Love the flying Scotsman! The Scotsman is a thing of beauty! From being the first one to hit 100 miles an hour documented! to running 422 miles nonstop! The British people have incredibly beautiful steam locomotives! Your country in general it’s just beautiful! From one Railfan to another, any time that a steam locomotive comes back from heavy overhaul, especially when it has not run in decades it’s a beautiful thing!

Yes sir! I’m getting my behind back to the Hometown. I missed it in 2019 for a great reason (Kidney Transplant). Didn’t get it to sit around and not site see.

Oh everyone loves locomotives. Some just don't realize it.

@@Scorp111786 hope you’re doing OK!

August 15th Ft Worth to Hearne

@@rudycarlson8245 Yes I am, Thank You! Hopefully You are also

Jack Salvin comments for the 708th time

I'd love to bust out my Super 8 film camera for this. But I don't live near UP lines.

You may have speed. But we got power

You do have some beautiful ones in the UK that’s for sure!

I think the Garret's an awesome engine. Cheers, Mate, from upstate NY.

At 5/10 how could you be half the size of the drivers when the drivers are 5/8

@@judefernandez827 The only thing I can think of, being that this was a number of years ago, is that the track bed might have been higher than the ground where I was standing. This was when Steamtown was still in Bellows Falls, Vt. - Steve G.

I think they just do a new paint the number 4014 instead 3985.

Not to diminish the 4014. Its GREAT indeed but GreatGrandaddy, no.!. It was built in 1941 almost one of the last steamers built.LOL And THE last greatest in all its specs. Of the 4000 class it had 13 older and 11 other younger brothers, a family of 25.

What's also not mentioned is the massive amounts of torque thay a steam engine that large makes over a diesel. Its a very overlooked thing since it needs the torque more then horses

nucflashevent...diesel locomotive hp is not dependent upon speed - tractive effort is dependent upon speed if the unit has DC traction motors - if the unit has AC traction motors then speed is irrelevant as far as tractive effort is concerned. You are confusing steam boiler hp (a measure of the boilers ability to perform work over time) with TE...which is the ability to put that hp to the railhead and drawbar in order to pull freight. Even a locomotive like Big Boy would be hard pressed to haul tonnage like a single modern AC powered diesel locomotive.

I reckon the EMD was pushing the Alco. I can't wait to see a vid with #4014 not having an internal combustion loco in the consist.

@@sithlordofoz the diesel loco is to provide Electricity to the rest of the train. #4014 is infact pulling the train. no smoke does not mean that its not doing the work, smoke is the sign of a wasteful fire and if they are tending to the fire properly there is little to no smoke

@@redstonerelic Generator in one of the cars could do that. It's what they do in other countries where the cars need head end power.

The helper diesels are for: 1. Dynamic braking, the presence of which conserves 4014’s own brakes, substantially reducing operating costs and maintenance. Also, dynamic brakes in a train consist complies with Federal law. 2. In the case of a breakdown on the mainline, helpers will expeditiously move the train so that revenue service can resume. 3. Helpers can extend 4014’s operating range if water and/or fuel is unavailable. I spoke to engineer Ed Dickens before the October 2019 excursion from West Colton to Barstow, and this information is straight from him. Additionally, the helpers were not going to be pushing Big Boy up Cajon Pass.

@@RickyJr46 Geez I was just joking!

I thot I was the only one who noticed that leak. It troubled me greatly. And yes I have seen that packing gland is fixed.!

@Joshua DiGiacoma Sequential is better than a double.

@Joshua DiGiacoma The diesel was renumbered before the 4-8-8-4 went back into service.

Yes, it was intentional.

Protection power? 4015 is probably part of the tonnage. They did something similar when 4014 first returned to steam

@@russellgxy2905 4015 was used a lot this run for additional simulated load with the dynamic brake. Most importantly now, however is the use of the diesel locomotive for the LEAP PTC technology installed on the steam locomotive.

Maybe when I upgrade to a 4k camera eventually.

@@DenverRailfanHD Nah sound is a better investment. 4k is waste anyways.

@@kishascape - This. On a 4K upscaling TV, HD is beautiful, but bad sound is always bad. A good mic isolation mount, a windbreaker and, if necessary, a windjammer (aka a "dead cat") is an investment that'll never be obsolete.

Just in case there is a problem

I think its primarily there for dynamic braking

@@rustyshackleford6637 and for the first time ever on this run, the new LEAP PTC system which could enable steam locomotives to meet PTC standards using the PTC of a trailing diesel

@@rustyshackleford6637 Probably also for all the electronics.

God taking a picture of the Big Boy?

Thanks for pointing that out!!

From everything I read yes, its 3985's tender renumbered.

Yes, it's still 3985's tender, which wasn't 3985's original tender in the first place.

A friend of mine, and we ventured up not knowing where exactly they were, keep in mind at night, but we saw it under HWY 85 overpass near Nunn.

Thats gold lol

I swear I heard a ripping sound as the young lady squatted down...

It probably go as far as Oregon, idk about WA but I know UP went the same area as before because it was familar and easy territory to work with I guess.

It is...... www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm

@@MS3DALE , Thank you , I am not going to miss it this time

@@68dart Sounds good, I'd love to see it myself, but its not coming close enough to Pittsburgh, Pa. :(

its personal preference really

dont think i got anything wrong lol

As the title says, it's a test run, not a passenger run.

The track always looks worse with a telephoto lense!

They can only go whatever the track speed is.

Agreed!

The sounding of the whistle is a mandated safety requirement.

@@tulyar1043 I’m a train driver in the U.K. and it is mandated, however that is excessive and I would be disciplined for it, unnecessary noise pollution and disruption for the people who live along side the tracks. I’m also a volunteer fireman on a U.K. steam railway and never in my life have I heard use of the whistle to that extent

@@Kitchevo The probable reason for the extra whistling, there is a grade( level) xing that 4014 was approaching, with a lot of people filming and enjoying the spectacle of a steam run the engineer( driver) was taking no chances with anyone or thing getting too close to the track. Sometime ago a Railfan was too near the track and was hit and killed by the 844 steamer. Union Pacific always takes great care on it's steam runs and asks everyone to stay at least 25ft away from their tracks.

Maybe some of us likes the whistle