Now I know why the Bessemer Lake Erie, Elgin Joliet Eastern and Pittsburgh Lake Erie all had SD38-2s . They didnt need to go fast, just pull a lot of weight, I cant believe there is no emoji for a train or railroad crossing
That is correct Patrick, they weren't built for speed, but for heavy hauling. Although the owners manual says with the right gear ratio in the traction motors they could get up to 80 MPH. I'd believe it when I saw it tho. Guess you can put your editing skills to work and make some custom emojis....:-) Very much appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and check out the #1 locomotive video my friend.
The former C&IM railroad in central Illinois had 6 SD-38-2s, supplanting 5 SD-9s and 2 SD-60s. When coal mining in central Illinois ceased operations, the SD-38-2s were sold to Union Pacific, and converted into hump yard slugs. All the original C&IM diesels are gone now, the last 2 were the only 2 RS-1325s made by EMD, and theyre both now in railroad museums, the #30 at Illinois Railway Museum, and 31 is at the Monticello Railway Museum, both in serviceable, operating condition.
I'm kinda saddened to hear that Paul those 38's are now slugs, but guess UP can do what they want with them. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and write in my friend. May you have a most blessed day.
You will Derrick, got several videos of me running, they going to come out on special occasions. Very much appreciate your writing in and for watching tonight my friend.
Thank you Tommy for the very kind words. Glad you enjoyed. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and write in my friend. May you have a most blessed day.
What does SD stand for, Dave? This was another great excursion to view the Number One train. You are a really great tour guide. Loved the personal note that you became an engineer on this train. Very nice memory. The best part of all is your pride in CCRX.
SD is an acronym for special duty Shirley. Running the train here is a really cool job for a couple of months, then it's the same thing over and over. Track maintenance if much more interesting and challenging and you get to move around a whole more and do more different things. Really appreciate you my friend.
This is excellent. Love the big SD's. I'm a model railroader, myself. May have to pick up one of those HO scale units. Even though I mostly model N scale. I'm surprised that the SD38's weren't more popular than they were. I guess everybody went with the SD40's because they needed mainline road engines pulling fast. Sounds like the 38's were geared for slower industrial lines.
Thank you Shane for the very nice comment and for watching the presentation. Yep the 38's main purpose for being built were for heavy hauling such as coal drags at slower speeds. I believe there were only 90 of them made, we have 2. The 40's were a significant improvement with an additional 1,000 HP.
Another wonderful Video Dave, that drew me back in time when you showed your Kato Locomotive, I previously owned a hobby shop when Kato released the SD38-2 units (I think back in 2005) I sold a bunch of them in various road names including the Cumberland Mine units, from watching and learning about the mine & railroad from your videos I sure wish I held onto a couple of those Cumberland units. Oh well That’s Railroadin! 🚂
Now that is totally awesome to hear Chuck! Who knows you may have sold this unit, I bought it off Ebay so you never know. Too bad I don't have the packing slip or I could tell you where it came from. It just amazed me that they even made a Cumberland loco.
When I was working on Massachusetts Coastal RR all of our locomotives were GP series, mostly because the track curves were too tight for running 6 axle locomotives. The down side is all of that horsepower is then applied to only 4 traction motors. We bought a rebuilt GP-10 which had a turbocharged 16-645 rated at 3,000 hp. When you put 3,000 hp on a 4 axle locomotive it’s near impossible at times to control wheel slip. Add slippery rails during leafy grease season in the fall, and it couldn’t get out of its own way even with lots of sand. We did have one subdivision where 100-150 car consists were not uncommon. That GP-10 once it got rolling, could get right up to track speed like there was nothing behind. 100 cars with a single locomotive! It was also the only locomotive we had that was equipped with dynamic brakes. Not a lot of places on our railroad where dynamics were all that useful, but it was fun to play with it.
Awesome Bill 👍 understand the 4 axle, we might have been better off in long run with GP s. We got a good many sharp degree curves. 3 axle trucks hard on them. Also understand the wheel slip, our sd 40-2 has some issues with that here also, it actually more of a problem than our 38 - 2 thanks for the cool comment
Hi. Great video. I have had exactly the same Kato model for a number of years now and it's nice to get an overview of what the real loco is like. I live in Sydney and it's great to have the Cumberland Mine #1 loco run around my layout.
Thanks Peter! Sweet on the loco, do you have any of the hopper cars to go with it? I only have 1. If you decide to get some note that our original cars only went up to #30. There are cars on Ebay that are higher numbers but those were not original numbers here.
@@ccrx6700 I don't have any of the original hoppers but thanks for the advice. I do have similar ones from the model company Walthers but not the same.
