Video: Steam Was Great On The Nickel Plate
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Video: Steam Was Great On The Nickel Plate Courtesy of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, here is a ten minute video from 1958: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITq8_EuOHxw This is only a fair quality video consisting mainly of run buy sequences. There is a lot of reefer action with both produce reefers (mostly PFE & SFRD) and meat reefers (mainly Oscar Meyer, Armour, Hormel & Swift) in abundance. At 5:43 is a fuzzy image of a "butter dish" design car, possibly a milk or chemical car. Otherwise, their are a lot of boxcars whizzing by. I'm unaware of how much the Nickel Plate relied on steam power at that point in time when so many railroads had completely dieselized, but it would have been odd for that railroad to have needed marginal members of its locomotive fleet in 1958, a year of a very deep recession. Bob Chaparro Hemet. |
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vapeurchapelon
Bob,
many thanks for that link. I can't get enough of photo and film material of the good old steam days.
NKP made excellent and very profitable use of its steam engines. For a rr mostly in flat land Mikados and Berkshires are just ideal engines to really RUN freight across the system. So no wonder they stick long with them. Another and even better example of perfect steam engine service was N&W.
Regards
Johannes
Modeling the early post-war years up to about 1953
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Von: "Bob Chaparro via groups.io" <chiefbobbb@...> An: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Betreff: [RealSTMFC] Video: Steam Was Great On The Nickel Plate Video: Steam Was Great On The Nickel Plate Courtesy of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, here is a ten minute video from 1958: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITq8_EuOHxw This is only a fair quality video consisting mainly of run buy sequences. There is a lot of reefer action with both produce reefers (mostly PFE & SFRD) and meat reefers (mainly Oscar Meyer, Armour, Hormel & Swift) in abundance. At 5:43 is a fuzzy image of a "butter dish" design car, possibly a milk or chemical car. Otherwise, their are a lot of boxcars whizzing by. I'm unaware of how much the Nickel Plate relied on steam power at that point in time when so many railroads had completely dieselized, but it would have been odd for that railroad to have needed marginal members of its locomotive fleet in 1958, a year of a very deep recession. Bob Chaparro Hemet. |
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Bill J.
Thanks for posting that incredible footage. Incredibly USEFUL footage.
I first noticed the variability in weathering on reefers, from shiny-new to black soot. Those Berks were one of the best examples of Lima's Superpower concept. Trains magazine, years ago, did a cost comparison between them and a diesel. They were cost competitive! HOWEVER! Many-most RRs didn't use Superpower correctly. Superpower-equipped locos were meant to do long runs at higher speed, exactly what NKP did. The C&O's 2-6-6-6 were used in helper and drag ops, exactly the wrong thing to do. Superpower appliances weren't at their best at low speed. Irony. The film had sync sound, so it showed how many times an engineer wouldn't do the full - - o - at grade crossings. Some simply blew warnings, other stopped before the crossing, one didn't do anything. Does everyone know how - - o - became the grade crossing warning?! Bill Jolitz |
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