As a 24 year old getting into Live Steam this video will be something I'll look back to when I get my locomotive. Right now I plan to get the Titan jr (the electric version) to start with then work my way up to a 4-8-2 Live Steam Locomotive.
When I was a kid the miniature train at the amusement park was my favorite ride. I wanted one so bad!! Still do!! Loved trains ever since I could remember. Thank you for the video.
Tallishyeti27 try years I'm making a 2 and a half inch gauge b17 class and it's taken me 8 years and I have the chassis wheels and a few connecting rods so I have a LONG way to go
I rode one of these scale locos in Castle park, but the one I rode had wider and larger carriages! I even thought she couldn't do it due to weight! I guess you shouldn't underestimate the loco's power by size! Great video as always, Steam Channel.
This is Amazing!! Never seen one in operation like this. The sound is cool. I am watching the machine that built America through all of the1800's. I'm doing so while sitting on my couch with a small computer with a 6 inch screen and holds all of information you could dream up.
I'm from East Chicago Indiana and my Grandfather and 4 Great uncle's and 6 uncle's work for of with Locomotive at Inland Steel. Today my brother is a switch man locomotive operator and I have 4 cousins that also work at the old Inland Steel. East Chicago Indiana is an old Locomotive City. Thanks for your great video friend!
You guys are amazing. I don't know how you do it all. Just the physical plant alone is mind boggling not to mention building and operating miniature steam locomotives. Keep up the good work!
I loved steam engines ever since I saw one up close in 1957 in New York City when I was three years old. Even at that age, the memory in ingrained in my head. I think it pulled the train my parents took to Cleveland Ohio on the New York Central Water Level Route. I've been subscribed to the Steam Channel for quite awhile.
Do a bit of research into Mr LD Porta and Mr David Wardale. SAR Class 26 3450. Methods that were also used by the late Mr Phil Girdlestone. You'd be surprised how amazing steam could have been
Amazing how powerful such a small little engine can be (that’s not a slam, just an innocent comment). If a scale down model that small call hull that much weight (notice all the seats?)...now I can see how powerful the full size ones must have been, amazing!
Been watching Blondiehacks build her Pennsylvania A3 switcher locomotive and tender, so thought I'd get a good idea of how it will work when the project is completed.😁👍
I have to say, I am totally amazed by this! I’d say this is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen! And, I love your train, tracks, and seating behind the engine!
My great uncle (Leon Teft) started "Travel Town" here in Los Angeles at Griffith Park with several friends including Walt Disney, he had been a small scale steam locomotive enthusiast and builder for many years, and had a track in his backyard in North Hollywood, he showed us a working locomotive miniature that was given to him from Walt Disney one day in the early 1960s.
Never seen anything like this. I'm more impressed that a toy train can pull so much weight, it must be a super solid build. How many horse power does the steam engine produce?
This is not your usual "toy"! The engine alone weighs on the order of 500 lbs! It can put out on the order of a couple of horsepower when going fast. It has a voracious appetite for fuel air, and water. Did you note the jerk and the interruption at 11:20? Engine hit a rock and derailed. I will be willing to bet that some crowbars and the like were used to get it back on during the interruption!
It was actually the tender that derailed. No crowbars are necessary for this locomotive as it is still light enough to re-rail by hand. A larger engine, like the 4120- the 4-8-4 we used in the other how-to- would require a steel bar, some blocks, and perhaps some steel plate to slide the wheels over on.
These aren't really "toys," they're literally scaled-down versions of the real thing. They have to be built to specific standards, especially the boiler, otherwise it could blow or spring a leak of superheated steam.
thank you for these videos and the work you put into making them it's thanks to kind people like you that I got into everything steam I wish you all the best and again thank you for these videos. I hope to have the honor of shaking your hand someday.
The Steam Channel you should have a BTTF3 railroad delorean in front of the locomotive and *a line from the third movie * to push it up to 88 mph * BTTF3 train whistle blows * that's it
There's a lot more to it than I thought. I wonder how you first learned how to operate a locomotive like that with out somebody sitting at your side to tell you what to do, or how to react to various situations as they occur. Very cool production. I like all the camera angles and clarity. One of my favorite videos I've seen here. Thanks for making it!
