No, they dont make much thrust at all. They are measured in shaft HP. Which is about 5000 shp each turbine.

Awesome videos!

The whistle in person was pretty loud, and it vibrated your body. You could hear it reverberating off all the surrounding buildings. It sounded soooo cool :D

I know! A little expensive, but you really get a lot for the money.

nice i remember seeing that train out in california. its deffinately a piece of machinery. i can only imagine riding one across country in the golden years of the industrial revolution. must've been awesome

ah i didn't know that

This was a cool video showing all the different cars from the different railroads. Including the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central, and even the old Zepher.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKUhNsDxvMQ

As you can see I'm a history buff and trains were once a hobby of mine.

she deff doesn't launch that hard, takes foreverrr lol

all that steam you see when they start moving is bypassing the pistons .. i think ... lol. Its the engineers job to not spin the wheels. its amazing how just steam pressure at 300 PSI can move all of that weight.

Prob a tad more than 300psi if its a oil fired burner, dunno if its still a fire in tube type boiler, but it should be able to get a tad more.

Still pretty crazy, steam power plants are pretty bad ass.

those videos were too cool!

gotta post up this :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiBfM...ext=1&index=54

http://drivingspirit.com/storage/200...team-train.jpg

x2, Used to be a big fan of model railroading. HO scale rocks. watching that 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" vid made me dive in to my old magazines again. :D

me too, I was into HO scale.

My father used to work for Pullman standard in Butler (pittsburgh area) making the hopper cars. I have a few Authern models of the cars he built that say "Butler, PA" on them.