The Most Amazing Train Ever! 19G With Many Rare Locomotives!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2009
- When I got a message from a fellow railfan on a Yahoo group that 19G had 8 engines all of Conrail heritage...
NS D8-40CW 8420
NS D8-40CW 8315
NS GP38-2 5329
NS GP38-2 5277 "CRQ"
CSX GP15-1 1554 "CRQ"
NS GP38-2 5312
NS SD45-2 1705
NS SD45-2 1703
...I fell on the floor, started twitching, blacked out, and woke up to an EMS with an AED.
Kidding aside, the first scene is 19G barrelling through Myerstown in good light at HP 79.9, there is a hotbox / dragging equipment detector here. Unfortunately, when I got up to Hershey to catch him working (that video will be up soon), the sun had disappeared, but nevertheless, I got to catch it again chugging up to speed.
The date is April 2, 2009, in the afternoon.
RARITIES: CSX 1554 one of only 2 GP15-1's in Conrail paint, NS 1705 and 1703, 2 of only 6 SD45-2's on the system. Plus the fact that 8 exConrail units got lashed together! - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
#1 - 1994 GE C40-8W (#8420)
#2 - 1990 GE C40-8W (#8315)
#3 - 1973 EMD GP38-2 (#5329)
#4 - 1973 EMD GP38-2 (#5277)
#5 - 1979 EMD GP15-1 (#1554)
#6 - 1973 EMD GP38-2 (#5312)
#7 - 1972 EMD SD45-2 (#1705)
#8 - 1972 EMD SD45-2 (#1703)
8 locomotives bingo!
Dude I love conrail, my grandpa used to work there!!!!
*C O N R A I L Q U A L I T Y*
I miss them a lot I live in Cleveland Ohio. We have a large rail yard and fueling station as a kid I would see conrail trains all the time and the caboose always made me smile..it was like a special treat at the end...I don't know why they went out of business but I mainly just see Burlington northern or an occasional csx train
@@lornperkins4270 Conrail didn't go out of business. Conrail was a US government entity that nationalized much of the east coast railroad industry. A huge chunk of the industry was bankrupt or on the verge of it and the federal government stepped in. They bought up a ton of railroad companies and consolidated them into a single nationalized rail company. Con(solidated) Rail(ways)
After some time passed and the industry began making a recovery, Conrail was sold off to private industry rail conglomerates like CSX and NS. The feds didn't want to be in the rail business forever, just long enough to keep it from collapsing.
Great video. This is a very rare train and it would be great to see something this rare today. Even the horn on this Dash 8 is cool.
I would love to sit beside the track on a nice warm sunnny day and watch awesome trains like this rolling by!
Awesome!!! I remember when this one ran, I was (and still am) mad that I couldn't get out to see it. Incredible lashup, and the horn on 8420 was great too!
Wow what a great video, beautiful.
Absolutely fantastic. This is a video I've been waiting for. 5*, a favorite, and a channel post. Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!!!!
Wow! What an awesome lashup of old school locomotives! Absolutely love that and the Nathan P3 Air-Horn on the lead locomotive!
Power move of NS and Conrail, and I love how the C40-8w has the P3 new cast.
Super catch with the locos, obviously! And I love your choice of locations as well, the beautiful buildings in the background in the first, and the more urban setting in the second. And then you get a local coming into the video at the end. WOW!
outstanding catch! I agree the lead Dash 8 is sharp..I laughed at your description of waking up to an EMS AED! LOL
What an epic NS and ex CR lashup, from the good railroading days of old. Great video.
Fantastic channel. What is not to like? Keep on rocking and performing a excellent job.
Impressive and Interesting shots! Thanks, I enjoyed watching from UK
Beautiful! Nice job on this one. Great perspective. Thank You.
Great video- got some great footage and shots!
