The William Mason's restoration was truly one in a million! I mean, what movie has enough in its budget to fund the complete restoration of an 1855 steam locomotive? Truly magnificent. Its even more amazing when you consider the fact that she has most of her originality intact!
@SierraRailway I know, but they have enough going on there as it is. They still have #7312 in their shops, but they said that right now, they are going to put the time needed instead to ensure the working conditions of their other three locomotives. They also have 2 contract engines in their shops I believe, so those are obviously going to be higher priority...
nice shot. I remember seeing this engine in the disney movie, The Great Locomotive Chase, I was surprised when I found out the General was portrayed by the William Mason. she's a very beautiful looking engine.
Fine job keeping railroad history up and running. This wood-fired 4-4-0 might be a weakling compared to General Electric's latest CC turbo-Diesel-electric, but it pulled four cars on a tight schedule just fine in the 1800's.
Well, the whole idea of the counterweights in the first place are to balance out the weight of the driving rods and crank pins on the opposite end of the wheel. Since the lead driver has a longer crank pin and two rod connections, the counterweights are larger and of equal weight.
I remember this Locomotive from the 1999 film " Wild Wild West". Really beautiful locomotive she is. And Cockroach sucks, thats all I can say bout him
Yo, Cockroach is a troll. He always goes to steam engine video's and types shit. Ignore him. "Woa, for he who hates the power of steam, sucks massive amounts of penis"
some of these 4-4-0 type locos could reach speeds of 62 mph ,such was the case with #11,12,22,of the virginia and truckee.most people think that these little locomotives were slow and weak ,but nothing could be further from the truth,for their small size and light weight,they were quite powerful and fast.
The funny thing about Steam vs. Diesel is how one steamer can tackle a heavy freight train that requires three to five diesels to pull. Steam power could have reached perfection to reduce emissions, but US RRs jumped quickly on the bandwagon-but didn't see the heavy price tags on diesels-that was 1 factor that led to the downfall of RRs in the US
More due to inefficiencies that diesels are more powerful. If we could get steam efficiency up to 25% it would equal in power to a diesel. Regarding wheelslip issues a lot of modern diesels have various inbuilt systems to try and minimise wheelslip these days.
It looks like a toy because toy companies based it from this. The west was built by this loco it's was the only type the west had because it was reliable and fast with a top speed of 45M.P.H. It had more than enough power to get out of a bag I think it can pull ~1,000 tons.
Don't egg him on....He comes on just about every steam locomotive video on YouTube, and leaves the same comments like "Cut em' up, Melt em' down" and "They arent economical" and who can forget that old chestnut "My job in life is to torch steamers!". Its the same thing every video. Guess he loves expressing himself....Or playing with himself....Violently.
Hey Cockroach2008, your name is quite just, and I bet you have your business degree dont you? Well, if you would like to get into an argument with not just a railfan, but a PhD Mechanical Engineer and someone who also has a firm understanding of thermodynamics and a 2 year degree in Heavy equipment, then bring it on... I think steam will be the future, since it can eliminate Nitrous oxide emissions that everyone whines about, but not just locomotives, cars as well.
Hey Doc, I am part of a startup company that is going to build cheap, reliable, low emissions locomotives that run on biomass. We plan on cornering the market for "green" rebuilds and replacements for the old diesels the short lines are running. Drop me a line?
What a beauty. I've operated a smaller scale American & it is a treat to see a standard gauge version operating. I really need to get to the B&O museum.
Biomass fuel- no imported oil. Build a copy of that locomotive with today's steam tech, and it will have lower emissions and operating cost than the greenest diesel. And carbon neutral too. Long live steam!
Thank you for the very flattering and complimentary comment.
I am delighted you agree with me that the steam locomotive should be junked, cut apart and melted down into materials to be used for new transportation products.
FUCK YOU, how about you get junked, cut apart, and melted down. No, that would be far so painless. Might as well cut off your dick, oh wait, theres nothing there Oo.
Long live the steam train, many fans are out there to keep 'em running. The stack is also known as a cinder cruncher that had a screen to keep embers from flying out and starting fires, also known as a sunflower stack.
This machine is ready for the scrappers torch. It has long missed it's date at the scrap yard. The materials would be best used to make new products.
This machine is being scrapped and the plasma cutters and oxy-acytelene torches are bottled up to finish it off. We are ready to do the job.
I see blue flames in 6 places on this, riveluts of red iron streaming from the cuts and a front loader pushing the boiler off of the carriage, being loaded into gondolas.
you sir, are a regressive. steam locomotives have just as much soul as a living thing, and in the mechanical aspect they are more useful than any modern machine could ever be.
why don't you do something useful and use the cutting torch on that screwed up head of yours.
Steam locomotives have a soul? Now, that is one of the wildest statements I have heard said about steam locomotives this year!
This "thing" is worth more in parts than is in a whole! The whistle, bell, gauge sets, hoses, headlamp, brass fittings and many other parts are worth a lot of money in a midnight transaction over an automobile trunk.
Then the scrappers torch can deliver the coup de gras.
Hard times are here! I am just letting people know where the bank is!
so your using fowl money to Justify Murder? Every railfan, anyone who has ever had the privelige of seeing a steam locomotive up close will vouch for me. Have you ever ridden a steam locomotive? The draft pulling through the firedoors, the rythmic chug of the pistons and valvegear, it practically talks to you. It will tell you "I am working too hard" or "I am taking it easy". Just look at britain's mainline steam, now that is some good sense right there.
I am not using any money at all! I have been next to operating steam locomotives, to discuss with the scrap yard foreman where we could make the fewest number of cuts to produce the largest pieces of scrap and still fit inside the blast furnace doors.
These things have no "voice". All machines produce a sound which their performance can be monitored by the operator.
Britain's steam program is the beginning of a failing experiment.
These things are junk iron which should be cut up and melted!
failing huh? boy you are some obstonate piece of work. when all your cruel little theories come crashing down dont turn to the railfans for help. I guess some people are just born blind and deaf to the spirit of a steam locomotive. All I say is good thing there is more of us than you, and good thing these lovely engines are protected.
If steam engines didn't exist, neither would this horrible old country which you mediorce futurists call home.
I won't turn to any steam locomotive fanatical interest. They are a people who have a backward and environmentally polluting mindset.
You may think they are protected. Words on paper. The parts can be quickly removed and turned into quick cash.
