MTH Premier DM&IR Yellowstone (2-8-8-4) O-Gauge Steam Locomotive

[ThePaulita398]

me gusta este video porque es de trenes y soy fanatico de los trenes jajajaj

[superyerfdog]

Why does everyone seem to hate the BigBoy nowadays? As in OMG THIS LOCOMOTIVE IS WAY COOLER CAUSE ITS LESS POPULAR. The Yellowstone could pull more, but not as fast, and it didn't have to deal with the grades the BigBoys had to deal with.

[UnIonPacCheyenne]

@superyerfdog I don't think its a case of people hating the Big Boy, its just there is more choice in large model locomotives now. Your comment about real life Yellowstone types is not absolutely correct. The B&O version of the Yellowstone, the EM1, was just as fast as the Big Boy. The B&O used them in express freight and passenger service. The grades the EM1 was used on in W.Va and western Pennsylvania were much steeper than what the Big Boy ever saw on the Union Pacific.

[shnimmuc]

According to the new book The History of North American Steam, [Christopher Chant] The Yellowstone was the most powerful non-compound Locomotive ever built. It could pull 3 times the weight of a Big Boy

[superyerfdog]

@shnimmuc Yes, but it couldn't pull that very fast. I like the Yellowstones, but they had jobs very different from the Bigboy.

[tinman3804]

It would be awsome to have one of the three restored. But like the Big Boy it would cost thousands if not millions to get it up and running. Plus the cost of operation. Well we will have to find a new engine to replace 261...

[Triplex5014]

This locomotive is one of my top MTH locomotives but I don't know the centipede tender is a tender that I personally don't like.

[forhobbesfans]

Wow where are all the other engiens that crwd our layoutin your othe videos

[rabcarl]

I'm proud to have these locomotives around, I'm from Minnesota and I can just imagine them going through the scenic North Shore!

I guess I was born too late.

[shnimmuc]

The DMIR Yellowstone is my favorite even over the Big Boy. They should get one of the remaining three running, they could pull 180 ore cars.

[LNERMallard]

If they were to get one running, it would most likely be 227 in Duluth. It's in the best condition, and most, is not all, cab appliances are still there. The museum its at is also connected to a real Class 1 line (rices point yard), so moving it wouldn't be too hard. The second best canidate is 229 in Two harbors. Nice paint, but some rust and deterioration here and there. It's not connected to a line, but it's very close to its home line.

[StoneAndPete44]

This one is my favorite. For the money, I'd totally buy it over the Big Boy any day. I like the DMIR design better than the NP one because the DMIR has better looking wheels and the blueish boiler is just too cool!

[a44468]

I really like this one, might wait till next year and get the one in the set.

[SouthernRR4501]

Where very lucky that ANY steam engine survived today.

[RogerRoids]

if it had the cooler chugging, it would break into my top 5 MTH engines.

[mmmykha]

where did you get the 2-8-8-4 yellowstones??????

[toytrains1]

it's the compromise required to have such a large locomotive on the relatively sharp turns of three rail track.

[PetersTrainz101]

I like the 222 & 227

[DOGIESTYLE91]

Nice, but like all the other articulated engines, it overhangs way to much

[william151999]

wow that train has a nice colour

[LNERMallard]

Yeah. Too bad only 3 of the 18 survive today.