“ THE MIRACLE OF A LOCOMOTIVE ” CONSTRUCTION OF A STEAM ENGINE / 1928 RAILROAD FILM XD81655
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This short, silent 1928 film shows the construction process of a Canadian Pacific Engine 3101 Locomotive at Angus Shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal. It covers the construction of the engine, including manufacture of boiler sheets, driving rods, spring leafs, engine wheels, and regularly wheels. This is followed by all the parts coming together and engineers tweaking final details on the locomotive. The final part of the film shows the 3101 leaving the shop and operating on some routes.
0:08 “The Miracle of a Locomotive”, presented by B.E. Norrish, edited by Terry Ramsaye, produced by Associated Screen News Limited, 0:28 text describing the building of a new locomotive in Montreal, 0:44 a large locomotive being assembled, 1:06 technicians working on the engine, 1:33 nickel being poured into molds to produce parts, 2:03 machine tools finishing the casting and shaping, 2:57 a man shaping a boiler sheet with a machine, 3:24 several men working on finishing the boiler sheet, 4:07 a man welding parts together for the boiler, 4:53 the engine frame being fed into a planer, 5:33 men forging a driving rod and then shaping it with machines, 6:21 men forming a spring leaf, 6:47 man testing the integrity of a part, 7:04 molten nickel pouring into molds, 7:31 an engine wheel pulled from a mold, 7:45 engine wheels placed into pits to cool, 7:53 the locomotive wheels being moved and shaped, 8:34 the body of the locomotive being lifted, 9:11 wheels being prepared to be attached to the body, 9:36 body attached to the wheel, 9:49 close up of the pumps, 10:27 engineers working on the front of the locomotive, 11:14 locomotive leaves the shop, 12:11 operator greasing the wheels, 12:35 coals burning in the furnace of the locomotive, 12:52 driver sets it in motion and begins driving, 13:28 footage from the front while it is driving, 14:30 “The End”
Only two K-1 class 4-8-4's were built by Angus Shops. They were the only 4-8-4's on the Canadian Pacific Railroad and were especially designed for the heavy Montreal-Toronto night trains. After dieselization of those trains, the pair were assigned to Montreal-Saint John NB passenger service, then later they were re-assigned to freight service out of Winnipeg. The locomotive shown in the film, Canadian Pacific Railroad K1, a 4-8-4 “Northern” type No. 3101, survives to this day. It was acquired in 1965 for display in Regina, Saskatchewan by the Interprovincial Steel & Pipe Corporation Ltd.
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I went to a locomotive university works in Dalian, China. I'm somehow related to the guy that runs it. The fact that China still runs steam is fascinating. The students that attend this school start building 'their' engine from the ground up. When their team completes that engine, they graduate and run it. They know every nut and bolt on it.
Guys in loco shops must have enormous pride then and now. To have made a part no matter how small , within an awe inspiring loco, that people are slightly afraid off. Just amazing. Liked the heavy, heavy music too. Thanks all. Dave
Considering a brand-new steam locomotive entered service today in the UK, this is incredibly fitting.
@@chuckkirchner1014 Corris Railway 10. It had a test train on Friday, but yesterday was its first official day of passenger service.
@@warriorstar2517So which one was it then please!? Cheers
Great restoration job on the film, but WHY couldn't you find something more suitable than Techno music?
These were engineering works of art, really amazing to see steam locomotives at work in real life. Hundreds of draftsmen designing thousands of parts by hand, with slide rules & such. There are also the hand drawn designs for the wooden casting forms, then creating the forms, Hand drawn designs & creation the forges & machinery to make the parts, the list goes on. They did just fine without computers. Thank goodness for mute as the overdubbed music was obnoxious.
My machine shop gets a couple mechanical engineering Co-Ops from a local university every few months. They never saw a set of drafting instruments, can't read a micrometer or vernier, and have no clue about metallurgy or machining metals. If they can't do it on a computer, they can't do it!
I agree about the "music". It was annoying, so I turned it off.
