Note: This is a reupload due to a copyright dispute

16:28 "Which was a rumor many railfans started saying that Metra hated steam and wanted it (the 5629) gone". I honestly believe that if Metra actually hated steam and wanted the 5629 scrapped, the 5629 would have been gone by 1981/82 *At the latest*

In Britain A locomotive was built then saved for preservation,scraped and rebuilt with original parts and scrapped for the war

Man I wish GTW 5629 was still with us. The reason I adore this loco is because of how she looked. Not only was she a USRA, and not only was the contrasting black and graphite paint scheme a classical look, but the addition of the long haul tender resulted in a very pleasing combination that captured the classic lines of mainline steam power. But no, Jensen had to throw her away in a fruitless attempt for the almighty dollar. Update* BTW, I know ACL 1504 and "GTW" 5632 are still around so you don't have to remind me. I was just stating why 5629 is one of my favorite locomotives.

I admittedly fell under that illusion of it being Metra's fault, which I now regret.

It’s a shame that the CNJ were incompetent to preserve more of their steam locomotives. The G3s that served for the Blue Comet would’ve been a perfect 21st century excursion steamer in Jersey.

It’s a tragedy 5629 got scrapped mostly because of a devious plan by Jenson. No wander nobody likes him anymore after he caused its demise. I used to be on the wrong side and claim it was mostly Metra’s fault. I haven’t been like that against them eversince learning the real truth about Jensen in 2022 from HITD.

I did not expect History in the Dark to appear in this.

Another scrapped excursion star that honorable mention was a sister engine to SP 4449, was 4443 that pulled fan trips and scrapped in 1958.

Sorry about the copyright issue there! This was a really good video 👍

little fact: cnj 774 was scene in a railroad documentary called steam in the 20's and 40's

Here’s one. Southern Pacific 0-6-0 1294. My grandpa worked for SP before UP bought them out. He since passed since 2009 when I was only 4. He worked the coal shift in Salt Lake City after that. Before the rr he was a veteran from the gulf war and the Vietnam war. He was the ammo and cargo maintainer. He’d make sure what cargo goes to who and what plane it should be on,

Having grown up in Minersville, all my life, seeing 113 in this video was pretty special. I've been seeing them rebuild that for years. The backstory on that locomotive could probably be an entire video on its own.

"Alas, the Doctor is too poor to buy this." I was NOT expecting a CoD Zombies piece to be used, but i LOVE IT. also, if you decide to do a scrapped museum piece video, i have 3 nominations. PC GP9 7049, the 3 pieces of equipment scrapped at the Altoona Railroad museum last year, and the things scrapped at Noblesville IN when the city kicked the museum out.

Here’s how I would imagine if all of these American excursion star steam locomotives could’ve been preserved at instead of being scrapped. Chicago Burlington & Quincy 5632: Could’ve been displayed at the Illinois Railway Museum located in Union, Illinois. Grand Trunk Western 5629: Could’ve also been displayed at the Illinois Railway Museum. Norfolk & Western Y6B 2174 and class A 1240: Could’ve been in operation to this day with N&W 611, and another that also could’ve been displayed at the Illinois Railway Museum. CNJ 774: Could’ve been at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum located in Baltimore, Maryland for operation there. Buffalo Creek & Gauley #17: Could’ve been in operation on the Cass to Durbin, West Virginia line, between the Cass Scenic Railroad and Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad. As for the honorable mentions. Southern Pacific Cab Forward 4274: Could’ve been displayed at the Western Railway Museum located in Suisun City, California. Illinois Central 2613: Yet another that could’ve been displayed at the Illinois Railway Museum. Union Pacific Challenger 3967: Could’ve been displayed at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum located in Duluth, Minnesota.

One of the Northerns is at the colorado railroad museum.

My favorite excursion engine is Milwaukee Road 261. But my favorite scrapped one is DMIR M-3 Class 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone #222. It was originally taken out of service and placed on display in Two Harbors, MN. For all of two months before they took it out of retirement to pull a few fan trips before being scrapped. I have the MTH HO scale model of it.

I live near the site where buffalo creek and gauley 14 is on static display and knowing that a engine from an small railroad made top 1 is amazing.

What a awesome and beautiful video you made, or should I say, reupload. I just realized that Train Guru/Luke was in the video along with other KZfaqrs I subscribed. You guys did a wonderful job working together to make this video possible

The story of BC&G 17/S&A 504 is a complete tragedy. It really did have potential to make it into modern preservation

Y’all should make a part 2! I enjoyed this series, for part 2 you should cover NH 3016.

