Back in the mid 70s, I frequently rode on either end of a freight train. If I was in the caboose (van as the train crews called it) I would often be up in the cupola. When in the locomotive, I'd be in the middle seat.
I've never had a ride in a caboose. But back 1979 (I was 12 at that time) I used to sell a newspaper called "GRIT," which most likely is out of business now. But, I would be standing a safe distance from the tracks and would catch the "KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN" FREIGHT TRAIN there in GRANNIS ARKANSAS when it would stop there to Drop off full/ pick up empty gondolas of feed for the POULTRY PROCESSING PLANT there ("TYSON" TODAY, But it was "LANES" back then). They would wave me to come aboard, and I would sell each one of them a paper each time they stopped there. Of course, I stayed aboard inside the lead locomotive while they worked, and I used to love it, And they all enjoyed seeing me each and every time they came through. Even though now at 57, almost 58 years old, I still have those memories of days way back then. And OH GOD, I DO MISS THEM GREATLY.
That is a great point, yes this locomotive was spotless and looked like it just rolled out of the factory. Thank you so much for commenting and watching. 👍
My 5 year old son and I got to ride in the cab of a Deutsches Bahn Kriegslok 44 WWII coal-fired steam locomotive pulling period passenger cars for three hours across Germany. It was high adventure, right next to the firebox, rocking and rolling!
We visited Vegas about 7 years ago for my wife’s 50th, being “spotter’s” me and my son found these guys were having a open day at the Colorado state railway, took just over an hour by bus to get there via the Bonerville transit station. We were made so welcome when they found out we were from the UK, cost an extra couple dollars for the cab ride, same driver as in video, great bunch of folks, made our holiday.
@@MeanderingMarty , This is the first time I've ridden in a train since I was five years old. We rode in a Kindergarten Classroom Field Trip in Bendle School, from Burton Township, Michigan, to Durand Michigan & Return in one afternoon, that was in 1955! Thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed it.
My husband did their " engineer for an hour" i was allowed to ride in the engibe with them. It was worth every penny!!! Great museum too. Must see for all railroad enthusiasts!
I worked for the CN Rail for 5 years mostly yard switching by preference. Because the only time I ever had a hard time staying awake at work was inside the cab of a locomotive on road trips😂 Especially in the winter at night, when the hoghead cranks the heater on the conductor's side. The droning sound and white noise just lulls you to sleep...when your head starts falling and you start nodding off they call that the brakeman bob 😂 I have been out of the game for a few years and I am starting to miss it.
the ol Gp30 man I miss that here on Long Island we actually had GP38-2 pulling regular commuter trains and that whine it made is glorious when starting out
I used to be a telecommunications technician for Canadian National. Back in the mid 70s, when I was working in Northern Ontario I frequently rode freights. While I never walked along the side of a locomotive, there was one occasion when I was standing right below the headlight, taking pictures. Also, back in those days, I usually had to hop on and off a slowly moving train, as the engineers didn't want to fully stop unless they had to.
I just happened to luck into seeing UP844 effortlessly running 75mph through Hallsville Texas back in 2012, it was love at first sight... All the hoopla over the Big Boy is all fine and well, but 844 is the real crown jewell of the UP fleet...
Engineer is a natural. I’m guessing he was an engine man in his career as a firefighter. A natural with the controls, smooth, zero fumbling, confident.
I was in that cab!!! We did the rail bike tour back over the ridge towards Henderson, came back on the 100 year old Pullman cars (the consist led by this 1962 EMD rumbled down the 4-5 miles to pull the long line of rail bikes back up the hill to the station). The engineer spent a good hour sharing his knowledge - a very young man (Brady?) with decades of knowledge. This was a few years ago, but there were still a few gondola cars left over from the construction of the Boulder Dam (Hoover) parked just outside the sheds at the Rail Museum. UP 844 was repowered at some point from its original 567 up to 645E3 standard. So. Very. Cool.
I've ran similar locomotives for years, and love them more than anything built in the past 30 years. This a General Motors Electro-Motive Division GP30, a 2250hp 4-axle locomotive with 16-cylinder 567 cubic inch per cylinder engine that spins a DC generator that feeds power to the traction motors hung on each of the axles. Built for a few short years in the early 1960's before succeeded by the boxy looking GP35.
UP844 was repowered sometime in the 1970's - apparently there were issues with earlier 567's that made parts harder to find so the best option for UP was to replace with the newer and more plentiful 645-16 (i think this is an E3 variant from what I recall talking with the Mechanic of Record at the museum). Still an amazing piece of machinery!! Worth the trip to Vegas to see this museum, if you are able.
