This song reminds me of my childhood. When life was easy and grandparents were still alive and a young railfan didn't know exactly what he was see he only knew that he loved the sound of heavy fright train. This takes me back to the movie lots and lots of trains. My grandfather got me a box set of movies from the B&O railroad museum around 1999- late 2000.
This song is so nostalgic for me; I used to love I Love Toy Trains as a young kid, and this song was one of my favorites. I loved the tune back then, and I still feel strange when I listen to it now. I remember watching the show on an old VHS tape on an old TV in my bedroom, feeling that everything was fantastic. Everything felt pretty good, even though I had a rough time with my parents seprating and such. Years later, we would loose that house, but this song still helps me unsupress my forgotten memories of times past. Though difficult, what great times they were...
It almost makes me cry to think of all of these steam giants and what they saw in there time. Now we have the next generation and some day when we all are about to bite the dust we can remember everything we loved about trains.
Commuter railroads are now slowly phasing out their old Diesel locomotives and upgrading to electrics one by one until almost all daily passenger trains are electric powered. The past generation was a phase out of steam, and soon will come the phase out of diesel, and like with steam, many of us have developed attachment to the daily diesel locomotives that power the commuter trains because they've become part of an everyday life, and it's sad to think that they'll soon be no more.
@@Chris9017 Alas its human nature to want to improve upon everything, even if whats being improved is new in of itself. Yet another reminder of how everyone moves too fast these days, why is everyone in such a hurry? Makes me wonder what ever happened to the old "getting there is half the fun" Saying? I love old fashioned steam locomotives as well as some early diesels as well, they make great inspiration for the stories I write. Like the song says they are legends, and legends must be told and never forgotten.
same, I think it's quite sad there are not many steam trains running now. I really like steam locomotives, because they are very interesting and all their valve gears and stuff and how they work.
@@zebrastudios on mainlines there aren't any express or goods steam locos running on mainlines anymore just on heritage lines and lots of LNER engines don't run anymore such as the A1/1/ A3 pacific and the Class A4 Pacific, two LNER classic beauties.
A Great video and a beautiful song. And, on yes I dream too. My father was a dispatcher for the old Seaboard Coastline Railroad and when I was a kid, he had a friend who was an switcher engineer who let me ride on the engine with him. I would sit in his lap and work the throttle by his guidance and, of course, blow the horn. I so much wanted to be an engineer for the railroad but when I graduated high school in 1979, all the railroads where merging and there was no hiring. So I just dream.
I love anything steam I could put the words to this song. but I could think of the great coal fired liners built by Harland & Wolff, or any great ship yard. With the sounds of the engines pounding, the telegraph's ringing, the speaking tubes. What a great time, everything mechanical, and masculine.
Legend of The Rails Lyrics: I look at the clock. It’s a quarter to four. It’s been a long day, I can’t take anymore. I got to get away, head down the track. With a Full headed steam and no looking back. I feel the pistons pounding up a beat. I feel the rhythm underneath my feet, and I dream. Oh yeah, I dream. I dream of the Legend of the Rails. Of the Legend of the Rails. I got a temperature of 103. I got train fever and the one remedy. As a steamer, black headed down the line. Through the hills, and into the pines. Traveling along through the country side, I put my hand on the throttle and I open it wide and I dream. Oh yeah, I dream. I dream, of the Legend of the Rails. Of the Legend of the Rails. (Sweet Instrumental) A black Silhouette against the moonlight. A Whistle echoing into the night. By the rocky hills, through the mountains snow. 100 miles and 100 to go. It’s a journey, back to a place in time: where a hot cup of coffee only cost you a dime and I dream. Oh yeah, I dream. I dream, of the Legend of the Rails. Of the Legend of the Rails. (Instrumental) The End! This song was a big inspiration for me. I used to love trains back then, and looking at these locomotives from the old days had brought me tears of joy. The Hiawatha, Baltimore and Ohio Cincinnatian, and the Mastodon Class. I really miss them. These engines and the Dreyfuss Hudson, Pennsylvania K4, S1, T1, J3a Hudson, 1215 Norfolk and Western Y6B, and much more. I love these things, and hate that dieselization had caught up to them. Rest In Peace Soldiers of America.
