And by the way, i think cockroach is just a loney old man, who doesnt have any family or friends, or a life, and all he has to do is troll the steam video chanels, poor lonley little man.
The sounds of a steam locomotive is music to my ears also, when i was a young boy, a sreamer pased just behind my home, it was the highligh of my day, when they took it off in 1959, and put a deisel on, i did not hang around the tracks so
I just wanna hear about 10 minutes of uninterrupted steam engine power coming through those trucks, moving at top speed across the continental divide. Damn all the hoopla. I just wanna feel that engine. Anybody know where I can get a good video and sound of just the engine and the load?
Nice steamer, total bore-you consist behind. What class is the 3751? (eg. K4s, G5, K28, GS-4, etc) I see its wheel arrangement is 4-8-4 "Northern". Great camera work!
ya know, i wish there was a "flip off" button as well as the thums up/down to rate comments so i can rape that button when ever cockroach2008 posts a comment
I don't call him a COCKroach for nothing you know. He has also been talking crap about the legendary Berkshire Pere Marquette 1225 (my ultimate steam favorite). Youtube, you need to see this, because it doesn't look good on you (refering to the annoying bug (Cockroach2008).
0:45 I honestly could see the look on some people's face on seeing a steam locomotive going 40 mph right by them. "Was that a..? Yep, it sure was a steam train."
I have had trouble out of Cockroach2008 on one of my videos of Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum #610. I think he just looks for videos of steam engines so he can post his garbage. I believe I blocked him too.
If I am correct, they say treating a steam locomotive is like treating a girl, if cockroach 2008 is horrible to steam locomotives, does that mean he's never had a girlfriend?
Anyone with a username of "Cockroach" must be a retard, idiot, perhaps both. Anyway, thanks for posting this beautiful video of one of my favorite loco's. That's just SUPER, CHIEF!! pun intended.
how could anyone hate steam locmotives???.....thats like saying you hate pie!!!.....Cockroach your a moron...as long as people like us our around...the beauty of steam locomotives are here to stay....
Every steam train video you're in the comments, with no purpose other than to rile people up and troll.
Even if what you say is true, about your glorious recycling plans, it's a ridiculous premise, since, even if you scrapped every single steam engine left in the world, that would only amount to a drop in the bucket of the great stream of scrap iron and steel around the world every day. One out of service ship = 50 steam locomotives.
@Guser223 They could do without the Amtrak Locomotive, but I guess that Amtrak is a little paranoid about letting a lone steam engine loose on their line, same with Milw. #261.
@Paraffinmeister The diesel unit provides power to the cars, but more importantly is in on the train because of insurance. BNSF require this for operating on it`s tracks.
Beautiful video and bravo on banning Cockroach. He's a troll; basically a person with nothing better to do that to skulk around YouTube and piss off railfans. He's fouled up a SP&S 700 video with his unscrupulous behavior, as well.
How small and bored do you have to be that the only entertainment you get is posting stupid comments on YT? I just don't get it.
@cmlnr Let him and everyone post. We can laugh at him and his small-mindedness. He probably lovesteam locomotives and is just saying what is practical abouthem. These inefficient, polluting, track stressing engineSHOULD ALL BE SCRAPPED. But so glad for those that have been preserved. I am truely surprised that railraods did not preserve more of their beautiful machines. Worth FAR more than the little money they got in scrap. (One magnificent locomotive was accidentally scrapped.)
Steam locomotives are better for the environment in so many ways. You, Cockroach2008, have been told so many lies that you have fact confused with fiction. Steam locomotives can burn many fuels to produce propulsion; coal was plentiful and cheap. Wood was once plentiful and cheap and renewable. Waste grain, for example, is plentiful and cheap and much quicker to renew. The energy to produce raw materials for parts/components need to be factored into the equation too. Steam's better for Earth!
Steam locomotives are worth the same as diesels as far as scrap value is concerned. But a running steam locomotive is rare and is worth much more than even the newest diesels which average around $2.2million each. A steam locomotive is safer for the environment and is 100% recyclable when it's service life is over. Diesels are great and the EMD SD45 is my favorite EMD, but steam locomotives are very capable of burning waste fuels, fuels that may be discarded as refuse.
