New River Steam with Nickel Plate Road no. 765
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- From Sarcgo's video archives comes "New River Train 86-87," a recap of Nickel Plate Road no. 765's excursions through the New River Gorge. Climb aboard for a throwback trip from Huntington to Hinton, West Virginia at speeds up to 60 miles an hour! On these trips, the 765 is also carrying a whistle from a Pennsylvania Railroad K4. Thanks to Jack Sergent for covering these events.
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Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society Do you have more past excursions that you’ll be posting soon?
Why not upload a 611 and 765 NRHS doubleheader in 1984?
Brian Falzon Yeah, I agree with you.
What’s the chance that CSX will allow a steam excursion again?
@@robkrasinski6217 They don’t know about that because of liability insurance!
Thanks for sharing these awesome “new” videos, FWRHS!
So wish these trips could happen again! Remember the "2765" barnstorming through Hurricane in the morning fog when I was just a young kid. Thanks for the new (old) videos FWRHS!
Hey Mark, i know its been ages and ages, but IIRC i went to rail camp at Steamtown with you in 08. This footage is amazing nonetheless
@@nicholasmedovich8691 Wow Nick, long time sir! Hope life is treating you well.
@@MarkRBlackwellshe might be turned into a kanawha soon
It's very surreal to know that it's 2020 and she's still running! Happy to have seen 765 four times so far and to ride behind her in Steam in the Valley a few years back!
As soon as this started, I knew I was gonna enjoy it. Just like Hopewell Productions Runnin' That New River Train, this was fantastic action right out the gate. Keep it up y'all.
I Film train along the New River and seeing this back in those years makes me really Happy! Great Video!
765 is amazing. Glad I got to ride behind her on the Wabash Cannonball trip in 2013.
The cab engine footage - the sounds, watching the engineer - and everything else - I believe I'm in heaven. So freaking cool.
Thanks FWRHS Like 765 I want more action like this
765 is a powerful machine. She's capable of pulling some loooonng trains at speed.
That engineer and his whistle technique sounds like the local fire department with their constant blowing sirens!
The crew members that drove and fired always did have their ways of working whistle artistry when blowing its whistle/whistles.
Edit: Redid some spelling.
Most of the railroad entusiasts I know prefer to hea the stack tlk. Not much chance of tjat with the constant whistle blowing. I wonder how long he'd keep this job if he actually worked for the railroad. They tend to frown on unneeded and fancy whistle blowing.
@@drakebixby8815 funny!
Lovely video, scenes likely never to be repeated.
Excellent Vintage footage KL. Video is awesome.. Definitely brings back the early years for sure
Thanks for posting. These trips I think were the best steam excursions in history
Wow, I have been to New York and seen the NEC and love the pensy, whenever 1361 is restored I will scream k4 this brings back memories of seeing pics of k4s, gosh the pensy was an awsome railroad, wish it didn’t become Conrail then ns and CSX.
Amen to that!
3 chime sounds beautiful
Sounds like LIRR 39 and PRR 1361
@@brianfalzon6739 she DID however wear a Q2 whistle once around 1989 IIRC
@@nicholasmedovich8691 I wasn’t able to find any videos of it in 1989. Are you sure?!
I remember riding behind the 765 back in 87 I’m sure it was one of these weekends on the video..if I remember right it went to Hinton WV. What a great time I had.
Thank you for upload some 765's 86-87 footages nice work I love it
Ayeeee I literally asked for this video a couple of weeks ago. Good video!
CSX should make all parties involved (passengers, train crews, locomotive owners, etc.) sign liability wavers and run steam again. Then NS could follow suit and all would be right on the east coast again. Thanks for continuing to dedicate yourselves to keeping the 765 alive FWRHS. I wish the class 1's could find a way to run steam (freight can't sue) that would fit their business models.
Amen to that!
It's the same way out here in the Pacific Northwest with the SP&S 700, the SP 4449, and the OR&N 197. SP&S 700 hasn't run a mainline trip since 2014, and SP 4449 hasn't run a mainline trip since early 2018. OR&N 197 is returning to operational condition in 2 years. These 3 locomotives will only run short excursions on 6 miles of track. Pretty much every railroad here except for 1 shortline has turned away 700, 4449, and 197. These locomotives don't see much action except once a year from late November to early December. Otherwise, they are static exhibits at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center (ORHC) in Portland.
