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The Mohawk Steam Locomotive - High-Speed Passenger/Heavy Freight - 3001 Did It All at 80 MPH!

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The last generation of Big Steam, New York Central's #3001 Mohawk Steam Locomotive was designed to do it all. This amazingly versatile steam locomotive could transport passengers at 80 mph/130 kph, could carry the heaviest cargo, and did it all with the look of raw power you only get in steam engines.

Join me as I visit NYC #3001, learn about its history, and its incredibly bright future.

Filmed on location at the National New York Central Museum in Elkhart, Indiana

Visit the NYC Museum at: cityofelkhartin.gov/departments/national-new-york-central-railroad-museum

Follow, and support, the restoration of #3001 at the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society: americanloco.org

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00:00 The Last Generation of Big Steam
01:23 The Erie Canal, The Dewitt Clinton, & The 20th Century Limited
02:59 The Mohawk's Huge Drivers
04:38 The Box-Pok Wheel - Hollow Wheels For Huge Locomotives
06:16 Breaking the Speed Limit
08:26 Track Pans - Refilling Water On The Go
09:58 The Automatic Coal Stoker
10:55 Why The Locomotive Has Wings - What Are These Things?
12:02 Smoke Deflectors
13:46 Dieselization - The End of Steam
14:24 Starting a Museum Career in Texas and Indiana
15:17 A Bright Future for 3001 - Returning to the Rails

20 Comments

@Industrial_Revolution Creator 2 months ago Pinned

CORRECTION: NYC #3001 is a 4-8-2 Mountain type (aka Mohawk), not 4-8-4 (which is actually a Northern type).

RESTORATION LINK: americanloco.org
I'll post the link here for the restoration, too As one of their volunteers posted in the comments, here, they're looking for donations AND volunteers, if you're in the area. Sounds like all skill levels, as long as you don't mind getting your hands dirty.

@Transit_Biker 2 months ago

The Tornado & T1 trust really started something in the preservation/restoration movement. Cannot believe 3001 will be under steam at some point in the future.

@RatSass77 2 months ago

I think you meant 4-8-2 Mountain Type not 4-8-4. Thanks for the video.....Such a huge tender

@Stanf954 2 months ago

I visited the NYC Museum last week and got a chance to see that engine.

@user-zn3qv8hp1o 2 months ago

That Locomotive need to be back on the running rails !

@livinglife1hoatatime657 2 months ago (edited)

It needs to be RESTORED! Incredible news! All of them need to be restored!

@TheOGBumbleBee70RS 2 months ago

That's great news. I wasn't aware that any were saved.

@mikeoveli1028 1 month ago

These are some of my favorite videos. Anything from the industrial revolution is fascinating. I love the giant machines that were part of that era.

@jerpiaaz 2 months ago

Correction at .50 seconds, 4-8-4 is a Northern type steam engine. The Mountain type is 4-8-2.

@johnwhitlock1427 2 months ago

A marvelous exposition of some of the amazing technology behind late steam locomotives. You have to remember that the railroads had the incentive and the resources to hire some of the best engineering minds in their respective countries.

The problem of oscillation of steam locomotive wheels was never fully resolved. There is a story that a professor of orbital mechanics in his spare time sometime in the 1950’s proved that the problem was mathematically insolvable and the real cause was the reciprocating motion of the pistons, piston rods and connecting rods.

@robertpapps3618 2 months ago

Great to hear about the restoration!

@danielmkubacki 2 months ago

3001 is so cool!

@janncfl 2 months ago

Thanks for this very well narrated video, for both beginners and hardcore steam fans! You have just earned yourself a subscription to your channel!

@outperformancelife3145 2 months ago

We really need to make exact replicas that can run and operate. They are amazing trains.

@thingsarenotwhattheyseem1 1 month ago

Incredible! I love how so many of these locomotives are being revived. I just learned that the one in Nashville is being restored. I used to sit next to it in the park and imagine it coming back to life. I never dreamed it would actually be happening!

@glorialotz3333 2 months ago

4-8-4's are northerns. 4-8-2's are mountains.

@warrenjones744 2 months ago

I just ran across your channel. It's so noice to see an actual person these days narrating and filming instead of using AI and recycled images. Well don sir. I think I will have a look at the rest of your catalog. Cheers

@MikeB0001 13 days ago

My great grandfather was an engineer driving locos from 1906 till he died of a heart attack in 1951.

@bigsparky65 3 weeks ago

Beautiful Locomotive, huge tender. Nice history

@allegheny48 2 months ago

Thanks for the informative video. When the T&P 638 was vandalized while on display in Dallas it has been written that the damage was repairable. But the city of Dallas opted to scrap the engine where it stood and thought the T&P would just donate another engine. But the T&P did not have another engine to donate so Mohawk 3001 was purchased from the NYC. I commend Fort Wayne for taking on the task of restoring the 3001. They certainly have their work cut out for them.