130-car coal train w/ double helpers crosses Greenhorn Trestle, Mullan Pass MT.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2023
- Struggling from the start, this train had locomotive problems with loco 4 and the DPU, and so an extra helper set was requested from Helena. So with 13 locos total (although 2 for sure and maybe 3 offline) the train slowly grinds its way up Mullan Pass. Second helper set has only 3 online. Nice horn from the engineer
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Imagine seeing that scenery everyday and getting paid for it
except when you sign on at 1800hrs for 10 days straight doing 12hr shifts….dog tired and nothing much to see except your headlights
The sound of those MRL pushers never gets old
I love the sound of locomotives screaming their lungs out. Thank you for sharing. Excellent video as always Scott.
Thanks Hans. How are you doing ?
how many damn tons could it have been? I mean, on one hand wow, on the other, how to fck up your tracks 101 :)))
@@RazielKainus roughly 12,000 tons
@@Rev1Kev nice :) I believe in EU trains can be max 5500tons or so, above that they need special permission - to protect the infrastructure aka rails from wearing too fast
I believe the only regular one above that is the IORE iron ore trains in Sweden, pulled by a dual monster loco :)))
alot of that noise is inverter fans/radiators fans/TM blowers keeping things cool…i was only just thinking they sound alot like electric locomotives that i’ve driven in the coalfield of queensland Australia
Track is newly ballasted and looks extremely smooth. The most impressive thing to me is the stability of the speed and load-sharing between all those 13 behemoths. I could spend the next life watching these go by, with no regrets
Nice smooth railbed helped getting this huge hopper train plus the road power needed to keep its speed! Impressive for what BNSF has done for a smooth operation over Mullens Pass.
Its an amazing sight to see in person, especially when they have multiple helper sets on a train.
Incredible the length of that train & the power of the diesel engines.
... all possible due to the tiny coupler-pin....
А какая длина станции должна быть, что б принять такой состав?
Do you know which mine this train loaded at??
Tonnage on tonnage on tonnage, all rolling along on a metal track across this great country. 🇺🇸
That’s a monster consist! 13 locos….and all straining! Great capture 👏
How they synchronise the speed of all locomotives, i.e. pushing at same force?
@@mazharaltaf4899 exactly what distributed power does…radio control across all locos and software to manage it
@@nitinshukla3752 Thank you for kind reply, that’s great.
That's a LOT of SD70's! Excellent video!
Somewhere around 40 megawatts of power! Truely incredible, could power approximately 30,000 American homes.
@@steveallen1340 Damn, froreal? That's amazing!
What a GLORIOUS concert that was!!!
First class sight and sound 🤝👊💥🔥
Man, what a show! That is like old time 1980's railroading right there, but with newer equipment. SD70ACe's are my favorite modern power, so this is just right for me.
Scott,
Great capture. 13 locomotives, 10 of them SD70s. Beautiful sight.
Wow, 13 locomotives! That must have sounded awesome in person! Plus a rare horn from the lead unit. Nice!
The video just doesn't do the sound justice. It's absolutely deafening
Actually ten locomotives and three appliances.
Back in the 80’s can you imagine how many SD40-2’s it would take to move this train.
Back in the 80’s can you imagine how many SD40-2s it would take to move this train.
Alot of people don't realize the reasoning for dpu. It was obviously way more power than needed but the point is on curvy tracks you don't want the train pulling in the curves so hard . As in pulling against the curves. It lessens chance for derailment and takes a lot of stress off the cars and curves. Much safer than just pulling or pushing in one spot. And less likely to break couplers.
Big ole heavy long ass train! Probably a gazillion tons of coal!
Oh look, electric car fuel.
Being pulled by hybrid locomotives. Lol
@@BroadwayLTDProductions*Diesel electric
Amazing you can see the other end of the train moving in the distance across the valley
Watched a few trains cross that trestle, and also come through the tunnel on top of Mullan pass. Spent 25 years in that area. Beautiful country.
