UP 844 Cheyenne WY to Sidney NE the Corn Belt Rocket 22jun07

[kiwicockers]

Are the powers to be,running UP844 into the ground to save costs??????

[critchley3819]

works of human art,

[Adrii455]

parece que se van a romper las ruedas jajajajaj :P

[gsxr1131]

WOW! Incredible pacing footage! Bravo SkipW!

[MiLLwallpaul231258]

does this thing run on oil or coal.......if it runs on oil the exhaust must really pen and ink....

[Ray63301]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! most intimadating machinne.

[Valizan]

Just so beautiful! ::sighs::

[threewing]

This blows... Literary!

[kiwicockers]

I did my boilermans test on the railways in New Zealand ,centries ago

[nkproad777]

Never retired and still going strong!

[marx1121]

Lol, fake :D

[bebtozoltan55]

From Budapest . Hungary , Europe .

[Vote4Spinosaurus]

I never liked diesels

[trainzchronicles]

here is an upcoming excution planned for the 844 :D

[CA1CWilliams]

amazed u didnt get pulled over by the local police :]

[vusha516]

wow shes booking it

[f3i2u1]

Beutifull, but why only the sound of the wind.and the car...!!

[f3i2u1]

Beutifull, but why only the sound of the wind....!!

[oomblikkies]

Lovely

[gsxr1131]

Incredible footage! Bravo!

[CrazyTramify]

нифигасе прёт!!!

[DammitDrag]

GREAT capture Skip, thanks for sharing.

[inlovewithyemen]

I love this video thank u 5str

[chewinggum56]

I love it!!

Especially the wheels :)

[Treyston123]

Wow, what a wonderful Steam train!

[northstar1950]

Superb!!

[N1GKE]

Just beautiful

[bangaliwala]

FAST TRAIN

[jdubbjazzbass]

it is amazing how this country,throws away its past,to think that most these beautiful engines were just cut up for scrap

[kiwijeza]

iis that its top speed or ?

in New Zealand they only allow the steamers to go 70kph dum

but in the old days they would get upto 75+mph

[kiwijeza]

hello how fast does she get up to on this vid ?

[SkipW]

@kiwijeza to just over 70mph

[kamphwagon1]

@SkipW Got to see this one when she came trough Oklahoma , judgeing from the size of the drivers it's probably able to break into the 100mph bracket ,but it's limited by track athority speed limits ...... I would say 70mph is a easy cruiseing speed for 844

[1kwood]

now there's a real train... still kickin about. :D WAY TO GO 844!!!...

[Bboy3RJim]

i think cuz skates are better and ppl like rollout

joke,illgonpanties xD

[mbtech2003]

wheres the 6936 isnt it usally with the 844??

[FFICheyenne]

Great video!

[rmz250k7]

u americans need new zealand steam whistles..these whistles are an embarasment to the trains the are on..

[hispanicmamma04]

watching this is motion at the very end almost made me cry with beauty that theses engines have

[TrainSpotterX]

Great video !!!

I invite viewers to come visit my channel of trains in Australia

[SkipW]

@TrainSpotterX thats some good stuff, down under

[Benedetto1199]

With all that coal coming out of Eastern Wyoming, I don't know why the UP doesn't use loco's to haul it out! Wouldn't it make economic sense to burn what your pulling?

[Addicted2Guitars]

you gotta love that whistle. it sounds awesome at 60 mph

[xjr1300paul]

not a train nut ......but OUTSTANDING

[trainz34]

I LOVE this engine

[crayztrain]

Çok güzel bir video olmuş.saygılar

[bradnoga]

poetry in motion

[s6u6r6f6]

man...I didnt know these were still running.! this is a GREAT video!...I'm hooked!

[bshell468]

Great video. The 844 can't match the horsepower output of the larger boiler N&W 611 or C&O 614, but it sure beats watching boring diesels anyday!

[geven46]

after watching I did'nt know what to do , stunned, speechless, enthralled.............the men driving these are real men, Gods!!!

[divanola]

KICKIN IT WITH A MILLION POUND TEA KETTLE!...this is great pacing!....you shoot this?.....I'm goin downstairs and run some trains.

[007jetto]

sir u need 2 get a life

[divanola]

got a great life , i play in a working rock band have a KILLER TRAIN set and a hot wife who's 17 years younger than me who's a bartender you fkn pissant, 007ghetto

[Noxious597345]

@divanola fuckin a...

