BNSF 5840 heads west through Colona, IL heading for Silvis to drop off these 35 SD40-2 units. This was amazing to see. They just kept coming and coming! Ha.
When I was about 10 years old we lived right next to the C & N W freight line in Kenosha WI. All of the engines on this line were diesel by this time so it surprised me one day to hear a steam engine. I went out to look and saw one live engine with twelve dead engines and a caboose in tow. All of the dead engines had their side rods cut off or removed so they had to be heading to the scrap yard. I wish I had had a camera with me. By the way I will be eighty years old next month.
Hello from a fellow Kenoshan! Petretti Park in Kenosha had a train track running alongside it...always stopped whatever I was doing in the park to watch the train. Great memories. I'll be 65 in November.
hittmiss yes that would have been a great photo, thankfully it's in your memory. Do you have any guess as to where you think they have been heading, scrapyard in Milwaukee or perhaps clear down to the steel mills on the south side of Chicago? I guess we will never know. One of the greatest era's in America's history. I know you had to have lived through some possibly tough times, but hope you consider it a great life lived. I'm 63 and at times wish I was born about ten years earlier like my brother so I could have gotten my hands onto a couple of the great hot cars that Detroit was producing like he got to own.
I live next to that line, the kenosha line. It's now a short line and up owns it and for my whole life I have only ever seen 2 mix freight trains that would run on a main line. All the other trains I see are local jobs with a geep and 10 to 20 cars. And the coal trains going to the power plant. I remember seeing pictures of it being a main line and the old cnw f7 and gp9 running on it.
@@oxolotleman7226 worse if the train stops in the middle of the crossing--for which they have been KNOWN to do. But sometimes I go to railroad crossings, park to the side, and see the trains go by.
Technically speaking, the former UP engines ("Union Pacific" painted out) were SD45T-2's, and were formerly owned by the late, great, Southern Pacific Railroad. There were also some BN and ATSF SD40-2's in this large power move. Alas, the locomotives were probably on their way for retirement and scraping.
What I would suggest is instead of scrapping atleast this can be donated to poor countries for their cargo movements. Atleast it'll be helpful for them.
@@nagamanyraghupathy5487 With their high axle load, not many countries have tracks that could withstand it. But anyway, not wasting the good equipment is a great idea.
Haha! Same here! Just thinking someone might have actually gone and done it. That would be pretty awesome, and probably an impractically long train! Imagine having to wait at the crossing for that train! you'd be there all day! Lol!
Pretty neat video. 39 locomotives: 2 head end, and 2 at the rear. 35 dead-haul. If you listen closely enough, you'll hear the two rear end locos running. The name black out could mean the 35 dead hauls were sold to another company or being sent for scrap. Most likely re-sold. The units looked a little too new to be scrap, but I could completely wrong.
Thank goodness for You tube and people like yourself ! . in all my years I have Never seen so many Engines in one train . I see that the Union Pacific road names have the black lines across . they will be repainted to another road name . I miss a lot of the Railroad's here in Pittsburgh Pa/U.S.A. . most have been torn down and forgotten about . Ray in Pa.
This really does break my heart as I ran those BN units when they were brand new. They were absolutely magnificent units. They would scream while pulling anywhere from 99 to 126 unit cars of coal across Wyo and SD. Newer units simply seem so soy-boy neutered.
@@Napoleon_Blownapart Of course the new replacements are more powerful and quieter. THAT is not the point, mowron. I imagine you wimping around in a Prius while the rest of us run your a$$ off the road with fueled auto's.
That's one of the best videos I have ever seen! They had the majority if not the entire fleet of UP SD40T-2's sitting in Denver, Colorado for some time. Then one day they were all gone. The SD40T-2's were real workhorses. I hated to see them go while I was working for UP.
I've always wanted to see the rebuild/teardown process in Silvis. I've driven down past it on my way to interstate 80 lots of times. Could see the yard from the road. The amount of locos sitting outside is amazing. Locomotives are amazing but also scare the shit out of me.
