Cab Tour of an ET44C4 & the BNSF Business Train!!! 

makes 2 of us....did plenty of miles in GP8s and GP10s.....as well as B23-7s.....

That's what she said

@@ian_the_random Lmao got me laughing

@@DFWTrains The best part is when you spin the locos around and around!

You used to run trains? You can run a train on me.

Thank you! Those locomotives are awesome!

Thank you! It's always cool to see the inside and how everything works and where doors lead to

Dave W Inside that door is a sand box, as well as a little corridor to a set of fairly steep steps, the fronts of which are removable for access to the piping and wiring under the cab floor, as well as the lighting for the step well. There are lights inside the wall cavities and overhead. The bathroom has a standard sized toilet. Some flush to a holding tank with redwood pieces inside the tank, to help break down the contents. Others are vacuum operated, like those used onboard airplanes. Another small room, in the nose, under tge area before the windshield, is an area where tge Sanding and forward horn relays and associated air magna-valves are mounted. Radio equipment and GPS racks and Cab Signal equipment are mounted in quick-change racks, welded to the floor and wall. Some units of some companies have a small refrigerator in this hallqay, too, as well as a urinal that has a small sink that also runs its drain-water to flush the urine down its drain. This, in most cases, drains out thru a rubber hose about a foot above the cross-ties behind the coupler area clamped to the back of the draft-gear pocket assembly. All the area ceiling to wall radiused areas have removable access plates about every two feet, to replace bad antenna and electrical circuitry that run inside a duct system. All the equipment runs on eight 8volt batteries, or, on the newer units, unitized batteries equal to four batteries each. Somw types of units have one battery box on each side of the unit and most GE's have the batteries on one side and the Air Conditioning unit on tge other, just outside the long hood cab window. Most of the circuit breakers are in the cab, situated below the Isolation Panel. The Control Stand is at the top of the steps, to your left, usually, and the main electrical cabinet is directly in front of you as you come off the steps. It houses all the relays and contactors needed to control the operation of the unit, plus take care of the charging rate of the batteries and control the many circuits of lights. Motor control equipment, Dynamic Braking equipment, as well as radio and telemetry equipment. The Engineer has his own seating area and can easily turn and face either direction and can drive the locomotive in either direction. The Fireman and Conductor also have their own seats, but on the opposite side of the cab than the engineer. There are, also, pull-down spring-loaded seating for use if additional seating us required. The area behind the center split I'm the windshield, is where the dash camera is mounted as well as the Cab-Signal tree. Aomw units still have individual cab heaters that use engine water for the heat. Some are all electric and some use "Strip-Heaters" just above the base-boards. I hope this gives you a little deeper knowledge of the cab area of a locomotive. This just scratches the surface, but will being your knowledge up a tad. Thanks for letting me share some of my knowledge.

@@general5104 how do they empty the septic tanks? I have a few rail yards around me and I don't see any septic tanks unless its connected into the city sewer

That's awesome! I wanna see the cab of an ex SP sometime. I bet that was amazing

Nice!!

Luck lol

they use hand sanitizer or use their water bottles. just like theres no sink in porta johns. trains arent equiped with water, they have (in both bnsf and up's case in my district) 20 packs of 10oz water bottles. theres just massive pallets of them in every yard.

Gregory Spivey I didn't have much time in the cab so I was trying to get as much on camera as possible. Try putting the video on .5 or .25 speed or pausing every once in a while

Roger that. :) I probably would have done the something just from the excitement of being there. Again I really want to thank you for posting this, and don't stop filming.

Gregory Spivey Thanks. I have plenty more videos to post so stay tuned.

+Gregory Spivey I noticed the quick jerky camera in the cab too but appreciate him trying to share his experience with us.

Yeah Correct!

Nolan Abell, hidy...imagine working on and driving these evey day for 36 plus years. It always gives me the warm & fuzzies when I tour a unit. Thanks!

Amen I just have to say praise GOD I have nothing to fear or worry about because I’m saved and going home are you? Turn to the LORD and have all!!!! GOD bless you all keep doing for the LORD using your special gift amen hallelujah praise GOD!!! GOD bless all!!! Amen GOD is so good amen!!!!

@@general5104 Amen I just have to say praise GOD I have nothing to fear or worry about because I’m saved and going home are you? Turn to the LORD and have all!!!! GOD bless you all keep doing for the LORD using your special gift amen hallelujah praise GOD!!! GOD bless all!!! Amen GOD is so good amen!!!!

