How To Fire Up a Steam Locomotive [4K]
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Channel: Jeff Berrier Videos
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Keywords: steam locomotive, steam engine, how to, steam train, train, trains, mountains, d&rgw, Colorado, denverandriograndewestern, D&RGW 491, K-37, old, ancient, vintage, steam, steam punk, fire up, lighting off, firing up, steaming up, railroad, rail road, railway, cab ride, footplate, narrow gauge, steam whistle, fire, coal
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Length: 37min 32sec (2252 seconds)
Published: Tue Oct 24 2017
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Primitive technology guy has really progressed, I must have missed a few videos.
OMG I can't believe it takes nearly 40 minutes to start a Steam engine.
...reads the youtube comments...
"The entire 6 - 7 hour process was shortened down to ~37 minutes in this video to highlight most of the main points." "From cold, it usually takes 6-7 hours to get up to operating pressure. In the video I started at around 3AM and the locomotive was running at around 10AM.๏ปฟ"
I still think steam engines are simply gorgeous.
tl:dw? Grease. lots of grease
This particular engine is a bit of an oddity, and it deserves to stay running. Denver & Rio Grande Western (D&RGW) 491 is an unusual 3-foot narrow gauge K-37 2-8-2 (2 truck wheels at the front for steering, 8 drive wheels, 2 trailing wheels under the cab). It's big for a narrow-gauge locomotive, but small by most standards when compared to some giants still running like Union Pacific 844 or Norfolk and Western 611. I think it's neat that there's still small railroads that preserved this size of locomotive out there just so it shows some variety of what we made back in the 1800's and early 1900's. Yeah, it's cool to see some titanic steam engines making a comeback (UP 4014, anyone?), but the compact car of the steam engine world needs some love too.
this musuem is pretty awesome too btw, they have a massive amount of cars and engines there. if youre ever in golden, co and need something to do you should check it out. they also have a massive miniature train display in the basement of the building.
One thing that I never understood was why people had to shuffle coal. They managed to make all these intricate machines but couldn't make some sort of slide from the coal compartment into the engine and then have some sort of jack mechanism pushing the floor up so that the coal was always high enough to let gravity do the work.
That's some Space Shuttle level of complexity right there.
grainy potato 4k