You forgot to mention what the Eight means. GE number identification is the decade the model was created. For example DASH 7 = 1970's, DASH 8 = 1980's, DASH 9 = 1990's and ES = 2000's. Another Forgotten fact is that the DASH 8-40B was the most powerful HP ever built in a 4-axle B-B arrangement. It produced 4,000 hp, which was more than its competitor EMD GP60's. The DASH 8 series was designed for fast priority intermodal freight and passenger trains.
For a freight diesel-electric unit, yes, the B40-8 is the most powerful model. The P42 (Genesis) is one example of a higher horsepower diesel-electric with four axles.
Dash 8 are still recent enough for small railroads. Those with wide cabs even come with all the commodities. Good bargains, even though they are quite far from Tier 4 standard.
Taken from the BNSF Locomotive Diesel Roster updated October 2022: Ex-ATSF; #555 scrapped; #560-582 returned to lessor; #575 part of dead line fleet; remaining B40-8W's in the 500-559 block are undergoing rebuild and repaint at GE. Looks like some are getting a new lease on life.
I know they are obsolete now but it's still sad to see many of these old work horses Rusting away Going to waste. Thanks for all your work and serving industries Dash 8s
The Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad in Lansdale, Pennsylvania still Has an Ex Conrail/NS C39-8 number 8212 which is the last operational C39-8 In the US. And it’s still wears what’s left of its original Conrail livery. And it’s still in service as of April 2023.
A few months ago the B40-8's were sold to LTEX in Lordstown and transported there by CSX, including the Yellowbonnets. One of them absolutely needs to be saved.
I saw plenty of Dash 8s in Galveston, but my first one I ever caught was on Christmas day, where Amtrak #518 was pulling my daily Amtrak train. It also had a special surprise behind it, Amtrak #161, the Phase I unit. Very cool train to say the least!
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan Sorry, I meant to say the first one in service I caught is the Amtrak one. The first ones I ever saw were the ones in Galveston.
I remember seeing C40-8W's frequently that were BNSF & ATSF units when I lived for about a year in Round Rock Texas.BNSF originally retired them in 2010,then pulled many out of storage in 2013,and again put them back in storage in 2015.
Today, the only 3 class 1s using Dash 8s are Bnsf, CSX and CN. The only Bnsf units left are the B40-8Ws which many have been rebuilt recently. The rest are gone. CSX still has a lot of Dash 8s in service. Some were sold back to GECX and some to Pan Am but then they brought many back due to power shortages. Now, the only ones left on CSX are the wide cab units. And, with CSX buying Pan Am, this means there will be even more Dash 8s soon. CN is the only other railroad, but theirs will not be around much longer. CN has been sending many of their Dash 8s to scrap recently and it seems they don’t have much time left. Nice video
@@silicon212 all of those have stayed on Pan Am except for 7627 which was renumbered to CSX 9280 and repainted, now a lot of the Pan Am Dash 8s have been sold to the new Berkshire & Eastern railroad which recently took over Pan Am Southern, not a lot remain with Pan Am/CSX and I find it unlikely that more will be repainted
When I worked for the Santa Fe telecom department in LA and later the BNSF I’ve been on all the 500 series Dash 8s at sometime including the 527 either at the old mechanical service area in Hobart Yard or at the new Commerce Mechanical service area just east of Hobart, they were great locomotives.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan We would have fix problems with the radio and ETD head end device as well as check out locomotive radios and ETD head end devices in units that were going to be used as lead units in out going trains. When I started with AT&SF in April of 1995 they were using a radio package manufactured by Colt Technologies which consisted of a control head unit that was mounted in the control stand and the radio package that was mounted elsewhere in the cab but typically in the nose next to the toilet although if I recall correctly the old GE B23s had the package in the short hood back underneath the stairs which was a pain to get to. The radio package was mounted in AAR standard mounting tray which would also accept a railroad Micor and was connected to the control head via a multi conductor cable which due to vibration in the locomotive was often a source of problems. I never had to change the cable (Thank God!) but the barrier strip terminal screws in the radio package and the compression screws on the control head connectors were constantly coming loose causing the radio to malfunction and one of the first checks we’d do on these units was pop the panel on the back of the control stand and pull the radio out of the mounting tray and make sure all the connections were tight. Colt also integrated the ETD functions into the control head via a separate radio package that they manufactured. The Colt control head had a membrane key pad on the front for entering the operating channel into the radio (you could enter separate transmit and receive channels for yard repeater and PBX operation) which worked rather well as long as it was not abused… But Colt failed to take into account the constant pissed off state that train crews were in at management when they designed these units son besides normal wear and tear the train crews wanting to get back at management for some slight (perceived or real) would take out their picket knives and carve up the keypad membrane in and attempt to stick it to the man when all they were really doing was F’ing us telecom guys over as the cost of replacing the damaged control head and radio handsets came out of our budget (I chewed out a crew in a departing train about this one time when they started complaining to me about how management was being mean to them and I explain in a rather loud voice that the only people they were screwing over was us telecom techs who were busy with many other tasks and had to get pulled away from regular work to take care of babies like them). So those experiences left me with a less than high opinion about the