I remember while driving from Colo to Tahoe middle of the night by myself radio blaring I evidently was traveling next to a speeding train . He could see me in my Denali dash lights I guess . Suddenly he turned on lights gently hit horn . It was hysterical, we sped side by side for a long time . Then he cut into more hills . I’ve never forgotten that memory
Jenny Jen I believe on a long straight away those trains get up to 80 mph. My dad and I raced one once in the middle of nowhere NM outside of Texas and we matched its speed at around 80 mph.
@@matthalo89 bro, I aint doubtin u, and I aint tryna be a kno it all, but prime movers, es44ac's can only get up to 70mph, notch 8. If u did see a prime mover (easier said than saying es44ac or sd70ace's) goin 80mph... welp. They just can't. Notch 8 is 70mph, and unless track is good, u shouldn't be doing more then 65mph.
@@matthalo89 bro, I aint doubtin u, and I aint tryna be a kno it all, but prime movers, es44ac's can only get up to 70mph, notch 8. If u did see a prime mover (easier said than saying es44ac or sd70ace's) goin 80mph... welp. They just can't. Notch 8 is 70mph, and unless track is good, u shouldn't be doing more then 65mph.
@@WarriorMike20 Ok. Just telling you what I saw. It might’ve been around 75 then. We were going faster than what you’re suggesting and we matched the trains speed. Soooooooo I don’t know. 🤷🏼♂️
Probably one of my all-time favorite train videos. I don't know how many times I've watched this, and yet it never gets old. Man, that thing was scootin'!
Havent seen a BNSF AC4400 in a very long time. One thing I love about the rural setting is the parallel highway and railroad. You bet you're going to see a high speed train!
Hi everybody! So far, this is the best video I saw as far as freight trains is concerned. This is the fastest freight train I ever saw on video. Not in real life. The motorman has an advantage on get away with putting throttle in high gear, because, this area is very flat and way less populated. Another advantage is the Physical Regions west of Texas is all of the Basin & Range Province, nearly all of the Great Plains, a little less than half is the Interior Lowlands, and way less of the Gulf Costal Plains. This means that there's less hazards of weather that he/she encounters. Whoever shot this video deserves an award and an opportunity to go to college with all finances paid to further his studies. Well good luck to this person who created this fun video and bring on many more videos for us audience to watch! Thank you.
Look, the deal here is that these locos are huge: over 10 1/2 feet wide and an easily over 16ft high, have about 4,400 hp and are heavy. They are nothing like you'd normally see outdid of North America, with the exception of parts of Australia and parts of Mexico.. The train is a double stacker which means that the top of the freight cars are around 20 feet high in places.. The train is most likely at least 100-120 cars long., and may have helper locos in the middle etc. The point being the comparing one of these huge freights running at at least 70-80 mph, is enormously impressive. I've seen sone Canadian "versions" running at 45-50mph, and let me tell you the sheer size and power if these enormous freights has to be seen to believed, especially when 130 odd huge cars pass by you is in a a class of its own. Here are cameramen have really caught something impressive,... sure they are not as fast as the far smaller and lighter European trains, but you are comparing apples to oranges.
@odin422: Passenger and freight are two entirely different things, running freights faster than 90 mph really isnt safe, way too many things to go wrong.
They would go this fast through Aledo, TX all the time. Had a slight gradient. They would either be flying down the gradient in stealth mode, or engines roaring flying up the gradient.. Crazy long too. It was awesome :D
Interesting to see a ac44 lead a z train, since mostly c4 loco's lead these trains. Whats also strange is there are only 2 head end loco's (there are normally 4 to 6)
FYI: Almost all Northbound Container (Intermodal) trains running out of Texas, pass through Wichita, Kansas. When they get to Newton, Kansas, they are switched to go East of West. Newton, Kansas has a Wye, which is double tracked.