Great video Dave and with the walk around tutorial on the SD38-2. I'm sure over the years in service she's racked up some miles on the rails! It's still in great shape to be built in 75'. That's awesome you found an H.O.SCALE version of it as well! Thanks again for sharing your videos and look fwd to many more!
My Farther Hired in on the DT&I. RR in Flat Rock Michigan in 1963 and Retired in 1998 then was the GT now CN Railroad . The DT&I had Six EMD SD38-2 Non Dynamic Brake's They now are on the Reading And Northern RR in Pennsylvania Awesome Video as always
Great to hear that Russ, maybe this winter I will do one . Don't have a lay out, but got tons of RR signs. Appreciate your watching sir. Someday I'll get my 1960's Lionel and HO scale trains going again that I got for christmas back then
Engine electrical system, Very interesting, I didn't realize that there was a difference between an engine electrical system for freight and the additional requirements for passenger service. Neat stuff More please
Thank you sir, you got some really good vids on your channel, was watching some of them last night. If anyone would like to watch some pretty good rail fanning videos, here's a link to his channel: ruclips.net/channel/UCx9YuhTH3DXgad5lkLLicfQ
The SD38-2 is what we ran on the CNW at proviso yard for hump shoves, the trimmer jobs in the hump bowl. The sound these units make under load is pretty cool. New Subscriber here. awesome videos,, keep it up!! Greg
Is a good loco for light switching, ours still respond well to throttle after all these years. Glad you enjoyed Greg and thank you, got a lot more RR videos coming this year so stay tuned
Thanks Aaron. Last time I was on Ebay I found another one at over double the price I had paid! it amazes me that anyone even made a scale model of this loco. Very much appreciate your watching the presentation and writing in my friend.
The only SD38’s I’ve only seen are the Bessemer and Lake Erie. When there at full throttle, there so loud and they sound beautiful. Next time I come to the Cumberland area I might try to see one of these trains.
@@steelcityrailfan4808 i am very fortunate to be able do this, thank you for nice comment, glad you are enjoying. I do like to make these and show a kinda unique perspective
Thank you for nice comment, glad you enjoyed, i've seen you on several VR railcams posting. I hang out mostly Belen and chat there, although lurk at many others, lots great folks at Belen
@@ccrx6700 Oh boy, my reputation precedes me. That's kind of a scary thought! I mostly stay at the Elkhart channel, but do try to get out and roam a bit. There are so many nice people at all of the cameras.
I read the Trains magazine article and it said you were an isolated railroad. It sounded like you have to barge all of your large rail equipment (locomotives and rolling stock) across the river to get on the property. If that is the case, that would make some interesting content for a future video, even if you don't have much to share visually on the subject (or maybe there are some still photos lying around of the equipment being moved in). Keep the great videos coming!
I,ve been there since the beginning, i have never heard that stuff was barged in before, am trying find out where he heard that. I watched 22 and 3098 being delivered and they were trucked in by Hulcher, i do have some pics of 3098 being delivered.
You got that right sir! I know several engineers on Class 1 RR's everyone of them have told me how much more they would rather run EMD than GE. Thank you sir for watching. We EMD guys gotta stick together ....lol
Yes sir I hate those GE just like NS but The Blue Ridge Southern Railroad has a lot of SD45 car bodies and GP39-2 and when I'm 18 I'm going to get on with Blue Ridge so I can accomplish my dream of being a engineer You can see more on my channel as well and I love your video
Why don't they replace the sight gauge for the fuel that way they can see how much fuel is in it? Also they need to do some Rust cleaning and painting.
In a previous video you mentioned that the SD 40-2 was originally in SD40. And with this one being an SD 38-2 I am wondering what the - 2 means. Is it differences in the traction motor or the gear ratio between the traction motor and the wheels that make it better suited for mining operations?
Joe, basically and simply put, the dash 2 is an upgrade to the electical system, exactly what all is involved in that (components, modules, etc ) i'm not sure of
The dash 2 is a change from all electromechanical (relay) controls to an early generation analog electronic control system. It was a modular system where each control function like load control, wheel slip control etc was handled by a specific module that plugged into a back frame. That way the modules could be easily replaced if necessary with no wiring changes. A lot of GP-38’s and SD-38’s were upgraded in the 1970’s to dash 2. Same for the 40 series.