I took my boys to the yard in St Joseph Missouri and took them for a ride, we just ran down one track and back but they never forgot it! We used to cook on the engine between Kansas City and Springfield Missouri. Great memories for sure My brother said everything except for yard transfers are remote Even the mainline trains are run out of fort Worth TX The hoghead runs them out of the yard and turns it over to the dispatcher in Fort Worth That's between Kansas City and Lincoln Nebraska I am retired so I don't know if they are doing it elsewhere. First time watching, sure brings back some memories. I watched a video last spring of a tornado 🌪️ and a BNSF crew taking a direct hit! I have run and sat in that very location. Boy the stories I could tell 😉
Wow! Not those are some great stories you got and the best is the great memories you retained after time slips by. Thanks so very much for sharing this and watching our video. 👍
Hey Marty What an amazing ride. Im surprised Sally wasn't with you. Thanks for the invitation to ride along. I love the big diesel engines, however my bucket list is to ride of a steam locomotive. You just can't beet the sound of all that steel chugging down the tracks and the smell of coal smoke in the air. Will be anxiously awaiting the next video. Until then take care and God bless you and Sally. Steve in Oklahoma
Thank you, I would love to be at the helm of a coal fired locomotive with all that steel moving and I’m still working on trying to find one that would have me in the cab. Thank you so much for watching.
13 years of coastguard. Always wanted to be a locomotive engineer. I almost got out at ten to pursue it. After doing some research and seeing the state of affairs of the industry I decided to stay in.
16:56 GP 30s had a tiny closet on the fireman's side long enough for hanging up clothes. I ran many of the SP units over the years. These weren't my favorite units the whistle chords were rope with a wooden handles. 30s were noisy inside with little insulation. These units had the older wiring and had issues with wheel slip .
GP30 ... I always liked the odd high ceiling in those 30's... AND listening to that whine of the turbocharger... Ran those babies for 42 years on the UP and still love that sound! "Smoke Em'...!
Dang, his story becoming an engineer got cut off after being on the Flagstaff fire department. He called the company asking about the train... Sounded like a good story. Always wondered if the long distance freight crews had bathrooms on the engines? Thanks for the ride!
You still have to get certification to do it. They won't let just anyone solo operate a locomotive especially when it is pulling a passenger consist. I imaging he das to take a few tests before getting certified and still had a veteran engineer ride along for a while before letting him go solo at the controls. In fact I would expect it even if I were to land that job and I have experience and current certification with CPKCS.
At most(if not all) outfits, you would start as a brakeman, then qualify as conductor, eventually training/certifying as locomotive engineer, unless as another commenter mentioned, you have current certification.
Cool video, I got to see this engine during restoration many years ago up there in Boulder. I was allowed to get up in that cab - looks like a very nice restoration.
I’ve been there many times over the years! A little bit of history. That particular locomotive 844 gp30 was the reason 4-8-4 844 to be renumbered on the active roster of UP to be numbered 8444. What the gp30 was retired and donated to the museum. 4-8-4 844 got it original number back.
I live about 400 feet from the Fort Worth rail yard. I think it is the maintenance part... Anyways nice to see the inside of the cab as I hear them 24-7...
I don’t regret it, but I don’t miss it. Running a train is so automated now, it’s no fun. I was lucky. We used to have fun doing it. But,,, I love sleeping all night now! 👍
New subscriber. Thank ya' sir for sharing. NNRY in Ely, NV, has a Be The Engineer Program. You can drive steam or diesel. Its a little pricey, but since I've wanted to drive a locomotive since I was a kid, it was worth it. You can also ride in the cab of a steam engine on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in Durango, CO. Also pricey and you don't get to drive it, but was a lot of fun for 2 1/2 hours.
My uncle used to work for the railroad. I had an opportunity to ride along with the pusher team for a day at Horseshoe Curve in Altoona but I couldn't get away.
My one and only bucket list item is to ride in the cab of a working locomotive and meet a Leon. I just think it would be a great and interesting experience.
I remember back in the day when UP's Steam locomotive #844 had to add another digit ("4") to her cab, making it 8444 because there was an operational EMD unit with 844 already in existence and things got a little confusing on the dispatcher's end. It's my understanding that - that EMD unit was retired, (and her number along with her), thus allowing the Steamer to re-gain her original number of 844. Now I see here that there's another EMD unit with 844 on her cab. Can anybody enlighten me?
There is a lot of mention of these numbers and I assume they get away with it because of the 2000 mile distance between them???? 🤫 thanks for watching.