crews, combined with the crews propensity to leave art in permanent marked in the toilet compartment (Including one time were I found a two foot image of a penis ‘Functioning’ drawn in great detail and in permanent marker on the cab of a new SD70). Later on in my career the BNSF switched to Motorola Railroad Spectra radios and the separate Pulse LCU-05 by Wabtec which proved to be less time consuming due to the ability to easily swap out bad units. And when the radio changed to narrow band transmission these units were replaced by JEM and Ritron radios that were capable of narrow band and digital transmission. When the AT&SF 3751 was going to make it’s trip to the Grand Canyon in the early 2000s we had to go to the old Santa Fe round house in LA that is now operated by Amtrak and install a Railroad Spectra radio in the cab for the trip, this also gave me my own personal photo shoot opportunity with the 3751 and I crawled all over it! Years later I had to go back and swap out the Spectra for a JEM radio so they could so they could continue to operate over BNSF tracks and because the Spectra’s were being scraped out I got to keep that radio which I have to this day. During my 26 year career with the railroad I actually bounced back and forth between the AT&SF/BNSF and the UP in LA so I’ve worked in and on just about every Santa Fe, UP and former SP facility in Southern California and got to see a lot of interesting things. With the UP I was headquartered at LATC and had the old Taylor Yard locomotive facility as one of my responsibilities (I found a lot of old cool memorabilia there!). I had several private photo shoots as well as a private photo shoot during the run up to the 2002 Olympics with the UP business train with specially painted units 2001 and 2002 that were hauling the train including the Cauldron Car on the end of the train carrying the Olympic flame to Utah. I got some extremely cool shots of the Olympic flame contrasted with the LA downtown skyline in the back ground… Cool stuff! Also, in between jobs at the BNSF and UP in early 2004 I spent a 3 1/2 month period working for the Rail Communications Division of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority working in communications equipment for both the light rail and subway system. While doing inspections in the subway tunnels I got a lot of great videos of run bys on subway trains doing 70 mph while passing two feet from my camera. The MTA was a rather strange place to work because of the politics involved in the project but I got a lot of great photos and videos as well as working with some great people.
Ive only seen few -8s around, BNSF 545 and 535 are pretty frequent around the Arkansas Shortlines too. Man. wish they'd be around a lot longer... Great video!
thankfully, you can still see plenty of these on CSX. i actually caught one of the rarer C44-8Ws as CSX #9002 coupled up to another Dash 8 a couple weeks ago.
Yeah, CSX is keeping them alive and well! hate to burst your bubble, but 9002 is actually a very early model Dash-9. The outside looks like a dash-8, but the inside is a Dash-9.
Another place you can go see 1 in action every single day is the Auto-train yard in Sanford FL. Every day one of their 500 series B32-8's break apart P053 or build P052. Periodically one of the Auto-train's 2 dash 8's are sent down to Hialeah yard in Miami for switching duties. The neat thing about this run is that they'll send just a dash 8 with a single AT autorack so that the Dash 8 can run track speed per CSX rules. I have also seen a Dash 8 lead P091 or 97, but this is a very rare occurrence, the crews do not like them for long runs because they say they are uncomfortable.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan I saw a solo BNSF 8-wheeler moving between Fernley and Reno this afternoon. I was driving my 18-wheeler or I would've pulled over and filmed it. Also, our overflow yard and fuel island is in USA Parkway and while fueling up this evening, I saw the same unit doing some switching up on a hill behind me. I couldn't make it up the embankment. I'm now on a mission to record one of these units after watching your video :)
I’d love to see some ex-ATSF dash 8s preserved. While there a handful on shortline railroads, it be nice to see some of the C40-8Ws pulled from storage in Galveston for preservation or sent a shortline(s). Or some bought from CN. Always had a big interest ATSF’s super fleet, mainly the dash 8s and C44-9Ws.
I can only agree, who knows what’ll happen. I’ve thought of doing a fundraiser or something to in short “hey let’s try to get a dash 8 or two/ATSF dash 9 off of BNSF and donate them (or it) to museum like the IRM or something.” Who knows if someone will do that (which would be cool), we’ll just have to wait and see.
We’ve got 2 B40-8Ws here in Omaha and 2 got pulled out of storage and are now in Lincoln. One of the 2 in Omaha is rebuilt (522) and one not (539). They are used for locals and switching, both are out of the yard right now, 522 on YOMA-101 & 539 is on the Bayard Local.
Here in Mexico we have some 4-axle Dash-8's working on the BOTX leasing rail. These are ex BCOL B39-8E's and ex UP B40-8's. In fact, the Ferromex C30-S7MP units are C30-7 locomotives built on C40-8 carbodies. Greetings from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
AOK #578 is no longer on the roster, it was sold to a grain co-op in Texas. I actually caught it lingering around El Paso several times before it finally got sent to where it was intended to go.
BNSF 529 has been in service in Albuquerque for over 2 years now working the local. We used to have 539 in Santa Fe colors but that left over a year ago back east.
Pretty cool video, I myself have actually caught all my dash 8s on mainline frieght trains. I've seen 6 CSX ones and two BNSF ones, both of which are in ATSF colors (558, 542).
The Albany and Eastern has 3 dash 8s they bought off CSX, 2 4 axles and 1 6 axle! 90% of the time, you'll find these types of locomotives being used on a shortline.
I just recently caught two warbonnet dash 8’s coupled back to back pulling a road freight. BNSF 542 and 588. These two units have been together for a little over a year now in the Twin Cities area working locals and road freights.