@TheSteamLocomotive yeah, just look at what GCRY did to #4960, she burns Waste Vegetable Oil now, so that is indisputable proof that a steam locomotive can burn just about anything, even if it does make the locomotive smell like a French Fry.
As long as there are people on this earth steam locomotives will be running. In England Darlington Locomotive Works recently built a brand new steam locomotive named "Tornado". This seems to contradict all that you have predicted. You must understand that the steam locomotive is a better choice for the environment.
Cockroach2008 must be a twelve year old kid. A kid who seems to think he/she knows everything, and more than those who actually know locomotives. Anyone with a brain knows that steam locomotives are much, much more sound for the environment than a diesel.
You still dogging the steam locomotive? I thought some steam fan had done found you and gave you the beating you so rightfully deserve. The steam locomotive is much better for the environment the diesel locomotive.
I would be delighted to cut you apart with a chainsaw. Maybe send whats left of you to a butcher shop and pay him to sell it to you parents. When they eats it I come and shot THATS YOUR SON YOUR EATING. Or maybe I'll burn your leftovers in a steam engines firebox.
I am pleased that you agree that junking, scrapping, cutting apart & melting the steam locomotives is the VERY best thing that could be done to these clunkers.
It would ne fun to have you over to use the gas powered, water cooled 14" diamond blade cut off saw to cut the main piston rod. It is a simple skill to start with & one you will need as we continue to cut apart the steam locomotive junk pile.
Cockroach, remember me? I helped try and settle the disputes we had on another 3751 video a yr or two ago. I respect that you have an opinion as you are entitled to one. But would you mind toning down? As you can tell, others are more aggressive and these arguments take the fun away for everyone. Thanks for your cooperation
I don't mind where I am at. I am polite & respectful of everyone. It appears that some of the others are more feisty & rude about defending their position. They are the ones who need restraint.
I am sorry those individuals take away the fun for so many.
They really need to come to terms with the facts that the steam locomotives are doomed & nearer to scrapping than they will ever believe!
I just hate trying to moderate these types of arguments....It's fine to have an opinion, but I just don't understand your method of posting on every steam video you come across...are you doing it for the reaction from railfans? To me that seems like the only logical reason you would have for posting over and over again...correct me if i am wrong. Also, most of these steam engines happen to be privately funded and cared for so in essence you aren't obligated to pay a cent unless you want to...
I post my opinion as much as any other individual. I am not looking for a reaction, I am finding the target to junk; helping desperate people locate where the article is which can be stripped for some fast cash.
I must correct you.
These articles are loaded with parts & mementos which can be quickly removed & sold for some fast cash.
Bell, whistle, gauges, headlight, number boards, marker lights, linkage, bolts, etc. sell fast!
But one must ask....what about everything assembled? an operating steam engine of that age in that condition would fetch quite some price....It's like the barrett-jackson auto auction. a 1972 hemi cuda convertible (1 of 11 made) once sold for over 2 million dollars....Even when it was found rusting next to a tree the shell sold for $300,000...the scrap cost would have been minimal for an item like that. Wouldn't a rare one of a kind operating steamer logically apply to those principles as well?
It is worth more in scrap when cut up & poured into new products which serve today's needs.
Who pays to keep these relics? I have successfully campaigned to prevent a city from "donating" to a preservation effort of a steam locomotive a few people wanted to restore & return to operating condition. Nothing wrong with the effort. But, spending public money on it would have been foolish. There are too many other things which needed funding & produced public benefit.
Did a little research. scrap steel is $0.35-$0.60/Lb. Curb weight of a 1970 hemi cuda is 3900 pounds. 400 give or take is not steel. 3500 x $0.60 is $2100 of scrap metal. That versus a $2,000,000+ auction price? scrap iron = $0.04-$0.20 per pound. SF 3751=478,100 Lbs. This equals $95,620 in scrap. C&O 614, also a 4-8-4 northern was auctioned in the late 90's. Kevin Costner was among the possible buyers. The seller pulled the auction but the price was in the high millions. And scrap is better?