Run the video on .25 speed.

he is like 17 dude

@@frankk1512 He thinks he is on a merry go round. I wonder if the throttle controls the spin?

Lower the playback speed

He doesn’t have to slow down just play the video at a certain speed you’re so annoying

+Terrell Howard They're pretty cool although I don't like how the BNSF letters are so small

i find the new GEVOs boring i like the classic ALCOs and EMD

Terrell Howard Yeah the new GE's are pretty cool but noticeably quieter than older GEVOs, AC44s, and Dash 9s and 8s. Still T4s are some very cool units.

I miss the C30-7s...to bad I need to travel to Brasil to see them...some are still in ATSF and BN paint!

I always wondered the same thing. So if they dont, I'm assuming they stop somewhere to sleep?

@@natew48 I've seen videos of them just sleeping in the chairs kinda like what you'd do in your car on a long road trip.

​@@natew48 i believe i can answer this but I don't know if they want that information out in the public.

take a train down, crew change, stay over at a hotel, take a train back home

This company has driver that drive the crew to and from hotels when it’s time for them to go to sleep my mom and step dad use to work for the driving company but I always thought they had beds in them too before she started working their

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Conductors don't sleep on the train. The railroads are divided up and crews each take a shift on a train across the country.

Not sure what a 'long haul' is but the crew has a 12-hour shift whether they make it to their destination or not. If not they will most likely get relieved by a fresh crew then get vanned to a hotel for their FRA mandated rest. Then the cycle repeats again the next day going home. MOST runs are somewhere between 100-300 miles. Dispatchers will use every minute of your 12 hours too.

Broken probably because 2 trucks were blocking the road.

Run it back on 0.25 speed.

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Bnsf et44c4leaving while music playing🎵

Nice, I'd like to check that out

@@DFWTrains I’ll post a link

@@DFWTrains ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BIIXV5a6HGo.html

@Hello D Lobes, How are you doing?

@@lydiaanderson3312 ll

Bru 😂

No secret tunnel. They go out the back door along the engineer's side and cross over at the back of the locomotive. In case someone hops on board, they take out the reverser and automatic brake handles so anyone who happens to be on board is unable to release the brakes and get the locomotive moving.

The cab itself is pretty much a safe room. They're built to withstand pretty damn rough impacts.

Thank you!

No bunks. They stop and swap for crew changes along the route

No sleeping quarters, because they do their run, according to their orders, and park on a siding, or yard.. and either tied down, or wait on the new crew, brought by van, from yard, or hotel.. to relieve them.. And the van, takes them to another train, or home yard, or hotel, for their break..

AMEN.. like he had the camera on a string and whizzed it around.. a bit of description would not go astray either.. Thumbs down,, no sub

@@mattwalsh9278 Huge loss

@Hello Dargent, How are you doing?

@@lydiaanderson3312 doing great and you?

Thank you very much!

The crew asked me. I basically got very lucky

@Hello michel lepage, How are you doing?

@@lydiaanderson3312 hello dear

@@MikeMercury Nice meeting you dear, I loved meeting new friend and get to know each other as well with time and patience dear, Can you suggest a way we can stay in touch off here and chat as well dear.

Thanks! I've had 3 cab tours: this one, an SD70ACe, and a P42DC

Oh, awesome!!!!!!! I want to get a cab tour on an ES44AC, and an older Dash 8 (B40-8S).

Those would be cool but I think a C44-9W warbonnet would be the best.

Oh hell yeah! Or a Heritage unit!

Trains N' Stuff I've been in a heritage unit. I'm not gonna say which one because the engineer told me to keep it secret lol.

when they take a siding near some businesses if they know its gunna be a while they run and get fast food and use the bathroom.

Joe Milko Xd

Thank you!

+Fred Marlin That's pretty awesome! I wish I was able to ride it.

As stated in the description, I had much less camera experience back then and didn’t know how to film it right

Nice! These tier 4 locomotives are becoming very easy to see on BNSF tracks.

Skateboarder Robley They shut them off so they wouldn’t be holding up traffic.

That's awesome! Thank you for serving!

Extremerailfangamer 1206 777 8888 BNSF is usually pretty nice to us railfans

@Hello Victor Schepers, How are you doing?