BC Rail Lillooet Sub - The Winter Chase Is On!
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Here's something for those people waiting for the winter months: A trio of BC Rail B39-8E's rock the peaceful snowy town of Lillooet and take on the challenging, icy grade towards Kelly Lake. This was filmed in the winter of 2004 while CN was experimenting with these 4-axle GE units. Before the sale to CN, BCR kept these units for operations north of Prince George, BC. Double Ditch Light Productions.
The chimney in the last shot is the from the old Pavilion general store. The store burned down, but the chimney has still stood there for many years.
Very well shot and edited video. Loved your choice of locations and the way you panned and zoomed the shots to capitalize on the land forms or track layout. You must know the area quite well to have been able to find such spots.
Thanks for putting this vid up for us to enjoy on a now fallen flag railway.
I can still remember the old orange Pacific Great Eastern Rs-3's. The changes on the system were numerous. The railroad became the victim of a BC government who wouldn't properly fund it. That's when CN stepped in to operate it by contract.
excellant! those locomotives seem like some real powerhouses! you've done some nice work in some beautiful land. 5 star and well done. thanks
Awesome footage !! Glory Days for the ol BCR. I miss them.
F/U Gordon Campbell !!
WestCoastRails ya fuck you Gordon Campbell rot in hell!!!
Units chillin in Mexico now...
Excelent work all around,this makes me home sick something shoking. Got to stop whaching it, but I'm adicted to the sound.
Wow! 5 lights on all the time. Never saw that before.
Those 3900 locomotives sure could pull.
Bring back bc Rail
Dan Braun, that's a first gen (nathan Airchime k5la) normally, these trains would have k5ls.
AWESOME VIDEO !!!!!!!!!!! beautful mountain and snow too
E bells where around then?! When did they come out?
2004.
What do you mean by "CN was experimenting with these units"?
That scheme that you like came from the Social Credit Party of the 1930's. The reason for the phantom blue was because the railway didn't have enough money to paint any other different schemes. What made me the maddest is that the movie "Atomic Train" because it set a bad example for BC Rail or Pacific Great Eastern.
Freezing rain does not cause a problem for a train as it does for a car on the roadway. The train will simply crush the ice off of the track as it passes over it. However, if the train is heavy enough and the grade is steep enough the train could begin to have traction issues as which point sand would be sprayed under the wheels automatically to correct the traction problem. In case your wondering how I know....I work for the RR.
Awesome video man.
Very, very cool to watch.
ACK! I Love those B39-8E's! but, I'll never see one is BCR Blue scheme.
Marco393 you can thank good old Canadian national for scraping them
It looks like those units were originally setup for 6 axle trucks and they went with the 4 axles.
Most heavenly horn k5la I've heard 😉😇:):)
Reminds me of the times I worked for CN near Jasper and Hinton
bud oracle I miss BC RAIL F/U YOU GORDON CAMPBELL
that's my town! awesome!
Sounds like B6 to me. When corrected for Doppler effect there is a definite B in the chord, as well as G#. Were it a K5L, you would hear a very loud C, and the G# would be A#.
yea GE built the dash 8 c's and b's on the same frame, most GE 4 and 6 axle share a common frame, just doesn't always look like it, cause of fuel tank order sizes, etc. that's one reason why some railroads opted for high horsepower on a 6 axle frame but with 4 axles, more fuel tank room,etc. i maybe wrong
Aren't these mechanically the same as a P42 but without the HEP?
Brrrr, looks chilly
Wow, do those things ever sound like P42's.
Why do they have double ditch lights
The only difference is a train won't go spinning off the track if there is ice on the rail. Sanders only work if there is sand in the sand tanks. If you can't get traction, you ain't going very far. If you're climbing a grade and you hit ice on the rail, depending how much the wheels slip you loose momentum and stall. If the ice is bad enough, you can't get the train going again and have to double the train up the hill.
@moon47mars E-Bells don't freeze like mechanical ones do.
What kind of horn is that? Great sound and a very well done video.
That was a k5la :):) hope that Helped! :)
Wait, graham white e bells in 2004?!?! I thought they where first made in 2007 this whole time!
IKR?! I thought the same thing!
Graham White has been making E-Bells and pneumatic bells for the past 50 years, they just were popular when they were first introduced
Freezing rain/rain/snow on the rails is terrible. Causes alot of problems.
There is sanders, but above a certain speed, they become an automatic operation. Depending on the grade of the hill and your weight..i might just not do anything for ya.
They're in the process of being scrapped.
what happened to these units?
RRYankfan CN probably scrapped them unfortunately
The units 3903, 3904 are working on Mexico.
Time to call Missoula -n- get Rich Keller on the scene, huh? Ha! Ha!
Hard job they have. They should try driving a truck/trailer and do the chaining up to get through the snow going over the summits
You chose your job, they chose theirs.
That sucks