The wabash were also known for fast service you might want to check them out.
@kylegarlinger4178
11 ай бұрын
As an Indiana resident, I’d like to point out it’s pronounced wah•bash. Wah like fake crying and bash like a party.
@Piedog769
11 ай бұрын
I watch these in part to hear how he mispronounces names like him pronouncing should (Gewld) as “Gold”. Maybe it’s a ploy for more view; I don’t know but I keep watching. Lol
@michigandon
11 ай бұрын
@@Piedog769 Like you, I'm beginning to think he does it on purpose. I wanna reach through the screen and choke him every time he says "StudeBACHer"!
@aaronberger3257
11 ай бұрын
And its Ash tuh bue la. Not Az tab uh la.
@berniemarkley
9 ай бұрын
As in the song "The Wabash Cannonball"
@Cletrac305
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for clarifying that for everyone. I was struggling to figure out how to spell it phonetically for him! Another Indiana location often mispronounced is Wawasee. Of course, Hoosiers also pronounce Vevay as Veevee and Versailles as versails.
@harrisonallen651
11 ай бұрын
Nickel Plate being a much more favourable name rather than The New York, Chicago and St Louis Railroad is quite naturally surprising
@danhoyland142
11 ай бұрын
I was a track laborer out of college because of the 08-09 Great Recession. I worked for a contractor and laid 3/8 to 1/2 mile of track a day, 10 days on, 4 days off. Grueling work, I can’t picture how their mainline from Buffalo to Chicago was done so shortly. There must of been 1000s of laborers working round the clock to pull that off and without any of the equipment to make their jobs easier that we had. Insane.
@keithstudly6071
11 ай бұрын
Much of the route was already existing Lake Erie & Western track. New construction was largely the route from Cleveland to Buffalo.
@kcamera4975
11 ай бұрын
The Nickel Plate ran right by my house when I was a kid. The rattling of the house and the whistle would put me to sleep at night. And mystery solved - I now know why the line had two names 👍
@dustyvidito
11 ай бұрын
Your railroad history videos are your best ones. I’d like to see some roads from other countries, like Germany and Australia
@harrisonallen651
11 ай бұрын
Australia I’d love to see
@True_NOON
11 ай бұрын
Tbh in europe its either tiny railways in like the 1840s known by few local people, or ones that made mainlines , and past 1900 just {split in 2} {merged back}
@fanofeverything30465
11 ай бұрын
I'd like to see one from Australia as well
@TheBrandon40500
11 ай бұрын
One of my favorite railroads, I got a nice HO scale NKP diesel collection of GP7's, SD9's and RS3's just recently finally found a new atlas NE6 NKP caboose after a 20+ year search. Thank you for posting this video. I dont comment much but i watch almost every video you make im a big fan of you're channel. Again thank you for the great content you spew out so regularly!
@douglasengle2704
11 ай бұрын
I didn't understand the fascination with the Nickel Plate 765 Berkshire 2-8-4 till this video because it has a single axle leading truck marking it as a slower freight locomotive, it is under 3,000 hp ( NKP 2,754 cylinder hp) where fast passenger locomotives in the Northern 4-8-4 class have a double axle leading truck, are close 5,000 hp with a passenger train top speed significantly over 100 mph. Now I do, because the Berkshire 2-8-4 was a fast efficient coal steam freight locomotive and this video reveals the Nickel Plate was known for its very good fast freight. NKP Berkshires were also used on the Nickel Plate trackage which was greatly straight with mild curves so its lack of double axle steering front truck on many lines may not come into play. The continual straitness of NKP trackage near the great lakes is legendary and still used today. The main reason I'd never understood the fascination with the Berkshire 2-8-4 was we'd had the C&O 614 4-8-4 Greenbrier pull the fall foliage New River Gorge train in the mid 1980s when I was attending WV Tech Montgomery WV. The general classification for a Greenbrier 4-8-4 is a Northern 4-8-4. Ross Rowland says he's had the C&O 614 at 120+ mph pulling cars. I'd seen it pull over 30 fully loaded coal cars up the grade of the New River Gorge by itself. The C&O 614 4-8-4 would lead a unit coal train of empties, about 1-1/8 miles long, down the New River Gorge grade. To me it was a