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@thunderstar86 steam is better than any other loco

@@matthewjachtorowycz2455 1361 and the t1 are getting steamed again and i hope 3768 the streamline k4 will be steamed.

Monster locomotives! Fabulous!

Government owns passenger rail service. Government does not care about aestetic

@@LegendaryCollektor I see Streamline 3968 would she be steamed and streamline again.

Everything from the beginning up to 2:01 was shot at Black Lane in Collinsville, Illinois, on the St. Louis Division.

I hope the guys at Green Frog gave you permission to post this because I have seen other train videos taken down because of that.

If they are on the racetrack, they are somewhere between Valparaiso, IN, and Crestline, OH. Unfortunately, I don't know the mileposts, but the racetrack is just shy of 70 miles long. The racetrack is more commonly known as the Fort Wayne Racetrack. It is so called because it is an unusually straight stretch of track., I formerly lived in Plymouth, IN, which is on the racetrack, which is nearly flat, too. The tracks are laid on fill to make them level, It was a two track mainline which has since been demolished and then partially restored because the Norfolk Southern didn't have enough trackage across northern Indiana. and western Ohio. There are no signals on the track, and the speed is limited to 45 mph, freight only. I read that they are currently running four trains per day eastbound only. The other tracks are the former New York Central which bears the brunt of the traffic, about 105 trains per day, and the former Nickel Plate which is highly limited because it is a single track mainline.

@@efgies5645 I'm from the UK. Love the PRR and these fabulous old K4 locos. About to ask where the Racetrack was. Great bit of info. Cheers 👍

For theses coaches, I believe they were the Standard "Tuscan Red" color scheme with gold lettering and striping. The Pennsylvania Railroad was always big on either Tuscan Red or Brunswick Green. Most of the time, the Brunswick Green was for locomotives only.

Thank you for that. I'm in Australia and for many years our New South Wales Govt Railways used Tuscan Red with a wide band along the windows of either Indian Red or a deep Beige. The streamlined C38 class locos here looked very similar to the K4s - another link.

Graeme Durie nbnnnnn

The train at 0:50 was one of the Pennsy's prized trains, the Fleet of Modernism. It was a high class train, which is why all the cars were consistent with design and type, not to mention ornate, sporting 5 gold pinstripes along the length of each car and a thick, dark Tuscan stripe through the windows, ending rounded off on each end of the sides of the car. The engine that was pulling this particular train was the only K4s to wear that shrouding design, #1120. There were a few other streamlined K4's, but they were all a different design to this. Those were designed by Raymond Loewy, who designed locomotives such as the T1 & Baldwin Sharknoses, while #1120 at 0:50 was designed in-house by one of Pennsy's designers. To the colors: All Pennsy passenger cars were a Tuscan red, a dark maroon color, and had either yellow or gold striping and lettering depending on the era. All steam locomotives were painted Brunswick green, which was a very dark, almost black forest green, and had Tuscan red cab roofs and tender decks. The only known exception to that was a Tuscan K4s, whose road number escapes me at the moment. Diesels were either Tuscan or Brunswick, depending on service and era. Most electric locomotives were painted Brunswick with the exception of the GG1. If anybody has any other info or can correct me on anything I missed, please feel free to do so.

PRR #3768 is the only one streamlined K4s designed by Raymond Loewy and it is not shown in this vid, another 4 streamlined K4s #1120, 2665, 3678, and 5338 were streamlined in 1940 and 1941, as we can see (at least one of them) in this vid, were designed by PRR's work shop and mechanical engineers. By the way, The "Fleet of Modernism" was simply a term describing a marketing ploy, a modernization project for PRR's fleet in the mid 1930s which include purchasing of new lightweight pullman coaches painted with Raymond Loewy design two-tone red and golden stripe scheme and rebuild of old pullman coaches, it is not a specific Train's name. Thank you very much for uploading this very rare video showing how PRR mixing new and old car for their train-set!

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Because the United States and in particular the Appalachian region no longer has enough coal to be able to use steam all the time sadly.

It's mainly because of high maintenance costs, frequent water stops, you often have to have a boiler certificate for operation, and building up steam can take 6-10 hours while diesels can just start up and go, diesels had lower maintenance costs, and had more fuel efficiency.

@thunderstar86 Oil burns differently to a fire fueled by a bed of coal. If you look up documentaries on the process of transitioning UP 4014 to oil they detail the difficulties they had getting the firebox set up to burn oil and getting the nozzles configured in a way that evenly distributed the heat. So with that in mind, if any railroad were to consider switching to oil firing, they would have to convert every single locomotive's firebox to be able to use oil.

@thunderstar86 because steam locomotives werent replaced because of fuel parchment. They were replaced because they were high maintenance machines that required a lot of supporting infrastructure, took a lot of time to keep in shape, and where mostly non standardize. Im not sure Id call steam locomotives efficient. They where powerful and fast, and if we still used them im sure modern version would be able to compete with diesels in terms of road performance, but they could never be as clean or as easy to take care of.

Steam locomotives were less efficient than diesels, to the point where you could run 2-3 diesels for the cost of operating one steam locomotive. Today, that number would've increased by a lot.