Nice job, Mr. Harrison. I liked where you inserted the music when you started chase. Someone is going to get chewed out for leaving the rear door open on the BNSF DPU unit.
adkrr64 Nice job, Mr. Harrison. I liked where you inserted the music when you started chase. Someone is going to get chewed out for leaving the rear door open on the BNSF DPU unit.
Thanks! To be honest I didn't even notice the door was open.
I will start a new series of single trains from the past that I've filmed starting tomorrow. I won't post all of these here, but they can be found on my YouTube. Stay tuned...
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
My YouTube
HarrisonI tried adding some maps to this video. What do you think?
Maps are much appreciated. I now know Peru is N of Port Kent. If that map had shown also Plattsburg I would have a better idea of the scale of the map and the relative location of Peru between the two main towns.
MidlandMike Harrison I tried adding some maps to this video. What do you think? Maps are much appreciated. I now know Peru is N of Port Kent. If that map had shown also Plattsburg I would have a better idea of the scale of the map and the relative location of Peru between the two main towns.
Harrison I tried adding some maps to this video. What do you think?
Thank you for the feedback! I should have included Plattsburgh and I will in the future.
Got something REALLY cool today, a Ferromex SD70ACe! Photos and video will be along at some point, for now here is what I uploaded to YouTube...
https://youtu.be/HLsZQr-iry4
Got a hot one dropping tomorrow night! Ferromex and a shout out from the crew over the radio.
https://youtu.be/Lkfr3l08d5c
I am questioning your 'policy' of holding back activation of the videos you have downloaded. They are not the Grand Opening of 'Gone With the Wind' or 'Titanic', with all the attendent red carpet hoopla of a grand opening.
Your videography and editing are improving - remember, the purpose of anything you publish is either to tell a story or to answer a question.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACDI am questioning your 'policy' of holding back activation of the videos you have downloaded. They are not the Grand Opening of 'Gone With the Wind' or 'Titanic', with all the attendent red carpet hoopla of a grand opening.
Would you even know they were coming if he didn't tell you?
Quite a few of us look forward to Harrison's Friday night premieres, and with everything going on in my life right now I appreciate the reminders.
BaltACD I am questioning your 'policy' of holding back activation of the videos you have downloaded. They are not the Grand Opening of 'Gone With the Wind' or 'Titanic', with all the attendent red carpet hoopla of a grand opening. Your videography and editing are improving - remember, the purpose of anything you publish is either to tell a story or to answer a question.
I understand that some people do not like or approve of "premieres" for various reasons. I have a weekly upload schedule, so if I was not premiering I would still be publishing the video on Friday. I hold off on creating a "premiere page" until the day of or the day before to prevent people from getting annoyed. I quite enjoy watching the video with my friends and followers and chatting with them. I also schedule it a half hour before a popular model railroad live stream, and we call it a "pre show".
Harrison I quite enjoy watching the video with my friends and followers and chatting with them. I also schedule it a half hour before a popular model railroad live stream, and we call it a "pre show".
And I'm proud to say I'm one of his followers, the chats with the young folks are fun!
I just thought I'd post a quick update. We've had a great trip so far (we left on Monday and we're coming home Saturday). I've been able to catch some trains every day so far, and each day I've uploaded an update/teaser video to my YouTube channel (link below). We're staying at the Red Caboose in Strasburg tonight and I can't wait to explore the area tomorrow.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPMh0SzC0kZdZkbfeiy-RPQAnWtvEH1Ge
Flintlock76And I'm proud to say I'm one of his followers, the chats with the young folks are fun!
His grandparents live about six miles from me, and are longtime friends of mine. I'm looking forward to meeting him next time he visits.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
We're FINALLY home! Thank you very much to everyone who helped suggest locations/plan the trip. Although we did stop some places I didn't plan on (like shopping on the way down for WAY too long...), and we didn't stop other places I wanted to, it was still a super awesome time. The first video should be out shortly...
The first video is out now, featuring my friend Corey who's also a D&H modeler and railfan. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/6IVRKTCTzdQ
You do an excellent job, Harrison. And your buddy is well-spoken, like you. Keep up the good work.
Still in training.
Lithonia Operator You do an excellent job, Harrison. And your buddy is well-spoken, like you. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! He has his own YouTube channel where he narrates quite a bit, he's also much better at correcting himself without totally failing like I tend to do.
Nice work Harrison! And your friend Corey's got some good camera presense!
Day 2 of the recent trip is out now. This is more of a day recap/travel video, as we did a LOT more driving and therefore less railfanning. Enjoy! Day 3 will be MUCH more action packed.
https://youtu.be/y64qNrOayfo
The big one is dropping tonight at 8:30 Eastern. Tons of action and history as well in Shenandoah Junction, Harpers Ferry, and Point of Rocks. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/XuYpRvjlKzk
Yes, Flintlock you're right, don't know what's wrong with announcing what's coming up and when.
Me, 05003, I'm here in diesel-land, my goodness, I thought if I was filming in Eastern Anatolia where an 05 was never supposed to go (and come back, too!) I can also visit the homeland of God's own diesel locomotives, gee.
And it's still railroad watching!