Every person does it a little differently. Some larger locomotives have tenders that are big enough for 2 people. In that case the instructor sits behind the student and advises them as they go along. Smaller locomotives require a different approach. Either the instructor can walk along the student and give advice or then can ride in a car behind. Personally I walk along the student until I feel the can operate the locomotive adequately. This means managing speed with throttle and brake, plus keeping the water level in check. Then I ride behind for short trips and begin to teach firing the locomotive. Once they have that down, they can go out on there own. Of course I'm no master either and I'm still learning the little idiosyncrasies of locomotive operation, but I'm proficient enough to run successfully by myself for hours at a time.
Awesome video and my favorite RR to boot. I live in Red Wing Minnesota and a lot of big farms around here I've often wondered why I here aren't more farmers using live stream trains to help with their chores. Just saying. Thanks for posting this video. Have a great day everyone.
I like that 4120 locomotive that you fired up in your first video. But I like your second video just as well Steam trains are freaking awesome. I love steam trains. You do a great job.
Absolutely, we do that every June when the White Creek Railroad has its open spring meet. The railroad is on approximately 60 acres and you can kill a week out there easy.
I don't care what anyone in the world says, this video is simply fucking awesome. Steam rules the world and this guy is doing what he loves to do. I envy his position. I'd give anything to be able to drive these engines. Fuck anyone who says anything otherwise, this guy is winning at life.
I ran one of these this previous saturday (a coal fired 7.5 gauge allen mogul), and I found that this video is, in fact enough to drive a live steam locomotive by itself. However, I did find that the locomotive that I was running was somewhat different (solar steam pump, an absence of a headlight, and a lower running pressure of 90 psi).
These how to videos really make me want to have my own live steam locomotive. The first one I want is a ten wheeler. I might take an Allen Models ten wheeler kit and try to make it look like Illinois Central 382, or the Casey Jones locomotive
Amazingly cool Im with Marry J rite now and this is bugged out if that train moves you any faster youll go back in time never thought it would be that powerful
Wooooouw ,I really enjoyed such steam engine ride , it got remembered me of my past , when I seen such trains running on tracks in india in my childhood 😁😃
Daniel Sapsford Lewis the controls are the same. From what ive been told the smaller the engine the harder it is because the fire is smaller and harder to keep going, also less steam to use. Everytime you put coal on or put water in it can drop the prrssure. I have a 5” gauge simplex loco, but they go smaller still!
Keeping the fire going is easy enough even with a smaller class engine. What is much more tricky as you go down in size from say a 4-8-4 to a 2-6-0 is maintaining the boiler pressure during operation and use of the injectors. That takes practice. In 7.5” gauge, using the injector to pump in cold water will drop the pressure in a hurry.
Steam locomotives are consigned to using air brakes to regulate downhill speed. Open the throttle just enough to let some steam into the cylinders for lubrication.
"Hey, didn't see ya there" - already know I'm going to enjoy this
Amen, this guy is great!
Blake Bushue will never get old on this channel, it’s always good to see him come back!
This guy is awesome he deserves a medal for these video tutorials
I love it . I am also making 7 1/4" gauge loco with tinder, this is my first loco and within 8 months I am going to complete from scratch.
Where can I get one and about how much are they
"The only difference between the men and the boys is the size of the toys!" 🚂😁
And the amount of expensive toys
Edit: and sometimes the ability to do videos of your big and expensive toys
I don't know why, the steam engine sound is so satisfying!!
Its breathing and its alive. I love the sound and the smell.
I love steam locomotives the way most men love cars.
I think that’s the sound of a allen 10 wheeler
It was already said and deserves another that these are living and breathing machines. One of great achievements of humankind.
As a 24 year old getting into Live Steam this video will be something I'll look back to when I get my locomotive. Right now I plan to get the Titan jr (the electric version) to start with then work my way up to a 4-8-2 Live Steam Locomotive.
"Hey i didn't see ya thier."
When I was a kid the miniature train at the amusement park was my favorite ride. I wanted one so bad!! Still do!! Loved trains ever since I could remember. Thank you for the video.