This is engine is a defunct model that is no longer made but, restored to showroom condition! Nice and rare experience. I learned from a train engineer that due to NTSB regulations. Civilians are NOT allowed or permitted to film inside an active commercial train cab.
I'm in Canada, so I don't know if similar rules apply, but back in the mid 70s, I frequently rode freights and also took pictures. However, I was an employee, though not railroad operating. I used to be a telecommunications tech for Canadian National.
I grew up on The NorthBound CSX Rail Yard At Flint, Michigan, My. Entire Life Was Listening To The Cars Being Broke Down and Switched Out As Well Fast Movers Heading North and South Bound. I live North of Where I grew Up 10 Miles and Still A 1/4 miles From The Very Same CSX Line. To This Day I Know Exactly What Time it Is, Or Within 10 Minutes or So Every Night I Can Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow For Five Miles North Or South Of Us. When GM Left Flint, Michigan That Killed CSX Rail Yard. Although it’s Still There Just Not as Busy Ss Back Then In The 70,80,90.
Thank you for your story from the early years, I remember more general rail traffic back then in my town but. Thanks also for choosing the watch our video. 👍
Thanks for the great video of these very professional guys running and operating this huge trail of cargo. Trains like these move our country with box cars, hopper cars, and containers from ships to trucks across our nation. These guys seem very relaxed on the job but, aware of their jobs and concentrating on getting this train from point A to B in the safest and quickest way. Many people do not realize trains have to blow their horns several times at a very loud Db level at every road crossing by transportation regulations. This insures any vehicle or pedestrians know a train is approaching these grade crossings. We made the mistake to camp in an Oregon state campground on the Columbia river maybe 5 years ago. Along the Columbia river the railroad obtained the best level grade near the river followed by highways on both sides of the river. There was little land for Oregon state campgrounds, that had to be build next to railways and highways. We took a campsite next to the railroad tracks and next to a gravel vehicle grade crossing. All night huge freight trains approached the crossing blowing their very loud high Db horns several times next to our campsite. It was a night of brief sleep broken by every 20 or 30 minutes of these very noisy trains approaching the grade crossing.
Magnificent catches inside of the locomotive, and to see how it works on driving a train. Thumbs up. Keep up the perfect work, Marty, just liked and subscribed, Greetings from Portugal to the USA.
I have a question: When you're going backwards, how does th engineer know when to sound the horn for the crossing that he has no way of seeing (nor how far away from it he is) ??
Ask Almost, ANY, MODEL Railroader. That "Road Switcher", was designed, for running both directions, pulling, and/or pushing. That way, you don't need a TURNTABLE, at each end of the Line. Just a 'Runaround' track.
I was fortunate to go to the Berlin orientation tour with the US Army when I was stationed in Bremerhaven. We rode in the military's Sleeper Car at high speed to Frankfurt and then from Frankfurt until something happened. Similar to this train riding tracks laid in 1931, when we crossed the border into East Germany, the railroad beds were not maintained and the train moved slowly wildly moving back and forth in 1980.
@MeanderingMarty During the time that the wall was up the East Germans were assigned to maintain rails above ground while the West maintained the subway in Berlin. I was told, the East doesn't maintain the rail line connecting Berlin to the West strictly as a matter of policy. The subway system in Berlin was marvelous looking brand new.
I subscribe to Sally's channel, because she seems sweet and I enjoy seeing the desert where I used to live, so I'm certainly gonna subscribe to your channel, because I love trains and guy stuff! Great video.
I guess I missed out riding in the caboose. 😘
Yes you did! Lol
Totally evident in the smile on Marty's face. You can see the happiness just pouring out of his eyes.
Back in the mid 70s, I frequently rode on either end of a freight train. If I was in the caboose (van as the train crews called it) I would often be up in the cupola. When in the locomotive, I'd be in the middle seat.
@@James_Knott cool. Sounds like my dream come true.
I've never had a ride in a caboose.
But back 1979 (I was 12 at that time)
I used to sell a newspaper called "GRIT," which most likely is out of business now.
But, I would be standing a safe distance from the tracks and would catch the
"KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN" FREIGHT TRAIN there in
GRANNIS ARKANSAS when it would stop there to
Drop off full/ pick up empty gondolas of feed for the
POULTRY PROCESSING PLANT there
("TYSON" TODAY,
But it was "LANES" back then).
They would wave me to come aboard, and I would sell each one of them a paper each time they stopped there.
Of course, I stayed aboard inside the lead locomotive while they worked, and I used to love it,
And they all enjoyed seeing me each and every time they came through.
Even though now at 57, almost
58 years old, I still have those memories of days way back then.