The whistle, bell, gauge sets, hoses, headlamp, marker lights, number board, Johnson bar, driving linkage and brass fittings can be quickly removed. Fast cash at midnight.
I laugh at you, scumbag. the environment doesnt need help, Co2 isnt even scientifically a greenhouse gas, so get you facts straight. And I see you resort to stealing pieces off of these wonderful machines? Better not try it on my railways, ever since the shay at Clarks had it's relief-valves stolen (and gotten back by the way), they have posted a watchman with a gun.
hey get this! the world doesnt revolve around money, or are you just too self-centered to see that? the armed watchamn is a volunteer and a good, trustworthy friend of mine. Not only would he never accept a bribe but that would only, for him and me, be more reason to shoot the bastard in the head.
A respectable person never goes against the wellbeing of a steam locomotive. Also, Alot more locomotive pieces than those have been returned, and are staying where they belong.
Furthermore, I find it Ironic and kind of sad, for you that is, that you are having this futile argument with me on a video of an immaculatley preserved running steam locomotive! Just kind of a win/win for me, you really need to know when you've lost. just watch her take off at 1:09!
Seriously, get your priorities straight, just because us railfans are better, more intellectual and more mentally complex than you is no reason to hate us. Since you can't beat us, join us!
This thing is a lost expense. This thing, to me, is a pile of scrap iron which should have been cut up at least 80 years ago. You go ahead and sink your savings into that bucket of bolts. It is a looser, that is why the railroad got rid of them.
I have my priorities right. At least my priorities make interest and profit.
Railfans? What the hell is that? Some sort of track cooling device?
Think what you want of me! I don't agree with your assessment of your group of like minded friends.
Okay, so your humor is as crude as your mind, fitting!
And if these things are such losers, than explain why Iowa interstate railroad is making more money with their QJ-class 2-10-2's than with their diesels?
also explain to me how Union pacific 844 was able to do the job of 5 brand new SD-90 diesels and go 30 MPH faster? Oh that's right, you know nothing about steam or rudimentary thermodynamics, so you can't.
It is known that steam locomotives are more powerful than diesel locomotives, but that does not make them efficient. If that were true, the railroads would have not abandon them. The maintenance is way to costly. The insurance is worse with every passing year and more locales are not permitting them to operate through their locale.
You need to face the facts, these relics are not economical to operate and 60 years past ready for the scrap yard.
Actually sir it does. coal is cheaper than diesel fuel, steam engines are more reliable when they have competent crews, and you apparently DONT know anything for this reason: railroads are bringing back steam.
Britains railways all around the country.
the railway in Wolsztyn Poland has 16 operating engines which pull regular passenger and freight daily with no end in sight. several american railroads like the IOWA interstate and their QJ's, or UP and their 844 and 3985.
Suuuurree. They already have, dunce bucket. just as the video of 4449 and 844 shows.
and they certainly do not look great in the warm red glow of a furnace. You certainly will be pissed off at this, you know the new steam locomotive in britain just built, 60163 Tornado, is going to mainline passenger and freight service?
and our Climax engine #6 up at clarks trading post now has a BRAND NEW boiler straight from ontario Canada. good for another hearty 120 years of service.
dude, you dont have a heart, do NOT pretend to have one. you are one of these all Neo-American futurust bastards that has a septic-tank for a heart. and the coast of going maintenance on the machines is taken care of and then some by the revenue they generate and the donations from people like me.
No, I don't have a heart for steam locomotives or any other junk iron.
Give your time, but the prototype will not ever be able to function on volunteer help. So go run your little choo-choo to no where.
But it will get old and will meet it's appointment with the scrappers torch. That is if the thieves don't pull it apart. Then we will tow it in and cut it down.
HA! thats biggest load of crap I've ever heard. Hundreds of steam locomotives operate on NOTHING BUT volunteer time. NOTHING. The day you get your hands on a steam locomotive is the day that you change your mind and quit trying to defeat the invincible. Steam will go on through thick and thin, it has ever since Richard Trevithick slapped wheels on a boiler and ran it down the very first iron rails. It will continue to do so until the end of the human race.
The mainline has to answer to stock holders and stock holders do not invest in financial loosers.
Steam locomotives will all end up in the scrap yard, being cut apart for new materials.
The day I get my hands on a steam locomotive is the day my torches get a really hot work out and the steam locomotive gets it's hard earn, well deserved coup de gras.
Time will tell is for certain. And when I am right, then I expect to see all preservationists and all other railroad kooks at the gate trying for injunctions, picketing and screaming, "Save the steam locomotive!" or "What do we want? Steam locomotives! When do we want it? Now!"
I will take great pleasure in violating the injunction.
I meant in the head genius. Your IQ must be pretty low too if you are that much of a literalist. please, dont make yourself sound even more stupid then you already are.
Get your mind out of the gutter and see not only the potential, but the soul these engines have. Also see that they will never be scrapped.
Oh!! Now it is clear. Thank you for explaining yourself!
No, I am perfectly mentally fit. Having a desire to see steam locomotives destroyed and cut up into scrap does not make anyone mentally ill that I have ever heard of. Do you have other information?
No doctor I have ever met has told me that a machine has a "soul". They all agree it is just a man made machine. It does not think, care or metabolize anything. It is a dumb machine.
They will be scrapped, after the "boys" access them!
Well, they certainly dont have bodily functions, but they do breathe and think just like any human. certainly not dumb, I know your just trying to get my goat, Not working.
sure kid, sure. just go on living in your isolated little world of social inadequacy and hatred. The very house over your head (if you have one) had it's materials hauled by steam trains once.
No, those materials were never hauled by something as old as a steam locomotive driven train.
The times have changed and so have we. That is why the steam locomotive has been ditched by the prototype railroads. They are worthless of a scrap iron.
The time has come to pull them apart and junk it!
Have you ever heard the amazing story of Barry scrapyard I wonder? over 200 engines saved, preserved and running today out of that yard in a period of just years.
Precisely, a shining example. you were against the efforts, but they happened. they will continue to happen, no matter how much you kick and scream. No matter how you wish and will it to turn out badly for us, there will always be paint on the plating, fires in the fireboxes and pressure under the steamdomes.
No, the money is drying up. When it does, good bye choo-choo forever.
You can support them, but I would not waste my time or money. So get all your 14 year old buddies rounded up and I let them pay for this folly.
