Shay Locomotive leaves

[applejak2000]

@MrMullig1

Welcome Tard!

[Trolleymoose]

You are taking this too serious. It's a tourist line. Let them pull a passenger car OK?

[skybluedragonator]

thats the funniest caboose iv ever seen...

[blackwolfofkilmore]

It is a nice shot of the running gear. Good video

[Polybun]

that camera of yours looks like shit and sounds even worse.

[raydot]

It's simply not true to say that Shay locomotives were not used at all for "hauling passengers." It's true they wouldn't be used to carry passengers from city to city but they were used extensively to carry passengers -- usually tourists -- in mountain regions all around the world. Look up "Muir Woods Railway" on Wikipedia for one of countless examples.

[droid3913]

I am with the Little River Railroad & Lumber Company in Townsend, Tennessee. Shay's were used for logging and mining. They seldom hauled passengers. Look up the museum on the Internet. Where the logging took place is today The Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

[DudleyaSetchellii]

I searched and found this video. I'm watching one Shay's Locomotive now on a PBS TV show called California Live which is just outside of Yosemite. Sugar Pine Lumber company old railroad. 84 tons, narrow gage. Decommissioned from logging in 1933, now a tourst attraction laid in virgin forest land about 4 miles. It's the #10. 12 wheel drive. Original operated off Yosemite mountain. 500 gallons of water per mile, a thursty iron horse.

I want one.

Next on my list.. Google patent search.

[sewallm60]

where in the hell did this f-----g idiot cockroach 2008 come from, must have fell out of his mother as she was standing at the picking up gay dude and he's brain dead

[luridplanet]

It was a great technical advance over "rod" locomotives. I'm surprised it didn't completely replace them after Shay's patents expired. But by then, diesel engines had been developed

[SR722]

The irony of the description actually made me laugh; shays were designed for the exact opposite of everything listed: steep grades, tight curves, and slow speeds, often on ridiculously rough track. They had a fairly limited range too, and were often equipped with siphon hoses to fill-up the tender from nearby streams and rivers.

[jathom26]

hate steam

[Classicalguy12]

@jathom26 Why?

[TheJuggalohomie4life]

how can u hate steam

[sbd650]

It is fantastic!

Locomotive with vertical triple expansion machine! All-wheel transmission including all-wheel coal-tender!

Best regards from Belgrade, Serbia!

[joshuareamazing]

hahah shay carl?! you what you what?!

[durangoandsilverton]

you got the descriction wrong. look up shay on the internet or in wiki

[Classicalguy12]

@Cockroach2008 if you dislike steam so much, then why do you watch and comment on nearly every steam locomotive video on YouTube?

[coolcatevan9]

FU cockroach2008

SPARE THE STEAMERS

[Cockroach2008]

Thank you for the very flattering & complimentary suggestion!

I will take it under advisement.

Nahhhh!

Junk all the remaining steam locomotives!

If people need some quick cash, I advise that parts from steam locomotives can be quickly removed & sold with NO QUESTIONS ASKED!

The bell, whistle, gauges, boiler over pressure pop off valves, headlights, marker lights, number boards, builder's plate, hoses, pipes, grab irons, boiler doors, valves, ect. . . .

There is much there for the taking!

[coolcatevan9]

Im not falling for your scheme. I am refurbishing steam!

[tweetsie12190fan]

@Cockroach2008 dont you care about history?

[Cockroach2008]

@tweetsie12190fan Sure! But history belongs between the pages of a history book! These junkers have been photographed, filmed & documented. There is nothing else to them except the materials within them can be used to make new products.

Junk all the remaining steam locomotives.

[tweetsie12190fan]

@Cockroach2008 so.. what your saying all the cars trains boats and airplains of yesterday aka 24hours ago shuld be scraped

[Cockroach2008]

@tweetsie12190fan If it no longer serves, it goes

to the scrapper! Historical preservation is adequate between the pages of a history book. The materials in steam locomotives can be used to produce new useful products.

[tweetsie12190fan]

@Cockroach2008 so what your saying is all the history museams that have cars boattrains and airoplains shuld be put out of bisniss.

[Cockroach2008]

@tweetsie12190fan If the machines is not revenue generating to the historical society or the historical preservation group, send it to the scrap yard for uttingc apart & melting. To save them for historical reasons which are not profitable is justification to send them to the junk pile!

That is where my crews come in & cut them apart & my crew earns their money to support their families! That is the American Way. Always tur ing old materials j to new products.

