Awesome video! My best friend was just in Montana filming BNSF Nov. 2024! So nice you explained the switchers in the beginning as GP39-2 and GP38-2’s! Busy yard!

Nice shots!

I wish BNSF would do a legit run of heritage units, and bring back some original colors. I've always loved BN and the cascade green, since I was a child

Whoop

West Virginia Northern #52 had a Dynamic Brake

0:46, That Locomotive & Trian Bounce. Also, All the Class 2 Railroads use the same Orange, Black, and Yellow Paint Scheme. *WHY?*

The town is pronounced WOL•SEE.....not WOLS•LEE. 😉😅

My dad worked at that roundhouse and for the railroad for 37yrs. He was there when it was CN&W and later switched to DM&E. He was a mechanic there and made foreman once or twice. In the early 80's dad would often go on the road and repair trains in Souix City IA, Watertown SD, and Council Bluffs. The depot in Watertown SD has been turned into a historical monument. Last summer, they demolished the little solid brick depot building in Huron to build a Dollar General. :( My Dad said he one time managed to dump a train into the pit of that turntable of the Huron roundhouse. They used to dump waste oil into a small pit in the backyard facing Ravine Lake. Was like a oil pond. They would sit outside on warm weather days at lunch and watch flying birds see their reflection in the oil pond and dive in never to be seen again. Lol. The EPA came in and they had a big to reclaim all the decades of oil rhat was dumpes there. The Roundhouse doesn't use it anymore but it still has all its original steam heat. My great uncle also retired from the CN&W roundhouse shop in Huron. Him and my father had a short period where they worked together. My father has witnessed or had many friends die in accidents during his time. Its actually pretty surprising how often it happened. About every 5 years someone would get crushed, run over or fall or be killed while on the rails in a train. A personal friend of mine joined up as a engineer driving trains. His first week on the job he drove his train into a car crossing the blind road at the grain elevator there in Iriquois,SD. Nobody died but it shook him up good. They closed that road along the elevator. The curve at Manchester, SD is site of many derailments.

Very informative video except for the annoying music!!! What in the world makes you think people want to hear that!!! It takes away from the video. I turned it off only after watching it for a few minutes because I could not concentrate on what you were saying! Please, don’t ruin another video by adding that worthless music!!!!

Trespass all over that mainline.

The BNSF yard in La Crosse, WI has a Dash 8 as a road switcher.

Thanks, this has helped a lot. Living in Australia I sometimes struggle to get correct information.👍

That music sucks !😂😂

2:57 PNWR 3051 in the background

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks EMD's old horsepower coding scheme was stupid (e.g., "S" for "six hundred", "N" for "nine hundred"). This creates ambiguities; for example, "S" could just as well have meant "seven hundred". And just as bad, you can't compare two horsepowers just by their relative position in the alphabet. Ugh.

Awesome video!! It was really cool seeing you there!!

Awesome Video, I was also up there that day on the 24th

Yup, that’s the sound I recall. Next to a P42 Amtrak locomotive…. You can *feel* those things if you get close enough.

nice job trespassing

Where is BNSF C44-9W unit 4723 at now???

GEVO!!! 😍😍

Hey George, awesome video! Keep your eyes peeled this week. RCPE 3462, 3445 and 3471 have 10 year anniversary stickers on their long hoods now. One of those should be staying in Brookings for a bit from what I’ve been told.

Another excellent reference is the long out of publication Kalmbach book "Our GM Scrapbook", featuring articles from Trains magazine illustrating the development of EMD locomotives. In one section entitled "Cows, Calves, and Herds" there are multiple side by side photos of the various TR configurations.

Do you have Flickr page? or another way of sharing photos? I'm modelling AGR 3412 and would welcome some detail shots of it or anything you have. 3412 has some unique details (i.e. on the cab roof, different dynamic brake etc etc). Thanks Wayne

I’ll take the sound of an older C30-7 idling or under load any day, over this newer junk.

The question is are we gonna get any ES 44 ACs probably not

4:14 where is this mill?

THANK YOU FOR CLEARING THAT UP I WAS CONFUSED

I actually caught one of these at a crossing

Why is more horsepower needed if the engine doesn't run off the diesel engines directly but run off electricity to turn the wheels?

That’s a really nice idle, but why does it sound like a 645F or 710? Is this an 16-645E3C?

It really would be nice if a diesel mechanic was willing to decipher for us all the different sounds from idling GEs.

Hey George! Just a heads up, Aurora turn scheduled to depart Huron right around daybreak tomorrow morning as of now.

I've loved "The Entertainer" since I was a kid, about the time I had an HO scale Santa Fe switcher.

Not all of these series have the same exact horsepower ratings... The GP60 & SD60 series are 3,800 HP with the 710-G3A's.The standard cabbed SD70's were 4,000 HP but the SD70I's,SD70M's,SD70MAC's,and SD70ACE's are actually 4,300 HP and all units use 710-G3B's.The SD75I's & SD75M's are 4,500 HP with the 710-G3C's.Obviously there also was the SD9043MAC convertibles which used 710-G3B's. ATSF ordered 51 SD75M's but 25 of the units became apart of BNSF's roster because those weren't delivered before the merge.26 SD75I's are in the BNSF roster.Canadian National owns 173 SD75I's which were suppose to become SD75ACC rebuilds last year.ONRR only got 5 SD75I's and only have 4 units because one was totaled from a derailment.

Hey George, nice video! Figured I’d give you a heads up, Aurora turn is looking to run in the morning sometime, ETA Brookings in the 7-ish timeframe as of now, then back west an hour or two later from aurora. They ran a train east to Elkton and dropped the cars in the siding today, if I’d known they were doing that I would’ve let you know. Things have been pretty much 100% night time operations lately.

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Those 3 UP units came off of the Mitchell Subdivison, Formerly on the symbol U-KCKCCE (Kansas City, MO to Chancellor, SD)

The best sound on rails

😂 maybe big snake 🐍 on board I heard hissing

I acquired a house somewhat near train tracks about 3 months ago. I haven't been bothered by the 5-10 trains that pass each day, and I've seen trains stopped on the tracks for upwards of 3 days before moving along. But for the past 24 hours I've been hearing a strange noise on the distance - a kind of undulating pulsation sound. It last about 10 seconds, stops for about a minute, then another 10 seconds of the noise, silent for a minute - it's been like this non-stop and it's been forcing me crazy trying to figure out what it is. Thinking it might be a train stopped further down the canyon that I can't see, I've been googling train noises. Found this vid and the sound at 2:50 is exactly what I'm hearing. But it's 10 seconds on, a minute off, no -stop. What is it? Is that normal for that noise to sound in that pattern on an idling train?

Great info on the classics!

Good narrative, but it would have been a nice visual if you included pictures of the different types of switchers.

Great video and commentary!! 👍🏼

Great catch. Wonderful video. Greetings Joe 😊

Sorry to be stupid about this but fake bonnets were Santa Fe units and it’s a patch job like in the early 2000s csx and ns had patch job contrail units

Hey George! Curious if you like one of my 2024 train calendars, I’ve got an extra one lying around. Lemme know!

The "whoop" sound is the electronic air compressor cycling on.

A lot of Tugboats are powerd by EMD diesels 567 and 645s

No such thing as a fakebonnet