What a beautiful and impressive sight. Imagine the pride all those men felt when she first moved under her own power. There aren't many words to describe that sort of feeling. 3101 escaped the torch but is currently rotting at Evraz in Regina
That was hard work! Human ingenuity. Incredible foundries. They don't make 'em like that anymore. Wow!
Hard, hot, dirty work! Not much in the way of OSHA, EPA, or Haz-Mat concerns either.
Impressive and that was only a fraction of the parts that had to be made to make it run.
Thank you for the video.
This brings back memories of when our city put a neat-freak in charge of our steam-powered water pumping stations.
He decided that the place was full of useless garbage and had everything thrown out.
Unfortunately for him (and the taxpayers) he had just ordered that all of the wooden patterns be pitched in the trash.
2 years later we had a cracked housing part but had no pattern for the local machine shop to use to fabricate a relatively simple replacement.
We (privately) laughed our collective ass off when the 'repair' ended up being a $2.6 million replacement of the entire unit.
One of the lessons learnt endlessly by "innovative dynamic managers" aka good for nothing dicks!
But what city was that? That sounds like an interesting story I'd like to read up on.
Can you imagine the Challengers and Big Boys were made using the exact same process? Tis a mind-boggling thing.
Oh wow, I’ve seen all manner of locomotive building from the British on film, first for me to see a Canadian build.
So much of that work is a lost art now!
I am always amazed at how all the holes for the staybolts and rivets are acurately drilled or punched.
Why ?
With the technology used in the day it had good precision.
@@tonywright8294
Because it is interesting
Great video but amplified guitar music is a bit jarring and inappropriate to the era.
Good film...poor music
Poor music to kind,let's just be honest,
IT'S SH*T MUSIC!!!!!!
@13:45 "Here the Mighty 3101 Is welcomed by a crowd of local well-wishers."
Most educational!
💪😎👍
The music for this video was great! Thank you!
Great vid footage & Cool tunes !!
We have seen the birth of this mechanical monster but unfortunately we have also seen the death. Maybe not the most efficient or easiest to operate, but it sure was a sight to see. I was fortunate enough to be stationed in Germany between 72 and 75 and theystill used some steam power. A real treat.
Music in the last third was great. Nice train eh
Building these beautiful mammoths was hard, dirty and unhealthy work, but it didn't matter. It was progress and nothing else.
I forgot to mention, terrible background sounds not related to music or trains.
Techno music is completely wrong for this theme, these are not computers or sports cars, choose music that fits theme in future, think of the year (ie 1920s) as a clue.
i really love these old films, but you should consider putting other music under these kind of films ...
Love the video, had to turn off the music
I was born and raise montreal.the friend of us cross street work at angus shop as carpenter they made own furniture cheaper than buy in store yes.the locomotive shop was insane.when war was over 1945 cp rail help britain rebuild railroad with used rolling stock.he said they will rebuild huge locomotive in only 7-10 days yup.the huge engine from calgary alberta was return for rebuild they said was just worn-out period.when diesel start cprail was one last one switch steam to oil due lot problems with new diesel locomotive he said very cautions wait what going on.angus shop is close but part use as musuem and new real estate place montreal.
Loved the video, hate the music😡
I muted the music.
Wrong music 👎 good video 👍
Did I miss it, but I saw no cutting oil used in the metal milling process.
You boring bastard
Doubt they had carbide cutting tools either! Vertical turret lathes ran very slow, especially with those large diameters. Probably had to sharpen and rest after every pass.
Tremendous video with incredible footage, but music is wrong for the theme, better with classical
Better with none!
@@robwilde855 Turn down the volume then.
They had cool music back in 1928 huh 😆
Interesting to see the shop work being performed here with little to no personal safety gear such as hard hats, safety goggles and hearing protection.
Yes but they were not on drugs or Half pissed and turned up ,and had a good attitude to job in hand They looked after each other No unemployed benefits then Work or starve
They didn’t need it. They were real men.
@@Calebjoyemusic Yes indeed "they were real men" until they lost their vision, hearing, suffered major head trauma or "all the above."
