Wow! Was anyone else surprised to see the NS leading the train at 21:27?? NS only goes as far West as Dallas, TX. To see one in California must be EXTREMELY rare! Nice catch!!
As much as I love diesel locomotives, there would be some pretty decent advantages of electrifying railroads. Of course, electric locomotives need to be able to have tractive effort and adhesion as high as the diesels.
Out of Bastow, Kingman, Needles, Flagstaff, Tehachapi which is the best train watching location: how do I find out exactly where those train watching locations are?
@@charlesbrooks2051 No problem! This quite often happens on the UP on the line that runs from Louisiana to Los Angeles. Rather than change the power at the interchange point in Shreveport, they will just leave NS power on all the way to LA, which often leads to solid sets of NS coming out here. Of course, if the foreign railroad uses another railroad's power, they have to reimburse the railroad for the hours used. This then leads to reciprocal sharing of power and results in UP power ending up on NS.
Great video! Does anyone know what difference it makes the way the trains are loaded? Does the weight per car have anything to do with balance? Just wondering!
They were concrete before. UP had to replace these because they turned out to be defective. There are still lots of places especially on the BNSF out here that are wood ties.
