Train with 21 locomotives! 

Next is a microphone with a higher SPL rating, that way better audio that is not clipped.

@@doddyvanstraaten2774 I use my iPhone right now but am working on getting a camera with a good microphone.

@@railfanningetc.4252 by the way that’s called a funeral train

Sometimes you just have to get what you can. Rather have something - nice catch!

Interesting!

That is! My personal favorite was the blue CN one behind them, hopefully they can save that one.

I've seen a few Cn Trains with a working Illinois Central Locomotive and a Norfolk Southern too,

I know almost nothing about trains but I have toured the old McAdam train station and hotel in New Brunswick. In fact, we spent an aditional hour there as there were two CN trains that were switching cars on the spurs and we were unable to cross the tracks in order to get into our car and head back to Maine. I routinely see Illinois Central and CN trains waiting at a grade crossing very close to where I live. In 9 years I've only had to wait for a train twice during the day. They must have been adding cars as the trains just moved forward a bit then backed up all the way off the roadway. There are two rail tracks fairly close to each other and I'm not sure which of the pair is the one where I see the waiting CN and IC engines. However, I hear them all night long and have seen a few 75+ car trains at one of the other two grade crossings during the night. I've been told that the tracks are leased or owned by CN and are used to bypass Chicago. One of the lines used to be the EJ&E (Elgin Joliet & Eastern) because those letters were on the bridge we drive under before it was revamped when the roadway was widened to 4 lanes. An EJ&E caboose (522?) is in the next town west (Morris, IL) and belongs to the Grundy County Historical Society. It is open for tours on the second Saturday from May through October in the early evening, coinciding with Morris's cruise nights which attract over 900 cars.

All of those dash 8 variants are my age or a few yrs older and I'm 31 so think about how long locomotives such as SD40-2 have been around and are still currently in service

@@railfanningetc.4252 Sadly, this is what is known as a Dash 8 Funeral Train. All of the C40-8s, C40-8Ws, ad C40-8Ms were DIT with no horns or traction motors, and have all been scrapped.

I agree! I just got back into railfanning after a few months and it is a lot of fun!

Agreed

That’s awesome!

Not necessarily being scrapped. They could be just leased units being moved where needed. Or they being taken to a shop to be turned into slugs.

Yea, the life of a diesel locomotive can be very interesting, and full of weird stuff indeed!

Yep!

Interesting!

Nope. Welland, Ontario, Canada.

You bet!

Me too!

I agree!

I do!

I agree! I was super excited when I caught it.

Sure was!

Thanks! You too!

Yep, I was completely amazed when I saw that come into view.

Wow! It must be sad seeing them going to be scrapped.

@@railfanningetc.4252 It was, especially for the Zebra Stripes since that is my favorite CN paint scheme.

Thanks for the sub!

Yea, not going to bring my hopes up, before we know it they might be scrapped. 😢

Indeed. I’m not getting my hopes up either, but I’m glad they worked for the time they did on ATSF through BNSF. Best I can say is we’ll just have to wait and see.

It's very sad.

I know! That would be great, but the railroads would rather scrap them. It's sad.

RIP

Glad you enjoyed it! Over 700 axles behind those locos, not sure how many cars. Turns out that is the longest train I have seen to date, along with the most locomotives I have seen to date.

Yep... it's sad that they are being scrapped.

Far from it....the dash 8 standard cabs are headed to north Africa and 4 of the cowls to Brasil for parts sources ....

Far from it....the dash 8 standard cabs are headed to north Africa and 4 of the cowls to Brasil for parts sources ....

⁠​⁠@@ShawnCalay-hi6gyWhat are the dash 8s doing in Africa?

@@railfanningetc.4252 for moving iron ore, they already have 31 CP SD40-2s....they are power hungry and can only budget for so many BB40-9s...just like BRASIL 25 years ago buying CP SD40-2s and SP as well as DRGW SD40t-2s....

Glad you enjoyed it

Interesting!

Interesting!

Yea when they would run British Columbia and up near Alaska there were a lot of Mouse

@@ronparrish6666the lower pair are called rocklights.

@@ronparrish6666 Mouse? They're gonna get pulverized by one ...that's if the cats don't get them first. MOOSE! MOOSE!!!

Moose Moose big thumbs

Me too

Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed

@@railfanningetc.4252 I know right?