And OH GOD, I DO MISS THEM GREATLY.
I did 39 years at the RailRoad, and have never seen Windows/ Mirrors this Clean!!! Love It 😊
That is a great point, yes this locomotive was spotless and looked like it just rolled out of the factory. Thank you so much for commenting and watching. 👍
Funny how we do everything perfect when people are watching😂
What an awesome experience!! In a beautiful locomotive (UP844)!! 🇺🇸
👍 thank you for sharing and watching.
My 5 year old son and I got to ride in the cab of a Deutsches Bahn Kriegslok 44 WWII coal-fired steam locomotive pulling period passenger cars for three hours across Germany. It was high adventure, right next to the firebox, rocking and rolling!
That is awesome! I can smell the coal burning 🔥. Thanks so very much for sharing this story and watching our videos. 👍
We visited Vegas about 7 years ago for my wife’s 50th, being “spotter’s” me and my son found these guys were having a open day at the Colorado state railway, took just over an hour by bus to get there via the Bonerville transit station. We were made so welcome when they found out we were from the UK, cost an extra couple dollars for the cab ride, same driver as in video, great bunch of folks, made our holiday.
That’s a great story. 👍
I really like the multiple views. Letting us look around is way more fun than just sitting the camera in the windshield. Keep up the good work
Thank you I tried to do exactly that so everyone can get a good long look from multiple areas. Thank you for your comments and watching. 👍
@@MeanderingMarty ,
This is the first time I've ridden in a train since I was five years old. We rode in a Kindergarten Classroom Field Trip in Bendle School, from Burton Township, Michigan, to Durand Michigan & Return in one afternoon, that was in 1955! Thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed it.
Beautiful old school locomotive, glad to see it operated
Thank you for sharing and watching. 😉
@ amen!
My husband did their " engineer for an hour" i was allowed to ride in the engibe with them. It was worth every penny!!! Great museum too. Must see for all railroad enthusiasts!
Awesome!
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I worked for the CN Rail for 5 years mostly yard switching by preference. Because the only time I ever had a hard time staying awake at work was inside the cab of a locomotive on road trips😂 Especially in the winter at night, when the hoghead cranks the heater on the conductor's side. The droning sound and white noise just lulls you to sleep...when your head starts falling and you start nodding off they call that the brakeman bob 😂 I have been out of the game for a few years and I am starting to miss it.
That’s a great story 👍
I tried and tried to get a job in the Railroad .it's easier to win the lottery than it is to get hired by the Railroad
@@samueljnevarez3034 Sorry for your hard luck....don't give up? I've done a career on the railway...and SEVERAL different companies also!
“I was a city fireman”. This man is old school and class with intellect. Notice the phrasing and how he carried himself young men.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and watching our video. 😉
the ol Gp30 man I miss that here on Long Island we actually had GP38-2 pulling regular commuter trains and that whine it made is glorious when starting out
I know, it’s like music to my ears!
I used to be a telecommunications technician for Canadian National. Back in the mid 70s, when I was working in Northern Ontario I frequently rode freights. While I never walked along the side of a locomotive, there was one occasion when I was standing right below the headlight, taking pictures. Also, back in those days, I usually had to hop on and off a slowly moving train, as the engineers didn't want to fully stop unless they had to.
That’s a good story. Thanks for sharing and watching the video. 👍
This brought back memories of a cab ride I took in 1998. I only took still pictures. It was an excursion train from Willits to Fort Bragg, California.
Sounds like a fun trip.
Yeah it was called the skunk train from willits to fort Bragg 🤠
Bill Schlicting,
I have a friend named "Carl Schlichting", he lives here in Grand Blanc, Michigan, are you related?
@@BobbyTucker Not related in anyway that I know of. Ironically, my dad's middle name and my middle name are Carl.
I just happened to luck into seeing UP844 effortlessly running 75mph through Hallsville Texas back in 2012, it was love at first sight... All the hoopla over the Big Boy is all fine and well, but 844 is the real crown jewell of the UP fleet...
That’s sounds cool to see that. 👍
Thank you for this.
12 yr old son loves it.
We go to knightsen, Ca just watch these beauties go by
That is so awesome, I’m so happy I can make a person day with my content. Thank you so much for sharing this and watching my videos. 👍
Engineer is a natural. I’m guessing he was an engine man in his career as a firefighter. A natural with the controls, smooth, zero fumbling, confident.
I never looked at it that way before but I think you’re right about him. Thank you for your input and watching our video. 👍
It makes sense. He looks like he's been running machinery a long time
So cool nice ride nice speed up in there with the people that drive during always wanted to do that
Thank you for sharing and watching. 😉
The GP30 is one of the most beautiful EMDs ever made.
