Good news!! Steam locomotives in Philly!!!

They must be the same engines heard in "Rocky". You see a diesel crossing an overpass , chug, chug, chug.

Pete

Hi, I am from Lambertville, NJ.  Any idea where the steam engine is?  In New Hope, Bucks County, PA there is the New Hope and Ivy Land and then in Ringoes, NJ there is the Black River and Western both feature different vintages of a Consolidation type locomotive.  But neither of these are close enough to Philly to get the Philly skyline.

I will never forget the night my wife and I were moving stuff into our new home.  It was between Thanksgiving and Christmas, 2004.  I heard the steam engine whistle in the distance and turned to my wife and said "bonus"! :-)  I knew it was in New Hope but never thought it was within earshot.

Tony

There hasn't been steam in Philly since 1988, I believe when 765 passed through on an excursion and 2102 went to Philly Zoo. I am not aware of any steam in Philly from 1989 on up. 2102 ran trips from Lansdale to Oreland and back on SEPTA in October 1991, it's last month of operation before its retirement. It would be harder to run steam in Philly today due to CSX ban on steam, Amtrak not likely to allow steam on NEC, and SEPTA not likely to allow steam now. 611 to Philly? Very unlikely. NS doesn't even own track downtown, their line merges with CSX north of 30th St. somewhere.

What's wrong?   I don't understand?  Don't all trains make choo choo noises? 

I dunno ... I'm always suspicious of TV sounds.  It seems whenever there's a shot of nature, the sound guy always inserts a red-tail hawk call.  It's stereotypical and gets old really fast!  Could it have been that the NCIS sound guy's samples were from another era?  (Not that I wouldn't love to hear there was steam in the area. :-)

TRRR

There is a steam engine in Philly at the Franklin Institute, it's just not moving under actual steam (nor is it moving more than a few feet in either direction). 

-Dave

I may have the year wrong, but I think the Reading T1 ran on SEPTA's Lansdale/Doylestown line in 1993.  

Just because the show is "set" in Philly doesn't mean it was filmed there.

Impossible because BM&R 2102 last ran October 1991. The Lansdale trips were in Oct 1991. I saw a flyer and ticket on a website which I don't think exists anymore and there are videos of the train and riding on the train. So last time steam ran on SEPTA was Oct 1991. West Chester and New Hope ran trips to Lansdale but with diesel power, and open window coaches.

jim pastorius posted:

Just because the show is "set" in Philly doesn't mean it was filmed there.

Yeah, that show is mostly filmed in CA.

The sound people were simply told, I'd bet, to have a 'train sound' in the background, so they grabbed the first thing they found, which was steam.

Simple as that.