N&W 611 is my most favorite, UP 4014 and 844 being my second and third, and SP 4449 deing my fourth.

Amazing video! It’s nice seeing some steamers still around pulling trains today

Well thankfully former Southern Railway excursion star locomotive # 722 is getting another lease on life, on her own home rails from her days in revenue freight service, On the GSMR located on part of the old Southern Railway Murphy branch line.

I work on the CNJ 113 shes an absolute dame of an engine, shes a powerful beefy lil lassie. Its a pleasure to keep her operating and holding the honor for the only operable CNJ Steamer 💪🏻

It sucks that this vid got claimed but I'm glad to see you got it back up so quickly

I find the subject of locomotives being scrapped under preservation interesting, regardless if they pulled excursions or not. I remember reading briefly about number 17 and its replacement number 38. in a magazine

great yet also sad video 👍😥

Sorry I fell asleep this go around

In terms of excursion stars on this railroad, particularly Yellowstones No. 222 and 224 of the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railroad. Yellowstone 222 pulled some of the very first excursions on the railroad in July 1958 and pulled some in 1960, it also pulled the last steam powered ore train on the entire railroad in July 1960. it was also seemingly very well taken care of during its career up until it was sadly retired and scrapped in 1963. Yellowstone 224 was given the special honor of pulling an excursion train dubbed “The Illini Special” for the Illini Railroad Club in July 1961, along with Preserved Yellowstone 225 pulling an excursion for the Minnesota Railfans Association. 224 would also be scrapped in 1962. I really do feel that 222 and 224 should’ve been preserved, for their final glory days and the special memories they likely impacted on the railfans to who’ve witnessed them.

I happy about CNR 6218,6060 are Save but no Running. And CP 2618 is Running and It Make a special Run for CPKC merge.

I saw the notification pop up on my phone again, and I thought, "What is going on?" it completely slipped my mind that copyright is an issue with KZfaq.

Also another excursion star is SP 2475 which pulled a new year’s excursion on 1958 and then she was retired and scrapped only 3 p8s are left

I have watched not only your channel Thunderbolt but also Ryan and Darkness the Curse(History in the dark) and i am happy that you 3 are the Trio Rail Squad for uor train stories

By the way, I like your channel it’s good. You did a great job on it. Well done.

Would love to see more of this

Not gonna lie, you should do more videos like these cuz this was a emotional rollercoaster (not really) to watch...

Always near and dear to my heart since I was a little kid. Engine 60 with Black River and Western in Ringoes NJ.

After meeting you at the Colebrookdale, I find it funny you said "Possibly" about 5030, again, weird choice for excursions

5629 feels like when a parent wants to get custody of there child but the courts rude against them

CPKC 2816 was also brought back😅

GTW 5629 is the saddest on this list

I don't think this relates, but 2 of my favorites are both from Southern Pacific: Cab Foward 4274 and GS-6 4460 as they pulled fan trips before

Great Video as Always.

KZfaq hasn’t been showing me your videos! I have missed so much, it just occurred to me I hadn’t seen anything. Gonna catch up

Why did you remake

I was a week too late to see 611… (at Strasburg)

16:15 Which link in the description, exactly?

There's another scrapped excursion star, New York, Ontario and Western 4-8-2 405.

Hey man, can you please do a remake of the 1993 Big Bayou Canot disaster? Its 30th anniversary is coming up and I hope you make a video on it.

Can you make a part 2

What happened to 5632 and 5629 was tragic.

I don’t actually see this as sad, I like to think in spirit GTW 5629 lives on as CB&Q 5629, and in spirit CB&Q 5632 lives on as GTW 5632. This is a really interesting but in my opinion happy coincidence, I’m surprised other people haven’t caught onto this. While yes, CB&Q 5632 and GTW 5629 are long gone, in spirit, they absolutely live on in CB&Q 5629 and in GTW 5632, engines that also happen to share the same numbers as each other.

I’d like to see a part 2 with the honorable mentions, it would be nice to see one

Did you already know that b&o changed 659 to 7600

Can I pls. use a bit of Trainz footage from a few of these locomotives? (Possibly for a story or railfan song.)

Maybe you can do like the Remastered Hinton Train Collision, the other Remastered Cajon Pass Runaway Trains 1994 and 1996, and the 2002 Placentia train collision.

5632 looks so pretty it's hor'rible she didn't survive

What the people should do was fix the mechanical issues on 17 instead of selling it for scrap

Two 5629s and two 5632s

In other words, GET THE F*** OFF MY PROPERTY! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

You should do one on the NH&I 1533.

