Steel wheels gripping on wet steel track is more of hindrance than pulling weight up hill.
@michaelnicholson84052 ай бұрын
Sand Spreader no Salt........🎉
@Manigo17432 ай бұрын
And they say that gravity is a weak force. :-/
@TheMetGuy3 ай бұрын
Love the BNSF leader! My favorite railroad
@jitenmanu63704 ай бұрын
this would not have happened if Chuck Norris had not taken retirment
@Bennie-l9f5 ай бұрын
The two pair of wipers work separately. In over words, you can turn the wipers on to wipe one window only so all four of them don’t start at the same time. They have to be turned on separately as a pair
@tomdonnell8145 ай бұрын
6000 gallons of fuel and they probably burned 100 getting over the hill. 😅
@tomdonnell8145 ай бұрын
Did this train have a DPU ?
@ARFirstRaptor20115 ай бұрын
He is at 10%, to just avoid the train going back down hill. You will know when they are in full power mode, this is not it.
@hawghead45965 ай бұрын
Been there, done that. Conductor saying don’t let her stop, don’t let her stop. Don’t worry about the Mule, just load the wagon. That is the way NS ran their stack trains, one engine with 20 cars, which in reality was a hundred, 5 car per carriage.
@skywatcher4425 ай бұрын
Those GEs can pull a heavy load , engine moves sideways every time it wants to slip. What a catch, First time watcher, will watch more.
@chrisoconnell51435 ай бұрын
No mid train DPU s ??
@charlottesvillerailfan5 ай бұрын
Imagine if that was a GP38 or SD40, or anything similar.
@MystiCmeshtool5 ай бұрын
I don't think NS no longer operates SD40s or GP38s
@Todd-c1l6 ай бұрын
4 strokes a chuggin 😎
@slamdvw6 ай бұрын
Kind of neat to see the motors walk back and forth across the track! Lots of force there! The interaction between the units - you can really see them walk!
@locoman44.867 ай бұрын
Find myself saying to the video,come on baby,you can do it.
@williamburroughs22737 ай бұрын
Reminds me of Campbell Hill at Rushsylvania Ohio on the CSX, we usually barely made it up that hill because CSX was always putting junk power on heavy trains. And those DC units don't like to work hard at low speed like that, this kind of duty always burns up the DC traction motors.
@carstengunther43167 ай бұрын
Die AMIS denken auch,sie könnten der Physik trotzen. Es geht den Menschen, wie den Leuten 😂
@rolpfeiffermuller9357 ай бұрын
Thanks airing and sharing the outstanding video with magnificent locomotives.Railfanning endeavors are prominent.Bliss
@richardwilkes64687 ай бұрын
Just imagine the tension on those nuckels.
@Korosh19898 ай бұрын
Why doesn't the engine speed increase?
@voidjavelin236 ай бұрын
because its struggling duhh
@RockyTv-w8h8 ай бұрын
Why no apply for sandbox
@kenworth4358 ай бұрын
Just wow
@plagueinc90498 ай бұрын
0.4 mph is below 1 km/h!!!!
@Extrikit8 ай бұрын
No, they’re high tech. They’re wiping each individual raindrop.
@ungurdani83468 ай бұрын
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@slammer76259 ай бұрын
I think I can, think I can, I think I can..............etc
@steveallen13409 ай бұрын
A one hour quarter mile! 😂. Wonder what the 60 foot time was.
@rearspeaker6364Ай бұрын
a minute.
@kennyt167410 ай бұрын
Wow that's absolutely awesome and did you feel the ground shaking
@tombirmingham735410 ай бұрын
I want to get behind and push.
@rogeriomonteiro76010 ай бұрын
The best way to ruin a locomotive, without enough speed the traction motors will overheat. In fact sometimes we see real lousy planning of the freight service in the US. Look at this difference in Europe. Also a uphill train: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIKsloyPdteHecksi=WAOPqwiZjZQOsFbN
@pootispiker286610 ай бұрын
Please learn what the hеll it is you're talking about you sтupid tea drinker. These locomotives actively monitor and limit the temperature of the traction motors. These aren't 'baby's first locomotives' like you use in Europe. They can run slow drags like this all day every day and never miss a beat. And these are just DC locomotives, AC traction motors can be held at a stall indefinitely with no damage.