It has much the same action and attraction as it always had. Only the form and the sound of the locos differs but the raw "Heavy Metal" aspects are still there, the horn is loud, the locos moan and "sweat" under the load ..
All the same as it always was.
Even the innumerable flat spots, on some trains over 50% of the axles have them, it's an incessant "rum-rum-rum" "bang-bang-bang" "tam-tam-tam" as it used to be. (We don't have it anymore, railways got rid of it, even freight cars go by just "weah-weah-weah" not even the old block brakes draging on the wheel rims, nothing drags, nothing intereferes with smooth rolling, it is as exciting as a smooth piece by Jean-Michel Jarre or by Tangerine Dream.
And not to forget: the landscape is nice .. One difference I noted: the track embankment is hardly elevated over the ground. On our mainlines it is about 3 ft high above ground, all sharp rocks, and the rails fixing is still different. See the video down below at 4:20, 5:50 and 8:30
Lots of wind, though.
Cute to watch the oil tank cars: in contrast to ours they are all slightly "dent" down in the middle, looks like sagged (of course isn't), it has a good reason: makes emptying more complete; also the length of those cars: a note from the permissible axle loads. And the bogies right out to the end of the body, a little over it even. Why? Makes for heavier bending moment ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tCnY4fvxEo
steam on special event ..
Of course.
Shorter trains but more inclines
.. and they don't have the locos work too hard (except 14:30 f perhaps, 44 class three-cylinder Decapod)
Sorry
(Flintlock: 10:20 ff you see your 41 1144 Mikado again! at 25:30 starting even with a 41-typical slight slipping. Oh my, all that soot on the clean locomotive, it takes two weeks to get her clean again!)
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Well, thanks for that link Sara! Between yourself and young Mr. Harrison's new show at 8:30 PM my evening's entertainment is well set, because God knows there's nothing else worth watching on the tube tonight!
Can't get enough "Dampfloks!"
Sara, I started watching your "Plandampf" video, I'm taking it in 1/2 hour blocks since I have trouble keeping still for long periods.
Anyway, the first 1/2 hour's done. I just love the way those two BR 44's appear out of the fog like ghosts! The photography's just beautiful, and I'm struck by how much those German whistles sound like a Norfolk & Western "hooter" whistle on a Class A or Y.
Yeah, I saw the 41 slipping. Must have been a very wet day or some wiseguy must have greased the rails, such things shouldn't happen!
Flintlock,
you too can't sit still for a longer period? I know one guy who cannot go to the cinema for that reason, and he loved old movies. It's hard, he used to take care to sit right in the middle to have a good view, now he has to sit and the side-most seat to be able to stand up and go out for a few minutes and move around, then go back in and see the rest.
The 41 slips: no, you don't have to "help" it, the combination of the side-rod regulator which is somewhat tricky to adjust to the right steam chest pressure, and her typical temperament is enough to make her spin wheels now and then. Even though she has smaller than average cylinders for her adhesion weight. She has 520 x 720 mm for 80 tons and the 52 class has 600 x 660 mm on smaller wheels also for 80 tons (metric), only 16 tons on the Decapod axles. This is because the 41 was originally one of the 20 atm (295 psi?) boilers classes but later "rebuked" to the standard 16 atm (228 psi). Shades of PRR "small cylinders" policy: it didn't help to keep her wheels steady, no better than with the T1. Because what makes a loco slip? It's piston thrust and that is piston area by steam pressure. So, the 41s were deprived of some of their medium speed to upper speed power output and so were the T1 because what they could have done on short cut-off and good steam consumption she now had to do on longer cut-off and less well consumption. What helps slipping is not oil on rails but oil on wheel rims from lubrication of rod bearings. All DR standard loco types had this problem more or less. It gets away during a trip, at least after the first braking to a stop. But moving out of the depot has seen a locomotive spin wheels without even making an exhaust beat, just steam from the chimney. The matter was more pronounced when the loco was clean around the wheels than when covered with dust and brake grind-off which can hold oil off wandering down the spoke to the wheel tire and onto the contact surface. That's why our locos often had this typical "wet" mechanics look. The 41 1144 (originally 41 144) is a well kept clean loco, there it can easily happen a trace of warm oil creeps down the wheels during a stop and causes a slip when starting away again.
What hurts more is that the locos develop small defects during the days of operation, or not-so-small defects. With the 41 you will see (its later on I think) the driver takes care he has no water in the cylinders, opens the drain cocks for a moment. Some other crews wouldn't do that and with a fireman who "fills the glass" it can easily happen you have water carried over into the cylinders. It will go out again with exhaust beats but for the moment its a hazard to cylinder glands and washes the oil film off. The 44 1486 has suffered a leaky drain valve even from that, likely from a slip. In regular work times, these locomotives ran for weeks and weeks on end without any such trouble, now a few days are enough to develop such deficiencies! That's what hurts. Also, the forever clanking rods, especially the heavy ones of the 52: crosshead clacking and main rod small end and big end developing excessive play. The 52 1360 you see here has just that and with every second exhaust beat you hear a hard "clang-clang". That hurts, it reminds me of how the crews at Hamm let us 05s get worn down, they said "Oh, she was built to go 200 km/h, now we only go 120 km/h, so let her clank along!" On the last couple of takes the 44 has gotten better (repaired?) or the sequence is mixed up and the last takes were before the ones with the leak. Generally, there is a lot of steam with the two 44s where it shouldn't be. All three-cylinder standard locos had the live steam pipe forked on the left outside the smokebox, and that was leaking on the 1486, less so on the 25xx.
