What the heck? Santa Fe Gp30 #2437 was involved with Kismet train collisions on June 14th 2020. However, it survived from the wreck and it was retired and it never run again and it was sold into LITEX forever.
The reason for its because BNSF is getting rid of their excess locomotives. Almost all of those engine can’t be used anymore, so BNSF is selling them for scrap.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan awwwwwwww!! at least put in some discarded, decently operative engines and parts and sell it to a smaller railroads. sad they're gonna kill those poor babies
@@0fficialdregs Unfortunately those poor babies are already dead. Most of them have sat for years or even decades on storage tracks in Galveston, and they’ve been stripped of a lot of their parts. It would be too expensive to get them up and running again.
Those are slugs, which are locomotives with nothing but traction motors, a frame, and a big weight on top (though some do have cabs and dynamic brake units) Slugs are used to boost the tractive effort of the locomotive they're attached to, but they must be tethered normal engine in order to work, since they cant produce their own power.
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Were you around when the railroad was still regularly using SW engines and slugs?
What the heck? Santa Fe Gp30 #2437 was involved with Kismet train collisions on June 14th 2020. However, it survived from the wreck and it was retired and it never run again and it was sold into LITEX forever.
4:19 this santa fe gp30u has been in a train collision kismet
we get long military trains through Sioux City often, lots of different equipment
I never knew that there were warbonnet SD70Ms still around
I never knew they were a thing😅
Enjoyed seeing the old power.
4:04 I think that’s a funeral train
yep, it is
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan ohh
@@Southern_Plains_Railfanwhat were the locomotives doing, what was it carrying?
it seems a lot of BNSF funerals are moving over on the west side
Yeah, I hope this isn’t a one off thing. I want to see more of these!
19 LOCOMOTIVES!! REALLLLYYYYYYY
what was the reason for that long train?
The reason for its because BNSF is getting rid of their excess locomotives. Almost all of those engine can’t be used anymore, so BNSF is selling them for scrap.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan awwwwwwww!! at least put in some discarded, decently operative engines and parts and sell it to a smaller railroads. sad they're gonna kill those poor babies
@@0fficialdregs Unfortunately those poor babies are already dead. Most of them have sat for years or even decades on storage tracks in Galveston, and they’ve been stripped of a lot of their parts. It would be too expensive to get them up and running again.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan noooooooooo :(
I have seen a slug in newton Kansas in bnsf yard
See the rainbow taste the rainbow
A real sad site to see those old boys go. All of them are gettin scrapped right? Even that Ex BN SD40-2?
As far as I’m concerned, yes. All of those deadhead engines had been sitting unused in Galveston, TX for years, some of them decades.
A bluebonnet.
4:24 What are those two cars? Do they carry fuel?
Those are slugs, which are locomotives with nothing but traction motors, a frame, and a big weight on top (though some do have cabs and dynamic brake units)
Slugs are used to boost the tractive effort of the locomotive they're attached to, but they must be tethered normal engine in order to work, since they cant produce their own power.
All of the locomotives you mentioned appear to be fake bonnets. Unless I missed something.