233 thousand views, I come here about once a month , just to listen to that awsome power, most times now with the smart TV so i can get full surround sound rattle the windows effect! Thanks Jackmp294.5
Yes... There are two seperate crews in the lead unit of each set. They are in radio communication at all times, and have many years of running loaded trains up the hill to Soldier Summit. When they reach the top of the grade, the middle set of motors are pulled from the train, and return light to Martin, Utah. The headed crew puts their train back together and heads down the other side of the mountain to Provo, Utah. Thanks for looking. Jack...
I don't care what anyone says, EMD has the best sounding locomotives that ever existed, especially in run 8. If the definition of power had a sound, EMD would be it. Thanks for sharing, awesome video!
I'm a retired OTR Truck Driver. I know from experience that you kinda become one with the truck...you can feel the weight. You can feel the diesel engine pulling. You feel every little thing your truck...and trailer is doing. And every trailer is different. Actually it's more than feeling it, you are experiencing it, especially after being in the seat for 13 or 18 hours or so. I wonder if it's like that for train engineers. If so, I bet it's awesome. By the way, that was some serious pulling. I would love to "drive" that train.
Utah F45 #9013 was converted at Relco Locomotives by Tom and Jamie Lambrecht to Great Northern #441 and is known as the Locomotive Luxury Lodge. There's an article on it in the 2010 Locomotive magazine that details the conversion and the subsequent move to Izaak Walton Inn at Essex Montana in Glacier National Park. It is the only locomotive that wears the GN Big Sky Blue paint scheme and it's just fantastic. During my stay at Izaak Walton last year I got to take a peek inside-it's one of those things that has to be seen to be believed.
jackmp294.5™ Your welcome. I've watched all your Utah railway videos. Amazing. I've been looking up on google about the SD40s They owned. Very nice videos again.
It's known as "stringlining", and occurs when the engines apply too much force and pull cars off the tracks to the inside of a curve. It resulted in the worst hazardous material spill in California history, into the upper Sacramento R. at Dunsmuir. Google "Cantara Loop Spill, 1991".
That is a great sound, no doubt about. Let me tell you, they talk about the ground shaking when a steam locomotive goes by, the ground was shaking when this badboy passed. You gotta luv it. Thanks for watching. Jack
Gotta love the sound of 2 strokes at full throttle! Many mountain railroads chose to operate the SD40 and 45's because of their excellent low speed tractive effort. Most locomotive's traction motors would burn up at slow speeds, but these could handle it well. However, only the shortlines and branch lines are still using them. All the main railroads have switched over to AC loco's as they have even better traction at slow speeds, such as the GE C44-9 and the EMD SD70's through SD90's.
Thanks, Glad you enjoyed it. I bet you wish you could go back and see the UTAH running their Alco's. Wish I had that chance back in the 70's and see that. But!!! I was to busy drag racing, and chasing girls. LOL Take care. Jack...
Hello - I came to your channel while looking for trainz running in notch8 an so I found your Soldier-Summit-Videos. I like it very much - especially the sound you captured very well! I am working at a simulation of prtions of the Milwaukee Road and made some videos from trains running at "notch-8" inside my simulated Milwaukee Road as well as at the Tehachapie Loop. Unfortunately I have read that the Utah Railway does no longer hauls coal. Your's TUME
Thanks Bob, I'm sure there is things in my videos that everyone would like. Stuff from all over the USA and Northeastern Canada. I have been looking at some of yours, and what I've seen so far is very nice photograph work. Have a good day. Jack...
Hi Bob. There is a crew on the lead unit, and all six units are tied in with MU cables that jumper all the units together. The set in the middle also has a crew on the lead, and they are jumpered together. The crews stay in contact on there radios so they know whats going on. When the train reachs the top of the hill, the middle units will come out, and head back to Martin for their next assignment. I have another vid of this same train in a snow storm near the top of the hill. Thanks Jack
@normanmj to add to 1jack's comment. The units are connected by a Jumper Cable between units. For the lack of a better term, it is like an extension cord between the units. That way its controlled by the engineer in the lead unit. it replicates throttle position in power and dynamic braking, control and fuel pump circuits and the dyn brk circuits. When the swing helper consist passes you can see a crew man walking back. The F-45 is dic and probably can't reset the problem
Utah Railway has wide cowl F units? That I did not know. Superfabtacular video! It's great that you can still see EMD's chug at their fullest in this day and age!