@Southern Plains Railfan It seems CSX Doesn't care though because you can still find them serving as road engines on CSX. And NS. NS is alot harder to find them than CSX. There difficult to find but not impossible
BNSF has at least one B40-8W still in yard and local service out of Northtown yard up here in Minnesota. I seen it out on the mainline last week coupled to a gp of some kind.
“When GE released the dash 9.” *proceeds to show a photo of an AC44* “Canadian dash 8” *SD40-2F appears* anyways nice video, I enjoy dash 8s a lot, even if I don’t see them often. Keep up the good work 👍
Im gonna be in galveston around Christmas of this year to check out the new cruise ship going from there. Praying that the engines in that yard will stay there so i could get a glimpse of them and probably some pictures as well
Sorry, but most of the engines got taken north to be scrapped a couple months ago. There is still some stuff there like standard cab EMD's, possibly some gensets, and possibly some MAC's, but I think all the Dash-8's, SW engines, and slugs are gone. (Hopefully I'm wrong) However, it would still be a worthwhile trip. Galveston is a busy place in terms of rail traffic. Best of luck!
Ah that's why I haven't seen any updates in a while. I was hoping that they'd stay as all I was hearing was that more would be put in. At least the museum has some old stuff still
In Minnesota on some of the BNSF lines I have seen BNSF 542 and 558 B40-8W’s paired together on locals lately with both of them still in the Santa Fe paint scheme although BNSF 558 had BNSF swapped out for the Santa Fe writing it’s still in the Santa Fe paint scheme!!! Even the other day the pair led a H train by there selves which was pretty cool for 2022-2023 and also in the deadline at BNSF Northtown yard in the Twin Cities I believe BNSF 563 Dash 8 is in a deadline
You didn't mention that CN up until very recently had a whole pile of Dash 8s, in 3 different models. The cowl Canadian wide bodied ones, some of which are original to CN and some of which can with BC rail on buying them in 2004. Then the C40-8Ws they bought off of BNSF and some I think came from IC. Then the C40-8 standard cabs they bought from UP in 2010 or thereabouts. However recently they have been getting rid of a whole pile of them.
There's still B40-8Ws hanging around on BNSF, every once in a while, one will show up as substitute power on the locals here on the Thayer Subdivision as well as in Memphis, Tennessee area. Heck, they're even starting to show up on road freight trains again! There's was one as the second unit on an H KCKMEM that was even towing a former Kansas City Southern SD40T-2 too! To bad the 6 axle variant didn't get the same revival on BNSF!
Oh wow, good to hear that the ones still in service are getting their fair share of use. Yeah, all of the big 6 axle dash-8s have either been sold, scrapped, or they’re sitting in storage.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan yeah, saw a long line of Dash 8-40CWs being hauled away, most likely for scrap, awhile back. Darn shame too, several of them looked like they were still in good shape too!
If youre in Southern California you can find BNSF still using B40-8W as yard switchers in Barstow, Bakersfield, Fresno. Correct me if im wrong but pretty sure they use them in Stockton too havent been that far up to Northern California in a while so cant confirm that one but i can confirm the other 3 locations.
Now that CN is mass retiring and scrapping their Dash 8 fleet, CSX is the last vestige of mainline Dash 8's at this point. I'm glad they brought them out of storage.
Some good places to find Dash 8s are in the Southeast and midwest. Places like the CN Iron Range still heavily use the Dash 8s. Southeast parts of the country like Florida and Georgia is big with Dash 8 power. And other places in the midwest like Illinois and the Dakotas still see BNSF B40-8Ws on local/transfer runs
As an older Canadian, I never knew Pan Am operated a small railway. I always remembered them as the best of the best international American airline. Flying on one of their 747-100s between New York and London was always a glamourous experience, unlike today's American or United Airlines. Now if I want to have that Pan Am like flight experience, I have to fly Lufthansa or Royal Singapore Airlines. Pan Am and the era of air travel will always be dear to my heart despite the fact the seats costs were higher for that time. I would love to see an new American all business class/first class flagship airline and it would be rebranded as Pan Am.
I think Bnsf should repaint the remaining warbonnets. I don’t mean in Bnsf colors though, I mean so the locomotives will have the bright colors they had 30 years ago.
That would be nice, and maybe overhaul the engine so they can last another 30 years! Unfortunately, I think BNSF is just too cheap to do it. Railroads usually opt for function over form.
Do you still have a lot of SD40-2 in use? I absolutely have to look over at you... Unfortunately, it's so far away and it's not just possible to go on a day trip. In Austria, all older series are being phased out... Also the well-known Alpine vacuum cleaner 1144.
Yes, SD40-2's are still a very common locomotive all across North America, and even South America. Yeah, a day trip to the US wouldn't be feasible, lol. Also, what is the Alpine Vacuum Cleaner 1144?
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan Thanks for the information. I really have to fly to the US for a few weeks soon. :-D Your diesel locomotives are awesome, we can pack up in Europe with our weak parts. :-D The Alpine vacuum cleaner is the ÖBB series 1144. We call it that in Austria because it has extremely loud fans. At that time it was the most powerful 4-axle locomotive in the world when it was delivered. I have a few videos on my channel. I still enjoy driving it, even if it's sometimes tiring on the mountain roads because of the noise. :-D ruclips.net/video/-2JY8p0w4KI/видео.html
Those Dssh 8s were some horrendous hunks of scrap iron. I hated when one was the leader in our consist. They took forever to load. They shook something awful. As far as I am concerned, they can't scrap those miserable rattle traps fast enough!