@@stuartadamsrailfanningvideos That is because of Amtrak banning charter trains in March 2018. You can’t run excursions on BNSF without Amtrak insurance which is cheaper. The steam locomotives are stuck at home so to speak. There are only a handful of long steam runs in the US now on tourist railroads and regional railroads.
Took this trip right around this time. Don’t exactly remember when. But it was a great trip.
That was EPIC!
@fortwaynerailroadhistoricalsociety I love how both the guest whistle and the main whistle were blasting going full speed down the track u guys gotta make that happen again when this corona crisis is over 👍👍😁😁😁
they do all they can, there are just soo many gears that have to match up to make even 1 trip happen, months of planning, there was an artical in 2018 I belive about how all the stuff has to fall in place in trains magazine from our organization, but if they dont let us back into the shop due to the quarentine we wont be making any moves on the main very easy, first we must get that tender needle scaled, me and sara, and all the other members working on it when we are there all that lime scale has to be knocked off after several years of not having it done I was told, I dont know I thought we did it every year but there are so many things going on at one time I am often on other projects, but we have to get the tender cleaned and the yearly staybolt work done before we can even load her up and put a fire in her
@@manga12 so where is she now is she just sitting in the shops???
a LOT of fallen flags seen here.... wow
That was some incredible video of that excursion back in 86' to 87'! What was it like traveling through the heart of coal country & the C&O on a steam locomotive?
this led to her masquerade as c&o kanawha 2765
Magnificent machine, indeed.
I was on one of these trips
Nice trip down memory lane, open windows, open dutch doors and all. Which year did it have the Mars light mounted on it?
Paul W. Woodring 1987
The Mars light was removed In 1988 . Nickel Plate Berkshires and Southern Pacific Daylight GS4s had em
That is PRR T1 5550's whistle.
did i hear prr 1361's 3 chime, and 765's high pitched 6 chime?
I think 765 had that 3 chime during the 1982 season IIRC. October from Lima to Danville Kentucky down to Knoxville and toccoa Ga
Yes, i believe #765 already had a PRR 3 Chime whistle when she was on the Southern Railway Steam Excursion Program
Have her pull the train in 2020 or 2021. Say yes CSX and make it happen.
hodges4770 YESS PLEASE! @fortwaynerailroadhistoricalsociety
PineTreeLooms not gonna happen... ever.... between PTC, insurance, attractive nuisance, etc 765’s days on the mainline are done.
@@tva429 for now.
It could always happen in the future. Who knows. I unfortunately don't see it happening with CSXT any time soon though.
@@tva429 Take 765 somewhere she can run... Though options are limited maybe on Metra again and IAIS. What is regionals like Ann Arbor, Indiana Railroad, W&LE, I&O, TTI, RJ Corman, and Indiana & Louisville would allow her to run? Plus they can also take back to CVSR, STI, and Steamtown, and Reading & Northern of course about any of this would be depended on if Norfolk Southern allows her to run on their lines to get to these places obviously maybe go to Strasburg too.
On the engineer's side of the cab, there is a control six inches or a foot to the left of the Johnson bar, with a linkage going directly forward out of the cab. It has a brass handle that moves through somewhat less than a semicircle. Is this the sander control?
Maybe this will happen again someday? One can hope.
one day, maybe though csx has been very kind and given much attention to our friends at the kentucky steam heritage group with 2716 an engine we also for a time ran, while 765 was in need of rebuild,
if you have not looked into news about their group csx donated a switcher to them, its one of the old car shops they used in ravina, and did all that rebuild work on a caboose at the cumberland shops, from the pictures of it csx did a wonderful job, so their attitude on steam may be softening, people said many things would never happen and those things have come to pass, like mainline trips, the restoration of a bigboy, restoring 611 and how they said the president would never win, all those had come to pass, and the restoration of the new river trips though shortened and has our indaviduals from the fort wayne railroad, the kentucky group, and a few others to make it happen and staff the trains to do it.
Hopefully, but I think it may take a change in management for CSX to stop viewing steam excursions as a liability.