I am not kicking and screaming, I have only made some statements that I would like to have them in my scrap yard to cut down, I don't support them, and I let some people who need some fast cash, know where the bank is. If they get the parts, they get paid!
You can hope there is enough of you who have enough money to support this stupidity.
At least it is none of mine and I have campaigned with our local parks council to never support this nonsense. It benefits no one and does not serve the public at large. I have also written my congressperson urging "no funding" for this "pork".
If you want it, you fund it!
As for me, I am waiting for them to roll into the yard for cutting up and made into scrap metal!
Don't worry, I have plenty to throw around. wether it is fixing the engines themselves, or countering the damage people like you cause to their reputations. (Even though that can be done with statistical data, some conversation and good will)
I am not worried. Keep throwing your money around. These junkers are not worthy of preserving or saving.
The time has come to park them, part them, junk them out, cut them up and melt them down.
Perhaps some people would like to know that if the parts were found to turn up in a "midnight transaction", they could make some quick cash. The whistle, bell, gauges, driving linkage are all good for quick cash with no questions asked.
Then we can junk this relic of 200 year old technology!
man you just dont get it! ou cant remove the parts! Hypothetical situation, you removed the parts. they would find them and retreive them, and If they couldnt do that they would simply make new ones! and you couldn't carry off a several hundred pound valvegear, so that's not even worth bringing up.
even if some pieces turned up missing, the engines would never be scrapped. Luckily we have no fears of pieces being stolen anyway.
It can be done despite your idea of "obsticles". It can be damaged in such a way as to render it junk, (which it is). The gauges can be removed, the pipes sawed through, those assemblies can be cut apart and all the brass striped. There are many ways to dispose of this junker.
He makes you sick right? Guess that why his name is a sh*t eating roach lol. But I just bought design plans for a 2-6-2T class NG4 steamer so he will never win EVER!
You need to stop repeating yourself and get new material, 'cause right now, no one is taking you seriously, because you're constantly saying the same thing over, and over, and over. reatard
This steam locomotive is junk iron and should have been scrapped. But it is not too late to push it into the scrap yard and start working it over with cutting torches.
It would be a joy to see this thing cut to pieces and basking in the nice warm red glow of a crucible of a blast furnace!
Then to watch the molten metal being poured out into ingot molds or molds for anchor chain links.
You do know that will never happen right? If there was a vote, the people wanting to preserve the locomotive would win. Besides, steamers are crowd pleasers, kids love em', people love watching them, and they draw huge crowds everywhere they go. Nice way make cash for the guy running them. Besides, we have enough metal for ship anchors already. Plus, 98% of steamers have already been scrapped. Was that not satisfying enough? I hate reading about those years, like every other sane person.RETARD!
Junking the steam locomotives is a must. Put the cutting torch to what remains.
Neither I, my wife nor children like steam locomotives. We have discussed where the best cuts are made to obtain the best yield for the blast furnace crucibles. We can use more anchor chain for the coming super transports (they need to anchor in deeper water.)
The people can vote. They don't cover the money it takes. At least industry does not invest in this folly! The crowds always take a free show. No money!
Face it, the remaining steamers will not be scrapped. Even if they're reduced to non-operational museum pieces, they will not be scrapped. Obviously all you are doing is trying to get attention by posting crazy comments about events that will NEVER happen. So just shut up and get a life. Can you not find anything better to do?
They will be parted, dismantled and sent to the scrapper!
The materials will make great anchor chain links or armor for our army.
There are people who need some quick cash and the bank is right there for making withdrawals from. All that brass, the bell, the whistle, the gauges, the driving linkage is all there for the taking!
It is time to dismantle it, cut it up and put it all into the nice warm red glow of either an induction or blast furnace.
@Cockroach2008 Which steam locomotive was it that ran over your fucking parents you prick? It'll snow in fucking hell before "the people" vote to scrap steamers. You don't know what the FUCK these engines mean to some of us. I'd like to see every last limb on your god forsaken body being worked by a cutting torch and hearing you yell for your pathetic life you prick!
I don't want to argue this, but the John Bull is the oldest operating locomotive, not her. Also the Atlantic at the museum could be operational, and she was built in 1836, so she would be third in American locomotives, and some where else on the world list. Long live the Bull, and the Mason!
The JB hasn't been run since what, the 60's? To operate today, it would need a form 4 and complete 15 year inspection, assuming FRA would even approve the lap boiler. That's a complete tear down and ultrasound. The museum might make that claim, but they would not be able to pull it out of the museum tomorrow and fire it up. IMHO, that's not very "operational". The WM was under steam this month.
She was last steamed in 1981, and I know what it would take to get one operating! The Bull can run! The Genoa can run and she is not certafied, many locomotives can make that same claim, and was she certafied when she ran in the 80's!? If she was she could still be, and if not I'm fine with her be "gone" for 15 years if we can see her under steam! Also I have heard the Eureka has a seam lap boiler and she is certafied, and I am willing to bet they could pull her down and run her right now!
Same has been said with Lion in Britain built two years later but as original parts would be likely to be replaced it it was overhauled it was decided to preserve it. Oldest still running are the Furness 20 and the two single fairlies on the Festiniog (Prince and Palmeston) all of which date from the early 1860s.
@whoohaaXL I stand corrected about Princes title. It is the oldest operational narrow gauge locomotive in the world along with its sister engine Palmerston. Prince was abandoned when the Festiniog closed in 1946. There are plenty of books out there that detail the history of the line and Prince. Prince will hopefully be back in service in time for its 150th birthday. (I'm a volunteer on said railway) Great to see William Mason in steam though.
Despite the wood on the tender the William Mason has actually been converted to oil. Just so ya know. I dont know for sure but Im guessing its running on a reduced PSI.
Figures, that must have been foam wood I saw the crew throw into the firebox last fall.
When Strasburg rebuilt the WM for Wild Wild West, the spark arrester in the funnel was restored, the cause of why it is more quiet than some (and yes, it's more or less drifting in the video). The conversion to wood took place at the same time. When I was up close to it last fall, they had it at 90lbs to move it down the track. Yes, it's been in a number of movies, including God and Generals.
Despite the wood on the tender the William Mason has actually been converted to oil. Just so ya know. I dont know for sure but Im guessing its running on a reduced PSI.
The engine appears to be drifting, ie, no power, coasting. She would give some nice sharp chuffs under load, like any other locomotive. Fuel used has nothing to do with it. Check out the Inyo from the V&T, similar engine for working sounds.
