Southern Pacific #18 Shakedown

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5 жыл бұрын

Southern Pacific #18, a 4-6-0 oil fired Baldwin steam locomotive on lease to the Durango & Silverton Railroad made its second shakedown/work train run leaving the Durango yard ‎Wednesday 11/‎28/18, about ‏‎9:45 AM.

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@nathancorcoran5347 2 жыл бұрын

This is such a beautiful narrow gauge steam locomotive. Southern Pacific #18 is a amazing Slim Princess locomotive. 👸🚂

@saketsoni6580 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful good job 👏I love 💘 steam locomotive 🚂 ❤ 💙 from India 🇮🇳

@whitcraft4578 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Saket, Thanks for watching and your beautiful comment.

@saketsoni6580 3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome sir

@wolfgangpfeilergartenbahnd6530 5 жыл бұрын

It is always nice to see a refurbished locomotive on the road again.

@davidcastalejo Жыл бұрын

@74surfboards 5 жыл бұрын

Phenomenal to see the Slim Princess under steam again and running on more than just a "test" track! Great job on the video, thank you for posting this!!! Byron Vista, CA

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the positive comment and your welcome.

@stephensfarms7165 5 жыл бұрын

Very good coverage of No.18. Thanks 🙏👍👍👍

@rgs455atw 5 жыл бұрын

Well done, loved watching her run.

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bill for the kind words.

@garygresham1115 5 жыл бұрын

Love the pacing shot at 8:45. Thanks for the video.

@SceneMcBride 5 жыл бұрын

14:50 - 16:00, Very Nice location I don't think I've ever seen this one before. Its not that often one sees a new shot below RockWood.

@jomama05 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@mikamitsuka1342 5 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing SP #18 in Dehy Park at Independence, California in 1998. I did not know it was fully restored and moving under it own power. It is strange to see it alive and pulling a passenger train in Durango. I hope the same will happen to its sister engine SP #9 sitting at Laws Railroad Museum. Great work!

@bettym7346 5 жыл бұрын

And how many years did we stop to look at her through the fence? Never imagined we would see her in action. It's sad we have to go to Colorado, but the old girl needs some income.

@brookingsbeachcomber 5 жыл бұрын

great history with the SP

@3900Class 5 жыл бұрын

Roll on!

@MrNJT 5 жыл бұрын

Running on my birthday :D

@monaf.rosst.pinyan472 5 жыл бұрын

Great to see'r (really) runnin'... as long as they don't paint over "Southern Pacific" with "Durango & Silverton." :)

@williamreed805 5 жыл бұрын

Too cool Bob!

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks William!

@brianfalzon6739 5 жыл бұрын

464 and 152 would both fit on the Durango and Silverton together.

@brianfalzon6739 5 жыл бұрын

This is going to be on the record books!

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brian.

@brianfalzon6739 5 жыл бұрын

@@whitcraft4578 np

@2quintly 5 жыл бұрын

That sure is a "hard-working" air compressor on that engine. Must be mounted under the smoke box. Great video, though. Keep 'em coming.

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joel.

@NEAFarmKid4010 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it does sound like its working hard. Funny enough, the one on Baldwin Locomotive Works 26 sounds like its working even harder!

@railscenes4959 5 жыл бұрын

Bob Whitney, did anyone on the crew explain why the 18’s air compressor is running almost continuous? It is a single pump mounted on the fireman’s side with exhaust outside and behind the smoke stack so it is louder than most which exhaust inside the smoke box into the petty coat and out the stack. Maybe letting it run is part of the break in for a rebuilt compressor? A Normal air compressor would be able to maintain the main reservoir pressure in the tank under the fireman’s side of the cab. Thanks for sharing your work! Steve Rippeteau

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve, thanks for watching and commenting. The pump did get replaced and the new one runs a lot less.

@thecarolinianrailfan8339 5 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@edschultz2939 5 жыл бұрын

Hay you Locomotive guys. How about a video of all the parts on the out side of the steam engine.

@rodneyreed7726 5 жыл бұрын

What atomiser pressure is being run? Can hear the pulsing in the firebox even through KZfaq

@RollingEasy 5 жыл бұрын

I've not seen an engine vent so much steam from behind the stack as this one? Is it from the relief valve I'm guessing?

@daskriegsman7013 5 жыл бұрын

The DB&RG are planning to convert two of their steam locomotives to burn oil and their using SP-18 here as test and training engine to see how well it would work.

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Hi A Spanish Inquisitor, I believe the D&S is planning only one, K37 #493. They are planning on purchasing two diesels.

@shanewalters4171 4 жыл бұрын

493 is in operation again as an oil burner, the rest will probably follow soon once the new diesels arrive

@maxm4375 5 жыл бұрын

18 should be leased The D&SNG more, she looks right at home

@mark351 5 жыл бұрын

What is the purpose of the steam pipe behind the smoke stack?

@michaelsouza3582 5 жыл бұрын

When are they gonna bring her home?

