PRR Steam Audio Recording: G5s

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14 жыл бұрын

"Class G5s (4-6-0) #1820 Eastbound, arriving and departing Edgewater Park, NJ on September 17, 1952."
From "Steam on the Standard Railroad of the World" by Semaphore Records
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@deloreanman14 13 жыл бұрын

The Pennsy had some of the most hauntingly beautiful whistles.

@PRR5406 12 жыл бұрын

Listen to her dig in and move out! That's what G5's were designed for. Best steam commuter locomotive ever.

@alexpaumen3937 4 жыл бұрын

Boy those things pick up speed incredibly quickly!

@PRR5406 14 жыл бұрын

Heaviest 4-6-0's ever built and superb for what you are hearing; rapid acceleration and train speeds. We will get two back in the future, and one in cold storage. Three survive!

@ThatYankeeKid 14 жыл бұрын

Wow, she accelerated quick! As always, a wonderful recording.

@brianfalzon6739 10 жыл бұрын

The PRR 3 Chime sounds beautiful. I think both of the 4-6-0 G-5s and 4-6-2 K-4s are both the best! I think the only sound of the Pennsylvania 3 Chime from a K-4 was on 765, I heard and it was beautiful! I believe that me, mom and dad chased the 765 in Harrisburg back in August 2012!

@WhyAyeMann 11 жыл бұрын

nearly all steam whistles ive ever heard fill me with profound joy, but very few rattle me to my core like the PRR 3 chime. Im really not sure what it is, but for me its something so special it is beyond description.

@smithers6464 5 жыл бұрын

It is beautiful, but there's another recording of a Pennsy freight "banshee" whistle (may have been an L1s) in a draw, just echoing around and fading off- Lord, it is haunting. Trying to find it on KZfaq.

@howiesmith1504 Жыл бұрын

@@smithers6464 It's an H10 switching in Sandusky OH on Lake Erie in 1957, shortly before the Pennsy completed dieselization. The 2-8-0 blows for a number of streets and the engineer really knows how to quill a whistle. It's easy to find on KZfaq. So is "Night of the Banshee," a fairly recent recording of R&N 425 sporting one, blown by another ace on the cord. Spooky stuff!

@WhyAyeMann 10 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite of your recordings. Please, post more G5 stuff.

@northpennvalleysteamrailroad 3 жыл бұрын

Nice audio. Nice and clear

@Nash1a 13 жыл бұрын

No Trollo---- I have to ask, was this really Edgewater Park as I don't see one building in the background that looks like anything in Edgewater Park. Edgewater Park was only established in 1924 and from what I've heard was nothing but a few farm houses and peach orchirds until the nineteen sixties. There is a foundation of a station about a hundred yards north of the Wood Lane crossing. Is that the station shown in the first pic?

@PRR5406 13 жыл бұрын

Send a check to either the Railroad Museum of Long Island or the Oyster Bay Rail Road Museum, and you'll get to chase one of the surviving G5s locomotives. They need your support to make it happen. And it's closer than you think!

@dcoursey82 13 жыл бұрын

@Nash1a This is just an audio recording of the engine leaving Edgewater Park. None of the pictures are actually from the very scene being recorded.

@PicaDelphon 10 жыл бұрын

Well the Rope Factory is still standing..

@LIMowersAndMore 8 жыл бұрын

lirr will soon have one running! Edit not!

@Robert08010 6 жыл бұрын

So EdgewaterPark huh? Only one picture that might have recognisable at all and it was Beverly. The rest of the pics were from anywhere.

@howiesmith1504 2 жыл бұрын

The pic of 5724 by a water plug c. 1:17 is at Hicksville on the Long Island Rail Road in 1944, according to its Northeast Railfan listing, loco facing east. The two color shots of 5741 at the end are also on the LIRR. The engine was briefly on the Long Island c. late August and September 1955, possibly due to a power shortage while awaiting the delivery of 10 new RS-3s that replaced LI's last steam. The first one is at Holban freight yard in Hollis, after the engine did some switching or dropped off a work train. A train of MP54 MUs in LIRR's battleship gray paint scheme of the early and mid-1950s is visible on the Montauk Branch trestle in the distance.The second pic is on the turntable at Morris Park engine house. A big 11,000 gallon LIRR G5 tender replaced the loco's smaller Pennsy tank during its visit. 5741 was the last active PRR G5 and is now in the museum in Strasburg.