My understanding is wood burners are very quiet. When Strasburg rebuilt her for the movie, they converted her back to wood and rebuilt the spark arrester in the funnel. And of course she had no load on her. It might even be a little down grade at that point.
Does the William Mason ever pull cars?
pennyf9 1 month ago
It's beautiful!
schrap72 2 months ago
The William Mason's restoration was truly one in a million! I mean, what movie has enough in its budget to fund the complete restoration of an 1855 steam locomotive? Truly magnificent. Its even more amazing when you consider the fact that she has most of her originality intact!
SierraRailway 4 months ago
@SierraRailway Strasburg does incredible work, don't they?
TheStrasburg90 1 week ago
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They sure do! They ALMOST got the contract to build a new boiler for Rogers-built Sierra Railway #3. They drew the plans instead.
SierraRailway 1 week ago
@SierraRailway I know, but they have enough going on there as it is. They still have #7312 in their shops, but they said that right now, they are going to put the time needed instead to ensure the working conditions of their other three locomotives. They also have 2 contract engines in their shops I believe, so those are obviously going to be higher priority...
TheStrasburg90 1 week ago
nice shot. I remember seeing this engine in the disney movie, The Great Locomotive Chase, I was surprised when I found out the General was portrayed by the William Mason. she's a very beautiful looking engine.
theUP844 5 months ago
Fine job keeping railroad history up and running. This wood-fired 4-4-0 might be a weakling compared to General Electric's latest CC turbo-Diesel-electric, but it pulled four cars on a tight schedule just fine in the 1800's.
bcschmerker 6 months ago 2
It's too bad you can't hear the William Mason make the iconic chugging steam locomotives are known for in this video.
The "chug" is one of my favorite things about steam locomotives, it makes it sound like a powerful creature slowly clambering itself up to top speed.
VelenZaiga 8 months ago
Why are the counterweights larger on the inside set of driving wheels? I never noticed that.
whoohaaXL 10 months ago
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Well, the whole idea of the counterweights in the first place are to balance out the weight of the driving rods and crank pins on the opposite end of the wheel. Since the lead driver has a longer crank pin and two rod connections, the counterweights are larger and of equal weight.
SierraRailway 4 months ago
I remember this Locomotive from the 1999 film " Wild Wild West". Really beautiful locomotive she is. And Cockroach sucks, thats all I can say bout him
OakViewFilms 10 months ago
Seriously people, stop feeding the troll (Cockroach) and he will go away. When you give him a reaction, you're just encouraging bad behavior.
deloreanman14 11 months ago
does mason burn wood? and didn't the Mason play the General in Disney's Great Locomotive chase? i just bought the dvd last week.
pennyf9 1 year ago
Nice locomotive
BadassDodgeRam3500 1 year ago
The oldest operating steam locomotive actualy resides at teh henry Ford Museum. The William Mason is the second oldest.
Kleman09 1 year ago
beautiful..think one will fit in my back yard? whats the turning radius on one of those suckers?
intelceleron44 1 year ago
@baritonebynight lol should be many of them
Buemmo 1 year ago
Yo, Cockroach is a troll. He always goes to steam engine video's and types shit. Ignore him. "Woa, for he who hates the power of steam, sucks massive amounts of penis"
whoohaaXL 1 year ago 2
@whoohaaXL Homophobia not needed.
baritonebynight 10 months ago
@baritonebynight Oh, but it soooooo is.
whoohaaXL 10 months ago
@whoohaaXL Nope. Let cockroach be the ignorant fool, don't you be.
baritonebynight 10 months ago
Beautiful, she's a wood burner! Awesome.
844jim 1 year ago
I wish the USA would resume with train travel.
aitch3 1 year ago
@aitch3 It's there, it's just not what it was. If only a company would give Amtrak some freaking competition, train tickets wouldn't cost so much!
guitboxchicken 1 year ago
some of these 4-4-0 type locos could reach speeds of 62 mph ,such was the case with #11,12,22,of the virginia and truckee.most people think that these little locomotives were slow and weak ,but nothing could be further from the truth,for their small size and light weight,they were quite powerful and fast.
jdubbjazzbass 1 year ago
Judging by the timber its been fired on this would make it carbon neutral! Lovely video of an early locomotive in use.
railenthusiast88 1 year ago
The William Mason played the part of The General in the 1956 movie, "The Great Locomotive Chase."
JohnMGilbert 2 years ago
@JohnMGilbert Wasn't another locomotive completely destroyed during that? If I'm thinking of the correct movie, it ran off a blown-up bridge...
guitboxchicken 1 year ago
@guitboxchicken that was the 1927 Buster Keaton Comedy "the General" same basic story though.
Soundwave3591 1 year ago
Such a beautiful steam locomotive.
brubakes 2 years ago
The funny thing about Steam vs. Diesel is how one steamer can tackle a heavy freight train that requires three to five diesels to pull. Steam power could have reached perfection to reduce emissions, but US RRs jumped quickly on the bandwagon-but didn't see the heavy price tags on diesels-that was 1 factor that led to the downfall of RRs in the US
Herrmann90 2 years ago 2
Actually, diesels have more power, but I do agree that diesels took over too quickly. I love steamers way more.
SierraRailway 2 years ago
It's diesel-eletric that have more power, diesel alone has traction issues with a lot of wheel slip.
DAKOTA56777 2 years ago
More due to inefficiencies that diesels are more powerful. If we could get steam efficiency up to 25% it would equal in power to a diesel. Regarding wheelslip issues a lot of modern diesels have various inbuilt systems to try and minimise wheelslip these days.
railenthusiast88 1 year ago
Well I meant the diesels first meant to replace steam had the wheel-sleep from very badly designed transmissions.
Either way steam is still the best.
DAKOTA56777 1 year ago
Hey....Steam power rules :)
seeker00777 2 years ago 2
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Yeah, steam power from around World War 2 does rule. This steam locomotive however looks like a toy. It couldn't pull its way out of a wet paper bag.
Jemalacane 2 years ago
It looks like a toy because toy companies based it from this. The west was built by this loco it's was the only type the west had because it was reliable and fast with a top speed of 45M.P.H. It had more than enough power to get out of a bag I think it can pull ~1,000 tons.