RBN MP’s running URR style…very nice. Thanks for export info…seen both RBN’s and NS Alum hoppers at Mol-Dok Leetsdale PA
Those Conrail units look almost new. Love to see that Southern rolling stock. I come from an SR family. :-)
Incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Nice catches! I live near the Raritan Valley line in NJ and often see Norfolk-Southern and CSX. I have seen some Conrail blues, but from a distance and while I was driving over the track on the Parkway! Occasionally we get "exotics" - leased power or recently purchased units being taken for new liveries. There have been a bunch of Canadian Pacifics over the last year or two with NS trains.
Great catch
Very nice! That new paint looks snazzy on the C40-8Ws.
incredible video! that first dash 8-40CW is a freakin beauty, nice catch! :)
Oh, I do like the site of the older looking buildings still in use.
Derry Road in Hershey,Pa. is a "GREAT" railroading spot! Never saw an 8 locomotive lash -up there! Did see the circus train though. Plus the Hershey GP switcher!!!
GREAT Catch ! :-)
awesome video and great catch of all 8 ns engine's on the freight train.
Derry Road in Hershey,Pa. is a "GREAT" railroading spot! Never saw an 8 locomotive lash -up there! Did see the circus train though.
GREAT Catch ! :-)
Wow! I used to count long trains going across the Arizona desert but I don't remember one this long. Great catch.
That is epic, I thought I was lucky finding it on a CSX train, but you got one of only two blue GP15-1's on CSX on a NS train!!!!!
Nice to see 9 locomotives on the front of this train.
Great catch! I seen this same train from the porch of the Station Inn at Cresson,PA.
Lyon Hearted
The UP 3985 4-6-6-4 Challenger, although the largest steam
locomotive in currently operational, was dwarfed by many
steam locomotives both in size and pulling force.
TWO MFE36-6 As !!! GOOD CATCH. I'd like to see both units put back to EL paint.
VERY NICE!!! Great catch on the all former CR units, also I've never seen the SD45-2's before!
Awesome all the way Eric!!! 5*****!
Excellent vid. :) In Arizona desert I once saw something similar . It was about one mile long.
yeah, that makes sense. with the grades they have to pull coming across wyoming into southern idaho it would also seem prudent to place locos in other parts of the consist to ease the strain on the couplers of the lead engines
I see something like this and i think : " That unexplicable love for the trains... " Amazing!
Nice catch! One hell of a power move!
wooooww... nice train... great video!!
Another great video! Keep 'em coming.
I love that sound so much.
for the eastern states that's a pretty impressive train. it seems a little surprising they put all the engines up front. UP sends trains across southern idaho with up to 12 engines coupled in fours, 4 engines up front, 4 more somewhere in the middle and 4 more towards the rear of the train. consists can run up to 2 miles in length
good angle , very nice train video
The longest and heaviest train that has ever been run anywhere in the World did so in Australia in 2001 or so. It was a loaded iron ore train, 682 wagon for a gross load of 100,000 tonnes, hauled by 8 GE AC6000 class locomotives. The iron ore trains in Western Australia are normally the longest and heaviest trains anywhere in the World.
HOLY SHIT! AWESOME video!
Are those dash 8's conrail repaints? I can tell because they have nose number boards
And the ditch lights
awesome!!!! imagine all those conrails from both trains combined!
Nice catch. last 2 locos are former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2's.
Nice to see the old ex-Erie Lackawanna SD45-2's still running around.
I really want a pic of one before they are retired.
Very nice, THANKS.
Videos like this make me miss the US sooo much... Thanks for the video
i haven't ever seen a longest train before, it's amazing
wow great catch!! love the conrail units!!
I see those blue Conrail locomotives pass by my house all the time, it's always attached to CN locomotives on the CN lakeshore line in Mississauga/Toronto..I don't know much about the engines but I always wondered why they were attached to CN loco's
fantastic video, love it. As a matter of interest, in a train like this how many loco's are actually pulling?
A GP15 and 2, SD45-2's + one Awesome catch!!!
fantastic catch.....
