Moffat Tunnel: UP Coal Drag with 4 helpers! (MUST SEE)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Footage from Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel in Winter Park, Colorado. It's elevation is 9000 ft, the highest point on the old Denver & Rio Grande Western system. You'll see two units leading, three in the middle, and a DPU at the end, for a total of five General Electric 3rd- generation locomotives , plus a rare EMD SD90MAC (with 4300 hp) leading this coal drag through the 2% grade of Moffat Tunnel. Speed limit is 45 mph. Another video from Moffat Tunnel will be released later.
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You realize the leader is a EMD SD90MAC. I love the first 3 units, two SP's, NICE!
Just a factoid to toss in with the description. Since the Tennessee Pass line is "rail banked," i.e. out of service but not abandoned, that is still the highest point on the Rio Grande at 10,221 ft. Good catch on the SD90MAC. Guess they're getting rarer and rarer!
On the English side of the Atlantic, rear end helpers are known as "bankers". Although there are still some steeply graded routes, the only place to find banking engines is on the approximately 3.7% Lickey Incline south west of Birmingham.
that is so true. sometimes union pacific has 4-6 helpers on the coal trains.
I miss the D&RGW but one great thing about UP (and SP, after D&RGW) is that GE's are now heavily used on this line.
Quite a collection of hoppers....old MoPac, C&NW, D&RGW, even BN....wonder why the BN hoppers since BN is not part of UP.
it almost looks like that UP is using an old D&RGW practice, running swing helpers and a rear end pusher
those ex BN hoppers have CTRN reporting marks on them. I see several trains with these mixed MP/UP/ex BN cars go thru where I live