Familiar sight for this California boy. I've seen trains stall on Cajon Pass more than once. One time as I was watching and photographing a train struggling to a stop, the hogshead leaned out the window and yelled "Can you give us a push?"
The president (Ed Burkhardt) of the company that owned the WC, also owned the ATN in Australia and ordered the popular maroon scheme to be used on these Australian locomotives. One of my all time favorite paint schemes!
No need for the rail grinder to ckme thru afger thag one lol THat lead unjt looked and sounded lkke lne of ljr GP338's in the States. I've been very impressed with what I've seen in videos ojt of Australia. I
I've drove trains for 27 years...And I'm just speechless. I wish I could give you those two clapped out D-944cw's that just sit in the yard just to make the pain go away. Great video!! you filmed this well.
Closing my eyes, I can imagine the sounds of the motive power belonging to the Rio Grand, and the units dragging a Coal Train through the Rocky Mountains... Best video I have seen in a VERY long time, cudos!
I live along WC's now CN's mainline in Michigans upper peninsula, I knew they had foreign assets but I didnt know they had them repainted! Sweet video!
Hello friend, the locomotives you mentioned have the EMD 645 engine built under licence here in Australia by Clyde Engineering. The power rating is 2240 kW or roughly 3000hp. Hope this helps you, jager..Cheers (happy railroading)
Kuddos to the B74 (it did all the hard work and was the real backbone) ,still it did look kinda out of place or did it?....Still a great video....EPIC!
You know, I never made the connection before! ATN( Australian Transportation Network) was owned by Wisconsin Central from 1997 until 2004, when it was taken over by Pacific National. Some of these locos are ex-New Zealand EMD's.
@upheritage6 .It is an ex-Western Australian Railways L class loco, built by Clyde Engineering in 1967. Looks like an Aussie version of an SD45. Someone is obviously a fan of Wisconsin Central, it looks very similar, don't you think?
That bend is about 1 kilometre up the bank which is around 1:40. Telephoto lens also makes train appear slower. Normal speed there is about 30km/h dropping to about 20 through the station, after a speed of about 80 at the bottom of the bank. Possibly a trailing unit didn't power up at the bottom, and may have come good when he stopped, shut off and the contactors reset.
We were already making switch engines by the time the F's came out for that and when it came to road switching service we had the RS-1 in 1941 only a couple years after the F's. So the reason we didn't try a double ended F unit was because we didn't see a need for one with the advent of the road switcher locomotive. As for the the WC, most foreign assets were sold off not too long after the merger with Canadian National.
@lloydbolier Yeah, big time! Im a track guy in the UK, It causes some pretty good 'digs' in the rail normaly resulting in a 5 hour arc weld repair or a rail change. Ive got some good pics of that sort of damage!
Nice video! My guess is the B74 slipped its wheels because its lighter than the L type locos. Also I'll bet the traction motors took a beating trying to get this train moving again.
Time to lay down some sand. Looks like he had some serious wheel slip at about 2:30 with all those sparks flying. Hey, what does a green over green signal indication mean? There is no such thing in the US to my knowledge--there is red over green (diverging clear) or green over red (clear) or sometimes yellow over green (advance diverging). In the US the top signal refers to the track presently occupied and the bottom signal refers to the diverging track (turnout). Never seen double green.
LOL at 1:25 all I can think of is Princess Leia asking, "would it help if I got out and pushed?" to a clearly irritated Han Solo or train drivers in this case.
lol, imagine all the people who werent expecting a full loaded grain train to stop at the station and the others who were getting off on the other side of the platform ( which was out of shot) !!!
It indicates full clear. Basically the top light is the signal you are at and the bottom light is indicative of the next signal. Top green is always a proceed indication whereas a bottom yellow indicates "next signal at caution", bottom red indicates "next signal at stop", top and bottom red is stop. If a train is to be stopped at a signal, the signals it passes will be green over green, green over yellow, green over red, red over red. It allows for closer signal spacings in high traffic areas.
One thing I dont understand i why you guys do or make trains super huge, I mean long!!!!!!!!!! You aint american plus next time the should include some locos in the mid section on the train and at the rear, and you wont see wheel slip or nothing! Think about it.