ALL of the yellow units are SD45T-2 units with 20 cylinder 645E3A prime movers.. They all had 3 radiator fan access hatches. The rest all looked like SD40-2 yes. All those SD45T-2 units were converted to straight SD40-2 standards with 16 cylinder 645 E3 prime movers and they were put on the lease market. Many ended up with LTEX markings.
Matt, Once in a lifetime catch! Congratulations. I read in the Dec 2010 edition of TRAINS MAGAZINE that UP called in it's entire 400 plus fleet of SD-40-2s for refits and installation of microprocessors. I wonder if these units were part of the second batch to be called in. don living in District 2 Pan Am Railways (PAR) Boston-North Shore
I was going to say, most of those were SD45T-2 frames, whether or not they were repowered is impossible to tell without digging into their history. Easy way to tell a 40T-2 from a 45T-2 is look at the number of radiator doors (or the white sticker) over top of the air inlet. If it's 3 it was or is a 45T-2
I saw a NHRR funeral train in 1969 when a train of 37 Yard switchers of various models/paint schemes passed me on the way to Cedar Hill Yard after the Penn Central takeover. Idk if they were repainted or scrapped as Schiavone Alchemists has a processing facility next to the entrance to the yard where metals are recycled. The New Haven had a penchant for melting down history.
The majority of those units were actually SD40T-2s. These are a special variant of the classic SD40-2 that were modified to run better at higher altitudes, and were frequently used on mountainous routes.
Man, those tunnel motors just don't look right in UP colors after growing up with them on the SP. It's a sad day realizing that these once mighty locomotives of the Rockies and western states are no longer wanted by the class 1 railroads.
I saw one in grey sp colors almost except was owned by central Oregon and Pacific railroad (corp) in the early 2000s making it's way over the siskiyou pass
UP had a rule that limited the amount of engines in a power move. I don't know what road this is. but before I turned a wheel ( I was a hog head ) I'd ask the manager on duty or the trick dispatcer. Gthey are gonna say,"it came in like `that so you can take it out like that". Then when I got off duty, I would go to the FRA web site and turn it in as a rule violation> The FRA reads it in Washington and investigates and gets back to you. They arfe not suppposed to give out your name acct whistle blower protection. Now if the printed rule is on your side, rest assured the Washington FRA will get in touch with regional FRA, who will get in touch with the local FRA. and they will talk to the manager or dispatcher ( who doeesn't know they are coming ) and if it's against the rule, that dispatcher or manager won't do it again---------------- and you got or can claim whistle blower protection, jiust keep your info and e-mails.
@@rateyesmertz3785 Whoa you learn something everyday. I'm a Kiwi (NZ) and have never seen anything like this vid. Not sure what a 'hog head' is so would appreciate a headsup on that if can spare the time to tap it out. Not sure what FRA stands for either for that matter. As far as 'whistle-blowing' goes in the work force - yep been there and done it. And would always do it if my job/position was in jeopardy of being lost. I wouldn't ever expect a fellow-employee to put me in a compromising position and that's my reasoning. In other words, if a fellow-employee will not tell the truth in any work-related issue where my job/position is at risk of being terminated, I will tell the truth. If the employee's position is at risk because of it - well, as I said, they needed to have told the truth in the issue at hand. Not my responsibility to 'cover' for them, and lie to my superiors. The truth always wins.
I probably did. When I hired out, we still used GP7's, GP9's, SD7's, SD9's, GP30's, GP35's and were just starting to get GP40's and SD45's. The good old days!!
on there way to GE's R&D center so they can learn how to build a real locomotive, some of those ex SP tunnel motors have hauled more frieght then those -9's ever will.
I think these engines were taken to the old Rock Island engine facility in Silvis IL to be rebuilt and sold. You can see the massive engine facility and hundreds of locomotives in storage on Google earth. Worth checking out if you are a rail fan.