[Mattzazami]

@Cockroach2008 But, in destroying our past models of vehicles, we're also destroying our historical diversity.. True, they don't serve any monetary purposes, but to scrap a locomotive is to scrap a bit of our past.

The sentimental value of these old models of engines easily outweigh any value that could be obtained by reusing the materials used to construct them.

[Cockroach2008]

@Mattzazami This garbage is already for destruction. Destroying historical diversity?Are you just making up non-sense to try & justify your cause to someone? That statement is absurd! Historical diversity is preserved between the pages of history books. This junk is worth money when people sell them off in parts or send the materials for scrap. Parts bring in nice sums of CASH! NO QUESTIONS! Or a graffiti canvas! Beautiful graffitti paint jobs on steam locomotives!

[janedoe1024]

@Cockroach2008

Bet your sorry ass doesn't have the courage to go to Cass WV and say that or better yet back at the Train Festival 2009 in Owosso Mich. You'd have been lynched. You're a fuckin retard!!

[Cockroach2008]

@janedoe1024 I know about your teakettle toy train in Cass. I have told many people what a junk pile they run & how it is ready for the induction furnace to melt it down. Missed that other event over a year ago. I would not go anyway unless the machine is ready to be junked so I can make a bid on this relic. It is time for it to be found only between the pages of a history book.

Junk the remaining steam locomotives!

[gingeypoo]

@Cockroach2008 This is actually revenue generating as it is providing rides to museum patrons who PAY admission...which isn't cheap there either.

Also, this is locomotive is in Canada, so as far as keeping things the "american way" I'm afraid you're out of your element here.

I know you're just trying to piss off some of the train nuts on here and you're doing it but get your facts straight.

[Cockroach2008]

@gingeypoo I know what is going on. It is getting more & more expensive. Tourist activity is off somewhat & expenses are outpacing income.

It won't be long! Parts will be stolen, graffiti painted & off to the scrap yard for cutting apart & sent off for melting.

Good riddance! Junk all the remaining steam locomotives!

[Cockroach2008]

@coolcatevan9 I have been looking at your reply for a week now, and I don't understand. What is FU? Did you mistype something? Did you mean FOO? I just don't understand. Please explain!

[capefearnc]

Great locomotive!

[203lindy]

yeah, the shay was used for power on logging railroads or railroads with steep grades and sharp turns. they are SLOW but powerful.

[USFED645]

gp40mc is absolutely correct. Why would you post wrong info on such a rare and important loco? Get your facts straight and don't make stupid guesses if you don't know. Do 3 minutes of research and you will find everything you needed to know about the Shay.

[gp40mc]

The description for this video is wrong. These locomotives were desinged for hauling log cars up very steep mountain grades. Not for hauling passengers. They are also one of the slowest locomotives that exist. Cool video but I suggest you correct the description because it's pretty much the opposite of what that locomotive is designed for.

[mbabist01]

@gp40mc Not only for logging, but also mining, and, for one east coast railroad, as a switcher. Now, is this one standard or narrow gauge? I couldn't tell. Nice seeing one!

[gp40mc]

looks to be standard gauge

[sticklets87]

You know the shay was made to go up steep hills around sharp curves and run on temporarry track

[cumminsturbofan101]

not to mention a very smooth take off

[cumminsturbofan101]

very very innovative at the time and still innovative today as nobody else has tried to replicate the design

[hollywood1340]

Actually the Willamette Iron and Steel works of Oregon did a pretty good job of just that ;)

[cumminsturbofan101]

my bad i wasn't aware of that :) but either way u cut it it is still very innovative

[Gotthard68]

isn't this an engine wich can go up steep hills with heavy loads? andcan go through very tight curves??

[DeltaHL2]

Yes, these types of locomotives were built to haul logs, coal, and other resources in areas where the typical rod-driven locomotives which had trouble operating, such as mountains, valleys, and other areas where the track wasn't always level, straight, or even made of iron (wooden rails built out of logs). These locomotives travel very slowly, but they trade high speed for high torque and pulling ability on tracks that rod-driven locomotives cannot travel on.

[DeltaHL2]

The Heisler and Climax steam locomotives share similar traits with this one, the Shay. The Heisler uses a V-2 style engine to drive the front and rear trucks using a central drive shaft. The Climax uses a similar drive system, but it has two wheels connected to two pistons. The pistons drive the wheels like a normal locomotive, but the wheels don't touch the ground. Instead, they transfer their rotational energy into a gearbox under the locomotive, and the gearbox is connected to the driveshaft.