Sheer power, at that speed, the momentum is such that fuelwise, it can't be eating that much diesel. That's the great thing about trains, once your up to speed on a level train the torque is off the chart. If someone were to go thru the gates and get smacked, there wouldn't be much car left recognizable, not to mention any victims. I saw the results of a car-truck collision just off a freeway exit. A woman, 8 months pregnant was turning left with the light on a freeway overpass. She had taken the exit of US 60 and saw the green arrow. A large truck going 90-100moh was trying to beat the light heading in the same direction when it hit that small Honda tearing it in half before driving over the two parts. The rear wheels and transmission was 30yards to the side, the car body looked nothing like a car. Seeing a long train flying makes me think of this horrible crash, there is no way to understand how much force is being created
Very good pacing video! I certainly enjoyed it. Crystal clear picture and considering that you're in a moving car that's going to bounce a bit here-and-there on the highway, you did a good job in holding the camera. Thanks for posting this and sharing :-)
The truth of the matter is that not only is size impressive, so is the time that involved years of experimentation that antedated even the necessity of such a method as high-speed stacktrains or even piggyback service. As far back as the 1950s, experiments were being carried out over the New Mexican Desert to see if a locomotive could haul a string of flatcars piggybacked with truck trailers flat out over southwestern desert territory. Locomotives back then were not equipped for such severe service until some ten years later, when EMD and GE started building high-horsepower units with revolutionary at the time prime movers. Then a market needed to be created. The rest, they say, is history, with piggyback service evolving into stacktrains beginning and ending at various railheads.
I guess this job can sometimes be terrifying. That engineer knows once he gets up to speed anything he sees on the tracks, be it animal, car, or semi-trailer, is going to get pulverized. And there's absolutely nothing he can do about it.
@nikosjk1 it was blowing the horn constantly, over 6 minutes... do the crossing have some kind of magic apparatus that make you able to hear things FAR FAR FAR away?
Class 150s are known as Sprinters, with the 156 and 158 being the Super and Express varieties. The 150 was the first 'new' DMU to replace the 1960s era ones, and what some called 'Sprinterisation' was their replacement of all the old designs. It has become something of a colloquial term because it and so many trains used the Mk3 carriage bodyshell. Splitting hairs is part of being on the railway!
I'm quite glad they slow down to 35mph sometimes ... such as the curve in the cutting that runs literally underneath my lounge window. 35 is already loud and shaky enough! If they want to speed up once they're out of town, then by all means...
You know. Alot of people complain that freight companies make Amtrak sit and wait for freight trains. But when you have 10,000 tons of freight doing 70mph vs maybe 500 tons doing 70 the freight train is harder to stop and more expensive to make sit. Once the big four get to their goal of 60% profitability we may see high speed freight come into play for very long haul routes.
The Big Boy or Challenger go at a similar or slightly faster speed, but with 1500 or more horsepower, and they were just steam trains from back in the day? What would their modern diesel counterpart be?
Just wondering. Is that the line that runs parallel to RT 35 out of Austin? I was amazed to see the speeds on that line. The greatest railroading in the world...USA.
Sprinters (cl150) can only hit 75mph too. Later DMU classes can get to 90. As for the railbuses, they are actually not allowed to have a refreshments service on board due to the ride quality and the risk of spilling a hot drink over yourself.
Impossible that you were passed by a manifest train if you were going 70. The fastest speed for mixed freight on BNSF and UP is 60 MPH. And that's only in some locations. Only Intermodal can run above 60 and even then it's 70 MPH max. No higher anywhere in the US for freight.
Doesn’t the BNSF’s Heritage 2 paint scheme look cool... I like the yellow reflection it gives off, both day and night... just awesome!!! They need to get rid of the zoom image though, it just ain’t makin’ it for me... And yes, the Warbonnet needs to make a re-appearance on their latest locomotive acquisitions too. It’s not too much to ask, is it?
