A EMD is A 2 stroke diesel A GE is a 4 stroke diesel. GES suck and take forever to load and smoke like hell as A EMD loads real fast that is why they are louder. It's like A old dirt bike compared to A newer one. They sound completely different. That's why EMDS are used for switching service, try kicking cars with A GE won't happen there to slow. Work good for coal trains but not much else.
They worked just fine for the GCR for switching and kicking cars, hauling heavy coal and mix freight including containers and if not for gwr's buy out and there love affair with old ass pos emds they would still be running today.
+Dasher U23B In A rail fan way they are cool, But in real life they didn't work well. They is A reason why railroads are rebuilding sd40s And sd60s And not old GEs. You can't beat A EMD. Also you don't see railroads hump with GEs, They use EMDs they load better.
steiger 256 Can’t beat an EMD? Then why has GE led the market by a wide margin for over 20 years now? It’s also not true that railroads aren’t rebuilding old GEs. Some Dash 8s were rebuilt into Dash 8.5s, and Dash 9s are being rebuilt very quickly. Sure, GEs might load slower, but it would seem many roads are able to ignore this, since GE leads the market. Until what’s left of EMD somehow passes GE in market share, there’s no reason to fly the “EMD is superior everything else is garbage” flag.
Insane video! How often do they run U-Boats up here? I go up near Manistique, MI (U.P) every summer, and I was thinking of going up to catch these. Would I have any luck, or just sitting up here, waiting for something that will never come?
drowned out with that horn, one of the reason I don't film at crossings. nice chug on those old girls
Yeah I didn't quite like that either
Groups these with some C630s and you'll have a sound you will never forget.
love them old units not much room in the cab but they had a sound of ther own
I'm guessing there aren't too many of these left in existence.
i like the tiny cars
That gold Ford Probe! 😍
Atleast running in original Burlington Northern paint.
Love the BN
Thanks for putting this up.
EPIC!
A EMD is A 2 stroke diesel A GE is a 4 stroke diesel. GES suck and take forever to load and smoke like hell as A EMD loads real fast that is why they are louder. It's like A old dirt bike compared to A newer one. They sound completely different. That's why EMDS are used for switching service, try kicking cars with A GE won't happen there to slow. Work good for coal trains but not much else.
They worked just fine for the GCR for switching and kicking cars, hauling heavy coal and mix freight including containers and if not for gwr's buy out and there love affair with old ass pos emds they would still be running today.
+Dasher U23B In A rail fan way they are cool, But in real life they didn't work well. They is A reason why railroads are rebuilding sd40s And sd60s And not old GEs. You can't beat A EMD. Also you don't see railroads hump with GEs, They use EMDs they load better.
steiger 256 Can’t beat an EMD? Then why has GE led the market by a wide margin for over 20 years now? It’s also not true that railroads aren’t rebuilding old GEs. Some Dash 8s were rebuilt into Dash 8.5s, and Dash 9s are being rebuilt very quickly. Sure, GEs might load slower, but it would seem many roads are able to ignore this, since GE leads the market. Until what’s left of EMD somehow passes GE in market share, there’s no reason to fly the “EMD is superior everything else is garbage” flag.
Jack Carson's Railroad Videos And of course CAT decided to do it the lazy way using a rebadged 265H with less cylinders lol
Except EMD have been building 4-stroke-powered locomotives since 2015...
Those were the big coal haulers for BN back in the 70's.
That's bad ass! Great one!
Awesome!
i am suprize that railroad is steal runing Excellent video eric =)
It makes a crap ton of money. 6-7 million tons over the dock every year.
Insane video! How often do they run U-Boats up here? I go up near Manistique, MI (U.P) every summer, and I was thinking of going up to catch these. Would I have any luck, or just sitting up here, waiting for something that will never come?
Indeed.
Would have been better without horn and bell noise
1:30 - Ford Probe, nice car!
Yes that was a clean looking Probe
HOLY SHIT, FUCK
Sorry that’s a 1% to 1.1% grade, not 1.63%.
woah nice horn, what horn is that?
Extremely fouled S3K
anyone knows the Horn model?
Fouled Leslie RS3K.
the horn sounds like the horns in my country but its not an rs3k
@@Trainguy01246 already found an answer it's RS-37 chime
That wasn't not notch 8. That was 6 (maybe 7) but definitely NOT 8.
The BN S3K is not very heathy. 😦