Thanks for the lyrics! Also I am really sad that many steam locomotive classes became extinct. Rest in Pieces SP MT-4 mountains, SP AC-9 Yellowstones, all of the Standard gauge Denver and Rio Grande Western steam locomotives, the J3A Hudsons, the N&W Y6Bs (Damn you whoever cut up 2174 in 1974! Burn in hell since you Broke up a good Steam locomotive!), the C&NW streamlined steam locomotives, and the Milwaukee Road Hiawatha steam locomotives. I wish I could revive all the scrapped steam engine classes.
Although you can't blame the companies for dieselization as the steamers were way more expensive and if they kept them then most railways would probably have been closed and be replaced by trucks. Although you can blame them for not saving any examples of the extinct locomotive and scrapping all of them.
@@harrisonofcolorado8886correction for 2174. She was broken up for scrap in 1976 from a British person that had no interest in steam locomotive preservation.
Makes me think that one way or another 5 generations of my direct family with one exception have worked in the transport industry. My great great grandfather and great grandfather and his brother worked for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. My grandfather worked as a foreman at a Firestone factory and while my father briefly worked there as a teen, he didn’t go into the transport industry. And now, I seek to follow the family tradition of working in the transport industry, by becoming a flight instructor and eventually going to the airlines. But one day, I’ll get behind the controls of a high balling steamer and blow long and loud on the whistle.
This song gives me chills, and so does Streamliners. I dont know why, but they just have so much awesomeness in them. Oh wait, thats because they are awesome :P
Thank you for making this video! I think this is my favorite video on RUclips. The footage and editing is fantastic. Your family's passion really comes across in this and makes me wonder back to the time before I was born at all the amazing things I missed.
Gothpap I love this Footage thank you so much for sharing it with us and thanks to your father for the footage. You guys must have been train buffs. As a fellow Train enthuiast I salute you and keep riding trains!!!
The locomotive at 0:25 appears to be an engine that I'm familiar with, Monticello and Sangamon Valley #1, a 1930 Alco 0-4-0. Although currently on static display at the Monticello RR Museum in Illinois, the engine used to be operational, and would haul rides out and back from the museum. In fact, I learned how to drive steam locos from a video featuring the engine.
RESTORE THE S&A 750 AND LET ME DRIVE IT AS MY OWN LOCOMOTIVE BRING IT TO THE UK SO IT CAN MEET SCOTSMAN AGAIN Yes I know about the all caps, I simply do not care. Thank you.
My dad and my little brother and I love trains we have been members of Skandinavias longest narrow gauge railway for many years, my dad since the 90s. I have watched that community grow and we have like loads of locomotives for such a small railway (only 71 km) This is in Swden so we have 3 SJ delivered Z4p Scania vabis D812 made by Kalmar Verkstad. We also have a Z4p with a body from a T43 that was supposed to be widned when the customer for the two that had that body widned its tracks. But that did not happen. We operate Several Railbusses of the type Yp. Same Scania D812 as the Z4p. Then the steam locomotives we have about 10 - 12 Only two operational tho. The others are wrecks in restorable condition. But it would Cost money of ridiculuos proportions. So for right now we are focusing on a rare one to be restored. The other May been all restored in 30 years maybe. I can brag baut something tho he he hehe. I can drive all If this except steam. Im 13 lol
I'm not gonna lie, I broke down into tears when I saw that shot of the B&O P7. It fit with the piece of music as well. And seeing the Hiawatha wasn't making it any better XD
Very good work guys this video gave me chills and brought a tear to my eyes to see all those wonderful steam engines plus the song fits perfectly! Great work!
A blue silhouette against the daylight, a horn echoing into the sunset, by the open plains to the rocky hills, two hundred miles and two hundred to go, it's a journey back to place and time, were the steamers were getting retired and I dream.....
steam will forever be the king, they were better in every way except for maintenance ease. diesels are nice, but they will never even hold a candle to the true legends of the rails.
