Santa Fe 2-10-4s On The Pennsylvania Railroad in 1956

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3 жыл бұрын

From the archives of the Western Railway Museum, we take a trip back in time to the end of steam on the Pennsylvania Railroad, in the Sandusky area a boost in coal traffic found the railroad short on power, as the Pennsy had retired their steam engines short of a traffic boost during 1956 and 1957. The PRR leased several ATSF 5011 class 2-10-4s to help with the increase in traffic to keep up with the demand. From the 8mm movie camera of Don Kehl, you will see these massive engines along side the massive PRR J1 2-10-4s, in these rare and exciting sequences.

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@PainesvilleRailfans 2 жыл бұрын

Not only rare, but great footage, in color and has sound! Thanks for sharing!!!

@Cessna-er4je 3 жыл бұрын

Such shrill whistles, I really love the locomotives

@frankmarkovcijr5459 Жыл бұрын

The Pennsylvania Railroad engine men thought the Santa Fe steamers rode well and were good engines Superior to their own J1 class of 2- 10-4

@stephenshaw8466 Жыл бұрын

No doubt they were up to the task of hauling all that coal

@unixbadger 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting how clear the stack was in much of the footage. Okay, 3:28 they poured it on. Museum and excursion trains always pour it on for video appeal. Working crews back in the day had to keep the fire trim and run lean, or they could seek work elsewhere. One sees this in authentic footage. That's why it's is so awesome!

@Tonetwisters 3 жыл бұрын

The neatest locomotive ever made. I still have both my older brother's Lionel version which he got for Christmas, 1953; and my version that I got the next Christmas.

@thomasavensjr.2790 2 жыл бұрын

It is great to see footage of the final days of service of my favorite class of Santa Fe rr steam locomotive, the 5011 class (2-10-4) types.

@SomeplaceOrAnother 3 жыл бұрын

So neat to see this old train footage 🚂 😀

@rogerw2101 2 жыл бұрын

AWESOME FOOTAGE OF BEAUTIFUL MACHINE THE WHISTLE ON THAT ONE OH MY GOD IT JUST SCREAMS. THAT I'M ALIVE

@mitchcornacchia968 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful days of steam legends. Thanks

@nathancorcoran5347 11 ай бұрын

Another beautiful steam locomotive.

@michaelbell9697 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing footage of an era long passed, thanks for sharing!

@matthewpowell2429 9 ай бұрын

I loved seeing this footage. In fact, all of these northerns that were leased to the PRR of characters in a series I'm writing.

@user-kj4wq5ok9c 5 ай бұрын

I love those favorite Santa Fe 2-10-4 steam locomotives with one short smokestack and probably those tall smokestack funnels on the Santa Fe 2-10-4 steam locomotives with atsf 4-8-4 4-8-2 4-6-4 and the atsf 2-10-2 steam locomotives cause they're awesome man

@user-tp7up8lg1d 6 ай бұрын

This is a very interesting insight into something that not many historians are aware of.

@lonewolfe31619 7 ай бұрын

We Need to Restore one of those 5011 class steam locomotives a few are still around.

@nileadam7336 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds realistic in this 1950s footage!

@markeverson5849 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing guys 56 the year I was born you know my grandfather was an engineer on the locomotives in Altoona Wisconsin in that area Chippewa Falls during the Depression they jumped the rail cars went to Oregon later came the family that's why I was born in Portland 1956

@bertcresta6685 5 ай бұрын

Excellent footage!!!

@peteengard9966 Жыл бұрын

The crews, especially the firemen loved the big oil burners.

@cupcakeevolution2209 3 жыл бұрын

Love this!

@yusuframadhan9521 3 жыл бұрын

Oke that its look gordon

@natejenkins8645 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@mamarussellthepie3995 11 ай бұрын

Super sweet

@SuperFoxyRailwayProduction6702 3 жыл бұрын

1:23 that sounds like the AT&SF 3759 whistle

@jayyy3_yt295 2 жыл бұрын

Because these also have an ATSF 5 Chime like 3759

@trainknut Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if it actually is 3759's whistle being dubbed into the film. It's not as if sound recording of steam is super common.