Those locomotives are so shiny and spotless like garage queens! Incredible footage and train.
These coal trains excite me. thanks for posting
Glad you like them floodedcar.
Good to see all those EMDs. Thx.
It's nice to see some of the original Mac's still out there running.
THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT TIME IM A TRAIN LOVER Please Send More
HOW MANY ENGINES TOTally Amazing
Got that horn shout out. Cool 😎.
That must have had a lot of tonnage to have 13 units in the train. Thanks for a very outstanding video. (Missisippi Gulf Coast, USA)
Thanks John, Tonnage is usually around 18,000 tons
@johnmoore8016 if you're from the Mississippi Coast, I'm sure you're highly familiar with railroads LOL. I used to live down there myself (Pass Christian, MS). Small world.
holy ssss thats some major tonnage... poor tracks tho :)))
13 units isn't the usual here. These coal trains are 3x4x1 normally. The BN likes to throw extra weight in dead units on these things for us.This train stalled or the head end lost a unit or the middle helpers lost some units, which is why you got the 4 set on the rear. Those helper sets have an overheating problem in the summer. I've been riding these things as the conductor for the last 9 years
That was a little over 9.5 minutes of relaxing bliss. Hope to go back to visit one day and visit some of the other spots. Best wishes, Rik.
WOW!! we never see that kind of power all running at the same time in KCMO, Too flat! Would love to go to that location some day. Great video man, thanks.
That’s what us brits like to call ‘MEGA THRASH!’ Fantastic catch!
I learned this on You Tube: the first and third engines have deisel engines, the second and fourth engines are "Slugs" meaning they operate off of the front "Mother" electricity. The trailing slugs use their electric wheel Motors to help pull no desiel.
Wow! The last days and hours of MRL. We had built a trip to go right there and watch them but unfortunately a family member fell IL so we can’t go right now . 😢Appreciate your videos
Scott, I am glad you are capturing so much MRL for us! Thanks!
Holy hotdogs Scott,this is seriously awesome.the drone from these hard working loco's is mind blowing, specially while wearing headphones, or through a surround system.wicked rail fanning my man 🙉🚂
Thanks Locoman. Glad you enjoyed it
I couldn't relax being an engineer. Anything could go wrong at any stage!
Привет из России , обожаю Локомотивы Америки , всем Мира и Добра !!!
My father was an engineer ( mostly freight) on the Erie Lackawanna. He used to call these engines "Bulldogs". the other common type was the "Covered Wagon". As a kid , I got to sit in the engineer seat and drive the train.
Wow! That is big-time railroading at its best. Great camera work, too.
Now that's power
All of the Sd70ace’s are helping to push all the cars full of coals in the mountains.
EXCELLENT camera work! Kept me engaged the entire time.
Power of Machines ,Incredible Video.
Just awesome !! Interesting that Raillink 4318 (tail end pusher group) had 2 sets of horns. James.
Nice considered camera work.
Thank you for putting this up.
Thanks airing and sharing the outstanding video with magnificent locomotives. Railfanning endeavors are promising. Reminiscent of a similarly published video a few years ago.Bliss
Wow what a gr8 catch brilliant video mate, godbless you
Wooowww awesome train!
Very nice video thank you brother 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
When I was last there in 2019, the road to that trestle was gated off and inaccessible. A shame given how awesome that spot its!
I think it had been left open for snowmobilers, and although the snow was gone they hadn't closed it off yet. I just got lucky. Best spot on the pass !!!
Stupendo treno e eccellenti riprese video, congratulazioni
Such great stuff man! Thanks for posting it.
WOW, beautiful video. Thanks
That is a serious train.
Awesome! Thanks so much!
This is awesome
Fantastic video and footage!
Those locis are impressive, clean, identical and massive.
you do nice videos Scott.
Thank you very much Gragor
Great catch!