I agree! 👍
@@MeanderingMarty as do I especially the high hood versions the NW and Southern had
My favorite is the SD 30s
@@alphonsotate2982 I've never heard of an SD30. 😮
Gotta love Train's I need to hear it every night to get sleep!!!
That’s awesome!
Loved it! I could feel a breeze when you stepped out onto the walkway. Also a touch of vertigo. Thanks for taking us along.
You’re not the only one ha ha ha, I’m glad you enjoyed the ride.
Back in the mid 70s I felt the cool breeze while standing below the headlight!
most excellent sound effects outside the cab.cant beat an EMD thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching.
Yeah, and now that stinking Progress Rail owns them. Don't care for that company myself (& they are owned by Caterpillar Corp.)
@@playhooky thats an end to EMD for sure.
I was in that cab!!! We did the rail bike tour back over the ridge towards Henderson, came back on the 100 year old Pullman cars (the consist led by this 1962 EMD rumbled down the 4-5 miles to pull the long line of rail bikes back up the hill to the station). The engineer spent a good hour sharing his knowledge - a very young man (Brady?) with decades of knowledge. This was a few years ago, but there were still a few gondola cars left over from the construction of the Boulder Dam (Hoover) parked just outside the sheds at the Rail Museum. UP 844 was repowered at some point from its original 567 up to 645E3 standard. So. Very. Cool.
Great story thanks for sharing.
844 is as close to the majestic Wabash Cannonball as I believe we'll ever see
I've ran similar locomotives for years, and love them more than anything built in the past 30 years. This a General Motors Electro-Motive Division GP30, a 2250hp 4-axle locomotive with 16-cylinder 567 cubic inch per cylinder engine that spins a DC generator that feeds power to the traction motors hung on each of the axles. Built for a few short years in the early 1960's before succeeded by the boxy looking GP35.
Great information. 👍
UP844 was repowered sometime in the 1970's - apparently there were issues with earlier 567's that made parts harder to find so the best option for UP was to replace with the newer and more plentiful 645-16 (i think this is an E3 variant from what I recall talking with the Mechanic of Record at the museum). Still an amazing piece of machinery!! Worth the trip to Vegas to see this museum, if you are able.
I took my boys to the yard in St Joseph Missouri and took them for a ride, we just ran down one track and back but they never forgot it!
We used to cook on the engine between Kansas City and Springfield Missouri.
Great memories for sure
My brother said everything except for yard transfers are remote
Even the mainline trains are run out of fort Worth TX
The hoghead runs them out of the yard and turns it over to the dispatcher in Fort Worth
That's between Kansas City and Lincoln Nebraska I am retired so I don't know if they are doing it elsewhere.
First time watching, sure brings back some memories.
I watched a video last spring of a tornado 🌪️ and a BNSF crew taking a direct hit!
I have run and sat in that very location.
Boy the stories I could tell 😉
Wow! Not those are some great stories you got and the best is the great memories you retained after time slips by. Thanks so very much for sharing this and watching our video. 👍
Hey Marty
What an amazing ride. Im surprised Sally wasn't with you. Thanks for the invitation to ride along. I love the big diesel engines, however my bucket list is to ride of a steam locomotive. You just can't beet the sound of all that steel chugging down the tracks and the smell of coal smoke in the air. Will be anxiously awaiting the next video. Until then take care and God bless you and Sally.
Steve in Oklahoma
Thank you, I would love to be at the helm of a coal fired locomotive with all that steel moving and I’m still working on trying to find one that would have me in the cab. Thank you so much for watching.
Okay, here's the part when we magically become 9-year-olds again...Too cool! Nicely done video.
😂 thank you.
What a great up and close video, it must of been a real fun time, and experience.
It was one of the most memorable things I’ve ever done in my whole life. Thank you for watching.
It must HAVE been …
What he meant was, “…it must HAVE been a real fun time…”
Grew up a railroad brat. Went to work with my father many times, taught me how to run the locomotive
That is a great childhood memory, I was a country boy and did a little farm work. 👍 thanks for sharing your memories.
Great video lets have more of these cab rides did not know the driver sat that way on thanks for sharing 😊
I will be doing many different things but I will trains as I get opportunities.
13 years of coastguard. Always wanted to be a locomotive engineer. I almost got out at ten to pursue it. After doing some research and seeing the state of affairs of the industry I decided to stay in.
