I Love Big Trains 3 (disclaimer in description)

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number three, I'm Jack and I'm Kevin, we have a great show for you, take a ride on the last operating interurban in the United States, the South Coast, we will visit the famous themed locomotive. expert and mechanic Doyle McCormick and we will see how a group of volunteers restored one of the most beautiful steam locomotives in the world. We will then head north towards Alaska, where the best way to see this beautiful landscape is from a train, it costs much more, as always. we open with a song the way they travel down the track with smoke coming out of the chimney I

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welcome to the South Shore Line the only remaining intercity passenger rail service in the United States South Shoreline has been operating between Chicago and South Bend since 1903.

Thousands of people ride these trains from their homes in Indiana to their jobs in Chicago. Let's talk about how the South Shore Line has power for many years. The locomotives have been powered by electricity. Most of these locomotives use diesel engines to turn. the generators that create electricity for electric traction Engines these locomotives are appropriately called diesel electric locomotives, but the south coast is different their locomotives or cars do not use diesel engines to generate the electricity, they get their power from overhead electrified cables, this is known as canary system the electrical energy necessary to run the trains is transferred from the cables to the tray through the pantograph a few years ago the South Shore passenger service was in danger of being interrupted but thanks to the Indiana State Legislature the South Shoreline was sure those people realized how important rail service to Chicago was to their state, so they took over South Shoreline and renamed it the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District, but most people still call it South Shore.

Lives let politicians complicate things, as we show. In the second part, South Shoreline is also used for freight service, but passenger trains always have the right of way each morning at the Carroll Street station in Michigan City. Train 840 adds more cars. This is how the cars are added after the train is at the station another train stops behind it from a site below each coupler there is a bank of pin connectors that conduct power between the cars for things like the intercom and the pantograph before adding the cards to the brake keeper, clean the connectors to ensure a perfect electrical connection. the trains are coupled then the pantographs are lowered and the power is cut but not for long almost immediately the pantographs are raised again and power is restored now the train is ready to load passengers for the 60 mile journey to Chicago.

Foreign ERS are installed. in the driver presses a button that tells the driver or train driver that it is okay to leave the station the driver sits in the lead car and runs the train rings the bell and blows the horn at odd crossings to change the speed of the train and apply the brakes to make the train stop this is the station in Beverly Shores I love that old neon sign it looks great at night at all the stations Kara has taken to make sure everyone rides the walkway safely closest to the tracks has a bright yellow rubber tread so that passengers do not tip over in the rain or snow.

There are signs posted warning passengers to stay behind the yellow line while the train is moving. The steps to get on and off the train have deep treads and there are also handrails so passengers can hold on to the headlights. Light up the steps and color them brown so people can see where they are stepping at night. South Shore runs on a single track main line for most of its journey. Signs play a very important safety rule. They make sure that only one train occupies the track on the On the way to Chicago, the South Shore passes through small towns, fields, industrial areas and neighborhoods.

Chicago is one of the busiest rail hubs in the world. Chicago also has the elf that takes people around the city. It is called L because it runs on raised trestles. The trains get their power from a third outer rail that runs along the two main rails. The two internal rails prevent the train from leaving the tracks in the event of a derailment. Downtown Chicago is called a loop because the L tracks form a loop around the main downtown. The loop route runs along Wabash Avenue to Lake Street 12th Street to Van Buren Street this forms a loop around downtown Chicago.

Passenger and freight trains share the same track between South Bend Indiana and Chicago if you are driving from Chicago to Indiana ask your parents to take Route 12 because Route 12 runs parallel to the South Shore track and can see a lot of action of trains abroad. If you love trains, you would probably want to live on this street in Michigan City, Indiana, this is 11th Street and it has three lanes, two for cars. and one for the trains, all of them, both freight and passenger trains, circulate in the middle of the street like the cars, the trains have to stop at a red light, when the light turns green, both the cars As the trains continue on their merry way, foreigner, of course, you.