DAKOTA56777 1 year ago
is that wood or coal on the tender
erikals2 2 years ago
Don't egg him on....He comes on just about every steam locomotive video on YouTube, and leaves the same comments like "Cut em' up, Melt em' down" and "They arent economical" and who can forget that old chestnut "My job in life is to torch steamers!". Its the same thing every video. Guess he loves expressing himself....Or playing with himself....Violently.
whoohaaXL 2 years ago
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pennyf9 1 year ago
Does she still run?
andrewwatson68 2 years ago
What's the builder?
classicalman114 2 years ago
Was it in "The Great Locomotive Chase"?
theophano 2 years ago
Why yes it was.
She played the role of the "General"
andywatson55 2 years ago
Man, thats an awesome Locomotive. She's a beauty.
Scioneer 2 years ago
Hey Cockroach2008, your name is quite just, and I bet you have your business degree dont you? Well, if you would like to get into an argument with not just a railfan, but a PhD Mechanical Engineer and someone who also has a firm understanding of thermodynamics and a 2 year degree in Heavy equipment, then bring it on... I think steam will be the future, since it can eliminate Nitrous oxide emissions that everyone whines about, but not just locomotives, cars as well.
DocAlgae 2 years ago
Hey Doc, I am part of a startup company that is going to build cheap, reliable, low emissions locomotives that run on biomass. We plan on cornering the market for "green" rebuilds and replacements for the old diesels the short lines are running. Drop me a line?
ostlandr 2 years ago
And tractors and stationary and there even was a plane that had a steam engine oh and of coarse ship, wow what a run-on sentence.
DAKOTA56777 2 years ago
solve the range issue ...and a better fluidized bed and you may have something
redifreddy14 1 year ago
What a beauty. I've operated a smaller scale American & it is a treat to see a standard gauge version operating. I really need to get to the B&O museum.
arrowguy173 2 years ago
Biomass fuel- no imported oil. Build a copy of that locomotive with today's steam tech, and it will have lower emissions and operating cost than the greenest diesel. And carbon neutral too. Long live steam!
ostlandr 2 years ago 4
Your on my side
rangerssteamtoys 2 years ago
cockroach2008 is a bastard. we could put him into a locomotive boiler and cook a nice soup...
Steamer15hp 2 years ago 2
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Thank you for the very flattering and complimentary comment.
I am delighted you agree with me that the steam locomotive should be junked, cut apart and melted down into materials to be used for new transportation products.
Thanks again for agreeing with me!
Cockroach2008 2 years ago
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FUCK YOU, how about you get junked, cut apart, and melted down. No, that would be far so painless. Might as well cut off your dick, oh wait, theres nothing there Oo.
rangerssteamtoys 2 years ago
@Cockroach2008 FUCK YOU! Save The William Mason!And Your just jealous That nobody agrees with you!SPARE THE STEAMERS!
coolcatevan9 1 year ago 2
@Cockroach2008 WE WOULD NEVER AGREE WITH ANY RAILHATERS LIKE YOU GO DIE IN A RIVER ASSHOLE ALL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES WILL RUN OVER YOUR FUCKING BODY!
david245611 1 year ago
Don't Fret. Cockroach is just pissed because his mother was hit by a diesel just prior to his birth.
panhandle55 2 years ago 3
he went for an arse transplant but it rejected him
UBIQUEROL 2 years ago
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pennyf9 1 year ago
@Steamer15hp mmm, scrap soup!
Owner4567 1 year ago
Long live the steam train, many fans are out there to keep 'em running. The stack is also known as a cinder cruncher that had a screen to keep embers from flying out and starting fires, also known as a sunflower stack.
pagreb 2 years ago
whats with the big funlle
weenerboy2000 2 years ago
It's the smoke stack
scott93257 2 years ago
Owner of this video just block coockroach
RailhaterPunisher 3 years ago
Reinforcements have arrived
RailhaterPunisher 3 years ago
@RailhaterPunisher ITS ABOUT TIME! XD
david245611 1 year ago
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This machine is ready for the scrappers torch. It has long missed it's date at the scrap yard. The materials would be best used to make new products.
This machine is being scrapped and the plasma cutters and oxy-acytelene torches are bottled up to finish it off. We are ready to do the job.
I see blue flames in 6 places on this, riveluts of red iron streaming from the cuts and a front loader pushing the boiler off of the carriage, being loaded into gondolas.
Good bye steam locomotives!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
you sir, are a regressive. steam locomotives have just as much soul as a living thing, and in the mechanical aspect they are more useful than any modern machine could ever be.
why don't you do something useful and use the cutting torch on that screwed up head of yours.
steamboy51 3 years ago 2
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Steam locomotives have a soul? Now, that is one of the wildest statements I have heard said about steam locomotives this year!
This "thing" is worth more in parts than is in a whole! The whistle, bell, gauge sets, hoses, headlamp, brass fittings and many other parts are worth a lot of money in a midnight transaction over an automobile trunk.
Then the scrappers torch can deliver the coup de gras.
Hard times are here! I am just letting people know where the bank is!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago 3
so your using fowl money to Justify Murder? Every railfan, anyone who has ever had the privelige of seeing a steam locomotive up close will vouch for me. Have you ever ridden a steam locomotive? The draft pulling through the firedoors, the rythmic chug of the pistons and valvegear, it practically talks to you. It will tell you "I am working too hard" or "I am taking it easy". Just look at britain's mainline steam, now that is some good sense right there.
steamboy51 3 years ago 3
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I am not using any money at all! I have been next to operating steam locomotives, to discuss with the scrap yard foreman where we could make the fewest number of cuts to produce the largest pieces of scrap and still fit inside the blast furnace doors.
These things have no "voice". All machines produce a sound which their performance can be monitored by the operator.
Britain's steam program is the beginning of a failing experiment.
These things are junk iron which should be cut up and melted!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago 3
failing huh? boy you are some obstonate piece of work. when all your cruel little theories come crashing down dont turn to the railfans for help. I guess some people are just born blind and deaf to the spirit of a steam locomotive. All I say is good thing there is more of us than you, and good thing these lovely engines are protected.
If steam engines didn't exist, neither would this horrible old country which you mediorce futurists call home.
steamboy51 3 years ago
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I won't turn to any steam locomotive fanatical interest. They are a people who have a backward and environmentally polluting mindset.
You may think they are protected. Words on paper. The parts can be quickly removed and turned into quick cash.
The whistle, bell, gauge sets, hoses, headlamp, marker lights, number board, Johnson bar, driving linkage and brass fittings can be quickly removed. Fast cash at midnight.