It was a MK5000. It was built by MK and has a 5000 HP CAT in it. They have all since been rebuilt as SD40-3 now, lossing their CAT power to EMD, and the 4 roof top fans are now 3. Thanks for looking. Jack
@drumbasher No problem. Also, from a very reliable source, the standard drawbar capacity on the cars are rated at 390,000 lbs of pull. All that power in the wrong place on that train will break a drawbar / coupler!
The secondary crew is just for monitoring, all the other 11 locos are controlled by an advanced computer system that will analyze the engines real time performance and the power the train needs in any situation, it has the power to automatically control the level of throttle to each loco from the train, so in this case all of them are on but in case that the demand of power is not so high it could even let only one unit powered and the rest on idle.
Most unit coal trains here in the states are 10000-12000 tons, or sometimes even more. This one in this video may be more than 12000 ton, as I think they had 140 cars. With all the mountains in this area, and where I live in PA, helpers are always needed. I live in southwestern Pennsylvania, and its in the coal fields. I love coal trains, and mining operations, weather it be coal, or iron ore. Makes for some interesting videos, of heavy trains in mountainous areas. Jack...
@nickernosher Glad you enjoyed the video Lad! There are 12 locomotives pulling 140 loaded coal hoppers of 100 tons US each, making the train 14000 tons US of weight. The train is going to climb a stiff hill for the next 30 miles or so. At the top of the hill, they will take the six locomotives out of the middle of the train, as they will not be needed down the other side the mountain. Thanks for watching, and Happy New Year to you. Take care, Jackmp294...
@TheLuke2reeve All but one unit is powered by GM (EMD) 2 stroke motors (primemovers). 8 units are GM V16 turbo charged 3000 hp. #2005 & 2033 has a GM V16 non-turbo 2000 hp. #5003 has a Caterpiller 3612, V12 twin turbo 5000 HP. #9013 has a GM V20 turbo charged 3600 hp. Hope this helps you out. Thanks for watching, and take care...
@TotalHavok456 Mostly because it's a pain to turn them around in the yard. The diesel engines are generators for electric motors in locomotives so they work the same forward or reverse. Only the front one needs to face forwards so the main engineer can see where he's going, signals, etc. Sometimes two locomotives will be joined back-to-back so that when the train gets to the end of the track and can't turn around they can just throw the lever and go backwards. Some locomotives have two "fronts".
Thanks very much Jack, that's very kind of you. I have subscribed to your videos, so that when I've got a quiet moment I will have a look through some of them...regards..Bob
@normanmj The first 6 units are controled together by a two man crew in the lead cab. The 6 motors in the middle, are more than likely controled by a two man crew also. At the top of the hill, the motors in the middle will be taken out, and will returmn to Martin, and the train will continue down hill into Provo. Thanks for watching...,
The scenery on the Soldier Summit can't be beat DON. Heavy trains over steep grades are fantastic. I was so Blessed to be trackside to capture the sights, sound, and smells of locomotives doing what they were ment to do. Thanks for watching brother, and God Bless...
Well, The knuckle , being the part that holds two couplers together while coupled, can develope a weak place from wear or a crack. It may continue to work well under normal pulling conditions, however if the Locomotive jerks or snatches the slack out of the train real hard the knuckle may then break. Hence the term snatch a knuckle.
yes you are spot on about the rear unit on the front set not being on ,my mistake. what is the total weight of these trains? In the UK we have coal trains leaving the port where I live,they travel about 120 miles to the power stations in Yorkshirewith 1500 tons of Russian coal. Its is beyond belief as all the mines in the UK were shut about 15 years ago, my house is built on the spot wer a coal mine used to be.