I actually have two dash 8 s that run the local through my town and there’s a town called dodge city Kansas and it has cimmoron valley and the BNSF dash 8s that run though town also one of them is in h1 paint
Also Southern Plains Railfan will you be talking about the history of LTEX Rail and it's diesel locomotive rail yard in McDonald Ohio sometime this year????
To hell with class 1 RR’s. They barely even tried to revive the 8’s. Yet the toaster oven Dash 9’s were rebuilt. I’ve already seen many NS rebuilds burnt to a crisp. NS and CSX rebuild program was just plain pathetic. NS used the oldest car bodies and earliest models for their rebuilding and not the latest wide cabs, ones that was ACTIVELY running on their railroads with slightly newer car bodies and more updated systems. Very similar to the dash 9 car body size. Im not sure why CSX stopped their CM40-8 rebuilds they look and work fine. Cant stand that this is the fate of my favorite locomotive.
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You forgot to mention what the Eight means. GE number identification is the decade the model was created. For example DASH 7 = 1970's, DASH 8 = 1980's, DASH 9 = 1990's and ES = 2000's. Another Forgotten fact is that the DASH 8-40B was the most powerful HP ever built in a 4-axle B-B arrangement. It produced 4,000 hp, which was more than its competitor EMD GP60's. The DASH 8 series was designed for fast priority intermodal freight and passenger trains.
For a freight diesel-electric unit, yes, the B40-8 is the most powerful model. The P42 (Genesis) is one example of a higher horsepower diesel-electric with four axles.
Maby you should have put this video on lol 😆
The P42, AEM-7, HHP-8 and ACS-64: Am I a joke to you?
Dash 8 are still recent enough for small railroads. Those with wide cabs even come with all the commodities. Good bargains, even though they are quite far from Tier 4 standard.
Taken from the BNSF Locomotive Diesel Roster updated October 2022: Ex-ATSF; #555 scrapped; #560-582 returned to lessor; #575 part of dead line fleet; remaining B40-8W's in the 500-559 block are undergoing rebuild and repaint at GE. Looks like some are getting a new lease on life.
Thanks for all the info! Glad to see lots of them are still going to be used.
555 was not scrapped, it’s still sitting in Galveston.
That’s what I thought there were a lot of them used on local power in h4 paint.
Yep, I saw #529 in Belen, NM about a month ago coupled to BNSF #267, an SD75M.
I know they are obsolete now but it's still sad to see many of these old work horses Rusting away Going to waste. Thanks for all your work and serving industries Dash 8s
I'd love to see 1848 returned to it's original Cotton Belt paint.
It's nice to see rebuild programs starting to take off for the Dash 8s.
Same! They’re still useable, they just need some TLC.
Not really "take off" for the Class 1 railroads, but definitely for the shortlines.
I'm surprised more engines don't end up overseas. A 30 year old locomotive here is like brand new to a third world nation.
The Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad in Lansdale, Pennsylvania still Has an Ex Conrail/NS C39-8 number 8212 which is the last operational C39-8 In the US. And it’s still wears what’s left of its original Conrail livery. And it’s still in service as of April 2023.
Very cool video. I visited Galveston in 2021 and it was full, now I can only imagine where most of those engines went.
Thanks! I didn’t know they moved lots of engines out of Galveston. I’m sure they went to the scrap heap.
A few months ago the B40-8's were sold to LTEX in Lordstown and transported there by CSX, including the Yellowbonnets. One of them absolutely needs to be saved.
I saw plenty of Dash 8s in Galveston, but my first one I ever caught was on Christmas day, where Amtrak #518 was pulling my daily Amtrak train. It also had a special surprise behind it, Amtrak #161, the Phase I unit. Very cool train to say the least!
That’s pretty awesome!
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan Sorry, I meant to say the first one in service I caught is the Amtrak one. The first ones I ever saw were the ones in Galveston.
I remember seeing C40-8W's frequently that were BNSF & ATSF units when I lived for about a year in Round Rock Texas.BNSF originally retired them in 2010,then pulled many out of storage in 2013,and again put them back in storage in 2015.
Today, the only 3 class 1s using Dash 8s are Bnsf, CSX and CN. The only Bnsf units left are the B40-8Ws which many have been rebuilt recently. The rest are gone. CSX still has a lot of Dash 8s in service. Some were sold back to GECX and some to Pan Am but then they brought many back due to power shortages. Now, the only ones left on CSX are the wide cab units. And, with CSX buying Pan Am, this means there will be even more Dash 8s soon. CN is the only other railroad, but theirs will not be around much longer. CN has been sending many of their Dash 8s to scrap recently and it seems they don’t have much time left. Nice video
Thanks for the info! Hopes fully BNSF, CSX and CN will hold on to their dash-8’s for at least a few more years. Also, I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
Not all of the B40-8Ws have been rebuilt. Several of them are basically their original configuration.
The ex-CSX units that went to PanAm went back to CSX when CSX took over PanAm.
