Bite Sized Oddities - Conrail 8687
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2023
- Chicago's industrial sector is full of industries, from steel to scrap, there of course would be railways that served them. One of these contains a locomotive thats still in service 72 years later.....
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I do apologize if i sound rather quiet in this episode. My microphone settings were a bit wack, and I gotten them fixed after the episode was finished. Hope y'all understand.
I thought you were just tired when you recorded this
@@Michael-eg3rssame
I kinda liked it tbh
@@Polaris5664me too, it's a nice change to see the calmer voice of him
You sounded like you were doing asmr tbh
I do hope the industry knows the kind of heritage their old work horse has and will be willing to preserve it in some way when the time finally comes to replace it. Cause at 72 years old? Surely it can't kick around for much longer. No matter how compatible EMDs parts are. Sooner or later the cost of maintenance will become to great or too tedious
Ohh I stumbled upon a video of this engine just by chance on youtube a while back. and seeing it, back-dropped against a high arching modern highway bridge with modern cars and trucks... I was hit with something like a combination of sadness and pride. a ghost of the way things used to be. And a way they might have been if cars hadn't become so dominant. A working, hauntological artifact if there ever was one. Good to learn a little more about it's history, and ours, by extension.
2 strokes , gotta love em
I am surprised that you didn't touch on the fact that this unit was ordered with dynamic brakes like switchers on logging railroads. These pups were used on some steeply graded anthracite line by the LV with light axle loading. That is why it has that hump by the cab. Also I always thought of the SW8s as the beginning of the 8 cylinder line of switchers with the later SW900 being the 8-567C successor to the SW8. The SW7 with the 12-567A had The SW9 as the 12-567B equipped succesor and later SW1200 as the 12-567C succesor. The Sw1 stuck around longer with its 6-567 and was eventually succeded by the rare SW600 with a 6-567c
0:32 The Way you put the spongebob squarepants selling special and different Krabby Patties meme here its amazing
It would go great in a museum. Conrail #8687 should be preserved
I am amused at this switcher and never knew about it. Thanks for the Video.
2:20 John Feister is a friend of mine from school, i was likely with him when he took tbat photo.
Ive seen this unit working for years and its kind of neat the internet is giving it some recognition.
You were driving. We gunned in there in the cavalier, ripped a 180, I snapped a few shots out the open window, and away we went.
@@johnfeister3618 as was the style at the time
Great video I drive past that switcher everyday going to get loaded in calumet.
There's a Lehigh Valley 252 switcher at the Depot in Williamsville, NY. Static display. Worked at a local utility until they sold it to the historical society there.
This reminds me of Conrail 8693! This unit was former EL, then bought by Conrail, then sold to red mill company, still wearing its Conrail blue to this day, but lost its logo, on one side, it has red mill company on the side, this locomotive works in bunge Morristown IN where I railfan, it spends its days switching grain and tanker cars, bunge has 4 locomotives, one being a GP9? Could be a GP7, the rest being switchers like this one, one has been restored and repainted into green and blue mix, CSX owns the mainline and takes it all away. If you want to know more just look up Morristown Indiana and then put what you want to know about
Reminds me of ex conrail 9330 now owned by CRGX it still has the conrail blue paint and still has its numbers painted on the side
Great video
Love locomotives like these. The last RS-1 in operation in the US is in Largo, FL shunting for Conrad Yelvington. Could be a great subject for a future Bite Size Oddity video. There's footage of it on TH-cam.
91_C4_FL there's more than just that one. Green Mountain runs one and LA&L does too. There's more than those too.
You didn't notice that 780's number boards is still 8687.
Girl really said: "I AM ETERNAL"
I see this guy almost every time I take the SSL. Good video
video suggestion: Rating steal mill railroads livery’s and engines.
Shenandoah Valley railroad 367 might be a neat locomotive to cover
yeah, good going Conrail! Remove the dynamic brakes and plate over the front windows!
1:23
Halton: who the *bell* is calling me lol
SW8 the First Diesel locomotive for Korea...
Go see the SW1 in Tipton Indiana. Built in 1941 and still in revenue service.
Nice video as ever. Keep it up!
Lehigh valley is my area railroad I had a alot of family who worked for the valley
Clean intro 💯
Can you make a video covering all of the SW unit types and their history?
Conrail!!!!!
I'm thinking there is record of the oldest for revenue operating locomotive somewhere.
My child
A time when North America made the best sh%t&told the world to hold my beer.
When Q&A🤔🤔🤔
And it is 60 years old
i need to check this locomotive out, any address to likely see this?
West of the Ford plant
its always parked on the north side of 130th street just off of the bishop ford expressway@@The52car
Cowl do you have a discord server?
Where can I find fottage of this loco in service
SamLovesTrains had some great footage easier this year.
th-cam.com/video/VfN8JIgxDZc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ns9h_7HlvG28x3Py
Thanks
What happened to it now?
Still there
@@The52car thank goodness
Why Did you said Fuck