Your protection needs more than words.
Everyone should know where the bank is!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago 2
I laugh at you, scumbag. the environment doesnt need help, Co2 isnt even scientifically a greenhouse gas, so get you facts straight. And I see you resort to stealing pieces off of these wonderful machines? Better not try it on my railways, ever since the shay at Clarks had it's relief-valves stolen (and gotten back by the way), they have posted a watchman with a gun.
steamboy51 3 years ago
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Those pieces are worth some instant cash to someone in need of quick cash obtained with no questions asked.
Too bad they were returned. Wonderful machines? I disagree. These are junkers worthy of a scrappers torch.
I hope your armed watchman costs you a hefty fee. When the money runs out to keep him on watch, then the bank is open.
Then there is always the chance, the watchman may needs money too. A simple bribe will convince him he needs to step aside and let the wrenches work.
All junk!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
hey get this! the world doesnt revolve around money, or are you just too self-centered to see that? the armed watchamn is a volunteer and a good, trustworthy friend of mine. Not only would he never accept a bribe but that would only, for him and me, be more reason to shoot the bastard in the head.
A respectable person never goes against the wellbeing of a steam locomotive. Also, Alot more locomotive pieces than those have been returned, and are staying where they belong.
steamboy51 3 years ago
Furthermore, I find it Ironic and kind of sad, for you that is, that you are having this futile argument with me on a video of an immaculatley preserved running steam locomotive! Just kind of a win/win for me, you really need to know when you've lost. just watch her take off at 1:09!
Seriously, get your priorities straight, just because us railfans are better, more intellectual and more mentally complex than you is no reason to hate us. Since you can't beat us, join us!
steamboy51 3 years ago 2
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This thing is a lost expense. This thing, to me, is a pile of scrap iron which should have been cut up at least 80 years ago. You go ahead and sink your savings into that bucket of bolts. It is a looser, that is why the railroad got rid of them.
I have my priorities right. At least my priorities make interest and profit.
Railfans? What the hell is that? Some sort of track cooling device?
Think what you want of me! I don't agree with your assessment of your group of like minded friends.
Junk!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
Okay, so your humor is as crude as your mind, fitting!
And if these things are such losers, than explain why Iowa interstate railroad is making more money with their QJ-class 2-10-2's than with their diesels?
also explain to me how Union pacific 844 was able to do the job of 5 brand new SD-90 diesels and go 30 MPH faster? Oh that's right, you know nothing about steam or rudimentary thermodynamics, so you can't.
steamboy51 3 years ago
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It is known that steam locomotives are more powerful than diesel locomotives, but that does not make them efficient. If that were true, the railroads would have not abandon them. The maintenance is way to costly. The insurance is worse with every passing year and more locales are not permitting them to operate through their locale.
You need to face the facts, these relics are not economical to operate and 60 years past ready for the scrap yard.
You know nothing about what I know/don't know.
Cockroach2008 3 years ago 2
Actually sir it does. coal is cheaper than diesel fuel, steam engines are more reliable when they have competent crews, and you apparently DONT know anything for this reason: railroads are bringing back steam.
Britains railways all around the country.
the railway in Wolsztyn Poland has 16 operating engines which pull regular passenger and freight daily with no end in sight. several american railroads like the IOWA interstate and their QJ's, or UP and their 844 and 3985.
steamboy51 3 years ago 3
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Fuel is not the only expense here. The maintenance and insurance will end them.
There are some places where regulations are relaxed enough it can be operated. All overseas.
Steam locomotives will never return to wide spread use in this country. They are a dead and dying technology.
The time to junk them all was 60 years ago. However, it is not too late to cut them down.
Pieces of these machines look great in the warm red glow of melted steel in an induction furnace.
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
Suuuurree. They already have, dunce bucket. just as the video of 4449 and 844 shows.
and they certainly do not look great in the warm red glow of a furnace. You certainly will be pissed off at this, you know the new steam locomotive in britain just built, 60163 Tornado, is going to mainline passenger and freight service?
and our Climax engine #6 up at clarks trading post now has a BRAND NEW boiler straight from ontario Canada. good for another hearty 120 years of service.
steamboy51 3 years ago 2
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Say what you want. But the sight of those parts being cut up and melting just warms the cockles of my heart.
That is just an experiment. Oh, the machine may work, but the cost of on going maintenance will kill it.
It is ready for the junk yard just as soon as the project fails. Then we cut it up!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
dude, you dont have a heart, do NOT pretend to have one. you are one of these all Neo-American futurust bastards that has a septic-tank for a heart. and the coast of going maintenance on the machines is taken care of and then some by the revenue they generate and the donations from people like me.
steamboy51 3 years ago
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No, I don't have a heart for steam locomotives or any other junk iron.
Give your time, but the prototype will not ever be able to function on volunteer help. So go run your little choo-choo to no where.
But it will get old and will meet it's appointment with the scrappers torch. That is if the thieves don't pull it apart. Then we will tow it in and cut it down.
Good bye steam locomotive, forever!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
HA! thats biggest load of crap I've ever heard. Hundreds of steam locomotives operate on NOTHING BUT volunteer time. NOTHING. The day you get your hands on a steam locomotive is the day that you change your mind and quit trying to defeat the invincible. Steam will go on through thick and thin, it has ever since Richard Trevithick slapped wheels on a boiler and ran it down the very first iron rails. It will continue to do so until the end of the human race.
steamboy51 3 years ago
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Think what you want of my statements.
The mainline has to answer to stock holders and stock holders do not invest in financial loosers.
Steam locomotives will all end up in the scrap yard, being cut apart for new materials.
The day I get my hands on a steam locomotive is the day my torches get a really hot work out and the steam locomotive gets it's hard earn, well deserved coup de gras.
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
heheh....sure. Beleive what you want, I got no problems with that, but don't be at all surprised when you turn out to be 100% wrong.
steamboy51 3 years ago
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Time will tell is for certain. And when I am right, then I expect to see all preservationists and all other railroad kooks at the gate trying for injunctions, picketing and screaming, "Save the steam locomotive!" or "What do we want? Steam locomotives! When do we want it? Now!"
I will take great pleasure in violating the injunction.
You go ahead and scream!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
Haha, you really are sick.
steamboy51 3 years ago
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Thank you for being so concerned for my health! I am feeling very well, thank you!
You don't have a doctor's degree so I would be very careful about trying to practice medicine without a license.