@@silicon212 all of those have stayed on Pan Am except for 7627 which was renumbered to CSX 9280 and repainted, now a lot of the Pan Am Dash 8s have been sold to the new Berkshire & Eastern railroad which recently took over Pan Am Southern, not a lot remain with Pan Am/CSX and I find it unlikely that more will be repainted
When I worked for the Santa Fe telecom department in LA and later the BNSF I’ve been on all the 500 series Dash 8s at sometime including the 527 either at the old mechanical service area in Hobart Yard or at the new Commerce Mechanical service area just east of Hobart, they were great locomotives.
That's really cool! Why did you have to go on locomotives so much?
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan We would have fix problems with the radio and ETD head end device as well as check out locomotive radios and ETD head end devices in units that were going to be used as lead units in out going trains. When I started with AT&SF in April of 1995 they were using a radio package manufactured by Colt Technologies which consisted of a control head unit that was mounted in the control stand and the radio package that was mounted elsewhere in the cab but typically in the nose next to the toilet although if I recall correctly the old GE B23s had the package in the short hood back underneath the stairs which was a pain to get to. The radio package was mounted in AAR standard mounting tray which would also accept a railroad Micor and was connected to the control head via a multi conductor cable
which due to vibration in the locomotive was often a source of problems. I never had to change the cable (Thank God!) but the barrier strip terminal screws in the radio package and the compression screws on the control head connectors were constantly coming loose causing the radio to malfunction and one of the first checks we’d do on these units was pop the panel on the back of the control stand and pull the radio out of the mounting tray and make sure all the connections were tight. Colt also integrated the ETD functions into the control head via a separate radio package that they manufactured. The Colt control head had a membrane key pad on the front for entering the operating channel into the radio (you could enter separate transmit and receive channels for yard repeater and PBX operation) which worked rather well as long as it was not abused… But Colt failed to take into account the constant pissed off state that train crews were in at management when they designed these units son besides normal wear and tear the train crews wanting to get back at management for some slight (perceived or real) would take out their picket knives and carve up the keypad membrane in and attempt to stick it to the man when all they were really doing was F’ing us telecom guys over as the cost of replacing the damaged control head and radio handsets came out of our budget (I chewed out a crew in a departing train about this one time when they started complaining to me about how management was being mean to them and I explain in a rather loud voice that the only people they were screwing over was us telecom techs who were busy with many other tasks and had to get pulled away from regular work to take care of babies like them). So those experiences left me with a less than high opinion about the crews, combined with the crews propensity to leave art in permanent marked in the toilet compartment (Including one time were I found a two foot image of a penis ‘Functioning’ drawn in great detail and in permanent marker on the cab of a new SD70).
Later on in my career the BNSF switched to Motorola Railroad Spectra radios and the separate Pulse LCU-05 by Wabtec which proved to be less time consuming due to the ability to easily swap out bad units. And when the radio changed to narrow band transmission these units were replaced by JEM and Ritron radios that were capable of narrow band and digital transmission. When the AT&SF 3751 was going to make it’s trip to the Grand Canyon in the early 2000s we had to go to the old Santa Fe round house in LA that is now operated by Amtrak and install a Railroad Spectra radio in the cab for the trip, this also gave me my own personal photo shoot opportunity with the 3751 and I crawled all over it! Years later I had to go back and swap out the Spectra for a JEM radio so they could so they could continue to operate over BNSF tracks and because the Spectra’s were being scraped out I got to keep that radio which I have to this day.
During my 26 year career with the railroad I actually bounced back and forth between the AT&SF/BNSF and the UP in LA so I’ve worked in and on just about every Santa Fe, UP and former SP facility in Southern California and got to see a lot of interesting things. With the UP I was headquartered at LATC and had the old Taylor Yard locomotive facility as one of my responsibilities (I found a lot of old cool memorabilia there!). I had several private photo shoots as well as a private photo shoot during the run up to the 2002 Olympics with the UP business train with specially painted units 2001 and 2002 that were hauling the train including the Cauldron Car on the end of the train carrying the Olympic flame to Utah. I got some extremely cool shots of the Olympic flame contrasted with the LA downtown skyline in the back ground… Cool stuff!
Also, in between jobs at the BNSF and UP in early 2004 I spent a 3 1/2 month period working for the Rail Communications Division of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority working in communications equipment for both the light rail and subway system. While doing inspections in the subway tunnels I got a lot of great videos of run bys on subway trains doing 70 mph while passing two feet from my camera. The MTA was a rather strange place to work because of the politics involved in the project but I got a lot of great photos and videos as well as working with some great people.
Wow, that's awesome! Thank you so much!
There's still some Dash-8 in use on the CN. They are usually on general freight from Winnipeg to Duluth.
Ive only seen few -8s around, BNSF 545 and 535 are pretty frequent around the Arkansas Shortlines too. Man. wish they'd be around a lot longer... Great video!
thankfully, you can still see plenty of these on CSX.
i actually caught one of the rarer C44-8Ws as CSX #9002 coupled up to another Dash 8 a couple weeks ago.
Yeah, CSX is keeping them alive and well! hate to burst your bubble, but 9002 is actually a very early model Dash-9. The outside looks like a dash-8, but the inside is a Dash-9.
0:03 I love that clip of the bluebonnet leader in the intro! Also, this was a pretty good video. I subscribed
Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed.
