Fantastic train, just everything that was available powers this train. GP-9, C40-8 and a SW, must be a dream seeing and hearing them on a mainline freight.
Norfolk Southern Lehigh Valley Railfan those engines used for road switching and yard work only used when trains get stalled on a hill yard crew help shove up the hill to cooktown.
When i worked at CN in the 1970's and had to calculate the tonnage for a train going up that hill, i made a slight error and the train had to stop and remove half the consist go to Copetown and come back for the other half I think that was a 10 demerit day
A little background for those not familiar with this part of Canada.... I am certainly not an expert, but I think this hill is on what we locally call the Niagara Escarpment.. This is a cliff that runs along quite a distance of southwest Ontario. If you have ever seen photos of Niagara Falls, that is the point where some of the water falls off it. My father-in-law drove trains in this area for the TH&B (Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo).
farmerbb11 Ya that is the Niagara Escarpment, I am from Hamilton. You see... all the factories and steel mills are down at the harbors edge and the only way for the trains to get down in there is by heading down the Escarpment.
Haha, all that crude oil is really heavy! (Crude oil is the D.O.T. placard (red diamond things) # 1267. Another common placard is # 1075, which is LPG, aka Liquefied Petroleum Gas)
@ billy bob, there are crew change points where out bound crews take over! and in bound crews are sent to hotel or bunk house for rest! if youre in bound crew and at your home station then you can take longer break than if you were on road!
Great Video! I like those old looking target signals at 0:30. If he didn't have helper locomotives in the back of the train, he probility would've never made it up this hill.
Wow, how steep is that grade? That's pretty cool to see a GMD-1 shoving a big train like that! I could be wrong, but the head-end power seems to only be in Notch 6 or so, definitely not full, as evidenced by the turbo. I wonder if they were getting hot! Nice catch! I really hope to see a GMD-1 some day, but those days are numbered, I guess!
awesome video. just wondering if in some of your other videos your panning is so smooth because of a nice tripod/ a certain technique or do you smooth it out in your editing program? thanks
The lakeshore line runs right behind my house (right by the Mississauga/Oakville borderline) and I SWEAR I just saw that 1444 engine pass by a couple of days ago. I remember this because I've never seen an engine like that before. In the 20+ years I've lived here, I've never once seen a train with helpers on the back...why is that??
GE Toasters gettin' their BACKS BROKEN on the leading end in a BRUTAL WAY! Wonder how close the toasters were to catastrophically putting all the con rods through the block and wrecking the frame from the carnage? IMO, if a locomotive, steam or diesel, ain't getting its back utterly broken on a freight haul, its not being worked hard enough, and the engines ARE being worked hard enough here, straining for all they're worth. That's getting the utter last limit of load through and fully using every last scrap of power.
Matt Kelly EMD 567 engines are never naturally aspirated. The 567s are 2-stroke engines and require a blower to supply air to clear the cylinders and provide combustion for the next cycle. They are basically Detroit Diesel engines that grew big. sdrm.info/roster/diesel/emd/history/16-567-1.jpg The two oval covered units at the top of the picture are the blowers. Some later units have gear driven turbos that decouple from the gear drives as they spool up.
All newly-manufactured EMD units are turbocharged, and have been since the mid-1980's with the launch of the 710 line. The 567D was the first turbocharged engine produced by EMD with collaboration with UP through their Omaha GP20 units (besides the SD24's). The first full production turbocharged locomotive models built by the company were the GP35 and the SD35 (apart from the DD35).
The GP20's and SD24's essentially began as upgraded GP18's and SD18's. They eventually became production models after UP reported their success with their early pre-production shop testbed units.
Literally every domestic (or Canadian) EMD model built prior to 1961 was roots-blown. The only modern roots-blown units in active service on US Class 1 railroads (excluding KCS, CN, and CP) are the 645 models like the GP38-2, MP15AC, and the GP15-1.
+MK ...all non-turbocharged EMDs are considered to be naturally aspirated...that's because the roots blowers provide only scavenge air...the exhaust valves close after the intake ports...so there is no supercharging effect taking place...on turbocharged EMDs...the exhaust valves close before the intake ports exposing the cylinders to supercharged air from the turbocharger...
some crew will stay on a entire trip eg sarnia to toronto or toronto to niagara falls. trains from montreal to toronto will change crews at belleville. in toronto thier are lots of subs so no you dont stay in one sub
With DC traction motors at low speeds you shouldn't be in the 8th notch, you still put the same amount of tractive effort out. If you are in the 8th notch you risk the chance of slipping with a higher amp rating.. which would bring you to a stop.
I am always surprised to see how long and dead slow are the fret trains in Canada and USA (compared to here in Europe). Why is it so, and why not dividing a convoy in two or three parts that could be moved faster. This may save at least one (or may be two) days of travel time from one coast to the other... Very nice video though. Thanks
why divide a train into 3rds when you can move it all at once??????????… way too expensive for the railroads to do that... you're doubling or even tripling every expense doing it your way
@Charlie Schulz Thanks! To answer your question about my panning technique, I generally try to avoid smoothing while editing so I try to pan as smoothly as possible, however, I also use a Manfrotto tri-pod which makes the effort much easier
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