Steam Locomotives In Action on the Baltimore & Ohio, 1954

[robertgift]

Steam locomotives were very inefficient and required MUCH maintenence and repair.

Buthey were also so much fun.

My great uncle, a 4-8-4 locomotivenginer, LOVED his locomotive, even though it was terribly hot in the hot summer months.

[SweetJaneofGoth]

@robertgift My granpdpap says the same thing. He says the 8 hour day was all anybody could take on those things.

[robertgift]

Film from THE SUNNY side so that we can see.

Wish he had shown the grade crossing signals operating.

Follow the locomotive withe camera so we can see more of it.

[priceman141]

Is there one steam locomotive video on youtube that this cockroach guy hasn't spammed?

[barronzm]

@priceman141 I don't know, but If I ever saw him you would have to hold me back from putting him in a firebox. What is his problem? What, was he burned on his butt by a boiler when he was little? I am sorry but he is so ignorant when it comes to steam locos. Take it from someone who drives them.

[TheSterlingLoopTroop]

@Cockroach2008 steam engines are awesome it actully sucks to be in a world without the big mighty steamers. i mean it would to be nice just a couple hundred operating CSX(T) , NS ,UP and BNSF. Why do you dislike steamers ??? I was born in 2000 almost 50 years after steam engines dissapered from america's railways.LONG LIVE STEAMERS!!!!!!!!! OH and plus the last two words in sentance one that is just stupid

[Cockroach2008]

@TheSterlingLoopTroop Steam locomotives are garbage! Railroads junked these clunkers 65 years ago & now it is time to make the remaining into fish habitat, 30 miles off the Long Island shore at a depth of about 40-60 feet. Too bad your world is so miserable. The steam locomotive is long dead & may they forever remain that way, never to run again. I like junking them, cutting them apart & sending them down the track in pieces to the foundry where they will be melted & made into new products.

[CSXer]

@Cockroach2008 WOW! What a jerk. Throw him in the firebox boys! Or make a fish reef out of him!

[Cockroach2008]

@CSXer I think myself as sort of a super hero!

The parts taken from steam locomotives sell there quickly for CASH with NO QUESTIONS ASKED at a flea market. Of particular value is the gauge set from the engineers cab & water sight glasses for the boiler water level. Of course, whistles, bells, headlights, marker lights, number boards, heralds, builder's plates and many other parts sell very well.

If the people who operate these would not burn Quoran's in the fireboxes all would be well!

[CSXer]

@Cockroach2008 Your comment about scrapping steamers is WAY different from your latest reply to me.

If you are REALLY salvaging parts from abondonde steamers and selling them to collectors, then good for you and all involved!

Maybe you should word your comments in a more polite manner than you have in the past....

Your stepping on the toes of the people that built YOUR country....

Steam was cool, but now diesels rule.....

Peace, out!

[Cockroach2008]

@CSXer I don't mind if a collector removes parts. As long as the steam locomotive never runs again!

The steam locomotive did not BUILD my country. It was just a transportation tool of the time. People built the country.

Junk all the remaining steam locomotives!

Peace, out!

[Robofish12]

@Cockroach2008 Begone troll.

[Cockroach2008]

@Robofish12 I am here to stay! I am just letting people know that the parts from steam locomotives sell very nicely & quickly on the black market. The gauge sets are especially good sellers. Water sight glasses & many other instruments within the engineers cabin. All sell for CASH with NO QUESTIONS ASKED! Just help yourself, it is all there for the taking! The brass fittings are quite large & worth considerable CASH when fenced off through the black markets.

Cut apart the steam locomotives!

[WelcomexToxMyxWorld]

@Cockroach2008 Hopefully you will be gone soon, too. Your username fits you well.

[Cockroach2008]

@WelcomexToxMyxWorld Keep hoping! I am here to stay! Thank you for the compliment! It is most flattering!

Junk all the remaining steam locomotives!

[WelcomexToxMyxWorld]

@Cockroach2008 Yeah, because cockroaches are soooo flattering..not.

[Cockroach2008]

@WelcomexToxMyxWorld We have 7 billion people on the planet as of today! We are going to need those materials from the steam locomotives to make new products. It is just a short matter of time!

Junk all the remaining steam locomotives! Cut them apart & melt them down!

Cockroaches are nice!

[boazrg]

I remember in the late fifties seeing some of these same lcomotives lined up near the steel mills in northern Indiana where they wouold be srcapped. A sad end to these remarkable machines. (There was nothing as exiting to a kid in grammar school as seeing a steam engine pulling a train at high speed!)

[hogr2]

Thats and awesome video, I wish there were more of those just knowing there is nothing like the power of steam and the men that made it happen to give the RR's there start......thank you for posting.....

[bubblejomay]

Are there any videos of C&O steam engines or RF&P steam engines of this era?

[09JDCTrainMan]

2:02. Almost sounds like the n&w A's whistle.

[dcoursey82]

@09JDCTrainMan From what I understand, it's a Baldwin hooter. But ya, it sounds pretty much the same as an N&W hooter

[Shield1751]

Nice!!