@jayyy3_yt295 Жыл бұрын

@@trainknut tbh it probably is 3759’s whistle in the vid, because these vids didn’t even have sound in 1956 someone archived them probably

@carbidejones5076 2 жыл бұрын

Spectacular

@brianfalzon6739 2 жыл бұрын

That’s epic!

@RandomRetroTrainGuy82 2 жыл бұрын

1:03 Whistle 🔊

@jamesbelcher8509 10 ай бұрын

1:03 [train whistle] 1:07 [train chugging]

@jwrailve3615 2 жыл бұрын

The people of the transitional eras mindset on what to do with steam locos after dieselization makes me super mad. Ya let’s just scrap all of it nobodies gonna appreciate the beauty of our work they just want sd70’aces t4 gevos and sd40-3’s. Nothing else just the same engines different schemes on every railroad with less and less variety yearly. Starting to miss seeing ac4400’s at this point.

@TimThatTrainGuy Жыл бұрын

Imagine being a Prr steam engineer that was laid off and then was called back a year or two later and told to take a falling apart Santa Fe engine out with a coal drag

@frankmarkovcijr5459 Жыл бұрын

The Santa Fe engines were not falling apart they were freshly shop and leave to the Pennsylvania Railroad because they were first-class equipment

@imperfectivnz6957 2 жыл бұрын

oh to live in a time when these behemoths roamed the country. i’m forever jealous.

@jacksalvin364 3 жыл бұрын

1:01

@SuperFoxyRailwayProduction6702 2 жыл бұрын

Yep ATSF #3759 whistle

@jacksalvin364 2 жыл бұрын

☺😉

@danielboone3770 Жыл бұрын

😍😍😍😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

@jkmocs Жыл бұрын

I really wish they did not scrap this train Edit.they didn't scrap it, I did not know about this

@BenBensonStudios 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't the PRR also lease some Reading T1's around this time?

@HunterLohseRRVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Yes they leased 9 of them, 2107, 2111-2115, 2119, and 2128

@theUP844 3 жыл бұрын

The Pennsy did lease a T1 in the 1940s, but it wasn't a Reading T1. The railroad leased a T1 class 2-10-4 from the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad to see if it would be a suitable locomotive to create their own version of to handle the wartime traffic. They also leased a Norfolk & Western A class 2-6-6-4 as part of the project. After testing both locomotives, the railroad decided to go with the C&O T1 as the design base for their new locomotive, this resulted in the creation of the J1 class.

@lennyhendricks4628 Жыл бұрын

@@HunterLohseRRVideos -- I understand that some of the RDG T-1' 4-8-4's came back in such poor shape that they were immediately sent to the scrappers. Luckily there were at least four that were still in good shape, 2100, 2101, 2102 and 2124. This enabled the Reading's Iron Horse Rambles (2100, 2102 and 2124) as well as later events such as the eastern American Freedom Train (2101), the Chessie Steam Specials (2101) and the 2102 on the Reading and Northern among others. 2124 is in Steamtown, 2101 is at the B&O railroad museum painted as America Freedom Train 1, as mentioned, 2102 is on the R&N and last I heard, a group in Ohio is working on the 2100. Of the ATSF 2-10-4, David P Morgan said that only the Santa Fe had the audacity to specify a 74 inch wheel for a ten coupled locomotive.

@alecbutler2450 3 жыл бұрын

Where did those sounds used in this film come from?

@HunterLohseRRVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Vinyl, and my own library of audio from videos I have taken

@alecbutler2450 3 жыл бұрын

@@HunterLohseRRVideos Really? I do love to collect vinyl and CDs of steam locomotive sounds too. Also, I like to mention that there is a podcast called "Living with Steam. You might want to check that out.."

@milehirail8877 2 жыл бұрын

@@HunterLohseRRVideos Can you share the name of the album where the bell starting at 1:30 comes from? Sounds identical to a train sounds cassette I used to have that I'm trying to track down a copy of.