What's with the decimals? Anyway, nothing wrong with 110-120km/h for a freighter, so long as it's properly engineered, braked and controlled. It is however "high speed" for such a thing, as they usually end up creeping along at 100-105k or less because of gearing, climbing up gradients, axle friction etc. It's all a matter of perspective.
@Denmarkpwns: What the hell are you talking about dude? He did the standard long long short long for every crossing and once to warn a signal maintainer.
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I remember while driving from Colo to Tahoe middle of the night by myself radio blaring I evidently was traveling next to a speeding train . He could see me in my Denali dash lights I guess . Suddenly he turned on lights gently hit horn . It was hysterical, we sped side by side for a long time . Then he cut into more hills . I’ve never forgotten that memory
It’s amazing how powerful those Diesel engines are.
As much as I admired running the SD-40's......I have to admit these are some majestic mothers at this speed!
Jenny Jen I believe on a long straight away those trains get up to 80 mph. My dad and I raced one once in the middle of nowhere NM outside of Texas and we matched its speed at around 80 mph.
@@matthalo89 bro, I aint doubtin u, and I aint tryna be a kno it all, but prime movers, es44ac's can only get up to 70mph, notch 8. If u did see a prime mover (easier said than saying es44ac or sd70ace's) goin 80mph... welp. They just can't. Notch 8 is 70mph, and unless track is good, u shouldn't be doing more then 65mph.
@@matthalo89 bro, I aint doubtin u, and I aint tryna be a kno it all, but prime movers, es44ac's can only get up to 70mph, notch 8. If u did see a prime mover (easier said than saying es44ac or sd70ace's) goin 80mph... welp. They just can't. Notch 8 is 70mph, and unless track is good, u shouldn't be doing more then 65mph.
@@WarriorMike20 Ok. Just telling you what I saw. It might’ve been around 75 then. We were going faster than what you’re suggesting and we matched the trains speed. Soooooooo I don’t know. 🤷🏼♂️
Some of the best pacing I've seen,great work!
Probably one of my all-time favorite train videos. I don't know how many times I've watched this, and yet it never gets old. Man, that thing was scootin'!
Glad you enjoyed it ... I agree with you :-)
@@geoffmackley that orange diesel train is going too fast
@@treystewart54470 mph
UNSTOPPABLE.
Thats no joke
TheBrickGuy7939 you have made 777 mad now! ARE YOU HAPPY?!?!?
Facts
AWVR?
Respond if gay
Havent seen a BNSF AC4400 in a very long time. One thing I love about the rural setting is the parallel highway and railroad. You bet you're going to see a high speed train!
Hi everybody! So far, this is the best video I saw as far as freight trains is concerned. This is the fastest freight train I ever saw on video. Not in real life. The motorman has an advantage on get away with putting throttle in high gear, because, this area is very flat and way less populated. Another advantage is the Physical Regions west of Texas is all of the Basin & Range Province, nearly all of the Great Plains, a little less than half is the Interior Lowlands, and way less of the Gulf Costal Plains. This means that there's less hazards of weather that he/she encounters. Whoever shot this video deserves an award and an opportunity to go to college with all finances paid to further his studies. Well good luck to this person who created this fun video and bring on many more videos for us audience to watch! Thank you.
Look, the deal here is that these locos are huge: over 10 1/2 feet wide and an easily over 16ft high, have about 4,400 hp and are heavy. They are nothing like you'd normally see outdid of North America, with the exception of parts of Australia and parts of Mexico.. The train is a double stacker which means that the top of the freight cars are around 20 feet high in places.. The train is most likely at least 100-120 cars long., and may have helper locos in the middle etc.
The point being the comparing one of these huge freights running at at least 70-80 mph, is enormously impressive. I've seen sone Canadian "versions" running at 45-50mph, and let me tell you the sheer size and power if these enormous freights has to be seen to believed, especially when 130 odd huge cars pass by you is in a a class of its own. Here are cameramen have really caught something impressive,... sure they are not as fast as the far smaller and lighter European trains, but you are comparing apples to oranges.
