TRAINS: Oh Boy! Here Comes the NYC Heritage Unit! oh......, oh no................

When your truck doesn't quite stop fast enough at the railroad crossing...

Date posted to YouTube: February 7, 2024
Length: 1 minutes, 36 seconds

- Pseudo Boethius

TRAINS: Where diesels go to die

Storage yards filled with retired diesel locomotives from all over North America. There are some real antiques in this footage, with some of these units being seventy to eighty years old! Makes one sad for some odd reason.

Date posted to YouTube: February 16, 2024
Length: 23 minutes, 30 seconds

- Pseudo Boethius

TRAINS: Lochapoka, AL CSXT train crash on the CSXT A&WP, Lee road 61 crossing

When you get stuck pulling your low-boy trailer over the railroad crossing...

Date posted to YouTube: February 7, 2024
Length: 53 seconds

- Pseudo Boethius

TRAINS: Last Run of a Southern Pacific "Cab Forward" Steam Engine Over Donner's Pass (1957)

The audio quality of this video is poor at the beginning, but the video itself is quite amazing: the last run of a "cab forward" Southern Pacific steam engine running eastbound over Donnor Pass back in 1957. Most all the railroads in America had been fully dieselized by 1957, and so "last runs" of steam engines where a common occurence in those days.

It's sad to see these big black steam giants, who were instrumental in helping America win World War II, finally being replaced by diesels. Most of these steam engines were just sent to the nearest scrap yard without a second thought.

Date video posted to YouTube: February 17, 2024
Length: 57 minutes, 26 seconds

- Pseudo Boethius

HOBBIES: Gorre & Daphetid, the only motion picture ever made of John Allen's layout

In the world of model railroading, there is one man who almost everyone considers the best model railroader in history, and that would be John Allen of Monterrey, California. Fellow hobbiests called him "The Wizard of Monterrrey." He created a model railroad that was based in a fantasy land that resembled both the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada mountains. His model railroad was very much influenced by the American West, and he did something quite unique with his train fairyland: he ran his model trains exactly like a real railroad, complete with time tables and train orders.

This video contains the only known film footage of the railroad. Sadly, the entire thing was destroyed by fire in the early 70's.

Date posted to YouTube: February 6, 2024
Length: 36 minutes, 9 seconds

- Pseudo Boethius

TRAINS: Tornado 101.6mph run 15th May 2017 Prt2

Running a steam engine at 100+ mph in the UK, in 2017.  It's a lot harder than you would think, but this crew did it!  Wow!

2019-01-20  [P-B]