While these junkers may come up for an occasional action, sales are often not completed or carried through. That is just another sign that the seller's are getting desperate, fearful or panicky.
Now is the time to purchase the scrap as the sellers become desperate, the costs of maintaining them are mounting,
It is also a good sign that those who need some quick cash, should "make a visit" to the steam locomotive parts room & help themselves.
and I don't understand the quick cash mentality...Buddy go talk to doc and get some plutonium to get to 1955. Wayyyy more steamers were under the torch back then. You're ideas are more suited for first generation diesel takeover than now when theres mayb 20 steam engines left close to operational status in the entire country...
Removing parts from a steam locomotive is a way for anyone to earn quick cash selling the part to a scrap yard. There are many scrap operators on the street who will pay for something like a whistle, bell, gauge set, marker light, number board, linkage, control levers, firebox doors without asking any questions. Under the radar.
It is just one step to help out desperate people! Nothing wrong with telling them.
Like telling everyone, there is money in the bank!
So let me get this straight; in other words you're encouraging vandalism and stealing? The people who own these don't plan on giving them up anytime soon ur not preaching to the choir...and if you truly were the business genius you claim to be you'd understand that being in the auto scrap business is far more profitable for that very reason. A quick buck here and there is the very reason people can't escape the poverty cycle...they can't find permanent cash flow and then bog down evrything else
Trying to help those in need is one thing. Telling them to commit felony is another. I completely understand that you may have good intentions. But there are so many more useful and effective ways to do so....
to be honest, he can say anything he wants to say, we know that our steam locomotives arent going anywhere anytime soon. So lets not waste our breathes.
@david245611 Well, at least people now make live steam locomotives. But Cockroach2008 is such an idiot to be making fun of us steam lovers all because we love steam locomotives. It's a good thing people are doing the same thing to him. Steam locomotives are awesome and he can't change what we thing about them. There's millions of us and one of him.
@Cockroach2008 It's called the "TOURIST INDUSTRY", people pay a lot of money just to ride behind a steam locomotive from Point A to Point B, you will see sold out trains with steam locomotives for power, but you rarely see a sold out diesel powered passenger train.
I am not a steam locomotive fanatic! I don't want to spend a dime on these trashed up clunkers.
I want to hear reports of parts like bells, whisltes, headlights, marker boards, marker lights, gauges, engineers controls, hoses, pumps, generators, pipe & many other parts stolen from this relic!
I want to see it made so economically unfeasible to maintain & restore that it ends up in a foundry crucible melting!
I like to cut these apart & load it for the foundry.
so what, you will never junk this engine because there are people who love this engine. and you don't comment videos to look for stuff you can cut up to pieces. you just like to piss off people who like steamengines. stop beeing so childish!!
Very cool engine and a nice train. Thumbs up! :)
megatwingo 3 days ago
And by the way, i think cockroach is just a loney old man, who doesnt have any family or friends, or a life, and all he has to do is troll the steam video chanels, poor lonley little man.
willibill1 1 week ago
The sounds of a steam locomotive is music to my ears also, when i was a young boy, a sreamer pased just behind my home, it was the highligh of my day, when they took it off in 1959, and put a deisel on, i did not hang around the tracks so
much any more.
willibill1 1 week ago
i like the part 0:45 to 0:55
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mark10788 1 month ago
dunno about the fat controller , but at 0.33 theres the fat policeman lol , very fit obviously
bonzo874 2 months ago
Great video
SDRailfan 2 months ago
im assuming BNSF is running her on their own excursion program am i correct if not what company is running 3751?
Barricade360 3 months ago
This is my favorite video of 3751!
Dinosorable 5 months ago
Man I sure do love steam engines. I would love to feel, ride behind, and see one of these
SirDonutman 6 months ago
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@ecoRfan Sorry, misread some information. The class 3751 locomotives were actually numbers 3751-3754.
harrodsburgNSfan 7 months ago
Who owns & operates this loco?
papabugs71 7 months ago
@papabugs71 San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society
The3751FAN 7 months ago
Ain't nothing like 'em!!!!
MrDRUID27 8 months ago
That's the best 6 chime whistle I've ever heard!
