BNSF freight train climbs the steep Rocky mountain grade at full throttle. 

The amount. Of work those traction motors are doing is insane!

Wow, that train had a little bit of everything loaded on it!

there was that one point where the harmonics probably had every coyote for miles going "Oh, christ, my eeearrrs!!!!

I've often thought that these specific locations, through mountains where you know for a fact you're going to be running super-heavy tonnage year around, that electrification would be a good option. Your could have 7k, 8k, even 10k HP electric locos the same size as conventional diesel powered models since you don't have to worry about self-powering the large drive motors. Better still, 70%-80% of the electricity they pull from the grid going **up** the mountain can be reclaimed thought regenerative braking going down the other side. Obviously you'd lose a little time connecting and disconnecting the fully-electric helpers, but if you could get it down so you just needed one electric helper at the front and maybe one at the back (spreading out the tractive effort, etc.) and be able to idle the diesel locos during the crossing (excellent safety too since you could instantly bring the diesels back up if something went wrong with the helpers) I would think would save a lot of fuel and a lot of wear and tear.

A real nice freight train through the mountains... I like it.

I've watched a lot of R/R videos and I have to say that this is one of the best. And the sounds are just so so great.

love that sound.

I just notice something that I haven't seen in railroading in years at 2:50 to 3:02.New graffiti free Box Cars.

Beautiful. Keep em coming

A fantastic route. A very nice video.

Absolutely a majestic video

There are a lot of people who dont know a thing about locomotive traction motors. All you have to do is look at the different gear ratios stenciled on the locomotive trucks, and for example, al locomotive that has a gear ratio of 62to 15 will give you a total speed of 65 mph . All locomotives that are geared below 65 mph will take a heavy train up the grade without stalling. But ,locomotives that's geared for high speed trains will stall on the grades.And what you will get is reduced reactive effort at low speeds. Your don't have to go to school or college to learn about traction motors and different gear ratios!all you have to do is look at the numbers that are write on the locomotive trucks and look at the maximum speed of the locomotive inside the cab above the windshield, above the control stand. It will tell you what the limit of speed the locomotive is allowed to go.

at least one of those trucks at the back had about 3 flat tyres on it so be fun moving that one

Here are the different types of gear ratios for diesel locomotives. 81-71 will give you 83 mph . 59-18 will give you 90 mph.a 74-18 will give you 93 mph.and a 61-16 will give you a 78 mph gearing. All these are high speed ratings that are strictly for high speed trains!also, locomotives that have very low speed gearing in a mixed consist of locomotives cannot not exceed the top speed of the lowest geared locomotive in the consist on any given train!the purposes of this is to prevent the traction motors from burning up on the high speed locomotives that are in the consist. This is why you should never put locomotives with high speed gearing on slow,heavy drag freight on mountainous grades!it you put this type of locomotive on a heavy grade,you will burn the traction motors up!spin them much faster and you will burn the whole locomotive up.

Awesome video!!!!

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The locomotives engines burn my ears

Challenger : hold my beer... Diesel 1, diesel 2, diesel 3 : .... FUCK...😂

GOOD CATCH.

4 engines 4000 hp, 12 MW, 80 carriages, average weight 40T?, 3200 ton, mgh, height gain per second 12000000/32000000, 14 inches vertical climb per second.

Freight cars: Hold back! Hold back!

This looks like view from Winter park. Stayed there 30 years ago and could not believe a train could climb that hill. Amazing. Wonder what the grade is there?

Unreal

That ncpx car still had a brake on. Your welcome 😂

Where is this spot at? And amazing video.

What is the grade of this climb?

The only thing that train didn't have were intermodal containters.

Great video! Do you know why they prefer the GE's on this route?

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can someone tell me this exact location

Looks like that line used to be electric

How many % incline is this ?

Where is this at? Tunnel 17 doesn't yield any results on Google.

And one steam engine would do this every day.😅

signal lines still in use?

how much traffic is on this route these days?