Why don’t you do some uk steam trains as we lost silverlink locomotives blue Peter backstory and the one and only flying Scotsman when it visited the USA in 1968 and nearly never returned home also can you do more uk train disasters like the sailsbury crash and the Gner Hatfield derailment

Can you make part 2 with honorable mentions please?

Hey everyone! Just to let you know, Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions is currently in the hospital due to a car accident, we are unsure when he will be back. I hope your well Thunderbolt!

28:30 Cuckoo Loca said that in the Mickey Mouse: Mixed Up Adventures episode “Cuckoo In Hot Dog Hills”.

When are you gonna do the 1995 Amtrak crash sunset limited

Pease do anthor one its nice seeing communities come together and I don't really see that many top 10 videos

wish UP 3967 was in Railroad Museum

Steam didn't die on the N&W until I believe March of 1960.

Can’t wait for the next train wreck documentary

The bear clip just made me choke on my drink

Did you know that when Richard Johnson passed away March 1991 the same year the Soviet Union was dissolving that’s a bit of an Easter egg

Can you make a video for the 60th anniversary of the Chualar bus crash which happened on September 17, 1963 and killed 32 people and injuring 25?

Hey thunderbolt I was wondering that if you could make a documentary about a certain accident that happened when you were doing the flying kipper documentary. And I know it requires alot of researching. But by all means. Can you do a documentary on the Abbots ripton train wreck

Genson is genuinely messed up. Like why would you sacrifice a piece of american history for some money?! seriously??!!

Hey thunderbolt can you do shrewsbury train accident next? I would love it :)

2174 is also sometimes a train on trainz 3

I’m not calling you out on this I just wanna let you know if this is a very nice history in the dark inspired video

6325 return to stea

has anyone heard any news on locomotive number 587 if its going to be scraped

Hey what game did you use? Wanna buy it soon!

Wow

I wish 5629 and 5632 were with us

(Please see this) youve covered most big derailments but knowone knows that there was a massive conrail derailment at utica ny. It was a switch malfunction i think that caused it. If you need a video jay winn has a few on it. Nobody knows this happend and i just want people to know that this happend

fabulous

Idea for Scrapped Excursion Stars:Southern Pacific 4412

The Bird Brothers bought United Iron in Roanoke. They had lawsuits brought against them in Great Britain and wanted to scrap it because of their experiences there. I was a Roanoke Chapter member 1971- 77. I had not heard anything said about preserving the 2174 at any chapter meetings. Before the February, 1972 meeting, when people were standing around talking, I went up to Carl Jensen and Joe Austin, two of the clique that controlled the chapter. I said "Excuse me. That Y-6 is in that scrapyard to be scrapped, soon It could be gone" They had nothing to say about my comment and turned around and kept talking about whatever they had been talking about. I never heard any discussion of saving the 2174 at any chapter meeting. At one of the chapter meetings , I think March, 1973, there was a business report that the Roanoke Chapter had over $13,000 in cash. In April, 1976, there was a picture of the 2174 being scrapped in The Roanoke Times. The caption read "End of the Line.". I called the Southern Steam Program shop in Irondale AL and contacted my former supervisor, Steve Wickersham, American Freedom Train Chief Mechanical Officer on the Reading T-1. I told him "There's an N&W Y-6 being cut up right now in Roanoke. It has the same type of stoker and feedwater heater that your engine has. Do you want me to try to get you any parts off of it?" ""Yeah, get me the distributing table." he responded. When I got there,I found it, but it had been cut in pieces. So much for any serious effort to save the 2174 by the Roanoke Chapter.

Hey it’s History in the dark

6:52 Lol (poor bear) 20:11 Both Y6 locos were scrapped in 1976 24:51 Oh dear!

When you get back, see if you can do the West Layfayette Ohio Train Wreck of September 11th 1950, when the Spirit of Saint Louis rear ended a troop train carrying Ohio National guard men

Can you try to do 1991 unit sqare derailment

Hey thunder, where did you and Darkness get the information of Jensen’s plan to get 5629 scrapped?

Nice video, also sorry I did a copyright on your video……

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the Santiago de compoltse train wreck sadly you did not make a video on it

I have a idea that you could do until you come back from your holiday in Italy why not try to do 5 scrapped Uk 🇬🇧 excursion star locomotive such as for example Great Western Railway King class locomotive number 6018 King Henry VI there was a attempted to saved this locomotive but was scrapped at Swindon railway works could make this video if possible when you get back from your holiday in Italy please.

I have been in cajon pass and san bernardino

Have you ever heard of the saint louis gost light

I want to save some engines

I tip my hat to you ladies ❤