TRAINMAN K True that. Some friends and I want to build a Niagara someday and we're currently working on getting a WABCO E2 as our first part. It's an expensive project with the boiler alone quoted at $5.4 million, but we hope to get somewhere with it.
so kewl. i spent all weekend drivving minatures and everyonece in a while i get the chance to run a 3.3" 7.5 inch gauge forne ythat u actually sit inside. Its so kewl to sit back in the seat and listen to the roar of the fire and the loud whistle. its truely like being inside the full size one
I always wanted to be a engineer of a large steam locomotive and look out the side of the cab and blow the hell out of the whistle, and show little cars in the railroad crossings, get out of the way for the giant to pass
I've been behind the throttle of a General Electric U25B, one of the most famous diesels ever built. It was amazing feeling 2500 horses at my fingertips, I can only imagine what a steam experience would be like. Most 4-8-4s have over 5000 horsepower.
Thats kool my Grandfather's First Cousin was a Motorman on the New York City Subway System. My Grandfather also told me about the time his cousin took him on a cab ride once. He said it was kool to ride in the motorman's Cab.
The steam engine that's pulling the diesel is the Union Pacific #844 and that engine sometimes pulls a a diesel engine & i own a scale model of it as well
The era where the rails ruled america has nearly ended sadly even the diesels will die out which especially saddens me cause I've grown up around those mighty diesels and their rumbling motors following behind each other pulling freight and passenger their horns blaring over the grumble of the SD40-2's and GP38's that pass on the Meridian and Bigbee everyday the sound of nearly fifty years of service it's magnificent and beautiful but how I long to see the might of the great steam engine and the sleek speed of the GG1's, to watch the Vanderbilt speed down the line, and the long heavy trains lead by the mighty steamers pulling up the mountains but alas I grew up long after that as I am only 14 and will never see this happen just to watch the diesels the SD40's and even the GEVOs fade from the rails of america to be overtaken by the fast electric bullet trains and other machines it will be sad that one day kids may never even see a train in real life just in pictures, because someday the mighty diesels and steamers will be lost to the history books and those who remember will think "What happened?"
Rail is making a comeback. It will be decades before they switch to fully electric equipment, I think we will still see some diesels for a while. But I wish steam was around. :(
+MidnightmoonRR No, It will still be with a diesel at all times. Just like the SP 4449. Big boy can break down at any time so it's safe to keep a diesel. So don't get to scared !
Not until me and my friends at the T1Trust roll out the official 53rd Pennsylvania Railroad T1 4-4-4-4 Duplex #5550 out of our shops under its own power! We are building the official 53rd T1 from ground up and we need all the help that we can get, just go to our website; www. TheT1Trust.com and donate. We already machined the first four of the eight driving wheels. Any donations are a big help to making this dream a reality, but it is a reality already because we are working on the rest of the wheels.we will make this dream a reality "One Piece At A Time"! For the Pennsylvania Railroad and for America!
I know this is an old comment, but yesterday and today, Big Boy #4014 ran under her own power! For the first time in 60 years! What a time to be alive!
As a diesel, yellow heading down the main, through the hills and into the yard. Traveling along through the marshaling yard I put my hand on the brake and I open it wide, and I dream....
Steam-powered locomotives have always fascinated me from the day I laid eyes on engines such as 192 (AKA: Klondike Katie; beautiful engine). Yeah sure, they run on fossil fuels and cause a bit of noise pollution, but something about them gives them a certain charm that separates them from other engines (heck, the engines aren't even that loud compared to diesel engines). Out of all the different steam engines, the Challenger and Big Boy are my favorites. They just seem more...intimidating. Seriously, at 1:51, that engine is an absolute unit. I am in awe at the size of that nostalgic machine. I also think it's adorable that people give these engines female names and refer to them as "she" even though they're machines. Also, ignore the profile image and name. I'm not a 12-year-old, trust me. I just have it as a joke.
For me, locomotives are both genders; for example, 844 is a she and 491 is a she and maybe the J3A is a he. I think big boy is a “he” because it’s called big boy for a reason 😅
Love the rare shot of the Hiawatha A class at 2:10. Sad that of the 4 built, not one was saved. Just curious, where was this shot taken at and what year? It would have to be before they were scrapped in 1951.
