“What railroad do you work for” 6000: “Yes”

Interestingly, although it is true that 60000 is one of a kind, the SP would later go on to buy a class of 3 cylinder 4-10-2 locomotives, I believe after they had 60000's trial runs. So, in a way, this unique locomotive did go on to inspire more unique locomotives, though certain features, like the water tube firebox, were changed or removed.

The Franklin Institute was one of my favorite field trips as a child.

I "rode" it as a kid. I don't know if it still moves, but they would run it about 10 feet forward and back with lots of authentic sounds. Kids all piled into the hopper.

Impressive that it still exists today and wasn't scrapped

I've been to the Franklin Institute many times. That locomotive never fails to impress. The sheer enormity of the thing is incredible

I am like old steam engines and the power they had. So many moving parts that have to work perfectly together.

I climbed all over this thing many times as a kid. Fun fact: up until 10-15 years ago it actually used to move back and forth on the little piece of track it sits on, but the wheels were starting to wear unevenly because they weren't making a complete revolution and there really isn't an easy way for them to be repaired. So now it's just stationary.

I love steam power and would love to see a return to steam with modern materials. Those old engines put out amazing power.

There's another locomotive that was built for the Pennsylvania Railroad called Reuben Wells, which was named after its creator, Engineer Reuben Wells, aswell as being designed to push train cars up the 5.89% incline on Madison Hill, which is located in Madison Indiana, and is also the steepest section of standard-guage track in the United States.

I worked at Baldwin's in the early 70's just before they closed up shop. My grandfather was a crane operator there decades before I worked there. I sometimes machined 24" diameter cast iron pistons that probably weighed more than 500 pounds. They had three ring grooves that were one inch wide. I don't know what they were for but I suspect a big ship.

The Americans should have asked Gresley. They needed his V2 master pieces.

I can't believe they made 60,000 of them or 15 million model Ts. They must've really been cranking them out to make that many.

Union Pacific: Allow me to introduce myself.

My grandfather worked on the hole in the wall that they made to roll it in there. In the 40’s my mother worked cat the Franklin Institute on the Eniac Computer

"You know what sucks about being a Baldwin? Nothing!" -South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

At least they had the forethought not to scrap it! :)

Hey at least the Southern Pacific actually tried the 4-10-2 overland type and it was kinda successful, and one is also preserved SP 5021

I remember seeing that engine when my folks took me to the Franklin in 1950😅

I actually owned the B&O Railroad for a while. Well, until I had to pay rent for a hotel on Marvin Gardens.

I’ve seen some really cool steam engines but this one is probably one of my favorites

Bro I knew it was that train. This train will always be a part of my child hood

Idk, the loco that's cut in half so you can see how everything works at the National Railway Museum in the UK is pretty cool

That's a big locomotive. It's a 4-10-2 Overland. It's one of the only two 4-10-2s preserved. BLW #60000 stuck on static display at the Franklin Institute

BEAUTIFUL!

Thanks for this... I'm gratefull, fav locomotive ever.

The one feature that stood out is the Double return crank A few classes of locomotives have his Luckily enough my country Thailand has Baldwin Pacific class 3 cylinders which have double return crank

“Sixty thousandth,” not “sixtieth thousand.”

Thank you for the information.

All it needed was a hinge point on the frame. Like a Big Boy.

I went to see it and BOY was it huge

Haven't been to the Franklin Institute in years. I need to go back and check this out.

The reason nobody bought it was the Watertube boiler and those never worked well on the Railroad and they stuck with firetube boilered locomotives

This locomotive deserves a chance to be operating again

What a great piece.

I thought I recognized it somewhere… I’m a huge fan of the Franklin Institute

That engine will never get up to 88 mph.

Absolutely brilliant piece of machinery real shame it never got to full service. Thanks for sharing.

>The Best locomotive >Area restriction Buh

Am I the only one who's a bit intimated by how big it is?

Nice

HOLY TRAIN, that thing could pull the Gustav cannon!!!😱🤯

It's always so intriguing yet terrifying how enormous these locomotives are. These giant machines, designed to do work without asking questions.

Okay since apparently I’m the only guy in this comment section who actually knows a thing or two about these locomotives, let me set the record definitively straight. The 4-10-2 class has no official name, however Southern Pacific number 5000 was the first of the type built, in April of 1925. Union Pacific built their number 8000 a month later. Union Pacific called their class the Overlands, however Southern Pacific owned more and they were the first to purchase one, so following railroad traditions the 4-10-2 is called the “Southern Pacific” type, not “overland” However seeing as only two railroads owned 4-10-2s, it’s more accurate to just call them by whatever their railroad did. Southern Pacific called them the Southern Pacific class, with preserved 4-10-2 5021 being an SP-2 class, there were also the SP-1s and SP-3s. Baldwin 60000 did not inspire SP to build the 4-10-2s, in fact it was built a full year later in 1926… not only was it not the first but it was actually one of the last 4-10-2s, if not the very last, as SP had already completed all 3 of their orders for a total of 49 locomotives, and UP would only own 10; number 8000 plus nine sisters delivered 18 months later. SP must’ve been laughing their asses off when Baldwin sent them a “new prototype” that was literally just a clone of their latest locomotive but with a bunch of extra pipes added on 😂

the Franklin institute still keeps this ol girl in good shape even to this day!

