PRR Steam Audio Recording: I1sa on Elmira Branch (1955)
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- Опубликовано: 31 авг 2009
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"A Class I1sa with a local southbound freight in tow, stops and picks up a car from an industrial spur, backs onto the train, then departs. This sequence was recorded on the Elmira Branch, three miles north of Williamsport, PA in September of 1955"
Clip from "Steam on the Standard Railroad of the World. Vol. I" by Semaphore Records
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My dad sometimes talks about the one time he fired a 2-10-0 in Poland in exchange for a free ride. When he saw these, he said that no one could fire it by hand, and he's right.
I knew an elderly PRR Engineer who would roll his eyes at the mention of the I1 and say, "G--D-- rough-riding sonofabitch!" LOL
I love that story. I'm back again today to hear the lonesome whistle and bells...
Love the photo at 2:09. That's Columbus, OH and the N&W A in the background has brought the coal train north from Portsmouth. The Pennsy will handle it the rest of the way to the lake port at Sandusky. The I1 is tacking the PRR cabin car on to the rear end. More than likely there are doubleheaded Js on the head end which will take the train uphill to Lewis Center, OH. The point helper will cut off and return light to Columbus, while the road engine forwards the train to the lakefront.
Gotta love the PRR.
Something about their engines just seems, powerful, and big.
Some roads like SP had some Good looking engines, those AC's on SP or the Big Boys on UP were pretty big. but only PRR can make a 2-10-0 seem massive.
You should see the Western Maryland's I2 Decapods! They're about the same size as the Pennsy I1sa's.
@@thereadingg3945 True, but they don't have the same 'heavy' look as the I1's.
Dunno what's up with that 3 Chime at the beginning, but figuratively, she sounds like she's crying here. It's as if she knows she's close to her death and she's just living out her days now. That's the thing with Pennsy 3 Chimes. They're whistles that can bring the emotion out of a locomotive. The personalities you could link a K4 or a I1sa or an M1 with just their bellows.
PRR 3 chimes on the I1sa's always sounded horrible, other locomotives with a PRR 3 sounded find though
The K4s sounded proud, as it should, and the others sounded sad because they couldn't be a K4.
Part of history now forever and belongs to the ages.
It's actually not a Banshee whistle...if you listen closely, there's 3 notes being played. It's the standard 3-chime whistle, just "overblown" whenever you hear it screeching....I like the way the engineer uses it, myself...
It's a kill devil for sure.
Yeah, I actually quite like that whistle
It makes the I1sa sound a bit sad, considering they're close to their deaths. It's a beautiful sound, that wailing.
4483 is actually still around, and is owned by the Western New York Railway Historical Society. She's currently undergoing a cosmetic restoration, but operational overhaul is sadly not in the forseeable future. BUT, checks have been made, and the boiler is actually sound enough to be functional, but will need retooling. No railroad has yet offered to take up the possible insurance risks of trying to bring her back to steam, however.
*cough* strasburg *cough*
And she's a fairly heavy engine.
@@JerryDoesThings_1604 dude your right but we are NOT GOING TO PUT A BANSHEE WHISTLE ON IT
I was thinking of starting a railroad and acquiring her to restore her to running condition
Beautiful sounds especially the whistle and bell 🤤
That bell sounds exactly like a steam locomotive bell should.
It sounds like every PRR bell
Nice, thank you.
The whistle scared the heck out of my annoying neighbor... :)
That whistle scared the heck out of my grandma lol 🤣
Is it the Banshee whistle?
This whistle sounds like number 13
that's my line, lol. i live in Elmira. & there isnt much left of the in the area. :(
@MissRailfan my grandfather was a conductor, from Elmira to Buffalo. He passed away in 1972 (in his 50s) I was a very young boy then. I was hoping to perhaps see footage of him, as I have his Hamilton 992b pocket watch.
Is that the bell K&L trains use?
Yep
The Decapods would have had so much more class and personality if only they had been given the keystone number plate and solid drop-coupler pilot ("cowcatcher") of the Mountains.True, they weren't passenger haulers. But neither were the J1 Texans, and they had both.
That bell...
IS FROM K&L TRAINZ
TheTrainzNut Productions Other way around
Not this thing again...
2:11 N&W Y6 I wonder what number it is
It looks like an A class
2:15 Is that a N&W Class A? On PRR Rails?
Likely it was a PRR interchange with N&W. Not only were the N&W and PRR business allies but PRR had a small amount of control in the N&W's operations hence why both their signals shared many similarities for example.
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren maybe
Maybe in Colombus as PRR and N&W's yards were right next to each other.
Hey Thunderbolt! Good to see you here!
Why don't they study the British engines? Tons of Belpaires over there.