Gp40s crank out 3,000 horse power and Pan am railways is also selling some of these as well for way way cheaper than the c40s and c40w locomotives I think don't hold me on the price but I think they're letting each locomotive go for about 85k give or take a few thousand which is extremely cheap for a locomotive even though it was made in 1971
I want to add, on the HO model you can see the 2 radiator cooling fans on top of the loco near the front, the 2 fans in the middle of the loco are for the Dynamic Brake Blowers, those supply air to help cool the Dynamic Brake Resister Grids located on the side of the engine on both sides located directly below those fans, If you watch the vid on the sd 40 - 2 I told you about on locomotive controls you can see those DB Resister Grids without the glare that is in this vid.
@@bryanthunderfootporter4436 Yes sir it is, all of our 3 locos are set up that way. Any one of the 3 may be in the lead going empty to the mine. The way we are set up, this then puts them short forward going back with loads. There is no stenciling on any of our locos. You are very observant!
Pete Zapadka, a good friend of mine, he used to live here and now is in Florida, he watches all my videos and made his when he was here. Thanks for writing in and for watching the video today my friend.
dog on you ringing that bell reminded me I have an old rr bell in the garage I picked up like 30 years ago was gonna put it in the backyard to call the kids home for dinner. there 28 and 30 now the bell still in the garage. that loco sure earned her keep hope they send a skinny guy to work on her. be looking for that video. if you have not done it a video of a coal run would be cool if that's possible ?? hope you had a good holiday. the wife got me an ornament of a high hood loco will have to try to figure out what kind. take care catch ya later.
Excellent you have a bell that would be cool hang out, ours sounds like an Amish dinner bell, hah ha. I could do a run sometime but the whole trip takes bout 45 minutes, dont think my phone cam would last that long... i may be making a run operating sometime, so if i do get do that, i will make a vid while i'm operating for sure, just never know when that will happen, the operators get upset if they put me running and dont call them out, so i try and avoid stepping on toes since i have work with these guys
@@ccrx6700 don't know what it came off of, has a y type yoke mite be a little bigger has a slightly deeper note, gonna have to get it up so the grandkid can make some noise
Thank you Harold, I know nothing about model railroading, just really liked this one since it was the loco I learned to run on. Do appreciate your watching
No sir it will not. The sd 38-2 has a 645E prime mover in it and to turbo charge would require putting a 645E3 engine in it. We really don't need the extra 1,000 HP anyway. Thanks for stopping by and taking in the video today my good man.
Loved this! Your knowledge is impressive, Dave. Can't wait to see how the repairs progress. What is the noise in the background? The building heater? Thanks so much.
This HO model was in the original paint scheme when it was built in 1975 and how it looked when we bought it new, so sorry Michael but I really want to keep it that way. It's special to me because this is the loco that I learned to run on.
Yep, pretty neat to have a scale model of a loco i've actually ran in the past, guess that why i like it so much. A contractor is doing repairs, he must be busy elewhere cause he ain't made too many appearances here, lol. Prob waiting on a new drive shaft to come, so no estimate yet
I grew up in Willow Springs Illinois as a kid in the 1980s and Lagrange Illinois was not too far from where I grew up. Also there was two railroads through town the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio Chicago to St. Louis line that can be seen from the back of where I grew up and the former Santa Fe Chicago to LA line. =^.^=
Eh, fixing No.1 will be a challenge for sure. The bell was cool too. The Kato SD38-2 is awesome. Those things are rare. I've been looking for one for about 4 1/2 years, and not one affordable. I want one for a US Steel unit coal train, from the mine, to the future coal docks in Erie, on my layout. And another question, were you serious about showing me around if I was in the area, because if so, I'll take you up on that offer.
CR, thank you, glad you enjoyed and yes sir, I would be pleased to have you visit. If you could wait until this wu flu thing dies down can prob get ya a cab ride, the guys are a bit leery right now, am sure you can understand that.
Jason, thank you, glad you enjoyed watching. New part like that can be purchased, it on order, we have a loco mechanic from Pittsburgh who fixes our locos. He ordered parts so i dont know from where
Pam and railways in South Deerfield Massachusetts is selling some of their 1992 to 1989 c40 locomotives and c40w locomotives that have a horsepower rating of 4,100 horsepower I know of a few people that work there and CSX has 50/50 ownership now of Pam am railways in Norfolk Southern has some steak on Pan am railways line as well CSX wants to sell some of their locomotives and I think 18 of them are see are those high horsepower c40s and c40 w locomotives Pan am railways is keeping some of them they are just getting rid of the ones that they feel that they need to sell all of them operate efficiently with nothing wrong with them in any way shape or form I think one of the prices on each locomotive is 100,000 each locomotive which is a deal in this economy thought I should tell you guys maybe you guys could work a deal out with them and get you guys another locomotive because one of these locomotives is 4,100 horsepower both of your SD 38s crank 4,000 horsepower with the both of them just a thought
Thanks for the info, when Pan Am first came up for sale I approached a few of my friends and said we should buy the RR! Of course none of us anywhere near that kind of money, but it was fun thinking about owning a RR, I would be in charge of track of course. They may get another loco here in the future, but with so many other expenses they are facing it won't be for several years I figure. Am gonna try and persuade them to get an AC unit this time instead if our DC units. Big expense with us getting a new loco is in getting it shipped in since all our rolling stock has to be trucked and it ain't cheap to get a loco trucked in even tho it only has to go bout 5 miles over state routes.
