Tuesday, May 9, “Mega Movers” 10 pm Eastern time http://www.historychannel.com/global/listings/listings_weekly.jsp?fromYear=2006&fromMonth=4&fromDate=7&NetwCode=THC&timezone=1&View=Weekly&fromTime=21&
Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks-Ill be watching thanks to you.
Sort of related: A discarded match at one of Britain’s busiest railway stations starts a fire that kills 31 people.
National Geographic channel 5/9 8pm central “Seconds From Disaster” series.
I’m definitly setting the VCR for this one.
I will be tuned in as well. [:P]
Thanks for the info…buddy
Yes, I think I will be poping in a tape too (If I can find one)!!!
I beleive preview showed moving historic loco’s on both steel(flat cars) and rubber wheels and the rigging that goes with such. I will definately be tuned in. As always ENJOY.
How can ATSF 5000 roll after sitting outside 53 years?
The ATSF 5000 rolled quite well, it was pulled by a CAT.
Andrew F.
Hey Ed!!! Aren’t those your locomotives I saw there at the end?
Anything will roll when pulled by a CAT…[:)]
I wondered about that as well. I would be surprised if they lubed it up before hand.
Sorry, but those were CEFX units leased to UP…
Ironic…the shows producers did not do much homework, or just didn’t realize it…but when they moved the SP locomotive from Herman Park Zoo to Minute Maid Park, they were not actually bringing her home…where they set it down is where the train shed and arrival departure tracks once were for Union station, now part of the baseball park.
Union station, which they incorporated into the park, is behind home plate, and the out field is where the trains backed into the station.
The SP had their own passenger station, Grand Central, about a mile or two away, demolished in the 1960s to make way for the main Post Office building.
So they moved a locomotive that never turned a wheel in Union Station to a display at a place she never worked.
As for the Santa Fe 5000…yes, they lubed the bearings before moving it…if I remember, there was a story in the papers about the museum owners looking for a retired steam locomotive engineer to explain to them how to go about the lube process, where and how to do it.
Mega Movers…Excellent program on the Histroy Channel. I didn’t see this latest of moving the engine but I think those programs are really the best…TV at it’s best. Did see Mega Movers move several buildings a week or so ago and really enjoyed that. Some years ago have watched a large building moved here in Muncie at the Ball state University Campus…and got to see the workings of how the boggie system works, etc…So interesting…!
As a History Chanel fan: It was an interesting show, but…
“Trains Unlimited” was my favorite…it is a shame they used it for a filler program, and never had it where it was an announced schedule. finding it was like shooting at targets in a shoooting gallery…[2c]
Sam
Dang, I forgot to watch it!!! [banghead]
There was a similar Locomotive moving show run by TLC/Discovery Channel.
That show featured the move of two Union Pacific Locomotives to a new park overlooking the highway.
Most of the action happened at the end of the program.
Did anyone see that show in the past year and remember the title?
Andrew F.
Don’t remember the title, but it involved moving a UP Big Boy and a DDA40X to the new UP Historical Park.
They sell trins DVD’s of Trains Unlimited on the history channel web site. Great show I remember when it was a regular back in the 1990’s