Sorry to say, the SD40's and the F45 are gone. I have no idea where they went, but maybe some Utah Rwy fan out there has any idea where they are. Thanks for looking. Jack
No!!! Real easy, and its a duck shoot. You can get the train until your tired of it. The railroad is along side the road the entire vway. Thanks for looking. Jackmp294
This still gives me chills every time. It's such a shame what happened to them...and it makes me so sad that I'll never be able to experience them in person. Thanks so much for capturing these videos, so those of us who never got the chance can enjoy them.
I know what your saying SpeakerPolice. It is really sad, and I'm sure happy I got to visit this area several times when things were still running pretty stong. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching.
Holy crap, that is like what 20 electric traction motors pulling all of that if one counts all the locomotives? Talk about some serious torque! Torque FTW!
The Big Boy is not considered a Mallet. Mallets where articulated & used compound expansion (high & low pressure cylinders) Big Boys where articulated, but used simple expansion, thus, they are not true Mallets. The Big Boy has about 6290 draw-bar horse power, so it would take about six to do the job. I can only imagine what that would sound like. The earth would shake for sure. Thanks for looking. Jack...
@normanmj The Leading Locomotive would have what we call MU Cables, ( multiple unit cables) they are very easy to understand how they work aswell, Its all done by Electrics
@drumbasher 2 stroke produces a power stroke every downward stroke of the piston= more power, the other advantage is the engine is capable of rapid and smooth acceleration. The EMD 2 stroke is also legendary in its longterm relibility compared with any 4 stroke. They are quite simply bomb proof!!!
@drumbasher Basicly put, the further away you have the power from the middle or the end of a long train on a steep grade, the bigger the risk of the power pulling the train apart. Big grade, loads of power, long train = you gota spread out the power along the train more than just front and rear.
@1jackdk Thats discusting lol. I really hope they will stick with the 710, and a big reason I think they will is because cat will have to create a 4000-4400h.p. engine that meets 2010 epa requirments, the 710 already passed the epa requirments. We can only hope!
@trainboy437 Some of the newest containerships have 100,000 HP. Of course that is one engine and the ship can haul about the same amount of containers as a twin stack container train 28 miles long.
That SD-20 sounded like it was ready to blow up 😂. Could you imagine what an entire fleet of them would sound like?! Did seem to keep chugging along just fine.
That is because the older dc locos like the SD40 and such are detroit 2-cycle diesel engines and the GE's use 4-cycle diesel engines. If you have ever heard the difference between the 2-cycle and 4-cycle semi-trucks, the main difference is that the RPMs are much lower on the locos than on trucks, somewhere near 1,000 rpms at full throttle for locos and around 3,500 for trucks. 4-cycle engines are much more efficient. Thats why more railroads are purchasing GE's.
@Jemalacane The 2033 started out as a Southern SD24 #6313, and was later rebuilt with a new cab and chopped nose, then re-classed as a SD20. If you go on the rrpicturearchives . net , and then search NREX 2033, you will see pictures and the history. Thanks for watching...
36,000hp seems to be an excessive figure, but it's not so much when the train it's pulling weighs 12,000 tons on a uphill grade of 2%. That's only 3hp per a ton.
The only unit not running was the last unit on the lead set. You can hear this in another video I have posted from an overhead bridge. All mid-train motors are online. Thanks for looking. Jack...
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233 thousand views, I come here about once a month , just to listen to that awsome power, most times now with the smart TV so i can get full surround sound rattle the windows effect! Thanks Jackmp294.5
Never get sick of watching this - would be one of the best diesel videos on youtube!
Yes... There are two seperate crews in the lead unit of each set. They are in radio communication at all times, and have many years of running loaded trains up the hill to Soldier Summit. When they reach the top of the grade, the middle set of motors are pulled from the train, and return light to Martin, Utah. The headed crew puts their train back together and heads down the other side of the mountain to Provo, Utah. Thanks for looking. Jack...
Music to my ears Love the sound of the EMD Two strokes!