This song reminds me of my childhood. When life was easy and grandparents were still alive and a young railfan didn't know exactly what he was see he only knew that he loved the sound of heavy fright train. This takes me back to the movie lots and lots of trains. My grandfather got me a box set of movies from the B&O railroad museum around 1999- late 2000.
Im thankful there are still people who hear the whistle and realize what we ve lost,personaly and as a country.
This song is so nostalgic for me; I used to love I Love Toy Trains as a young kid, and this song was one of my favorites. I loved the tune back then, and I still feel strange when I listen to it now. I remember watching the show on an old VHS tape on an old TV in my bedroom, feeling that everything was fantastic. Everything felt pretty good, even though I had a rough time with my parents seprating and such. Years later, we would loose that house, but this song still helps me unsupress my forgotten memories of times past. Though difficult, what great times they were...
When you are happy, you enjoy the music. When you are sad, you understand the lyrics
It almost makes me cry to think of all of these steam giants and what they saw in there time. Now we have the next generation and some day when we all are about to bite the dust we can remember everything we loved about trains.
Commuter railroads are now slowly phasing out their old Diesel locomotives and upgrading to electrics one by one until almost all daily passenger trains are electric powered.
The past generation was a phase out of steam, and soon will come the phase out of diesel, and like with steam, many of us have developed attachment to the daily diesel locomotives that power the commuter trains because they've become part of an everyday life, and it's sad to think that they'll soon be no more.
@@Chris9017 Alas its human nature to want to improve upon everything, even if whats being improved is new in of itself. Yet another reminder of how everyone moves too fast these days, why is everyone in such a hurry? Makes me wonder what ever happened to the old "getting there is half the fun" Saying? I love old fashioned steam locomotives as well as some early diesels as well, they make great inspiration for the stories I write. Like the song says they are legends, and legends must be told and never forgotten.
same, I think it's quite sad there are not many steam trains running now. I really like steam locomotives, because they are very interesting and all their valve gears and stuff and how they work.
HOLD UP, HOLD THE F UP! THERE ARE A SH TON OF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES RUNNING STILL, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE F YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT!
@@zebrastudios on mainlines there aren't any express or goods steam locos running on mainlines anymore just on heritage lines and lots of LNER engines don't run anymore such as the A1/1/ A3 pacific and the Class A4 Pacific, two LNER classic beauties.
havent listened to this to thsi song in over 12 years I'm 16 now and this song makes me happy to hear
Same almost 15 years for me!
This song is beautiful and defines my life before January 22nd, 2023 when i ruined everything 😢😢
I also love this song. And it makes me want to become a kid again
A Great video and a beautiful song. And, on yes I dream too. My father was a dispatcher for the old Seaboard Coastline Railroad and when I was a kid, he had a friend who was an switcher engineer who let me ride on the engine with him. I would sit in his lap and work the throttle by his guidance and, of course, blow the horn. I so much wanted to be an engineer for the railroad but when I graduated high school in 1979, all the railroads where merging and there was no hiring. So I just dream.
i have been trying to find this song for two weeks but the thing that matters most is that you remembered the legends of the rails
I listen to this when I was 4 and now it’s still the same the best thing ever 🥹🥹
I love anything steam I could put the words to this song. but I could think of the great coal fired liners built by Harland & Wolff, or any great ship yard. With the sounds of the engines pounding, the telegraph's ringing, the speaking tubes. What a great time, everything mechanical, and masculine.
The best song about trains (Sorry Streamliners)
there both good songs
Bro when I fell down I just listen to this song and the firs James coffee song was not the best no offense streamliners :/
This song is a really nice and helps me calm myself. streamliners is a really good song to get you pumped up.
(Favourite train songs) this one streamlines ghost New York train song whatever you call it BIG TRAINS and Santa Fe song
I completely agree with you
Those were the golden days of railroads
Legend of The Rails Lyrics:
I look at the clock. It’s a quarter to four.
