picture. PRR continued to use their I1sa's doing much the same work in the Appalachian mountains as late as 1958, and former Great Western number 90 spent her service years hauling beet trains of similar tonnage and length in the Colorado foothills, she was running up until Strasburg bought her in '67 if memory serves.

135 empty bethgons comes to a little under 4100 tons by my estimate. Loaded would be way more.

Standard loaded coal hoppers tip the scales at over a hundred tons a piece. Don't know where anyone got those low numbers for loaded. And yes these are obviously empty.

Also fucks us over.

@Andy Well actually they did/do, just nowhere near as much as your everyday car drive to work.

@Andy Look, they're ancient relics that rely on burning coal or oil. That pumps Co2 into the atmosphere and causes respiratory issues for those exposed to it long enough without face masks. I love steam engines to death, but I'm not gonna pretend that just because they're works of art doesn't mean they're immune from affecting the environment, nor make it so electric trains aren't the way of the future.

Steam locomotives need to be back on railroads soon

@@generalhorse493 honestly, if steam is so powerful, why tf didn't they go with the Electro-Steam concept

One of the reasons the Russians ordered her built

One of my friends was in the cab of 1630. He told me that none of them heard that on the radio and they just blew the whistle not knowing the noise abatement had been suspended.

Desils be like we are stronger togethor, steamies be like hold my beer

Steam is better then any other train/tractor. GO STEAM!🚂🚂🚂🚂

Actually, trains don't drink beer like us humans.

@@majortom4300 I agree with you! Steam locomotives with tenders full of coal and water do rule.

@@markbraley311 no shit

Frisco 1630's whistle is a Hancock 3 Chime (4449 uses a Northern Pacific Version of the Hancock 3 Chime) and it is the same whistle that her sister Frisco 1522 used throughout her mainline excursion career between 1988 to 2002.

Actually the whistle sounded more like SP&S 700.

No more like up 3985

When the Union Pacific asks to rent siding space for the winter to stash their excess hoppers, you strike while the iron is hot.

Sounds more like SP&S 700's whistle to me!

They are empty cars. 30 tons per car compared to 130 tons loaded.

Pat L 4050 tons is nothing to laugh at though, especially for a loco of that size. It’s very impressive.

To an interchange to give them to UP.

Still impressive.

CarlWh3Z3R You get used to his comments after a while, he does this shit all the time.

brian falzon what the chime of the wistle

brian falzon ii

Sounds more like SP&S 700's whistle.

Its a hancock 3 chime same as many bigger locomotive’s including 4449 alot of railroads used the same whistles, but tuned them just slightly so you could tell the roads apart, and they were different in thier own right

nightlightabcd so that’s still a lot

2-10-0

@@MackeyBigBoy4014 so she's a deckpod

2-10-0's were built specifically for strong pulling power and very high tractive effort. It's doing what it was intended for.

@@alexheredia8569 This one wasn’t. It was designed for service overseas in Russia, where the track was bad and maximum axle loading needed to be low.

@@blackbirdgaming8147 I thought this was a baldwin standard with 56" drivers?

@@blackbirdgaming8147 nvm I was mistaken

​@@rickygarrett6508Since this engine was originally meant for service in Russia, along with about 1200 other colleagues, it was/is known as a Russian Decapod. Originally built to 5-foot gauge.

they are fine the way they are, British steam is better at speed, and American steam is better at power

@@TheBlueShark Yeah, the land area of the whole UK is a little smaller than Oregon, so we didn't need massively long trains requiring super-powerful locomotives. Most British trains during the steam era were under a thousand tons or so, and UK railways are nearly all within 1000ft of sea level so we don't get the massive gradients you find in a lot of the US, either.

​@@TheBlueSharkyou say this when American steam locomotives went the same general speeds as British steam locomotives in service weighing and pulling a shit ton more.

There is no turntable on campus, and it is not allowed to go on the streetcar line to change direction.

It doesn't matter whether the cars are empty or loaded; what matters is the total weight of the train and whether the locomotive has the starting tractive effort to move the train.

Am I supposed to believe you were on a freight train

NVM their all empty but still that's the equivalent of at least 400 tons

but still

I assume you’re not a Railroader

I was going to say it was awesome

I assume I am a railfan

The museum earns money by storing cars that the major railroad nearby (UP? BNSF? I would have to look it up) doesn't need at the time and/or doesn't have room for.

lol

They are both nice locomotives. . .

They were empty coal cars in storage at the museum due to coal transport shortages at the time

They're empties being taken out of storage. But 135 empties is still a 4000-ton train, which isn't to be sniffed at.

Well, you're gonna need to double/triple/more-head it if you want to pull 135 _loaded_ coal cars, or pull the empties up a hill.