Another place you can go see 1 in action every single day is the Auto-train yard in Sanford FL. Every day one of their 500 series B32-8's break apart P053 or build P052. Periodically one of the Auto-train's 2 dash 8's are sent down to Hialeah yard in Miami for switching duties. The neat thing about this run is that they'll send just a dash 8 with a single AT autorack so that the Dash 8 can run track speed per CSX rules. I have also seen a Dash 8 lead P091 or 97, but this is a very rare occurrence, the crews do not like them for long runs because they say they are uncomfortable.
I've seen a few BNSF " 8 wheelers" here in Reno doing yard switching and local. I saw one last week grabbing a few cars beside a warehouse.
Cool!
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan I saw a solo BNSF 8-wheeler moving between Fernley and Reno this afternoon. I was driving my 18-wheeler or I would've pulled over and filmed it. Also, our overflow yard and fuel island is in USA Parkway and while fueling up this evening, I saw the same unit doing some switching up on a hill behind me. I couldn't make it up the embankment. I'm now on a mission to record one of these units after watching your video :)
@@renorailfanning5465 That’s cool that y’all have a regular dash-8 in the area. Best of luck catching it!
I’d love to see some ex-ATSF dash 8s preserved. While there a handful on shortline railroads, it be nice to see some of the C40-8Ws pulled from storage in Galveston for preservation or sent a shortline(s). Or some bought from CN. Always had a big interest ATSF’s super fleet, mainly the dash 8s and C44-9Ws.
Yeah, that would be nice to see. Hopefully it'll happen someday.
I can only agree, who knows what’ll happen. I’ve thought of doing a fundraiser or something to in short “hey let’s try to get a dash 8 or two/ATSF dash 9 off of BNSF and donate them (or it) to museum like the IRM or something.”
Who knows if someone will do that (which would be cool), we’ll just have to wait and see.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfanwell good news. BNSF donated No. 537 to RRHMA in Silvis, IL.
CP 9010 is an SD40F. Great video. The Great Western Railway in Southern Saskatchewan has some ex BNSF ones as they faze out MLW/ALCO power
We’ve got 2 B40-8Ws here in Omaha and 2 got pulled out of storage and are now in Lincoln. One of the 2 in Omaha is rebuilt (522) and one not (539). They are used for locals and switching, both are out of the yard right now, 522 on YOMA-101 & 539 is on the Bayard Local.
That’s awesome!
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan Yeah! I chased 522 a bit today, got some neat shots at Chalco,NE and over the Big Papillion Creek near Ralston, NE.
Fun fact, BNSF has two in operation at our Barstow CA yard as RCO units. One of them is the BNSF 500 and I forgot the other one.
That’s really cool. Glad to hear they’re still in service with BNSF.
Just for correction, 0:29 is an AC44CW, not a Dash 9
Here in Mexico we have some 4-axle Dash-8's working on the BOTX leasing rail. These are ex BCOL B39-8E's and ex UP B40-8's. In fact, the Ferromex C30-S7MP units are C30-7 locomotives built on C40-8 carbodies. Greetings from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
That’s super interesting; greetings from the USA!
Galveston, TX, has a Train Museum but didn’t realize there was a Storage Yard down there also with Locomotives Rusting away. 👍
Yeah, there’s some great videos and pictures on the internet of the storage yard. It’s worth checking out.
AOK #578 is no longer on the roster, it was sold to a grain co-op in Texas. I actually caught it lingering around El Paso several times before it finally got sent to where it was intended to go.
Aw man. At least it hasn’t been scrapped.
Very Interesting explanation of the Dash-8’s. 👍
Thank you!
This was a very organized and informative video. Thank you.
You’re welcome, I’m glad you enjoyed!
I live near a small railroad that has both dash8s and dash7s in service today, and a bunch of old alcos too.
I just saw two BNSF Dash-8s out near Mojave, CA in the last week ofJune 2023. They were heading east toward Barstow.
BNSF 529 has been in service in Albuquerque for over 2 years now working the local. We used to have 539 in Santa Fe colors but that left over a year ago back east.
That’s awesome, I think I saw 529 on your Instagram.
Your videos are so informational and I have learned a ton from watching them. Subscribed!
Thank you very much!
Neat video, Thanks for sharing this. Have a nice rest of your evening.
Thank you and your welcome. You have a good evening as well!
Pretty cool video, I myself have actually caught all my dash 8s on mainline frieght trains. I've seen 6 CSX ones and two BNSF ones, both of which are in ATSF colors (558, 542).
That's super cool! I miss seeing Dash-8's on the mainline.
Very nice video! loved everything!
That you, I’m glad you liked it!
I saw a -8 leading a train in Abilene, Kansas the engine number is 532
The Albany and Eastern has 3 dash 8s they bought off CSX, 2 4 axles and 1 6 axle! 90% of the time, you'll find these types of locomotives being used on a shortline.
Another Class-A video!
great video and great speaking skills
I spotted Cimarron Valley! I applied there and had an interview the other day. We shall see what happens ;)
I just recently caught two warbonnet dash 8’s coupled back to back pulling a road freight. BNSF 542 and 588. These two units have been together for a little over a year now in the Twin Cities area working locals and road freights.
There are a ton of Dash-8’s on the former Pan Am, both standard and wide cabs, and b and c trucks
Great video! it’s a shame is locomotives are endangered.
Thanks! Yes, but thankfully BNSF, CSX, and shortlines are keeping them alive and well.