Electro Motive Division is who made this they were a part of General Motors, now owned by Progress Rail which is owned by Caterpillar. The SD means Special Duty, the 38 is the model of the locomotive and the dash 2 is an electrical upgrade which includes improved wheel slip control over the models that are not dash 2. And now you know Michael, thanks for watching.
Now I know why the Bessemer Lake Erie, Elgin Joliet Eastern and Pittsburgh Lake Erie all had SD38-2s . They didnt need to go fast, just pull a lot of weight, I cant believe there is no emoji for a train or railroad crossing
That is correct Patrick, they weren't built for speed, but for heavy
hauling. Although the owners manual says with the right gear ratio
in the traction motors they could get up to 80 MPH. I'd believe it
when I saw it tho. Guess you can put your editing skills to work
and make some custom emojis....:-) Very much appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and check out the #1 locomotive video my friend.
The former C&IM railroad in central Illinois had 6 SD-38-2s, supplanting 5 SD-9s and 2 SD-60s. When coal mining in central Illinois ceased operations, the SD-38-2s were sold to Union Pacific, and converted into hump yard slugs. All the original C&IM diesels are gone now, the last 2 were the only 2 RS-1325s made by EMD, and theyre both now in railroad museums, the #30 at Illinois Railway Museum, and 31 is at the Monticello Railway Museum, both in serviceable, operating condition.
I'm kinda saddened to hear that Paul those 38's are now slugs,
but guess UP can do what they want with them. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and write in my friend. May you have a most blessed day.
@@ccrx6700 awwwwww, i goofed royally on the SD-60s, they werent thought of yet, i should have said SD-18s , their numbers were 60 & 61.
Great walk around Dave. I really enjoyed it.
Thank you Lewis, great to hear you enjoyed watching the show today
my good man.
Love the model of the locomotive. Very nice
You can get your very own on Ebay for around a hundred
bucks Alaina. It would look good sitting on your mantle at home.... :-)
Dave I searched and couldn’t find any models. ☹️
Great job Dave really enjoyed
Really glad you enjoyed J Fraz. Always is a pleasure to have
you pay us a visit my friend.
Awesome video as always keep em coming
Your welcome Eugene, really appreciate your taking the time
to watch my friend.
That is a beautiful locomotive. Thanks for sharing.
Your very welcome Crime Alley, thank you so much for
taking the time to check out the show my friend.
Another great video would love to see you in the engineer seat before you retire
You will Derrick, got several videos of me running, they going to come
out on special occasions. Very much appreciate your writing in
and for watching tonight my friend.
Awesome video thank you blessings rail fan Tommy
Thank you Tommy for the very kind words. Glad you enjoyed.
Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and write in my friend. May you have a most blessed day.
Essa locomotiva SD 40_2 ho da Kato e chique de mais Very Nice
Glad you enjoyed it Junior, thanks for watching and writing in
What does SD stand for, Dave? This was another great excursion to view the Number One train. You are a really great tour guide. Loved the personal note that you became an engineer on this train. Very nice memory. The best part of all is your pride in CCRX.
SD is an acronym for special duty Shirley. Running the train here
is a really cool job for a couple of months, then it's the same
thing over and over. Track maintenance if much more interesting
and challenging and you get to move around a whole more
and do more different things. Really appreciate you my friend.
This is excellent. Love the big SD's. I'm a model railroader, myself. May have to pick up one of those HO scale units. Even though I mostly model N scale. I'm surprised that the SD38's weren't more popular than they were. I guess everybody went with the SD40's because they needed mainline road engines pulling fast. Sounds like the 38's were geared for slower industrial lines.
Thank you Shane for the very nice comment and for watching
the presentation. Yep the 38's main purpose for being built were
for heavy hauling such as coal drags at slower speeds. I believe there
were only 90 of them made, we have 2. The 40's were a significant
improvement with an additional 1,000 HP.
