Train Stalled In Notch 8 EMD SD40-2 - Haver Hill 

Those SD-40s and other 645 powered units don't seem to know HOW to quit even when later generation units get overwhelmed and shut down or fail. SD-40 sounded like "Oh HELL NO! You are coming with me!" Love that sound of the old girl at full power, and the clean exhaust tells me she's loving this. "Those newer units have nothing on me." 40 years young and still running like a new locomotive, she's gotten the TLC she needs and now it pays off. That horn sounded just a little triumphant to me.

Man when u are that close and they are wide open u can feel every cylinder hit in the ground i love the adrenaline rush no one that doesn't love trains would understand i dont care if its emd or ge i love them both and they both sound amazing pulling like that

Love the sound of the 645!!!

I always think something has to give, then BANG!

Love How the sound of the emds over ride the dash9.

The house on the hill overlooking the tracks, hahhaha awesome I want to live there :)

From the looks of the rails a lot of wheel spin has been going on

Dayym he was giving that thing the bizness lol, that’s why them old heads make the big money

AMAZING CATCH BRO! FANTASTIC LASHUP! 2 BIG THUMBS UP! STUPENDOUS VIDEO! 👍👍

Great video actuallly man. Reminds me of this one Baldwin. Blazer video on tube where this like mile long local cuts off the power and one of the locos takes off down into the yard and leaves a single gp38-2 to get that consist moving up a .3 grade into the yard and somehow he does it but it’s so damn close it’s like this pull it takes some time and skill

Definitely stretching the 1500 amps at 5 minutes. Making it hard on the DC equipment.

Makes you want to get out and push yourself. LOL

All that jointed track.

If that leader had been a former Milwaukee Road unit that would have been cool to see this SOO GP38 pushing in the rear.

The shear brute power the sound so beautiful.

One of the best videos without a doubt! :)

This guy dug them out of the trenches I hope the company bought him dinner

Great work

Sounds great! Nice catch!

Nice video sir!

Plenty of EMDs in real big mine equipment n tugs

Unbelievable the junk BNSF and KCS units were both failing and that poor old SD40-2 had to do all the work.

Superb video.

Notch 8 is full throttle, inorder to stall, the wheel slip monitor senses a wheel slip and kills generator output to the slipping wheels, there is likely an electronic board issue as well

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Somebody needs to make about a dozen trips down those rails with a tamper and a regulator or two.

They should've sent for Big Boy. He would've snatched those cars up that hill by himself.

EMD pulling on that FNBS ALCo, just about par for the course eh....

Poor thing.

At first I’m like of course it’s stalled the dash 9 and kcs Mac are both offline, or broke down……with the sd40 pulling hard cause in notch 8 it literally sounds like it’s gonna peel your ears off your headpiece 😂here’s another engineer who’s not playing games, he wasn’t worried bout snatching no knuckles either ….this is what this video reminded me of except it’s two of them screaming and watch yet again as some junky GE newer stuff gets em stuck and they gotta call in for EMD OLD SCHOOL POWER, the magic happens around 5:00 min in the video, crank up the volume and listen to the helper set bout to snatch it clean over the state line lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lUg-YipimUA.htmlsi=swAfoZBj95CZi5JQ Also good thing thing for the ole faithful GP38-2 huh? 😂😂 and wow those rails look like curly fries 🍟 or a motor cross track when you looking straight down them lol.

Didn't even sound like the last unit was on.line .

Wonder how many tons of sand they put down. 😏

Shoving that much power to the motors won't burn them out if they barely move?

Desgin Fail. Should have added a Notch #9 ;-)

So Haver hill is east of Rochester and near Chester right? I know of the hill that the trains have to climb to get out of the Mississippi valley, although I do not know what it is called. I never realized they have to climb such a steep grade going east out of Rochester.

Gone are the days of under powered trains. True testimonies of a hoggers worth of salt .

How steep is haver hill in Chester Minnesota?

idiots prevail..........use more engines...................(go figure)

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