big disappointment when the fall foliage WV New River Gorge train switched to using a freight steam locomotive the Nickel Plate Berkshire 765 2-8-4 over the fast passenger locomotive the Greenbrier C&O 614 4-8-4. The C&O 614 4-8-4 is way over 50% faster and can have almost double the horsepower of the Berkshire 2-8-4. The Greenbrier 614 pulled 18 passenger cars up the New River Gorge grade or more when I saw it. It was problem in the wet because of wheel slip, but Ross Rowland always wanted to show what it could do. The Berkshire had to have the assist from at least one Diesel. There was one very cold day near 0°F in Montgomery WV when I was watching the railroad going to class and the C&O 614 was given a red signal to stop on the up grade at the west end of Montgomery. I couldn't believe the railroad had ordered a steam locomotive to stop up grade in a major town with a full load of coal cars behind it. A steam locomotive when starting can be hard to keep from black smoking. That steam locomotive engineer wasn't going to black smoke Montgomery. When the C&O 614 started with about 35 fully loaded coal cars up the grade in 0°F temperature it through up a steam jet 100s of feet into the air! That steam in the 0°F temperature exploded into rapidly expanding clouds of visible water vapor spreading out all over the valley sky. I called it the town humidifier. Five minutes later I looked up near the mountain ridge about 1,000 feet up and that visible cloud had expanded to fill much of the upper sky. It was otherwise a winter crystal blue sky January day with white snow covered land. Black smoke would have been horrible photo possibility for Ross Rowlands clean coal promotion. It's the Berkshire that is the locomotive used in the Polar Express Christmas story. To rail fans it seems like a mistake of the cartoon animators where they likely really meant to use a Northern 4-8-4 not a Berkshire 2-8-4 because the single axle leading truck means it is for slower freight service not fast passenger trains, but it was actually seeing that Berkshire on display while attending college that went a long way to inspiring the author to write the Polar Express story. That's the reason given for why a Berkshire was the intended steam locomotive in the animated movie. A freight steam locomotive should reasonably keep as much weight on its drivers as possible which means not shifting weight on to the leading truck. The leading single axle truck is acting as an up and down bump stop stabilizer rather than providing steering guidance into curves. Passenger steam locomotives don't need the extreme starting tractive effort freight locomotives make use of every time they start a long freight. Fast passenger steam locomotives place weight on their double axle leading trucks to guide them into high speed curves. This is not just for passenger steam locomotives, but takes place for fast freight steam locomotives such as the 4-6-6-4 Challenger and 4-8-8-4 Big Boy. Those fast freight steam locomotives were also intended to be able to pull passenger trains if needed and did during WW2.
@gtwfan52
10 ай бұрын
The Polar Express locomotive was Pere Marquette 1225. PM later became the Chessie's Michigan Lines. A different engine of the same class (1223, I believe) was rescued from static display on Michigan State University's campus and completely restored and renumbered 1225 by the Steam Rail Institute. It runs excursions around Christmas every year on a north-south freight only line in Michigan.
@douglasengle2704
10 ай бұрын
@@gtwfan52 Thanks for clearing that up. I was never a huge fan of the Berkshire because it meant we wouldn't be getting the high speed passenger steam locomotive the C&O Greenbrier 614 4-8-4 for the New River fall foliage train. After hearing the story of how the author of Polar Express, having watched the Berkshire on display many days when going to college and it encouraged him to write the Polar Express, I'm much more affectionate towards it. Its only about half the horsepower of a top Northern 4-8-4 which easily pull passenger trains over 100 mph.
@Callie83
11 ай бұрын
Ran right through my hometown and rattled everything in my house when I was a kid. Now the NPL is a well-traveled bike path.
@derikledford544
11 ай бұрын
A lot of the railroad bridges in Cleveland still say nickel plate road on them.
