Mega Machine In Cab Ride Union Pacific Diesel Locomotive
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- Mega Machine In Cab Ride Union Pacific Diesel Locomotive - Come ride with me in the cab of this train. We'll even walk out and stand on the side rail of the locomotive while it is moving down the tracks. I show multiple angles, sights, and amazing views. You'll even hear all the train sounds from radio chatter to ringing bells.
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I guess I missed out riding in the caboose. 😘
Yes you did! Lol
Totally evident in the smile on Marty's face. You can see the happiness just pouring out of his eyes.
Back in the mid 70s, I frequently rode on either end of a freight train. If I was in the caboose (van as the train crews called it) I would often be up in the cupola. When in the locomotive, I'd be in the middle seat.
The GP30 is one of the most beautiful EMDs ever made.
I agree! 👍
Okay, here's the part when we magically become 9-year-olds again...Too cool! Nicely done video.
😂 thank you.
My husband did their " engineer for an hour" i was allowed to ride in the engibe with them. It was worth every penny!!! Great museum too. Must see for all railroad enthusiasts!
Awesome!
This brought back memories of a cab ride I took in 1998. I only took still pictures. It was an excursion train from Willits to Fort Bragg, California.
Sounds like a fun trip.
So, you don’t have to be retired RR, to drive that engine. There yah go, Marty, sign up to be a train engineer.
Exactly!
You still have to get certification to do it. They won't let just anyone solo operate a locomotive especially when it is pulling a passenger consist. I imaging he das to take a few tests before getting certified and still had a veteran engineer ride along for a while before letting him go solo at the controls. In fact I would expect it even if I were to land that job and I have experience and current certification with CPKCS.
Yesterday I couldn't even spell locomotive engineer. Today I r 1.
At most(if not all) outfits, you would start as a brakeman, then qualify as conductor, eventually training/certifying as locomotive engineer, unless as another commenter mentioned, you have current certification.
you cannot "drive" a locomotive, you run or operate it. Forwards or Backwards, no directional control.
What a great up and close video, it must of been a real fun time, and experience.
It was one of the most memorable things I’ve ever done in my whole life. Thank you for watching.
It must HAVE been …
What he meant was, “…it must HAVE been a real fun time…”
GREAT life lesson here: if you are interested in something, hang around and ask!! You'll be surprised by the opportunities that will open up.😀👍
Darn right! 👍
GP30.
When EMD let GM Design Staff sculpt a locomotive. Still my favorite Geep and just resplendent in those Borg colors.
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Glad you shared this video. Great opportunity for you. Thanks for taking us along.
Thank you for watching. 👍
Loved it! I could feel a breeze when you stepped out onto the walkway. Also a touch of vertigo. Thanks for taking us along.
You’re not the only one ha ha ha, I’m glad you enjoyed the ride.
Back in the mid 70s I felt the cool breeze while standing below the headlight!
most excellent sound effects outside the cab.cant beat an EMD thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching.
Hey Marty
What an amazing ride. Im surprised Sally wasn't with you. Thanks for the invitation to ride along. I love the big diesel engines, however my bucket list is to ride of a steam locomotive. You just can't beet the sound of all that steel chugging down the tracks and the smell of coal smoke in the air. Will be anxiously awaiting the next video. Until then take care and God bless you and Sally.
Steve in Oklahoma
Thank you, I would love to be at the helm of a coal fired locomotive with all that steel moving and I’m still working on trying to find one that would have me in the cab. Thank you so much for watching.
I used to be a telecommunications technician for Canadian National. Back in the mid 70s, when I was working in Northern Ontario I frequently rode freights. While I never walked along the side of a locomotive, there was one occasion when I was standing right below the headlight, taking pictures. Also, back in those days, I usually had to hop on and off a slowly moving train, as the engineers didn't want to fully stop unless they had to.
That’s a good story. Thanks for sharing and watching the video. 👍
Cool video, I got to see this engine during restoration many years ago up there in Boulder. I was allowed to get up in that cab - looks like a very nice restoration.
It definitely is a great restoration. 👍
No one envies me for my job, but these guys, whoa.....
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Crazy goodstuff Marty, that is one spiffy locomotive🚂
It definitely was a nice rig. 👍
As they say you're never to old to learn ,keep it up Mr.
Thanks a lot! 😁
New subscriber. Thank ya' sir for sharing. NNRY in Ely, NV, has a Be The Engineer Program. You can drive steam or diesel. Its a little pricey, but since I've wanted to drive a locomotive since I was a kid, it was worth it. You can also ride in the cab of a steam engine on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in Durango, CO. Also pricey and you don't get to drive it, but was a lot of fun for 2 1/2 hours.
Still sounds like a great time. 👍
How much does it cost to ride in a diesel locomotive?