Wow you know how to count, Actually Fruit Man Don't Make Fun Of Trains. Just Because One Looks Odd Doesn't Mean It Can Turn into a different color. Burlington Northern Is Not Union Pacific idiot. This Is Not Funny! ITS A FREAKING DIFFERENT RAILROAD COMPANY FOR GODS SAKE
That was some train! Excellent Video! Most of the ex UP locomotives were former SP SD45T-2 Tunnel Motor locomotives. The reporting marks on the UP units were NREX or National Railway Equipment Corporation. Eric
And how many people commenting here did NOT pay attention to understand these units were not running, they were being towed to either an auction site or for trade in.
Harold Reardon it happens alot on RUclips. where people will ask such stupid questions that can be easily answered by reading the description or even watching the video.
I jus seen about 2 weeks ago east of Gering, Nebr, 2 geeps pulln out of their yard, 25 UP Sd70s and and few short line geeps as well and 46 frieght cars, believe headed to North Platte. Nice catch.💯😉👍
Most of the locomotives are SD40T-2 s that the union pacific Inherited after the merger with southern pacific. Up untill the merger the UP had no tunnel motor locomotives.
I wonder where they are now. They were still relatively new, in rail terms. I checked some of the fleet numbers and they dated between 1972-1975. Plus they were rebuilt as well. Up north we have locomotives from the early to mid 1950's still rolling, so retiring something from the mid 70's sounds a bit strange to me.
People mentioned that these locos cost around a dollar a pound when produced. 35x368,000lbs = $12,880,000.00 in 1972, so adjusted for inflation now around $84M dollars worth of motive power in a single consist. Pretty impressive!
Never worked for 'em. Just vaguely remember seeing the red on SP SD45-T2's (not SD40's) when they ran a fast perishable freight train down the Coast line from Salinas through the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles in the middle of the night. That train was HOT!
That big air vent grate at the bottom/back of the long hood is what makes a tunnel motor. It lets the engine pull in cooler, clearer air from the ground level of a tunnel, since the hot exhaust rises.
It has got to be hugely annoying to live near a railroad crossing in the US. Here in Sweden we hardly sound the horn at all, only in emergencies or in low visibility situations.
I love it! Doesn't bother me a bit! Never the less, many americans get run over if you don't virtually shove them out of the way in the first place. :/
R J Corman has several ex Rio Grande SD40T-2 that they often use on what is called "the slab train." The unit train runs huge ingots of aluminum to a smelter just out of Russelville KY.
Imagine if all those locomotives blew their horns all at the same time.
It'll probably be reported as a nuclear detonation.
Thats what she said
@@SgtChip LOL
It would change the orbit of the Earth!
Neighbours around the track line might have go for hearing check and look out for hearing aides 😀
When I was about 10 years old we lived right next to the C & N W freight line in Kenosha WI. All of the engines on this line were diesel by this time so it surprised me one day to hear a steam engine. I went out to look and saw one live engine with twelve dead engines and a caboose in tow. All of the dead engines had their side rods cut off or removed so they had to be heading to the scrap yard. I wish I had had a camera with me. By the way I will be eighty years old next month.
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Hello from a fellow Kenoshan! Petretti Park in Kenosha had a train track running alongside it...always stopped whatever I was doing in the park to watch the train. Great memories. I'll be 65 in November.
hittmiss yes that would have been a great photo, thankfully it's in your memory. Do you have any guess as to where you think they have been heading, scrapyard in Milwaukee or perhaps clear down to the steel mills on the south side of Chicago? I guess we will never know. One of the greatest era's in America's history. I know you had to have lived through some possibly tough times, but hope you consider it a great life lived. I'm 63 and at times wish I was born about ten years earlier like my brother so I could have gotten my hands onto a couple of the great hot cars that Detroit was producing like he got to own.
