In addition to that, you should expect to see either a diesel and/or a power car on every excursion this locomotive runs. Because this locomotive was designed purely to haul freight trains, it’s highly unlikely it’ll have Head End Power (HEP) to power lights, AC, etc. for excursions.

For those who’ve never seen one of these steam giants working, here’s a vidio!

Good lord that whistle in the second video. So haunting and beautiful.

They did something similar with N&W 611 back in 2016 (IIRC). You’re right. They sold out every trip.

Not that it would stop him, but they converted it to burn oil.

Fixed!

As a mechanical engineer, it boggles my mind they came up with things like this with hand drawings and slide rules. No automated machining, no 3D modelling. Just old school engineering. I couldn’t care less about modern locomotives, but there is just something about old steam locomotives. 

California’s high-speed rail project turned out different than I expected.

Or not because that’s not what I suggested at all. 

I wish UP would arrange a cross-country back to the Schenectady works where it was born. This thing is a legend there, my whole family was somehow tied to the Alco plant.

The Allegheny would like to argue 

For those wondering why UP 4014 in the whistle video sounds like an elementary school kid trying to play a trombone for the first time, here’s why: As you all know, steam engines operate by making...well, steam. To get a good, solid note coming from a steam whistle you need dry air, and steam...well, it sometimes…

Art Deco and streamliners were a match made in some kind of aesthetic heaven, that’s for sure!

Ain’t no “probably” about it.

Same here.

I wish someone would put together one of these to rebuild a J3a Hudson. It’s a real shame they were all scrapped.

Yes, and there is also a great railroad museum in Strasburg, PA - the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. It is just southeast of Lancaster.

Yep. This is supposedly the original non-fake that inspired the spoof. The comments are almost identical:

20th century steam locomotives are beautiful machines. Especially towards the end of their era. 

In his defense it did burn coal originally before being converted.