Moving Nevada Northern 201
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The Nevada Northern Railway Museum has acquired two of its old diesel locomotives are they are moving them on the highway by truck home to Ely!
#201 is the first to be moved, arriving home just a few days ago. #201 is an Alco RSD4, the only surviving Alco RSD4. The museum has a great collection of first-generation diesel locomotives. The Nevada Northern bought almost exclusively Alco, buying only one EMD, an SD7. Which is the other locomotive to be moved home SOON!!!
Moving a 100-ton locomotive by truck 850 miles is no mean feat!! It required using a special lifting rig to hold the locomotive while it traveled at 35 miles per hour for days... CHECK IT OUT!
Cool video. Never boring. Great info!!!
Thanks again!!!
Well presented, Mr Toy Man!!!!
Hi Pat!!! Thanks
Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching
"I hope they have lots of bubble wrap!"
Lady, you crack me up! :D
I just don't know what it is about steam locomotives that gives them that undeniably, magnetic charm. All I know is they've got a real hold on me and I cannot break free of their grip! 0:27. They take me away from traction...for a while anyway. 🙄 I'm not much of a diesel guy, but I am glad everything worked out okay transporting #201 back to it's home track. Diesel locomotives deserve TLC, too. And I love Karyn's quip about bubble wrap! It was funny. 😁😆😅😂🤣
Glad to see engines like these saved for future generations.
Outstanding documentary of the move of 201. You did a great job bringing all the information together. I too am looking forward to seeing 201 moving about NNRY.
And the SD7. Moving home soon.
Back in the 1980s I covered, as a photographer for Associate Press, he move of he Nickle Plate 587 steam locomotive from Broad Ripple Park in Indianapolis the the rail line several blocks away. The locomotive and tender were separated then moved with the locomotive rolled onto a massive flatbed trailer with more wheels than a centipede then slowly moved to the rails. The truck maneuvered so that the locomotive was lined up over the rails and backed up to a platform made of stacked railroad ties with rails at the top. The locomotive wan then slowly rolled from the trailer to the platform. With that process done, the next step was to slightly raise one end of the platform so some ties could be removed, allowing the locomotive to be lowered slightly at that end, then repeating the process at the other end. This back and forth went on until dark then resumed early the next morning, until the locomotive was back on the line on which it had run. It was then mated to the tender before a scheduled freight train arrived to push the 587 to the Amtrak shops in Indianapolis where it was rebuilt for service. Several years later I covered the first two excursion runs pulled by 587, one from alongside the tracks, the second from inside the train. The 587 later pulled the Indiana State Fair train from Carmel to Indianapolis multiple times each day for the run of the fair, and I was on several of those runs in my capacity of Indiana State Fair photographer.
Cool!!! The AP! Did you ever work with PF Bentley? He did some AP but mostly Time/Life. Just wondering
@@ToyManTelevision I don't recall that name. I was a free-lancer and did get to know many AP staff members, as well as many other professional photographers with many affiliations. There were some big events where I was one of many AP photographers, the Indianapolis 500 being one of those, where I didn't know all of the others covering the same event.
Great show. Saving history.
Pretty cool of the Nevada Northern with their new diesel locomotives. I’m going to be visiting the Virginia & Truckee Railroad on December for their Electric Holiday Train O-Lights event.
That’s always fun.
A great job and great photography. As a kid, my little brother and I used to haunt the LIRR on Long Island. We loved the steam but enjoyed the RS3s and RS2s more and more throughout the years.
I thought them too strange. But also and open diesel. If it wasn’t an F or PA or E I hated it. But I’ve come around when it comes to early Alco.
This was so cool! My wife and I eat in the town of Snoqualmi Falls, WA at a restaurant called "Got Rice". We saw them preparing for the lift of 201. Seeing the 201 in Snoqualmi all those years made me go buy my own G Scale RS3. Thank you for the video!
We use to go to the Falls and hang around to watch the trains in the nice weather... or when they had the Christmas trains...
This was an amazing episode. It's amazing how oversized loads can be rigged up and moved.
I work for Kenworth Sales Co based out of Salt Lake, I work at the Vernal location. Seeing that it was a Kenworth that had pulled the load was a pleasant sight.
Thanks again for another great video!
Cool! And thanks again. Really something to see when they move something like this. Just amazing!!!
