Southern 4501 Break in April 1977 Trussville, AL to Irondale..L&N 152 and Sp 4449 Leaving bham 1977

Southern 4501 Break in run April 1977 Trussville, Al to Irondale, Al -----Beautiful Whistle!

Carl Kruger machining Axels for L&N 152's Journals for it's initial rebuild. Southern Steam Shop 1977 Irondale, Al

And Sp 4449 Leaving Bham 1977 at 14 street in Bham. Notice the 14th street and semaphores! Now gone...Also notice the car on the end is kinda unique!

This video in HD and is a test. Hopefully it turns out well.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Southern
• 4501
• L&N
• 152
• Sp
• 4449
• American
• Freedom
• Train

[EMD645E]

People like lovetoseesteam who have these videos and are kind enough to share them on Youtube with us are keeping history alive for generations to come. All of us need to let these people know that we appreciate them keeping our great history alive and sharing what they were lucky enough to capture with us. THANK YOU!!! For me these videos are the highlights of my time online they are AMAZING!!!!

[FreeFallin1976]

Thank you so much for sharing all of this WONDERFUL footage of lovely 4501!!! Pricelesss really.

[tinman3804]

Awsome footage!!! Keep it comin...

[gsharpe62]

Vote on keeping Steam alive now! Since I can't put the link here I will describe it. Go to Google and type in Google Moderator. Once on the site paste in #16/e=25479 after the last slash.

[Strasburg1991]

whatever happened to paul brock

[gsharpe62]

Well this can be part of a tribute series to the great Bill Purdy. He passed away July 22, 2010. What a great steam engineer, leader and real man. We will miss you Bill but we have your legacy captured on film for the generations. 

[CarNutandTrainNut2]

Was that her original whistle?

5's and a fav Cary.

I was 5 in 77.

[hoolg]

Fantastic stuff man. That whistle on 4501 is georgious.

By the way, the HD converstin looks great. Keep it up man.

[DJGENEX71]

Awesome stuff! I was 6 when this was filmed!

5*****!