The little blue engine that could. (Update as of 10/4/2020) G&W RR owns this line now, and the locomotives no longer with the railroad. HOG: GP38 #2038 HOG: GP40-2 #1740 Taken on E. College St. Americus, Ga.
That conductor is taking a big risk standing in front so close to the locomotive ! Had the engineer snapped a coupler he would of been crushed ! And order 8 new traction motors, just double the hill !
You're not wrong on the safety front, but a couple of GP-38s are nowhere even close to exceeding the working strength of a coupler. Janney's are rated to 900,000lbs if I remember correctly. These Jeeps probably aren't exceeding 100,000lbs between the two of them.
Fantastic catch Douglas! Just shows how good traction control is (even this older stuff) when it's working properly! The second unit's TC is a bit hit and miss, hence the run away wheel slip but still a impressive job by the hogger! Wheelslip and traction motor blowers = fire at 8;20..LOL A great clip and thanks for the top show! Cheers Gregg.
I would have liked to see the short time rating clock. I've only had this happen a couple of times. We had to double the hill both times. Excellent video Douglas.
That was a hard battle, the loco's were close to maximum TE, as they were often in notch 8 with wheels still gripping more or less, untill the second unit gave way. Altough things seemed to move better in notch 6 or 7. The conductor sitting that close in front of the locomotive pouring dirt on the tracks was putting himself in danger, imagine if a knuckle pulled on one of the loco's, they would jump forward without notice before emergency brakes come in when pulling the trainline apart.
Need to keep some of that liquid rubber in the cans like Home Depot sells to keep on board so somebody can go along in front of that engine pouring it on the tracks to give it some traction.... Or just get the train company to buy some of those red and black engines, they are way more powerful than the blue and yellow ones.............
2038 is still there and is the only blue engine left on the HOG. By chance when did HOG 2130 arrive. It was mostly with Georgia Central until recent months.
I saw a video of a train in India that had wheel slip ... they put some ballast stones on the rails, and when the wheels crushed them, they basically acted like sand. :P
What a epic video! Not the best engineer. With all that electricity going to the traction motors and hardly any movement, surprised the traction motor cables didn't start smoking. Great video with the long uninterrupted filming. Love the sound of those motors.
@@pootispiker2866 The Amp meter is based on the locomotive moving. These are DC motors with brushes. All that amperage is just cooking those motors when it isn't turning. I am surprised I did see a huge cloud of white smoke from melting copper at some point. Very unprofessional engineer.
I know this is 4 months old but ill give you an answer. Because they were forced to, they really couldnt go any faster up the grade, im betting theyre pulling a good amount of weight, it was slowing them down to begin with when going up an incline, and then they started losing traction. You could also see a guy clearing stuff off the tracks to help the train gain traction, so yeah, slowing down and stopping wasnt by choice. With locomotives these situations can happen, part of the job when youre pulling massive weights. These locomotives are heavy and powerful but even they have limits that are occasionally exceeded.
In North America, single locomotives are designed to pull large trains all alone, unlike European units. This means having more power than can bite in at very low speeds, causing slipping. Automatic wheel slip control has been in use the late 50s, again mostly unlike Europe, to combat this. ADAC is doing its job very well in this video, even correcting synchronous slips.
@@DouglasP201im not sure, but I think the FRA can down your power for that.....when I was at the RAILNET a agent heard us on the radio....I came out and met up with us, and asked us why we signed the cards that morning....your signing the card proving your 100% inspection....if your sanders don't work, then you lied....
It's actually incredible how many old EMD's don't have working sanders these days. The pipes get bent up and they clog up pretty easily. Most of the time the sand is just kept in the tanks as ba;;ast to give them some extra weight.
what a lazy conductor....lets manually sand the rails for 5 feet....damn....I used to manually sand 1.8 miles of hill while the brakeman made the train up...