I can't imagine all the hours of hard work that go into machining such a complex engine. Quite impressive
Tallishyeti27 try years I'm making a 2 and a half inch gauge b17 class and it's taken me 8 years and I have the chassis wheels and a few connecting rods so I have a LONG way to go
Tallishyeti27 years
What about building the physical plant? All that track!
What about the real sized engines
@@aidangant1400Total time these smaller locomotives would take much much longer, but the regular size would take many many more man hours
How cool is this !!! I don’t know how I ended up here, but I’m really happy I did !!! Thanks for the ride
Now that really looks very pure, simple and easy to drive an engine. I love trains.
THIS IS SO DAMN COOL!
great video. love your little train.. enjoyed it and learned a lot
I have fallen in love with this engine
Ok?
i have fallen with love his engine 😍
Did this guy win the powerball??
The locomotive belongs to him but the layout belongs to a club.
Nah thats a club, the loco is his, rather scratchbuilt or bought for a expensive price.
Retarteddog 1
No he did not win the Powerball. He works hard and saves his money!
@@applesucks2633 some people unfortunately can't save money, even when they work hard
I rode one of these scale locos in Castle park, but the one I rode had wider and larger carriages! I even thought she couldn't do it due to weight! I guess you shouldn't underestimate the loco's power by size! Great video as always, Steam Channel.
castle park in Riverside California? those are diesel outlines
This is Amazing!! Never seen one in operation like this. The sound is cool. I am watching the machine that built America through all of the1800's. I'm doing so while sitting on my couch with a small computer with a 6 inch screen and holds all of information you could dream up.
I'm from East Chicago Indiana and my Grandfather and 4 Great uncle's and 6 uncle's work for of with Locomotive at Inland Steel. Today my brother is a switch man locomotive operator and I have 4 cousins that also work at the old Inland Steel. East Chicago Indiana is an old Locomotive City. Thanks for your great video friend!
You guys are amazing. I don't know how you do it all. Just the physical plant alone is mind boggling not to mention building and operating miniature steam locomotives. Keep up the good work!
These dedicate so much time to, I work in a railway company one of my coworkers has spent 25 years building his locomotives
Really impressive mechanics and knowledge - that village is awesome!
Great operating narrative with reference to valves.
1930: steam engines are trains
2020: steam engines are rail motorcycles
Ps that looks fun except for the smoke in your face
Add some meat and barbecue sauce to the firebox and it'll smell like barbecue. 😁
I loved steam engines ever since I saw one up close in 1957 in New York City when I was three years old. Even at that age, the memory in ingrained in my head. I think it pulled the train my parents took to Cleveland Ohio on the New York Central Water Level Route. I've been subscribed to the Steam Channel for quite awhile.
Imagine if we could have further perfected steam power.. like I know theres cons but Idk I feel like with science we cool be using it more today.
Do a bit of research into Mr LD Porta and Mr David Wardale. SAR Class 26 3450.
Methods that were also used by the late Mr Phil Girdlestone.
You'd be surprised how amazing steam could have been
I always wanted to know how these worked. Thanks for sharing!
I love how much passion there is in this video. I would love to build something like this in Germany...
Stexu live steam is popular in Germany.
Illinois Valley Productions I know but I have personal not enough money.
Amazing how powerful such a small little engine can be (that’s not a slam, just an innocent comment). If a scale down model that small call hull that much weight (notice all the seats?)...now I can see how powerful the full size ones must have been, amazing!
Been watching Blondiehacks build her Pennsylvania A3 switcher locomotive and tender, so thought I'd get a good idea of how it will work when the project is completed.😁👍
I have to say, I am totally amazed by this! I’d say this is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen! And, I love your train, tracks, and seating behind the engine!
I’ve been in one of those before but I never been back to that place in a long time !!
That's awesome, accidentally bumped into this. And I dig the dude too, he has charisma! :) Have a nice day!
The best train video I’ve ever watched. There is a lot to it.
Excellent.
This is the coolest guy on yt that knows about trains
My great uncle (Leon Teft) started "Travel Town" here in Los Angeles at Griffith Park with several friends including Walt Disney, he had been a small scale steam locomotive enthusiast and builder for many years, and had a track in his backyard in North Hollywood, he showed us a working locomotive miniature that was given to him from Walt Disney one day in the early 1960s.