I live next to that line, the kenosha line. It's now a short line and up owns it and for my whole life I have only ever seen 2 mix freight trains that would run on a main line. All the other trains I see are local jobs with a geep and 10 to 20 cars. And the coal trains going to the power plant. I remember seeing pictures of it being a main line and the old cnw f7 and gp9 running on it.
murphman76 another person from Kenosha here . Hello
Imagine sitting at a crossing seeing all these engines going by and thinking "Shit, my day is shot."
Not me, man. I may be a little late, but I'll have my locomotive show.
Lmmfao
50,000 foot train, no biggie.
@@oxolotleman7226 worse if the train stops in the middle of the crossing--for which they have been KNOWN to do. But sometimes I go to railroad crossings, park to the side, and see the trains go by.
@@johntapp1650 carnaval 20
how many locomotives can we attach to each other?
Engineer: *yes*
Yes
But technically this is a engine move
35
@@BCOL4622 I don’t even think this is a power move. They’re probably heading off to be stored somewhere.
RUclips recommended me this after 8 years 😂
Technically speaking, the former UP engines ("Union Pacific" painted out) were SD45T-2's, and were formerly owned by the late, great, Southern Pacific Railroad. There were also some BN and ATSF SD40-2's in this large power move. Alas, the locomotives were probably on their way for retirement and scraping.
Noticed a lot of them have a marking. Sold to another railroad (leasing probs) might still he around today.
What I would suggest is instead of scrapping atleast this can be donated to poor countries for their cargo movements. Atleast it'll be helpful for them.
@@nagamanyraghupathy5487 With their high axle load, not many countries have tracks that could withstand it.
But anyway, not wasting the good equipment is a great idea.
With the shape of those, they were definitely not headed to scrap.
@@SpheroJr3289these were sold to nrex, sadly they didn't survive
Wow 1 Trillion Horse Power.. I was waiting to see the 1,000 box cars to follow. LOL Great Video
Imagine the stress on the first coupler on the freight car
The first car would be like: Well SH*T
105,000 to be exact
1 Trillion HP is ez dubs for the first car, 1 Trillion and 1 is a death note...
Those 29 tunnel motors are the cleanest SP units I have ever seen!
Those tunnel motors were fantastic engines, I had the pleasure to work on all of those tunnel units.
I thought I was going to see one heck of a freight train with all those engines.
Haha! Same here! Just thinking someone might have actually gone and done it. That would be pretty awesome, and probably an impractically long train! Imagine having to wait at the crossing for that train! you'd be there all day! Lol!
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should have put 1 boxcar at the end
Lee McGilvray I was thinking the same thing. It would make for a good laugh!
better yet, an empty short flatcar!
michael king, yeah, a 20ft long one!
Put a piggyback car and a caboose at the end.
it's too bad they were going for SCRAP. :,(
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Then at the end is one passenger coach, with Chuck Norris on board, going out for a pack of cigarettes.
They shoulda had an old, red, beat-up, wooden caboose at the end !
And maybe an old ATSF box car. :)
Pretty neat video. 39 locomotives: 2 head end, and 2 at the rear. 35 dead-haul. If you listen closely enough, you'll hear the two rear end locos running. The name black out could mean the 35 dead hauls were sold to another company or being sent for scrap. Most likely re-sold. The units looked a little too new to be scrap, but I could completely wrong.
The rumor is that most of them went to Brazil!
How long does it take before the green ones ripen and turn yellow?
3 years or 300,000 miles
Is that a limited power-train warranty?
blackchakra10 LOL
blackchakra10 about a week
lmao wat a question!
It surprising how clean these units look since they're being surplused... Nice rare catch - thanks for sharing!
2011Maynard They were only driven by a little old lady on Sundays!
right, I.m off to the model railroad layout to re-create this.....
richard timms mine may have a gp40 or sd70 mixed in...
Did ya?
lol
Thank goodness for You tube and people like yourself ! . in all my years I have Never seen so many Engines in one train . I see that the Union Pacific road names have the black lines across . they will be repainted to another road name . I miss a lot of the Railroad's here in Pittsburgh Pa/U.S.A. . most have been torn down and forgotten about . Ray in Pa.