Cool, thanks Dave
Your welcome Rick, pretty cool model of the loco isn't it
Wow awesome
Glad you enjoyed the show Daniel. We do appreciate your
writing in and watching my friend.
I Like This One
Raymond, thank you, glad you enjoyed the show, I do appreciate
your watching
Another wonderful Video Dave, that drew me back in time when you showed your Kato Locomotive, I previously owned a hobby shop when Kato released the SD38-2 units (I think back in 2005) I sold a bunch of them in various road names including the Cumberland Mine units, from watching and learning about the mine & railroad from your videos I sure wish I held onto a couple of those Cumberland units.
Oh well That’s Railroadin!
🚂
Now that is totally awesome to hear Chuck! Who knows you may
have sold this unit, I bought it off Ebay so you never know. Too
bad I don't have the packing slip or I could tell you where it came from.
It just amazed me that they even made a Cumberland loco.
When I was working on Massachusetts Coastal RR all of our locomotives were GP series, mostly because the track curves were too tight for running 6 axle locomotives. The down side is all of that horsepower is then applied to only 4 traction motors.
We bought a rebuilt GP-10 which had a turbocharged 16-645 rated at 3,000 hp. When you put 3,000 hp on a 4 axle locomotive it’s near impossible at times to control wheel slip. Add slippery rails during leafy grease season in the fall, and it couldn’t get out of its own way even with lots of sand.
We did have one subdivision where 100-150 car consists were not uncommon. That GP-10 once it got rolling, could get right up to track speed like there was nothing behind. 100 cars with a single locomotive!
It was also the only locomotive we had that was equipped with dynamic brakes. Not a lot of places on our railroad where dynamics were all that useful, but it was fun to play with it.
Awesome Bill 👍 understand the 4 axle, we might have been better off in long run with GP s. We got a good many sharp degree curves. 3 axle trucks hard on them. Also understand the wheel slip, our sd 40-2 has some issues with that here also, it actually more of a problem than our 38 - 2 thanks for the cool comment
Hi. Great video. I have had exactly the same Kato model for a number of years now and it's nice to get an overview of what the real loco is like. I live in Sydney and it's great to have the Cumberland Mine #1 loco run around my layout.
Thanks Peter! Sweet on the loco, do you have any of the hopper
cars to go with it? I only have 1. If you decide to get some note
that our original cars only went up to #30. There are cars on Ebay
that are higher numbers but those were not original numbers here.
@@ccrx6700 I don't have any of the original hoppers but thanks for the advice. I do have similar ones from the model company Walthers but not the same.
That's awesome kool
Thanks David 👍
Great video Dave and with the walk around tutorial on the SD38-2. I'm sure over the years in service she's racked up some miles on the rails! It's still in great shape to be built in 75'. That's awesome you found an H.O.SCALE version of it as well! Thanks again for sharing your videos and look fwd to many more!
Glad you enjoyed the show today Shawn, we do so appreciate your
watching and the support you give to this channel my friend.
How many gallons of fuel does it use?
Each trip to the prep plant, to load, come back and then dump
the train, each loco uses about 90 gallons.
My Farther Hired in on the DT&I. RR in Flat Rock Michigan in 1963 and Retired in 1998 then was the GT now CN Railroad . The DT&I had Six EMD SD38-2 Non Dynamic Brake's They now are on the Reading And Northern RR in Pennsylvania Awesome Video as always
I enjoy all your videos. How about one of your train room.
Great to hear that Russ, maybe this winter I will do one .
Don't have a lay out, but got tons of RR signs. Appreciate your
watching sir. Someday I'll get my 1960's Lionel and HO scale trains
going again that I got for christmas back then
Engine electrical system, Very interesting, I didn't realize that there was a difference between an engine electrical system for freight and the additional requirements for passenger service. Neat stuff More please
Thanks and great to hear you are enjoying these home movies sir
Great walk around, and love the loco.
Thank you sir, you got some really good vids on your channel, was watching some of them last night.
If anyone would like to watch some pretty good rail fanning videos,
here's a link to his channel:
ruclips.net/channel/UCx9YuhTH3DXgad5lkLLicfQ
@@ccrx6700 thank you, your vids are great, if we want to know something about prototype you have the answers for us. Thanks for the link.
A most excellent video. Thank you for posting.
Thank you William, happy that you enjoyed the show 😊
Little did that ebay seller know that model would meet the prototype.
LOL you are certainly right there sir!
The SD38-2 is what we ran on the CNW at proviso yard for hump shoves, the trimmer jobs in the hump bowl. The sound these units make under load is pretty cool. New Subscriber here.
awesome videos,, keep it up!!