+ToyMan *American Locomotive didn't get many orders for the RSD-4, a C'-C' packing an in-house-built two-stroke V-12 Diesel.* General Motors got more orders for the SD-7, a tall-hood C'-C' with a Detroit two-stroke V-16 Diesel, than American for the RSD's. The RSD and SD definitely qualify as oversize loads for the highway.
And the only EMD on the NN was said SD-7.
Thanks for putting together this video. I worked at NWRM from 2016-2018 as a high school job (I also went to high school with Cole) and I always wished to see 201 operational again. I’m really glad that it got to go home and will eventually be restored. Great video toyman!
This is really cool and I enjoyed the video
Somehow I hope to soon make it to Ely to see all of this magnificent equipment! Gracias otra vez for the continuing Ely reports.🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂👍🙏🏼
Thanks!! And do get out there!!
Oversized and over length you can drive half an hour after sun up and 30 mins till sun down many states are different
Thanks. I think the next move will be harder. Narrow road. Snow. But it’s going forward!
👋👋👋👋from Detroit Michigan
And another one saved from scrap
Anyone know why the engineers that drive these things can't be electrocuted? Because they're not "conductors", naturally O_o
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Doh!!
Here is the video of the unloading process beginning to end. It’s been edited to take out a lot of dead space, but all movement was captured and is shown here.
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Thanks for posting this. I wondered how they moved the loco from one side of the cranes to the other without relocating the cranes. Your video capture is perfect. Thank you.
@@billtimmons7071 Glad you enjoyed it!
Pretty good video. This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Hi!! And thanks again
Awesome
Moving oversized loads like this can be a pain. It would almost be worth it to rebuild the line north to reconnect with the exWP.
Rebuilding the line to connect with the exWP would cost a whole lot more than $350K, even at 6 ties per rail length.
Oddly they started that several years ago. Money was given to a contractor. Who did what? Nothing.
The Nevada Northern: the museum that can, will, and did.
That they do!
NEVER BORING very good idea and interesting and informative I APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION AND YOUR CHANNEL HORAY TOY MAN THE BEST PART OF YOUR DAY +++++++
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That's really neat, I remember 201 pulling tour duty at the museum when I lived in the area. That was 25ish years ago.
I recognize a number of the stills of the highway... I've been over those roads.
It will be wonderful to see 201 under her own power once again.
Hey Dale you are in good shape for being a 1951 model... I'm a 1957 model that's been used and abused. ;-) thanks for sharing this with us once again.
That 70 year old crap. But I’m not old. By definition only people 30 years older than you are old. So for me that’s 100. Now that’s old.
@@ToyManTelevision ☺ age is just a number my friend. You and I have more useful knowledge tucked away in our heads than many of today's collage grads.
Thanks for the video. Major project moving a loco, looks like everything went well.
Do you folks happen to know who was the trucking company for this ? I have a locomotive I need to move and I've been trying to find a firm
Sort of. It’s on the side of the crane in the beginning
@@ToyManTelevision Awesome thank you so much! Also great shots of the move, it's really helpful in my case because my locomotive is around same size and vintage giving me an idea on what to anticipate!
They should paint their other SD9 into the warbonnet scheme to match with 401!
Fantastic episode, wonderful to see. Thanks for sharing
Awesome stuff. I had no idea there was only one survivor of the RSD4s. I know a few eastern railroads were pretty fond of the RSD4/5, specifically the Jersey Central. I thought for sure there would be a handful left, but I'm sure that's been said before...
Edit: The problematic 244 engine these were equipped with had metallurgy issues with the crankshaft and bearings, it caused the main bearings to go out of round and turn egg shaped... It actually caused the crankshafts to snap in two! Apparently the main generator had issues putting out enough current to supply to the traction motors, too. The RSD-5 remedied that issue and superceded the 4's. Only 36 of them were built. Not hard to see why...
Minority diesel builders like Alco, Baldwin, Lima, Fairbanks Morse, Porter and others were usually the first to go to trade in during the 60's & 70's, as they were the odd balls.
@@iannarita9816 Yes,its a real shame. They built the interesting stuff. Would be interesting to see what they would be building today if they were still in business... but I swear I remember seeing at least one other Alco RS engine with the six axle trucks in preservation somewhere in the Midwest, but it may have been an RSD5 or something similar to the RSD4.