I've said it before: Getting 15,000 tons of train spread over 1 and a half miles to go 50 mph is far more impressive than a TGV going 200 mph.
and listen to those traction motors sing
europeans are made for speed
north americans are made to pull
I would agree with that .... -:)
Actually, the top speed for a BR Class 66 made by EMD goes at a top speed of around 75MPH. About the same speed as these american ones.
The mighty Dash 9-44CW locos at its best
Though the leader is an AC44CW.
@@RyansColoradoRailProductions and i thought it was a Dash 8 due to the square truck design on the wheels
@@ivangenov6782 Dash 9s and AC44s have the same truck design. Dash 8s are more rounded.
@@RyansColoradoRailProductions wait what? I thought it was the other way around... I thought i learned enough to tell the difference
@@ivangenov6782 yeah like Colorado said, the Dash 8 trucks are more rounded on the lower portions where as the Dash9/AC44 are more sharp and square.
This is one of the best train videos I have seen on youtube.
EMD 2 stroke engines are simple, sturdy, dependable, powerful, nonsmoking, and sound like a violin.
The best locomotive ever made in history.
thats a GE
That iron horse is chugging! Impressive something so heavy is so fast!
And he's probably pulling at least a mile of freight behind him. Amazing!
Locomotives then diesels, but one thing remains the same - fine American railroading.
I will NEVER TIRE OF THAT INDUSTRY THE SITES THE SOUNDS THE RAILROADS DO SO MUCH FOR THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!
@ Javier Polanco: For the United States it's a high speed freight train. They usally go much slower.
Amazing that rails on the ground that are about as wide as a car can hold something as long and fast as a train.
70mph
Kilómetros
120 kilómetros por hora
What.
120 kilometers per hour
@@ZacharyRodriguezVlogs si por hora
Fantastic shots !
Beautifully FAST, how all American trains should be. Thanks for sharing.
Absolute amazing work
Thank-you for the video ! It makes my life easier ! ! !
Perfect video I enjoyed it each second thank you for upload it
*Elegant grunt.* Love it. Thanks for uploading. Gave me 6.29 of pure pleasure.
That sound you here is the train saying.............................GET THE FK OUT OF MY WAY......................NOOWWWW !
🤣🤣 true
Hmmmmm right!
Awesome video, love seeing them stretching their legs like this wish I could see them do speeds like this near me. Great pacing too!
Es muy impresionante. Tremenda velocidad
Me encanta con vagones de carga. Gracias por vuestro trabajo. Gracias
I really enjoyed this video, thanks for posting
@odin422: Passenger and freight are two entirely different things, running freights faster than 90 mph really isnt safe, way too many things to go wrong.
Great pacing video! Glad to see the update to some of your earlier west Texas vids!
They would go this fast through Aledo, TX all the time. Had a slight gradient. They would either be flying down the gradient in stealth mode, or engines roaring flying up the gradient.. Crazy long too. It was awesome :D
este tipo de videos merece mas vistas carajo
Interesting to see a ac44 lead a z train, since mostly c4 loco's lead these trains. Whats also strange is there are only 2 head end loco's (there are normally 4 to 6)
It’s so fast it gets to the crossing before the whistle sound does!
that's because the horn isn't on the front of the train it's in the middle.
Why is the opening shot loaded in reverse image?
Pirated Image/Video is usually flipped
amtrak1008 None of my footage is pirated ..... cheers
***** Stupid answer. This is private!!!
FYI: Almost all Northbound Container (Intermodal) trains running out of Texas, pass through Wichita, Kansas. When they get to Newton, Kansas, they are switched to go East of West. Newton, Kansas has a Wye, which is double tracked.
TRAIN TIME! That’s what I like about Texas!!!!
Outstanding capture ! What a beauty ! GE locos really running fast ! Subscribed to your channel !!!
