ive just found another page where lng on sd70's is mentioned. probably to get around tier 4 laws. how many railways are doing this? its probably a far cheaper way to run a train.
FEC's GE ES44C4s were converted to run on a mixture of LNG and diesel (the diesel is required to help ignite the lng). It is the only railroad in the world currently running mainline trains with LNG. A few short line switching railroads have tried LNG power as well on a smaller basis.
@@RoamingRailfan , thanks for the answer. is the connection between the 2 locos and the gas tank easily uncoupled like a normal coupling with just some quick oversized hose couplers for the lng supply or is it a more permanent connection that needs a trip to the maintenance shed? i bet they're saving fuel costs.
@@RoamingRailfan , a very interesting answer. there are some long journeys through deserts here in australia where trains had to make a pitstop half way to refuel at a depot that had to have the fuel taken there. to prevent needing to stop, some of the freight operators hook a flat car with 2 container compatible diesel tanks on them near or behind the locos and all of the loco fleet have extra piping fitted to get refills while remaining moving. if these operators have heard about these lng tenders as shown here, they'll be introducing them. any idea about fuel saving? i think lng will be about 1/3 price for same energy as diesel fuel.
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That was some train buddy 👍🏻🏴
Great video
WONDERFULL
I've dropped off many a loaded trailer at the yard in Jacksonville to be hauled to south Florida for delivery by FEC.
Congratulations on 4K
One of the best train videos I’ve seen.
Astonishing! How long is the train, really? It took over three minutes to come to the tail end of it??
Probably between 8 and 10 thousand feet. Most FEC trains are that long if not longer.
Very nice videos. I like music.
great footage!
Amazing what can be hauled on flat land
you mention an lng tender. this implies that the locos run on, or at least partly run on lng. is this so? wikipedia does not know of any such diesels.
ive just found another page where lng on sd70's is mentioned. probably to get around tier 4 laws. how many railways are doing this? its probably a far cheaper way to run a train.
FEC's GE ES44C4s were converted to run on a mixture of LNG and diesel (the diesel is required to help ignite the lng). It is the only railroad in the world currently running mainline trains with LNG. A few short line switching railroads have tried LNG power as well on a smaller basis.
@@RoamingRailfan , thanks for the answer. is the connection between the 2 locos and the gas tank easily uncoupled like a normal coupling with just some quick oversized hose couplers for the lng supply or is it a more permanent connection that needs a trip to the maintenance shed? i bet they're saving fuel costs.
It seems to be fairly simple to change tenders/locomotives as they all seem to change on a fairly regularly.
@@RoamingRailfan , a very interesting answer. there are some long journeys through deserts here in australia where trains had to make a pitstop half way to refuel at a depot that had to have the fuel taken there. to prevent needing to stop, some of the freight operators hook a flat car with 2 container compatible diesel tanks on them near or behind the locos and all of the loco fleet have extra piping fitted to get refills while remaining moving. if these operators have heard about these lng tenders as shown here, they'll be introducing them. any idea about fuel saving? i think lng will be about 1/3 price for same energy as diesel fuel.
Very nice. What’s the background music?
Longer Distance from the RUclips creators audio library