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"Certainly a cool locomotive and the king of the moguls as it were."
"A fantastic locomotive and very unique looking."
"From this beast, we go to the Dewitt Clinton, one of the first locomotives dating back to 1831."
"The latter continued the LNER's love affair with speed."
"Built during the Golden Age of steam, the Milwaukee Road of the Midwest United States developed a series of streamlined Express steam locomotives that were among the most powerful in the world."
"When the four locomotives were brought here, they had three working steam engine whistles."
"OptiFuel announced its plans to build a new line of locomotives known as Total-Zero."
"An engine with bigger Wheels means that you're multiplying whatever the Piston's doing more so bigger wheeled engines go faster than smaller wheeled engines though they might have a little bit more trouble accelerating and and don't have as much pulling power."
"So based on all of that it would seem that a fast engine very fast engine would be an engine with a small piston big drivers low back pressure and really good valve gear those are the things that are going to set up a locomotive to run really fast for Success."
"The biggest collection of railway locomotives in the land."
"The most notable and well-known of the rebuild program and also most common took place in Baltimore at the Penn Central railroads DeWitt Works hence these locomotives which were rebuilt rs3s were known as DeWitt Jeeps."
"4449 is the only preserved example of the gs1 through five classes of locomotives."
"Wow this thing looks absolutely fantastic the detail on these repido locomotives is really kind of second to none in my opinion."
"...so they could fit more power into the smaller Narrow Gauge profile at least height-wise this thing is full standard gauge width all the way through."
"The 27's tractive effort was over 3 and 1/2 12,000 lb higher than the ironclads, making one of these engines more powerful than the Midland 2f and 3f 60."
"...the Y6 bees had equal horsepower as the Union Pacific's big boys, so if you wanted a heavy hauler that could slug it out on grades, N&W had the engine for the job."
"Most diesel locomotives would have always been long hood forward."
"We may never see any better hall classes than these two locos which I suppose makes the decision between which of the ones you go for quite important."
"I think they made some of the most interesting locomotives out there."
"I want to learn, I want to practice painting locos."
"From the wonderful high-speed passenger locomotives to the sturdy and less glamorous freight locomotives."
"These locomotives are about the largest parts that were cast."
"I look back on the work that we did on the two locomotives frankly I wouldn't trade it for any other thing that I've ever done in my entire life."
"Engineers were constantly searching for ideas which might radically improve the steam locomotive."
"No longer content with rebuilding existing engines, some of today's rail fans are now raising funds to commission brand new steam locomotives from scratch."
"Nearly all the 200 engines at Barry have survived into a new life, many to steam again."
"That's the heartbeat of the locomotive."
"Fans deemed the PA1 one of the best looking locomotives that were out there at its time, people loved them."
"Alco made some of the most famous steam locomotives that ever ran on the rails."
"The last three locomotives rolled out of the Eddystone facility; they were a type RP-210 locomotive, considered revolutionary at the time."
"The Delaware and Hudson became very famous at this point in its history for saving vintage rare locomotive examples like the RF Shark."
"The ALCO RS3, the successors to the RS2, would go on to sell over a thousand units, 1418 to be precise."
"The RS2 and its successor the RS3, flawed or not, is still in my opinion the quintessential Alco."
"Modern locomotives didn't need a booster; locomotives were getting larger, more powerful, more capable."
"And welcome back to Obscure Offerings, the series in which I discuss little-known locomotives or multiple units."
"The solution was found in the unique double Fairlie locomotives which basically is two engines in one."
"It's very very rare to find a Hornby locomotive that doesn't have the proper metal bearings on the wheel sets."
"This will appeal to modelers who are interested in slightly more modern locomotives."
"Simply install this product in your models and you have all the amazing sounds and features you've come to expect from a modern era locomotive."
"That is one pretty locomotive, I don't care if you're a fan of the Wisconsin Southern or not, you gotta admit that is a stunning locomotive."
"My favorite American locomotive is SP 4449."
"My favorite American steam locomotive would have to be Big Boy."
"At the time of their introduction into service, the Class 55s were the most powerful single unit diesel locomotives in the world."
"I can't help but admire them; they're not the most simple locomotives, but they're well-thought-out."
"There's just something to be said for these lesser-known, more unusual locomotives."
"The Southern Railway needed new powerful tank engines to work in its marshalling yards around London."
"The 08T wheel arrangement of the Z's provided maximum traction."
"The design was so successful that the Southern planned a second order of 10 locomotives."