I have heard that before. Thanks again for watching. 👍
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Thanks for watching and sharing.👍
16:56 GP 30s had a tiny closet on the fireman's side long enough for hanging up clothes. I ran many of the SP units over the years. These weren't my favorite units the whistle chords were rope with a wooden handles. 30s were noisy inside with little insulation. These units had the older wiring and had issues with wheel slip .
Thanks for the information. 👍
My grandfather worked at CSX for 15 years before he retired.
I always wanted to work for the railroad. 👍
GP30 ... I always liked the odd high ceiling in those 30's... AND listening to that whine of the turbocharger... Ran those babies for 42 years on the UP and still love that sound! "Smoke Em'...!
That’s a great story, you can tell I was enjoying the sound. Thanks for sharing and watching. 👍
Leon seems to be one cool cat...
Leon was the best, kind of guy you would go have a few cold drinks with. 👍
Dang, his story becoming an engineer got cut off after being on the Flagstaff fire department. He called the company asking about the train... Sounded like a good story. Always wondered if the long distance freight crews had bathrooms on the engines? Thanks for the ride!
I didn’t see any bathroom in the engine but the caboose I believe had one. Thanks so much for watching.👍
Glad you shared this video. Great opportunity for you. Thanks for taking us along.
Thank you for watching. 👍
Love the GP30s
Yes, great looking train too me. 👍
@@MeanderingMarty ,
I agree.
So, you don’t have to be retired RR, to drive that engine. There yah go, Marty, sign up to be a train engineer.
Exactly!
You still have to get certification to do it. They won't let just anyone solo operate a locomotive especially when it is pulling a passenger consist. I imaging he das to take a few tests before getting certified and still had a veteran engineer ride along for a while before letting him go solo at the controls. In fact I would expect it even if I were to land that job and I have experience and current certification with CPKCS.
Yesterday I couldn't even spell locomotive engineer. Today I r 1.
At most(if not all) outfits, you would start as a brakeman, then qualify as conductor, eventually training/certifying as locomotive engineer, unless as another commenter mentioned, you have current certification.
you cannot "drive" a locomotive, you run or operate it. Forwards or Backwards, no directional control.
I worked on this unit in the early eighties in Union Pacific's Salt Lake diesel shop. She looks better now than she did then!
That’s great! Thank you so much for sharing that. 👍
Cool video, I got to see this engine during restoration many years ago up there in Boulder. I was allowed to get up in that cab - looks like a very nice restoration.
It definitely is a great restoration. 👍
I’ve been there many times over the years!
A little bit of history. That particular locomotive 844 gp30 was the reason 4-8-4 844 to be renumbered on the active roster of UP to be numbered 8444. What the gp30 was retired and donated to the museum. 4-8-4 844 got it original number back.
Great information. 👍
I live about 400 feet from the Fort Worth rail yard. I think it is the maintenance part... Anyways nice to see the inside of the cab as I hear them 24-7...
That’s awesome to live that close and like trains. 👍 Thanks so much for your comment and watching.
I was an engineer for 40 years and this didn’t make me miss it one bit. 😁
That’s awesome you were able to do that.
Lucky You. I Chose The Wrong Profession. TRUCK DRIVER!
I don’t regret it, but I don’t miss it. Running a train is so automated now, it’s no fun. I was lucky. We used to have fun doing it. But,,, I love sleeping all night now! 👍
@@swede5209I still run mine. Dark territory, heavy loads, dpu control, no ptc, no ems, class 1 freight railroad.
We love it! Great job Marty. Keep up the good work.
Doug and Pam
The Last Frontier in the Lower 48.
Thanks! Will do! 👍
Great video! I can watch this all day.
Awesome, glad you liked it. 😊
Just found this, thanks for the ride.
Thank you for watching. 👍
On gee, the engineer can hear that loud bell in the cab. Drive me nuts
👍 Thanks for watching.
Beautiful train, awesome scenery. What else could you ask for.
Exactly 👍
New subscriber. Thank ya' sir for sharing. NNRY in Ely, NV, has a Be The Engineer Program. You can drive steam or diesel. Its a little pricey, but since I've wanted to drive a locomotive since I was a kid, it was worth it. You can also ride in the cab of a steam engine on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in Durango, CO. Also pricey and you don't get to drive it, but was a lot of fun for 2 1/2 hours.
Still sounds like a great time. 👍
How much does it cost to ride in a diesel locomotive?
Constant bells and horn would do my head in.
Yes I agree but I think that eventually you probably will tune the noise out, or go crazy 🤪. Thanks for sharing and watching.
My uncle used to work for the railroad. I had an opportunity to ride along with the pusher team for a day at Horseshoe Curve in Altoona but I couldn't get away.
