The Golden Age of Steam Trains Part: 02

[barronzm]

uh, thirteenth president? did I hear that right?

[KH990j]

@barronzm Yes, an error on the producers part.

[doedante99]

ahh ol steam engines good ol steam engines

[senickle]

At 7:20, narrator talks about the bridge and the General stunt collaspe. Then rewind to 6:30, if you look at the train emblem, it's not a General but a Texas. Editing error.

[senickle]

@senickle Don't get me wrong, Excellent material regardless!

[tiger0tank]

notice how you never see the Chinese workers in these videos.....

[tiger0tank]

@tiger0tank wow i just posted this comment and the commentator says "most of the central pacific work gangs where Chinese". epic fail lol

[MrBrockberg]

he was the 2nd decent president is that better

[Dragblacker]

Filmore was the 13th President, not Lincoln -___-"

[gamesbok]

4ft 8 1/2 is standard gague because that was the gague on the original Stockton-Darlington railway, because that was the gague used in the mines, and that was the traditional width between the grouves in the old Roman roads, two horses asses. Because the space shuttle boosters have to pass through railway tunnels, their size is dictated by the width of two Roman horses asses.

[staydput]

Central Pacific started in Sacramento -- the terminus of the gold fields -- NOT San Francisco.

The Sacramento to San Francisco link was made late in the game.

Sacramento, being a sea port AND gold port, was the Western Terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad and has a staggering exhibit even now. The last of the articulated steam engines operated by the Southern Pacific stands there.

It's the No. 1 attraction. IT not Big Boy is the true king of articulateds. It was the loco for the Sierras.

[trainlover479]

omg, at 08:51, when he said that little engine with the red coaches was a 2-4-2, it made me angry. That engine is NOT a 2-4-2, #108 is a 2-6-2. She worked at the Conway Scenic Railroad until sold to some place in texas....

[KH990j]

@trainlover479 well.... at least the 4-4-0 right. I think he would have meant to say 2-6-2, because that was a common configuration. I've always thought of that, and it never set right how a 2-4-2 could be a common configuration.

[Strasburg1991]

@trainlover479 108 is now being restored to operation by a private group in Alabama

[trainlover479]

i wish it was bought back by the Conway Scienic, if not, just keep it in the green paint

[savida34e]

Thank you for these postings.

[turnoutjim]

did anyone else catch the fact that Lincoln was the 13th president?....

[KH990j]

I did :o, I wonder who wrote that script, the might need to check that.

[lawrence142002]

@turnoutjim

Didn't catch that. Poor Millard Fillmore...

[turnoutjim]

Millard who? :)

[lawrence142002]

@turnoutjim

You see, you said something about Lincoln being the 13th President, which he was not. Lincoln was 16th. Millard Fillmore was the 13th. He actually was never elected, he succeeded Zachary Taylor when he died.

[turnoutjim]

Thanks....I realize that Millard Fillmore was the 13th president, I've also heard that he was the most insignificant president we've ever had, that's why I said, Millard who?

[lawrence142002]

@turnoutjim

I dunno... Insignificant is a hard thing to judge compared to bad. Fillmore did oversee the Fugitive Slave Law and the Compromise of 1850, neither thing insignifcant. William Henry Harrison would probably own that distinction given the fact that he died after 30 days in office.

[AlcoholicSemenStain]

@turnoutjim lincoln was the SECOND amreican persident.

[KH990j]

@AlcoholicSemenStain I think you better study American history; Lincoln was the sixteenth president. The second American president was John Adams from 1797-1801 long before railways were even thought of in the United States.

[123legodude]

@AlcoholicSemenStain 16 president

[strat8383]

Buster Keaton had a lot of fun with trains

[tprdfh51]

Buster Keaton was without a doubt the first "action adventure hero" and puts to shame all those who followed after when you look at the dangerous stunts he performed without the benefit of a stunt double.

[lordocheez]

The Ten Wheeler are from the Buster Keaton movie "The General", a silent film from 1926.

[joeferrito]

Anybody know what movie those shots of the Ten-Wheeler and the coaches are from?

[YeeeSons123]

Hmm

[nardp96]

do u know y on a train brige there is a set of rails in betwene the normal ones like at 7:57. can u tell me if u know.

[KH990j]

Probable for the different guages of rails that they had.

[nardp96]

that what i thought but why were they only on the brige.

[KH990j]

You're right, now I don't know.

[elmad32]

they're guard rails placed to catch the wheels of the train during a derailment and prevent the train from falling off a bridge.

[KH990j]

Thanks man, I never knew what they were.

[rlthestig]

Sir

I think you will find they are there to help catch the train should it derail.

I could be in error but this is my understanding of it.

[nardp96]

thats what i thought but i wasnt shure.

[tprdfh51]

@rlthestig They are called "Jordan Rails" named after the designer I presume?

[pumkinvine]

a major misrepresentation of the the South and the Great Locomotive Chase. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story

[KH990j]

The movie of the Great Locomotive Chase was a comedy based somewhat on a real situation. That's what the narrirator said that the comedy was 100% Keaton.

[WhyAyeMann]

u can tell at 7:50, thats a model. Ive had this documentry since i was 4, and i JUST noticed that.

[KH990j]

I noticed that too. I've had the video for as long as I can remember; probably since it came out in '91. When I was young I found that part at 7:50 rather unrealistic, but I couldn't tell why.