Wow, what a catch!
Oh my aching draw bar. Would have expected to see the Locos spaced out along the train. Still more spectacular this way!
The model I have is outdated, but if you look up motorola or yaesu scanner radios I am sure you can find something about them, and more information on a railfan forum once you do a google search. They range from $125-300. I'm not an expert on the latest and greatest scanner radios because I have used the same old one for over 6 years, but there is plenty of information if you do some google searching...
Super catch. Thanks. :)
1554 is a CSX unit, the yellow numbers give it away. the horn on the lead unit has obviously been changed since its conrail days.
Wow, wicked catch!!
I'm liking the two SD45-2's on the end.
WOOOOOOOOWW, JUST PLAIN AWESOME!!! ***** 5STAR ***** And a FAV.
With that being said, the other night, I took a 18,5xx coal train of 128 loads up a 40+ mile, 1.50% grade to around 6800ft. For power, 6x 4400 GE motors; 3x on the head, 3x DP. We maintained a top speed of 12 - 15 mph in run 8; i'd love to see those 66s do better.
Most times when there are more power then needed, the extra engines are either disabled and transported to the facilities to be repaired. Some of the power might be transported for extra power somewhere else but is a very short distance.
Nice catch........don't know if anybody posted but the CSXT 1554 was the CR 1658 according to my computer
Wow!! awesome video! 5* and 8 locomotives! fantastic
Fantastic ! :)
Those things were monsters. I'd be kinda scared to be in control of that much raw power. I heard that two big boys could haul a load up to 10 miles long....
Nice brand new coat of paint on the lead locomotive!
Nice video!!
Awesome Catch especially on the ex Conrail locos
Gotta love the big blue.
I had no idea that so much refuse traveled by rail. Thanks.
Depends. Out on my local line in Illinois, we hardly ever get anything over 3, and most are just 2. The local line runs high tonnage, and some lines run low tonnage. I think this train was a half-power move.
I love trains
omg its a train with other trains that look almost identical to the usual trains we see! I'm flabbergasted.
GE units aside, you can't beat the EMD 645 prime mover; hands down the best freight motor ever assembled, IMHO. The GE Dash-8's disappeared a long time ago from CSX in the Richmond area. but there are units built as early as 1966 (when the 645 replaced the 567) that are still operating in everyday service on shortlines and regionals all over the country. My favorite sound while trackside was a lashup of 4 SD40-2's in helper service on the Pittsburgh line at Horseshoe or Cresson, throttles wide open in Run 8.
That's over 8 million in locomotives alone. All the engineers of all the RR's should get together and come and start filming us at out jobs =)
I can't see what on earth makes this the most amazing train EVER. People really need to stop with the whole "ever" thing.
He probably has never seen Aussie trains. Ever!
Great vid, Eric. Super catch! Too bad, that the last six units were off-power, otherwise i would have asked as to whether those GEEPS and 45s were "shovin' them GEVOS"!
The two leading engines aren’t GEVOs, but rather C40-8Ws. They have all since been sold as of August 5, 2021.
WoW not very often you see 8 loco's Amazing show of power. Sick.
in the description, the 1st two locomotives were ge dash 8-40cw.
Awesome
Nice catch....
awesome video great catch 5/5
Awesome!
rien que ça , 102 wagons ! impressionnant
très bonne vidéo merci
Awesome train!
Don't forget that the two GEs in front are also a hell of a lot heavier than the Class 66s; more weight = more usable tractive force to the ground. CSX opts for heavier than normal units with heavy software that will max out its traction motors for all their worth.
sweet catch!
love the GP15-1. Never seen one in Montreal.
Great video.
How many does the powered rolling stock trail the cargo-cars?
In Korea, I never saw it during my life.
Wish those were still around those Conrail paints
great video! I subscribed to you
SICK!
yeah gr8 gr8 whistle this clip maske my day awright , gr8 job, gr8 spot