Wish you could have done that. Thanks so much for watching. 👍
@@MeanderingMarty Me too. Had commitments.
Beautiful GP30!
Thank you for watching. 👍
My one and only bucket list item is to ride in the cab of a working locomotive and meet a Leon. I just think it would be a great and interesting experience.
My bucket item #56 is to be a hobo on the rails for a few weeks and not end up in Alaska. Thank you for sharing and watching. 😎
Master driver, love your work 😮
Thanks for watching and the great response. 👍
Crazy goodstuff Marty, that is one spiffy locomotive🚂
It definitely was a nice rig. 👍
The *real* 844 is steam powered. 😉
I do love the paint job on that diesel though. Very clean.
Yes that thing was looking like it just rolled out of the factory. Thanks again for watching. 😎
Really nice video. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us. Probably the closest I will ever get to the inside of a UP locomotive 🚂
Thank you very much! I’m glad you liked it. 👍
Does this run require a conductor to be aboard?
Yes the conductor was in the caboose.
I so thank you for this cab in front ride, a real joy to see the action up front and personal !
Thank you for your comment. 👍
I remember back in the day when UP's Steam locomotive #844 had to add another digit ("4") to her cab, making it 8444 because there was an operational EMD unit with 844 already in existence and things got a little confusing on the dispatcher's end. It's my understanding that - that EMD unit was retired, (and her number along with her), thus allowing the Steamer to re-gain her original number of 844. Now I see here that there's another EMD unit with 844 on her cab. Can anybody enlighten me?
There is a lot of mention of these numbers and I assume they get away with it because of the 2000 mile distance between them???? 🤫 thanks for watching.
Hello. I watch a lot of train videos. Especially like the cabviews. The picture quallity is great on this video! Good job!
Thank you for your support and your input, I appreciate you sharing that.
WOW NICE VIEW
Thanks. 😊
GP30.
When EMD let GM Design Staff sculpt a locomotive. Still my favorite Geep and just resplendent in those Borg colors.
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Thats was unreal! Great job.
Thank you. Definitely a once in a lifetime experience
Nice clean GP30
That it is. Thanks for watching.
Nice camera work and the video quality is excellent 👍
Thanks for the nice comment. 👍
From holland, what a landscape !
Thanks.
A very patient engineer. I’d say SIT DOWN. I think he would have been in a bit of trouble had you slipped.
Just like everything these days you have to use judgment on what you can let people do. There is no warning stickers on anything because of me. 😎
That was the cleanest GP30 ever!!!! 😳
It definitely is the cleanest I have seen also.
It is very nice to see that it has not been tagged with graffiti
Geep 30. My favorite locomotive.
This in now my favorite locomotive 🚂
This is engine is a defunct model that is no longer made but, restored to showroom condition! Nice and rare experience.
I learned from a train engineer that due to NTSB regulations. Civilians are NOT allowed or permitted to film inside an active
commercial train cab.
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Plus film is expensive nowadays
I'm in Canada, so I don't know if similar rules apply, but back in the mid 70s, I frequently rode freights and also took pictures. However, I was an employee, though not railroad operating. I used to be a telecommunications tech for Canadian National.
This is cool i love this train ride my dream is to be an engineer for a freight railroad.
That would mine too if it was in the desert. 👍
I grew up on The NorthBound CSX Rail Yard At Flint, Michigan, My. Entire Life Was Listening To The Cars Being Broke Down and Switched Out As Well Fast Movers Heading North and South Bound. I live North of Where I grew Up 10 Miles and Still A 1/4 miles From The Very Same CSX Line. To This Day I Know Exactly What Time it Is, Or Within 10 Minutes or So Every Night I Can Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow For Five Miles North Or South Of Us. When GM Left Flint, Michigan That Killed CSX Rail Yard. Although it’s Still There Just Not as Busy Ss Back Then In The 70,80,90.
Thank you for your story from the early years, I remember more general rail traffic back then in my town but. Thanks also for choosing the watch our video. 👍
Thanks for posting!
Thank you for watching. 👍
Very cool
Thanks, it was a treat to ride this behemoth! 😁 thanks for watching my video.
Enjoyed the video. Thanks Marty. From UK🇬🇧👍
Thank you so much for watching. 😁
Thanks for the great video of these very professional guys running and operating this huge trail of cargo.
Trains like these move our country with box cars, hopper cars, and containers from ships to trucks across our nation.
These guys seem very relaxed on the job but, aware of their jobs and concentrating on getting this train from point A to B in the safest and quickest way.