This is definitely on my Bucket List now
That’s awesome!
I’ve been there many times over the years!
A little bit of history. That particular locomotive 844 gp30 was the reason 4-8-4 844 to be renumbered on the active roster of UP to be numbered 8444. What the gp30 was retired and donated to the museum. 4-8-4 844 got it original number back.
Great information. 👍
We love it! Great job Marty. Keep up the good work.
Doug and Pam
The Last Frontier in the Lower 48.
Thanks! Will do! 👍
Really nice video. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us. Probably the closest I will ever get to the inside of a UP locomotive 🚂
Thank you very much! I’m glad you liked it. 👍
From holland, what a landscape !
Thanks.
Geep 30. My favorite locomotive.
This in now my favorite locomotive 🚂
16:56 GP 30s had a tiny closet on the fireman's side long enough for hanging up clothes. I ran many of the SP units over the years. These weren't my favorite units the whistle chords were rope with a wooden handles. 30s were noisy inside with little insulation. These units had the older wiring and had issues with wheel slip .
Thanks for the information. 👍
Nice clean GP30
That it is. Thanks for watching.
Hello. I watch a lot of train videos. Especially like the cabviews. The picture quallity is great on this video! Good job!
Thank you for your support and your input, I appreciate you sharing that.
This is engine is a defunct model that is no longer made but, restored to showroom condition! Nice and rare experience.
I learned from a train engineer that due to NTSB regulations. Civilians are NOT allowed or permitted to film inside an active
commercial train cab.
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Plus film is expensive nowadays
I'm in Canada, so I don't know if similar rules apply, but back in the mid 70s, I frequently rode freights and also took pictures. However, I was an employee, though not railroad operating. I used to be a telecommunications tech for Canadian National.
Beautiful train, awesome scenery. What else could you ask for.
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Amazing! What a treat so see from the inside!
Thank you so much for watching.
I so thank you for this cab in front ride, a real joy to see the action up front and personal !
Thank you for your comment. 👍
Enjoyed the video. Thanks Marty. From UK🇬🇧👍
Thank you so much for watching. 😁
Wow, on my bucket list, I’m envious, lol!
It definitely was a once in a lifetime experience. Thanks for watching.
Another great video Marty, keep up the good work, all the best from Oz.
Thanks, will do! Take care.
Thanks for the great video of these very professional guys running and operating this huge trail of cargo.
Trains like these move our country with box cars, hopper cars, and containers from ships to trucks across our nation.
These guys seem very relaxed on the job but, aware of their jobs and concentrating on getting this train from point A to B in the safest and quickest way.
Many people do not realize trains have to blow their horns several times at a very loud Db level at every road crossing by transportation regulations. This insures any vehicle or pedestrians know a train is approaching these grade crossings.
We made the mistake to camp in an Oregon state campground on the Columbia river maybe 5 years ago. Along the Columbia river the railroad obtained the best level grade near the river followed by highways on both sides of the river. There was little land for Oregon state campgrounds, that had to be build next to railways and highways.
We took a campsite next to the railroad tracks and next to a gravel vehicle grade crossing. All night huge freight trains approached the crossing blowing their very loud high Db horns several times next to our campsite. It was a night of brief sleep broken by every 20 or 30 minutes of these very noisy trains approaching the grade crossing.
Thanks for all your great information, I definitely will not camp by any busy tracks. 👍
That train is a museum passenger train. The boxcars are HEP slugs
Amen.
Great cab ride loved it !!!😊
Thanks for the comment, I am glad you enjoyed it. 😎
Such a nice gentleman, so full of humility. Love from India ❤️🙏🙏
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Very Nice!
I enjoyed watching this video.
Great Job my dude!
Thanks so much, this was a once in a lifetime experience.
Certainly looks like he had done that a couple times before!! Very nice!!
Thanks 😊
I thought you were hiding in the electric panel room. Disappointed that it was legit. Rip Shoestring.
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I love the video
I’m so glad you enjoyed the video. 😁
Beautiful 😊😊😊❤
Thank you.
I subscribe to Sally's channel, because she seems sweet and I enjoy seeing the desert where I used to live, so I'm certainly gonna subscribe to your channel, because I love trains and guy stuff! Great video.
Thank you so much for your support. 😊
Magnificent catches inside of the locomotive, and to see how it works on driving a train.
Thumbs up.
Keep up the perfect work, Marty, just liked and subscribed, Greetings from Portugal to the USA.
Thank you so much.
@@MeanderingMarty my pleasure.
@@MeanderingMarty trains are amazing.
Hi Awesome sound of EMD like jet I love 💕 this sound good job and union Pacific Locomotive cab is very comfortable
There was definitely a lot of room in that cab.