@neohistoryfan1014
11 ай бұрын
One of my favorite RRs! I have a book about Cleveland's railroads, which mentions that the NKP used steam through 1962 or 63 (probably in yard and local service after the mainline ones were retired). i'm actually considering the NKP's mainline from Buffalo to Bellevue, Ohio set in the late 50s as a TSW3 route. The equipment will include all freight cars from circa mid-20s to 1957 and all NKP passenger cars for rolling stock; H, S, L and B/C/U steam locomotives; ALCO PAs, RS3s, RS11s, S1/2/4s, EMD GP7/9s, SD9s, NW2s, SW1/8/9s, Baldwin AS16s and Fairbanks-Morse H10/12-44s for diesels.
@robertwilloughby8050
11 ай бұрын
The Reading would be great!
@NotGavin
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely love these railroad history videos, would love to see the B&M or MEC at some point!
@therectorrailroad2716
11 ай бұрын
Great video, could you cover the Louisville & Nashville railroad?
@ATJonzie
11 ай бұрын
Ashtabula, the only thing of significance in my home town is the disaster.
@OKFrax-ys2op
6 ай бұрын
Well the harbor, at one time was the busiest in the world during WW2. That’s something 🤔🏆
@harmab2
11 ай бұрын
My personal favorite rail road ❤! Thank You ❤!!
@efrenhinojosa4084
11 ай бұрын
MoPac in the future.😊 Loved the vid.
@williamh.jarvis6795
10 ай бұрын
Wondering what the future would have been like if the MoPac and the Southern Railroad ever finalized a proposed merger, back before the Union Pacific Railroad absorbed it. There were talks about it!
@ForrestLambert.2022
11 ай бұрын
If you have done any videos on the C&O you need too. Guess it was one of the best railroads in the northeast from what i heard when i worked for a railroad in MA.
@gtwfan52
10 ай бұрын
The C&O didn't run in the NE. It ran more or less from Virginia to Chicago. One of its successors, the Chessie System did reach the NE.
@mike6206
11 ай бұрын
Great video! Would you consider a documentary on The Western Maryland Railroad?
@joelchristensen9503
11 ай бұрын
Really neat history! Great video!
@Patrick_3751
10 ай бұрын
Something extremely important to keep in mind is that the tests that revealed the supposedly marginal savings of diesels over the Berkshires was extremely controversial at the time and the results may not have been accurate. I recall reading an article about the NKP's last order of berkshires in Classic Trains magazine many years ago which mentioned an interesting incident after the N&W merger. Supposedly an N&W official found corporate documents in one of NKP's offices approving the purchase of their final berkshires BEFORE the tests were conducted, which suggests that the railroad executives had long made up their mind and may have fudged the test results to justify their decision!
@nilo9456
11 ай бұрын
A Nickel Plate track bordered our farm, First RR Co. I was aware of as a kid.
@DrRacer78
Жыл бұрын
I think the Pennsylvania Railroad should be next because I think it's long overdue that you talk about the Railroad that produced your favorite locomotive ever Darkness.
@bradleybarry3426
11 ай бұрын
Im aware of the Astabula Bridge Collapse, I watch a documentery on it not too long ago. It was a sad time for all. However, to prevent my fellow Ohioians from spamming your inbox, I feel the need to say it is pronounced Ash-ta-bU-la. Still appreciate your content anyways.
@OKFrax-ys2op
6 ай бұрын
Exactly
@HoosierDaddy_
11 ай бұрын
To this day I like to stand on the NP tracks and imagine traveling on them. If I go east, I get to New York. If I go west, I go to St. Louis. That would be a great trip!
@FreihEitner
10 ай бұрын
Good history lesson. Thank you for this.
@ekrwy2
11 ай бұрын
Need to do one on the Timken Four Aces! Nice job on the Nickel Plate
@randombread7535
11 ай бұрын
please do a video on the grand trunk western
@gtwfan52
10 ай бұрын
My favorite railroad. I was lucky enough growing up to have a summer home in an old railroad resort on a lake near Kalamazoo. The GTW was in my backyard. In the winter, the place I lived was right across the street from the NKP in NW Indiana. No wonder I'm still a train fan at 68.
@lizshoemaker6569
11 ай бұрын
I work for a company that sprays the railroad, and they TRRA still has a section called the Nickle plate in st Louis, crazy how they have all broke up and restructured and rebuilt and reuse the same lines
@frankdemski7242
9 ай бұрын
A great story. I like that history. It is amazing to learn something about Nickel Plate. Thanks for that interesting video.