I've seen black cars crossing the tracks when a train comes overseas, but I bet you've never seen a gate blocking another train, very interesting. Here's another interesting railway scene. You know, a train runs on two rails and we have seen. How certain trains use three rails, but what are these four rails? This is a special track platform used near elevated passenger platforms. Courier trains must be very close to the platform so that there is not a large gap for passengers to pass, but those tracks are too close. for freight train locomotives and freight cars because they are wider than passenger cars on the south coast, so the track is divided into two routes, the freight train uses the first and third rails, while the train Passengers use the second and fourth rails, thank you.

Commuter trains help the community and the environment. Taking the train means fewer cars on the road. Fewer cars means less pollution and that's a good thing. If you love trains, traveling on one is a great way to start your day abroad. I love it. look at the steam engines, there is so much going on, the big conductors spin smoke coming out of the chimney, whistles, the bell rings, the drive rods spin, the steam whistles and when you stand near a passing steam locomotive, I swear the earth shakes, thank you. Doyle McCormick is a steam expert. locomotives has been working on them since 1968 and has resurrected many old steamers that had two drivers in the rough Grace, as have those many salvaged works is my favorite engine the service life of 4,449 days from the South Pacific in 1975 Doyle oversaw its restoration and conversion to the red, white and blue locomotives that spearheaded the American Freedom Train Doyle is also an engineer on the American Freedom Train we meet Doyle at The Engine House at the Brooklyn Shipyards in Portland, Oregon Doyle, when did your fascination with the steam locomotives when I was a child? go with him to work 58 where we come from I was 15 so I remember it quite well and my dad working on the railway I had the opportunity to put together some steam engines and you know, all I ever wanted to be was an engineer when I was kid and I grew up in an engineering album it's driving a steam engine fun I like driving a steam engine I wouldn't want to do it as a full time job it's a lot of work it's hard work if I just had to run the engine and someone else I had to take care of it, that would be great, but when you have to make it work and you also have to take care of it, then it becomes a real chore, why do so many people like steam? engines what's the appeal that's a good question do you know why you like trains steam engines are one of the things that help make America as great as it is today was our ability to transport goods from the mines or the fields to transport the raw material to the manufacturing base and then deliver the manufactured products to the people.

It was our transportation network from the 1860s to the day that made this country as successful in the economic world as it was our ability to get around. goods and raw materials and these local films work, work, help develop our transportation network into what it is today. These were the Giants in their time. It represents a flashback of that time when people see this, people who remember them, it brings back memories. For them, there is a whole generation that has never seen one of these. They don't understand what they represent to Americans and what made them so great.

For them it is something new and exciting; for the older generation, it is something unique to their past. and for those of us crazy, it's just like running. You know, I never knew trains played such an important role in American history. How does the steam engine work? But all this is like a big barrel, extra water and all those tubes. They come from an area in the back that looks very similar to this, it's open and a fire is lit in the back and all the hot gas and smoke comes out through those tubes and the water completely surrounds the tubes and boil that water and spin. in steam, of course, the steam goes up these two big tubes that come out of here, the throttle is mounted on the top, when you open the throttle, it lets the steam go down through these tubes to the valves that move towards forward and backward and allow an escape. steam in the pistons because the piston goes back and forth which are connected to the wheels, which makes everything go down, you understand, but one thing still baffles me: how does a tenuous thing like steam have the power to move a giant steam locomotive?

I don't know if your audience understands physics and pressures, but you're dealing with 200 pounds of steam per square inch and when you look at what it is, you know 20 inches around, just rough math tells me it's 10 inches radius squared. . that and that's a hundred times 3.17 so you're looking at three over 300 square inches multiplied by 200 pounds of pressure per square inch that's 20,000 pounds of thrust on that piston twenty thousand pounds is a lot of force a lot of force and ​multiplies that multiplies by two because you have a piston on each side, so now I have 40,000 pounds of force pushing the pistons, forty thousand pounds will do a lot of flight work, so forty thousand pounds of pressure moves the pistons back and forth, the pistons move the drive rods and the drive rods return to the conductors, causing the steam engine to move along the track.