Abhinav LHB
Sheer power, at that speed, the momentum is such that fuelwise, it can't be eating that much diesel. That's the great thing about trains, once your up to speed on a level train the torque is off the chart. If someone were to go thru the gates and get smacked, there wouldn't be much car left recognizable, not to mention any victims. I saw the results of a car-truck collision just off a freeway exit. A woman, 8 months pregnant was turning left with the light on a freeway overpass. She had taken the exit of US 60 and saw the green arrow. A large truck going 90-100moh was trying to beat the light heading in the same direction when it hit that small Honda tearing it in half before driving over the two parts. The rear wheels and transmission was 30yards to the side, the car body looked nothing like a car. Seeing a long train flying makes me think of this horrible crash, there is no way to understand how much force is being created
lol and it isnt even the same number at the start
but amazing video here! like it!
Nothing like driving an 18 Wheeler next to a hi ball like this too 😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️
Fantastic----great video!
Brings back the days of Santa Fe.
Watching things like this gives me a better sense of scale...
Very good pacing video! I certainly enjoyed it. Crystal clear picture and considering that you're in a moving car that's going to bounce a bit here-and-there on the highway, you did a good job in holding the camera. Thanks for posting this and sharing :-)
the POWER of these locomotives... and the dark side. wow.
Awesome video.Great👍👍👍👍👍👍
The truth of the matter is that not only is size impressive, so is the time that involved years of experimentation that antedated even the necessity of such a method as high-speed stacktrains or even piggyback service. As far back as the 1950s, experiments were being carried out over the New Mexican Desert to see if a locomotive could haul a string of flatcars piggybacked with truck trailers flat out over southwestern desert territory. Locomotives back then were not equipped for such severe service until some ten years later, when EMD and GE started building high-horsepower units with revolutionary at the time prime movers. Then a market needed to be created. The rest, they say, is history, with piggyback service evolving into stacktrains beginning and ending at various railheads.
ONLY in TEXAS!! Oh YEAHHHH!!! HOT DAMN!!!
Muy Bueno el video me gusta Los trenes sdos desde mendoza Argentina 👍👍
Excellent Work Exciting Wow Good Job
Awesome videos and trains !. Subbed :)
Great vid! Thanks. Always better when you've got a highway paralleling the tracks. How fast were you going? My guess is 50-60 m.p.h.
I bet 70 mph.
65-70
how could you film like that??
Great Video. motivating!
I guess this job can sometimes be terrifying. That engineer knows once he gets up to speed anything he sees on the tracks, be it animal, car, or semi-trailer, is going to get pulverized. And there's absolutely nothing he can do about it.
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Excellent video... Nice and clear
You can tell that's the Panhandle of Texas: flat, treeless, and loaded with grain silos.
+David Barnett is that still a part of Tornado Alley?
Yup.
@nikosjk1 it was blowing the horn constantly, over 6 minutes... do the crossing have some kind of magic apparatus that make you able to hear things FAR FAR FAR away?
So, er... you were filming it from a car... that presumably had a speedometer...
How fast WAS it going, then?
Class 150s are known as Sprinters, with the 156 and 158 being the Super and Express varieties. The 150 was the first 'new' DMU to replace the 1960s era ones, and what some called 'Sprinterisation' was their replacement of all the old designs. It has become something of a colloquial term because it and so many trains used the Mk3 carriage bodyshell.
Splitting hairs is part of being on the railway!
What on earth are you talking about
Superb video. This train was booking it. One of the fastest freight trains I have ever seen!
I'm quite glad they slow down to 35mph sometimes ... such as the curve in the cutting that runs literally underneath my lounge window. 35 is already loud and shaky enough!
If they want to speed up once they're out of town, then by all means...
I love trains.
American trains= POWERFUL, POWERFUL, POWERFUL.
You know.
Alot of people complain that freight companies make Amtrak sit and wait for freight trains.
But when you have 10,000 tons of freight doing 70mph vs maybe 500 tons doing 70 the freight train is harder to stop and more expensive to make sit. Once the big four get to their goal of 60% profitability we may see high speed freight come into play for very long haul routes.
