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I wish that they had the money to finish 1361

In 1998, I was lucky enough to obtain a ticket through a New Jersey state representative for the C&O 614 round trip fall excursion from Hoboken, NJ to Port Jervis, NY and back. It was a trip of a lifetime for me. I was born in 1950 and remember seeing steam powered trains as a kid.

Thank you for putting these videos out. I loved steam locomotives since I rode on a train from New York City to Cleveland, Ohio where my parents moved to in 1957 when I was three years old. I still remember seeing a steam locomotive up close as the memory is still in my head. I love that many are still being restored and brought back to life.

I really hope 1361 returns to service. I owned this one movie as a child that featured 1361 as "The Pride Of Altoona" I believe, and I loved it. That engine holds so much sentimental value to me, along with many other people I'm sure of. One can hope that she'll come back soon.

Though it is sad to see 3254 leaving service it exiting to have Boston & Maine 3713 being restored and seeing Baldwin 26 returning under steam! I don't know why but I really love those small Baldwin 0-6-0's. It might stem with the 0-6-0 that's at Marysville Park in Michigan because I go there every once and a while and they let people have access to go inside it, even though there ain't much to behold.

That whistle will always ring though the Scranton valley, being a long reminder of the greatest loco, someday we will see here again, but not now as 3254, if only they can get rid of her, if they could, I’d like to see here go to Conway scenic and get reunited with CNR/GTW 7470

God, if 1361 ever runs again, along with m1b 6755, I will be happy, as the k4s’s and M1A & M1B’s are some of my favorites.

i hope to see 614 return to operating condition someday, and hopefully soon. :D

These two videos are fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing.

DISCLAIMER: This video was my first documentary video, worked on from late May to late July 2018. As such, it does not meet the current Pennsy Productions quality standard. This is not the quality you should come to expect from Pennsy Productions, and my future videos will be much higher quality than what you see here.

Interestingly enough: 1361 was the first ever prr excursion star i ever saw

2317 is sitting in the roundhouse at Steamtown as of today. Park Rangers state that 3713 won’t operate for at least 5 years because restoration solely rely’s on public donations. So, Steamtown only has the 26 doing yard excursions and a NP GP9 doing excursions to Moscow, Pa.

I wish 3254 was back in service because it was my favorite locomotive

I love 1361's whistle 😍 💕 ♥️ ❤️ 💓 💗

I still believe that CN 3254 will be restored and returned to service within this decade.

I know alot of train people where pissed off at steam town for a bit of time from what I was told as a kid

The one GPE passenger you showed Crater Lake is now owned by NH&I and is used there

You never did a segment on ex-CP/Steamtown 1278/127. You briefly mentioned her in 3254's segment, but never gave her a spot in the line up when she is perhaps the most influential of all former excursion engines in the US, and has the story of a true fallen star. From being Nelson Blount's Favorite Engine, being the one he chose to give "The Steamtown Beauty Treatment" by changing the ugly coil-style elesco feedwater heater to the much better looking bundle style elesco, giving her a smokebox mounted swing bell, a Pyle National visored headlight with winged number boards, jet black paint and whitewall drivers and shortening her number to 127, shortly after which she pretty much jumpstarted the whole trend of mainline Steam Excursions in the diesel era by being the first locomotive on Ross Rowland's High Iron Company touring most of the northeast, doubleheading with Strasburg 90, working briefly in michigan on a shortline, then returning to vermont until the move to Scranton where she was traded to that horrid Gettysburg line. There, a once proud Star and founding engine of mainline excursions fell from grace by being used, abused, and neglected by a redneck railroad and it's incompetent owners and crew, in blatant violation of the FRA's safety and maintenance guidelines, until that fateful day when her crownsheet failed because of said crew's incompetence which resulted in her sightglass getting plugged solid with scale and the substandard operational ability of essential boiler feedwater systems among other numerous mechanical deficiencies. The only benefit that came from her suffering was the increased attention given to the development of 49 CFR part 230. But of all engines that Steamtown had to trade for 3254, they had to chose the Founder's favorite engine, which is completely idiotic. The poor engine languished in shame and pain until Jerry Jacobsen bought her and at least made her somewhat comfortable in AOS roundhouse, being reunited with one of her CP and Steamtown Sisters, 1293. But still, today 1278 is largely forgotten about, and when she's brought up in forums, the only thing that's ever mentioned is "Oh that's the engine that blew up at Gettysburg, what a piece of junk." Most of these guys that are no better than foamers have not read the NTSB report and take into consideration that the accident was NOT the engine's fault, nor do they research far back into her very rich history to see what an important role she played in the development of Mainline Steam Excursions and Steam Preservation as a whole in this country. She's a very important engine that deserves to be remembered, more specifically for all the good she's done, not the bad.

1361 will see steam some time through 2022-2025 (maybe)

as a jersey resident we really need mainline steam excursions again

Louisville and Nashville M-1 1992.

I dont know if C&O has more operational engines. And that one engine was also called 611 just like N&W had

1:33 that's a older pic of #26 because its black then they found out it was supposed be olive green

If Only PRR 1361,Dan(PRR 6755),and PRR 3750 were Restored in Operating Condition

I think the 3254 has been forgotten ever since it was pulled for service and it seems like only a few people talk about it still talk about it

The music bed is way way too loud in the first 4 minutes, it really is pretty well redundant.

Okay they need to put all Canadien and American railroads just say railroad cause that isn’t England

1361 to me is the saddest. She did do well after the fall of PRR. She had to be broken apart after her poor crippled state when doing her excursions. Although, I do hope that she is getting her work complete by the next few years Edit: 1361 is getting all her bolts and hinges via from scratch. Up to date, they also fixed up her tender.

I heard a few months ago that the tender for 1361 was completed and money is coming from the Horsehoe Curve chapter of the NRHS.

where did you get the music, and Amazing Quality. what editing software do you use?

I liked how he was using some Minecraft music

One quescion, is B&M 3717 still around today

Ask trainguy 4449 and he will tell that 614 is done, stuck there

I'm scared that 3254 will be scrapped it might never run again

779 has 111 sisters.

How much would it cost to repair 3245s frames anyway

Why should it take so much to rebuild a K4?

Dude, the music--- does not need to crescendo to forte fortissimo, way too loud, annoying and distracting

Minecraft music