MASSIVE Lashup of Ten EMDs, Five PRLX SD70M-2s Stalling and Howling in Notch 8 

For clarification, of the ten locomotives seen in this lashup, five of them were dead in tow, those five being the ex-NS PRLX SD70M-2s that are being moved onto CSX trackage. The SD40-2s and GP38-2s on the front were all online, but when they were leaving the yard, only two of the five were running (the first and third engines, indicated by the exhaust stacks). As a result, despite the abundance of online power, only 2/5 was actively pulling the train until the engineer got out and did some work, thus why they were struggling so much.

Suuuuuuuuper good capture. Happy there was no chugging GE's to muddy the sound of those EMD's.

Love the sound of those EMDs in notch 8. The ammeters must be in the red zone.

Great video! I'm a NZer and when I visited my relatives in Canada in 2002 I loved seeing the huge locos pulling trains alongside the Bow River in Calgary. Great to see - much better than our boring locos in NZ!

That's some insane power... Cool clip !!

Wow impressive and, nice catch! Cheers David from Maryland, USA! 👍🔥

Nice lashup and light powermove

Cool..Heck of a catch.

A bruh moment in epic proportions EMD-ly.

Imagine getting stopped at a rr crossing by a train with that many engines hooked together. It'd make you think there are a thousand railcars behind those engines.

Very good catch! So many EMDs!

That is so cool, a three train meet!

I believe the SD70M-2s are going to Progress Rail for the SD70ICC rebuild program.

4:24 Triple Train meet?! Awsome!!

Great catch!

Super catch! Awesome! 👌👍

Love the GP 38 exhaust sound

BROOOTAL! insane way to show power, I love EMD engines 😎

Looks like a very steep approach to the main!

Great video

Nice video, likes from me !

You know that train had to be damn heavy to have all that power down on it's knees crawling like that!

Talk of a WOW of a Lash up.

I bet you all the steam enthusiasts are having a field day with this one.

That crazy they needed big boy to help them

I'm sure you're aware of this already, CSXT1869 is 2 of 2 on B622-29 with CSXT4580 leading, fresh SD70... I believe this goes through Atlanta

I’m in love 😍 😍😍😍

Ten locomotives on the mashup, thats insane, like it 5 stars. Thumbs up. Keep up the perfect work, my friend, liked and subscribed, Greetings from Portugal to the USA.

Awesome!

Would’ve been interesting to hear the radio traffic on that one.

Yup that’s EMD For Sure.

super video bro

Looks like yhe lease is up and those 5 trailing locomotives are headed to PRLX. For update & new leasees.

How many handbrakes were left on,found that was a problem with trains put together in a yard then turned over to a road crew.

Reminds me of when dad worked on the rock island.... deferred maintenance at its finest....lets hope the government takes this railway over and reforms it....

Hard to believe the generator or motors don't give out

One of the things that gets missed is the railroad from a business standpoint really doesn't care about power ratings and mathmatical formulas for how much power to really move a train for ease of use and all that kind of thing, all of that means nothing to them. They want maximum utalization of what would be considered "heavy assets". So why tie up 4 locomotives to move a train when we can tie up 2 locomotives and get the job done, oh sure it may take a little longer and be harder on the crew, but that's no concern of there's the crew is here to work and we pay them good money so they can earn it and struggle through and if they can't get up the hill or whatever, then we can just divert power from a passing train to help push them up the hill and then both trains can be on the way and we can run more trains and make more money. The railroad isn't going to tie up 4 locomotives when 2 will get it done just so the crew has an easier time getting a low priority manifest train across the road. The railroad doesn't care about beating on equipment either the equipment only is going to last as long as it's going to last anyhow is how they see it. Now if it's a highly profitable high priority unit train or intermodal train that's a little different, or some customer that the railroad decides is a baby to them, then it's different. But they figure to waste a bunch of power so we can get some low priority manifest train to the yard easier and faster when in all likely hood the low priority train is going to sit for a day or 2 before we start breaking it apart and delivering the cars really doesn't matter to them how fast the train gets over the road. Especially the one and two car load customers that are low volume buyers. Or taking a string of empty box cars or whatever to a yard when they are sitting because they use them in that area eventually, not a priority not something they are going to want to divert a lot of resources and time to.

Are the trying to pull a town up that hill? Scotty, get the riding crop would ya?

Wow 😳

Here in Georgia I see mainly NS and a few CXS!

Awesome

And you got a 3 train meet

So much HP in run 8 I had to SUB.🇺🇸

Those GE’s at the end be like “excuse us, coming through, make a hole” 😂😂

Do ya have a long form version of this video? I'd love to see the whole process without any cuts

This just shows how stingy NS is about it's locomotive power. It forces every railroad engineer to use the bare minimum despite there being abundant power and only allows them to activate another engine when the train stalls.

Having worked for the NS I can tell you for certain that the NS will try to do the bare minimum. Shot you a subscribe.