Cimarron valleys dash 8's featured in this have the no longer used atsf pinstripe livery
The Dash 8s outlived their usefulness
Yeah. They're no good as a road engine anymore and they're not needed for switching.
@Southern Plains Railfan It seems CSX Doesn't care though because you can still find them serving as road engines on CSX. And NS. NS is alot harder to find them than CSX. There difficult to find but not impossible
Nice btw can you do a video on GN 23 as I have been trying to find more information on it
There is one located in Lincoln, NE around the Havelock Yard.
Got to work the BHP iron ore Dash 8's here in Aus before they were withdrawn and scrapped. Have to admit they were pretty tired by then.
BNSF has at least one B40-8W still in yard and local service out of Northtown yard up here in Minnesota. I seen it out on the mainline last week coupled to a gp of some kind.
“When GE released the dash 9.” *proceeds to show a photo of an AC44* “Canadian dash 8” *SD40-2F appears* anyways nice video, I enjoy dash 8s a lot, even if I don’t see them often. Keep up the good work 👍
Im gonna be in galveston around Christmas of this year to check out the new cruise ship going from there.
Praying that the engines in that yard will stay there so i could get a glimpse of them and probably some pictures as well
Sorry, but most of the engines got taken north to be scrapped a couple months ago. There is still some stuff there like standard cab EMD's, possibly some gensets, and possibly some MAC's, but I think all the Dash-8's, SW engines, and slugs are gone. (Hopefully I'm wrong) However, it would still be a worthwhile trip. Galveston is a busy place in terms of rail traffic. Best of luck!
Ah that's why I haven't seen any updates in a while. I was hoping that they'd stay as all I was hearing was that more would be put in.
At least the museum has some old stuff still
The only time I saw a dash-8 was a local train but it was a Santa Fe 4 axel bluebonnet!
Just saw a B40-8w working the Yard in St Cloud MN in Warbonnet scheme
In Minnesota on some of the BNSF lines I have seen BNSF 542 and 558 B40-8W’s paired together on locals lately with both of them still in the Santa Fe paint scheme although BNSF 558 had BNSF swapped out for the Santa Fe writing it’s still in the Santa Fe paint scheme!!! Even the other day the pair led a H train by there selves which was pretty cool for 2022-2023 and also in the deadline at BNSF Northtown yard in the Twin Cities I believe BNSF 563 Dash 8 is in a deadline
That's super cool! What subdivision were they on?
I’ve seen them mostly on the Staples sub but they also have ran on the Midway and St Paul Sub
They have also ran on some smaller subs like the Monticello sub every once in a while
I have not seen UP 1848 running lately, but I did see it parked this past weekend.
Hi, nice video, very interesting, a lot of good information. But at 1:00, CP 9010 is an SD40-2F.
0:29 that's actually not a dash 9, it's an AC4400CW. I understand how you could mistake it for a dash 9 though.
Oh, oops. Thanks for letting me know.
Actually, the AC4400CW is apart of the DASH 9 family.
I saw only 3 dash 8s before, mainly on the Canadian national and in the CN yards just sitting there idling or waiting for there crew.
Nice!
You didn't mention that CN up until very recently had a whole pile of Dash 8s, in 3 different models. The cowl Canadian wide bodied ones, some of which are original to CN and some of which can with BC rail on buying them in 2004. Then the C40-8Ws they bought off of BNSF and some I think came from IC. Then the C40-8 standard cabs they bought from UP in 2010 or thereabouts. However recently they have been getting rid of a whole pile of them.
There's still B40-8Ws hanging around on BNSF, every once in a while, one will show up as substitute power on the locals here on the Thayer Subdivision as well as in Memphis, Tennessee area. Heck, they're even starting to show up on road freight trains again! There's was one as the second unit on an H KCKMEM that was even towing a former Kansas City Southern SD40T-2 too! To bad the 6 axle variant didn't get the same revival on BNSF!
Oh wow, good to hear that the ones still in service are getting their fair share of use. Yeah, all of the big 6 axle dash-8s have either been sold, scrapped, or they’re sitting in storage.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan yeah, saw a long line of Dash 8-40CWs being hauled away, most likely for scrap, awhile back. Darn shame too, several of them looked like they were still in good shape too!
Ok one I rode in the cab of 1848, it was a cool and neat experience, I even got to blow the horn!
That's awesome!
If youre in Southern California you can find BNSF still using B40-8W as yard switchers in Barstow, Bakersfield, Fresno. Correct me if im wrong but pretty sure they use them in Stockton too havent been that far up to Northern California in a while so cant confirm that one but i can confirm the other 3 locations.
I might dislike the CP and CP but i love their Modified Dash 8 :D
I really want to go take pictures of the abandoned trains in galveston
Me too! There’s tons of neat stuff in those storage yards.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan right
Now that CN is mass retiring and scrapping their Dash 8 fleet, CSX is the last vestige of mainline Dash 8's at this point. I'm glad they brought them out of storage.
I hope CSX keeps them around. They’re still perfectly good locomotives.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan they are not actually. they're still good enough to get the job done but still need frequent maintenance
Some good places to find Dash 8s are in the Southeast and midwest. Places like the CN Iron Range still heavily use the Dash 8s. Southeast parts of the country like Florida and Georgia is big with Dash 8 power. And other places in the midwest like Illinois and the Dakotas still see BNSF B40-8Ws on local/transfer runs
Georgia Central has several B32-8s!!