Dinosorable 8 months ago in playlist Amtrak
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I just wanna hear about 10 minutes of uninterrupted steam engine power coming through those trucks, moving at top speed across the continental divide. Damn all the hoopla. I just wanna feel that engine. Anybody know where I can get a good video and sound of just the engine and the load?
lamontlewis 8 months ago
that chug sound is music to my ears. man a machine!
classicallyliberal 8 months ago 7
Nice steamer, total bore-you consist behind. What class is the 3751? (eg. K4s, G5, K28, GS-4, etc) I see its wheel arrangement is 4-8-4 "Northern". Great camera work!
ecoRfan 8 months ago
@ecoRfan 3751 is the very first locomotive of Santa Fe's class 3751 Northerns, which consisted of numbers 3751 to 3765.
harrodsburgNSfan 7 months ago
How/where in San sdiego can one buy a ticket to ride a steam train? Too bad we now have continuos rail, lived the old clickety click
AbuAvital 9 months ago
old amtrak cars ftw
chillaxer1993 10 months ago
awesome catch...these mechanical monsters are the real mean machines....
angkatanpw 10 months ago
ya know, i wish there was a "flip off" button as well as the thums up/down to rate comments so i can rape that button when ever cockroach2008 posts a comment
THUMBS UP IF YOU AGREE!!
Surfliner6908 10 months ago
I don't call him a COCKroach for nothing you know. He has also been talking crap about the legendary Berkshire Pere Marquette 1225 (my ultimate steam favorite). Youtube, you need to see this, because it doesn't look good on you (refering to the annoying bug (Cockroach2008).
PereMarquette1223 1 year ago
0:45 I honestly could see the look on some people's face on seeing a steam locomotive going 40 mph right by them. "Was that a..? Yep, it sure was a steam train."
claimless 1 year ago
I have had trouble out of Cockroach2008 on one of my videos of Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum #610. I think he just looks for videos of steam engines so he can post his garbage. I believe I blocked him too.
TVRM610 1 year ago
GO, BAY-BEE, GO! There is nothing like steam!
Hendo56 1 year ago
If I am correct, they say treating a steam locomotive is like treating a girl, if cockroach 2008 is horrible to steam locomotives, does that mean he's never had a girlfriend?
larken24 1 year ago 7
Anyone with a username of "Cockroach" must be a retard, idiot, perhaps both. Anyway, thanks for posting this beautiful video of one of my favorite loco's. That's just SUPER, CHIEF!! pun intended.
JRNipper 1 year ago
Loud, dirty, smelly....what wonderful machinery.
SpeedyNeutrino43 1 year ago
Too bad theres not more of these around they are an awesome sight!
AVincent2 1 year ago
BEAUTIFUL whistle!!!!!
Alwaystrains 1 year ago
Damn, Cockroach was here too? Talk about a Spam-Troll. I've seen him in about 8 different Steam Engine videos.
Scioneer 1 year ago
@Scioneer Caught him in one of my TVRM #610 videos of that little 2-8-0 steam engine heading into the tunnel.
TVRM610 1 year ago
Man, she is one of the best restored steam locos today! The whistle they have on her now is much better! :)
nkproad777 1 year ago
Good heavens! What a BEAUTIFUL machine!!!!
DogRun4 1 year ago
@DogRun4 Ditto that! That is SO freaking COOL!!!
flyurway 1 year ago
how could anyone hate steam locmotives???.....thats like saying you hate pie!!!.....Cockroach your a moron...as long as people like us our around...the beauty of steam locomotives are here to stay....
southernprideyankee 1 year ago
Only if we can bring those back and service the line on a regular basis!!!!!! Wonderful! I love it!
GottJukrapun 1 year ago
Now *that's* "heavy metal"! Love the steam sound!
jmchessman 1 year ago
Awesome!
Morry136 1 year ago
man, sounds so wonderful w/ the doppler!
snoopyloopy 1 year ago
WTF @ Cockroach2008
Every steam train video you're in the comments, with no purpose other than to rile people up and troll.
Even if what you say is true, about your glorious recycling plans, it's a ridiculous premise, since, even if you scrapped every single steam engine left in the world, that would only amount to a drop in the bucket of the great stream of scrap iron and steel around the world every day. One out of service ship = 50 steam locomotives.