Thanks for the compliment, and glad you enjoyed the video... Jack
It IS fantastic. The ground was shaking. You just gotta love it. Thanks for watching. Jack
It doesn't get much better than that!!! Nothing like hard working railroads in the mountains. Thanks for looking. Jack...
Ahhhh, the sound of two strokes at full power. Awesome!!!
It is a beautiful thing... Thanks for looking. Jack...
I don't care what anyone says, EMD has the best sounding locomotives that ever existed, especially in run 8. If the definition of power had a sound, EMD would be it. Thanks for sharing, awesome video!
That's some real thunder bouncing off those canyon walls.
Your not kidding. The ground shook when these babies roared by. Thanks for watching...
I'm a retired OTR Truck Driver. I know from experience that you kinda become one with the truck...you can feel the weight. You can feel the diesel engine pulling. You feel every little thing your truck...and trailer is doing. And every trailer is different. Actually it's more than feeling it, you are experiencing it, especially after being in the seat for 13 or 18 hours or so. I wonder if it's like that for train engineers. If so, I bet it's awesome. By the way, that was some serious pulling. I would love to "drive" that train.
Utah F45 #9013 was converted at Relco Locomotives by Tom and Jamie Lambrecht to Great Northern #441 and is known as the Locomotive Luxury Lodge. There's an article on it in the 2010 Locomotive magazine that details the conversion and the subsequent move to Izaak Walton Inn at Essex Montana in Glacier National Park. It is the only locomotive that wears the GN Big Sky Blue paint scheme and it's just fantastic. During my stay at Izaak Walton last year I got to take a peek inside-it's one of those things that has to be seen to be believed.
This was before G&W acquired the Utah Railway in 2002. NREX 2033 is an ex-Illinois Central unit still in patched IC colors.
One of the best Videos of hard working diesels I've seen. I have my speakers turned up to enjoy the sound. Well done.
Love the sound! Notice at 2:00, unit 2033...you can see the engine combustion pulsing in the exhaust (look carefully)...awesome!
Smoke, sand, exhaust!! Totally awesome! What railroading is all about.
Love the SD40's! I love the sound they make at full throttle.
No doubt about it Cade. They are fantastic working hard in number 8. Thanks for watching.
jackmp294.5™ Your welcome. I've watched all your Utah railway videos. Amazing. I've been looking up on google about the SD40s They owned. Very nice videos again.
EMD power all the way! Great catch on the leased IC SD20 'Skunk' and the F45.
I now live in the Salt Lake Valley and any chance I get, I head up to Helper and see what's doing. Great railfan run, up UT-6.
It's known as "stringlining", and occurs when the engines apply too much force and pull cars off the tracks to the inside of a curve. It resulted in the worst hazardous material spill in California history, into the upper Sacramento R. at Dunsmuir. Google "Cantara Loop Spill, 1991".
That is a great sound, no doubt about. Let me tell you, they talk about the ground shaking when a steam locomotive goes by, the ground was shaking when this badboy passed. You gotta luv it. Thanks for watching. Jack
Thanks!!! Glad you enjoyed it. Take care. Jack...
Gotta love the sound of 2 strokes at full throttle! Many mountain railroads chose to operate the SD40 and 45's because of their excellent low speed tractive effort. Most locomotive's traction motors would burn up at slow speeds, but these could handle it well. However, only the shortlines and branch lines are still using them. All the main railroads have switched over to AC loco's as they have even better traction at slow speeds, such as the GE C44-9 and the EMD SD70's through SD90's.
They do sound great!!!This was filmed on April 21,2001. Thanks for looking. Jack
Thanks, Glad you enjoyed it. I bet you wish you could go back and see the UTAH running their Alco's. Wish I had that chance back in the 70's and see that. But!!! I was to busy drag racing, and chasing girls. LOL Take care. Jack...
Hello - I came to your channel while looking for trainz running in notch8 an so I found your Soldier-Summit-Videos. I like it very much - especially the sound you captured very well! I am working at a simulation of prtions of the Milwaukee Road and made some videos from trains running at "notch-8" inside my simulated Milwaukee Road as well as at the Tehachapie Loop. Unfortunately I have read that the Utah Railway does no longer hauls coal.
