Canadian Pacific, freight train, SD40-2 cab ride to Sabula, Iowa, 1995
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- Опубликовано: 31 дек 2024
- NOTE!!! Click on CC for informative captions. This is a video of a nighttime locomotive cab ride aboard a Canadian Pacific/Soo Line freight train number 437 West. It was recorded on January 17, 1995. The two diesel locomotives and 34 car COFC (container on flat car) intermodal train departs the former Milwaukee Road yard at Bensenville, Illinois. It heads west about 125 miles through northern Illinois where the recording ends shortly after crossing the Mississippi River bridge arriving at Sabula, Iowa. Crew members were conductor Tom Meirhoff and engineer George Brinson. Locomotives: SOO 6602 (EMD SD40-2) lead and SOO 4600 (EMD GP40) trail. 6000 total HP.
I remember working on the bridge in Sabula with CP a couple years back. Definitely an experience. Still has the telegraph poles and lines spanning the length of the bridge
I worked with Tom back in the IMRL days!
As a former Milwaukee employee, this video brings back many memories. Thanks for posting!
Glad you liked the video and as a retired Soo Line employee your Soo Line GP-9 videos bring back many memories for me too!
@@WAL_DC-6B we're they Milwaukee road men
@@michaelrichardson1898 If you're asking about the train crew in this video, then no, none of us had worked for the Milwaukee Road.
Long before the days of writing down signal aspects in the log book and calling signals on the radio. It was be safe, talk a little mess to everybody and, come home with a smile and a pocket full of money.
Scary, you may have the only known photographic evidence of me actually working.
This will never not be funny.
Thanks for the ride. This is the only way anyone can see what it's like, because of you.
Hey, glad you enjoyed the trip!
Great video takes me back to the last of the good railroading days.
This is outstanding. Thanks for bringing us along.
I remember the Soo Line's former Milwaukee Road west line out of Elgin to Savanna, and east of there to Bensenville. Back then the Soo Line had more trains per day on the former MILW in the early 1990s - about 12 to 14 I'm not exactly positive. One fall day in 1990 in Clinton, IA my Dad and I were in search for trains when a Soo Line freight heading for Sabula came through town. From near Mount Carroll all the way to Hampshire we paced the Soo Line freight with three SD40-2 units.
Nice old school horn.
Now Canadian Pacific Railway.
Still legally the Soo Line.
I'm a UP Conductor but i know those were the good old days of railroading. Well all of that is CP Rail now.
@@terijanechristiansen7408 i remember when i stayed on the northwest side of Chicago on Whipple ave and seeing the Soo Line engines and the caboose going by on a short line they had. It's a walking and bike path now.
@@armageddon1981 That walking, and bike path used to be the Bloomingdale line.
Wow cool
Sweet! Are you all former Milwaukee Road guys?
No, none of us on this train were former Milwaukee Road guys. I was former C&NW though.
Supper cool,0:00
In today's modern era train crews are now required to wear reflective vests while on duty.
How well I know, the railroad seen here required us in train service to wear orange reflective safety vests when performing our work. Started to have to wear them about 15 years ago.
this was before the yard in franklin park? now bensenville is quiet zone except for stupid horns that blow before the train hits the crossing
The freight train begins in Bensenville and proceeds west (Franklin Park is east of Bensenville yard). The city of Bensenville enacted a "no horn" ordnance about 20 years after this was recorded.
6:42 it used to be a crossing gate and now it’s changed
Changed to what?
@@WAL_DC-6B the crossings