I think there are points where they do 90 mph along this line, correct?
This is not 90mph, this is 70mph
Hi Geoff great video Enjoyed every second This freight is operating on continuous welded track - correct? Keep up the good work
The Big Boy or Challenger go at a similar or slightly faster speed, but with 1500 or more horsepower, and they were just steam trains from back in the day? What would their modern diesel counterpart be?
Maybe Hwy 60 heading out of Hereford toward Umbarger ??? 9/30/21
noone littraly not even an atom:
Trains be like:
LEEEERROOOOOYYYYYY
JEENNNKIINNNSSS
Gevos are humming sweet music to my ears!!!!!!
Those aren't gevos
awesome chase,enjoyed
That's quite a bit of kinetic energy !
Great video...just can't believe that in the 5-6 miles you paralleled the train, that you never showed your speedometer :-/
AMEM
Trains top a high speed of 55 miles per hour so he didn need to show a speedometer
awesome vid enjoyed
Watch it while listening to Johnny Mercer's On the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe!!!
cool great camera work
Considering how much mass it has to pull these engines are pretty fuel efficient with how much fuel they use vs the productivity
wish we could have the whole train. all I saw was the lead and second unti
I just have to wonder, is this US-84?
Just wondering. Is that the line that runs parallel to RT 35 out of Austin?
I was amazed to see the speeds on that line. The greatest railroading in the world...USA.
Love It I have some chase scenes but noting like this bravo.
Sprinters (cl150) can only hit 75mph too. Later DMU classes can get to 90. As for the railbuses, they are actually not allowed to have a refreshments service on board due to the ride quality and the risk of spilling a hot drink over yourself.
This reminds me of the time I was running west bound on I-80 in Nebraska, at 70 mph, and was actually passed by a huge Manifest train.
70 MPH? Your kidding right?
@@ivangenov6782 Up on the Continental Divide, they can really "highball" on those long, flat stretches.
@@kevins1114 sounds awesome to watch, if only i could come to the US and be there
Impossible that you were passed by a manifest train if you were going 70. The fastest speed for mixed freight on BNSF and UP is 60 MPH. And that's only in some locations. Only Intermodal can run above 60 and even then it's 70 MPH max. No higher anywhere in the US for freight.
The Goliath of land vehicles. Straight up tuggin.
That's Umbarger, not Unfarger, btw. It's about 35 miles SW of Amarillo.
Doesn’t the BNSF’s Heritage 2 paint scheme look cool...
I like the yellow reflection it gives off, both day and night... just awesome!!!
They need to get rid of the zoom image though, it just ain’t makin’ it for me...
And yes, the Warbonnet needs to make a re-appearance on their latest locomotive acquisitions too.
It’s not too much to ask, is it?
Nice pacing!
Amazing capture
is that a dash 9 or es44ac?
Island Line Rail Productions lead unit is a AC4000CW
Nice ac4400 but whats with the engineer blowing the horn a month before the crossing gz
And that's why you're a foamer
How is he a foamer??
@@arthurwest9329 how is he a foamer?
Where exactly is Umafurburger, Texas.. Did you mispell it?
Umbarger, TX
Ok thats make more since haha
As soon as the train in the video starting blowing its horn, I heard a train using the same sequence outside my window lol
Dash dash dot dash is the standard horn sequence as a train approaches any road crossing.
What's with the decimals? Anyway, nothing wrong with 110-120km/h for a freighter, so long as it's properly engineered, braked and controlled. It is however "high speed" for such a thing, as they usually end up creeping along at 100-105k or less because of gearing, climbing up gradients, axle friction etc. It's all a matter of perspective.
@Denmarkpwns: What the hell are you talking about dude? He did the standard long long short long for every crossing and once to warn a signal maintainer.
SUPERB!
Tell me you weren't speeding? Awesome video pawl!!
I think I ate an Umafurberger once.
brianminkc lmao!