Your's TUME
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Jack
Thanks Bob, I'm sure there is things in my videos that everyone would like. Stuff from all over the USA and Northeastern Canada. I have been looking at some of yours, and what I've seen so far is very nice photograph work. Have a good day. Jack...
Hi Bob. There is a crew on the lead unit, and all six units are tied in with MU cables that jumper all the units together. The set in the middle also has a crew on the lead, and they are jumpered together. The crews stay in contact on there radios so they know whats going on. When the train reachs the top of the hill, the middle units will come out, and head back to Martin for their next assignment. I have another vid of this same train in a snow storm near the top of the hill. Thanks Jack
It was really something to see!!! I got to get back there someday. Thanks for watching. Jackmp294...
@normanmj to add to 1jack's comment. The units are connected by a Jumper Cable between units. For the lack of a better term, it is like an extension cord between the units. That way its controlled by the engineer in the lead unit. it replicates throttle position in power and dynamic braking, control and fuel pump circuits and the dyn brk circuits. When the swing helper consist passes you can see a crew man walking back. The F-45 is dic and probably can't reset the problem
Utah Railway has wide cowl F units? That I did not know. Superfabtacular video! It's great that you can still see EMD's chug at their fullest in this day and age!
It was a MK5000. It was built by MK and has a 5000 HP CAT in it. They have all since been rebuilt as SD40-3 now, lossing their CAT power to EMD, and the 4 roof top fans are now 3. Thanks for looking. Jack
@drumbasher No problem. Also, from a very reliable source, the standard drawbar capacity on the cars are rated at 390,000 lbs of pull.
All that power in the wrong place on that train will break a drawbar / coupler!
hear that cat purr lol, im more of an EMD fan myself but being from Utah myself, hearing those cats puts a smile on my face XD
I thought the engines had no exhaust comng out of them ,I did watch the video a few times before posting, thanks for the quick reply .
Love that EMD sound! Nice seeing an old girl in the consist as well. ex IC 2033. grew up to seeing her pull some long trains on the IC lines!
The secondary crew is just for monitoring, all the other 11 locos are controlled by an advanced computer system that will analyze the engines real time performance and the power the train needs in any situation, it has the power to automatically control the level of throttle to each loco from the train, so in this case all of them are on but in case that the demand of power is not so high it could even let only one unit powered and the rest on idle.
Awesome! I never get tired of watching this video.
Most unit coal trains here in the states are 10000-12000 tons, or sometimes even more. This one in this video may be more than 12000 ton, as I think they had 140 cars. With all the mountains in this area, and where I live in PA, helpers are always needed. I live in southwestern Pennsylvania, and its in the coal fields. I love coal trains, and mining operations, weather it be coal, or iron ore. Makes for some interesting videos, of heavy trains in mountainous areas. Jack...
@nickernosher Glad you enjoyed the video Lad! There are 12 locomotives pulling 140 loaded coal hoppers of 100 tons US each, making the train 14000 tons US of weight. The train is going to climb a stiff hill for the next 30 miles or so. At the top of the hill, they will take the six locomotives out of the middle of the train, as they will not be needed down the other side the mountain. Thanks for watching, and Happy New Year to you. Take care, Jackmp294...
@TheLuke2reeve All but one unit is powered by GM (EMD) 2 stroke motors (primemovers). 8 units are GM V16 turbo charged 3000 hp. #2005 & 2033 has a GM V16 non-turbo 2000 hp. #5003 has a Caterpiller 3612, V12 twin turbo 5000 HP. #9013 has a GM V20 turbo charged 3600 hp. Hope this helps you out. Thanks for watching, and take care...
Amazing! A CAT and a 567 all in 1 train (plus the 645s)! That must have been quite deafening.