What a loon, go get laid or something.
AntiFederalist1 1 year ago
@AntiFederalist1
hell never get laid believe me lol
firedude201234 6 months ago
what a sound!
mewrth 1 year ago
remember when it had a 5 chime whistle
thelastprimerules 1 year ago
thank goodness they changed the whistle
thelastprimerules 1 year ago
That was really cool.
SFLRailFan 1 year ago
Me and my dad got our boarding passes and will be riding this weekend!
HELL575 1 year ago
Awesome video! Thumbs up!
DJGENEX71 1 year ago
nice shots & I can't wait for saturday :D
xtremepadrefan 1 year ago
@xtremepadrefan What's Saturday?
cmlnrowan 1 year ago
@cmlnrowan 3751 is returning on this saturday to SD & heading up to LA on Sunday
xtremepadrefan 1 year ago
@xtremepadrefan Thanks for the info! Hope to get some more video!
cmlnrowan 1 year ago
Gotta love it, and of course they have to have an Amtrak P42DC loco there right behind it.
Guser223 1 year ago
@Guser223 They could do without the Amtrak Locomotive, but I guess that Amtrak is a little paranoid about letting a lone steam engine loose on their line, same with Milw. #261.
TVRM610 1 year ago
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A lot of times, they throw in a modern Locomotive to assist with braking.
Scioneer 1 year ago
@TVRM610 The diesel is likely just ticking over powering the lights, etc on the coaches and there for insurance like you say.=)
Paraffinmeister 1 year ago
@Paraffinmeister The diesel unit provides power to the cars, but more importantly is in on the train because of insurance. BNSF require this for operating on it`s tracks.
shnimmuc 1 year ago
@shnimmuc Thankyou for that little nugget of information, I didn't know that BNSF required a diesel loco also.
Paraffinmeister 1 year ago
awesome video i like it
CSXBOY187 1 year ago
Awesome video.
kenjr29mfl 1 year ago
loud train
2fast4u510 1 year ago
how cool was it going through twon!
310sucks 2 years ago
holy shit can she move!
09jrasner703 2 years ago
@09jrasner703 Well lts not forget there is an AMTRACK loco hooked to the back of her (not like that had to do with anything!)
trainguy3 2 years ago
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mark10788 1 month ago
Beautiful video and bravo on banning Cockroach. He's a troll; basically a person with nothing better to do that to skulk around YouTube and piss off railfans. He's fouled up a SP&S 700 video with his unscrupulous behavior, as well.
How small and bored do you have to be that the only entertainment you get is posting stupid comments on YT? I just don't get it.
deloreanman14 2 years ago 4
An absolutely magnificent video
Thankyou.
drigin1234 2 years ago
Love seein them old steamers...
scotty1045 2 years ago
i cant believe cockroach2008 said junk steam engines steam engines rule!
The3751FAN 2 years ago 3
I have blocked Cockroach2008.
I think this means he cannot post here any longer.
Sorry I didn't figure this out sooner.
cmlnr 2 years ago 10
But if you want me to let him back in for the sake of entertainment, let me know! :)
cmlnr 2 years ago 11
@cmlnr No, please! Never unblock Cockroach2008! He's so mean to the steam lovers, like us!
Dinosorable 10 months ago
@Dinosorable he's just trolling steam lovers
david245611 2 months ago
@cmlnr Let him and everyone post. We can laugh at him and his small-mindedness. He probably lovesteam locomotives and is just saying what is practical abouthem. These inefficient, polluting, track stressing engineSHOULD ALL BE SCRAPPED. But so glad for those that have been preserved. I am truely surprised that railraods did not preserve more of their beautiful machines. Worth FAR more than the little money they got in scrap. (One magnificent locomotive was accidentally scrapped.)
robertgift 4 months ago
@cmlnr keep him blocked.
Robkat3751 1 year ago
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mark10788 1 month ago
Awe, look honey, a hot air balloon. WTF??? A steam engine?!?!?!
