#1003 Blasts thru Waupun, WI

On Oct 20, 2007 #1003 was running with a freight train for a Photographers Special. In between photo locations the #1003 rolls through Waupun, WI

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• soo
• line
• 1003
• steam
• train
• locomotive
• photo
• special

[Lmackattack]

screw the hippies, let them engines smoke for the camera.

[engine1385]

The engineer creates that smoke deliberately for his friend the photographer.

[boilerbob7]

I remember as a kid, they seldom put out much smoke in regular service.

[Ddragggon]

@ConrailJon Yeah, I used to drive a 1/4 scale steam locomotive, and I'm aware of the signaling... When I say they muck up the smoke, I mean excessively, and nearly continually. As I said, either they do it on purpose (and excessively) or they're not good at running their engine..(since they only run once or twice a year) To be certain, I had 2 years constant experience, and an oil burner, whereas they're dealing with coal.

[Ddragggon]

@ConrailJon Yeah, I used to drive a steam locomotive, and I'm aware of the signaling... When I say they muck up the smoke, I mean excessively, and nearly continually. As I said, either they do it on purpose, or they have no clue what they're doing.. its either a bit excessive, or they're not good at running the engine (since they only run once or twice a year) To be certain, I had 2 years constant experience, and an oil burner, whereas they're dealing with coal.

[ConrailJon]

@Ddragggon Standard railroad rules, before you move the train, 2 blasts on the whistle, or 3 if backing up. Under ideal conditions, steam locomotives emit almost no smoke, just a fine, gray haze, if the fireman knows what he's doing. Since this engine typically runs for railfans and photographers, they deliberately smoke it up for better pictures.

[Ddragggon]

To be certain, the guys who run this engine do release a rather excessive amount of black smoke when running this train. I live where this engine is stationed at, and when they want to let people know the train is running, they fire off the whistle a few times, then muck up the smoke stack so much, it leaves a hanging black cloud for about 5 minutes after the train leaves thats quite noxious. I don't know if its that they honestly don't know what they're doing or if its on purpose.

[trainlover479]

the people at the crossing before this one were probily going like "wow, this is new"

[omropapi504]

kim albrecht miss you

[omropapi504]

kim if you see this video just remember i always gonna remember you

[airman004]

just awsome!