Excellent handling by the crew I would say. And there was NO doubt, he was hauling the mail. LOL... I got to go back, soon!!! Take care, Jack
@TotalHavok456 Mostly because it's a pain to turn them around in the yard. The diesel engines are generators for electric motors in locomotives so they work the same forward or reverse. Only the front one needs to face forwards so the main engineer can see where he's going, signals, etc. Sometimes two locomotives will be joined back-to-back so that when the train gets to the end of the track and can't turn around they can just throw the lever and go backwards. Some locomotives have two "fronts".
Thanks very much Jack, that's very kind of you. I have subscribed to your videos, so that when I've got a quiet moment I will have a look through some of them...regards..Bob
The full cowled unit is a F45. The cat powered unit was the 4th unit on the headed. #5003. Thanks for watching. Jackmp294
El mejor video de un tren de carga que haya visto en mi vida...............
@normanmj The first 6 units are controled together by a two man crew in the lead cab. The 6 motors in the middle, are more than likely controled by a two man crew also. At the top of the hill, the motors in the middle will be taken out, and will returmn to Martin, and the train will continue down hill into Provo. Thanks for watching...,
It was nice to that ex IC SD-20 in there, still painted in IC black and still has its class number on it. I didnt know the Utah RR had a F-45.
@Jemalacane 9013 is an F45. Same as an SD45, only in a wide body version. The 2033 is an ex-IC SD20 thats been rebuilt. Thanks for watching...
god i love the sound of those engines thx for the post
Awesome video Jack, thanks for sharing
The scenery on the Soldier Summit can't be beat DON. Heavy trains over steep grades are fantastic. I was so Blessed to be trackside to capture the sights, sound, and smells of locomotives doing what they were ment to do. Thanks for watching brother, and God Bless...
Well, The knuckle , being the part that holds two couplers together while coupled, can develope a weak place from wear or a crack. It may continue to work well under normal pulling conditions, however if the Locomotive jerks or snatches the slack out of the train real hard the knuckle may then break. Hence the term snatch a knuckle.
@Darkstylerz That sounds about right.
A 1GW coal fired power plant uses 10,000 ton per day.
I can imagine the tractive effort on that.
yes you are spot on about the rear unit on the front set not being on ,my mistake.
what is the total weight of these trains? In the UK we have coal trains leaving the port where I live,they travel about 120 miles to the power stations in Yorkshirewith 1500 tons of Russian coal. Its is beyond belief as all the mines in the UK were shut about 15 years ago, my house is built on the spot wer a coal mine used to be.
Sorry to say, the SD40's and the F45 are gone. I have no idea where they went, but maybe some Utah Rwy fan out there has any idea where they are. Thanks for looking. Jack
No!!! Real easy, and its a duck shoot. You can get the train until your tired of it. The railroad is along side the road the entire vway. Thanks for looking. Jackmp294
I want one of these for Christmas... 12 locomotives... that's some power needed to move that freight up that slope.
Of note, the 9013 carbody SD40R is now dressed in GN colors as is at the Isaac Walton Inn on The Canadian Transcon as specialized lodging...
That SD20 HAS to be cursing it's life! Awesome!
This still gives me chills every time. It's such a shame what happened to them...and it makes me so sad that I'll never be able to experience them in person. Thanks so much for capturing these videos, so those of us who never got the chance can enjoy them.
I know what your saying SpeakerPolice. It is really sad, and I'm sure happy I got to visit this area several times when things were still running pretty stong. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching.
jackmp294.5™ Your Utah videos are still my favorites when it comes to screaming EMDs working hard!
What exactly happened? Does anybody know?
Its interesting to see a Geep in with the SDs. The GP38 sounded dead.
I used to haul the GE engines to CA. 48000lbs, 4100hp @ 2100rpm
Great job.
AWW MAN THAT 16-645E3 just amazing
Holy crap, that is like what 20 electric traction motors pulling all of that if one counts all the locomotives? Talk about some serious torque! Torque FTW!
The Big Boy is not considered a Mallet. Mallets where articulated & used compound expansion (high & low pressure cylinders) Big Boys where articulated, but used simple expansion, thus, they are not true Mallets. The Big Boy has about 6290 draw-bar horse power, so it would take about six to do the job. I can only imagine what that would sound like. The earth would shake for sure. Thanks for looking. Jack...