Long lines of these in Fontana, California
“So THATS where all my diesel trains went!!”
-freight conducter
Dispatcher: "What do you have for power today?"
Conductor: "Get a couple pens and a large notebook out...."
Must be one hell of a TUNNEL ahead!! Ha, ha, ha, ha,... I'll just go sit in the corner...
*SD40T-2 intensifies*
GT Stang d
@@hypercell1016 They were all mostly ex-SP SD45T-2's, and a few BNSF 40-2's.
This really does break my heart as I ran those BN units when they were brand new. They were absolutely magnificent units. They would scream while pulling anywhere from 99 to 126 unit cars of coal across Wyo and SD. Newer units simply seem so soy-boy neutered.
Nothing quite like the sound and feel of turbo 645's.
Necro-post, but here's some depression: ruclips.net/video/B20LdVfg3mQ/видео.html
Just because they make more noise and blow black smoke, doesn't mean they are more powerful than modern locomotives.
@@Napoleon_Blownapart Of course the new replacements are more powerful and quieter. THAT is not the point, mowron. I imagine you wimping around in a Prius while the rest of us run your a$$ off the road with fueled auto's.
@@mt.rushmore7916 Feel better? Best not to have those underlying daddy issues build up over time.
So awesome, always been fascinated
With the rails.
Such beautiful sounds of those locomotives, BNSF AND Union Pacific! ♥️ Truly makes my heart smile
Hay I usto have a friend from Australia that used that name caustic... I'm just wondering if u could be him
That's a LOT of locomotives there, I love watching trains go by every time, totally awesome !!!!!😃
That's one of the best videos I have ever seen! They had the majority if not the entire fleet of UP SD40T-2's sitting in Denver, Colorado for some time. Then one day they were all gone. The SD40T-2's were real workhorses. I hated to see them go while I was working for UP.
Yeah that's where they came from, Denver. UP had an auction and NRE got them.
All of these EX southern pacific EMD's are SD45T-2's.
Thats enough power to pull a 1,000 car coal or fright train!!!!
The Angry General No..
Traveling Tom Well at least you know they're not dead. Just getting repainted.
What would have topped this run off is if they had a single flatcar at the end with a 500 gallon water tank or something of the like.
I've always wanted to see the rebuild/teardown process in Silvis. I've driven down past it on my way to interstate 80 lots of times. Could see the yard from the road. The amount of locos sitting outside is amazing. Locomotives are amazing but also scare the shit out of me.
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I know that this was from at least eight years ago, but still WOW! That's a truly incredible catch!
Imagine seeing that many engines hooked together at a crossing & it'd make you think there's 4,000 railcars behind them.
Don't give the railroads any ideas. They may just try it sometime somewhere.
@@arthuridis lmao
What that train needs is MORE POWER!!
Now grunt like Tim Allen.
More cow bell.
ALL of the yellow units are SD45T-2 units with 20 cylinder 645E3A prime movers.. They all had 3 radiator fan access hatches. The rest all looked like SD40-2 yes. All those SD45T-2 units were converted to straight SD40-2 standards with 16 cylinder 645 E3 prime movers and they were put on the lease market. Many ended up with LTEX markings.
Matt,
Once in a lifetime catch! Congratulations. I read in the Dec 2010 edition of TRAINS MAGAZINE that UP called in it's entire 400 plus fleet of SD-40-2s for refits and installation of
microprocessors. I wonder if these units were part of the second batch to be called in.
don living in District 2 Pan Am Railways (PAR) Boston-North Shore
Love it imagine if it was carrying box cars and oil tanker keep-up-the-good-work love trains
The ex Union Pacific units are actually SD40T-2R's.
I was going to say, most of those were SD45T-2 frames, whether or not they were repowered is impossible to tell without digging into their history.