What a way to go 😊. Fantastic what with the wind ,smoke ,steam ,soot in the face absolutely amazing. ❤.Thanking you Robbbert from Melbourne Australia.
Never seen anything like this. I'm more impressed that a toy train can pull so much weight, it must be a super solid build. How many horse power does the steam engine produce?
An engine like this can make a few horsepower, and with tender weighs 600 pounds. Somewhat larger ones can make 8 horsepower when running fast.
This is not your usual "toy"! The engine alone weighs on the order of 500 lbs! It can put out on the order of a couple of horsepower when going fast. It has a voracious appetite for fuel air, and water. Did you note the jerk and the interruption at 11:20? Engine hit a rock and derailed. I will be willing to bet that some crowbars and the like were used to get it back on during the interruption!
It was actually the tender that derailed. No crowbars are necessary for this locomotive as it is still light enough to re-rail by hand. A larger engine, like the 4120- the 4-8-4 we used in the other how-to- would require a steel bar, some blocks, and perhaps some steel plate to slide the wheels over on.
I would like a 4-8-8-4 in that gauge.
These aren't really "toys," they're literally scaled-down versions of the real thing. They have to be built to specific standards, especially the boiler, otherwise it could blow or spring a leak of superheated steam.
I really like the how to videos, keep them coming.
thank you for these videos and the work you put into making them it's thanks to kind people like you that I got into everything steam I wish you all the best and again thank you for these videos. I hope to have the honor of shaking your hand someday.
You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoy them!
The Steam Channel you should have a BTTF3 railroad delorean in front of the locomotive and *a line from the third movie * to push it up to 88 mph * BTTF3 train whistle blows * that's it
There's a lot more to it than I thought. I wonder how you first learned how to operate a locomotive like that with out somebody sitting at your side to tell you what to do, or how to react to various situations as they occur. Very cool production. I like all the camera angles and clarity. One of my favorite videos I've seen here. Thanks for making it!
Every person does it a little differently. Some larger locomotives have tenders that are big enough for 2 people. In that case the instructor sits behind the student and advises them as they go along. Smaller locomotives require a different approach. Either the instructor can walk along the student and give advice or then can ride in a car behind. Personally I walk along the student until I feel the can operate the locomotive adequately. This means managing speed with throttle and brake, plus keeping the water level in check. Then I ride behind for short trips and begin to teach firing the locomotive. Once they have that down, they can go out on there own. Of course I'm no master either and I'm still learning the little idiosyncrasies of locomotive operation, but I'm proficient enough to run successfully by myself for hours at a time.
I was looking for another kind of steam channel but I'm glad I stumbled upon this one.
its loud for its size. the chugging sound is just so satisfying. I really like it
Very well done - you've built a marvelous, scaled locomotive....and running on coal is very impressive!!
I love to watch again n again 😊
Looks fun!
good to have a nice hobby like this. i know people who look down on small scale steam trains as a hobby, but whatever makes you happy good on you.
Pretty cool video! I just rode behind one of those this past weekend at Hesston Steam Museum in Indiana.
Great!! I love steam locomotives. My Grandfather worked on the Pennsylvania RailRoad from 1897 to 1947.
I could watch this all day. Lucky me I'm new to the channel so thats exactly what im going to do!
Beautiful locomotive well done
Nice to see this video thanks for the information !!!
No idea how I ended up watching this video but found it strangely satisfying 😍
Good video, great presenter. Thanks.
Nicely done! Always wanted to be a steamie but ended up becoming a lampie instead! Would love to get into this with my terrible engineering skills.
Cool! I always wondered how they worked
Awesome video and my favorite RR to boot. I live in Red Wing Minnesota and a lot of big farms around here I've often wondered why I here aren't more farmers using live stream trains to help with their chores. Just saying. Thanks for posting this video. Have a great day everyone.
I like that 4120 locomotive that you fired up in your first video. But I like your second video just as well
Steam trains are freaking awesome. I love steam trains. You do a great job.
If I could just go out back & ride my train 😝👍 great job ✌️
This is really cool. :D It would be fun to have week off and play with these locomotives.