"The design of the patriots was basically the frames based on that of the Royal Scots combined with the boilers of the large Clawtons."
"The Great Western 2600s were used for pulling coal trains between Aberdare, South Wales and Swindon."
"The V4s were tried on the Great Eastern section of the London and Northeastern where they were well received by staff."
"Thomas the Tank Engine was originally supposed to be based on a J50."
"The J50s were good locomotives and proved to be better than the E-2s."
"Will these locomotives actually still work after I've modified them? I don't know, but that's why we do these things, to find out the answers to these questions."
"The number of driving wheels on a locomotive doesn't actually make much of a difference to the tractive effort."
"We had to rely a lot of the time on just private individuals who are willing to spend their own money and preserve some of these engines."
"What a good job the manufacturers have done of representing locos that were not preserved."
"Let's face it, locomotives are a great talking point and crowd puller."
"Their size and rarity make all the locomotives particularly distinctive."
"Welcome back to LMM, today I'm here in Poland taking a look at some of the country's abandoned locomotives."
"Here we have a loco and a range of locos that is consistently less than 100, which makes them very affordable."
"The Edwardian locomotives were the epitome of sophisticated transport and were paraded in splendidly elaborate liveries."
"It's the largest collection of restored rail cars and locomotives in the southwestern United States."
"Europe also had its transcontinental ambitions, trains journeyed from capital to capital, pulled by increasingly powerful locomotives spewing out great clouds of steam and smoke across the vast plains of the old continent."
"The steam locomotive has always aroused strong passions in boys and men."
"The appearance of this engine in 1923 opened a new chapter in locomotive history."
"One of my heroes really was Ian Allen who produced these ABC locomotives."
"As for these fallen locomotives, as long as their memories remain fresh in some people's minds, they surely will never be forgotten."
"This model was designed to reflect a real-life locomotive."
"Many classes of locomotive, especially during the steam age, were simply... lost, gone."
"Springburn... it's where they used to build locomotives for the Empire."
"Locomotives which will give service not only for the immediate future but throughout the years to come."
"The Redding's T1s are the most famous locomotives used by the railroad."
"Throughout their years of service, these Frisco mountains have become highly regarded by locomotive crews as they were considered true general purpose locomotives."
"A good locomotive will be able to navigate some pretty difficult curves and track irregularities."
"The coronation class was designed by William Stanier and they became the largest and most powerful classes ever to run in the UK."
"This is one of the strangest locomotives out there for a couple reasons."
"The standard of modern locomotives these days is just astonishing."
"On the 3rd of July 1938, this locomotive attained a world speed record for steam locos of 126 miles per hour."
"As much of a nightmare as it can often be, I do really enjoy looking at American locomotives from Bachmann because you just never know what you're going to get."
"The other advantage, of course, is multiple locomotives; we're using a digital signal here."
"Locomotive decoders have a list of CVs, just imagine each CV as being a fragment of memory that these decoders have."
"I do quite like weathered locos once in a while."
"The largest of the Chesapeake and Ohio's two breeds of 0-6-0 switchers, the railway bought 110 C-16s between 1930 and 1948."
"There's everything here from old steam locomotives to an old Japanese bullet train."
"MTH Premier Line locomotives are some of the best in the business."
"Of 78 produced in total, only one remains in preservation and of course, that is this one, the most famous of them all, the Flying Scotsman."
"I'm kind of fascinated by Chinese steam locomotives because a lot of them are basically knockoffs of American steam locomotives, but they're actually still doing work."
"I am a huge runner of and fan of TMCC locomotives."
"Some people are quite interested in the older locomotives."
"The Great Western County Class, also known as 3800s, were the latest and most advanced 4-4-0s designed and built by the GWR."
"The London and North Eastern W1 number 10000, aka the 'Hush-Hush,' was the only 4-6-4 tender engine ever built in the UK."
"The LNER B-17s were a lightweight and powerful 4-6-0, designed to handle heavy express passenger trains on the former Great Eastern mainline."
"Our subject today is one of the largest preserved steam locomotives in Colorado."
"This locomotive incorporated a number of the latest technologies and enhancements when it was built."
"The speed and pulling power of steam locomotives increased dramatically between the 1850s and 1900s."
"Perhaps I'm being rather unreasonable; this could be the best steam locomotive I've ever seen, full stop."
"There's just magic isn't there in single wheelers."
"I actually love this thing, there's just something really magical about single wheelers."