It’s been a long day, I can’t take anymore.
I got to get away, head down the track.
With a Full headed steam and no looking back.
I feel the pistons pounding up a beat.
I feel the rhythm underneath my feet, and I dream.
Oh yeah, I dream.
I dream of the Legend of the Rails.
Of the Legend of the Rails.
I got a temperature of 103.
I got train fever and the one remedy.
As a steamer, black headed down the line.
Through the hills, and into the pines.
Traveling along through the country side, I put my hand on the throttle and I open it wide and I dream.
Oh yeah, I dream.
I dream, of the Legend of the Rails.
Of the Legend of the Rails.
(Sweet Instrumental)
A black Silhouette against the moonlight.
A Whistle echoing into the night. By the rocky hills, through the mountains snow.
100 miles and 100 to go. It’s a journey, back to a place in time: where a hot cup of coffee only cost you a dime and I dream.
Oh yeah, I dream.
I dream, of the Legend of the Rails.
Of the Legend of the Rails.
(Instrumental)
The End!
This song was a big inspiration for me. I used to love trains back then, and looking at these locomotives from the old days had brought me tears of joy. The Hiawatha, Baltimore and Ohio Cincinnatian, and the Mastodon Class. I really miss them. These engines and the Dreyfuss Hudson, Pennsylvania K4, S1, T1, J3a Hudson, 1215 Norfolk and Western Y6B, and much more. I love these things, and hate that dieselization had caught up to them. Rest In Peace Soldiers of America.
Thanks for the lyrics! Also I am really sad that many steam locomotive classes became extinct. Rest in Pieces SP MT-4 mountains, SP AC-9 Yellowstones, all of the Standard gauge Denver and Rio Grande Western steam locomotives, the J3A Hudsons, the N&W Y6Bs (Damn you whoever cut up 2174 in 1974! Burn in hell since you Broke up a good Steam locomotive!), the C&NW streamlined steam locomotives, and the Milwaukee Road Hiawatha steam locomotives. I wish I could revive all the scrapped steam engine classes.
@@harrisonofcolorado8886 It has horrified me that we have no NYC Hudsons or Niagaras, no Erie Pacifics or Berkshires, not even a CNJ G3 Pacific.
Although you can't blame the companies for dieselization as the steamers were way more expensive and if they kept them then most railways would probably have been closed and be replaced by trucks. Although you can blame them for not saving any examples of the extinct locomotive and scrapping all of them.
@@harrisonofcolorado8886correction for 2174. She was broken up for scrap in 1976 from a British person that had no interest in steam locomotive preservation.
0:39-0:50 The true legend of the rails
Big Boy
Up big boi
Up big boi
0:39 0:50
R.I.P 4000 classes (but no to 4014)
we need 10 hours of this masterpiece
One of the best railway oriented songs in my opinion
Someone needs to make an instrumental version of this beautiful train song.
As an Aussie that loves American trains, that is a great video
When I hear this song all of the problems of life are gone and I just enjoy it
I always come to this song when i miss my grandfather 🥲
I do too. I never say I wish my grand parents were here, I say I wish I was with them ( and my wife).
That Union Pacific at 1:51 is the best-looking big steam engine. I'd love to see those on the rails today
Just look up Union Pacific 844, 4014, and 3985 here on RUclips. They are running them today.
dda40x
It’s the 844
4014 is a Big Boy Union Pacific still running up to this day
@Homer's Home 2
it was restored you idiot, it wasnt running forever
man i miss those days
Listening to this traveling behind a steamer🥰
Makes me think that one way or another 5 generations of my direct family with one exception have worked in the transport industry. My great great grandfather and great grandfather and his brother worked for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. My grandfather worked as a foreman at a Firestone factory and while my father briefly worked there as a teen, he didn’t go into the transport industry. And now, I seek to follow the family tradition of working in the transport industry, by becoming a flight instructor and eventually going to the airlines. But one day, I’ll get behind the controls of a high balling steamer and blow long and loud on the whistle.
everything in this video is awesome, but I especially love all the old steamers at the end of this video.
