Mr.Brundridge, you really nailed it hard with this video. I get chills when I play it loud and in full screen. Hollywood aint got nuthin on your entertainment skills! Thanks a bunch for sharing and keep up the good work! MAN!
kim weaver Steam heat isn’t used anymore in the US. The diesels don’t provide steam heat, they just assist when needed, provide electricity, and provide dynamic braking.
I love that there’s nothing in the video that stands out as modern, no new cars off to the side, other people holding cell phones, etc. you could’ve done the black and white film edit, said it was shot in 1946 and I would’ve believed you. I love that
I paced 844 in 06 from Claremore OK to KC Union Station. On a stretch of tracks before the yard at Coffeyville she was hitting almost 85mph for a few miles. Man those drive rods were a blur,looked like they were only moving up and down a foot or so.
I think that is what you would like to think but when the detector just around the corner behind the train says 70+ mph I'll go with that as well but also since I paced the train most of the distance, I know it was regularly doing 70 to 75mph.
Latley I have reveiwed over the equation and it seems that my original anser is incorrect it seems when i origanly sumed up the numbers and divided I for got to add some of the decimals so the actual anser is 67.4 for the fact that 809.2 divided by 60 divided by 0.20 is 67.4 but when I did the original I aceldently added anouther zero sorry for the mix up.
UP used to run their steam locos upwards of 90mph in their time! So they have no worries of running them at authorized track speeds. For some great UP steam videos, may I suggest you go to (you tube) SkipW. He is with the UP steam crew!
This might have been 80 MPH, because 844 did 80 MPH on a run without a diesel, and since she doesn’t have a diesel behind her in this video, perhaps this was from that run.
@itnbfzi Yeah, and 70 MPH is 102.6 feet/ second, so that's about 4.9 revolutions/ second. I wish I had a high speed camera. I guess at 30 frames/ second, that'd be about 6 frames/ revolution.
I'm sure there was a steam engine in this video, but all I saw was a big, black smoking blur with some yellow stuff behind it! I'd say she was doing 79mph Amtrak speeds. Good luck trying to chase that on the highway.
Now thats a Freakin Hi-Ball! and i have seen a few it musta been a sittin on a siding somewhere just a waiting for the clear main green signal! Thats seriously making up some Lost time friends. LOL
Actually if you estimate that the 844 is 114.2 feet long plus each of the passenger cars are 85 feet long and eproximently that the box car is 50ft and the aux tender is 45ft and that it took 6 seconds to clear the camera and if you get the equation right the 844 was going a eproximate 81.97 MPH
I dont think the FRA has anything to do with it. Thats just the Union Pacifics' rule. The fastest they want any "special" train running is 82 MPH. (X-cept Amtrak). That includes the steam engines, the centennial, & the E units. I have been 70 MPH on the centennial & it was like flirting with death.
yep, y'all know the math by now. I counted 10 strokes of the main drive rod in 2 seconds. That's 18,000 strokes per hour. For an 80" driver, that's 4,523,893 inches per hour = 71.4 MPH :)
+09trainman many of those high drivered steamers northers, mountains, pacifics, hudsons, etc were capable of 100mph and in many cases exceeded that. 844 and her sisters were designed for 110 mph continuous running. The catch is that in the US even then there was very few places you could run that fast, but it was a under the rug tactic to make up time that many crews did.
The real feeling of kings of steam,,, I missed that Era by about ten years, or twenty,, stunningly beautiful
It just so happens that I'm in fluent in 4-8-4. At 0:07 she's saying, "MOOOOOOVE MOOOOOOOVE MOVE MOOOOOOOOVE!"
TrainTrackTrav Yep Lol
Heh
holy crap that’s cringe
Yeah, She Is Blaring Her Whistle!
This is so awesome - the majesty of it takes my breath away. Great Doppler shift, by the way.
Mr.Brundridge, you really nailed it hard with this video. I get chills when I play it loud and in full screen. Hollywood aint got nuthin on your entertainment skills! Thanks a bunch for sharing and keep up the good work! MAN!
Oh yeah, this will go down in history as one of the best UP 844 videos. Awesome footage! :)
Damn that gives me goose bumps thats so cool loving the speed and power of 844 wow faster yet faster !!!!
thats just awesome. Nice high quality shot and whistle.
