Matched power huh ? Then you would have hated the rainbow trains we had back in the 70s. Early Conrail and early BN. No one from my era could forget the colorful Chessie System. They even had a couple of steam trains made up in Chessie colors. Conrail blue was so nice compared to Penn Central dirt. I do have to hand it to BNSF for picking the old Great Northern Empire Builder scheme for the railroad.
I've always preferred high mounted ditch lights. That being said, BC Rail takes the cake when it comes to ditch light mounts, using both high and low on the same locomotive.
Hit the nail right on the head with mainline steam. It’s a dream of mine to see something like 2816 on the mainline someday, no matter what steamer it is.
I prefer engines with a cab headlight because at night you don't have to swallow or inhale a bunch of bugs to get on the engine. As a foamer I prefer noselights though.
I know it’s a good train when the headlights are separated and not all crushed together from a far distance. Either an EMD or an SD70M/Ace or an old Dash 8, 9, AC4400CW, and the godly AC6000CW
If you like high headlights then NS is mostly your field of dreams. However they did have some units that were nose light, all ex-BN. They had 9 first gen 60Ms with the 3 piece windshield from 2014 to 2019. It's a shame they got rid of those.
I took got to see cp 2816 in Davenport, Iowa. It was sooooo worth it, I got to see big boy a few years back as well. Especially considering both passed through my hometown and cp 2816 passed right in front of my house. No matter what railroad mainline steam is always cool😎
I do agree with many of these. There's certain things locomotives can have that makes them look so much cooler! The headlight thing reminded me: There's a fictional railroad of mine that I'll probably start modeling one day, and the locomotives operated by this railroad have both high and nose headlights instead of one of the two.
I think SP did that for a while, too. I know Reserve Mining used to do something like this. Theirs were even weirder, since they had two lights up top, with a single light on the top corner of the nose
Im a big fan of BNSF units still in warbonnet paint along with their H4 paint scheme. But one satisfying thing you missed is freshly painted engines. Those spark satisfaction as well no matter the paint scheme used for any railroad.
To be fair, BNSF has always been this way when it comes to mixing different locomotives together in a consist. Heck, you could even go back to predecessors Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, you very rarely saw matched consists back in those days. Also, totally agree about the Heritage 1 scheme (and I'll even throw the H2 scheme in there as well, despite the inconsistencies of the orange on those units), not only for its looks, but just for the fact it was when BNSF was a much better company in general to work for.
2:00 honestly yeah i agree, stater cabs like the GP40 should have the lights on the nose and the ACE 40 should have the lights on the top. would look more better.
1:30 As someone who sits trackside in Roseville, i can tell you that something about Thundercab ACes are much cooler than the ISO ACes. I’m glad UP did their heritage units with Thundercabs. Edit: i liked and caught UP 1988 2 days after this vid came out
Big Boy 4014 was testing a PTC system without a Diesel helper this week, so perhaps if it works well, it could allow steam excursions with other streamers being PTC equipted on other lines (if the other lines agree to them).
There never was an H1 GP60M, found a list of every paint scheme the GP60Ms wore and none wore it. GP60M liveries were: ATSF Warbonnet, BNSF Warbonnet, Maersk Sealand, BNSF H2, H3 and H4.
I railfan the UP and something about Norfolk southern leaders just hits me. Any other foreign power does not quite hit me the same way as an NS lead. Something else that hits me is when you actually get good audio of a wayside horn.
Eh, i dont really care much for the ditchlights lol. Maybe ill start paying attention to them. I do like it when trains have horns they aren't supposed to, or that rare chance a horn can get fouled/broken and then sound better. I know NS 1070 is supposed to have a K5LLA, but that got replaced with some P5 thing and then it got a K1L13, which i personally really like and suits it well. Also i gotta mention CSX 483, its K5LA is broken a little bit but it makes it sound really cool in my opinion.
for me i like the nose headlights idk it just looks better to me more than a high light cause when ever i go out and se a high light i think of ns i also do not like low ditch lights for some reason its really ugly for me hope i didnt mean to upset u guys
1:12 bro actually said CPKFC Btw, only American locomotives have bells because American railways aren’t fenced off while European ones are. So American locomotives need a constant warning while European ones don’t.
As much as I want to call you a delusional foamer, I’m with you with the high headlights and the low ditch GE. Also GEVOs paired up is just ugly nobody can change my mind. H1 is also the goat
Just an opinion, but I think almost every modern locomotive looks better with a nose mounted headlight. Now that excludes, EMD standard cabs. Not a huge fan of the nose headlight on standard cabs from any year.
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