Easy way to tell a 40T-2 from a 45T-2 is look at the number of radiator doors (or the white sticker) over top of the air inlet. If it's 3 it was or is a 45T-2
Yeah, that's what I thought too. The tunnel motors are distinctive with their radiator inlets at the bottom of the carbody.
The sheer amount of total horsepower/torque between those engines absolutely boggles my mind. "Wanna haul a mountain? We got you."
This is the coolest train clip ever!
Great catch. Rare to see a move like that
Thanks for sharing that video. Glad you got that awesome power move recorded.
I love trains for this reason. Push, pull, work is work to then. Good to see you help your fellow train bros out.
I have never seen that before: a whole train of only engines!
It's rare
I saw a NHRR funeral train in 1969 when a train of 37 Yard switchers of various models/paint schemes passed me on the way to Cedar Hill Yard after the Penn Central takeover. Idk if they were repainted or scrapped as Schiavone Alchemists has a processing facility next to the entrance to the yard where metals are recycled. The New Haven had a penchant for melting down history.
Thats awesome i love SD-42s they are my favorite engine
Would be GREAT to see that consist hauling long string of loaded cars along!!!!☺
The majority of those units were actually SD40T-2s. These are a special variant of the classic SD40-2 that were modified to run better at higher altitudes, and were frequently used on mountainous routes.
Quite a sight! Great you were able to see and film this rare move.
It sure was. Thank you!
If i was sitting at that crossing my pants would be soaking wet from the thrill of seeing such power on the move, God that was awesome.
Gotta love the sound of those train horns. They give me the goose bumps! :)
Still get a tear in my eye when I hear an old train in the night!
Man, those tunnel motors just don't look right in UP colors after growing up with them on the SP. It's a sad day realizing that these once mighty locomotives of the Rockies and western states are no longer wanted by the class 1 railroads.
I agree.... I guess they've seen their heyday.... and you're right about the SP colors. Nothing sounds better than that 20cyl at notch 8....
I saw one in grey sp colors almost except was owned by central Oregon and Pacific railroad (corp) in the early 2000s making it's way over the siskiyou pass
@ShadowPBPBCSOO LINE never had SD45T-2s...they had SD40 and SD40-2s.
i don't think i have ever seen so many engines at once! WOW! thanks for sharing
Better not be scrapped. Ontario Northland would love to get their hands on them....
I love the black strike thoughts on the UP locos, like BNSF is trying to cover up a dirty secret.
I've got a total of 39 locomotives. Bit of power for sure. Nice capture dude.
I wondered. I have a phone and thought it was 40, a number I had never seen before it wasn't sure. Thanks for the count. 👍
UP had a rule that limited the amount of engines in a power move. I don't know what road this is. but before I turned a wheel ( I was a hog head ) I'd ask the manager on duty or the trick dispatcer. Gthey are gonna say,"it came in like `that so you can take it out like that". Then when I got off duty, I would go to the FRA web site and turn it in as a rule violation> The FRA reads it in Washington and investigates and gets back to you. They arfe not suppposed to give out your name acct whistle blower protection. Now if the printed rule is on your side, rest assured the Washington FRA will get in touch with regional FRA, who will get in touch with the local FRA. and they will talk to the manager or dispatcher ( who doeesn't know they are coming ) and if it's against the rule, that dispatcher or manager won't do it again---------------- and you got or can claim whistle blower protection, jiust keep your info and e-mails.
@@raylarkin5004 As I'm a left leg a.k. amputee I always stand on it to be corrected. I counted 2x.
@@rateyesmertz3785 Whoa you learn something everyday. I'm a Kiwi (NZ) and have never seen anything like this vid. Not sure what a 'hog head' is so would appreciate a headsup on that if can spare the time to tap it out. Not sure what FRA stands for either for that matter. As far as 'whistle-blowing' goes in the work force - yep been there and done it. And would always do it if my job/position was in jeopardy of being lost. I wouldn't ever expect a fellow-employee to put me in a compromising position and that's my reasoning. In other words, if a fellow-employee will not tell the truth in any work-related issue where my job/position is at risk of being terminated, I will tell the truth. If the employee's position is at risk because of it - well, as I said, they needed to have told the truth in the issue at hand. Not my responsibility to 'cover' for them, and lie to my superiors. The truth always wins.
