4K: UP ALMOST CATCHES ON FIRE IN TEHACHAPI ( JAN 2023)

[@RippysRails]

What an awesome view of the tunnels! Thanks

[@RRphotographer661]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jimrockford3662]

Rocky and I enjoyed sitting down with a Bud and watching this.

[@chrisstromberg6527]

You still talking to Angel?

[@norcal_rail_photographer16]

Idk why this vid is getting so much press for click bait? I know it did not almost catch on fire but you guys saw the thumbnail it clearly shows the thing the title was talking about.

[@gemcofoamer]

It's at 18:48

[@norcal_rail_photographer16]

@@gemcofoamer yea I know but no one can tell me that that’s normal.

[@hahakaboomfunni]

@@norcal_rail_photographer16 looks like old GE 7FDL16 exhaust 😂

[@norcal_rail_photographer16]

@@hahakaboomfunni 😂

[@diesel71]

Yup the last unit is really cooking up.

[@farleymusclewhite411]

Great video. VWD. I'm not really a rail fan guy but I like that area and was just there last month. I used to hop on freight trains to see where they were going when I was a kid in the Bay Area .Made it all the way to Eugene Oregon when I was 16 yo. But these trains out of Bakersfield stop in Mojave and go either East toward Las Vegas or South toward Los Angeles. (Correct me please if I am wrong).Those tunnels can really smoke you out, especially the long ones in Northern Calif. Going uphill through a long tunnel in an open box car can be pretty nasty, especially before there were smog regulations (Hey, I'm ancient). "Liked" and subscribed.

[@philipvandyke5980]

Amazing, just everything I like about the loop and videos, just mixed freight trains and the set of tunnels near the highway that I remember seeing in the 1950s that my mom stopped by for me to watch a SP set of F units run through them.

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video! the burning engine was very interesting, thanks for sharing

[@glennfoster2423]

The unit was no on fire. Relax, breathe and stop hyperventilating.

[@neilcrawford8303]

Certainly getting hot. If you freeze the video you can see the side is damp from oil mist and the vinyl film wrap used for the Stars and Stripes is curling up with the heat.

[@TrainmasterSP-qk2lo]

Cool video! The drone footage was awesome!

[@RRphotographer661]

Glad you liked it!!

[@dmorgan28]

Great video. I really enjoyed it. Thanks I’m subscribing!❤️👍

[@trainsinkansas576]

Looked like that engine was due for a checkup. Nice video and drone footage.

[@brandonreeves5979]

Awesome video! Very very cool 😎

[@jimrockford3662]

….and not one of those boring container trains in site. Well done.

[@DougCeleste]

Thanks for sharing! Great video shots of an area I am VERY familiar with after living in San Jose for almost 60 years and traveling in this area on my many road trips. Glad the Kramer Junction bypass was finished several years ago making driving on Hwy. 58 west of Barstow MUCH safer now. I was waiting to see the flames come out of that engine and then the train stopping in an emergency. I wonder what caused this fire. Anyhow, glad the weather was good enough for filming but watch out for those Mojave Green rattlesnakes while you are out there. 😎

[@tristanstrains]

Nice catch and drone footage- just subscribed too👍

[@richardkerslake6379]

Love the tunnels, scenery and squealing brakes!

[@jedknutson8373]

that's the traction motors on those units "squawking" not brakes....they make this noise at maximum traction right before they slip...those units are really working when you hear this....

[@chrisstromberg6527]

@@jedknutson8373 I think what he's hearing are the wheel flanges making contact around the curves.

[@jedknutson8373]

@@chrisstromberg6527 this is true as well, but I heard those traction motors when the head units and dpus were near the camera. However, I'm sure the wheel flanges were making noise as well in the video..

[@hahakaboomfunni]

@@jedknutson8373 yup

[@DonVideoGuy007]

19:18 - Here comes the "GE Toaster" = check out the "melting vinyl wrap of the Stars and Stripes".

[@formidable38]

Looked like a fuel leak, dumping fuel all over the hot engine and exhaust etc. They often catch fire when they do this!!

[@rocketsnhotrods9022]

Awesome video thanks for sharing

[@kerryknight228]

We had a derailment close to the loop this week.

[@emd6456]

Great video.

[@allankwiatkowski9086]

wow that's one long Canadian pipe line them 4 engines are pulling

[@taslimchoudhary1253]

Excellent Video 🌳🎉🇮🇳🎉🌳

[@BorisLu]

Great video!

[@santaclause2875]

Amazes me the money these graffiti artists blow on paint. Just this week a gallon of the cheapest exterior latex was about $45.00. Rattle cans, crazy expensive.

[@bennyandthejets2064]

I'm new to railfanning, I was wondering how different companies(UP, BNSF, etc) can be in the same lash-up? Do all the railroad companies use each other's engines?

