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DPU "dead spots"
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I'm just an observer and so far I lean to "DPU imperfection". You really dont know what your DPU's are going to do if the head-end halts immediately. Or your DPU's hit a "dead spot" in communications. Have to think the dead spots will be identified and rectified. Sometimes identification will be afte...
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Trains and Flames
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I watched this one the other day of a BNSF GE DPU with 10-15ft flames out the stack going up Tehachapi in tinder dry surroundings. It eventually caused some grass fires before the head end got notification to stop the train. There are other v...
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What's The Purpose Anymore?
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Have to say I concur with these 2 guys. The BNSF motive power fleet of 10,000 and the only thing new in last 10yrs is repainted/rebuilt GP39's. A couple orders of more GE 4400HP in the 3200 series and 3700-3900 series. Stagnation. Pictures I took at BNSF Bayside Yard 10 yrs ago could be passed on as just to...
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Izzit BASS-ACKWARDS or NOT???
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Must be a change for PSR. Hunter is laughing from the grave.
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Railfanning with the Bednars
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The Bednars are father/son/others taking super8 with sound railroad "movies" in the 50-60-70"s. Basically home movies with no editing. I think hearing the "real sounds" of these trains and in color is pretty cool. Most 8mm movies had no sound and some railroad video companies try to add "canned loc...
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You be the engineer on the Indian Railway
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I've watched quite a few videos of Indian Railway's 22-32 car passenger trains screaming by at 100-130kph. I wonder what its like being a hoghead on these trains as you got to have some "nerve" as the chance of hitting a trespasser each day is high. People wandering all over the place and last second cr...
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Russian locomotives on parade
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Apparently locomotive parades happen in Russia every year and I just happen find a video of it. I mean this is quite a show with their running steam and every diesel and electric locomotives plus the "shunters"...a sample of the whole roster paraded one by one past camera. I was thinking they must have...
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F units
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12 years ago/havn't seen any newer. They were being used for PTC test train when waysides were eliminated, so they are different now
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Incredible! Well...
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...it's not really that big! Okay 19,000-HP is big... But all the superlatives? Biggest; Largest; Massive(st); gimme a break! Yeah it's big. And it's got four turbos. So what? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itqD-OrotBo Brits... Sheesh! Monty Python again... Overstating the ob...
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10A100
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I keep getting this guys videos recommended to me by YouTube and they are great. Russian branchlines with old diesels and grades and a lot of smoke. Hard to lookup because the "A" in 10A100 is a Russian "A" and hard to figure out how to type it. Finally got lucky. A really nice collection of videos of the d...
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Mr D's Machine Diesel Train Sounds
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I just happen to have this LP. Found it used and of course its kind of "rice krispie" with scratches/pops. Bought the record for the LP cover but there is some great train noise here mostly from the F-unit days. This video has the script to follow the train noise you hear and a very nice clean recording wit...
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Erie Mining Company Railroad
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An obscure Northern Minnesota mining railroad that ran from Hoyt Falls to Taconite Harbor since the late 1950's using EMD F9's. The F9 fleet ran well into the 2000's. Read about this railroad in Trains Magazine and other railroad magazines but it not until 2019 where nearly every video ever shot in o...
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UE ratifies contract with Wabtec in Erie
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https://www.goerie.com/news/20190612/ue-ratifies-wabtec-contract-in-erie
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The Russian 2TE-10M diesel locomotive
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YouTube has a lot of video of daily freight action of the Russian Railway and for sure one locomotive type stands out as the "Great Air Polluter"...the 2TE-10M in all green. According to Wikipedia they/Russia made close to 10,000 of them and are rated at 2740HP. They are not a clean burning diesel as ma...
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Train Mountain Railroad
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Thanks to "recommended by YouTube" I first learnt of "Train Mountain" which is located in Chiloquin OR. They made it Train Mountain by laying down almost 25 miles of 7 1/2" gauge track which is the longest in the world today. This is one huge layout. I found a video which makes the 4hr ride around the pla...
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Coupling a locomotive to a passenger train
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In North America it takes 1 person to make a "joint/successful couple " of 2 railroad objects like a locomotive and whatever its to pull and hook up the air hose and perhaps another hose and job done in less than a minute. In India/Indian Railways this simple coupling of engine with train takes a team of...
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Cream always rises to the top
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http://www.erienewsnow.com/story/38187614/ge-union-workers-stay-positive-and-keep-workingGE
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Best thing that could have happened to the export version of the sd70ACe
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvyIrsZ7Zhs
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ALCO's running in Mexico
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Stumbled across this "MexiALCO" video on YouTube and its a pretty interesting watch. Seems all the PGE/BCOL/BCR M630's ended up in Mexico and still got the same paint job. I got pictures of nearly every PGE/BCOL M630 back in 70's/80's. Still running I cant believe it. Lots of older GEunk ended up in M...
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This is not a dream
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The National Railway Equipment Company in Silvis Illinois has on hand just about every locomotive "type" built in their expansive yard/shops. Its really surreal to see so many locomotives in one place that are "dead for now". Worn-out locomotives with shabby worn-out paint and patched a couple ti...
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Get out a case of Bondo.....
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Heart of Georgia Railroad GP-38-2's on the ropes
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I always thought there was a minimum speed to maintain under notch-8 which is usually somewhere around 6-7-8 mph and any speed less like mph would fry the traction motors. I have no idea how this pair of GP-38-2's did it. This will take a few minutes to watch as this is a struggle that takes some time. h...
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Southren Power
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Snippy's pic of the 2695 looks like any other GP 35. The one difference...they rode on ALCO trade in trucks. Yep. Standard GP trucks NOT! The whole series of 2600 (except a few GP-30s) were 35s. Examples include these:
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GE moving from Erie to TX
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A friend asked what was the most important thing in my life. We are talking history here. A weird question, but in about ten seconds the answer was "serving a machinist apprenticeship at Erie GE". Most of this was in the Locomotive department. A lot was in the bldg 20 tool room. ...
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H.P. Question..
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Question directed at UKE and other in the know folks: Of the current Locomotives in use on the B.N.s.f. nowadays, what range of horse power are we talking between say a EMD 38-2 and a newer GE model? Being an non Mechanical/Operations ex-employee (Thank God!) was curious to the variations. Chink.
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