In 1992 I went camping here, and at Tehachapi Loop for a few nights with our model railroad club. That was a great time to be a railfan because you never knew what was coming around the curve...
You’ve got a loose still camera impinging it’s shutter action sound on the otherwise impressive diesel exhaust coming towards your video position!?! I used to have that problem til I shot it!!! That aside I really loved the video - impressive countryside, fantastic camera positioning and GE V10’s grunting hard!!! Really good videography!
You must take care of those things, keep them on the track. You will ruin its wheels when doing that. And it will not run as well as it did before you put it on the ground
Yes awesome shot, but it was interesting to look at the two engines looking exactly alike. coming down the hill, but if you really look at it, the door to enter. The cab is on the left of the headlight. Where the engine on the right door to enter the cabin is on the right side of the light..
This was incredible coverage of this event. Just incredible. I've never seen anything like this in my life. Something that would normally be way in the background that you'd never see.
Here in Russia there are fires in the same way, but there are no services to provide assistance, and no one will help, the diesel locomotive will burn out and to hell with it, because the equipment is already so old... but the locomotive driver can be punished, we have locomotives they don’t work without drivers, in general, a fire on a diesel locomotive is a terrible thing... In general, on our railway, the driver must monitor everything and repair locomotives, cars, monitor the condition of the track, traffic lights, in general, everything.
Trains racing up the Cajon Pass is a sight to behold! The power and speed of these locomotives are truly impressive. Thanks for capturing such an iconic railroading moment!
That is a track-geometry car with a covered-hopper as a safety buffer car. The underside of the geometry car has lasers, scanners, and cameras for measurements.
@@johncamp2567 I don't quarrel with your statement that the buffer car is somehow for safety reasons, however, what particular safety issue would that be? I rode a G-car over several different districts of the ATSF years ago. We never had a railcar between the power and the testing unit. May I suggest that the purpose of the buffer car is to isolate any effect of the power unit operation on the track structure during testing. Certain pass/fail tolerances are measured in fractions of an inch in track geometry. The issue is not far from an issue of correctly measuring the temperature of an axle bearing and accounting for ambient temperature.