@jimwelty4407 4 жыл бұрын

Very busy air compressor

@whitcraft4578 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Jim, good description of compressor. Thanks for watching and commenting.

@katerinakittycat3849 5 жыл бұрын

Hold on, I didn't think the SP had narrow gauge locomotives. Is this another example of a standard gauge locomotive converted to run on narrow gauge tracks?

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Katerina, the 18 was built narrow gauge by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in December 1911 for the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway and was sold to Southern Pacific in the late 1920s. The SP narrow gauge system operated on the tracks of the former Carson and Colorado Railway which was purchased by SP in 1900. Thanks for watching.

@CoyoteCycleWorkschromolymounta 5 жыл бұрын

Any updates on when they will start selling tickets to ride on #18?

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

So far they aren't sayin.

@WasatchGarandMan 3 жыл бұрын

Was this before or after the D&S blew one of her piston rods out?

@whitcraft4578 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Overwatch, This was the second "Shakedown" shortly after her arrival, long before the shattered piston. Thanks for watching.

@HiHi-cz6gj 5 жыл бұрын

Is this narrow gauge or standard?

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Narrow gauge, 3 foot.

@brentboswell1294 5 жыл бұрын

Bet the D&S firemen don't know what to do with themselves...no coal to shovel 🤣

@DeathValleyLumberCompany 5 жыл бұрын

any plans for a photo freight?

@Buynot 5 жыл бұрын

Yes. That's the main reason why it's there. Lerro Productions it putting on a photo charter sometime next spring.

@kevinmadore1794 5 жыл бұрын

The locomotive is on loan to the D&S in Durango to assist in training the D&S crews in the operation of an oil-fired locomotive. This is in anticipation of K-37 #493's refurbishment as an oil-fired engine. The proposed Lerro charter in 2019 is simply taking advantage of the locomotive's presence on a railroad where a charter can be run. The owners of the locomotive do not have any significant trackage at their home base in California.

@DeathValleyLumberCompany 5 жыл бұрын

@@kevinmadore1794 that they don't, I was there when they ran it at laws for the first time, I have a video of it on my channel

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your reply Kevin.

@evanf1293 4 жыл бұрын

So SP 18 stayed in colorado for nearly a year late November 2018 to late September/early October 2019 correct????

@shanewalters4171 4 жыл бұрын

You are correct, it was a year lease for the D&S as a test locomotive for converting their K class fleet into oil, 493 recently got restored back into operation and she's running on oil now, the rest of the 490s will follow soon, 473's sisters are being converted right now, the 480s are still running on coal until later I believe.

@whitcraft4578 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Shane, I'm not aware of any more #490's being restored at this time and #473 is the only K28 being converted at this time. The next oil conversion will be a K36, one of the 80's.

@evanf1293 4 жыл бұрын

@@whitcraft4578 Shame that their locomotives have to be converted to oil but its to reduce fires.

@James-hp3jo 5 жыл бұрын

Is this after she blew out the piston and repaired? great to see her running again.

@wastemanagementfan1161 5 жыл бұрын

Is that a McDonald's at 2:15 in the video

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Yes it is, has been there for a long time.

@jerrodp3572 5 жыл бұрын

It's nice riding the third train to leave Durango because you can get breakfast at McDonald's and watch the other two before you leave while the building rumbles

@mikecorleone6797 4 жыл бұрын

Why is 1 throw on the cylinders so loud?

@whitcraft4578 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Mike, Thanks for watching and commenting. Good question, the packing around the piston rod has not broken in yet. A couple trips to Cascade and it's doing better.

@mikecorleone6797 4 жыл бұрын

Bob Whitney oh ok. That makes sense. A gorgeous engine she is. I’d love to see her in person.. I’m stuck here in California and the only steam engine i see here are at knotts berry farm or those small ones at Disneyland when i take my girls.. union pacific keeps teasing with the big boy but twice already they’ve postponed that trip..

@Malakie 5 жыл бұрын

What's with the fire under the cab?

@thestarlightalchemist7333 5 жыл бұрын

*WOT*

@whitcraft4578 5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, what does WOT stand for?

@thestarlightalchemist7333 5 жыл бұрын

It's slang for "what?!" i was very surprised when i found out the slim princess was on the silverton. I wonder if SPNG 9, "Slim Prince" will come here if it gets restored?

@liberal693 3 жыл бұрын

Я тут один русский

@whitcraft4578 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks?

@grahampinkerton2091 5 жыл бұрын

What a pescy thing !! it wastes more steam than it uses !!

@drgw489productions 5 жыл бұрын

only problem is its slower than balls. the Mikado classes are much faster

@caelumvaldovinos5318 5 жыл бұрын

The only reason why it is running so slow is that they are doing shakedown runs. This is the most this locomotive ran since retirement, let alone restoration. They're taking this nice and easy before really letting her go. In theory, the 18 can go faster than all but the K-28's.

@thestarlightalchemist7333 5 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's faster than the K28s. It has slightly larger drivers

@drgw489productions 5 жыл бұрын

Diesel my ass, theyl never change to a full diesel fleet