She’s beautiful

Very cool. Very big. It's not as big as the union pacific big boy which could do speeds up to 80mph but still a very cool piece of history

I think there was a 4-12-2 in the States (??) The last steam loco built in the UK was in a class of 9F 2-10-0s ... it was numbered 92220 and painted in passenger green livery and was named "Evening Star". It was slated for preservation when it was built and is in the National railway Museum in York (UK). 251 of the 92000 class were built. The 4-12-2 was the UP 9000 class ... a Russian 4-14-4 class AA20 (5'6" Gauge?) was a one off mentioned where I checked the UP 9000.

That’s a good loop

Miniature railway will cry after this

The Edsel was DESIGNED to be the best car ever. How did that work out???

Wish it still moved like it used to at FI

Gorgeous locomotive in person. She’ll never run again but she’s got a great home.

I struggle to believe there was even 60,000 steam engine locomotives, built in America never mind the 60,000 produced by one company.

I'm from Europe but you Americans have alot of cool locomotives :)

Interesting to think our current day technology will be put in a museum, with everyone thinking about how underdeveloped it all is.

For what it is, this locomotive deserved better. For being probably one of the most cutting edge American steam locomotives ever made, being a 3 cylinder compound (simular to many European, mainly french, locomotives and having an expeeimental watertube firebox. Because it was retired so early in life, a brand new science museum was about the only place it could go for preservation, as railroad museums were not a thing yet. This locomotive is basically as good as scrap considering its isolated in the basement of a large building in the middle of a city. What doesn't help is the constant rolling back and forth that this thing has done for the past 80 years, as well as the fact the museum likes to display this locomotive as "The Old-Timey Choo-Coo Steam Train Express to Destination Imagination Station!" or something stupid like that.

I was there and I saw the train! It was beautiful! I wish I was there again.

If I remember correctly from my field trips 10+ years ago, you could actually go inside this locomotive. I'm not positive about that, though, because I was a kid, and the local school system ended up taking us there 3 different times

Coolest steam locomotive was built in York, Pennsylvania 1825. Founding father was Leonard Baumgardner 1755 1839 and was the richest person.

Pretty cool.

Love going to see it every now and again

What a monster! It must've been a sight to see running!

I think the UP Big Boys are up there with the coolest locomotive too, the largest and arguably strongest engines, a recent display of that was given by UP 4014 when it helped a stuck freighter in Blaire, NE.

When confronted about their choice in wheel arrangement, Baldwin’s comment was “We thought it looked cool.”

Love that style of tender

most beutiful engine ive ever seen is a castle of a terrier coinsidently my icons a castle

As a Baldwin, I can confirm that I feel *P R I D E*

That is amazing that they're moving in on that temporary rail

I dont know alot about trains, but are those white wall train wheels? If so thats the greatest thing ive ever seen

Idk personally I think the streamlined coronation class locos are the coolest

It wouldn't push the DeLorean to 88 mph.

Such a clever segway.

my grandpa worked on the pennsylvania railroad

The Class 158 Sprinter is the best train and no one can change my mind on that! Edit: Class 170 turbo star is also cool

This is wonderful!

To add to the coolest ... how about thr SAR 16E pacific ... 6' drivers on 3'6" gauge ... cast steel bed frames, all roller bearings and rotary cam valve gear. There were 3(??) streamlined (Börsig?) Deutsche Reichsbahn 4-6-4s on 7'6" drivers ... which was pretty cool from the picture I saw many years ago. I cannot find any now. Other cool locomotives were the Yellowstones (2-8-8-4 Mallets) ... especially those on the coolest named Railway (??) ... Duluth Missabe and Iron Range 😊

At least they had the sense enough to preserve this one

Man that was so cool no company wanted it because it was unusable.

It was a demonstrator that resulted in zero sales anywhere. Therefore, it's the coolest locomotive ever built.

Quite interesting indeed. From what I read, #60000 could only handle the straightest and sturdiest track, which is why it eventually ended up in the Franklin Institute, and as the story goes, the top of her smokestack just barely grazed the ceiling as she was being rolled in.

350 tonnes? Holy moly. Thats the same as a boeing 747...

Yes and Baldwin locomotive had shops, foundries, repair yards and manufacturing employing 10,000 people in Philadelphia! Times change, industries change, technologies change.

Beautiful

hi, mallard here, wtf you on? 😂

We can get some of those special logs from doc brown and we can get her speed up to at least 88 miles per hour

Riding on two little steel rails

60th thousand? Sixty-ith thousand?! Sixty thousandth. 60,000th

I've been on it many times!

the Spruce Goose of it's day

LOL is it the same one that pulled the polar Express If it is that's cool but if it's not it's still cool...

When Baldwin produced this Steam Locomotive. These Locomotives were becoming at the point of almost being perfect efficient running machines. Moving forward with condensing the Steam back to water. By now the boilers would be made of alloy steel or even Titanium. These Steam Locomotive producing companies by now would have had these locomotives only producing CO2 and way more efficient than diesel electric locomotives,and only need maintenance like diesel locomotives need today. I’ll bet especially the railroads that owned coal mines. Wish they still had Steam Locomotives. Free Coal Thank God this Steam Locomotive wasn’t scrapped.

Love the content have you ever seen the movie rails to the Catskills?

Hey you! Yeah, you- you know what kinda train this is?

Dude even if this loco dosent go too fast , its huge! Does she have a name?

I don't think it's the coolest because there's technically much more engines that are way more cooler than that I mean I can name a few UP 4014 NKP 765 GTW 6325 FRC 1522 UP 3985 That's all I can think of But it is pretty unique

What were they thinking?

Saw it and it was a beauty

Bruh the best locomotive Baldwin ever with a top speed of 70mph pffftt this just proves England's railways were better with some engines having a top speed of over 100mph

thats so cool!!