Just beautiful. Thanks.
Wooo! Wooo! Awesome video Brian!!!!
Nice video! 844 looks great moving very fast.
Damn...she was movin'!
Nice to see those steam locomotives running without diesel assistance.
The diesels are usually along to provide steam heat (ironically), if required, and electricity to the coaches. And "in case of emergency".
@@kimweaver3323 As well as dynamic breaking systems, which aren't fitted when restoring steam engines
kim weaver Steam heat isn’t used anymore in the US. The diesels don’t provide steam heat, they just assist when needed, provide electricity, and provide dynamic braking.
Those diesels do not provide electricity. That’s provided by the power cars. Those are freight locomotives that do not have any HEP.
This locomotive was designed for fast passenger service from the beginning and will still scoot today quite well.
Holy hell, 105,430 views!? Wow, thanks everyone!
Nice video Brian. I was chasing it from The Dalles Dam and didn't catch up until I got to the Deschutes River.
Holy shit, that was quick. We saw it do a similar speed in Arkansas in 2006, about 75, but we didn't record video.
Friggin' AWESOME!!! Love it!!!
Beautiful!!!!
Beautiful!
Very cool vid, thanks for posting.
holy cow... this train is fast~ BTW, this is a perfect example to feel the doppler effect
I love that there’s nothing in the video that stands out as modern, no new cars off to the side, other people holding cell phones, etc. you could’ve done the black and white film edit, said it was shot in 1946 and I would’ve believed you. I love that
AWESOMENESS ❗
Great video. I filmed 844 several miles to the east of Celilo.
I paced 844 in 06 from Claremore OK to KC Union Station. On a stretch of tracks before the yard at Coffeyville she was hitting almost 85mph for a few miles. Man those drive rods were a blur,looked like they were only moving up and down a foot or so.
That is so fast! Nice to see a steam locomotive without a diesel. It doesn't really need one anyway.
I love the whistle
Great catch.
Possibly greatest steam train ever, listen to that whistle roar
that is how ALL TRAINS should be Filmed!
Listen to the tone of that whistle coming up the hill-it means BUSINESS!
I know she is rated for 120 mph, but damn! she was moving!
I thumbs uped this and subscribed great video
Nice catch there!!
damb awesome great video
did anybody see extreme trains series with matt bown doing a special on 844 ?, one of the best yet!
great stuff
American Steam at its best. Awesome piece of machinery :)
Now that's haulin'!
There was no diesel in the consist like with 4014 now, just 844 doing its thing. When did diesels get added as backup?
hot horses
that beast is flying ...
awesome!
@badboylll Oh I followed it from Portland to Boise, Idaho =P It was a great trip but this was the only location I wanted to get video of it at.
Wasco County, Oregon?
i've never saw a train hit that since a NKP Berk did it in 1953 at Lima,Ohio
GÉNIAL!!! ... Naturae Vox ❀
very nice!
Now THAT'S a run by!
I think that is what you would like to think but when the detector just around the corner behind the train says 70+ mph I'll go with that as well but also since I paced the train most of the distance, I know it was regularly doing 70 to 75mph.
Delivered by Alco in December 1944. Her horsepower is approx 4100-4300hp...not over 6,000.
Very cool! Dunno if you heard the DED at 92.7 but they were going 77!
@3254man
That's great, but the max speed limit anywhere on the UP today is 79 for passenger.
holy crap, I didn't think those things could go that fast
Eh, this ones stats say it can reach 110MPH.
HOLY SHIT...
When i was a kid, I wanted to be a steam engineer, but diesel electrics took over...I want a steam locomotive...
That makes sense, with 69 inch drivers, they had a top speed around 70 mph.
Now that's an EXPRESS.
This man has more balls than block of coal in 844's tender
SWEET!
Top speed for the 844 per UP SSI is 82 MPH. That is the max speed for the engine. Most subdivisions allow a max 70mph passenger train speeds.
Latley I have reveiwed over the equation and it seems that my original anser is incorrect it seems when i origanly sumed up the numbers and divided I for got to add some of the decimals so the actual anser is 67.4 for the fact that 809.2 divided by 60 divided by 0.20 is 67.4 but when I did the original I aceldently added anouther zero sorry for the mix up.
