That’s quite a list of particulars. He sounds like a fine young man. 👍. I’m glad he enjoyed my video. I didn’t include it in my description, but as an interesting side note there was a rare earthquake early that morning. It’s epicenter was in Westchester County, New York, not far from where much of this excursion took place. It woke me up in my apartment in Queens. It’s the only tremor I have ever experienced. I now live near Atlanta, but my brother and sister on Long Island recently experienced 2 earthquakes in the same day. They were located on the same Ramapo Fault, but further to the west, in New Jersey.

@@yankinga He is he's on the autism spectrum and dreams big.

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That was CN 3254 posing as a fictitious DL&W Mikado. She has been officially retired by “Steam-LESS-town”.

@@yankinga yea sadly your right

She has been retired. Sometime during her active service life, she collided with a Great Northern locomotive. As a result of the collision, she was left with a bent frame and was a rough rider. I can attest to that, having ridden in her cab once. It felt like she had square wheels. B&M Pacific 3713 is supposed to take her place once it’s been restored. (They’ve been restoring it since the dawn of time.) Don’t hold your breath. Steamtown is as hapless and hopeless as the rest of the federal government.

@@yankinga but what happened to her old whitstle though

@@kaedenthecsxamtrakandthoma8318 I have no idea. I would imagine it’s still on the engine. It’s horribly out of tune and doesn’t fit with any other locomotive so why not leave it where it is?

Born 8/29/57 66 Years old. The other commenter is a pal of mine. The part about "bashing passenger trains" is an inside joke. "Bashing" is a British thing. It involves riding behind every locomotive of a particular class and trying to log 1000 miles. We both know a British transplant who "bashes" Amtrak P42s. It is totally meaningless to me because A) I way prefer railfanning trackside and chasing over riding trains and B) I couldn't care less about Amtrak and commuter trains. To me, the P42s are ugly and the Siemens Chargers are uglier still. The only reason to ride for me is for the mountain scenery. I've ridden the Coast Starlight, the California Zephyr, the Sunset Limited and the Southwest Chief a couple of times each. I'm done with those. I rode the Empire Builder once, out of Portland. The Columbia River Gorge and the section of the Rockies that we passed in daylight were nice, but too much of the best scenic locations are passed in the dark. From Havre Mt. to Chicago is a boring nothingburger. Won't be doing that train again. I've ridden over Sand Patch on the Capitol Limited. Th only remaining routes I want' to cover are the Pennsylvanian over Horseshoe Curve and The LA to San Diego run, once they've stabilized the railroad. I rode it once but they were substituting buses for the best part of the route. The construction work is still ongoing.

@@yankinga 66 years old wow but just saying you record thr footage of trains and idk who edits your video.

Reversing polarity on traction motors would simply trip the circuit breakers. I am a trade school graduate but I can spell "Ivy", genius. Class dismissed.

nobody cares

Not sure exactly what you mean, so I’ll answer it in two parts. Is there a restored and operating steam locomotive that is capable of pulling this train ? Absolutely. There are a number of them. Does CSX have such a locomotive, or care to make arrangements to use one of the existing ones? Absolutely not. Apart from Union Pacific, no class one railroad is “steam friendly” and UP will only allow the two that they own (844 & 4014) to operate on their system.

Approximately here: maps.app.goo.gl/G9pje4Yjn2zxdgJr6. Street View maps.app.goo.gl/aerL11ampbeF4QRF8. Same basic location of this shot of Milw 261 on a photo freight: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZilZ5x5mK6pcmw.htmlsi=pSyUN25qtevL2ZOF&t=763

Ex-Erie Lackawanna SD45-2s They were in helper service at that time. Based in Cresson.

To be fair, the highway is much steeper than the railroad. Whereas the tracks snake through what seem to be endless curves, including the famous loop, Hwy 58 goes straight up the pass. On the other hand, each truck only moves a pittance of the weight of a train. The advantage of trucks is that they can take your freight from your loading dock directly to the other guy's loading dock. Railroads have the advantage over distances greater than 400 miles. That is why you see so many JB Hunt, Schneider, Amazon, FedEx and UPS, etc. vehicles on trains. Most of them are containers but UPS still prefers complete trailers on piggyback flat cars. The railroads don't like piggyback because of the higher tare weight and wind resistance at higher speeds, versus 2 containers per well (platform) on articulated double stack cars. I believe that UPS's reasoning is that their trailers have a below-floor-level cargo space that is built integrally with the chassis and can not be separated and stacked like containers can.