Sound of Raw Diesel Power: Loud Locos Working HARD! 

grew up next to the Katy mainline north of Dallas /Ft Worth in the early 80's, so as you might imagine, the sound of them 2 stroke EMDs will always cause me to have to break out the bib. just standing next to one at idle is exhilarating. makes my heart feel like it's skippin' beats.

I love the pure bass, so bring on that powerful chug

Who would imagine that compressors could actually sound lovely.

when you read "vintage" and "gp9" in the same sentence it really makes you feel old, even if you're not lol

I used to get as close to those raw, thundering, vicious beasts as I dared in my younger days! These newer locos nowadays just don't have the thunder the older ones did. Scare the hel out of you when they came around a curve of a high canyon wall. Man what a feeling. LOL Thanks for an awesome video!! Loved the shot of UP 4014

You just gotta love the sound of the prime movers revving up in first generation diesels like the GP9. If I had to choose one, I would probably have to go with the bassy GE chug, especially the ones in the Dash 9-44CWs.

In the mid 80s I worked for a company that was funded by the Vapor corporation, we tested on several locomotives at the DOT facility Run by AAR in the desert east of Pueblo and Colorado Springs, I have over 1000 hours of loadbox time, and it never got old standing on a GP40, or GP9 at throttle eight for hours at a time........

So many people just haven't a clue how much power and wait just went past

At about 10:30, I was hearing the sound I recall from years ago - oh, and the soot, too…

I enjoyed your captures as you didn't stay with every train all the way. I get little joy watching endless container pass by. I have less problems watching junk trains with an assortment of different cars, Graffiti, and owners.

The 12 cylinder GEVOs do not sound bad, although they do sound a little sanitized. The best sound is that of the 16-645E3 series EMD engine. That particular two stroke engine has to be the most musical engine I've ever heard.

Old EMD sounded the best!! But some 4400HP GEs in run 8 isn't bad either.

That's one nasty bank..........

great video that wouldive been awesome to see that big boy

Opening shot is awesome, beauty pic quality

Great video! I myself am a huge fan of the older EMD's. SD-40-2s, SD-45s, and the GP-38s and GP-40s rule! There is nothing else like them and never will be! I am not a huge fan of the newer locomotives of today at all. No offense to the people who like them. Just not my personal preference. Also, I like the SD-50s, SD-60s, SD-70s and SD-90s as well. especially full throttle in notch 8. I just don't care for either the Dash 9s that they use today or the B40 8Ws. The train beginning at 3:39 is a perfect example! Those two locomotives on the front are awesome! Also at 4:19, the two locomotives after the lead one have that awesome notch 8 sound! I don't care for the lead one.

10:45 that's a monstrous hua, sounds like a DC locomotive here in new Zealand just louder and a bigger thump, the DC locomotives were from the 60s

EMD, thanks

I liked all of them.

I like both 4-stoke and 2-stoke, but... well, 2-stoke is a little more.

Large Portion 😄💪

throbbing heart !

EMD all the way!!

GE all the way!

Good video

EMD

There is a pretty flat railway about a couple thousand feet from my house. Most of the trains can barely be heard, especially in the day time, but I want to know why some of the night trains are so incredibly loud and shake the ground so incredibly much compared to pretty much all other trains. I swear it sounds like they have three locomotives at full throttle doing 10mph pulling a city behind them.

Here I am spooled up deep 12,400 h. P. Tractive drive to dah rail. Sand spreader and inter axel wheel lock deployment on dah ready. Puuuuull. Notch seven please

What a beautiful view in the starting of the video ... the most beautiful view of track on a curve ...wow amazing ...which place is that at the starting ...?

Save the best for last: EMD 567 FTW! 😉

Loved it . . .

Nice video

I cannot wait for BigBoy 4014 to hit the rails again! There are quite a few preserved BigBoy locos, so to actually see one run under its own power will be nothing short of awesome! Regarding EMD or GE locos? EMD has been in diesel locomotive manufacturing longer than GE. Over the years they have really proven to be the leader. However, what I like about GE is that their locomotive type designations are easier to understand than EMD. Like in Dash 9-44CW - 9 for 1990s, 44 to represent 4400 horsepower, C for the trucks, and w to denote wide-cab. Take the EMD equivalent the SD75I/SD75M - SD for special duty, I for isolated cab and m denotes a wide-cab but no m in wide-cab....makes no sense to me. Then the 75, it represents nothing accept a newer and larger locomotive than its predecessor, which still runs today, especially on the UP. Each manufacturer has had their share of horrible locomotives - The Dash 8-40B series of GE and the SD45s and SD50s for EMD. The GE had to much power and not enough traction so its pulling power equaled that of the U36Bs. The EMDs were not fuel efficient and suffered major wheel slippage, especially the 50s. I also heard they had quite a few other mechanical problems. I also like the roar of the GE locomotives over the EMD locomotives. So I vote GE.

Those two UP SD 60? or 70? at 3:51 are solid gold sonic bliss!

I hear that the engine is just a megawatt generator to make the motor in the wheel spin. 🤔

How much car? that is like at least 2 km

99.95% are only interested in the clip at 5:51. And not for the diesels.

This video is the very reason I don’t want America to switch to puny electric power.

Is it me or is the container ship faster than these trains?

Could electric power ever replace these work horses?

The last one at 11:08 was beautiful! What model is that loco? Can't seem to recognize it

All the gushing about 4014 is misplaced. Dragging that relic around with an EMD isn't exactly impressive. Note the lack of smoke. I've never seen the thing actually operating without being pushed or pulled.

BNSF 7773 Doesn’t sound too healthy

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Trains weren't that loud. I've heard much better than that.