@@Blackscorpion1963 right on. 👍 great reply. 🤣
I probably did. When I hired out, we still used GP7's, GP9's, SD7's, SD9's, GP30's, GP35's and were just starting to get GP40's and SD45's. The good old days!!
Damn.. You got like 200,000 horsepower right there!!
Its actually 117,000 hp :p
@Mr G 1. I DID read it. 2. I know it was a week ago. 3. Trucks is right, you must be fun at parties.
Crazy amount of LOCOmotive power there.
on there way to GE's R&D center so they can learn how to build a real locomotive, some of those ex SP tunnel motors have hauled more frieght then those -9's ever will.
I think these engines were taken to the old Rock Island engine facility in Silvis IL to be rebuilt and sold. You can see the massive engine facility and hundreds of locomotives in storage on Google earth. Worth checking out if you are a rail fan.
You are correct.
I counted 4 that aren't ripe yet.
Wow you know how to count,
Actually Fruit Man Don't Make Fun Of Trains. Just Because One Looks Odd Doesn't Mean It Can Turn into a different color.
Burlington Northern Is Not Union Pacific idiot. This Is Not Funny! ITS A FREAKING DIFFERENT RAILROAD COMPANY FOR GODS SAKE
@@bradley.reim22 chill man it's just a joke. No need to get salty over it
@@bradley.reim22 stupid ass kid
@@bradley.reim22 How tf did that offend you
@@floridianrailauto9032
People Do Not Need To Make Fun Of Trains
That was some train! Excellent Video! Most of the ex UP locomotives were former SP SD45T-2 Tunnel Motor locomotives. The reporting marks on the UP units were NREX or National Railway Equipment Corporation.
Eric
All the NREX units are former SP SD45T-2
adam hinkle looked like SD60's, but you are probably right about the 45.
Awesome, the SD40-2 is my favorite!
look at the money going there
This might be the most amazing thing I've ever seen!!!
Haha thank you!
And how many people commenting here did NOT pay attention to understand these units were not running, they were being towed to either an auction site or for trade in.
Scrap yard actually.
Harold Reardon it happens alot on RUclips. where people will ask such stupid questions that can be easily answered by reading the description or even watching the video.
+Ryan Sullivan nope. NRE to be rebuilt and sold
Oh the terror it must have been to be a driver waiting at the crossing arms and seeing this 35-car consist of engines.
Probably you can move the earth with all that power
That's the most powerful train I've ever seen.
I counted 39 but i will recheck
Yep 39
JakeJ301 I Counted 39 Too
Yes. 39 it is!!!
39 units. Thats correct
my guess is four under power 2 front 2 back and 35 in tow
I jus seen about 2 weeks ago east of Gering, Nebr, 2 geeps pulln out of their yard, 25 UP Sd70s and and few short line geeps as well and 46 frieght cars, believe headed to North Platte. Nice catch.💯😉👍
i wonder IF all of them were running... how quickly would that get up to speed.. lol
About the same as one locomotive getting up to speed.
No they never have all engines running.. The 2 BNSF's in were pulling and the 1 BNSF at he end was pushing.. No need for all engines to be turned on
SouThEaSt TX obviously you didn't read it thoroughly..
i wonder -->"IF"
i wonder IF all of that loco get turned on,how much and how long cargo they can haul. :D
Kris manto i would say about 5 miles worth XD
Awesome shot! Video! My dad was on the Railroad, he would loved to see this! Thanks!
Most of the locomotives are SD40T-2 s that the union pacific Inherited after the merger with southern pacific. Up untill the merger the UP had no tunnel motor locomotives.