Very good. Beautiful. i like. I am movies of the trains. Thank you.
wow!
This is awesome!!
5*
totally amazing,nothing like steam!!!!!!!!!!
UP used to run their steam locos upwards of 90mph in their time! So they have no worries of running them at authorized track speeds. For some great UP steam videos, may I suggest you go to (you tube) SkipW. He is with the UP steam crew!
It would be fun to have them pull the Acela with 844.
Frogged awesome
Big Daddy was hauling in this one for sure.
Fast and beautiful!I like the units today but they just don't seem to be as good as the golden oldens!
Awesome train video,fast train 70+ MPH=about more than 112 KMH.
This might have been 80 MPH, because 844 did 80 MPH on a run without a diesel, and since she doesn’t have a diesel behind her in this video, perhaps this was from that run.
@mquiroz90 844 was actually one of the very last locomotives built by UP...in the 1950's.
She was actually built in 1944
@nclemens Nice work! Also, I don't think most UP track is rated above 80mph anyway.
great runby...I thought you started the camera early...not so!
@itnbfzi Yeah, and 70 MPH is 102.6 feet/ second, so that's about 4.9 revolutions/ second. I wish I had a high speed camera. I guess at 30 frames/ second, that'd be about 6 frames/ revolution.
It's like she's saying GET THE F OUT OF MY WAY!!!K
ya i heard about that too but i heard it was 5 and 1/2 hours
Fast, like a Japanese loco on a straight away.
I'm sure there was a steam engine in this video, but all I saw was a big, black smoking blur with some yellow stuff behind it! I'd say she was doing 79mph Amtrak speeds. Good luck trying to chase that on the highway.
Looks more like 110 mph to me! That train passed the camera in 9 1/2 seconds!
😱😱😱
Now thats a Freakin Hi-Ball! and i have seen a few it musta been a sittin on a siding somewhere just a waiting for the clear main green signal! Thats seriously making up some Lost time friends. LOL
That thing would knock down 90 brick walls at that speed!!
How much does the 844 weigh?
Around 900,000, engine and tender.
WOW
Damn, 844 is haulin ass
Hahaha I would have even payed money for driving stem locomotives like the 844 every day. One of the best jobs I can imagine
Actually if you estimate that the 844 is 114.2 feet long plus each of the passenger cars are 85 feet long and eproximently that the box car is 50ft and the aux tender is 45ft and that it took 6 seconds to clear the camera and if you get the equation right the 844 was going a eproximate 81.97 MPH
0:11-0:15....ZOOOM!!!!
Ah, I see. Thank you.
Well, she sure wasn't wastin' any time, was she?
I dont think the FRA has anything to do with it. Thats just the Union Pacifics' rule. The fastest they want any "special" train running is 82 MPH. (X-cept Amtrak). That includes the steam engines, the centennial, & the E units. I have been 70 MPH on the centennial & it was like flirting with death.
@AlmightySR
Luckily they spend 10 months a year working on it to keep that from happening. A main rod failure was rare as fuck in the steam days.
By counting the number of driver rotations per second, she's doing about 85 mph.
yep, y'all know the math by now. I counted 10 strokes of the main drive rod in 2 seconds. That's 18,000 strokes per hour. For an 80" driver, that's 4,523,893 inches per hour = 71.4 MPH :)
She can safely travel 10 mph faster than a P42DC. Just amazing!
Awesome!
+09trainman many of those high drivered steamers northers, mountains, pacifics, hudsons, etc were capable of 100mph and in many cases exceeded that. 844 and her sisters were designed for 110 mph continuous running. The catch is that in the US even then there was very few places you could run that fast, but it was a under the rug tactic to make up time that many crews did.
+HotRod Buick I've read they did 120mph on some occasions
@nicholasbreeden thats what I was getting at. many people would have turned to follow the 844, but he didnt and im thankful.
Whoa. Watch 844 strut her stuff
907,890 lbs.
Meanwhile the Fireman…🥵😰
yeeaaahhh...............
Does this thing have four-wheel disc brakes??? There is no stoppin' this puppy!!!
was that ment to be fast? CAUSE THATS SMOKIN