That was a big issue with the oil-fired Hamburg 012 Pacifics working full cry up to Westerland with trains 12 times their adhesion weight, sometimes more. Those were brave locomotives and they ran their souls out on these trips. I didn't find a video but listen to this sound recording: On the incline up to the ~ 160 ft high Hochdonner bridge over the North Sea - Baltic Sea channel: 012 001 with E 2109 starts out of Burg at the foot of the incline, accelerates very hard at the limit of adhesion on August second, 1972, shortly before the end of the Hamburg 012s in September that year: (you have to copy and paste the addresses)
https://www.dampfsound.de/sounds/m01_10/cd004s07.mp3
and 012 061 with the then renowned heavy D821 racing up the incline at ~ 120 km/h. 012 061 was one of those who got to Rheine and was among the last six to get the fires extinguished finally in the fall of 1975.
https://www.dampfsound.de/sounds/m01_10/cd004s14.mp3
and another 012 really fast on the up to the bridge, exhaust more rhythmic with wheels turn, that is irregular steam distribution.
https://www.dampfsound.de/sounds/m01_10/wncds19.mp3
And perhaps to wind it up a steam special on 25th of March 1995 running through Plauen station on an incline in Thuringen with the Baden IVh, 18 323 four-cylinder compound overhauled in Pila, Poland, and already leaky again really badly, oil-fired 44 0093 in the rear "doing all the work alone":
https://www.dampfsound.de/sounds/m18316/cd054s07.mp3
What I like about our steam locomotives is that deep sound of the exhaust, due to the design of the draughting with wide draughting nozzle and chimney and no baffle plate (mater mechanics self-cleaning), and I was once part of this family of machines that could change from mild to wild in their voices ..
Sorry, if I interrupted the diesel thread.
Sara Tyou too can't sit still for a longer period? I know one guy who cannot go to the cinema for that reason, and he loved old movies. It's hard, he used to take care to sit right in the middle to have a good view, now he has to sit and the side-most seat to be able to stand up and go out for a few minutes and move around, then go back in and see the rest.
Oh, don't worry about me, I'm just a little hyperactive! But when you're 67 like I am it sure beats the alternative!
I'm surprised they don't have sanders on those 41's, or maybe they do? And I can understand slipping from lube oil getting on the drivers, it happens to my Lionels often enough when I get too generous with the oil, then it out with the alcohol and cotton swabs to get it off. Serves me right, one of these days I'll learn "Nothing succeeds like excess!" doesn't apply to everything.
Flint-lock, oh my!
>>I'm surprised they don't have sanders on those 41's<<
I'm surprised you question that!?
O-f c-o-u-r-s-e they have! See the first dome behind the chimney, that's the sand box, and see the sand lines leading down from there.
Ah, but good friend Flint-a-long!
?!?
Zzzshhh----hush--hush-hush--hush-hush-hush--hush-hushhush-hushhushhush .....
But you could as well write me a pm on my latest posting, so we don't disturb the diesel thread here. I'd like to read how you liked the sound recordings
Sara 05003
Oh, this isn't really a "diesel" thread, young Mr. Harrison shoots diesels because in his part of the country there's nothing else to shoot!
Here it is:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6961431,-73.5968082,11z
That was Delaware & Hudson country, and the old D&H did have some superb steam locomotives, but those days are long gone.
Anyway, Harrison and his family stopped in Strasburg PA on their recent hegira and I'm sure he'll regale us soon with his Strasburg RR videos.
Of course I should have realized 41's had sanders. Silly me.
Flintlock76Anyway, Harrison and his family stopped in Strasburg PA on their recent hegira and I'm sure he'll regale us soon with his Strasburg RR videos.
And they mostly use their SW8 for freight duties. Amazing.
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zugmann Flintlock76 Anyway, Harrison and his family stopped in Strasburg PA on their recent hegira and I'm sure he'll regale us soon with his Strasburg RR videos. And they mostly use their SW8 for freight duties. Amazing.
Flintlock76 Anyway, Harrison and his family stopped in Strasburg PA on their recent hegira and I'm sure he'll regale us soon with his Strasburg RR videos.
I'd guess the "Sweight" is for the mundane stuff, steam's the "show biz" part of the operation!
That might be a good way to describe it, but I would spend more than a little time shooting the SW8 while it moves the freight.
If you want to accurately represent the railroad world from the 1930s-1950s that we so fondly look back on, you need diesels too, not just steam.
Strasburg isn't a museum, and it isn't surprising at all that they would have a piece of motive power that can easily be fired up on a moment's notice. A little unit like that would also make a good shop switcher.
It's also worth noting that most end cab diesel switchers are now older than most steam locomotives were when they were preserved as historic artifacts.
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