[@natgass8102]

they do and when UP is using BNSF or another rails engines they pay for that, basically as trains are moved across the country they are often handed off to someone else in the middle of the country where there own tracks stop, so the rails pay each other for using the power as it speeds up the transit times

[@bennyandthejets2064]

Oh, that makes sense. Thanks for responding👍

[@edy21865]

What kind of horn does BNSF 7607 have? It is playing a C7 chord or C-E-G-Bflat-C.

[@etiennedauphin]

I don’t hear any major third, just C-G-Bb-C

[@Amrepdude499]

That’s a K5HLB, not sure on the chords tbh but I recognize the sound

[@perrybabin8427]

Possibly a bad exhaust leak venting under the hood?

[@Weeklydoseofrailways]

Nice capture at 11:41 Can I use this part of video in my train compilation video credit to you in video will be given

[@kbno99]

It might of been on fire but still pushing

[@RRphotographer661]

I saw it earlier and it looks like it was about ready to. But when I caught it, the crew had throttled off a lot most likely to keep it from catching

[@trainchaserelliot]

Nice video! Subscribed!

[@timmannchicken]

Love the tunnels!

[@MrEricmopar]

You can actually here the alarm bells going off on that engine.

[@terrywallace8922]

YES, THE ALARM BELLS WERE SOUNDING LOUD, AND YET, I DIDNT SEE NOT ONE CREW MAN GO AND SEE ABOUT HER! WHAT A SAD WAY TO RUN A RAILROAD!UP DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THEIR LOCOMOTIVES LIKE THEY USED TO YEARS AGO!TODAY,ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS HOW MUCH MONEY THEY CAN MAKE!ITS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, AND TO HELL WITH THE WORKERS AND THE LOCOMOTIVES!

[@brucemcgee2281]

I lived beside a heavily used RR line for 10 years. Day and night. I love the trains. I don't like the graffiti on everything.

[@rossginn1171]

Great video,,,, 4k? 🤔 What camera are you using?

[@victorbellan8357]

Why no alternating ditch lights at road crossings?

[@20447Medic]

Oak Creek crossing in the beginning?

[@amelierenoncule]

Does the train driver, mes amis, have guages or sensors monitoring the helper units ? Also, where is the final destination for these trains, LA or FRISCO ?

[@bossman1974]

Yes

[@waltb4415]

Tehachapi is in a mountain pass Northwest of Los Angeles, on the way to California's central valley through Bakersfield, Sacramento, and the SF Bay area. The trains have to either climb steeply or drop steeply. This drop is the problem here. Trains are enormously heavy and when they drop altitude, they will speed up out of control without braking. The engines have electric motors that convert a braking action into electricity. That electricity is diffused through radiators on the top of the engine. It's similar to an electric cook-top or kettle, the radiators get red-hot and need cooling fans. That was the cause of the smoke, the paint peeling, and "almost catching fire". Felicitations et bonne chance, Amelie.

[@alexaltrichter1597]

It looks like a bad fuel injector to me.

[@natas74d7]

Feels very laggy

[@jamielacourse7578]

I won't be sorry to see the end of spraypaint...........

[@jenwright2577]

General electric locos love to catch on fire! The turbos are giant pieces of garbage! The prime movers, generators, traction motors and locos in general are second to none but them turbo seals are made out of cardboard!

[@terrywallace8922]

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT THE WRONG LOCOMOTIVES ON THE REAR OF A HEAVY FREIGHT TRAIN! DOWN WITH DISTRIBUTED POWER!

[@mountainmanwannabe9495]

Click bait, that wasn't remotely close to starting on fire.

[@rickyrodriguez9172]

And this is why I’m thankful for yt for including the videos I’ve watched so I can remove them from my history and remove the 1 view I accidentally gave to this scammy title of a video.

[@chrisstromberg6527]

@@rickyrodriguez9172 I think the operative word here is "almost". I think it was evident to most viewers, that the trailing DPU was creating excessive smoke/exhaust.

[@chrisstromberg6527]

Plot twist, I'm going to report your comment for misinformation, describing this video as "click bait".

[@natgass8102]

I disagree the heat coming off the middle of the engine had dis formed the paint and clearly had a problem I like the the fact a drone was used to get close up, stop complaining about videos that are made by people nice enough to share them with people who probably won’t get to visit a place like this!

[@jamielacourse7578]

Want some cheese to go with that whine?

[@davidchristensen6908]

Nice video with the tunnels but you lied in the title thumbs down . You probably lie in most of your titles. Don’t support click bait titles.

[@RRphotographer661]

It’s not a lie the crew throttle down and stopped it from happening

[@RRphotographer661]

You can see in my other video I actually did catch one on fire