Greg
Is a good loco for light switching, ours still respond well to throttle
after all these years. Glad you enjoyed Greg and thank you, got a lot
more RR videos coming this year so stay tuned
Hi Dave. Just an FYI, on eBay, there's another scale loco identical to this one listed and still available.
Thanks Aaron. Last time I was on Ebay I found another one at
over double the price I had paid! it amazes me that anyone even
made a scale model of this loco. Very much appreciate your
watching the presentation and writing in my friend.
The only SD38’s I’ve only seen are the Bessemer and Lake Erie. When there at full throttle, there so loud and they sound beautiful. Next time I come to the Cumberland area I might try to see one of these trains.
Only sound better than 645e is a steam loco under full load, at least to my ears lol
@@ccrx6700 Nice! I absolutely love your videos because you don’t see many cab ride videos anymore because of those cab cameras
@@steelcityrailfan4808 i am very fortunate to be able do this, thank you for nice comment, glad you are enjoying. I do like to make these and show a kinda unique perspective
Your Welcome! Have a good day!
USS was a big fan of the SD38-2. I believe all of their railroads used them. I'm just guessing but USS might have been the largest purchaser of them.
Have you hugged your locomotive today? Excellent video, thank you.
Thank you Steven EMD what not to love 😊
42 years? That EMD is barely broke in.
Like a spring chicken 🐔
That's cool that Kato modled one of you're locomotives.
Jason, it surely is, just amazed when when I found one on Ebay,
I had no idea they ever made them. Thanks for watching, I appreciate that
Just stumbled on this video - really great content, thank you for posting! You’ve got a new subscriber.
Thank you for nice comment, glad you enjoyed, i've seen you on several VR railcams posting. I hang out mostly Belen and chat there, although lurk at many others, lots great folks at Belen
@@ccrx6700 Oh boy, my reputation precedes me. That's kind of a scary thought!
I mostly stay at the Elkhart channel, but do try to get out and roam a bit. There are so many nice people at all of the cameras.
@@TheyCallHimDietSeth lol... yep never know who all listening behind scenes. Elkhart very good cam
I read the Trains magazine article and it said you were an isolated railroad. It sounded like you have to barge all of your large rail equipment (locomotives and rolling stock) across the river to get on the property. If that is the case, that would make some interesting content for a future video, even if you don't have much to share visually on the subject (or maybe there are some still photos lying around of the equipment being moved in). Keep the great videos coming!
I,ve been there since the beginning, i have never heard that stuff was barged in before, am trying find out where he heard that. I watched 22 and 3098 being delivered and they were trucked in by Hulcher, i do have some pics of 3098 being delivered.
EMD power is always my favorite and my favorite EMD power is a SD45 Norfolk Western High Hood
You got that right sir! I know several engineers on Class 1 RR's everyone of them have told me how much more they would rather run EMD than GE. Thank you sir for watching. We EMD guys gotta stick together ....lol
Yes sir I hate those GE just like NS but The Blue Ridge Southern Railroad has a lot of SD45 car bodies and GP39-2 and when I'm 18 I'm going to get on with Blue Ridge so I can accomplish my dream of being a engineer
You can see more on my channel as well and I love your video
@@Trainman-cw1zl Excellent! Never give up, you can do it! I wish for you the very best
That's a nice HO model loco. Thanks for sharing.
Michael, thank you, you are certainly welcome sir. Appreciate your watching
Why don't they replace the sight gauge for the fuel that way they can see how much fuel is in it? Also they need to do some Rust cleaning and painting.
Your hired, come on down and start cleaning and painting Eddie!
We need all the help we can get! Thanks for watching sir
@@ccrx6700 Love the video's.
@@eddielane9569 great to hear that Eddie 👌
In a previous video you mentioned that the SD 40-2 was originally in SD40. And with this one being an SD 38-2 I am wondering what the - 2 means. Is it differences in the traction motor or the gear ratio between the traction motor and the wheels that make it better suited for mining operations?
Joe, basically and simply put, the dash 2 is an upgrade to the electical system, exactly what all is involved in that (components, modules, etc
) i'm not sure of
@@ccrx6700 so it's not application-specific? Just an overall improvement in design?
@@joecummings1260 correct. It's an improvement that featured solid state modular components
The dash 2 is a change from all electromechanical (relay) controls to an early generation analog electronic control system. It was a modular system where each control function like load control, wheel slip control etc was handled by a specific module that plugged into a back frame. That way the modules could be easily replaced if necessary with no wiring changes. A lot of GP-38’s and SD-38’s were upgraded in the 1970’s to dash 2. Same for the 40 series.