14:27 both whistles blown. K4 3 chime and NKP 6 chime from 700
Sounds like a doubleheader.
I wish they can do that with Reading #2102
@@SuperFoxyRailwayProduction6702they did
Whistle never sounded better than it did in the 80s
Have 765 doublehead with 261 in the future please!
765 and 2716 would be a KILLER sight to see. IC steamboat 3 chime and PRR K4 3 chimes on both of them since 1982.
@@nicholasmedovich8691 Yeah, that too!
12:37 It Sounds Like PRR Q2 Whistle
Interesting how you didn’t get yelled at for being on yard tracks back then..
Is that 614's auxillary tender fro. The Cheesie Safety Express? And is it same on 2101 used?
1) Yes, yes that was 614's Safety Express aux tender.
2) No, 2101's aux tender was bigger and looked even more like an actual tender and was also in full Chessie System colors.
CSX...your Santa train is one nice set but there's something wrong with the head end, not sure what it is.
*Mars Light*
Where?
@@nadaydradavis9285 0:00
8:16 9:31 NKP #765 Nathan 6 chime whistle sounds good!
Them were the days at Hinton.
It’s upsetting how mainline steam excursion operations aren’t like this anymore. Wish they will just come back to the mainline in the future! Who agrees with me?
It would be amazing, but mainline steam right now is only a sliver of what it used to be. In the future, it could have new life injected into it again, but it depends on the railroad environment. Only time will tell, but I think mainline steam has a chance of returning to a more favorable state. If not, we make the best of and appreciate what we have now. We shall see.
@@regularguy7266 Exactly
Why does 765 blow 2 whistles at the same time? It feels like a whistle show, but it sounds like 765 doubleheading with a PRR K4!
Any footage of the 93 Cincy-Indy trip? Or any other trips from Cincy?
Need to explain more of what the engineer is doing and show the speed.
Good Lord! How many times did 765 haul The New River Train during October of 86 or 87???
Our modern diesel/ electric locomotive engines just don't have the soul like those old steam locomotives did. I was but a 6 year old when my old hog head pop put me up on a steam engine. I was so freaked out I just stood in the cab and peed my pants. I had to stay that way till we got to the other end several hours later. This all happened almost 70 years ago.
When did Rich Melvin join the crew?
1982. His video production company Hopewell Productions revealed when a bunch of the crew members at the time of the filming of Life Begins At 40 first joined the crew.
@@justahillbilly7777 i remember Melvin was on 765s crew after Bill Purdie retired from steam excursions in 1982. 765 had a huge trip. Fort Wayne to Danville Ky, to Knoxville and Chattanooga TN before heading into Atlanta and Toccoa GA. Finishing 2716’s season after the kanawha suffered staybolt issues in the firebox.
@@nicholasmedovich8691 Yeah 1982 was really the year that proved the 765's mettle and capabilities. First those fast runs between Bellevue, OH and Orroville, OH on the Wheeling & Lake Erie and then finishing out the season by covering for the 2716 and finishing its schedule on the Southern really showed the world that the 765 was back and that it was ready for anything that could be thrown at it. Wheeling In The Rat Hole by Hopewell Productions really does a good job of showing off the 765's abilities and the runs it made in 1982.
I wish I could’ve seen a steam train like that on these excursions but I guess I never will. Not on my life.
What you guys need to do is BEG CSX and ask them if you can run this train again! You really gotta beg!!! Please just try! And beg the NRHS! Please!
does anyone know who the engineer is?
Might be Rich Melvin but I’m not 100 percent
@@nicholasmedovich8691 dont look like Rich
Too bad the video quality sucked in this...but I get it and the time-frame.
Would have been a lot better if the people videotaping would know how to pan for camera with the locomotive
Do you happen to jnow who the engineer is?
No diesel!!
We’ve operated over 20 trips in the last few years that had no diesel - it still happens!
@@fortwaynerailroad Bless your hearts!!
What if R&N 425 can doublehead an excursion with 765 in the future?
In the 1990s they did a side by side passenger run if that counts. Look up r&n and nkp 765 side by side
@@joenayrikafletcher738 The only time the 425 and 765 met up in the 20th century was during the 1988 NRHS Convention. The 1990's side by side running was with PM 1225 for the 1991 NRHS Convention.