Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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About 5 years ago, in July of that year, before the unforgiving COVID-19 outbreak closed everything down, my mother and I went to this little train museum located not too far away from Long Beach, California. And now, just 5 years later, and just two days before my birthday, we came back! Except this time it’s with my dad, not just my mom which you can see towards the end of the video.

***Please don’t make fun of my mom, she’s trying to look for a new job.***

Btw Here’s my 2019 visit: youtu.be/rahcLoOAHcI?si=A-Er0tFWSy4lpK6t

I didn’t know this at the time I first came here in 2019 that the museum had a little sound system installed on the engine itself. And believe it or not, I asked one of the ladies who work at this little museum if this was SP 2472, and I was right! I knew at the moment I heard that whistle and that bell from that recording that it was the very 4-6-2 pacific herself! They even had a CD collection of the sound recordings of that locomotive! Pretty cool huh?

Now about the 1765, there’s not too much explaining here because this is my second time going to the museum, but I finally got to ring her bell! I don’t know why it sounds similar to Sierra Railway #3’s bell, but it did sound really cool and I’m glad I finally got to ring it after 5 years of not noticing!

And just two days from now it’s almost my 25th birthday. You’re welcome.

Edit 8/5/24: My birthday is now tomorrow.

Edit 8/6/24: This is it! The time has come, and now today is now offically my Birthday!

One more thing: If anyone has never heard of Union Pacific #820, well here’s the catch. I didn’t know this at the time until I looked it up later that the locomotive was an FEF-2 class 4-8-4 Northern, similar to the Living Legend #844, and while researching, this locomotive has collided with a freight train back in August 3rd of 1950. What a tragedy it was, but at least the museum has one piece of that lost locomotive. R.I.P. #820.

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