Absolutely, we do that every June when the White Creek Railroad has its open spring meet. The railroad is on approximately 60 acres and you can kill a week out there easy.
great job . i admire your entuasim
I want someone to make a model DeLorean and put that on the front of the train, then try to get the train up to 88 mph.
Awesome this post needs more like
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Arno Victor Dorian you'd probably derail but still do it
Arno Victor Dorian Aside from these things not going very fast, one needs to consider proper scale. It won't be 88mph if in scale.
ah, no. %mph is TERRIFYING.
I don't care what anyone in the world says, this video is simply fucking awesome. Steam rules the world and this guy is doing what he loves to do. I envy his position. I'd give anything to be able to drive these engines. Fuck anyone who says anything otherwise, this guy is winning at life.
You obviously love what you do, I say bravo! Nice work, Sir.
Thank you. We do very much!
This is teaching me more about steam locomotive now
wow .. really like the vid .. it helped with my understanding of even running steam in Train Simulater
THANK YOU THANK YOU! I really enjoyed your video! Very interesting.
Great video. Sounds cool when it starts working on the grade. How much weight will it pull before it slips. I just love steam!
Just found your channel and this is amazing, I wish I had the know how to build one and operate one
Espetacular. Parabéns, queria ter uma dessa em casa.
Very cool. Thanks and looking forward for more.
This is so cool. It blows my mind that I could 'own' a working steam locomotive.
Greetings to you from Jordan 🇯🇴 wow
I ran one of these this previous saturday (a coal fired 7.5 gauge allen mogul), and I found that this video is, in fact enough to drive a live steam locomotive by itself. However, I did find that the locomotive that I was running was somewhat different (solar steam pump, an absence of a headlight, and a lower running pressure of 90 psi).
The intro made me subscribe instantly.
These how to videos really make me want to have my own live steam locomotive. The first one I want is a ten wheeler. I might take an Allen Models ten wheeler kit and try to make it look like Illinois Central 382, or the Casey Jones locomotive
Amazingly cool Im with Marry J rite now and this is bugged out if that train moves you any faster youll go back in time never thought it would be that powerful
I just LOVE that little engine!!!!!!,
Beautiful
Not gonna lie, this is pretty damn amazing.
I’m proud of your level of commitment.
Nice video
Beautiful engine well done
Wooooouw ,I really enjoyed such steam engine ride , it got remembered me of my past , when I seen such trains running on tracks in india in my childhood 😁😃
ok ok ill vote dave for president
Really good informal video. Thank you.
It is really awesome engine love it. also it is so much powerful. Nice video.
Great vid ty so much i really enjoy watching her run!!!
Yo Blake how easily would the skills you have picked up on these miniature locomotives transfer to a full size locomotive??
Daniel Sapsford Lewis the controls are the same. From what ive been told the smaller the engine the harder it is because the fire is smaller and harder to keep going, also less steam to use. Everytime you put coal on or put water in it can drop the prrssure. I have a 5” gauge simplex loco, but they go smaller still!
Keeping the fire going is easy enough even with a smaller class engine. What is much more tricky as you go down in size from say a 4-8-4 to a 2-6-0 is maintaining the boiler pressure during operation and use of the injectors. That takes practice. In 7.5” gauge, using the injector to pump in cold water will drop the pressure in a hurry.
Just think about how much this little engine can pull then think about the full size engines and how much they can pull using steam! WOW!
very nice man, thanks a lot!!!
The background sounds are so relaxing. The icing on the cake. Great video.
Very cool indeed!
.. i love the whistle...its so real...
really love watching your videos ,, always loved trains ,and the detail that goes into these models is absolutely amazing
wildcoyote34 I'm
this reminds me of the place in vancouver canada that lets you take a ride like this, good times
todays locomotives have dynamic brakes, How do you hold a train on a long grade or mountain pass? wonderful video thanks for your time and eggorts!
Steam locomotives are consigned to using air brakes to regulate downhill speed. Open the throttle just enough to let some steam into the cylinders for lubrication.
very very cool
That honestly looks like so much fun! I would definitely be very happy if given a chance to learn how to operate a steam locomotive
Awesome video
I have never been so jealous with anyone in my entire life than him. Will do anything to drive that steam engine once.