I wonder. How long from the frame being poured and machined to roll out under its own power , did it take to erect one of these beasts?
Very enjoyable, just wish they would explain more and loose the goofy music.
wow!
Did I see a handle for screw reverse instead of power reverse?
Great Video - Music ( NOISE ) is awful Completely unnecessary
This is the story of a man, a plan, an in-ground sprinkler system and a gigantic pump.
The time: 1955, plus or minus a few years.
The place: Minnesota, on a property adjoining the Mississippi River.
The man: Louie, the proud owner of a new-built home
Louie's fine new ranch house has everything. Guest bedrooms. Turnaround space in the driveway. Big yards with trees. Views of the river from half the house. Even an in-ground sprinkler system, which he doesn't even need to connect to public water because he's right on the river, and that's free. The only thing Louie still needs is a pump for the sprinklers.
Now, Louie could go the traditional way and just BUY a pump. But Louie is, well, the worst kind of DIYer. Never replace what you can jury-rig, never spend money even to save money down the road, never use a professional when a little amateur creativity can solve the problem.
So, Louie is driving to work one day and his commute passes a large train yard. This is the 1950s; steam engines are going out and diesel is coming in. That yard has a long line of steam engines, most of them less than 10 years old, retired and waiting to be sent to be scrapped. So Louie starts thinking, "You know, every one of those engines has a water pump that's probably still perfectly good. And I bet if one of them shows up at the scrapper missing a part, no one will care or even notice."
So Louie calls up his buddy who works for the railroad, and they spend a weekend day liberating a feedwater pump from a steam locomotive. A huge ugly steel thing, probably weighed 100-200 pounds, designed to pump millions of gallons over its life at high pressure to engines running at speed. And Louie goes home and fixes connections to this monstrosity to draw from the river and supply the sprinkler system, and jury-rigs a hand-pull starter to the flywheel.
Fast forward to 1986, when my parents buy the house, three years before I'm born. Louie is still just the same kind of DIYer he was, and that pump is still doing its duty. Since 1955 it's been sitting on the bank or in a non-climate-controlled garage, no maintenance, not even paint. Does it still run? You bet it does, that pump was a genuine quality product when it rolled off the line in its engine in 1945 or so. Does it still run happily, or hold its prime well? No, it does not. For the first 20 years of my life, there is a seasonal ritual of very carefully wheelbarrowing the very heavy and awkward pump down to the bank in the spring and back up in the fall. Only Dad has the trick of getting it started, and then only after sweat, tears and a blue streak of swearing. It still runs, but it's such a goddamn pain in the ass that we only run it a few days per year.
Fast forward to about 2010 or so. Mom and Dad finally get around to replacing the original in-ground system, trying to increase the property value. This means a new pump. So they buy a beautiful little hand-portable electric pump that works fine and can be hooked up in 15 minutes. End of the line for the old pump? Not quite. One of the guys installing the new system sees it, asks if we have plans for it and if he can keep it for his collection of cool shit he's found at work and means to restore someday.
So, as far as I know, that old pump is still out there somewhere in its second retirement, hopefully still running and restored. It was a monstrosity for the purpose it was repurposed to, but it was a damn good pump.
Great video but I can do without that so called background "music"!
Ha, you guys just wanted a reaction on the stupid music
Weird choice of music for a video like this.
The horrible "music" or whatever it might be called is hard to figure. [ watched with Mute on ]
But the old film is quite good.
Mute, mute, mute.
Too bad it's so dark
That music was better than nothing.
wrong
A good video and fortunately I could mute and not listen to that awful music you decided to tack on. You could have used piano or theater organ music appropriate to the era and which is in the public domain.
Ask AI about this engine, one of two built, est cost $500,000 add inflation today would be Over $7million.
The soundtrack is dreadful. Mindless, generic rock clips add nothing to the viewing experience.
I saw that they were putting them back in service in Ukraine people are actually riding steam locomotives now. Poor bastards😂😂😂
They have invited a new part on computers its called a volume control! If you don’t like the music it enables you to turn the sound off