I believe it visited IRM years ago.

It used to be owned by UP. UP donated it to the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America in 2022.

Do you not hear the thing? Its barely working on anything. it's pretty much running power off idle. They are going slow on purpose.

Locomotives have to go slow when going through a rail yard.

Hier geht es um eine Dieselllokomotive!

I think you don't know the word "DIESEL" , get better at reading, old man.

And stop shouting, nobody is on your lawn.

You need to settle down fella. Rail-fanning channels are typically considered family channels by civilized human beings. So I am reporting you. Just so you know who did it.

Swiss BLS Re 10/10 is even larger at 17,000HP. PS: I know I'm cheating, but anyway.

Hier geht es um eine Dieselllokomotive!

@@heinzbergner Aber leider war sie nur 20 Jahre tätig. Das ist nichts für eine normale Lok. Für mich die beste Diesel Lok aller zeiten war die spanische Version der V 200 mit zwei Maibach Motoren. Die einzigartige RENFE 4000. Hier bleibt ein Beispiel der Bombardier MXS-627: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dKusMf-v-4A.htmlsi=hqJ-NJqCJB3e0iWq

@@heinzbergner Why use a stinky old diesel when you can have a much more powerful and faster Electric loco.

Nothing. Old BLS Re10/10 is 17,000HP for the pair.

@@petergaskin1811 Very interesting, thank you, in Switzerland that is very usefull. That is why still today the electric loks keep being more powerfull. A pair of the newest Siemens Vectron or Euro-Sprinter get also 17,000 HP.

Wonder if it also has 8 wheel motors.

@@richardl6751 locomotives usually have a motor on every axle

It has two prime movers and D+D wheel configuration.

Off course, it is the "Big Boy". But nowadays you have the largest electric locomotives, the Bombardier IORE and WAP 14 with 14000 HP.

At the time these were built, 1969-1971, EMD was experimenting with very powerful locomotives. The X in the designation stands for experimental. They were reliable and performed extremely well, but they were expensive to maintain so EMD did exactly as you suggested, lashed together smaller units and DPUs. It was really the peak of the experimentation with very powerful units, much like the turbine locomotives that UP had earlier and which were used (mostly) on the very flat portions of the system, though they did well in the mountains as well, such as the Feather River route (rarely seen there).

Why not? Are you afraid?

@@JimmyCasket02 It's for the sake of the Engineer and the cleanup crew. I'm afraid of burdening them with the mess I'd make.

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I think is RS5T

545,000 lbs, 272.5 short tons if i calculate correctly.

Stupid foamer

6600 HP according to Wikipedia. It has essentially 2 of the engines you would find in a GP40 or SD40, which would normally be 3000 HP each, but they are uprated a bit.

@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio They were all derated to 6000 HP back in the day because the 645 engine is basically at its limit when tuned to 3000 HP. Getting that extra 300 HP out of each engine really stressed them and caused lots of problems until UP decided to derate them.

@@ralfie8801 your thinking of the first 3 #6900,#6901 and #6902 made more than the 6600hp during testing and got derated back to 6600hp for durability.. They experimented a bit with them to see what was going to work. Its mentioned in the book "Centennial's in Action"

@@Wolfe351 I guess that’s possible, but I never read that book. I did watch the Pentrex video about the Centennials and I’m thinking that’s what was told in the video, but maybe not.

Monti Carlo

+1

Wouldn't fit anywhere. Too tall, too wide, and certainly way too heavy for any UK track. Shame though, isn't it?

@@DerekWalsh-l4i Why use a weak, difficult to maintain, diesel when you could have a much more powerful electric locomotive at double the power. Those four fixed axle bogeys is a big no no for me anyway.

@@TrainGuy123-qn3ev yes!

best crossover ever

Ain’t gonna happen, UP doesn’t own the 6936 anymore. They donated it along with the 3985 and 5510 steam engines to a museum in Silvis, Illinois a couple of years ago.

Do you have something better? (I doubt it).

​@@2quintly It was intended for the cows and hardly needed anymore.

@@2quintly huh ? anything better than a little bell going ding ding on a huge train ? Reply of the year !

It's to tell people to tgfo of the way​@@Medionxtr

@@pvsantos999 That’s not correct, it’s called a crossing bell here and it’s required by federal law to be activated at all grade crossings and when approaching areas where pedestrians could be present to warn them off the tracks as the locomotive approaches.

It's fabulous Silvis Illinois!!

I'd estimate 2,400.