I remember this song never knew the name and its been a long time I finally found it
This song gives me chills, and so does Streamliners. I dont know why, but they just have so much awesomeness in them. Oh wait, thats because they are awesome :P
Thank you for making this video! I think this is my favorite video on RUclips. The footage and editing is fantastic. Your family's passion really comes across in this and makes me wonder back to the time before I was born at all the amazing things I missed.
I am reminded of something I once said I heard about the SR-71. "She may not be the state of the art, but she is art."
dragonkingofthestars blackbird?
i love this song so much
My new Number 1 Favorite song
Love this song!
Love it... So sad here in newfoundland that all the train are gone
Raven Lalu yah your right
@Raven Lalu ... its a long story. Its Obvious you couldn't understand lol
Gothpap I love this Footage thank you so much for sharing it with us and thanks to your father for the footage. You guys must have been train buffs. As a fellow Train enthuiast I salute you and keep riding trains!!!
0:20 CN 6218 still the best looking locomotive ever to this day
The locomotive at 0:25 appears to be an engine that I'm familiar with, Monticello and Sangamon Valley #1, a 1930 Alco 0-4-0.
Although currently on static display at the Monticello RR Museum in Illinois, the engine used to be operational, and would haul rides out and back from the museum. In fact, I learned how to drive steam locos from a video
featuring the engine.
Don't care what you say, but some day, I WILL be full throttling a steamer down the mainline someday...
Buynot hopefully you get to drive the 2926. It was recently restored.
CA Peninsula Railfan Productions I’m driving N&W 611
@@NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast wow! cool!
I do the same epically behind my favorite steam locomotive from ohio
RESTORE THE S&A 750 AND LET ME DRIVE IT AS MY OWN LOCOMOTIVE
BRING IT TO THE UK SO IT CAN MEET SCOTSMAN AGAIN
Yes I know about the all caps, I simply do not care. Thank you.
the end footage it makes you wonder how rare it was
It's in everyone's recommended again boys!
Very nice!! My favorite song!
I remember this since 1996!!
My dad and my little brother and I love trains we have been members of Skandinavias longest narrow gauge railway for many years, my dad since the 90s. I have watched that community grow and we have like loads of locomotives for such a small railway (only 71 km) This is in Swden so we have 3 SJ delivered Z4p Scania vabis D812 made by Kalmar Verkstad. We also have a Z4p with a body from a T43 that was supposed to be widned when the customer for the two that had that body widned its tracks. But that did not happen. We operate Several Railbusses of the type Yp. Same Scania D812 as the Z4p. Then the steam locomotives we have about 10 - 12
Only two operational tho. The others are wrecks in restorable condition. But it would Cost money of ridiculuos proportions. So for right now we are focusing on a rare one to be restored. The other May been all restored in 30 years maybe.
I can brag baut something tho he he hehe. I can drive all If this except steam. Im 13 lol
I'm not gonna lie, I broke down into tears when I saw that shot of the B&O P7. It fit with the piece of music as well. And seeing the Hiawatha wasn't making it any better XD
I bet this is also nostalgic to former railroads and engines of the past.
It Depends on how much you enjoyed makin it
No=Wrong
If you loved makin it that is how much i love this video
Very good work guys this video gave me chills and brought a tear to my eyes to see all those wonderful steam engines plus the song fits perfectly! Great work!
Music by: James Coffey
1:07 I know that engine .It's from Poland and the class of it is a class called OL49.
Forget about streamliners and ghost of the rails this dominates
A blue silhouette against the daylight, a horn echoing into the sunset, by the open plains to the rocky hills, two hundred miles and two hundred to go, it's a journey back to place and time, were the steamers were getting retired and I dream.....
steam will forever be the king, they were better in every way except for maintenance ease. diesels are nice, but they will never even hold a candle to the true legends of the rails.
TRAINMAN K True that. Some friends and I want to build a Niagara someday and we're currently working on getting a WABCO E2 as our first part. It's an expensive project with the boiler alone quoted at $5.4 million, but we hope to get somewhere with it.
