CONRAIL. Monster Test Train on Horse Shoe Curve 1982 

That was a fantastic catch with Conrail. I can still remember their derailment back in the 80's in updtate NY. Driving by and seeing them torch up the wreckage.

Nothing beats the sound of those EMD prime movers!

2:50 will probaly never see that again at Horseshoe Curve

Great to see when sd45 and 45-2's ruled conrail, thanks

AAHHHH! NOTHING LIKE THE SOUND OF SIX EX EL SD45-2S AND 2 SD45S IN THIS MASSIVE FREIGHT TRAIN! OH HOW I MISS THOSE 4 CYCLE EMD 645 V20S LUGGING THERE CYLINDERS OUT CLIMING UP AND AROUND HORSESHOE CURVE!! GREAT VIDEO!

I love the video! Brings back childhood memories, listening to the sound of BN locomotives and that distinctive "chug" echoing across miles of plains to my grandparents house. To say nothing of the singing of the wheels. :) Good stuff; many thanks for posting!

miss the conrail years. they sure had a very distintive sound

Excellent time capsule of early 1980s railroading. Thanks for posting!

That is one massive train! It doesn't seem to end! 5 stars and a fav! Nice catch!

Nice train video

This video has it all! The old steam engine still on the hill. SD40s, SD40-2s, GP40, SD45s, SD45-2s, open roof tri level auto racks, Tanker with hotbox wheels, CR and NW auto parts box cars, thrall door box cars and a bay window caboose!!! No graffiti! SD45s and 45-2s did the helper job that SD50s did and SD60s do today!! Great video for railroad history!

Thank you for sharing.👍

No better sound than notch 8 on the curve!

Great video, I was 3 years old when this was filmed.

WOW! 26,000,400 Horsepower! 3 SD40-2s 1 GP40-2. 2 SD45s mid train helpers! AND 2 EX EL SD45-2s SHOVING UP against the bay window caboose! That indeed was 1 MONSTER FREIGHT! Sigh. I miss those day's of Conrail when EMDs ruled!

That was amazing just how much has changed since then!

Even for how old this footage is that sound is amazing.

Thanks for the awesome video!!! Lots of locomotives with their hair raising sounds. Thanks for not getting the video at a crossing as the horns take away from the badass engine sound !!!!

A Con-Rail monster with SD-60's and open auto-racks. GREAT video!!

Interesting. They even had a caboose attached, even though they had two locomotives at the rear of the train. I've never seen that before.

Awesome video. Grate fetch on the train shedding it's helpers.

Awesome! Amazing sight.

Everything about this film is great, IMHO. The scenery is breath taking - camera really caught those colors well, and I always loved "Big Blue's" paint scheme. This looks like a big automobile train and I have lately developed a good interest in the SD45 locomotive. They're awesome and handsome engines. Didn't they put out 3500 horses? That'd be more than my favorite freight locomotive - the SD40-2.

Super video!

Awesome.. and NS can't seem to keep theirs on the track.. damn I miss Conrail.

Awesome video! Favorite place of mine to railfan outside of Ohio.

Pure blood and guts right there

apparently CSX is doing a similar test again in my area (western NY) one of the first of the DPU Trains was caught by a Virtual Railfan livestream down the mainline in North East PA

You literately have to make SIGN LANGUAGES at each-other in the cab when trains like that are in 'TRAIN STRAIN' mode! :-O

Did you happen to get a count on how many cars were on that train?? The sound of hard working SD40-2s' on the pull would make a great ring tone on my cell phone.

I like how the caboose isn't at the end of the train lol

Nice!

This was late in the SD45 era....SD45-2's, though, were used up through the end of Conrail. This train has both types on it, and I think some of the SD45's are ex PRR.

former EL SD45-2's on the rear

@meccaturbo What about in the middle?

looks like they took every car had put together then added locos wow

@notalott It had 8-10 DP's so maybe not as high as you would think. Of course there are alot of hills around there, so maybe it was close to the melting point, lol.

is it all one train??????????????????????????????????????????????

How many wagons?!

It's like the 38 clowns getting out of the taxi.

Good video,but next time please video the ENTIRE train, some people (including me) actually like to watch the entire train

This is so old!

What are those cars at 4:24?

Back then trains this big was seen as an abnormal experiment that wouldn't fly. Thanks to piss schedule railroading it's the norm now to save the CEOs extra bucks at the expense of everyone below them

there was 215 cars

Freight trains are scary.

auto racks without roofs... almost forgot about those ;-) (edit:) goodness, nor sides! I know why they added them, though. I knew kids in school who delighted in throwing rocks at the autos, trying to smash windows. :-(

Just your average length for a train in 2021.

E-FKN MD