The 2012 engine sounds great❤.

Never thought diesels could fart this much

EMD HOWLING BEASTS.....YEAH !!!!!!

I miss the D40lf & D60lf buses. I love how the engine purrs when its starts moving

Valves

Are retaining valve still in use?

There is an interesting place at the camping site of Ridgecrest near black mountain, north Carolina where the train climbs a very steep hill at the edge of the campground near the highway. She engines are always at near max load going up the hill. We used to hear them at night back in the 80s when we camped.

That smoke concentration makes me think a spark could make it explode!

Beautiful belching diesel exhaust

Very nice footage. This was back when the SD70M's were very decent units. Unfortunately Union Pacific had the audacity of removing the horizonatal stabilisers on the trucks from all of their SD70M's and the 25 SD70M's (9800-9824) that Southern Pacific owned which became UPRR 3974-3999 just to avoid mainteance. This is why the units have utter riding quality and the crews don't like them on high speed manifests. It's weird how after soo long now that the SD70M's in general are being put into storage or retired as a whole. That SD40M-2 in the video looks like one of the twelve SD40M-2's, originally being an SD45R, that actually had their radiators torched and replaced with SD40-2 radiators being welded onto the long hoods. I could be wrong. Those dozen units almost looked just like SD45-2's because of the aftermarket fabricated radiators from the rebuilding.

That rear helper still had it s entire light package ! Also a D &RGW SD- 45 and a Kodachrome SD - 45 in that middle helper consist. I am FOAMING !!!

Railroads have no love of mountains. But when it came down to it the SP said ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AND GET TO WORK!!!

THIS IS WHAT THE SP WAS....A LOT OF TRAIN ON A LOT OF MOUNTAIN WITH A LOT OF POWER !!! WOW !!!! Thanks for sharing this !!!

This is some serious uphill lugging going on here. Southern Pacific doing it s best against that crude oil load. HOWLING EMD s AWESOME !!!

I wonder if that 3rd locomotive at the headend was one of the codachrome bonnet paint schemes from the Failed SPSF merge

I did notice a few of the Tunnel motors had Cotton Belt on the side

*Soot-Train!*

Holy SMOKES!!! And SMOKE is EVERYWHERE… I miss seeing and hearing those old EMD locomotives. These new AC / DP units are so WEAK in comparison. And I actually used to see an occasional COTTON BELT engine pass through my back yard in WV around this very same time period. In fact, I have a book written by a local author that covers the railroad activity in this immediate region, and one of the things he tells about is how you would see COTTON BELT power beginning around 1977 as “run through power”

Essentially what 'rolling coal' is. Where you run incredibly rich in the air fuel mixture - I suspect because these locos didnt have EFI to lean out the mixture with less available oxygen in the tunnel.

AND A CABOOSE !!!!!

NIIICE ! Great catch! You and I were down there around the same time at one point or another. SO I Really like seeing what others did for angles and equipment at the time I was trying to video trains.

Holy crap. SP caused global warming all on its own :(

Maybe this bus is on route 460,603,152,240 and 111 before.🤔

Tehchapi

Wish there was a way to find out what UP trains ran over that line back then. SP and ATSF you can readily find the symbols for…. UP? Not so much

The most fabulous train video here at KZbin !

I miss the Southern Pacific a lot! Thank You for posting this. This is Great Stuff here!!! Great rare catch on the mainline. I guess that GP -20 is now a bunch of Tesla s !

it's not economical because Union Pacific likely paid millions of dollars for all those locomotives and that is just a waste of money and not to mention the greater amount, they could have made by selling them if they really wanted to get rid of them. the thing is lots of these likely still had life left in them at the time. just one big waste. btw does anyone know where that scrapyard is?

Holy smokes!

Yeahhhhhhhhhhh, emissions controls were worth it.

The diesel version sounds gruffier 3

Why the bus sounds different🤷???

Looks like #948.

I had often wondered why SP painted their locos smoke grey. Now I know.

Did anyone catch the smoke belching out of the cab windows on the last Engine

Stop requested 2:27 - 6:44 - 9:22

Detroit series 50, Allison HT-747

SD 40

Ooooohhhhhhh .... how dear you👍👍

Those engines had an epic sound but no matter how hard you pushed those 6V92s, cars still pass right by like nothing

What makes it more amazing is that is actually a CR C30-7A, with 12 cylinders.

1:10 what the heck is THAT thing?

You wanna know the stupid thing about it? Those Warbonnet C44-9Ws are in yard service as hump units 💀

2:11 533 works at Bakersfield now

I miss the classic New Flyer D40lf and D60lf. I love the motor purring when it stops and after it leaves the station or the green lights goes on

RIP 2000-2020

Looking at that MILW Bandit right there.

That third unit looks hideous in that stupid California paint. I just purchased SP 7319 and BOY I love how it sounds! I think that SD45T-2 is next for a modeling project.

Love these transit coaches ❤❤

A home schooled vegans worst nightmare