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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Train yards can be a never ending hive of activity, but rarely does one see a locomotive kicking up LOTS of smoke! This video highlights some of my favorite, recent catches, of trains kicking up lots of smoke while switching, and moving around.
Beginning at BNSF's Northtown Yard, we'll watch a former Great Northern spew out LOADS of smoke as it throttles up, and moves cars around. After this, we shift our attention to 35th Ave with the Tramp Job. Leading the way is a pair of former Santa Fe Super Fleet B40-8Ws, which also release loads of smoke as they pull on a heavy, and long cut of cars.
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love the smokeshows! hoping to get one when i go to trona railroad with their SD40T-2s
Nice one! The smoke shows are very neat, that's for sure
Glad you enjoyed it! I wish I had my drone up and running for both of these. Next time!
I never use to like the war bonnet scheme but lately I am loving it and try to photograph them as much as I can.
Good ol BN units never fail to entertain~
Spewing facts there! It's been at NTW for decades; hopefully for many more still.
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching, and glad you enjoyed it!
Fascinating coverage, big like
Glad you enjoyed it! More goodies like this are in the works.
Great video Douglas! Northtown yard looks like a beehive of activity with lot of moving action eh? Thumbs up buddy ;)
You got that right! Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching.
great video nothling like seeing some somky boys
Glad you enjoyed it! I gotta get more of the 3447 kicking out loads of smoke.
Forgot to comment on this! Great catches, had no idea Northtown had not one, but TWO endcabs still in service! You find treasures every day, I guess.
Great to hear you liked it! Yeah, NTW has some hidden gems that pop out every now and then.
Great smokey locos. Definitely more please.
Glad you like it! Working on more/a compilation of it; thanks for watching!
Aweosme! I’m still waiting for the bonnet duo to come onto my line , it has twice this year but I missed both !
Perhaps your chance will come again soon; they seem to bounce all over the area. Thanks for watching!
Get to see a class one Railroad keep history alive
As long as nothing major fails on it, it'll be around for a little while yet!
Awesome! Love yard switching videos!!
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More to come! I've heard a number of people mention they enjoy seeing that; lots more of that in the works.
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As much as I like a good smoke show that old switcher seems a bit excessive.
Also funny to see them changing numbers to GNxxxx to pull them off the roster list. Interbay in Seattle has a few as well. I’d invite you over but it’s so darn hard to hang out and not get shooed off by BNSF Police.
Our green switcher smoked from poor maintenance the management kept putting off due to low man power. We got her going now with a full injector change out, reset the rack, replaced one bad power assembly, and we load boxed it. They didn’t want to fix her. Our sup wanted to scrap her but we snuck her into the shop one shift and gave her a go. She’ll be with us longer now.
So, a couple of things with our green east end switcher. Most of the injectors popped bad so we did a full injector change out, then we also had a bad power assembly on her. After that work was completed we load boxed her to clear her up. The carbon traps on the unit were completely plugged from consecutive idling and poor maintenance. She’s clearer now and we’re trying to get an auto start wired up to get rid of the excessive idling that wet stacks the engine.
Its great to hear its getting some much needed TLC, and additional work! Hopefully, this enables the 3447 to operate for a few more years. Thanks for the information, and comment!
@@SD457500 yep our laborers love that thing so we snuck it into the shop and did a bunch of work to it one night and re-sold it to management to keep her here. Our west end “orange” switcher needs some love too so we’ll be doing the same. But, they really need auto starts for the winter months to keep it from wet stacking the engine.
The orange one, that's the 3701? I remember seeing that moving around a little while ago. I recall when it was in fresh BNSF paint YEARS ago.
@@SD457500 I can’t remember the number I work on so many, but that sounds right. It mainly moves the west end of the shop under the 44th St. bridge.
Great video. You should check out the Red River valley and Western they got 4 SD70MACs from BNSF a couple of months ago and are finally being used in service
It would be nice to get up and out that way someday; they appear to have some neat operations.
@@SD457500 they do. It’s also really nice to see those switchers still on a class one
We had some 1500’s that would shoot sparks. For fun at night we would shoot from idle to notch 8 and light up the sky.
Seen green bn switch unit in California before
I know a few MP15DCs found their way over there; you happen to get a number off of it?
1769 with a yellow logo on the nose.
Good eye, and it does! Looks like part of it was either removed, and was never applied.
BNSF Locomotive Management and Mechanical departments should be embarrassed by the smokey displays. Totally unnecessary in todays world.
nice vid... an interesting thing though... there's an obscure rule in most OLD class 1 cba's that reads, "engines that blow steam, so as to obstruct the observation of hand signals shall not be used in yard service"... now yea it's not steam but exhaust here, but it really brings home the hazard of a unit that would make it impossible to see hand signals, especially during that era BEFORE handset radios were used
That engine doesn't look healthy. It looks like it's throwing out its engine oil 🤔
Agreed; looks like bad rings, or a dead cylinder.
6:17"Stop Wait 25 Seconds" is a very precise instruction. Are you supposed to set your stopwatch ⏱?
I *think* it has to do with the crossing gates, and them timing out. In its day, the Grove Yard was along the Northern Pacific's mainline, and the crossing circuits were set for approx 45 mph. These days, its a sleepy branch line that only see's local work.