SteamingObe 2 years ago
Steam locomotives are better for the environment in so many ways. You, Cockroach2008, have been told so many lies that you have fact confused with fiction. Steam locomotives can burn many fuels to produce propulsion; coal was plentiful and cheap. Wood was once plentiful and cheap and renewable. Waste grain, for example, is plentiful and cheap and much quicker to renew. The energy to produce raw materials for parts/components need to be factored into the equation too. Steam's better for Earth!
TheSteamLocomotive 2 years ago
Steam locomotives are worth the same as diesels as far as scrap value is concerned. But a running steam locomotive is rare and is worth much more than even the newest diesels which average around $2.2million each. A steam locomotive is safer for the environment and is 100% recyclable when it's service life is over. Diesels are great and the EMD SD45 is my favorite EMD, but steam locomotives are very capable of burning waste fuels, fuels that may be discarded as refuse.
TheSteamLocomotive 2 years ago 2
@TheSteamLocomotive yeah, just look at what GCRY did to #4960, she burns Waste Vegetable Oil now, so that is indisputable proof that a steam locomotive can burn just about anything, even if it does make the locomotive smell like a French Fry.
TVRM610 1 year ago
As long as there are people on this earth steam locomotives will be running. In England Darlington Locomotive Works recently built a brand new steam locomotive named "Tornado". This seems to contradict all that you have predicted. You must understand that the steam locomotive is a better choice for the environment.
TheSteamLocomotive 2 years ago
Cockroach2008 must be a twelve year old kid. A kid who seems to think he/she knows everything, and more than those who actually know locomotives. Anyone with a brain knows that steam locomotives are much, much more sound for the environment than a diesel.
TheSteamLocomotive 2 years ago 5
You still dogging the steam locomotive? I thought some steam fan had done found you and gave you the beating you so rightfully deserve. The steam locomotive is much better for the environment the diesel locomotive.
TheSteamLocomotive 2 years ago 2
great vid, liked the whistle.
5 stars :)
85mariafer 2 years ago
HA HA, some one's gonna get alot of coal in their stocking tonight.
SAVE ALL REMAINING STEAM LOCOMOTIVES!!
Long live 3751!!
ThomasRivette 2 years ago 3
HAH HA, you miss numbered her its 3751 not 3571 Dumass ; )
Save all steam locomotives.
ThomasRivette 2 years ago
Cockroach2008 is aptly named.
sierragreen 2 years ago 19
4-8-4-8 ?
Bebyko2008 2 years ago
its a 4-8-4, tender does not count
NathansBackwoods 2 years ago
sahweet
clinburco 2 years ago
Beautiful locomotive, and indeed flying at the end. I have to say that the Amfleet cars behind her ruin the picture somewhat.
mmjurczak 2 years ago 3
Stop feeding the troll.
Steam power ftw. thing was rollin' out at the end there.
jdoggybizzle 2 years ago 2
I would be delighted to cut you apart with a chainsaw. Maybe send whats left of you to a butcher shop and pay him to sell it to you parents. When they eats it I come and shot THATS YOUR SON YOUR EATING. Or maybe I'll burn your leftovers in a steam engines firebox.
Jared1452 2 years ago
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I am pleased that you agree that junking, scrapping, cutting apart & melting the steam locomotives is the VERY best thing that could be done to these clunkers.
It would ne fun to have you over to use the gas powered, water cooled 14" diamond blade cut off saw to cut the main piston rod. It is a simple skill to start with & one you will need as we continue to cut apart the steam locomotive junk pile.
Junk all the remaining steam locomotives!
At least paint them with grafitti & trash them!
Cockroach2008 2 years ago
Cockroach, remember me? I helped try and settle the disputes we had on another 3751 video a yr or two ago. I respect that you have an opinion as you are entitled to one. But would you mind toning down? As you can tell, others are more aggressive and these arguments take the fun away for everyone. Thanks for your cooperation
Pup1234567 2 years ago
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I remember you well.
I don't mind where I am at. I am polite & respectful of everyone. It appears that some of the others are more feisty & rude about defending their position. They are the ones who need restraint.
I am sorry those individuals take away the fun for so many.
They really need to come to terms with the facts that the steam locomotives are doomed & nearer to scrapping than they will ever believe!
