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Yup

Yes we do!

Yup, January 13th

Thanks!

Yup, waited for like 45 minutes on that one train…

Yes, 557 is at LTE. I bought a model of this unit in HO scale

Or just East Union.

Doug’s long tube headers coupled to 2.5 inch stainless pipes and MagnaFlow mufflers.

Precisely why it’s called the dinky parade. Although it would be better if Metra didn’t repaint their winnebagos so it would still look like the early 2000s.

I create mods for Train Sim Classic (previously known as Train Simulator 2022/previous years), Train Sim World is a whole different animal.

@staterailfan402 Remember like 5 months ago when we watched trains on the BNSF Racetrack? Remember when I said I was so slow at uploading content and had a super long backlog? Yeah that video jsut got uploaded now.... ruclips.net/video/HAltP7zqmnw/видео.html

The 50s had 16-645F3s, not 20-645E3s :D But the 20-cylinder 645s on the 45s sound sweet. And we can’t forget the 20-710G3Cs on Conrail’s SD80MACs either

Both the SD45/50 doomed from it's engines

Well the SD45 and SD50 were very different cases. Although both were of the 645-series blocks, that’s about where it ends in terms of similarities. Let’s compare the two. The 20-645 had a reputation as a gas guzzler, but this was relatively untrue. At notch 8, the 16-645F3B drank 188 gallons of diesel an hour, while the 20-645E3 consumed 194 gallons an hour. (Source: Mid-1970s BN Maintenance dept publications for locomotive mechanics). It is true that during early production runs, 20-645E3s had crankshaft issues, but these were quickly remedied and did not appear in the SD45-2s. Both the 16-645F3B and the 20-645E3 produced 3,600 horsepower (SD50s were uprated from 3,500 to 3,600 hp during the later half of their production run). The issue is that the 20-645E3 was just a 16-645E3 with more cylinders, and the engine was adequately designed for this amount of horsepower. The 16-645F3B was a 16-645E3 with a bigger turbocharger AND the redline increased from 904 rpm to 950 rpm. From my knowledge, they made these changes on the existing 16-645E3 platform without properly reinforcing engine block components. This led to serious engine reliability issues which tarnished EMD’s reputation. Of course, the SD50s were also plagued with electrical issues but those were separate from the issues with the engine block. Hope this gave you a better understanding. Edit: Additionally, SD50s were being produced at a time when not many railroads were placing orders for locomotives due to the changing economy. The SD60 more or less fixed every issue of the SD50.

We stood on top of the old North Shore Line bridge, which is now a walking and biking path. However, my tripod was too short to reach over the top of the bridge so I ended up shooting the whole video handheld, which wasn’t too shaky, just not ideal.

If you are a sleeper passenger, the menu is real good.

For the video or the thumbnail?

@@ajs_productions Video

Believe it or not, my phone camera (I have an iPhone). Shoots in up to 60fps at 3840x2160 pixels (4K). I just wish it had optical zoom, and that’s why I’m probably going to get a ‘real’ camera sooner or later. They’re just real expensive for what I want.

@@ajs_productions it’s just amazing quality!

25th January

The music does it for me 🤣🤣

Yes, indeed we need to save a Former CNW DASH 9 locomotive to be preserved

it's unlikely that those 2 will be targeted for preservation now that they've been repainted. They'll likely get rebuilt into AC44C6Ms. A better Dash 9 to focus on would be 9696, which is still just a patch. Restoring that one back to CNW 8632 would be much easier.

I’m not sure it was in 100% working order. I think it was stored for a while, but when locomotives are stored, they do it in a way that makes them easy to return to service when needed. That’s why it could be shipped via rail without a waiver, and that’s why the diesel team got her running only a few months after delivery. Additionally, from November-December, the focus was mainly on Happy Holiday Railway, so they only really looked at it from January onwards. This unit looks to be taken care of (mechanically) reasonably well, so that helped a lot.