Hi. Yes they built very few. I think about 40? The SD-7 was much mor popular with railroads. The RS series was on its way out as EMD was really taking over.
@@ToyManTelevision ALCO had their fair share of ups and downs on the market. The 244 engine these were equipped with had metallurgy issues with the crankshaft and bearings, it caused the main bearings to go out of round and turn egg shaped... It actually caused the crankshafts to snap in two! Apparently the main generator had issues putting out enough current to supply to the traction motors, too. The RSD-5 remedied that issue and superceded the 4's. Only 36 of them were built.
I did some research after finding out there's only one left, I wanted to figure out why!
Can’t begin to tell you how much I enjoy the channel. Even though I live in Australia I find all of the material you produce to be really captivating. Hope you both have a great Christmas.
G’day!! Can we come for your summer?? Although 125 degrees…. I guess we will deal with what little snow we get anymore.
I really need to get out there!! And make the 8 hour one way drive. Haven't heard anything about the 2nd locomotive move yet
Us too. Soon? Money is in place. But US 50 is narrow and they may need to close sections?? Don’t know. Also at some point it will snow. Now that would be as mess. They say snow there in about a week. Sooo.. don’t know.
@@ToyManTelevision what is this "snow" that you speak of?
Wow spectacular job
Dale, I wonder why they couldn't have towed it by rail to near Shafter, and transferred it there to the low loader, a lot less road miles?
I think the fees from UP would have negated any savings. Don’t know… but I assume all options were explored.
Was hoping to see video of the RS3's going back to the shops :/
Other than the footage in the beginning this is all stills sent to us by friends. But we do have two shots of 109 running in the beginning
Another great Tuesday morning video. :)
I think those signs SHOULD say OversizeD with a big fat D on the end
yeah make Oversize PLURAL!
I'd like that SD9 in HO scale!
Ain’t that a beautiful paint job? I’ll bet after restoration athern or someone will offer it.
@@ToyManTelevision yeah!
I mean I do want a few Heritage Locos AND #4141 hehe
Bubble wrap, HIGH-Larious!.. cool locos and neat pics, thanks for sharing
I had shown some of my coworkers this video. Although they didn't express the same enthusiasm for a classic locomotive as I do, they did enjoy seeing a Kenworth T800 wide hood tri-axle pulling the oversize load.
Thanks for sharing the story & great pics 😎
I'm not too familiar with diesel engines but with your help I'm learning.
I know many love steam, and I like it a lot too, but I think I am still a bigger fan of early electric (e.g. Swiss railway crocodile), traction and first generation diesels.
Really enjoy your channel. Locomotive #105 at 1:50 is an RS2, I think. #109 inside the shop is a RS3. I grew up listening to Alco diesels and like the sound. Thanks again!
So why cant the main line tracks be serviceable again?
They raised the money and started. But the contractor ran off with the money. Now what? But The tracks are good.
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@@ToyManTelevision thanks
Cool video .I don't really like diesel locomotives so much but the older ones have a certain character to them. If I was going to buy a model diesel you would have to be an old one set in the late 40s early 50s probably thank you you guys have a great week
First generation Alco diesels are my favorite diesels of all time. I still don't have models of all of them, but I'm getting close. Very cool video.
Good to see it home again..Amazing railroad
Right?
Hey Toy Man Television, I want to tell you a cool fact. When the Ely Navada RR wanted their locomotive back from the Northwest RR, the Northwest RR made a deal, if they moved a diesel locomotive that they owned for 20 years down in Seattle. Cool fact about that locomotive, it was one of the first things the Great Northern RR bought in a diesel type of class. But back to #201, they would get the diesel. Because the Navada Northern wanted the locomotive so much they made the deal, sending one locomotive from Seattle to there, and one locomotive from there to Ely.
Cool thanks
It is always good to see them save another part of history instead of scraping it or just letting it rust away. We have lost a lot of railroad history unfortunately with the advancement in auto industry. Trains use to rule the country side every where in the world. Be safe and see you on Sunday. 🌟👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
Back to Saint George to play with toy trains.
The R/S1’s and 3’s are neat. I believe I own 4 RS/3’s in N scale in various road names.
Good video as usual.
Have you seen our show on hobby town RS-3? In UP colors? Cool model.
@@ToyManTelevision Maybe I have. My memory fails me at times. To much miscellaneous information and facts stored there.