4x4x5. Incredible horse power not seen in very many places. Most I have seen is 4x3x3 on loaded grainers in the Tehachapi loop area.
NS in Dalton GA had 3x2x2x3 all BNSF on a SB coal train a couple of months ago came by my work
5:39 that MRL SD70ACe had 2 sets of airhorns on it, very unusual!
Good catch on that one Randall.
@@espeescotty thanks, I actually had to go back and watch it again to make sure I wasn't seeing things, lol!
That's incredible!
Amazing 🤩⚡👍🏻👍🏻💯🙋🏻♂️✌️
Thanks for sharing these, Scott! Your coal train video from 9 years ago (where you had to block out the identity of a person between the locos, haha) inspired me to come out and see the MRL 2 years ago. I live outside of Chicago. I actually mountain biked along the r.o.w. back to this spot. Furthermore, I appreciate the work you put in climbing along the side of that embankment to get the shot. You don't see it in the videos, but, it's a little steep in person. Unfortunately, when I was in that spot, I didn't catch anything. However, it was cool to see the bridge up close, and I had good luck in other spots. I felt like a kid again up on Tennessee Pass with all the locos in notch 8! Thanks again, Doug
Glad you enjoyed it Doug, and happy to hear you were inspired to visit. Excellent !!
Beautiful !!!
Spent time on Weirton Steel short line…never had 130 cars! Loved working the rolling stock❤
Nice catch!
Wow, 12 engines for this heavy load!
4+4+5=12????????? Your allowed to take off a shoe and use some toes to count if you need to
Great video
Outstanding show of brute horsepower
Beautiful scenery. it sure takes allot of horsepower to get those coal cars up the grade!
Yes it does !! The requirement on this hill is around 2 horsepower per US ton. These trains are around 18,000 tons.
outstanding catch....love this road
Thanks cascade
🤍OBRIGADO PELAS POSTAGENS, SEUS VÍDEOS SÃO ÓTIMOS! 🇧🇷
That is so good,surely there's more than 130 wagons.First time I've seen that many loco,s on a train before.👏🏻👍🏻
În România, în instrucțiunile de Remorcare și Frânare, într-un tren pot fi așezate MAXIM 6 locomotive
U did a nice job on this video!
Awsome video what a power
GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER!!!!!!!!
Good videography. Nice train
Thanks Alan
That was a ton of 🚂
Looks like DPU is offline. Explains the 2nd helper set.
just a beautiul setting
Spitshined polished and spotless MRL units. So sharp.
That's what you call maximum Enjoyment
Thank you
Awesome video Scott , liked and subscribed
Thanks for the sub drifter !
Talk about horsepower? So cool to see and hear those locomotives working to push and pull that load along.
MRL SD 70aces are the nicest ones on youtube!
they have some nice looking locomotives.
This is a VERY heavy train
I don't know you Scott but I just subscribed to your channel very interesting.Thanks!!!
Nice looking RailLink power units
Amassing
EMD's are what a locomotive is supposed to sound like
Last time I watched a video with 13 engines it was a power move...this was awsome...hope the hike was easy you couldn't drive to a vantage point t like that...
EMD's sound amazing. Some locos are dead though. That train would have to be incredibly heavy.
Nice ❤
WOW!!!!
I saw this same train waiting in the yard. Didn't know that 740 and 9294 were having problems. 9572 wasn't on it, but I had seen that one earlier going east on a manifest. I guess it came back.
Eli, from what I could get off the scanner chatter, it was only when they had attached mid-helpers at Helena Junction that the engineer discovered he was having problems. Again though that's just what I assumed from the scanner.
That’s 50,000 horse power unreal those locos must like to drink wow I hate to pay the fuel bill👍👍
All that coal so fancy folks can charge their electric cars.
The mid-consist helper locos are sooo clean - perhaps fresh from a repaint?
Woow!! 😮😮
Great video, you don't see a majority of EDM units much, only three GE units.