@jwrailve3615
11 ай бұрын
My first two dcc units were KPR, 8100 and a geep30. Please do gulf coast lines! Love these mini docs
@TheBrandon40500
11 ай бұрын
Be cool if he made one on the GM&O
@jwrailve3615
11 ай бұрын
@@TheBrandon40500 I’d take any railroad from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico honestly. Especially the logging lines in east Texas like the Camden and augustine that ran steam til the late 60’s
@larkinproductions971
7 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video. Full of information. Plus I’m a fan of the nickel plate road
@DoubleSpikeProductions
11 ай бұрын
I would agree with the other comments. Very nice video! Would love to see one done about the Wabash!
@Master-of-None
Жыл бұрын
OMG dude you could not have axe murdered Ashtabula's name any worse. Hahahah
@HistoryintheDark
Жыл бұрын
I am known for several things. British Rail PTSD. Bad locomotives. Underwater trains. But mostly, for the absolute, unapologetic destruction of name pronunciation.
@fanofeverything30465
11 ай бұрын
@@HistoryintheDarkAlfred E Perlman roleplays
@masterskrain2630
11 ай бұрын
@@HistoryintheDark "Ash-ta-BUHL-Ah"
@Doll.The.Solver
Жыл бұрын
I love this video, it’s amazing, and the nickel plate railroad was amazing, live live the nickel plate railroad 🤩😍
@intercityrailpal
7 ай бұрын
Lots of Lehigh Valley movies and New York Central here.
@Marc_von_Hoffrichter
11 ай бұрын
Great video mate, Thanks for sharing, cheers mate.
@JPOGers
10 ай бұрын
My dad and his (my) extended family were originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Nickel Plate was EVERYWHERE in northern Indiana
@kylben
11 ай бұрын
"WahBAHSH"? You ain't from the midwest, are you? "WAWbash"
@nilo9456
11 ай бұрын
What kylben says
@AlfredPeeler-yj6sw
10 ай бұрын
Good video. Would you consider doing a story on theNC&St.L?
@MIKE-ld2in
11 ай бұрын
Pron. check Wabash accent on first syll Ashtabula accent on 3d syll. Love your stuff! BTW
@mikeyhowell5449
11 ай бұрын
As a Indiana resident iam from peru, Indiana Nickel Plate road had a railroad it called lake Erie western 1928 Nickel plate road took over the Lake Erie western
@TheBrandon40500
11 ай бұрын
Could you possibly do a short doc on the Peabody coal railroad? Nobody ever talks about it,it was a very short lived railroad only around for maybe 2 years but it has always been fascinating to me idk why it just is. Just a thought.
@TheGs4_4449
11 ай бұрын
EMD: Buy our diesels! Nickel Plate Road: *We do not care.*
@oldclip70
10 ай бұрын
Please read The Nickel Plate Story. They tested their F-2’s or 3’s. Nickel Plate Road: our 2-8-4’s just kicked your a**. EMD: I know who to call. Lackawanna: Buy those diesels or else!!! (Lackawanna had substantial stock of the Nickel Plate. That why NKP and secret talks with N&W about taking them over. It was so secretive, officials had aliases .)
@TheGs4_4449
10 ай бұрын
@@oldclip70 My bad. Thanks for the correction!
@oldclip70
10 ай бұрын
@@TheGs4_4449, no problem!! When I read about it, I was in shock too.
@TheGs4_4449
10 ай бұрын
@@oldclip70 Should I change the comment to be accurate, or leave it be?
@oldclip70
10 ай бұрын
@@TheGs4_4449, na…when people corrected me, I thanked them for the information. We all learn. It makes us sharper and better.
@buckyc.9069
4 ай бұрын
NKP's philosophy meshed perfectly with that of N&W. Some of the last steam holdouts.
@iBackshift
11 ай бұрын
Mint documentary. Entertaining and informative. DTC, look up the "Halifax Explosion" for fun. Do a doc on that one.
