Amazing to watch this steam engine running down the tracks right next to traffic on the I-10.
That thing is a major work of art!! A real beauty! :unbelievable:
To think the whole engine and tender was designed on a drafting table, pencil and eraser. No AutoCad! :Thud:
That was real engineering! :woohoo: Just awesome!
Jim
1880 meet 2015.. Awesome!!!
The real American Muscle, great video.
that was cool!
Really neat!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_3751 :wowzers:
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe..... :banana: Very cool to see that running down the tracks.
It would be really cool to get a video of you car running beside it.
Quote from: blown motor on April 18, 2018, 10:01:04 AM
It would be really cool to get a video of you car running beside it.
Yeah, it would... I liked seeing the old Chevy pull into the picture but apparently the person shooting the video didn't share my appreciation..
Super cool, don't see engineering like that anymore.
That is cool!
I would definitely go past my exit to ride beside it for awhile.
In my opinion, one of the greatest engineering feats of mankind. Wow, who'd've thought to see a 4-8-4 Baldwin roaring down the rails in this day and age?! If you like trains- and really, who doesn't? check out the one they've got in the Henry Ford museum. It's so big that it had to be made as an articulated engine in order to get around the curved track sections. A real, beautiful monster you can touch. :bigthumb:
That is one beautiful machine. It must've been a thrill to ride along side it. It's one thing to see something like that in a museum display, but quite another to see it actually running. Based on the wikipedia info that was posted (thanks 6BBLGT), it has a top speed over 100 mph.
Awesome :bravo:
When I was in England last year we had a trip to the Lakes which is about the mid of the country. We came around a bend and right beside us was the Flying Scotsman all decked out in green and billowing white smoke. It was as if I was in a dream, I'll never forget that day - very cool.
You know, to really wrap your head around the fact that that loco would do 100mph+ you have to be able to envision the sheer weight and mass of it and then transpose your arse- which has experienced doing 100mph, into it. I can't really imagine the scale of noise and mechanical action going on at that speed and the sheer ballsiness of the men in it when it was going that fast. My God, you'd have to start slowing down for a station 5 miles before you got to it and even that might not be sufficient! Amazing machine and so great to see it survives and runs to this day! :twothumbsup:
Quote from: jimynick on April 20, 2018, 09:58:37 PM
You know, to really wrap your head around the fact that that loco would do 100mph+ you have to be able to envision the sheer weight and mass of it and then transpose your arse- which has experienced doing 100mph, into it. I can't really imagine the scale of noise and mechanical action going on at that speed and the sheer ballsiness of the men in it when it was going that fast. My God, you'd have to start slowing down for a station 5 miles before you got to it and even that might not be sufficient! Amazing machine and so great to see it survives and runs to this day! :twothumbsup:
Well stated!
Mike
I was fortunate last year to chase the Nickle Plate (NKP) 765 running back and fourth from Joliet, IL to Chicago on a beautiful day.
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Thx Ryan, that was some great footage and I especially liked how you had a hard time to catch the old girl in the beginning! LOL Fabulous old machine, love it! :bigthumb:
Quote from: jimynick on April 22, 2018, 09:15:19 PM
Thx Ryan, that was some great footage and I especially liked how you had a hard time to catch the old girl in the beginning! LOL Fabulous old machine, love it! :bigthumb:
I thought it would be going Metra, our local commuter rail line, speeds, maybe freight. I was not expecting it to be going at the top speed allowed on the tracks, which I believe is about 60mph. Also it was a 35 mph zone... that dead ended at a missing bridge. So it wasn't perfect.
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I follow old trains in my free time.
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