[divanola]

got that right

[oletimerocker]

hey! wait a minute! I was born in Sidney NE cool>:8)

[colinroxanduknowit]

I have a question, why the hell on every train video (or at least steam one) theres always someone fighting and arguing about if american trains are better than european ones and vice versa???

[SkipW]

I think because they have nothin better to do ; )

[flare40x]

@colinroxanduknowit , guess it's because all those Europeans are just so jealous of what a wonderful place America is! And how America has the fastest, most advanced and best trains in the world!

[ISO8]

I'm loving it

[Benedetto1199]

Awesome. I wish we could go back to steam Locomotives.

[carbpumper]

ya theyre amazing

[carbpumper]

i rode in the cab of this engine

[myshuno383]

do you have any videos or pictures of that, i would like to see them.

[geven46]

lucky you!!!!!

[UNIONPACIFIC1]

SKIP MY MAN ANOTHER OUTSTANDING VIDEO

[MrHageen]

I wouldn't agree to that. American engines had been buildt to other specs, so different design is obvious. And speaking of ugly look around in Germany or England! Lot's of less nice looking locos! Ugly english by the way!

[MrHageen]

Not quite acceptable this! Look for BR 18 201 a german pacific which holds the official title of the worlds fastest operational steam locomotive in the world. Or watch DAILY operation of the narrow gauge locos (5-coupled! 2-10-2).

Not to forget our english friends! Nevertheless the UP Northern is really an impressing piece of engineering!

[NightmareKato]

Wrong! All European locomotives are built for short trains, not mega freight trains like the ones the Big Boy pulled in World War 2. The most cars a steam loco in Europe will pull is FIVE. The #844 can pull upwards to 30 fully loaded railcars.

Can any Euro loco do that? NOPE.

[MrHageen]

Interesting opion this! 5 cars on one steam locomotive? Do you REALLY believe yourself? Seems to be not very economic? Steam locomotives in Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain and not to forget Russia pulled freight trains of 100 cars or more, if necessary. But our locos did that on a higher frequency as in the US, therefore freight trains were shorter but faster. Even freight trains had to achieve 60 mph to fit in the tight schedules. So what I'm saying it's a completely different system.

[Jamersonde]

Long Live 844!!!

[hornfreaks]

.......it´s not ugly !!! it´s powerful steamtechnic you rugrat !!

[DeltaPhi79]

Shes one of our best looking I say. How many of the European ones have never been retired and are still in great condition? Like this one....

[M2Flamethrower]

nice engine

[NafisC]

Beautiful footage. Love the 844

[Cracko90]

Superb footage. I am with you I like the focus on the engine.

You captured this one. Thanks.

[anakoskr]

Израснах в семейство на железничар - този влак е музика,мистична,невероятна,мол­я се никога да не спира - БЛАГОДАРЯ ВИ !!!

[anakoskr]

Прекрасно видео - благодаря !!! Железния път е велико нещо !!!

[PlanesTrainsAutos]

What kinda whistle it is awesome!

[grizzlieplyr5221]

I was on this that day.

[SkipW]

Thanks Dave, my thoughts exactly I did not want to see scenery view with a train running through it. I want to see a steam locomotive charging through the countryside that is where the real action is at IMHO, so I had to make my own. I must admit that this isnt the best but we will keep working on the stability issues

and keep on shooting it pratice makes perfect-LOL

[daverdaver1]

Nice to concentrate on watching her run. The commercial vids all have way too much cut and change scene to them. Nice job with all the pacing!!

[sleeplessingc]

o.k. this video is officially the kewlest train vedio in history!! kudos dude!!!

[1pianodude50]

Love those nice steady 70MPH pace shots! Seeing this old girl out stretching her legs makes me smile!

[jro1958]

Seeing this rolling steamer is priceless to me. Thank You for the post Skip W.

[034gwizard]

yes thank you!! my grandpa rode and retired a train simular that is in AMARILLO TEXAS! THE "5000"I have a picture i took of him with it.priceless..

[DeltaPhi79]

strange whistle placement.

[IamBare]

Thanks for posting this excellent video. My 2 sons loved it. The chase car must have been on the smoothest road in the US.

[CAL2177]

Outstanding video! The camera work from the chase car is something I've not seen before. Excellent!

[trains365]

That was incredable!! Excellent camera work. One of these days we will get to see Santa Fe 2926 doing the same thing!! Can't wait....

