BNSF 5840 heads west through Colona, IL heading for Silvis to drop off these 35 SD40-2 units. This was amazing to see. They just kept coming and coming! Ha.
Man, those tunnel motors just don't look right in UP colors after growing up with them on the SP. It's a sad day realizing that these once mighty locomotives of the Rockies and western states are no longer wanted by the class 1 railroads.
I saw one in grey sp colors almost except was owned by central Oregon and Pacific railroad (corp) in the early 2000s making it's way over the siskiyou pass
R J Corman has several ex Rio Grande SD40T-2 that they often use on what is called "the slab train." The unit train runs huge ingots of aluminum to a smelter just out of Russelville KY.
The SD40-2 were used primarily on "the hill" the mountain subdivision from Roseville CA to Sparks NV on the SP for many years.Was told it was the SP that goaded EMD to build the SD-40's with the radiator intakes down low due to the many tunnels on the Sierras.
They were mostly old Rio Grande/Southern Pacific SD40-2T Tunnel Motors that Uncle Pete was selling off after the merger. Either they were going to be sold or going to be scrapped with most of these in the 1969-1974 vintage.
Even if they were being scrapped, any useable parts would find their way into other locomotives either in the USA or in other parts of the world. eg: in Australia some "new build" locomotives are being produced either locally or by NREC in the USA using reconditioned 16-645E3B engines sourced from scrapped US locomotives.
I've seen power moves on the Union Pacific mainline that runs through my hometown. But not with that many locomotives. The most I've seen in a power move were eight.
The motorists at the crossing were probably thinking (totally ignorant of the fact that the locomotives in tow were just that) that this was going to be a loooong wait given the 'power' seen before them.
Imagine if they were all running. They would stay in one spot while they turned the earth. We are only allowed to have 4 locos powering at any one time.
Dude! I saw these in Bridgeport, Nebraska about a month or in March b4 you shot this video! Yeah I took pics Plus there were at least 3 or for BN units in the line NREX is NATIONAL RAILWAY EQUIPMENT COMPANY
The two in the front are powered, they're most likely taking these locomotives because they're retired. Who knows what will happen to them, personally I'd love to have one in my backyard just for the hell of it :D
Maybe the UP will sell them to another countries companies. I am Spanish and the Renfe (the government railway company) sold years ago a lot of old ALCO's and some EMD's to Argentina. They are still rolling, after 40 years working.
dispatcher: i got two trains stuck on the siding going up the hill ahead of you, each has 450 cars. engineer: no problem, we got more than enough power to pull both at the same time. later that day....engineer gets bonus for hauling 3 trains! :) $$$$
Gawd, it's still hard for me to wrap my head around how quickly BNSF has wasted almost no time in shedding itself of so many SD40-2's And no I know why with all the endless parade of toasters coming every year. Makes me wanna puke when I see those ex BN's patched by BNSF, a leaser company then yet another leaser company. Makes you wonder if shedding so many off won't come back to bite them in the ass on down the road.
All these were being dead-headed (no power) except the lead and DPU on the end. NS brought about 10 former BN (in old cascade green) engines, in a similar way, just like this through Bureau, IL on IAIS tracks- dead heading them back east. I have a video of that NS move.
Luiz Henrique ...Do you know if the ex-UP SD40-2T numbers 2839, 2852, 2853, and 2864 shown in the video were shipped to America Latina Logistica ? Any information you can provide and which units from this video the ALL received would be a great help. Thanks
It seems pretty odd they scrap fairly-new engines which ran a maximum of 30 years (that's what I thought by reading the comments), whilst in Europe, or should I say Romania, they use 51 years old Sulzers in freight services just like they are "new" :-|
Somebody can’t count? I got 39. In 34 years on the Railroad I have never seen more than 15 moved at one time. A air break logistical nightmare. It would take at least 24 hours to walk through and check each ones air breaks, not to mention any distributive power checks? Not to mention controlling the lights on the last unit? At over 3000 feet what a nightmare? I have worked on trains up to 12000’ mostly coal or grain trains.
It's really loooooong train... I've never seen such a train like this. 2 locomotives pulls 37 locomotives...definetely will not be able to see the same situation in Japan...
how many locomotives can we attach to each other?
Engineer: *yes*
Yes
But technically this is a engine move
35
@@BCOL4622 I don’t even think this is a power move. They’re probably heading off to be stored somewhere.
Imagine if all those locomotives blew their horns all at the same time.
It'll probably be reported as a nuclear detonation.
Thats what she said
@@SgtChip LOL
It would change the orbit of the Earth!
Neighbours around the track line might have go for hearing check and look out for hearing aides 😀
They shoulda had an old, red, beat-up, wooden caboose at the end !
And maybe an old ATSF box car. :)
It surprising how clean these units look since they're being surplused... Nice rare catch - thanks for sharing!
2011Maynard They were only driven by a little old lady on Sundays!
How long does it take before the green ones ripen and turn yellow?
