How to Identify Train Locomotives - TrainTalk, Ep.1 

Y'all show some love to your boy. I...I can't believe how long I spent making this.

I feel so educated right now

This is great for a UK enthusiast 😊

Hi Loco, this is beyond great, your videos are wonderful, i live in the UK and have only been able to find a few reference books on USA power that distinguish the vast array you have over there, i'm coming to Cheyenne and Bailey yard next month so this video is a great help to me, and i guess i'm gonna have to put Atlanta on a trip soon to that yard you showed on another of your videos. God bless and please keep this up. Our freight scene in the UK is a quarter of what it was in the 80's........horse shit.

@18:08 Almost. They de-rate them to 4400 HP but the -60 at the end signifies that it is a former 6000 HP unit. Same said railroads did the same thing with EMD units calling their rebuilt SD90MAC as SD9043MAC.

The start is just slander to yourself. Jokes aside one of your best videos. Enjoy your summer and hope to see you out on the high iron.

This is a great video. A lot of good tips in this video for learning loco models and remembering them, just a couple things I wanted to point out. All of CSXs Dash 8s have low ditchlights, not just the Conrail ones. The M in AC4400CWM is actually for "Modernized" from what I heard. These units were rebuilt in recent years and rebuilds for these on CP, UP and CSX are still ongoing, with CSXs entire AC44 fleet currently in the process of being modernized over the next few years. These modern units dont just get new vents, but they also get a whole new cab and inverter cabinet, except for some UP units which didnt get a new cab. UPs C45s are not actually 4500 HP, they are 4400 just like all the others. They were only changed in the designation to differentiate them from AC44s. About 10 SD9043MACs are still active on the Indiana Railroad, but those are soon to be replaced with SD70Ms from UP, as well as there being 3 SD9043MACs active on CP, which are ex UP units that were put into MOW service as they await to be rebuilt into SD70ACUs.

good video. i love trains.

As a guy with absolutely zero knowledge of trains, this video has truly inspired me. Jokes aside, really awesome video! I'm loving this style so far. Nicely done! Also f Canada 🇨🇦 👎

I work at NS and I use this video as a reference to identify the different locomotives I see. Great video and great explanation. Keep up the great work. ✌️

If you spotted an error (I've already spotted two), feel free to comment below. (1) In my diagram of the different locomotives, I put "Electro-Motive Division" instead of "Electro-Motive Diesel." Division was the old name when the company was under General Motors, hence being General Motor's "Electro-Motive Division" before becoming a separate entity. (2) In comparing GE and EMD tanks, I only showed one example of EMD tanks having a single offset cylinder when in reality an EMD tank can have two offset cylinders. This still looks distinct from GE tanks, though, so you should still be able to identify a GE fuel tank from an EMD one.

Mhmmmm you really out done yourself son good shi 🎉 also favorite locomotive?

Nice video!

The one way I can tell the difference between an EMD and a GE is the exhaust placement. The stack for the exhaust on a EMD is closer to the cab as where the GE is closer to the rear

Great video!! Definitely saved this, I’ll be coming back to it many times.

Thank you so much for this information. Hopefully, it can help my train IQ increase in the future! Keep making great videos!

Best video I’ve ever seen from you lol.

The D9-40 and 44CWs some also have Nathan P5 horns to

I hear Minecraft Music. Love it.

You did a good job 👍🏾👏

Im a beginner railfan. Knowing all of the loco types is a bit confusing. Ill try to use ways to ID the loco type like the paint job

Thanks for the comprehensive commentary 👌

One cool fact I learned from the SD70 series is that while the SD70M-2 is the locomotives official designation, the locomotive in it’s development stages was actually designated EMD SD70DCe. Also idk if this is true but there are some articles that states that the SD70M was actually the first variant in the SD70 line then followed by the SD70 but idk if that’s entirely true so I won’t state it as fact, just putting it out there! But good video!

Great video, the only thing is there is no SD30, only GP30 and most Geeps date back farther than the 1970s. Other than that, very informative!

Note another difference on the ES40DC compared to the ES44AC is the dynamic brake house or the grills at the top hard to explain in a comment. Either way ES40DC's of most sorts will have two grills spaced out with a large gap in between (this gap can be seen most predominantly on the conductors side). But as for the ES44AC most of them will have 3 grills with little to no space in between them. As for other GEVOs I've seen early built units with only 2 grills but pushed together and father back to the near end of the inverter area.

Nice video, tho I do still see lots of SD60's & a SD9043MAC as of late 2023 up here in Canada

If you're blind like me, you have to rely completely on the sound, and it seems that sound alone won't help to correctly identify a locomotive.

EMD never used the horsepower in their designations. The number goes by the number of improvements over the original FT locomotives.

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31:20 do you have the original video for this train, it’s definitely 60 mph