@normanmj The Leading Locomotive would have what we call MU Cables, ( multiple unit cables) they are very easy to understand how they work aswell, Its all done by Electrics
@drumbasher 2 stroke produces a power stroke every downward stroke of the piston= more power, the other advantage is the engine is capable of rapid and smooth acceleration.
The EMD 2 stroke is also legendary in its longterm relibility compared with any 4 stroke. They are quite simply bomb proof!!!
What a sound! God Bless the Utah Railway!!!!!
@drumbasher Basicly put, the further away you have the power from the middle or the end of a long train on a steep grade, the bigger the risk of the power pulling the train apart. Big grade, loads of power, long train = you gota spread out the power along the train more than just front and rear.
@htc6600 Its going to be interesting to see what happens to EMD now that Caterpiller has purchased them. We might start seeing Cat powered EMDS...
Fantastic EMD (and Cat) sounds. Thanks Mate!!
@1jackdk Thats discusting lol. I really hope they will stick with the 710, and a big reason I think they will is because cat will have to create a 4000-4400h.p. engine that meets 2010 epa requirments, the 710 already passed the epa requirments. We can only hope!
Amen!!!
EMD's at their best. Thanks for watching...
@trainboy437 Some of the newest containerships have 100,000 HP. Of course that is one engine and the ship can haul about the same amount of containers as a twin stack container train 28 miles long.
thanks for a great video. I wish I saw that in person
That SD-20 sounded like it was ready to blow up 😂. Could you imagine what an entire fleet of them would sound like?! Did seem to keep chugging along just fine.
Yah but she could like no tomorrow!
Yes it is! 5000 hp of Cat power. Thanks for watching.
Awesome sound! Great Catch
That is because the older dc locos like the SD40 and such are detroit 2-cycle diesel engines and the GE's use 4-cycle diesel engines. If you have ever heard the difference between the 2-cycle and 4-cycle semi-trucks, the main difference is that the RPMs are much lower on the locos than on trucks, somewhere near 1,000 rpms at full throttle for locos and around 3,500 for trucks. 4-cycle engines are much more efficient. Thats why more railroads are purchasing GE's.
Thanks Jack, my work is very different to yours in many respects, and I shall look forward to seeing your work in more detail..Bob
@1jackdk Why 2 stroke? I always thought that 4 stroke engines created more torque and hp?
@Jemalacane The 2033 started out as a Southern SD24 #6313, and was later rebuilt with a new cab and chopped nose, then re-classed as a SD20. If you go on the rrpicturearchives . net , and then search NREX 2033, you will see pictures and the history. Thanks for watching...
746 Watts is equivalent to 1 HP. 36000 x 746 yields 26.7 Megawatts. A portable power plant on wheels.
So what is there roster? Just SD50S's and MK50-3's?
I would of loved to have been there to feel the ground shake that must have been amazing
Utah Railway has 6 mk5000's some of them where definitely
on this pull they have 5000 HP So this was likely a 40,000 hp plus train
You ain't shitin!!!! The ground was shaking with this bad boy...
It's steel and your right,the COUPLER is weakest link on ANY train.
Sometimes they do break.
Thats when the "fun" starts for the cond. :)
WOW ... I had to watch that twice!!!
WOW, SD20! SD40-2s! F45s! all online are in run 8, thats fantastic
36,000hp seems to be an excessive figure, but it's not so much when the train it's pulling weighs 12,000 tons on a uphill grade of 2%. That's only 3hp per a ton.
Jack, He had a couple of locomotives, didn.t he. LOL I.m suprized the didnt snatch a knuckle.
What a GREAT, COOL, BEAUTIFUL, BIG ASS TRAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE THE TRAIN (my favourite train at the moment).and the vid.!!
what kind of iron is this that can pull 14000 tons without breaking...i saw once how the trains are connected..its a tiny piece :) damn!!!
The only unit not running was the last unit on the lead set. You can hear this in another video I have posted from an overhead bridge. All mid-train motors are online. Thanks for looking. Jack...