After sitting for a red signal, a loaded coal train resumes its trip east into Ottumwa, IA on 10/19/13. Lead units are BNSF 8904 SD70MAC and BNSF 8773 SD70ACe. BNSF 9727 SD70MAC serves as DPU.
@Randall Slaughter there are some videos were you can kind of hear. The best one is where they do a self load test but you can still barely hear anything. I miss the 710... kinda wish they'd make the 710 EPA complaint and throw it in the new SD70
Rod, thank you so much! I can't tell you how much I resonated with this comment.... Don't get me wrong I love a good hornshow every once and a while but usually I want to hear the engine, not the horn.
Great video. Right at about 1:45 the engineer takes it up a few more notches. Nothing quite as satisfying or like a couple of EMD's doing their job. So much better sounding then a GE.
Wow dude, That EMD 710 engine BASS is nothing short of brute and powerful. EMD Power is great, 2-Strokers are best! What a great vid this one! Thank you!
Thanks for watching. Pulling approximately 400,000 ton. Running a v-20 fiat Alice tug boat engine with full inter axel wheel lock deployment and sand spreader. 850,000 tracktive drive to dah rail. 4,000 break wheel horse power each wheel. Let’s go with throttle up. Notch 7 please. Puuuuuuuuuuuulllllllllll
Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha pleeeeease, stop talking bullshit 9 car. Is that the same Fiat tugboat engine that your wrecker runs as well? 9 car Cottrell you don't half talk a load of shit on here. I mean, as well as your wrecker, you run a dozer and a minehaul truck (lmao), you drive a 9 car stinger (lmao), apparently also drive a Kenworth heavy hauler in Australia (lmao), and also an ex Concorde pilot/captain (pmsl). Oh and let's tell 'em your latest.... Captain and Shift Commander LaBonte USAF Patriot Wing and your other identity as "x Recon usmc!!! I smell bullshit. lmfao
@Dick Little like I said above, he's all over You Tube with these comments, on everything from train videos, Concorde videos, C5 Galaxy videos, mining videos etc etc. The exact same comments appear on "ex Recon usmc" profile/channel as well.. A few of us on here have a good idea who it actually is....🤣🤣🤣🤣
You know the engineer is a beast and knew exactly what to do without causing wheel slip! He’s like yea approach signal, 30 mph np, jus watch me throttle lol
Not even full throttle when the lead units passed the cameraperson... sounds like Run 6, but still sweet! Nice surprise at the end with the SD70MAC pusher at Run 8.
The dpu units are never at full power atlease I've never heard one don't think that would make a whole lot of sense to be pushing hard at the back and not pull hard at the front dpu units are for slack control and assisting.
It would depend on the grade actually as to what the rear is doing If it's still pushing up grade then it could be pushing harder then the lead units which would keep the slack bunched together
what the DPU throttle setting is at depends on a few things (track profile, company route methodology, engineers feel)....on decent up/downhill grade you will have the DPUs follow the Leads throttle/DB settings....but in some undulating country you may choose to “put up the fence” and control the remotes independantly of the lead to manage run in/run outs by reductions the DPUs throttle settings.....one yard we use to come into on empties we even had the lead in DB and the DPUs in 2 notches of power to control the slack due to the undulating profille....even trains i’ve driven the company went through fuel saving tests by having the dpu’s in idle or 1 notch on their empties ....railroads are looking for efficiency all the time, usually rehashing things from the last 50yrs of DP trains used over the world which us aussies have used since the late 60s
Two SD70MAC's=4,000 horsepower each; a total of 8,000 horsepower. An SD70ACe: 4,400 horsepower. What you've got here is a whopping grand total of 12,400 horsepower moving that train!
@@paulspomer16 And assuming the MAC's have been re-geared to 4,300 horsepower... two re-geared MACs= 4,300hp each for a total of 8,600hp one Tier 3 ACe=4,500hp Our new grand total is 13,100 horsepower.
I bet the rates are cheap at that caravan park for non foamers. But man how I would love to stay there overnight listening to those EMDs howl off into the distance in the middle of the night!
In future, as the end of the train approaches, slowly pan the camera back to to focus on the upcoming DPU unit(s) and you can then do another runby pan of them as well.
Running a fiat Alice tug boat engine with full inter axel wheel lock deployment and sand spreader. About 850,000 tracktive drive to dah rail. Can I get a throttle up please ❓puuuuuuuuuullllllllll
I really wish for the sd70ace they would've stuck with mac style windows instead of dash 9 style it would look better and it would fill that bottom part of the window it just looks off.
Here I’m spooled up deep 660,000 pounds per one car. Running a fiat Alice tug boat engine inter axel wheel lock deployment and sand spreader 100 percent lockers. Bout 850,000 tractive drive to dah rail. Goo with throttle up notch seven please. Puuuuuulll
that's a lot of train for 3 locomotives. I've seen the green 9727 SD 70 MAC in Washington a number of times on coal trains, especially empties going east over Steven's pass
We get coal drags like this on the UP 3 or 4 times an hour in Lawrence KS, but they are following the river downhill here so I can never catch them working just gliding through....
Good grief! How long is that train? 😮 Freight trains in the UK are faster, but the locos themselves aren't as big as in the US and they don't pull as much in one go (at least not from what I've seen.) The US freight system is a thing of beauty though, and I love the locos you guys use over there, they're so noisy!
LOL, and of course don't forget the obligatory RV park/campground right next to the tracks! I RV travel extensively, and it seems having such a park next to railroads is trendy and commonplace.
If i was a train operator I would be embarrassed if I didn't order enough horsepower 0zfto pull my load and I'm struggling just saying myself personally I don't know much about trains and how they pulling how they work but I would have had three on the head end a mid DPU and the end train DPU
One hundred and thirty one wagons unless I miss counted,that’s some load at say 50 tons per wagon,coal is heavy stuff when crushed ready for the power station to burn,no wonder it needed a banker at the rear.
Today but is March 14 2021 17:01 and I think I add how much the train pulling I think it around 5,792,000 to 8,112,000 pound 2896 to 4056 tons of coal .just asking how much is a tons of coals worth