Cockroach2008 2 years ago
I just hate trying to moderate these types of arguments....It's fine to have an opinion, but I just don't understand your method of posting on every steam video you come across...are you doing it for the reaction from railfans? To me that seems like the only logical reason you would have for posting over and over again...correct me if i am wrong. Also, most of these steam engines happen to be privately funded and cared for so in essence you aren't obligated to pay a cent unless you want to...
Pup1234567 2 years ago
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You don't have to moderate any argument.
I post my opinion as much as any other individual. I am not looking for a reaction, I am finding the target to junk; helping desperate people locate where the article is which can be stripped for some fast cash.
I must correct you.
These articles are loaded with parts & mementos which can be quickly removed & sold for some fast cash.
Bell, whistle, gauges, headlight, number boards, marker lights, linkage, bolts, etc. sell fast!
No questions asked!
Cockroach2008 2 years ago
But one must ask....what about everything assembled? an operating steam engine of that age in that condition would fetch quite some price....It's like the barrett-jackson auto auction. a 1972 hemi cuda convertible (1 of 11 made) once sold for over 2 million dollars....Even when it was found rusting next to a tree the shell sold for $300,000...the scrap cost would have been minimal for an item like that. Wouldn't a rare one of a kind operating steamer logically apply to those principles as well?
Pup1234567 2 years ago
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It is worth more in scrap when cut up & poured into new products which serve today's needs.
Who pays to keep these relics? I have successfully campaigned to prevent a city from "donating" to a preservation effort of a steam locomotive a few people wanted to restore & return to operating condition. Nothing wrong with the effort. But, spending public money on it would have been foolish. There are too many other things which needed funding & produced public benefit.
It was sold & scrapped!
Cockroach2008 2 years ago
Did a little research. scrap steel is $0.35-$0.60/Lb. Curb weight of a 1970 hemi cuda is 3900 pounds. 400 give or take is not steel. 3500 x $0.60 is $2100 of scrap metal. That versus a $2,000,000+ auction price? scrap iron = $0.04-$0.20 per pound. SF 3751=478,100 Lbs. This equals $95,620 in scrap. C&O 614, also a 4-8-4 northern was auctioned in the late 90's. Kevin Costner was among the possible buyers. The seller pulled the auction but the price was in the high millions. And scrap is better?
Pup1234567 2 years ago
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It sure is!
While these junkers may come up for an occasional action, sales are often not completed or carried through. That is just another sign that the seller's are getting desperate, fearful or panicky.
Now is the time to purchase the scrap as the sellers become desperate, the costs of maintaining them are mounting,
It is also a good sign that those who need some quick cash, should "make a visit" to the steam locomotive parts room & help themselves.
Junk the steam locomotives!
Cockroach2008 2 years ago
okay just ignore my research then
Pup1234567 2 years ago
and I don't understand the quick cash mentality...Buddy go talk to doc and get some plutonium to get to 1955. Wayyyy more steamers were under the torch back then. You're ideas are more suited for first generation diesel takeover than now when theres mayb 20 steam engines left close to operational status in the entire country...
Pup1234567 2 years ago
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You don't have to understand.
Removing parts from a steam locomotive is a way for anyone to earn quick cash selling the part to a scrap yard. There are many scrap operators on the street who will pay for something like a whistle, bell, gauge set, marker light, number board, linkage, control levers, firebox doors without asking any questions. Under the radar.
It is just one step to help out desperate people! Nothing wrong with telling them.
Like telling everyone, there is money in the bank!
Cockroach2008 2 years ago
So let me get this straight; in other words you're encouraging vandalism and stealing? The people who own these don't plan on giving them up anytime soon ur not preaching to the choir...and if you truly were the business genius you claim to be you'd understand that being in the auto scrap business is far more profitable for that very reason. A quick buck here and there is the very reason people can't escape the poverty cycle...they can't find permanent cash flow and then bog down evrything else
Pup1234567 2 years ago
Trying to help those in need is one thing. Telling them to commit felony is another. I completely understand that you may have good intentions. But there are so many more useful and effective ways to do so....