Rogers Croptechnology why are they scrapping them if they had none?
fiberrabit They’re old and UP probably doesn’t want to do a rebuild program for them. The new GE and EMD units do a better job anyway
Dude, that was absolutely sick! Sad to see these veteran workhorses go.
That is enough power to stop the rotation of the earth. If you can figure out how to hook it up.
Looks like UP had a firesale lol All engines must go!!
Anyone notice those are SD40-T2's atleast the UP's were the BN and BNSF's were SD40-2's
I noticed that
No, those are sd45t-2 converted to sd40t-2, the original sd40t-2 apparently got scrapped?
Those were stored at North Port Nebraska, Progress Rail before they moved. You got the move!
I wonder where they are now. They were still relatively new, in rail terms. I checked some of the fleet numbers and they dated between 1972-1975. Plus they were rebuilt as well. Up north we have locomotives from the early to mid 1950's still rolling, so retiring something from the mid 70's sounds a bit strange to me.
People mentioned that these locos cost around a dollar a pound when produced. 35x368,000lbs = $12,880,000.00 in 1972, so adjusted for inflation now around $84M dollars worth of motive power in a single consist. Pretty impressive!
Train is going by from 0:41 to 1:52 (71 sec total) so around $1.2M worth of locos per second of video
Holy Shit! Tunnel Motors!
I was reading some comments here and I saw yours now. That's cool cuz I see you on the Nebraska FB group!
Nice to see only loco's. Its going on and on and on. Never seen like this before.
nice. at least they find a new home
Never worked for 'em. Just vaguely remember seeing the red on SP SD45-T2's (not SD40's) when they ran a fast perishable freight train down the Coast line from Salinas through the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles in the middle of the night. That train was HOT!
Most of those units were old SD45s. Only a handful were SD40-2s
Yeah you can tell by the three fan doors in the back. SD40T-2's have two.
That's amazing. I always wondered how many engines you could take on a Lite move. The knuckles don't give, 30 + wow
I think some were tunnel motors with the flat backs.
wow awesome catch!! I've seen a couple nice sized power transfers, but nothing as impressive as this.
Those are SD40T-2's if you see the air intakes are on the top.
Technically, all the tunnel motors are SD45T-2s. Ex-Espee. :)
How does one tell if they are tunnel motors?
- newbie railfan
Rio Grande Zephyr they were downgraded to SD40T-2s after UP got them
That big air vent grate at the bottom/back of the long hood is what makes a tunnel motor. It lets the engine pull in cooler, clearer air from the ground level of a tunnel, since the hot exhaust rises.
Now that I know what to look for, it's glaringly obvious!
They been sold to a Mom and Pop line. Most of the tunnel motors have been " outlawed" here in California. They can be used on smaller lines.
It has got to be hugely annoying to live near a railroad crossing in the US. Here in Sweden we hardly sound the horn at all, only in emergencies or in low visibility situations.
I love it! Doesn't bother me a bit!
Never the less, many americans get run over if you don't virtually shove them out of the way in the first place. :/
Sounds like Sweden is a horrible place to railfan with no horn!
i have 16- 20 trains go by near me every day, its nice to have the horn, they wake me up just in time for school!
the USA does not have crossing gates or signals at every road.
My grandparents live right next to the Union Pacific railroad and it has like 70 to 80 trains a day
R J Corman has several ex Rio Grande SD40T-2 that they often use on what is called "the slab train." The unit train runs huge ingots of aluminum to a smelter just out of Russelville KY.
Love the patchwork. No these most certainly are NOT Union Pacific locomotives. I don't know where you got THAT idea.
thenekom These are obviously old Espee and Rio Grande tunnel motors acquired by U.P. after it merged with Espee.
imagine the amount of horsepower if they were all running full power ...UNSTOPPABLE
Those are SD40-2T's
Love the thump of those Diesels...
Just watched 1 Billion Dollars and 1 Million Horse power dive by
It's less than two hundred million dollars and it's less than two hundred thousand horse power.
Damn!! I dont think even Superman is more powerful than that Locomotive...😱