I understand now. I think Doyle, why did steam engines fade away? Stephen walking is our notorious, they are an inefficient diesel locomotive, on the other hand, but still. 10 times, they reduce their fuel costs three times in economic terms. It dictates everything in this country what it's like to sit in the cab and drive a steam locomotive it's hot yes it's dirty it's noisy and it requires a lot of work everything here is a manual system and it takes two people the fireman your job is to do it make sure that there is adequate steam pressure, a lot of water in a boiler, etc., the engineer's job is to run the train, which is different from how we are in the engine because running the engine is the easy part, running the Train is the hard part because you have a mile.

Behind you there is a 5,000 ton load and you have to think and manage how you are going to drive that 5,000 ton train running the engines as if you were driving a car after a while it becomes second nature to you, it takes a while to become so. I'm able to interpret all the sounds in feel and vibration and know what the machine is doing and be able to communicate with it, but after a while you know that people ride in it and I can hear things in the engine that other people can and All you hear is noise and it's loud up there, but each of the little noises has a meaning and you can sit in the engine and you can hear it and you can notice the changes in various noises in the way she moves and drives and you make throttle and investment adjustments accordingly and that makes the difference between an engineer and a mortar mix.

What is the difference between being an engineer on a diesel and being an engineer on a steamboat? Steam engines have air conditioning, we say we have 2x60. air conditioning, two windows at 60 miles an hour and we were in Yuma, Arizona, with this, well, 10 years ago, nowwe went into humans, it was 111 degrees outside and you were sitting in a boiler room there, sure enough, now there was 'There's nothing on that engine you can touch without burning your hands on it. A strange pull that sends steam from the boiler through those two tubes through the cylinders that are out there.

The big silver handle here is like the gear shift knob on your car. That's what they call a reverse, you go in that direction, you go forward, you go in this direction, you go back when you start to what they call the curve, which is like a low gear and as the engine accelerates and you go faster and faster , you keep moving it up one notch at a time listening to the engine and you can tell by the sound of the exhaust when you need to go up a notch, just like changing gears in your car, you can tell by the sound and feel of the engine you shift it but instead of doing it three or four times here and what I have 25 or 30 notches one is just for the engine brakes and this is the train and the engine brakes if you use this one, it brakes both the train and the engine at the same time, yeah you use this one, just brake the engine and then you have those sanders on the air horn and all the other gadgets here, the radio of course has to have communication these days, but all the gauges.

Inform the engineer about the status of the water pressure, how much pressure is in the boiler, how much pressure is in the cylinders, now, how much air pressure do you have for your brake system, of course, going down the corner that you can't see , is the speedometer. I keep hitting him, the only one who knows how fast we're going. it tells you how much water is in the tender and there is a small auxiliary engine called a propeller when you use it that gives you the reserve of propellant, but this is basically where the engineer runs the engine and the train, now on the other side is a fireman on the engine side and he takes care of all the irrigation boiler and the fuel that goes to the fire and I'll have to open the door unless you look in the firebox, it's like a ballroom in there, we call it the house of devil games because when you're running this thing, the fire there, the temperatures in the water are over 2000 degrees, so it's very hot there and you're producing a lot of energy here, how fast can steam engines go?

We always say that the speed of this engine is limited by the guts of the engineer who will drive, waiting for her to run. There is a rule of thumb in steam engines of one mile per hour for every inch of driver and this has 80 inch drivers so the optimal speed for this engine is 80 miles per hour. Thanks Doyle, that was fun. Thanks for taking us back to the days when steam was king. Alaska is our 49th state and was admitted to the Union on January 3, 1959. Eight months later, Hawaii became our 50th state. The state of Alaska, like Hawaii, is not physically joined to the mainland of the United States.

