Where the US ARMY keeps their trains
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The "unknown" Diesel Electric is an American Locomotive Company RSD-1, they were built as model RS-1 and requisitioned from the Railroads that ordered them, to be sent over seas for World War II. The RSD designation comes from the retro-fit 3 axle trucks. I'm shocked they don't have an info card on that engine as the model RS-1 was a fairly revolutionary design at the time.
There was an info card, but not much useful info was on it. Thank you for your insight, you are very smart! Also, thank you very much for watching and answering my question, have an excellent day! 😃
Thought it was a hh660 switcher locomotive
Thank you for posting this video. I was an Army soldier in Berlin from 1989-91. We used to travel to West Germany on rail to get to our training sites. This museum is now on my must visit destinations.
Thank you for your service 🫡! I hope you enjoyed this video, have a blessed day! 😃
0:16 There's my EMD MRS-1 Diesel Train!
'Diesel-Electric' doesn't mean it runs on electric rails.
It means it has a diesel engine that runs an electric generator that inturn powers electric motors to power the train.
This is still how modern interstate trains operate today.
Misinformation, so i stopped watching.
Thank you so much for your feedback! I live in Eastern Europe, so the terms are different here, in my language it would have been correct. Thank you for letting me know, I’m not very big into USA railroading terms 👍🙏
Diesel-electric has been around since the 20s or 30s. Pure electric locos are even older.
MODERN trains - as in Europe - are usually electric and can go from Norway to Italy without changing the locomotive. Diesel-electric is mainly used for "the last mile" and on non-electrified sidelines. I get the point that general electrification in the US is impossible.
@@ottovonbismarck2443 why is electrification in the USA impossible? I assume you are talking about lobbyist issues, since it is physically possible?
@@TheTransitDiaries I'm talking costs and distances and different railway companies, although lobbies play a role.
Norway to Italy is a shorter distance than New York to Los Angeles, which basically eliminates long-distance, high-speed passenger trains as a means of travelling in favor of aircraft. And thinking about the costs of electrification and the necessary power supply, you can run a lot of Diesels for the investment. With basically just freight trains running cross-country, you don't have to make as big a fuzz for high-speed either. Physically it is totally possible; there are of course electric lines in the USA, even high-speed tracks & trains. Also, in Europe major railway projects are usually heavily subsidized by the governments.
Of course Western Europe is importing oil, so Diesel-electric isn't the primary choice.
Second, electric locos have a lot more power (true) and generally need less maintenance (at least in theory).
Third, burning fossile fuels rapidly gets out of fashion in Europe. Environment and ecology are a big thing over here.
Long story short; Diesel in the USA makes a lot of sense. It just isn't modern.
Fun fact USATC 7989 & 8147 (whitcomb 65DE19) traveled 3 times over the Atlantic and are now being restored to working condition.
USATC 4389 (davenport 0-6-0) is in working order.
2 USATC freightcars (1 box and 1 flatbed) are fully restored and part of the Dutch national railway museum.
After WW2 USATC and WD rolling stock was bought by several European national railways from army surplus depots.
That equipment did its part in war and rebuilding Europe afterwards.
That’s some awesome info! Do you know how these locos are used nowadays? Tourism, museum, scrapped etc?
@@TheTransitDiaries 4389 is used regulary on a heritage railway.
7989 is already partly rebuild, it depens on the progress of the manufacture in house of new replacement parts when she will be ready.
8147 arrived just before the pandemic and its rebuild has not started yet. .
Railroads in the United States are still relevant.
Of course
I spent the summer of 70 there . There was a lot of rail eqip. and planes sitting around for use as training aids. Loading , ETC 67u20
That’s awesome! Thank you for watching!
That's a great museum, I finally got to visit it a few years ago and took a bunch of photos of the rail related stuff there. Sadly, the Transportation Corps HQ isn't at Eustis anymore...
Where did it move to? I know that unfortunately, the railroad corps has shrunk greatly.