"Poor ol' hobo, all his life he's been riding the rods, and now he's at the throttle of the Hooterville Cannonball."
"The GP 30 is one of the easiest locomotives to identify because of the cab design."
"The SD 50 was introduced in 1981; it's a 3,500 horsepower turbocharged freight locomotive."
"These are some of my favorite diesels."
"Number 5553 being the last to leave Barry in 1990."
"The railway brought the great steam locomotives that thundered across the land in the golden railway age of the 19th and 20th centuries."
"Oliver now lives on Sodor. He made it to Barrow-in-Furness before his coal gave out."
"These are five locomotives that defied expectations."
"There was something special about the GWR; the railway felt close enough to the crown to name Britain's most powerful locomotive after the Royal visitor."
"You felt full of pride when you stood there and looked at these locomotives."
"These 1800s era locomotives are so much fun with their small proportions, gleaming brass work, and colorful paint."
"I was blown away by the performance of every River Rossi loco that I tried this year."
"I came to realize, while I was trying to decide what locos to run for this video, just how many beautiful 0-6-0 designs there were out there."
"The Great Western locos are so beautiful, aren't they? You can't really complain that so many were preserved."
"I'm really, really grateful for that; so many lovely steam locos out there to see."
"These locomotives are real beauties."
"It's taken a lot of work to get to this point, about three days of my time, but it was well worth it; these are absolutely gorgeous locomotives."
"The engine shutdown sequence in these locomotives is really something to behold."
"There's something marvelous about Gresley's engines, isn't there? I just love them."
"An impatient genius, his designs are some of the most advanced steam locomotives ever built in British history."
"They were actually the first locomotives in the world built for daily operation at over 100 mph."
"The class became known as the King Arthurs after a name suggestion from the publicity assistant John Elliott."
"From an artist's perspective, I cannot tell you how rapturous it is to be able to use locomotives and train cars."
"Welcome to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, located here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania."
"They were one of the most famous locomotives in the United States."
"These are some of my favorite locomotives in the entire world, Great Western auto tanks."
"They're probably one of the best locomotives on the market today."
"I was fortunate to have already been working on this type of loco as a second man, even before steam traction had finished, and because of this apprenticeship found it quite easy to pass the course."
"It was a good price, really nice looking loco with a good quality body."
"The quality is decent, aspects such as the diecast boiler and other parts of the loco real good quality."
"Pitchford Hall was built in August 1929 and after withdrawal, it was eventually moved to Tyseley Locomotive Works where it was fully restored."
"The locomotive tenders were designed with water scoops to allow for refilling without stopping."
"Definitely my favorite Amtrak locomotive and favorite locomotive of all time."
"It still compares well to modern locos."
"They are fantastic locos, so enjoy this one a little bit longer."
"The Bullet Pacifics are probably my favorite class of locomotive."
"I always find myself thoroughly enjoying seeing them run."
"Every locomotive needs a bell and a whistle."
"It's a big deal that they converted their locomotives to burn oil instead of burn coal."
"Up until now, I've never believed that locos have superpowers, but this one, I think maybe it does."
"Welcome to the Geek Group; today we're going to take a look at everything you ever wanted to know about the basics of diesel electric locomotives."
"I was never really taught by anybody, I just started kind of tinkering around with these locomotives and sort of figured it out."
"The facility was once referred to as the greatest locomotive shop in the world."
"Of all the locomotives in the long history of the rails, one of the greatest was called Big Boy."
"I am very happy with all these new Australian locomotives."
"Locomotives and their crews work for a living; they're not jewelry."
"Quite a sad decade in some ways, but in other ways, you have some of the most efficient and the most developed British steam locomotives."
"The engine was the inspiration for his story, Polar Express."
"Since locomotives are a British invention, it should come as no surprise that some of America's first engines were imported directly from the inventors."
"Pre-grouping locomotives are definitely some of my favorites. I just love them."
"I think I may have found my new favourite locomotive of all time."
"It's a real treat because this couple of locos I'm going to show you today is a couple that I really, really love."
"It's a beautiful class of locomotive and I really do like it."
"The elegant Hornby King class with its very unconventional front bogey design."
"The A4s are considered by many to be the ultimate steam locomotive."
"These are almost the holy grail of the steam locomotive world so many folks want to see them."
"Thank you all very much for watching, I hope you enjoyed seeing one of these older locomotives."
"It's really cool, I just want them to bring out more steam locomotives, come on!"
"She's incredible, absolutely gorgeous locomotive, gorgeous train."