Fireman promoted to Engineer hahaha
Exactly 👍
Back in the 70s, when I was with CN, there were the engineer & brakeman in the engine and conductor & brakeman in the caboose. Firemen were long gone by then.
My skin is the same color as that desert. Yellowish with a lot of green. You're a lucky duck Marty.
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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Got a stutter day Marty? 😊
Darn TH-cam! 😮
@@MeanderingMarty
allegedly 🤦♂🤷♂
Ole GP30, no comfort / quiet cab or air conditioning like in the GE's and EMDs out there now.
I miss living out there. I knew there was a train museum in boulder city but In the 10 years I lives in Vegas I never saw a train running on that track. I do know the track ties into the UP mainline west of McCarran Airport in Vegas, unfortunately the museum train does not run that far.
Maybe one day I will return "home" and maybe see about working for that museum since I do have railroad experience and operations certifications with the KCS (Now CPKCS).
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Vegas isn't as good as it was then. It's changed and not for the better. We're moving in a year or so.
To put it in short, this is now a great place to visit, not live.
Was stationed at Nellis AFB 37 years ago. It's changed a ton. I remember when I was studying my career development courses, I heard an air horn/whistle that was a bit close; turned out to be the last UP local crossing the roadway onto the base(had two GP30s and a UP boxcar). I managed to get a picture of it.
DATALOG:
9:32 - Locomotive Brake Handle malfunctioned
9:37 - Locomotive Brake Handle fixed. exactly as it's shown in the instruction manual
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I was fortunate to go to the Berlin orientation tour with the US Army when I was stationed in Bremerhaven. We rode in the military's Sleeper Car at high speed to Frankfurt and then from Frankfurt until something happened. Similar to this train riding tracks laid in 1931, when we crossed the border into East Germany, the railroad beds were not maintained and the train moved slowly wildly moving back and forth in 1980.
I believe it, now they have machines to quickly repair that but obviously they have not come through yet. 👍
@MeanderingMarty During the time that the wall was up the East Germans were assigned to maintain rails above ground while the West maintained the subway in Berlin. I was told, the East doesn't maintain the rail line connecting Berlin to the West strictly as a matter of policy. The subway system in Berlin was marvelous looking brand new.
I've been on that motor, the train crew invited me into the cab and took the short trip.
It’s the best experience I had. 👍
This is a great railroad to take your children or grandchildren for a ride.
Yes it is.
That smile on your face towards the end says it all! This is way better than any Disneyland ride and maybe the best time of your life. Question, did the engineer actually drive that train backwards? Or was there another engineer at the opposite end of the train?
He did drive it backwards but there was also someone else at the back of the train .
Wow nice job! This is a great video!
I’m glad you liked it. I wanted to do a video where it’s more about the experience than the talking. 👍
Nice video friend, I really like American railways. I have several videos here of Brazilian railways. I even have a simulator cabin at home.
Awesome
Great vid! @ 9:27 reminded me of Smokey and the Bandit... "Come awwwwn back!"
Now that you say that. Yes it does.
@@MeanderingMarty lil humor lol... Jerry Reeds voice
Wow. It’s just like being there….❤❤❤
👍 Thanks.
Great video
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great video
Thanks 😊
Great Video Well Done . The United States The BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD is Running Its RAILROAD on One Hundred Year Old Technology ??????????
Exactly! 👍
You do have a good point in general, but remember in this case that this equipment and ROW are part of a museum.
Nice clip and nice engineer - driver.I thought a train needed two engineers .
I was the second one. 😂
Locomotive Engineer, not driver! You drive a car, run an engine.
@@user-ob3nq2kc3tDepends what country you come from. Australia 🇦🇺 = Locomotive Driver. Officially in my company a fully qualified driver is an RSW (Rail Safety Worker) Driver Level 4.
What a strange operating position for the driver.
I kind of felt the same .
I noticed that too.
Great video. Where is this located? Id like to do a ride along.
Just outside of Las Vegas.
All that room in the cab and the engineer is jammed into a tight corner. Looks pretty uncomfortable.
Now that you mention it, that is very true. 👍
Where was this filmed? The truck stop looks familiar but from an angle I've never seen...
Las Vegas
Very nice to get a cab view. Can I ask the purpose the train went out and then back again. What does this train do and where is it located? thank you.
I’m not sure but I think the train just runs passengers on those tracks the track is just outside Las Vegas
Last "clean" locomotive I've seen was UP4141, for President Bushs funeral.
That is a true statement. 😂
So true, that train was so breathtaking, glad I got to see it
Sensacional
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No fireman but a cool engineer!
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Man UP 844 looks a little different. It looks more diesely now than a steam engine
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I assume this is the engine assigned as the dynamic braking loco for UP 844.
I'm like wow ain't very Comfortable, looking
I thought it'd be more comfortable like What we got in the back of the truck or sleeper birth.