Thank you for posting.

[Viper271980]

Man i wish i had a steam locomotive, it's so sad that all of them are being scrapped :( i know there are some being preserved and kept alive and i thank those people who do that, but the other ones are just in museums or worse, scrapped :(

[micahthatrocks]

Has any one seen the old u.p northern 813? it looks cool...... look it up.. it has no smoke deflecter!

[1966caprice]

ya man i just saw it it does look cool

[Sampug394]

Just Frigging AMAZING!

[TrainAsia]

Can I say WOW more than once?

[TrainAsia]

Starting at 3.32, it is AMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAZING!

[SteffanLlwyd]

I've just got to add my thanks for posting this fabulous demonstration of railroading. Many of the shots are sublime. The image of the train passing the wayside grain elevators strikes my British eye as 'very American'. I also liked the almost head-on shot of the locomotive climbing the curving embankment. The designer accomplished something massive, powerful, but also very beautiful indeed. Glory machine for sure.

[tgbanshee]

Wow... It's amazing how that thing can run that fast for that long and not destroy the wheel connecting rods. The forces acting on those reciprocating assemblies and associated hardware must be pretty intense. Awesome vid, I wish there were more steam locomotives in the northeast U.S.

[SteffanLlwyd]

The biggest two cylinder British locomotives which are very small compared with this magnificent beast, create up to about 20, tons of 'hammer blow' to the track due to a mixture of unbalanced weights in the valve motion and piston forces. The equivalent forces in the case of this locomotive must be higher. (Three and four cylinder engines don't hammer the track so hard, I understand.) It is a thought, which maybe does not go down too well with track repair workers!

[generator5500]

wow it long driver and fast. how many MPH you have?

[MSTSFreak]

Great pacing video

[micahthatrocks]

this is a nice long video, nut its worth it!

[al1500321]

that thing is fast.

[telboy1953]

First comment I have ever posted....What an utterly superb piece of video!!! (You couldn't do this in the UK..well maybe for 30 seconds or so..there just aren't stretches of road and rail in conjunction for any great distance, let alone 14 minutes worth ) Congratulations.

[zaphodb777]

All this talk about making steam clean. I give you 2 realistic options...

Somewhat clean but still CO2 producing, propane.

Very clean, but much feared (w/o reason) naval nuclear reactor technology.

Your choice?

[VaderNES]

I find propane to be the ideal one, though I honestly prefer Plutonium or Uranium.

[BR01097]

This is probably one of the best train pacing videos out there, mainly because the angle is more interesting than 90 degrees. The spinning drivers can be seen as well as the tender swaying on the rails. The best part about this video is its title: who couldn't fall for a train named "The Corn Belt Rocket?"

[pinotsplunge]

This one's an oil burner. I think they could run it cleaner, but many railfans like to see thick smoke.

[SkipW]

Actually it very rarely lays out the thick black plumes of smoke, usually only at startups and to buildup steam pressure for very steep grades. I would estimate less than 5% of the run she is say "stokeing-up the boiler".

[pinotsplunge]

Nearly every still image of this machine I have seen shows 844 with a huge, dense smoke trail. One book I've got mentions that this is being done for the photographers. I don't think you need to put on this kind of show if you want to bring back steam.

[exeter34001]

silly question and probably already been answered. but what's powering this machine.....wood....coal or oil?

[SkipW]

recycled fuel oil

[BelieveNoGod]

I'm pretty sure they can 'reinvent' the steam engine to have a far better effect/consumption ratio than it was earlier.

I know the last big ones had immense power and speed.

Nice video and beautiful machine :)

[wyo7011]

What a cool shot at 1:12. It looks like something from 1930. Very cool.

[ejovadi]

Very nice video. Good pacing.

Plz watch my video`s chasing a steam train very close. spectaculair enjoy.

Thanks for sharing *****

[crphoto303]

Just saw 844 up close in Denver for the DNC. Those main drive wheels are about 7 feet tall. The nut assemblies holding the connecting rods are about 8 inches across. Very impressive machinery

[NightmareKato]

There was an oil burner Big Boy experiment, and it didn't work out so well because of uneven heating problems. The Big Boy has a very large pair of boilers, and having that work with oil burning is a problem.

Forget about it, besides, nobody is going to give you a Big Boy to restore unless you have millions of dollars to buy it with - as well as transport it.