Alaska is our largest state at 656,000 square miles. Fairbanks and Anchorage are the two largest cities in terms of population. The Alaska Railroad has a line connecting the two cities between our 363 miles of beautiful scenery, the best way to see them is to take a train. Special excursion trips like the one offered by Princess Cruises offer beautiful views everywhere you look. The train is headed by two locomotives, the main locomotive is an SD70 MAC and the rear locomotive is a GP40-2. Both locomotives were built by General Motors. The special passenger cars make it easy to see the scenery.

Two passenger cards have large windows. Views that curve to the side so there is no bad seat in the house on the lower level there are open platforms so you can enjoy the view and the fresh air it comes to looking down as you travel across a high bridge over a raging stream, it gets the adrenaline going and provides a great photo opportunity almost anywhere you look you will see wildlife, bears, deer, buffalo and most are very common, in fact so common that after a few days you simply find them. you accept as part of the Alaska experience.

The mountains and stillness create a tranquil environment. The skies are deep blue and the air is clean and fresh. The train captures this stark view and provides passengers with an unforgettable journey. Alaska has a lot of snow and many Alaskan huskies. Huskies are used to pull sleds for transportation and racing. The driver of the dog sled is called a musher. Jeff King is the winningest musher in the world. Jeff has won many races, including the most famous dog sled race of all, the 1049-mile Iditarod. Let's talk about the Alaskan Husky. A special carousel teaches dogs to work together.

Some like to take a break and bark at their friends to go faster. The carousel also allows trainers to evaluate the dogs and see how best to train them and use them on a team now perhaps there will be puppies that exercise on this wheel in the same way that dogs with hamstrings have a running age between three and seven years old the dogs were caught these turn left and g means turn right if you want to read a good book about Alaskan huskies. I highly recommend called Wild by Jack London. I also like the poems about Alaska written by Robert Service.

My favorite is The Cremation of Sam McGee, the White Pass and Yukon route. Operating in Skagway about 80 miles north of the state capital of Juno, Alaska, this narrow gauge railroad was built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, the WP and the year it was the last commercial narrow gauge railroad in The United States in 1982, the WP&Y ceased operations, but in 1988 the railroad resumed operation as a tourist operation. Gage refers to the distance between the two rails. The standard distance between rails in the United States is four feet, eight and a half inches. The narrow gauge measures three and a half feet between rails 14 and one. half an inch narrower, that's why they call it narrow gauge.

It is an Alco design. The DL 535 were built in Canada by the Alco subsidiary. Montreal Locomotives. Thank you. The other diesel locomotives are these General Electric spade nose engines. It resembles a shovel. The passenger carriages have an average age of 50 years and have an antique wooden look. They are named after rivers and lakes in Alaska, Yukon and British Columbia. There is Lake Aishahic, Lake Linderman, Marsh Lake, and Portage Lake. The train is very comfortable and fun to ride. Windows are kept clean so passengers have a clear view of the beautiful scenery. In cold weather, a modern heater provides warmth.

Chimneys from old wood stoves are used to let out smoke from the new heaters. Trains pick up cruise ship passengers. ship docked at Skagway Harbor, both trains are loading quickly as people are eager to begin their 40-mile round trip. Along the way we see an old White Pass steam locomotive and a retired steam-powered rotary snowplow with a large blade on the front that spins and shoots the snow out. I bet it moved a lot of snow in its day. The trains make a steady climb of 2,865 feet to the top of White Pass Summit, just across the Canadian border.

Here the locomotives change and end. Trains return to Skagway to give passengers a second chance to see the beauty of Alaska. Alaska has a lot to offer. Beautiful views. Fascinating wildlife. Last open spaces. The Northern Lights and, best of all, as far as I'm concerned, exciting train rides. to go I have to take a train thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed the show the track outside there is no they are not good but I see them on the road almost every day every day I feel like you are running down my spine there is no denying the Safety is the most important thing on a railway: real trains are a lot of fun, but they can also be very dangerous.

It's fine to watch fans from a safe distance, but never walk on the tracks, tamper with signals, or climb on railroad equipment.