https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpsUgTOiKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzgxM5rSy0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xVpVhmOChI&t=6s
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Old vacuum
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Old_vacuum.jpg
Zepher truck
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pioneer_Zephyr_in_the_Museum_of_Science_and_Industry_(Chicago)#/media/File:Pioneer_Zephyr_bogie.jpg
Santa fe plza taos dome car
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pleasure_Dome_cars#/media/File:Chandler-Arizona_Railway_Museum-Santa_Fe-Plaza_Taos_-1950-Lounge_Room.JPG
MARC e unit
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:EMD_E9_locomotives_of_MARC#/media/File:MARC_69_Point_of_Rocks_July_1994xRP_-_Flickr_-_drewj1946.jpg
GP40 WH-2
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:M-K_GP40WH-2_locomotives_of_the_MBTA#/media/File:MBTA_59_outbound_in_West_Concord.jpg
Maine eastern FL9
commons.wikimedia.org/James Wang CC BY 2.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maine_Eastern_FL9.jpg
Pioneer Zephy rWinton 8-201A diesel engine.
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Power_room_of_Pioneer_Zephyr#/media/File:CB&Q_Pioneer_Zephyr_engine_room_20180808.jpg
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Nice job, Peter! This video confirmed what I always suspected about the E series which is that they were largely too heavy and inefficient when compared to the F units and GP's of the time. Very cool to find out the actual details of their development and lives.
Stories like railroads in the 50s to 70s makes me hate the heck out of the ICC
WWII was could be seen coming years before 12/7/41
The Santa Fe “war bonnet” livery, at least I think is what’s called is such a classic design. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one I like better.
I’m not a huge rail fan but find the history of railroads interesting,
We are so fortunate to have had the rail system during WW2, too many people don’t appreciate the contribution rail played. They just bitch about being delayed at crossings……..
Very interesting history. The Illinois Railway Museum has an operating C. B. & Q. E-5. It's a very classy-looking locomotive with its long, slanted nose. It and its matching stainless steel train set are a beautiful example of elegant, passenger travel from long ago.
As a Brit, I consider these E Series to be the definitive American locomotive.
3:49 love it!
This is a great video.
32:09 😂😂😂😂
13:56 Did he say speeds of several hundreds miles per hour?
Need more of this! Can do only so much avaition. Seen coming ? It was coming since 1937 latest. What does this have to do with train design?
Excellent video. It is very informative and has some excellent photographs. The EMD F Units are some of my favourite locomotives. Thank you.
Honestly, THIS is what a passenger locomotive should look like. Just love 'em.
The sal E6 introduced the door on the nose.
Still waiting for a place to pause the video so I can get back to work…
I’m 74 now, born in ‘49 in Modesto. Family and friends knew I was nuts as I was constantly drawn to the rails running through town.
You cover one heck of a lot of locomotive history here and you do it well!
Thanks!
33:50 Sounds like the governments needs to own the railway right of way too, this will make it fair.
Never stop with the dad jokes. Great video as always!
If you wish to buy a full size E-8A unit, there is one for sale. Priced at $158,000. Batteries need replacing.
Nice Job ,, I'm a budd fan ,, Terrific Video
Living in Northern suburbs of Chicago I had the Northwestern and Milwaukee roads to watch back in the fifties and sixties steam was gone streamliners were in service. I rode pullman service north to Michigan's upper peninsula and south to the Gulf coast when I was very young. I saw the Turbo trains come and go I watched as one cleared the Rondout junction plates by a foot pushing around 100 mph as it went through. I stand on the pedestrian path, at Rondout, that replaced the electric North Shoreline to watch Freights, Amtrak and the local suburban trains. Good overview.
In the American market they are lower and have a greater supply compared to the European market (the U.K. has a quantity of material but the prices are a little high). Kato doesn't even see himself and I know he has good material. German companies do it with quality but at a high price. Yes, there are other companies but they are in the U.K. and soon the pre-payment skyrockets. Yes, nowadays the sets are better and I speak from experience. I miss seeing Bachmann and Atlas here. Perhaps it is the size of the market that creates the conditions. You are lucky, you don't even know. I have N scale, all american, and boy some times ……😢. Expensive and there is nothing.
The Alco PA more glamorous than the E or F?! No way. Especially the earlier Es with the slantier nose, which were the best looking ever made.
Great documentary; those heavy old locomotives looked fantastic. Shame passenger rail almost got organized out of existence by the road and then the air lobby leaving just commuter and tourist lines. But there's a renaissance now with those Brightline trainsets which, if not subject to a new bunch of dirty tricks, could spread successfully to dozens of places. As has been found in the UK, it's just not possible to bulldoze old city center areas and suburbs for new high speed tracks without vested interest groups stonewalling forever, so the good old days of continental rail can't come back. And even if they could who, apart from a tourist, wants to take 3 days to go where an airplane can go in six hours.