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Beautiful job capturing history

Why doesn't this 1,000 likes? This is awesome!!! I LOVE the Titanic music!😂

You really are a Big Diehl. I know it’s older footage, but I’m so stoked to see some west coast SP whaleback action. At 3:06, No. 18 does some 10 wheeler things and HUSTLES. (Hammered sad whistle and all.) To quote the late Jimmie Rodgers, who was a real Boomer, “I can see a train comin’ down the railroad track…and I love to heeeeah the bahk od that old smokestack.” She has a bark indeed.

Thanks for the historic documentary. Been a fan of old Santa Fe T2 semaphores since the Santa Fe RR retired them in Texas back in 1980. Well done, interesting, informative.

Steam engine puffing out black smoke is an exercise of fiction, lore and legend that just won't go away.

There's another part of these signals that's extremely rare, the 'telegraph' wires running them. There are very, very few places left where the signals are still run by open frame wires. Bell Telephone was replacing open frame wires with bundled cables at least 110 years ago. It's a miracle that any are left at all!

The end of another era in American Railroad I’m happy to say that a lot of the former Santa Fe semaphore signals have been donated to various museums even the last mainline wigwag signal resides at a museum specifically the Colorado Railroad Museum

What are they being replaced with ? LED signals ?

Did you put flowers? Lol

Oregon Coast scenic railroad ?

No more shoveling coal sadly. Just another tourist trap now.

Have the semaphores at Wagon Mound, Levy and Colmor been replaced yet?

That was me waving at you guys out the back on the final train to see these semaphores, train #3 on August 16th. I headed to the back window to see these semaphores because I knew they were there, and had no idea it was their last day of operation.

Would you mind if I made an edit with your footage to a quote from Little Engines & Big men specifically "Listen to that locomotive bark for the stars"?

Nice work!

Sure am glad I got them while I could. Long live the NMRX semaphores!

More relics gone, sad to see them go. Hopefully the ones on the Raton will hold strong for a few more years.

Shoveling coal no longer

that pure pollution coming out the back. 🤮

A beautiful set of locomotives

Man that shot is like a slice from another time-or another time that marched on and nothing changed haha. (And you never can go wrong with some C.W. McCall action.

What this just a muesum demonstration, or is the BLC locomotive is revenue logging service?

Listen to those little locomoties bark for the stars

I wonder why this Silverton video got way more views than mine

That is such a great framed shot, coming out of town through the brush and under the gate. And the double-heading around the bend really brings to life the line from Blue Yodel No. 5: “I see that train comin’ down the railroad track…And I love to hear the bark of that old smokestack”

I finally got around to watching this. A beautifully poetic intro, and another beautiful video overall. I'm more a fan of the Balwin Mikados, (after the K27s were "Mudhens", I call the K28s "Ugly Ducklings" 😂), but I do still love them and their history. I do actually have Jerry Day's book too! Excellent work as always Mr Diehl. 👍

You do really great work, William! I never get tired of watching your videos.

Beautiful, i have videos of D&SNG on my channel

I was there. With you. Standing right there. Remember?

#488 is always been my favorite!

A-LA-MO-SA

I thank God for trains, they are one of the top inventions of all time.

A truly underrated channel!

What a shame that #481 is turned into oil. You could have left it for winter trips. A million dollars to convert. This RR, be making lots of money to convert it. It’s a shame you did this. Glad Cumbers and Toltec still have almost all coal trains. 🚂. Cumbres is a better ride too. I’ll never ride this train ever again.

Atleast the El Segundo/Lee Ranch Mines are still around that still load up Coal Shuttles. Nice Video of the Last Days of the Escalante Western.

Amazing video , the shots from the caboose really add to the show . I'm from Australia and seeing your videos make me want to get a passport and visit . Well done and thanks .

Mr diehl I bet your a steam lover just like me because I’m a steam enthusiast

A fantastic video and a journey back in time to the era of narrow-gauge steam locomotives over 100 years ago up to the present day. In a magnificent landscape of Colorado and New Mexico. Thank you for the beautiful video and your excellent work. Best regards from Germany

Impressive stuff. Always visually stunning. How did you get all the footage especially from the bit of the journey before Hermosa and ride the train at the same time. Were you working as a team with other videographers?

GOOD STUFF!

Breathtaking stuff!! It was fantastic event that was easily the best photo charter I’ve done to date! And it was great to meet you there too!

I’m pretty sure the only year 473 hasn’t operated was in 2020, but don’t quote me on that. I just know she was being converted to be an oil burner between 2020 and 2021. Anyway if anybody has been living under a rock, 476 was backdated for a movie shoot back in May, and idk for sure if she has it now in August, but she had a diamond stack and box headlamp, and in addition to that a D&RGW 5 chime (formerly used on the one and only 486) added in early June.

35 minutes of moving postcards, great job and outstanding subject,,now x476 south to Santa fe, would be mind blowing