Pup1234567 2 years ago 3
to be honest, he can say anything he wants to say, we know that our steam locomotives arent going anywhere anytime soon. So lets not waste our breathes.
FanRailer 2 years ago 5
Your right. Sorry I just got a little carried away haha last week before finals so im kinda stressed
Pup1234567 2 years ago
it's all good, i know what you mean...
FanRailer 2 years ago
@Cockroach2008 Fuck you
Surfliner6908 1 year ago
@Cockroach2008 you can do the same with a deisel locomotive, but steam is a rare peice of history.
david245611 2 months ago
@david245611 Well, at least people now make live steam locomotives. But Cockroach2008 is such an idiot to be making fun of us steam lovers all because we love steam locomotives. It's a good thing people are doing the same thing to him. Steam locomotives are awesome and he can't change what we thing about them. There's millions of us and one of him.
Dinosorable 2 months ago
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mark10788 1 month ago
@Cockroach2008 Asshole
Surfliner6908 1 year ago
@Cockroach2008 It's called the "TOURIST INDUSTRY", people pay a lot of money just to ride behind a steam locomotive from Point A to Point B, you will see sold out trains with steam locomotives for power, but you rarely see a sold out diesel powered passenger train.
TVRM610 1 year ago
@Cockroach2008 Screw You
Surfliner6908 1 year ago
@Cockroach2008 Fucker
Surfliner6908 1 year ago
Cockroach, go back to the sewer from whence you came!!
Outlaw1257 2 years ago 6
Haha too bad that beautiful engine will be stored and loved in Albuquerque soon safe from the jerks of the world
Bsg4884 2 years ago
What are you talking about?
mauserman3 2 years ago
don't you understand it. it is not about money!!! if you are a real steam fan you want to spend money on these engines!
ramonnie007 2 years ago
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I am not a steam locomotive fanatic! I don't want to spend a dime on these trashed up clunkers.
I want to hear reports of parts like bells, whisltes, headlights, marker boards, marker lights, gauges, engineers controls, hoses, pumps, generators, pipe & many other parts stolen from this relic!
I want to see it made so economically unfeasible to maintain & restore that it ends up in a foundry crucible melting!
I like to cut these apart & load it for the foundry.
Junk the steam locomotives!
Cockroach2008 2 years ago
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Two words FUCK YOU.
Jared1452 2 years ago
so what, you will never junk this engine because there are people who love this engine. and you don't comment videos to look for stuff you can cut up to pieces. you just like to piss off people who like steamengines. stop beeing so childish!!
ramonnie007 2 years ago 2
why don't you shut up. you are commenting almost all steamlocomotive videos. if you don't like them, stop wathing!!
ramonnie007 2 years ago 5
He's a troll he won't stop commenting. Report him to YT PEOPLE.
Jared1452 2 years ago 2
haha hauling amtrak
astralentity 2 years ago
wow! the whistle is awesome!
MrTrainfanatic 2 years ago 3
The 3751 Saw Cocopot! Sees Sir Topham Hatt Some Jokes Are Funny! but This One James! You Have Caused Conufshion! Yes Sir!
bobmartin3 2 years ago
She has a beautiful whistle
FitzNS 2 years ago 3
I like steam engine #3751
EmSTrO7x3 2 years ago 2
Probably in case the steamer broke?
cmlnrowan 2 years ago
mostly for dynamic braking
amtrak101 2 years ago 4
Why is there an Amtrak engine behind the steamer?
Rts4108 2 years ago
The 3751 can't provide power to the cars cuz it doesn't have HEP, so they have to put an Amtrak engine that has HEP behind it.
I think. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
icordonbleu 2 years ago
Awesome Sound!
PineValleyDigital 3 years ago
loved the ending scene , a speed limit sign of 40 ..
PHAEDRIDER 3 years ago
If you look closely at the last scene, you see everybody averting their attention to 3751
WhyAyeMann 3 years ago
The last part where the 51 is screaming through the leucadia crossing is great. To bad she wasn't doing 90.
Robkat3751 3 years ago
They won't let her go that fast.
CoasterFan2105 2 years ago
Thats is a real Hi-Ball Finish, Thanks for the dose of the westcoast steam
1mile2go 3 years ago