Theres at least one B40-8 that never made it to the scrap yard. ATSF 576
As an older Canadian, I never knew Pan Am operated a small railway. I always remembered them as the best of the best international American airline. Flying on one of their 747-100s between New York and London was always a glamourous experience, unlike today's American or United Airlines. Now if I want to have that Pan Am like flight experience, I have to fly Lufthansa or Royal Singapore Airlines. Pan Am and the era of air travel will always be dear to my heart despite the fact the seats costs were higher for that time. I would love to see an new American all business class/first class flagship airline and it would be rebranded as Pan Am.
The company that owned the Guilford rail system purchased the rights to the Pan-Am name and rebranded their railroad. It's not the same company.
CSX still has a good amount of C40-8Ws in service. I see them all the time.
Got BNSF 528 out here with a GP39-3
I think Bnsf should repaint the remaining warbonnets. I don’t mean in Bnsf colors though, I mean so the locomotives will have the bright colors they had 30 years ago.
That would be nice, and maybe overhaul the engine so they can last another 30 years! Unfortunately, I think BNSF is just too cheap to do it. Railroads usually opt for function over form.
Behind the Garrett sub you see at least one dash 8 a week
Oh wow, that’s impressive.
Ns, None! This is my favorite locomotive!
Also you can catch a bunch of dash-8's in the barstow yard and I'm pretty sure they still run in the yard and on some mainline freight trains
That’s cool!
Hey Southern Plains Railfan will you be talking about what happened to the Amtrak F40'S at some point this year????
Do you still have a lot of SD40-2 in use? I absolutely have to look over at you... Unfortunately, it's so far away and it's not just possible to go on a day trip. In Austria, all older series are being phased out... Also the well-known Alpine vacuum cleaner 1144.
Yes, SD40-2's are still a very common locomotive all across North America, and even South America. Yeah, a day trip to the US wouldn't be feasible, lol. Also, what is the Alpine Vacuum Cleaner 1144?
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan
Thanks for the information. I really have to fly to the US for a few weeks soon. :-D
Your diesel locomotives are awesome, we can pack up in Europe with our weak parts. :-D
The Alpine vacuum cleaner is the ÖBB series 1144. We call it that in Austria because it has extremely loud fans. At that time it was the most powerful 4-axle locomotive in the world when it was delivered.
I have a few videos on my channel. I still enjoy driving it, even if it's sometimes tiring on the mountain roads because of the noise. :-D
ruclips.net/video/-2JY8p0w4KI/видео.html
Newer and more efficient models coming out every day
Those Dssh 8s were some horrendous hunks of scrap iron. I hated when one was the leader in our consist. They took forever to load. They shook something awful. As far as I am concerned, they can't scrap those miserable rattle traps fast enough!
Csx is power hungry right now. Expect to see a decent amount of them.
CP 9010 (1:02) is actually an SD40-2F.
I actually have two dash 8 s that run the local through my town and there’s a town called dodge city Kansas and it has cimmoron valley and the BNSF dash 8s that run though town also one of them is in h1 paint
That's awesome!
U forgot about b32-8 preserved at the Lakeshore Railway Museum in North East pa
Also Southern Plains Railfan will you be talking about the history of LTEX Rail and it's diesel locomotive rail yard in McDonald Ohio sometime this year????
CN still has a motley selection of C40-8's still hanging around in the iron ranges alone with 1 ex-IC C40-8W blue devil and 1 ex-BCOL C40-8M active,
IC 2466 was sent off for scrap last month, but I think there's still a Blue Devil around in storage. It might have been retired by now.
In California back in the mid 70s they were scraped .gp7 styles
1:00 is an SD40-2F.
I've seen BNSF 1755 but it was ATSF 1755 and I seen it and I had 1755 as trailing
As of June 2023, BNSF has donated B40-8W 537 to the RRHMA.
0:29 that is qctually an AC44CW
CSX brought back many Dash 8s
I caught another dash 8 but it has the paint 524 has
I believe there’s a Dash 8 working the pueblo-kelker colorado local
And the mighty SD 40-2 watched these come and go😂
Got to see a broken Dash8 someone let a piston blow out the side of once
Lol
Oh wow! I bet that was cool to see.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan oh yeah! The piston was so heavy! XD
The dash 8 s are the best engines ever how dear Norfolk southern is scraping the dash 8 😢
Well they can’t last forever. Once a locomotive gets too old or too expensive to maintain, railroads get rid of em’.
Aren't P40's and P42's basically streamlined Dash8's?
Pretty much. I think there are some differences, though.
I just caught a BNSF dash 8
Sweet!
To hell with class 1 RR’s. They barely even tried to revive the 8’s. Yet the toaster oven Dash 9’s were rebuilt. I’ve already seen many NS rebuilds burnt to a crisp.
NS and CSX rebuild program was just plain pathetic.
NS used the oldest car bodies and earliest models for their rebuilding and not the latest wide cabs, ones that was ACTIVELY running on their railroads with slightly newer car bodies and more updated systems. Very similar to the dash 9 car body size.
Im not sure why CSX stopped their CM40-8 rebuilds they look and work fine. Cant stand that this is the fate of my favorite locomotive.
They got a Dash 8 owned by the people who own UP 3985.