You can spot one of the MRS1 locomotives in service on the Alaska Railroad in the movie Runaway Train. It's on the freight train pulling into the siding that the runaway smashed into the caboose on.
Also that caboose you show was in service during WWII at that base under the US Army Railroad Command for training not only for military operations of railways in any theater of operations but also for training commandos to blow up enemy rail assets.
There are several training films on RUclips on various demolition techniques where some of the equipment you see in the museum at work.
Thank you for watching and for that cool information!
3:45 the locomotive there is a Alco built RSD1 built in 5/1941 for the US army (USAX). After it’s use in the army it was moved to Alaska for use on the Alaska Railroad (ARR) then it went to the DOT and there test track at Colorado. After that it moved to the railroad museum of Pennsylvania, and finally moved here and restored to it original paint and number.
Thank you very much! That’s some cool information, how did you learn all this?
1:33 that's not what diesel electric means lol
Thank you so much for your feedback! I live in Eastern Europe, so the terms are different here, in my language it would have been correct. Thank you for letting me know, I’m not very big into USA railroading terms 👍🙏. Please let me know what I got wrong so I can correct it. Thank you so much for watching and have a blessed day! 😃
@@TheTransitDiaries I can't believe I didn't consider that it might be different elsewhere! In the US, diesel electric means it uses electricity to get power from the engine to the wheels, with an alternator and electric motors instead of a mechanical transmission with like 9000 gears. We would call a locomotive with both a diesel engine and pantograph dual mode. No idea why they had to make it so confusing; sounds like your language makes a lot more sense than ours 😄
Exactly lol. Diesel train + electric train = diesel-electric
diesel electric means its powered by a diesel engine which provides power to electric traction motors on each axle.
Thank you!! I am used to diesel-electric being referred to as dual-mode. I’ll make sure to get that right next time 😃
here's some food for the algorithm that brought me here. cool video!
Thank you for watching!
I think the 2nd locomotive is a hh600/hh660 switcher Choo choo
I live next to to where the Claiborne and Polk Military railroad once ran. I reconize alot of the pictures on the info. boards are from there. The Southern Forest Heritage Museum down the road from Camp Claiborne has a running replica of the military speeder.
That’s so cool! Thank you for your comment 😃
1:01 There one of my Favorite Diesel Trains, EMD MRS-1!
That’s cool! How often do you get to see one?
not a "snow plow car" it is a jordan spreader. it's job was after the plows went through was to get snow away from the sides of the track so trains would fit through.
Thank you very much for the info! I’m surprised that the museum didn’t use the correct terminology, as there it was called a snow plow vehicle or something along the lines of that. How much snow does there have to be for a train to not be able to move? Or was it used in short underpasses?
0-6-0 wheel is rare💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Thank you for watching! I forgot to clarify that I live in the Caucasus, where 0-6-0 locos are almost never seen 😅
Your not really wrong about that in the USA most railroads used 0-6-0 switchers with tenders and not tank engines so tank engines are a bit rare compared to engines with tenders. Also 607 is a USATC S160 they were built for WW2.
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As a side-note: the US Army Berlin-Express was usually towed by West-German Diesel(-electric) locos because US locos are generally not allowed over here. IIRC, it has to do with the different breaking and automatic train control systems. And why would you want to use that American rubbish anyway ? 😂
american rubbish kicked your asses in 2 world wars
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Whats the music at the start?
Thank you for watching! I’m pretty sure it’s this: www.tiktok.com/music/Synth-pop-electro-using-voice-material-1001688-6954395528402569218 all I could find it on was TikTok, this vest is pretty hard to find. If it’s correct let me know :D
think this lad needs to be educated on railway terms and such.dosnt seem to know what he is talking about.
Thank you so much for your feedback! I live in Eastern Europe, so the terms are different here, in my language it would have been correct. Thank you for letting me know, I’m not very big into USA railroading terms 👍🙏. Please let me know what I got wrong so I can correct it. Thank you so much for watching and have a blessed day! 😃