Many people do not realize trains have to blow their horns several times at a very loud Db level at every road crossing by transportation regulations. This insures any vehicle or pedestrians know a train is approaching these grade crossings.
We made the mistake to camp in an Oregon state campground on the Columbia river maybe 5 years ago. Along the Columbia river the railroad obtained the best level grade near the river followed by highways on both sides of the river. There was little land for Oregon state campgrounds, that had to be build next to railways and highways.
We took a campsite next to the railroad tracks and next to a gravel vehicle grade crossing. All night huge freight trains approached the crossing blowing their very loud high Db horns several times next to our campsite. It was a night of brief sleep broken by every 20 or 30 minutes of these very noisy trains approaching the grade crossing.
Thanks for all your great information, I definitely will not camp by any busy tracks. 👍
That train is a museum passenger train. The boxcars are HEP slugs
Amen.
Magnificent catches inside of the locomotive, and to see how it works on driving a train.
Thumbs up.
Keep up the perfect work, Marty, just liked and subscribed, Greetings from Portugal to the USA.
Thank you so much.
@@MeanderingMarty my pleasure.
@@MeanderingMarty trains are amazing.
I just came across this video ..... Subscribed!!! 👍
Stay tuned in the future I will be adding more.
@@MeanderingMarty AWESOME!!!! 👍
Beautiful geep 30
It is. 👍
Amazing! What a treat so see from the inside!
Thank you so much for watching.
Another great video Marty, keep up the good work, all the best from Oz.
Thanks, will do! Take care.
I have a question: When you're going backwards, how does th engineer know when to sound the horn for the crossing that he has no way of seeing (nor how far away from it he is) ??
There also was an engineer in the caboose with a radio. Thanks so much for watching. 👍
So what is the purpose going forward and then reverse back to where you started?
I don’t know?? 🤔 good thing I started in building number one and then moved outside and finished in their second building.👍
Ask Almost, ANY, MODEL Railroader. That "Road Switcher", was designed, for running both directions, pulling, and/or pushing. That way, you don't need a TURNTABLE, at each end of the Line. Just a 'Runaround' track.
As they say you're never to old to learn ,keep it up Mr.
Thanks a lot! 😁
The sound of the V16 567D2 sounds almost like the sound of a 16V 645E3
It just might. 👍
I ran a 30 on the Western Maryland Senic rail road It looks way better in UP colors than black
That’s sounds like my dream job! Thanks so much for sharing and watching my video. 😉
My skin is the same color as that desert. Yellowish with a lot of green. You're a lucky duck Marty.
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
@@MeanderingMarty
Got a stutter day Marty? 😊
Darn RUclips! 😮
@@MeanderingMarty
allegedly 🤦♂🤷♂
I know that Firefighter he was one of the very best and a great neighbor Would like to talk to him
Yes he was a great guy. 👍 thank you so much for watching.
Looks like a real exciting job. No shortage of variety
Definitely not a shortage. 👍
I was fortunate to go to the Berlin orientation tour with the US Army when I was stationed in Bremerhaven. We rode in the military's Sleeper Car at high speed to Frankfurt and then from Frankfurt until something happened. Similar to this train riding tracks laid in 1931, when we crossed the border into East Germany, the railroad beds were not maintained and the train moved slowly wildly moving back and forth in 1980.
I believe it, now they have machines to quickly repair that but obviously they have not come through yet. 👍
@MeanderingMarty During the time that the wall was up the East Germans were assigned to maintain rails above ground while the West maintained the subway in Berlin. I was told, the East doesn't maintain the rail line connecting Berlin to the West strictly as a matter of policy. The subway system in Berlin was marvelous looking brand new.
@@zAlaska Very interesting; thanks for sharing.
GREAT life lesson here: if you are interested in something, hang around and ask!! You'll be surprised by the opportunities that will open up.😀👍
Darn right! 👍
Outside of Reno then?
I’m not sure on the question?
Sure would have liked to see the rest of the train. Why the omission???
I don’t feel comfortable filming people and their children, sorry for that. Thank you for question and watching. 😉
I subscribe to Sally's channel, because she seems sweet and I enjoy seeing the desert where I used to live, so I'm certainly gonna subscribe to your channel, because I love trains and guy stuff! Great video.
Thank you so much for your support. 😊
Beautiful 😊😊😊❤
Thank you.
DATALOG:
9:32 - Locomotive Brake Handle malfunctioned
9:37 - Locomotive Brake Handle fixed. exactly as it's shown in the instruction manual
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This is definitely on my Bucket List now
That’s awesome!
Certainly looks like he had done that a couple times before!! Very nice!!
Thanks 😊