How many locomotives did they have on the head end,were they all running ? Did they have any more in the train?

I’ll bet those Hot Engine alarms are going off.

How do you know the details of the trains? I have trains that pass through Clemson everyday and still do not know the engine types or what we haul the most. We do love our Clemson Tigers!!

The power of GENERAL MOTORS !

I saw 8 CSX AC44CWS leading a train and the first 4 were pulling the train

I see those poor SD40’s and what looks like GP38’-40’s struggling to pull 5 SD70’s plus train!…cruel just cruel!

NOT all units are on line and the PRLX units are not even running obviously. No batteries in one view.

All that power and its still too heavy? Good god.

Most normal day in Atlanta:

First locos just trying to pull start the rest!😂😂

All of that damn power and he has the lead SD40-2 and a GP38-3 online...AND the High and Wide behind the 70M-2s?! Come Onnn NS, Do Better!

I noted that not all the engines were active (by looking at the exhaust stacks). Did the engineer start up more units? Oil the turbos for more power?

If 5 engines were in tow, was that the reason for the stall? What are the power requirements to tow an engine vs rolling-stock? Just curious.

A lot of everything in that vid.

3:59--Cowardly GE's caught taking the easy way out by going downhill LOL!

Critical Alarm Critical Alarm Critical Alarm *Break*

Quick question. What camera do you use?

It’s a heavy train i know

How many of those locomotives were FRA “dead”? FRA has a rule about the number of days locomotives can operate between inspections. 30, 60, or ninety day inspection period is up, the locomotive cannot be operated until it is inspected. In the summer time, the water has to be drained so that the locomotive cannot be started and used. If the locomotive that is FRA dead is used the railroad is heavily fined.

How much power you need? Yes.

先頭の機関車だけで・・・10両もつながっている〜😲

Dang

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Mmmmm... Not sure why more weren't under power... Can see the heat haze through the rake... I did notice the drive tyres were really thin.... Not much meat on the wheels....

Can someone explain what they are doing. Why so many connected. Why carriages also attached behind. Why are they not all running?

That tranformer on the center depressed flat car was really cool its has to weigh 200,000 lbs ? Great video 👍

Pulling max amps? What time length?

All that power but still the coupler on the last power unit is pulling the entire train.

Where is this shot at? That's a steep grade.

The other units seem asleep.

Loco can you watch Crescent 19 and 20 sometimes in your videos

What's the thing on the roof at 2:55?

Where is this paticular location.

Location? This should be automatic if a key site, thx.

Seems someone doesn't know how to calculate train load to power required. Great sounding result though. 👍👍👍👍🇬🇧

Where is the location of this video?

Question, do u have discord because I’m going from Maryland-Georgia through all the states to the popular spots and I’m going to Atlanta so I was wondering if u can give me some tips about going there.

One and three are "Mothers" and two and four are "Slugs"

Anyone know this location ??

Atlanta? Howell Junction or whatever its called

Looks like sd70 were offline

Ok. 2 SD40's and what is the second a GP38 are tge ones doing the work. MU cables aren't hooked up and after the 3rd unit they aren't even on line because those ACes should be howling in Run 8. That's just a junk train.

First one was a steam engine.

Why not two or three shorter trains?

Where are these PRLX units going?

Nice video but it doesnt tell the whole story of why where and what happened in the end. Very scant on the information front, especially for those of us not familiar with Atlanta railfanning and perhaps also being outside of the USA like myself situated in New Zealand.

А сколько вагонов было, наверно тысяча в этом составе

Why didn’t they put another unit online?

Sounds like they're all dead in tow except the first two.

all these choochoos going to the scrap yard

Okay, I wasn't seeing things. At my first glance I wondered why only two locomotives appeared to be making any effort. There being no exhaust plume from all those engines, except #1 and about #3? However, although this is spectacular stuff for railfans, it all seems like the very worst Corporate thinking does to US railroads. For a start, nothing was said about just how big that train actually was? If five locomotives had been assigned, then it must have been sizable? If it was that big, why were some of those five locomotives not distributed throughout the train as DPU's? The scientific dynamics of big train operation DEMANDS that power is properly distributed to alleviate DERAILMENTS which, just watching RU-vid railfans, seem to be more and more frequent? Furthermore, if ANY TRAIN comes to a stand on a gradient for whatever reason, this is a major danger. Someone else on the thread suggested it was the fault of the engineer for not firing up and connecting more of the engines that were available, assuming the other five could not be drafted in to help? Is that actually the case? Its the engineers choice? Seems to me, American railroads are going to hell in a longer and longer and heavier and heavier handcart? No wonder you have so many level crossing (sorry, grade crossing) accidents. People don't have the odd spare 40 minutes while a phucking train goes by.

Ww

SOOOOOOOOO MANY ,...locos in TOW,....ANTI CLIMATIC