Gp40s crank out 3,000 horse power and Pan am railways is also selling some of these as well for way way cheaper than the c40s and c40w locomotives I think don't hold me on the price but I think they're letting each locomotive go for about 85k give or take a few thousand which is extremely cheap for a locomotive even though it was made in 1971
I want to add, on the HO model you can see the 2 radiator cooling fans on top of the
loco near the front, the 2 fans in the middle of the loco are for the Dynamic Brake Blowers,
those supply air to help cool the Dynamic Brake Resister Grids located on the side of
the engine on both sides located directly below those fans, If you watch the vid on the sd 40 - 2
I told you about on locomotive controls you can see those DB Resister Grids without the glare
that is in this vid.
You say “ the 2 radiator cooling fans … near the front” , is this set up to run long hood forward? I noticed no stencilled “F” next to the steps.
@@bryanthunderfootporter4436 Yes sir it is, all of our 3 locos are set up that way.
Any one of the 3 may be in the lead going empty to the mine. The way we are set up,
this then puts them short forward going back with loads. There is no
stenciling on any of our locos. You are very observant!
Buff Her Out. And U'll B Good to Go. LET'S ROLL. ! 🇺🇸🏆👍
Someone is putting videos out about Cumberland mine RR!! Name is Pete!!
Pete Zapadka, a good friend of mine, he used to live here and now
is in Florida, he watches all my videos and made his when he
was here. Thanks for writing in and for watching the video today
my friend.
dog on you ringing that bell reminded me I have an old rr bell in the garage I picked up like 30 years ago was gonna put it in the backyard to call the kids home for dinner. there 28 and 30 now the bell still in the garage. that loco sure earned her keep hope they send a skinny guy to work on her. be looking for that video. if you have not done it a video of a coal run would be cool if that's possible ?? hope you had a good holiday. the wife got me an ornament of a high hood loco will have to try to figure out what kind. take care catch ya later.
Excellent you have a bell that would be cool hang out, ours sounds like an Amish dinner bell, hah ha. I could do a run sometime but the whole trip takes bout 45 minutes, dont think my phone cam would last that long... i may be making a run operating sometime, so if i do get do that, i will make a vid while i'm operating for sure, just never know when that will happen, the operators get upset if they put me running and dont call them out, so i try and avoid stepping on toes since i have work with these guys
@@ccrx6700 don't know what it came off of, has a y type yoke mite be a little bigger has a slightly deeper note, gonna have to get it up so the grandkid can make some noise
@@kennkrizsanitz7820 yep that for sure, give ya something else to do lol
A Peacock hand brake.
The way you said radiator was upsetting
Good video. Kato models look good and you have a fine-looking model.
Thank you Harold, I know nothing about model railroading, just really
liked this one since it was the loco I learned to run on. Do appreciate
your watching
Is this the one they call a sponge bob unit?
I have no idea what a sponge bob unit is Melody. Can you enlighten me? My wife says I need a lot of enlightening .... LOL
will #1 ever be converted to turbo instead of roots?
No sir it will not. The sd 38-2 has a 645E prime mover in it
and to turbo charge would require putting a 645E3 engine in
it. We really don't need the extra 1,000 HP anyway. Thanks
for stopping by and taking in the video today my good man.
Loved this! Your knowledge is impressive, Dave. Can't wait to see how the repairs progress. What is the noise in the background? The building heater? Thanks so much.
Thank you Ray, you are correct, shop heater, forgot turn it off before make vid, sorry, but it kept me warm. Lol
Wondering how many hours or miles you get on a full fuel tank?
Takes bout 50 gal per loco to run to the mine, load, run back and unload. total miles bout 32
@@ccrx6700 so I figure about 1.5 gallons per mile
@@hughsherer8747 I didn't get that far in the equation, but that ain't bad
mileage for a 16 cylinder 2,000 HP motor pulling 38 cars
Needs update paint job!
This HO model was in the original paint scheme when it
was built in 1975 and how it looked when we bought it new, so
sorry Michael but I really want to keep it that way. It's special
to me because this is the loco that I learned to run on.
Neat to see the 1:87 model next to the real deal. How long do you anticipate that type of repair to take?
Yep, pretty neat to have a scale model of a loco i've actually ran in the past, guess that why i like it so much. A contractor is doing repairs, he must be busy elewhere cause he ain't made too many appearances here, lol. Prob waiting on a new drive shaft to come, so no estimate yet
How far can you go on a full tank of fuel
Trip up to mine, 16 miles, then load the train and then return trip loaded uses bout 50 gals per loco
Nice 👌. Thanks for sharing
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed watching
I grew up in Willow Springs Illinois as a kid in the 1980s and Lagrange Illinois was not too far from where I grew up. Also there was two railroads through town the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio Chicago to St. Louis line that can be seen from the back of where I grew up and the former Santa Fe Chicago to LA line. =^.^=
Awesome! thank you for sharing. Lot of great railroad history from that part
of the country!