@Warzsoffical
11 ай бұрын
Make a video on the frisco railroad
@brianmorgan5739
5 ай бұрын
My honest opinion is that Nickel Plate and the Delaware Lackawanna and Western would have made good merger partners as well as eventual merger with the Chicago and Eastern Illinois later on. That way this merger would have opened up a direct route to the Eastern Seaboard for the Nickel Plate and a Chicago connection for the Lackawanna and a more direct Chicago to Saint Louis routing for both Nickel Plate and the Lackawanna combine as well as a greater access to Great Lakes ports for the Lackawanna and Ocean going facilities in Eastern New Jersey for all three in Hoboken. Yet this is my opinion.
@jaxonklee8063
7 ай бұрын
In my home town of ELWOOD Indiana there was the NKP Nickel Plate Road PRR Pennsylvania Rail Road and I think NYC New York Central there may be more but I just started researching on this topic over the past few days
@buckyc.9069
4 ай бұрын
Norfolk and Western had a penchant for acquiring well engineered and successful lines. Wabash, Nickel Plate, and Virginian.
@alhasanbeitelmal6218
11 ай бұрын
I want to tell you that maby you could do the talks of England. Not British rail i meant the LMS, LNER, Southern, and GWR. It could be entertaining plus add swindon works.
@milissathreatt8014
11 ай бұрын
There's actually a Nickel Plate Road Bay window Caboose in Winnsboro, SC at the Railroad Museum of South Carolina
@Thechief8771
17 күн бұрын
Ns 8100 is the first ever heritage unit I ever saw.
@zsracingandgaming8622
11 ай бұрын
Soo Line?
@True_NOON
11 ай бұрын
Tbh its a straight shot most of the time cuz its fields and a few small towns, so one can actually choose the alignment , way more than in for example the appalachians
@NoPegs
11 ай бұрын
@6:39 Ash-taaah-beau-lah.
@geoffbeck8178
11 ай бұрын
@History in the Dark. Do you have a listing of upcoming fallen flag videos? I love these
@oldclip70
11 ай бұрын
I’m truly disappointed with this. I know that you took your time with this. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western wanted to take over NKP. The book Merging Lines gives an excellent account.
@CrossOfBayonne
5 ай бұрын
In fact the Nickel Plate linked up with Lackawanna in Buffalo at what's now the light rail station over there, During World War II in August 1943 there was a wreck in Wayland NY when the Lackawanna Limited going 80 mph crashed into a mikado locomotive that was doing switching at the gunlocke chair factory one of the passenger cars where most of the deaths took place was in a Nickel Plate passenger car
@Crosby_3
11 ай бұрын
Hey, just wondering if you can talk about the Salem & Hillsborough railroad, the Sydney & Louisburg railway, or the Dominion Atlantic Railway? They are some of the shortlines in Atlantic canada.
@N_scale
7 ай бұрын
Video suggestions 1. NdeM/TFM/KCSM/CPKCdeM 2. CGW 3. CNJ
@sorshiaemms5959
8 ай бұрын
Love the Burks if you picture the word steam train thats what you would think it looked like
@jeremymachacek9056
6 ай бұрын
as someone who knows people from the area of the bridge disaster, the way Ashtabula is pronounced is wrong. it is Ash-ta-bu-la
@buckyc.9069
4 ай бұрын
When NKP took delivery of their first Geeps and Alco diesels, did anybody imagine a hi-tech 21'st century unit, painted in the same color scheme? Go figure.
@NKPTrainSimulations
2 күн бұрын
Hey just wondering can you do one on cbq?
@adodgygeeza
11 ай бұрын
$7 million in 1881 is in today's money more in the region of $1.5-2.3 billion. The lower figure would be if you inflated by unskilled labour cost and the upper if you used GDP per capita. If you use consumer price index you are basically measuring how much better over time we have got at making consumer goods.
@generalspitfire01
11 ай бұрын
There was a train named after .the town I live in that was operated by these guys
@NKP1155
10 ай бұрын
Did you check with the Nickel Plate HTS? We are a great resource for images and deep back ground. You could make a better video if you revise the images to NKP material.