The steam giants are gone but not forgotten but it's not too late to bring them back as long as you know how to get them back.🚂🚃🚃🚃
Im a steam train fan the whole world fan I was to happy to watch 😀
Nice, my favorite engine is a consolidation. 2nd favorite is a hudson, Such nice engines, I LOVE STEAM!!
I really wish I could have seen that Milwaukee Road Hudson in person.
This reminds me of when Trainz was released
WL
William Leasure it's me!
William Anthony Leasure the original 777!
Love you all(paying attention)❤️👍😆🤣
Who hear remembers hearing this song from the DVD Lots and lots of trains?
so kewl. i spent all weekend drivving minatures and everyonece in a while i get the chance to run a 3.3" 7.5 inch gauge forne ythat u actually sit inside. Its so kewl to sit back in the seat and listen to the roar of the fire and the loud whistle. its truely like being inside the full size one
I always wanted to be a engineer of a large steam locomotive and look out the side of the cab and blow the hell out of the whistle, and show little cars in the railroad crossings, get out of the way for the giant to pass
I've been behind the throttle of a General Electric U25B, one of the most famous diesels ever built. It was amazing feeling 2500 horses at my fingertips, I can only imagine what a steam experience would be like. Most 4-8-4s have over 5000 horsepower.
Watch your language !!!!
Man what I would do to drive a Southern Pacific cab forward!
Sounds like a dream...........
@@jcwils2009 Shut Up He Can Curse Whenever He Wants
To be honest this makes me cry
Thats kool my Grandfather's First Cousin was a Motorman on the New York City Subway System. My Grandfather also told me about the time his cousin took him on a cab ride once. He said it was kool to ride in the motorman's Cab.
100th comment, and this song makes me miss the steam engines. Their are barely any in my area.
Best train song EVER
The steam engine that's pulling the diesel is the Union Pacific #844 and that engine sometimes pulls a a diesel engine
& i own a scale model of it as well
I know a banger when I hear one
The era where the rails ruled america has nearly ended sadly even the diesels will die out which especially saddens me cause I've grown up around those mighty diesels and their rumbling motors following behind each other pulling freight and passenger their horns blaring over the grumble of the SD40-2's and GP38's that pass on the Meridian and Bigbee everyday the sound of nearly fifty years of service it's magnificent and beautiful but how I long to see the might of the great steam engine and the sleek speed of the GG1's, to watch the Vanderbilt speed down the line, and the long heavy trains lead by the mighty steamers pulling up the mountains but alas I grew up long after that as I am only 14 and will never see this happen just to watch the diesels the SD40's and even the GEVOs fade from the rails of america to be overtaken by the fast electric bullet trains and other machines it will be sad that one day kids may never even see a train in real life just in pictures, because someday the mighty diesels and steamers will be lost to the history books and those who remember will think "What happened?"
Rail is making a comeback. It will be decades before they switch to fully electric equipment, I think we will still see some diesels for a while. But I wish steam was around. :(
NKP berk 759 at the beginning. my 2nd favorite engine.
And PM No.1225 is my favorite
im happy to say that a Big Boy will soon be working under its own power again in the next few years, that that just gives me goosebumps.
+MidnightmoonRR No, It will still be with a diesel at all times. Just like the SP 4449. Big boy can break down at any time so it's safe to keep a diesel. So don't get to scared !
+Raman Shrikant Still that is one of the biggest and most awesome engines in existence.
Not until me and my friends at the T1Trust roll out the official 53rd Pennsylvania Railroad T1 4-4-4-4 Duplex #5550 out of our shops under its own power! We are building the official 53rd T1 from ground up and we need all the help that we can get, just go to our website; www. TheT1Trust.com and donate. We already machined the first four of the eight driving wheels. Any donations are a big help to making this dream a reality, but it is a reality already because we are working on the rest of the wheels.we will make this dream a reality "One Piece At A Time"! For the Pennsylvania Railroad and for America!
Again that's www.TheT1Trust.com
Yeah ok, Billy Mays.
Trust me you don't work with the T1. You're a kid who's ego is over-bloated.