Very interesting set of videos. I have been working my way through them all slowly. How many locomotives do you have there?
Thank you glad you are enjoying, we have 3. Two of them are
sd 38-2, the other a sd 40-2
I'd love to have a model or two of the locomotive and car's.
Joe, I got this one off Ebay, they also have on their some of our original
blue colored Ortner cars for sale from time to time if your interested.
@@ccrx6700 Gonna search ebay now
Eh, fixing No.1 will be a challenge for sure. The bell was cool too. The Kato SD38-2 is awesome. Those things are rare. I've been looking for one for about 4 1/2 years, and not one affordable. I want one for a US Steel unit coal train, from the mine, to the future coal docks in Erie, on my layout. And another question, were you serious about showing me around if I was in the area, because if so, I'll take you up on that offer.
CR, thank you, glad you enjoyed and yes sir, I would be pleased to have you visit. If you could wait until this wu flu thing dies down can prob get ya a cab ride, the guys are a bit leery right now, am sure you can understand that.
@@ccrx6700 C&O 1309 IS UNDER HER OWN POWER !!!!!! AFTER 64 YEARS!!!!!
@@AlleghenyMTNRails Awesome!
Great video. Just curious, do you have to machine a new driveshaft or are there parts still available?
Jason, thank you, glad you enjoyed watching. New part like that can be purchased, it on order, we have a loco mechanic from Pittsburgh who fixes our locos. He ordered parts so i dont know from where
Pam and railways in South Deerfield Massachusetts is selling some of their 1992 to 1989 c40 locomotives and c40w locomotives that have a horsepower rating of 4,100 horsepower I know of a few people that work there and CSX has 50/50 ownership now of Pam am railways in Norfolk Southern has some steak on Pan am railways line as well CSX wants to sell some of their locomotives and I think 18 of them are see are those high horsepower c40s and c40 w locomotives Pan am railways is keeping some of them they are just getting rid of the ones that they feel that they need to sell all of them operate efficiently with nothing wrong with them in any way shape or form I think one of the prices on each locomotive is 100,000 each locomotive which is a deal in this economy thought I should tell you guys maybe you guys could work a deal out with them and get you guys another locomotive because one of these locomotives is 4,100 horsepower both of your SD 38s crank 4,000 horsepower with the both of them just a thought
Thanks for the info, when Pan Am first came up for sale I approached
a few of my friends and said we should buy the RR! Of course none
of us anywhere near that kind of money, but it was fun thinking
about owning a RR, I would be in charge of track of course.
They may get another loco here in the future, but with so many
other expenses they are facing it won't be for several years I figure.
Am gonna try and persuade them to get an AC unit this time instead
if our DC units. Big expense with us getting a new loco is in
getting it shipped in since all our rolling stock has to be trucked and
it ain't cheap to get a loco trucked in even tho it only has to go bout
5 miles over state routes.
@@ccrx6700 I just never knew that you could get a locomotive for about $100,000 and they said there's nothing wrong with it and it was converted to AC
@@ccrx6700 so it's more of an incentive for other railroads to purchase from them
Sweet!
Thank you sir, glad you enjoyed watching
Loved it!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed watching
Need to clean the battery box...ha,ha,ha,ha....!!!!
Awesome!
Thank you David, that my birth name also
"They made like 3950 or 49 or somethin"
Hmmmmmm 🤔
Pfft who needs a model Railroad when you got the real thing!!
Yea, but unfortionately they won't allow me to take the real thing
home with me .....LOL Hope you enjoyed watching and will come
back to watch more
Camera work pretty bad.....and not just the overhead lights.
Apologize for that, was on my phone before I got a gopro
Dummy would like to know what EMD 38-2 all mean?
Electro Motive Division is who made this they were a part
of General Motors, now owned by Progress Rail which is owned
by Caterpillar. The SD means Special Duty, the 38 is the model
of the locomotive and the dash 2 is an electrical upgrade which
includes improved wheel slip control over the models that are
not dash 2. And now you know Michael, thanks for watching.
Thank you for the info.
@@michaelpass2176 👍
Bronze bell?
Ethan good question an am sorry cant answer that, but assumption is that is is brass
Awesome!
Thank you Trena