@DMIRyellowstoneFan
3 ай бұрын
I love the Berkshires! :D
@spyfan62591
11 ай бұрын
5:04 oh yes it is way worse. Largest understatement known to man
@Robbi496
11 ай бұрын
Gould had the Erie, why would he need the Nickel Plate?
@kurtpena5462
11 ай бұрын
"Wah Bash"
@franks471
11 ай бұрын
Follow the Nickel Plate Road Follow follow follow follow follow the Nickel Plate Road...
@truckdaddy1957
11 ай бұрын
Wah-bash and ash-ta bue-la
@intercityrailpal
7 ай бұрын
Nickel Plate was a cash machine, but should have merged with Lackawanna. But that commuter loss was a issue. Not the long hauls that were few and still profitable with the mail and package express on them. But short haul high expense low revenue commuters. Killed that. A flood made the Lackawanna sell the gold eggs the NKP goose laided and lost control and income from the stock. ( They should have borrowed against the income! )
@gonzoengineering4894
11 ай бұрын
Lehigh Valley When?
@CrazyBear65
11 ай бұрын
They chomp thru your skull with the greatest of ease, those big fluffy pumas in the overhead trees... Sorry, my inner asshat made me do it.
@buckyc.9069
4 ай бұрын
If you read Steinbecks "East of Eden", he'll give you whiff,(yuck!), of how transporting produce had some fits and starts, until technology was given time to catch up.
@themadmahaha8129
11 ай бұрын
As someone from Ashtabula, I’d like to call out you pronounced it wrong. It’s Ash-ta-bu-la
@AndrewTheRocketCityRailfan4014
11 ай бұрын
Pere Marquette
@intercityrailpal
7 ай бұрын
I am sure General Motors bought shares of Nickel Plate for control and to force them to buy diesels. Like they did to other railroads. GM still owns shares and sits on the board of directors of railroads today. The influence would get faster service and lower rates.GM at this time was the most powerful company in the world. Later they would fall and be bailed out by the billions by the government.
@CrazyBear65
11 ай бұрын
I wanted to hear about the Nickel Plate, not about rich dudes. Fulton's piers, a former part of the Wabash Railroad, still exist in Pittsburgh, as does the tunnel bored thru Mt Washington, now converted to carry vehicle traffic. Today's PSA: Pumas are just big kittycats. Big, fluffy, oversize kittycats that will chomp thru your skull with the greatest of ease...
@Robbi496
11 ай бұрын
Goold, not Gold :)
@poowg2657
11 ай бұрын
It's pronounced WAH-bash but godd video anyway.
@howardcitizen2471
10 ай бұрын
The city of the trestle collapse is pronounced "ash-ta-BU-la"
@Robbi496
11 ай бұрын
NYC S L kinda spells nickel :)
@robg9236
11 ай бұрын
not berksher but berksheer, not lima but leema
@CrazyBear65
11 ай бұрын
Wabash, pronounced WAH bash, not "wuh-BOSH." (Think of a train bashing a wall, like wall bash, but take the ll out: Wabash.)
@gtwfan52
10 ай бұрын
Your work is well researched and very well put together. But damn dude, you gotta work on your pronunciation. It made it very hard to follow the part about Gould with you pronouncing it "Gold".
@natevince3154
11 ай бұрын
ashtabula pronounced: ash ta byoo la.
@kimberlyknox4426
8 ай бұрын
Man why are all the railroads gone in Detroit.
@specialed6357
11 ай бұрын
What's wrong with SS? Social security, secret service, spacely sprockets, etc... LOL 😜
@BillP-kg1yp
10 ай бұрын
Wabash does not rhyme with galosh.
@pcs913
11 ай бұрын
Do you EVER research and practice the proper pronunciation of sir names before you record your scripts?
@joshroller9449
9 ай бұрын
Look up how to pronounce Wabash
@JordPulls
3 ай бұрын
The ss
@markvogel5872
11 ай бұрын
wabash.... Wah-Bash lol
@0fficialdregs
10 ай бұрын
i hate norfolk southern.
@kelvintorrence5994
5 ай бұрын
Norfolk and crashing you mean
@0fficialdregs
5 ай бұрын
@@kelvintorrence5994 no for much more other things than that.
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