I've always wanna sit right out front. Nothing in front of me, nothing but air and tracks and Is a great view.
Sounds like fun sitting on front.
Great video what state is thisxl
Nevada.
Kid: I want UP 844
Mom: We have UP 844 at home
UP 844 at home:
I want one at home! 😂
@@MeanderingMarty But there are TWO 844s. One is the Steam 844, renumbered to 8444 when the new kid on the rails came for a short time. Once the EMD GP30 retired, 8444 got her old number back. 844 (steam) never retired.
So, the million-dollar question is, Which one? And, in which scale: 1:1, 15" Gauge Ride-on Live Steam, 1:25, 1:36 1:48, 1:64, 1:87, 1:160, or 1:220?
I have an Atlas EMD GP30, WC 711in 1:160 at home.
Where is this? Amazing footage
Las Vegas
did anyone notice the handle he was using fell off in in his hand at 9:33 Time for a little preventative
maintenance :-). Look Dad, No Brakes ! Ha Ha!
Yes, I did, and then you notice how he just puts it on like nothing ever happened.
@@MeanderingMarty I did notice that as well. He definitely kept his cool. I guess it happens all the time. .
It's the reverser, and it's removable. Nothing wrong there.
That lever is made to be removed and must be removed whenever the locomotive is stopped. It's a safety device/
@@RealJeep Thank you for filling us in Sir!
Read through many comments, and not one identifying the start location!
Strange isn’t it.
😂 So you want to operate a real diesel locomotive? Go to the Western Pacific railroad museum in Portola California up on the feather River and you can rent an actual road diesel with a engineer and he'll teach you how to shift through the various different power settings of the engine plus brake with the pneumatic system and operate the horns and know what the horn toots are for forward and reverse and going across crossings. About $200 an hour. Total blast.
That sounds great I would like to try that! 👍
Where's the backup engineer? I hope they have another person in the cab.
It was me.
Some roads want to operate with a single crew for the entire train. Look up Lac-Mégantic rail disaster to see how that turned out for one train. It's in Wikipedia.
844 finally got retired💀
It looks great if it’s retired. Thanks again
You know, once you're in the cab you can remove your hi-vis vest!
It’s all about safety. 😂
@@MeanderingMarty Then I guess it's okay to wear it in the supermarket after work, as I have seen some do. Actually, I think it looks pretty goofy. I would toss mine onto the floor on top of my grip as soon as I entered the cab. You're a locomotive engineer not a cart collector at Walmart!
@@bobjohnson205 But supermarkets are dangerous! All those homicidal maniacs pushing their buggies around!!! 🙂
The cab number stealer
A few have mentioned that the number was on another locomotive.
No, not at all. the UP bought 99 GP30s and 844 being the LAST STEAM loco on the property was renumbered to 8444. When the new kid retired 844 (steam) got her old number back. Many active steam locos are running this summer, 844 is the only one that never retired. All others were off the roster, retired, and at some point returned to service for the fans.
How much top speed for this train?
If I would guess I would say about 65 mph.
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Respect for locomotive driver
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Where is this “museum”?
Northeast Las Vegas.
I'm confused... I just saw 844 the other day, while driving into Boulder City and it wasn't shiny, it looked like it was badly in need of new paint.
???? Must be a different train.
😂 they sure go fast was hanging on tite
It was kind of scary hanging on to what seemed to be a 1/2 inch pipe for a railing. 😬
Where is this located at I see a truck stop down there in the hole.
It’s by las Vegas.
No negative comments allowed. Like it’s seemed very risky.
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Where's the John?¿???
The back door. 😂
Where is the dead man's switch?
In dead mans chest. 😂
I was wondering about that too.
What kind of scab outfit is this. Not UP employees.
I didn’t get my union card yet. 😂
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how old is this engine ?
Good question, you got me stumped 🤔
location??? or is it top secret?
Las Vegas
Nevada Southern Railway, Boulder, NV
Neat place. Got a caboose ride on a school kid excursion a while back.
Area 51. 🙂
It's an old diesel
It is in excellent shape for an old train.
Hope it's air conditioned . Did you see any aliens
No air and no aliens. 👽 😂
What railroad?
Thanks for watching, the railroad is mentioned in the video.
I just watched it again. I don’t know where I’m missing it? Nevada Southern is on the box car. I know it’s not UP.
@@redlight722Nevada Southern Railway(part of the Nevada State Railroad Museum) near Boulder City NV. This once ran all the way to Hoover Dam(supplying construction supplies and manpower). It is at the end of the UP branch line that connects to the LA-Salt Lake main line near McCarran/Reid Airport.
Waaa happened ? He's a go'n dis way ? Den he's a go'n dat way ? Did he take the wrong road ? Great video !
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