Perhaps one of the best class 66 clips i've ever seen. This engines first gained my sympathy after a visit to Kingmoor depot during a charitable open day that helped me understand better what was the beast about, as from the lineside things look and sound quite differently and boring. Love or hate them, they are so far the best modern era locomotives on british rail network metals on a freight TOC perspective although not much appreciated by railway enthusiasts due its common presence as a shadow over british traction lost opportunity to have a second chance at first place as result of traction unreliability and unavailability of the 80s when Dady Shed 59s first appeared. Thank you for sharing this fantastic and powerful video.
A good example of EMD's "Super series creep control" in action. It's amazing that on some Mendip aggregate traffic, a single 126 tonne class 59 locomotive can get enough traction to get a train of up to 44 × 102t wagons on the move.
Note the wheel slip management software at work. Several views showed the axle end caps turning slowly when the train was standing still as the system sought to apply more tractive effort to move the train.
Back in the 70s that would have been triple headed 37s! In the early 80s double headed 56s and now a single 66 with all the same results plenty of noise wheel slip and a beach full of sand! You have to give it to General motors ,they know how to build a freight loco!
Good video . What on earth were GBRF thinking making that 66 work like that . There is the 60 & 67 parked up they could of helped push the train . What was the 67 doing at Peak forest .
That's some serious thrashing bashing abusing. That thing was on the limit. Impressive power right there. I dont think slamming it into notch 7 right from the start helped Noticed when the driver throttled back roundabout 2:40 to what sounds like notch 6 it gained some traction and picked the the load. Good stuff great catch.
@@Railfreight37 yea I caught that, I think the sand on the front bogie kicked in as well half way through, I suppose you can't tease 2000 tonne of ballast up an incline easily, perhaps it's full power or nothing. Seems a bit brutal either way but they were designed for it I guess 😬
