ND&W Highhood GP9 struggles with 50+ boxcars PREX 105 

From watching many GP9's and various models a they've been rebuilt to, they're an engine that handles tough jobs reliably

Thank you! I'm always happy to catch a highhood

I’d love it!

I had the tracks for Kansas City Southern going through my parents backyard! We lived off Airline Hwy in Metairie Louisiana and back in the day the old Kansas City line ran up the side of Airline Hwy and we lived a block away from Clearview and Airline! So we not only got to see the freight trains but the Amtrack trains as well! Once a month the freight trains would smash a 18 Wheeler or cars and trucks all because idiots would stop at the red light on the tracks! The engines would start blowing their horns right behind my parents house! Talk about nightmares as a kid trying to sleep in the middle of the night! I don't know what was more scary the horns or the sound of the engines sounding like they are about to drive through your house! Then those old tracks were really bad so you constantly worried about derailments happening which did from time to time! I remember two boxcars laying on their sides for almost a year in front of the cemetery Garden of Memories before Kansas city Southern finally removed them! After years of trucks and cars getting crushed Jefferson Parish forced Kansas City Southern to move their tracks to the back set of tracks where the Central Ave freight yard was held! I did have a lot of fond memories of the old trains even though I had many nightmares as a kid!

Thank you!

It would be nice to see it back on its former line but at least it’s not scrap metal

Well that’s the manager in the engine in this video and when he’s moving railcars he don’t fuck around. Like babying the engine

Thanks, I've always loved listening to the drone of a geep under load

lol don't get sore!

Thank you! I'd have loved to see the CNW when it was around

If you're able to come down to my neck of the woods in Georgia we actually have a short line that uses a Chicago and Northwestern High Hood GP 9

@@RailPreserver2K nice info... does it have the same cnw unit number or did they change it... at the time of the cnw/up merger back in 95 we had 10 GP9s on the roster... one of them, cnw 4527 was acquriuerd from the QNSL railway... the others, cnw 4450-4459, were acquired from the rock island

I don’t think they’ll ever be over 10 unless they can afford to change the rail. Over 100 years old and brittle.

Awesome thank you

They keep sinking money into the swamp

Scott Taipale Those tracks are in terrible shape. I hope Pioneer does not intend to haul chemicals across these rails.

It is-- ex GT/CV.

Thank you

Lol

Thank you

Your welcome!!

Slow and steady keeps the wheels from slipping!

@@ScottTaipaleRail That, and liberal use of the independent brake.

That too but that Enginer is the GM on that line and was also and Engineer on the Maumee And Western Railraod same line as this now just a different company, So yea I totally agree with what you are saying and granted BT has been around this industry for a while now

The pistons are out on the locomotive in the beginning meaning the locomotive brakes are applied to some degree

I see it now

Not the worst maintained, anymore

No, they were just trying to move about 50 loaded cars

seems like it, engineer is riding the jam trying to keep the wheelspin down.