Best song ever if your a steam train lover (I am) R. I. P
(Compliment towards James Coffey) Beautiful song
Here jimmy ❤😢
We are soon gonna see a NYC Mohawk run again
I like this train music 5 star for the music.
Guys, chill! The diesels and steamers are both equally the same, they are both types of trains!
Yeah go electrics wooo! Jk I agree with you
No the steam trains were way more sophisticated than the diesels of today that's why they were replaced because humans got tired of maintaining them
locomotives*
Btw its weird how this video doesnt give me a tear
I wish I couldve seen those big boys
Yeah man, standing near a grade crossing when one of them was coming at you full speed with the whistle screaming.
Good news! Big boy 4014 is being restored, so you will be able to see one!
+LukeTheDude 101. I've seen 4014, she's my favorite steamer. #BigBoy4014.
I know this is an old comment, but yesterday and today, Big Boy #4014 ran under her own power! For the first time in 60 years! What a time to be alive!
Oh for lord's sake is there ever people that are gonna get 4014's gender correct?
I love it!!!
As a diesel, yellow heading down the main, through the hills and into the yard. Traveling along through the marshaling yard I put my hand on the brake and I open it wide, and I dream....
I think that this is the best song for the Amtrak EMD F40PH/F40PHR locomotive's.💗💗💗💗💗
They may be diesel locomotives, but they hold a big heart to our Nation Railroad Passenger Corporation of America.
@@LJRailfan-Gamer_07. That's very true.
Anyone watching in 2024?
Me
There will be a day where the age of steam will live again.
Good video and song!!
Steam-powered locomotives have always fascinated me from the day I laid eyes on engines such as 192 (AKA: Klondike Katie; beautiful engine). Yeah sure, they run on fossil fuels and cause a bit of noise pollution, but something about them gives them a certain charm that separates them from other engines (heck, the engines aren't even that loud compared to diesel engines). Out of all the different steam engines, the Challenger and Big Boy are my favorites. They just seem more...intimidating. Seriously, at 1:51, that engine is an absolute unit. I am in awe at the size of that nostalgic machine. I also think it's adorable that people give these engines female names and refer to them as "she" even though they're machines.
Also, ignore the profile image and name. I'm not a 12-year-old, trust me. I just have it as a joke.
Bonnie
to be fair they don't have to run on fossil fuels the swiss got a few to run on overhead cables with the power comeing from hydro dams
“A steam engine’s like a woman. If you don’t treat her well, she’ll make your life miserable.
For me, locomotives are both genders; for example, 844 is a she and 491 is a she and maybe the J3A is a he. I think big boy is a “he” because it’s called big boy for a reason 😅
@@AstroKnight118 well the person that named the j3a the 'Hudson' said "name her the Hudson." im sad they didnt preserve any
Yeah I'm a kid but I wanna be a train driver too when I grow up.
Who’s still watching this in 2023
Me 🙋🏼♂️
Me in 2024
Love the rare shot of the Hiawatha A class at 2:10. Sad that of the 4 built, not one was saved. Just curious, where was this shot taken at and what year? It would have to be before they were scrapped in 1951.
Im pretty sure it’s Milwaukee but it could be Minneapolis too. If it’s an A class on twin cities Hiawatha they were replaced in 1939.
Love it! Keep up the good work.
this song also reminds me of the large coal fired ocean liners that made history.. a persiod of time too too short......from about 1890-1950
1:17 i forget this video title can anyone know this video?
Nickel Plate Road 757, (not the exact title but that’s the locomotive)
It's number 85. The 8 has been blurred in between frames.
In 1:06 looks well a Ol Type locomotive from poland RR (2-6-2)
"+Ventura Leris
Because it IS a Ol type locomotive.
this is a my favorite train Big Boy
Lots and Lots of Trains.
This is great. I have a train song tooo.
0:35 best part
@gothpapa Thanks, greetings from germany to the fabulos US-Railroads! to all fotografers, like Winston Link, an all song-writers.
tRaiN fEVer
Mid Continent RR Museum brought me here.
Somebody’s gotta put this over Sultans of Swing by the Dire Straits