Steam locomotives are junk iron, pot metal and should be cut down into pieces just big enough into the opening of an induction furnace and melted.
It is so good to see the materials used to make new high efficiency transportation products which are economical to maintain.
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
I meant in the head genius. Your IQ must be pretty low too if you are that much of a literalist. please, dont make yourself sound even more stupid then you already are.
Get your mind out of the gutter and see not only the potential, but the soul these engines have. Also see that they will never be scrapped.
steamboy51 3 years ago
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Oh!! Now it is clear. Thank you for explaining yourself!
No, I am perfectly mentally fit. Having a desire to see steam locomotives destroyed and cut up into scrap does not make anyone mentally ill that I have ever heard of. Do you have other information?
No doctor I have ever met has told me that a machine has a "soul". They all agree it is just a man made machine. It does not think, care or metabolize anything. It is a dumb machine.
They will be scrapped, after the "boys" access them!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
Well, they certainly dont have bodily functions, but they do breathe and think just like any human. certainly not dumb, I know your just trying to get my goat, Not working.
the only thing I feel is sorry for you!
steamboy51 3 years ago
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They are living things. They are just iron and metal.
They should all be scrapped, wrecked, junked, parted up, melted and forgotten except in the pages of a history book.
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
sure kid, sure. just go on living in your isolated little world of social inadequacy and hatred. The very house over your head (if you have one) had it's materials hauled by steam trains once.
steamboy51 3 years ago 2
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No, those materials were never hauled by something as old as a steam locomotive driven train.
The times have changed and so have we. That is why the steam locomotive has been ditched by the prototype railroads. They are worthless of a scrap iron.
The time has come to pull them apart and junk it!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
Have you ever heard the amazing story of Barry scrapyard I wonder? over 200 engines saved, preserved and running today out of that yard in a period of just years.
steamboy51 3 years ago
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I know about it. I was against those efforts.
That was silliness at it's best! The all should have been junked.
It is just a matter of time.
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
Precisely, a shining example. you were against the efforts, but they happened. they will continue to happen, no matter how much you kick and scream. No matter how you wish and will it to turn out badly for us, there will always be paint on the plating, fires in the fireboxes and pressure under the steamdomes.
steamboy51 3 years ago 3
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No, the money is drying up. When it does, good bye choo-choo forever.
You can support them, but I would not waste my time or money. So get all your 14 year old buddies rounded up and I let them pay for this folly.
I am not kicking and screaming, I have only made some statements that I would like to have them in my scrap yard to cut down, I don't support them, and I let some people who need some fast cash, know where the bank is. If they get the parts, they get paid!
It is a great big target!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
folly huh? the money is building up!
steamboy51 3 years ago 2
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At least it is none of my money!
You can hope there is enough of you who have enough money to support this stupidity.
At least it is none of mine and I have campaigned with our local parks council to never support this nonsense. It benefits no one and does not serve the public at large. I have also written my congressperson urging "no funding" for this "pork".
If you want it, you fund it!
As for me, I am waiting for them to roll into the yard for cutting up and made into scrap metal!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
Don't worry, I have plenty to throw around. wether it is fixing the engines themselves, or countering the damage people like you cause to their reputations. (Even though that can be done with statistical data, some conversation and good will)
steamboy51 3 years ago 2
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I am not worried. Keep throwing your money around. These junkers are not worthy of preserving or saving.
The time has come to park them, part them, junk them out, cut them up and melt them down.
Perhaps some people would like to know that if the parts were found to turn up in a "midnight transaction", they could make some quick cash. The whistle, bell, gauges, driving linkage are all good for quick cash with no questions asked.
Then we can junk this relic of 200 year old technology!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
man you just dont get it! ou cant remove the parts! Hypothetical situation, you removed the parts. they would find them and retreive them, and If they couldnt do that they would simply make new ones! and you couldn't carry off a several hundred pound valvegear, so that's not even worth bringing up.
even if some pieces turned up missing, the engines would never be scrapped. Luckily we have no fears of pieces being stolen anyway.
steamboy51 3 years ago
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It can be done despite your idea of "obsticles". It can be damaged in such a way as to render it junk, (which it is). The gauges can be removed, the pipes sawed through, those assemblies can be cut apart and all the brass striped. There are many ways to dispose of this junker.
This thing will be scrapped, cut up, and melted!
Good bye steam locomotive, forever!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
And once again you are repeating yourself. get some new-material already, genius! very simple, read these four words: YOU-CANT-DO-IT.
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Steamer15hp 2 years ago
SHUT THE F*** UP! YOU B*****! YOU HAVE NO SOUL! YOU HAVE NO BALLS! YOU SHOULD BE RUN OVER BY A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
Steamers: IT'S A TERRORIST! (You) FLATTEN IT! RUN OVER IT! WHOOSH STEAM AT IT AND SCARE THE S**T OUT OF IT!
Owner4567 2 years ago
He makes you sick right? Guess that why his name is a sh*t eating roach lol. But I just bought design plans for a 2-6-2T class NG4 steamer so he will never win EVER!
DAKOTA56777 2 years ago
Right. 2-6-2T in NG4? that will be an interesting build! Cant wait to see the little lady when she's got steam up.
steamboy51 2 years ago
Yeah well the plans haven't come yet. It might be a while.
DAKOTA56777 2 years ago
I would show an original black and white photo but as we all know youtube doesn't post links. :(
DAKOTA56777 2 years ago
Oops I meant 4-6-2T not 2-6-2 sorry I was very tired.
DAKOTA56777 2 years ago
You need to stop repeating yourself and get new material, 'cause right now, no one is taking you seriously, because you're constantly saying the same thing over, and over, and over. reatard
Trainfanatic192 3 years ago 2
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This steam locomotive is junk iron and should have been scrapped. But it is not too late to push it into the scrap yard and start working it over with cutting torches.
It would be a joy to see this thing cut to pieces and basking in the nice warm red glow of a crucible of a blast furnace!
Then to watch the molten metal being poured out into ingot molds or molds for anchor chain links.
Goodbye steam locomotives, forever!
Junky old high polluting costly pig iron!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
You do know that will never happen right? If there was a vote, the people wanting to preserve the locomotive would win. Besides, steamers are crowd pleasers, kids love em', people love watching them, and they draw huge crowds everywhere they go. Nice way make cash for the guy running them. Besides, we have enough metal for ship anchors already. Plus, 98% of steamers have already been scrapped. Was that not satisfying enough? I hate reading about those years, like every other sane person.RETARD!