3 years or 300,000 miles
Is that a limited power-train warranty?
blackchakra10 LOL
blackchakra10 about a week
lmao wat a question!
Man, those tunnel motors just don't look right in UP colors after growing up with them on the SP. It's a sad day realizing that these once mighty locomotives of the Rockies and western states are no longer wanted by the class 1 railroads.
I agree.... I guess they've seen their heyday.... and you're right about the SP colors. Nothing sounds better than that 20cyl at notch 8....
I saw one in grey sp colors almost except was owned by central Oregon and Pacific railroad (corp) in the early 2000s making it's way over the siskiyou pass
@ShadowPBPBCSOO LINE never had SD45T-2s...they had SD40 and SD40-2s.
Love it imagine if it was carrying box cars and oil tanker keep-up-the-good-work love trains
R J Corman has several ex Rio Grande SD40T-2 that they often use on what is called "the slab train." The unit train runs huge ingots of aluminum to a smelter just out of Russelville KY.
The SD40-2 were used primarily on "the hill" the mountain subdivision from Roseville CA to Sparks NV on the SP for many years.Was told it was the SP that goaded EMD to build the SD-40's with the radiator intakes down low due to the many tunnels on the Sierras.
I have never seen that before: a whole train of only engines!
It's rare
All the NREX units are former SP SD45T-2
adam hinkle looked like SD60's, but you are probably right about the 45.
look at the money going there
could watch this 100 times and still would not be enuff
I counted 39 but i will recheck
Yep 39
JakeJ301 I Counted 39 Too
Yes. 39 it is!!!
39 units. Thats correct
my guess is four under power 2 front 2 back and 35 in tow
They were mostly old Rio Grande/Southern Pacific SD40-2T Tunnel Motors that Uncle Pete was selling off after the merger. Either they were going to be sold or going to be scrapped with most of these in the 1969-1974 vintage.
Love the thump of those Diesels...
Even if they were being scrapped, any useable parts would find their way into other locomotives either in the USA or in other parts of the world.
eg: in Australia some "new build" locomotives are being produced either locally or by NREC in the USA using reconditioned 16-645E3B engines sourced from scrapped US locomotives.
35 locomotives, longest funeral train I've ever seen.
39 trains! now thats alot of trains to be pulling
A few horsepowers there!
I've seen power moves on the Union Pacific mainline that runs through my hometown. But not with that many locomotives. The most I've seen in a power move were eight.
That was great but I counted 39 two different times. A lot of locomotives. 👍👍👍❤️
The Union Pacific emblems were spray painted with a black line through them.
Those ex-UP units were either SD40T-2's or SD45T-2'S and the ex-BNSF & BN units were SD40-2's
Now that was a lot of horse power at one time.
Hello there; very nice video and lengthy train!
The motorists at the crossing were probably thinking (totally ignorant of the fact that the locomotives in tow were just that) that this was going to be a loooong wait given the 'power' seen before them.
Yeah there were som SD40's in there but if it was yellow it was an SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor.
Imagine if they were all running. They would stay in one spot while they turned the earth.
We are only allowed to have 4 locos powering at any one time.
Actually, the ex-Union Pacific units are really SD45T-2's. They are former Southern Pacific tunnel motors.
That's a lot of cylinders! How many? Well, there's 16 in each locomotive, multiply by 35, and you get:
*560 CYLINDERS!*
Cool way of thinking about it!
Great video.
Wow! Tunnel motors!!
Dude! I saw these in Bridgeport, Nebraska about a month or in March b4 you shot this video! Yeah I took pics Plus there were at least 3 or for BN units in the line
NREX is NATIONAL RAILWAY EQUIPMENT COMPANY
Excelente Video, primera vez que veo un Tren De Puras Locomotoras, conte 39.
The two in the front are powered, they're most likely taking these locomotives because they're retired. Who knows what will happen to them, personally I'd love to have one in my backyard just for the hell of it :D
Just watched 1 Billion Dollars and 1 Million Horse power dive by
It's less than two hundred million dollars and it's less than two hundred thousand horse power.
Maybe the UP will sell them to another countries companies. I am Spanish and the Renfe (the government railway company) sold years ago a lot of old ALCO's and some EMD's to Argentina. They are still rolling, after 40 years working.
dispatcher: i got two trains stuck on the siding going up the hill ahead of you, each has 450 cars.
engineer: no problem, we got more than enough power to pull both at the same time.
later that day....engineer gets bonus for hauling 3 trains! :) $$$$
aww yeah, she generates the funk.
There really needed to be a caboose on the end of that. It would have been the bacon ice cream after a great meal.
Gawd, it's still hard for me to wrap my head around how quickly BNSF has wasted almost no time in shedding itself of so many SD40-2's And no I know why with all the endless parade of toasters coming every year. Makes me wanna puke when I see those ex BN's patched by BNSF, a leaser company then yet another leaser company. Makes you wonder if shedding so many off won't come back to bite them in the ass on down the road.