No problem!

That would be cool!

Interesting!

Glad you like it

Isn't it?

That’s awesome! Do you have a video about it?

Wow!

Yes!

Thank you!

Yeah, not sure how I can top this.

Thank you! Cheers!

Thank you very much!

Yep!

I have never seen anything like it!

@@railfanningetc.4252 I technically have only once though, and just as fast as it appeared, it was gone, like a spector in the night and a ghost in the day.

It is very sad.

I agree

Awesome, thank you!

Awesome!

Thanks!

They must be some good tracks. They were also going slower when they got onto the single tracked mainline in Galena

It's not as if there were 21 locos stacked vertically. There is no unusual weight per axle.

Thank you!

Agreed. Those are really cool.

Thank you very much!

Awesome, thank you!

From what I can tell, the only EMD in the consist was the lead locomotive (SD70M-2) and all the others are GE's.

Obrigado!

Scrapped, from what I have heard.

Yep, and they are headed to the scrappers torch.

Thank you!

Indeed

Cool!

Thats interesting!

I guarantee a few will be saved, as there is a market for old, serviceable locomotives. The scrapping will be intensive, as metals are separated out. Steel, both sheet and cast, plus the copper in the wiring. The copper in the trucks is high-grade, and worth a lot. A lot of individual parts will also be sold off as well.

I am not sure. I have heard otherwise so far.

Yea!

No, the first three locomotives are just pulling the train, not being scrapped thankfully.

That would be cool!

Deadheading, only the first 2 or 3 was running.

The first three locomotives were running. All the others have covers over the exhaust and are not running, just being transported. Thank you for the comment, I love answering questions!

Noticed all the transported ones have covers and no horns in locations. Only 3 up front are operational.

@@everybuddy5924 Oh thank you for responding.😎

@@railfanningetc.4252 Thank you for responding.That was quite a video to see that many locomotives in a line:😎🤷‍♂️

Yea, and to think, I caught that completely on accident is just crazy.

Agreed

Yea!

Most locomotives are out of service and are on their way to get scrapped.

I agree.

All except the first three are offline and going to get scrapped.

That would be cool if that was the case! Some of those are actually being scrapped though.

CN 2402 is a GE C40-8M that was built in 1990. It has been sold to SLM recycling and will be scrapped in the near future.

@@railfanningetc.4252 Wow. I guess there's still some of those in service somewhere. It's incredible how old some of these are.

I am not exactly sure how many cars the train had but when it went past milepost 122.3 (Eleroy, IL) The train had 772 axles which makes it the longest train I have caught to date. All except the first three locomotives in the consist were going to be scrapped.

@@railfanningetc.4252 Thanks for the reply m8 👍

@@railfanningetc.4252 no they are not, they are head to north Africa....4 of this batch will be going to Brasil for parts though....

@@railfanningetc.4252 no they are not, they are head to north Africa....4 of this batch will be going to Brasil for parts though....

@@ShawnCalay-hi6gyFrom what I have heard, all locomotives in the consist except for the first three locomotives are going to be scrapped. Thank you for the info though, I appreciate it!

I know, it's sad.

Yep, we are going to miss those...

I agree

We will miss them...

I assume you mean Canadian, they are going to be scrapped.

some comments here mentioned some of them going to Africa and Brazil. Either way all that metal and copper, etc. will be used again in something.

I agree.

Railroads in the US sadly don't usually want to sell them to museums.

Only the first three.

@railfanningetc.4252 thank you

There is some overlap. There is actually quite a bit of CN in America.

@@railfanningetc.4252 oh!

​@@IIIArtistixIIICN has trackage rights after the purchase of Illinois Central (runs deeply in the south to Louisiana) and Wisconsin Central and many other railroad companies in the US. Canadian Pacific is another that purchase Kansas City Southern back in March (the recent big merger of a class 1 railroad) that will run to Mexico.

No estoy exactamente seguro

I did, I just did not have one at Galena. Once again... at Lena I picked up my tripod from my camper.

I do not have a solid answer for that but my best guess is that there is just a better deal for them in the US ??

@@railfanningetc.4252 and we all know what the canadian economy is like! Thanks for the prompt reply.

Only the first three locomotives were running.

Awesome!

alive BCOL 4625 and 4609

Yea, sad.