[Formulabruce]

that was tried on a 4000 and made some hot spots or super heat areas that caused a leak I believe, so idea was scrapped ( I dont have all the details)

[boeingLL747]

is it true that the extra water tank behind 844 was from the UP's gas turbine engines? ive heard rumors they are

[A1l2l2e2n4]

Well, those cars behind the gas turbine engines were adapted from steam locomotive tenders.

[rafaeldiashernandes]

FANTÁSTICO!PARABENS!

[zaphodb777]

So, you are saying, burn the same coal in a powerplant, and suffer the 50% transmission loss (burn 2X as much), rather than burn it at the point the energy is needed?

Besides, 844 has been converted to oil burn.

Now one thing we do have an excess of in this country is Natural Gas, and Propane. Propane would be a nice, clean way to run a loco. Just stick a couple tank cars behind the tender.

But until we have lots of nuclear power, batteries are OUT.

[attovishnu]

This is spectacular, lets hope the Delta Queen continues to ply as the 844 does.

[salemcripple]

I don't think they'd ever make it past the environmentalists.

[OmahaTom]

Nice telephoto on that camera! I had never seen her leaving the yard in Cheyenne before.

[zaphodb777]

HERE HERE!

Yes, bring back the mighty ALCOs!

Stick it to the oil sheiks!

And please buy more Wyoming coal!)

[jay600katana]

Shes one beautiful beast, It would be sweet to see her really get a good workin with another frieght train

[zenotest]

those wonderful, wonderful days of magic steam. Those magnificent golden years in the twilight of the past when the steam trains ran sincerely Ron Eck

[djburland]

Great video, best motion sequence I have seen!

[royalewithcheese12]

Old girl still gets up and steps with 'em! 65 MPH is like a stroll in the park for this gal. Great pacing work. I love to see big steam at speed.

[1singlet]

Great planning and video work. Just terrific. Thanks.

[Wonkawillie77]

Skip:

You do great work.

Please tell me someone else is driving while you shoot those over the road shots.

[SF3751]

Cool action of 844.

[GinsingSullivan]

that's very fkn cool!

[fasionbug]

superb vid Skip!

I love how your video captures the image of the 844 doing 65mph+ like its a cake walk, that loco could def hit 110mph if it was opened up all the way

[DarkTower97]

that it could.

[Superedit]

Great, great job here - superb pacing.

[zetaluver]

keep 'em coming skip, you do some great pacing videos!

[zetaluver]

kepp 'em coming skip, you put out some great pacing videos.

[RDGG3]

I think you did a nice job. For those who pick apart this clip somebody posted as a favor, go through the time and expense and do it yourself or buy a one of those sterile Pentrex videos.

[hellfire272]

that sounds just like the daylights whistle

[Darbkin]

Interesting to compare whistle sounds with Canadian locomotives...I'd say the Canadian locos have the edge...listen to 6060 ;o)

[octave4]

Stunning, aside fromt he passing grass & suc you see no movement except those massive drivers. Those rods absolutely flailing - What a monument to power. Aside from a side by side comparison of size you get the feeling that this is just to big to be true. Nice job.

[octave4]

Little shakey some spots. framing here and there. It captures the moment, the awsome bulk and power of that thing.OMG rare!!!

[wpa1733]

Beginning was OK but after that I did not like: a) unsteady view, b) not enough "head room" for the loco, c) poor or non-existent editing (unsteady shifts in scene, side of his car, maybe some vignetting in close-ups, d) zooms were too quick, e) needs more variety or s/b shorter, and f) what about some personal touches?

[Superedit]

So...where's YOUR video?

[Glfmx]

SUPERB video! Best train pacing video on YouTube. Especially appreciate how long it is.

[docnelsontrain]

SUPER VIDEO!!....Doc

[stormflyer]

LOVE steam trains. What a beaut!

[laawwrriiee]

Amazing, what a beautiful machine

[produKtNZ]

"pulling the "Corn Belt Rocket" to just west of Sidney" Did you mean Sydney (Australia)?

[thecockroachhunter]

Sidney, Nebraska USA sorry

[produKtNZ]

Oh :), All good tho. I thought it was just a spelling mistake :P.

Oh how i wish it really was Sydney tho, because thats a 100$ flight from where i am, so i'd jump at the chance to go and watch.

[JimTLonW6]

Nice strobe effect @ 10:30!

[SkipW]

Please somebody post a video of this special going over the "High Bridge" west of Boone IA on June 26 or 28th if its routed that way Thanks!