@pootispiker28669 ай бұрын
Your toy trains can't pull the skin off of 3 week old pudding. US locomotives were built to work for a living.
@lllllRBlllll10 ай бұрын
At what point do they just split it and bring it up in multiple chunks?
@pootispiker286610 ай бұрын
That's not the spirit of Precision Scheduled Railroading!
@gunt-her11 ай бұрын
Tractor pull, rail edition.
@toddlarmon370811 ай бұрын
This is an awesome video! great catch. I love to watch locomotives work. The power is unbelievable. Thanks for sharing this.🙂
@selvanrajah9328 Жыл бұрын
I love trains
@jeffkorp3537 Жыл бұрын
You would think they would put enough power on to move it a little faster or at least have a couple of helper unit's pushing in back till it got over the grade. Might save wear and tear on the equipment.
@phaloxx Жыл бұрын
You guys licking this idiots nuts who calls himself an “engineer” is a joke. He has no independents set at all and is just toasting those traction motors. ALWAYS set 15-20 pounds of independents when your under 3-4mph to circumvent slip. And hold the sander button down till your finger falls off.
@JeffC-fq1be10 ай бұрын
Go away, troll.
@pootispiker286610 ай бұрын
You're sтupid. Actually zero neurons firing. This isn't trainz on your mommy's ipad. Wheel slip is no big deal and just a fact of life in American railroading. You don't set the indy at ALL under power unless you want a talking to from management. The locomotive handles wheel slip entire on its own and sands automatically whenever it sees fit. You don't need to tell it to put sand down when it's already doing it!
@georgew.5639 Жыл бұрын
Only locomotives with AC traction motors can pull hard at this slow a speed. Locomotives with DC traction motors have a minimum speed that they must be moving at. Otherwise they will damage the traction motors.
@pootispiker286610 ай бұрын
Not true. Most electronically controlled locomotives limit the current to the maximum continuous amperage of the traction motors, or in these locomotives' cases, drop the current back to keep the motor's temperature from going too high.
@simonsadler9360 Жыл бұрын
Must be stressing the converter!
@JeffC-fq1be Жыл бұрын
And the flux capacitor!
@kensbackshop6399 Жыл бұрын
Definitely at notch 8
@Snoot-Nosed-SD40-2 Жыл бұрын
Getting the big GE's to bite on wet rail is almost next to nothing. They make so much torque at any rpm its hard to make them get a grip on wet rail let alone on any grade
@pootispiker286610 ай бұрын
Torque has zero impact on electric transmissions, mate. This isn't dad's f150 with an aftermarket air filter.
@BeckyBee863 Жыл бұрын
Where is this, Transylvania?
@ronniefarnsworth6465 Жыл бұрын
This makes No sense to my, a major RR like this not putting at least 2 more engines on this freight so the don't beat the Crap out of these units especially on a rainy day !!!! 🤔 They have plenty of uits and money to do so !!!
@rolpfeiffer4011 Жыл бұрын
Thanks airing and sharing the outstanding video with magnificent locomotives. Railfanning endeavors are promising. Bliss
@edwardpate6128 Жыл бұрын
How did the old steam engines make this climb?
@telosfd Жыл бұрын
Nice capture. Question. In difficult points why they don't use rack railway system?
@unaizilla10 ай бұрын
because they should rebuild the track from scratch and purchase new rack locomotives because you can't just retrofit a adhesion locomotive with pinions, and even then it's very time consuming to cut off the power, couple new locomotives to uncouple them shortly after when regular locomotives can climb gradients up to 4% just by relying on adhesion, at that point just add some bankers pushing from the tail and uncouple them at the summit
@TheTheratfarmer Жыл бұрын
do not destroy. waite for an EMD. lights and shit'ts flaching. EMD. Rails are fine. a car on and removed.