So much tunnel-motors!!!
I wonder how many of the locomotives were actually contributing power and how many were just along for the ride?
All these were being dead-headed (no power) except the lead and DPU on the end. NS brought about 10 former BN (in old cascade green) engines, in a similar way, just like this through Bureau, IL on IAIS tracks- dead heading them back east. I have a video of that NS move.
The earth turned a bit quicker that day.
Other than the 2 units upfront and 2 units rear, pretty much all the ex UPs are SD45T-2's...
Very nice!
I thought Union Pacific scraped the tunnel motors they got from rio Grande
How many “metric” locomotives would that be???
😬
"Onion Pacific"
They should have put one flatcar with a brick strapped to it at the end, followed by a caboose.
Excellent. ♡ T.E.N.
Over 600,000,000 dollars in engines we'll over HALF A BILLION dollars
$$$$$¢
Wasn't like that, back when gas was 30 cents a gallon, and love was only 60 cents away.
Looks like they've just been painted.
Tug of war- whose Janney Coupler would break first??
Kinda like the head of SP trains in the end.
I was waiting for there to be one empty flatbed on the back...
C Mac
I saw in Deshler a few weeks ago. 8 or 9 engines, and a flat car.
Dude Good Catch.
Looked like a GE on the rear and an SD-70!
Awesome, but with a run of that many locomotives couldn't they have at least hauled a load of about 1000 other cars and set a Guinness record?!LOL 😂
Luiz Henrique ...Do you know if the ex-UP SD40-2T numbers 2839, 2852, 2853, and 2864 shown in the video were shipped to America Latina Logistica ? Any information you can provide and which units from this video the ALL received would be a great help. Thanks
Almost all of those were GP-40's and SD60's. Saw about 4 SD40-2's,
Heaviest "light engine" movement I've ever seen. 8-)
all on their way to the RRHMA Shops in Silvis some will get new owners the rest sent to LTEX and scrapped.
39 Locomotives wow
I feel cheated, no caboose!
This is what I do in train simulator then go flying down a mountain :)
a lot of them are actually ex SP SD 45 T-2
Detroitluv4u has the idea of the day.
Awesome. Nice video ;)
now i got to go watch UNSTOPPABLE, sigh got to get out of my chair
Wow!!
Imagine being the person who had to spraypaint over BN on an SD40-2
some of these are SD45T-2s and SD40T-2s
Ok what was making that high pitched squeaking noise when all of the engines were going by along with the metal grinding noise?
The wheels curving with the curve of the track
Where did you hear this or did you just come up with this yourself by observing? I dont think you are correct about this.
wait a minute.
the BN locos are sd 40-2s, but the UP units look more like 45s
It seems pretty odd they scrap fairly-new engines which ran a maximum of 30 years (that's what I thought by reading the comments), whilst in Europe, or should I say Romania, they use 51 years old Sulzers in freight services just like they are "new" :-|
Somebody can’t count? I got 39. In 34 years on the Railroad I have never seen more than 15 moved at one time. A air break logistical nightmare. It would take at least 24 hours to walk through and check each ones air breaks, not to mention any distributive power checks? Not to mention controlling the lights on the last unit? At over 3000 feet what a nightmare? I have worked on trains up to 12000’ mostly coal or grain trains.
It was dped. Only the main train line hose was hooked up throughout. The rear headlight is just on dim all the time as a marker.
Hahahaha.....All the UP lettering blacked out. Somebody had a bargain basement sale!
Ironically, it's a BNSF pulling Union Pacific Locomotives.
no way all those engines are actually running...they're all in neutral? except for the first one or two?
There is actually 39 in total,i actually counted
Why so many engines? Where would they be going?
They were sold to NREX hense the NREX patch on all the locomotives
Will NRE scrap them, rebuild them, or refurbish and sell them off?
We're some of the engines off and in neutral? Or does all engines have to running?
Only the head 2 and rear 2 were on
Heading for scrap? All the UP locomotives had the name crossed out.
probably!
A lot of old tunnel Motors kind of sad to see them go
I put in a lot of hours and a lot of years on them tunnel motors
Rio Grande/ Southern Pacific /Union Pacific !
Like a takeaway you can give me a takeaway too if you want
Not all were SD40-2's. The ex Union Pacific were SD45 tunnel motors
They were derated and were SD40T-2s
Ether way, still not SD40-2's. Some derated and reclassified as SD40T-3's
I don't think scrapping I think bnsf purchased em
All chiefs and no Injuns!
Must have mis counted, got 38
It's really loooooong train... I've never seen such a train like this. 2 locomotives pulls 37 locomotives...definetely will not be able to see the same situation in Japan...
Are all engines of those locs running?
No just the front 2 and rear 2
Nice
Thank you!
Jacob w Is the ABTH rules a post 2010 rule. Because it doesn't show in BNSF's 4/2010 rules.