Trainfanatic192 3 years ago 13
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Junking the steam locomotives is a must. Put the cutting torch to what remains.
Neither I, my wife nor children like steam locomotives. We have discussed where the best cuts are made to obtain the best yield for the blast furnace crucibles. We can use more anchor chain for the coming super transports (they need to anchor in deeper water.)
The people can vote. They don't cover the money it takes. At least industry does not invest in this folly! The crowds always take a free show. No money!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
Face it, the remaining steamers will not be scrapped. Even if they're reduced to non-operational museum pieces, they will not be scrapped. Obviously all you are doing is trying to get attention by posting crazy comments about events that will NEVER happen. So just shut up and get a life. Can you not find anything better to do?
Trainfanatic192 3 years ago 4
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They will be parted, dismantled and sent to the scrapper!
The materials will make great anchor chain links or armor for our army.
There are people who need some quick cash and the bank is right there for making withdrawals from. All that brass, the bell, the whistle, the gauges, the driving linkage is all there for the taking!
It is time to dismantle it, cut it up and put it all into the nice warm red glow of either an induction or blast furnace.
It would make some first class wrenches!
Cockroach2008 3 years ago
Yeah and I found a web-site that sells the design drawings for steam locos and I'll make more steam locos so they will never be scrapped. :D
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DAKOTA56777 2 years ago
@Cockroach2008 Which steam locomotive was it that ran over your fucking parents you prick? It'll snow in fucking hell before "the people" vote to scrap steamers. You don't know what the FUCK these engines mean to some of us. I'd like to see every last limb on your god forsaken body being worked by a cutting torch and hearing you yell for your pathetic life you prick!
foroke1 1 year ago
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msdmechanica 3 years ago
RETARD!
Trainfanatic192 3 years ago 6
I have a toy model that looks exactlly like that
WMATAvids 3 years ago
I don't want to argue this, but the John Bull is the oldest operating locomotive, not her. Also the Atlantic at the museum could be operational, and she was built in 1836, so she would be third in American locomotives, and some where else on the world list. Long live the Bull, and the Mason!
pieman97405 3 years ago
The JB hasn't been run since what, the 60's? To operate today, it would need a form 4 and complete 15 year inspection, assuming FRA would even approve the lap boiler. That's a complete tear down and ultrasound. The museum might make that claim, but they would not be able to pull it out of the museum tomorrow and fire it up. IMHO, that's not very "operational". The WM was under steam this month.
1pease 3 years ago
She was last steamed in 1981, and I know what it would take to get one operating! The Bull can run! The Genoa can run and she is not certafied, many locomotives can make that same claim, and was she certafied when she ran in the 80's!? If she was she could still be, and if not I'm fine with her be "gone" for 15 years if we can see her under steam! Also I have heard the Eureka has a seam lap boiler and she is certafied, and I am willing to bet they could pull her down and run her right now!
pieman97405 3 years ago
Same has been said with Lion in Britain built two years later but as original parts would be likely to be replaced it it was overhauled it was decided to preserve it. Oldest still running are the Furness 20 and the two single fairlies on the Festiniog (Prince and Palmeston) all of which date from the early 1860s.
railenthusiast88 1 year ago
@railenthusiast88 Do you know any more than Wikipedia about Prince's abandonment?
whoohaaXL 10 months ago
@whoohaaXL I stand corrected about Princes title. It is the oldest operational narrow gauge locomotive in the world along with its sister engine Palmerston. Prince was abandoned when the Festiniog closed in 1946. There are plenty of books out there that detail the history of the line and Prince. Prince will hopefully be back in service in time for its 150th birthday. (I'm a volunteer on said railway) Great to see William Mason in steam though.
railenthusiast88 10 months ago
Nice loc, strange chimy, hot rot look.
Good video!*****
ejovadi 3 years ago
are you sure its a runner, i cant hear a thing besides the whistle and the wheels squeaking (no offence)
trainlover657 3 years ago
With the throttle closed a steam engine is silent save for the noises you mentioned.
hollywood1340 3 years ago
Despite the wood on the tender the William Mason has actually been converted to oil. Just so ya know. I dont know for sure but Im guessing its running on a reduced PSI.
run202run 4 years ago
Figures, that must have been foam wood I saw the crew throw into the firebox last fall.
When Strasburg rebuilt the WM for Wild Wild West, the spark arrester in the funnel was restored, the cause of why it is more quiet than some (and yes, it's more or less drifting in the video). The conversion to wood took place at the same time. When I was up close to it last fall, they had it at 90lbs to move it down the track. Yes, it's been in a number of movies, including God and Generals.
1pease 4 years ago
What does 'drifting' mean? The only drifting I know of is car drifting, aka, handbrake turning, sliding, etc..
THEFINALHAZARD 3 years ago
Throttle cracked for cylinder lubrication and moving through the use of momentum and or gravity.
hollywood1340 3 years ago
Despite the wood on the tender the William Mason has actually been converted to oil. Just so ya know. I dont know for sure but Im guessing its running on a reduced PSI.
run202run 4 years ago
How many Western Films was this engine in?
earv79 4 years ago
The engine appears to be drifting, ie, no power, coasting. She would give some nice sharp chuffs under load, like any other locomotive. Fuel used has nothing to do with it. Check out the Inyo from the V&T, similar engine for working sounds.
meuritt 4 years ago
Wow! I didn't even know they still had these running around! Although, it is a museum.
Skarloey123 4 years ago
Oh, my God, that is one fine engine. Is there anymore video of her?
boxpok 4 years ago
My understanding is wood burners are very quiet. When Strasburg rebuilt her for the movie, they converted her back to wood and rebuilt the spark arrester in the funnel. And of course she had no load on her. It might even be a little down grade at that point.
1pease 4 years ago
except for her whistle and bell, she is very quiet
Engineer5344 4 years ago
She's still painted in her "Wild Wild West" colors, except that "Wanderer" has been replaced on the tender.
goofermom 4 years ago
Lol! "It's going backwards!"
LNERMallard 4 years ago
Wow she may be old, but it looks like she came out like she was just built.
UnionPacific7004 4 years ago
I was there too! However, I can't post my video becuase it looks a bit crappy.
trainmaster844 4 years ago
she has one sweet sounding bell
Engineer5344 4 years ago
You must've been there same day I was!
Hendo56 4 years ago