Cab Ride Soo GP-9 Switching

Cab ride in Soo line GP-9. Pulling a heavy cut off the main and into the yard for switching. Nahant yard, Davenport, Iowa. 1994.

[@rodneyh5519]

Why are people even disliking a video of a GP9 cabride. What's not to love?

[@Gemini5AU]

All I can say is ....... LOVE THAT SOUND!!!!! Could listen to it all day. Pity no-one in Australia will give you a cab ride due to Occupational Health rules......... i.e yes..... we can't do it the foreman's watching. Great video.

[@brakie44820]

I worked with GP7/9s while employed on the Chessie(C&O).These was great engines to work with and one would be hard press not to find a C&O engineer that didn't like their GP7/9s. As one old line engineer told me these geeps are like the old G9s(a C&O 2-8-0 class)..A work horse.

[@jamielacourse7578]

That ol' girl still got life in her.......great sound.....

[@TheAdamRides]

Some of my best memories are of cab rides in an old 1956 GP9 on a shortline, love the old control stand and the "road foremans watching"

[@terrywallace4109]

My favorite locomotives

[@JLScott3178]

That is a grand, powerful sound. Those old 567's could really grind!

[@charles8010]

From 0:34 to 1:26, it's better like song when i feel not good or sick. Very relaxing for me

[@NW917]

sounds amazing! too bad there aren't many left today, plus to make it all better it was filmed the day before I was born!!! Great vid Ken

[@bradstrains]

I rode in the cab of a GP-9 at a museum, very good sounding locomotive.

[@EMDfan1965]

A világ legszebb motor muzsikája...EMD mindörökké !!! A diesel motorok királya !

[@Locomotive450]

GP9 sound amazing in Run 4-8. I volunteer at a museum that operates one for excursion trains, but the speed limit on the track is only 10 MPH, so we rarely rev it higher than run 3. It's cool to see one of them pulling at full power.

[@thomasabramson100]

the compressor on the GP 9 had a unique sound remember it from when i was a kid in the 70's

[@PowerTrain611]

Interesting that you say that, because it used the standard compressor on all other EMD road switchers of the time, the Gardner-Denver model WBO. Maybe its the roots blowers you're thinking of?

[@boblindt9384]

WOW! Nice video. Now may I please have my locomotive back? Ha ha 0:57 nice note on the volt meter case from the foreman.

[@gbowne1]

I used to have quite a few -9 parts. I don't have much left. There were about 3,470 built and quite a few have been taken out of service. A lot of stuff I had were doors, engine parts, cab parts, hoses, etc. These are cool. I like them better than the -7 s. I at one point almost ended up with a short block assembly too.

[@Hardtransport]

This is the best show video of the EMD-567 , I love it

[@nrslerg1130]

Thanks for uploading this Excellent Video! That is the best Roots Blower I've ever heard

[@CrazyCanuck91]

lol i was 3 years old when this was taken. Awesome

[@bemseer]

Thanks for all of the positive comments. This was only a short segment of the video. I'll post more of it for you. Thanks to KZbin, I am able to share my experience.

[@25mfd]

When i first hired out on the CNW back in '93,i saw those ancient GP7's and thought..WTF. Those things were POS. When i was there,EVERYBODY hated those things. But now that they are all but scrapped,i wish i could ride on one again. Nice vid.

[@airbusman5514]

Where are you? You mentioned CNW; I'm guessing Chicagoland? I think IRM has one.

[@25mfd]

@@airbusman5514 milwaukee... butler yard... the first engine i ever worked on was the CNW 4131, but's it was scrapped several years ago

[@bemseer]

She was a old workhorse pulling hard! Thanks for the comment Sam.

[@JLScott3178]

What a sound!!! Thanks again!

[@bk5593]

Nice Video! Love the old SOO cabeese

[@bemseer]

Thanks for the great comment. The sound of the loco sounds great in the video, but I wish you could have heard it as I did! As you know, the video was shot in 1994. I would never be able to ride a locomotive without permission today.

[@ernestpassaro9663]

1750 hp

[@bemseer]

Thanks for all the great comments! The loco # is 4232.

[@cmtlee252]

Great video thanks fir uploading

[@thomasabramson100]

Road Foremans watching

[@Locomotive450]

@bemseer Unfortunately, the historical line through Campo is not serviced by Amtrak, though the line did see revenue freight service up until about two years ago.

[@andrewschannel4259]

0:54 FULL POWER!!!!!

[@bemseer]

@Locomotive450 I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I was fortunate to be able to get the cab rides. It's almost unheard of now days. I'll be posting more vids from this dvd I made. Which museum are you affiliated with?

[@samcompton7440]

Do you know the name of the engineer?

[@bemseer]

I don't know the name of the engineer Sam, it was many years ago. I do know that he traveled to Nahant yard from the Savanah Illinois area.

[@SLJ2137694]

That would be Savanna.

[@bemseer]

@@SLJ2137694 Yeah, the Milwaukee had a yard there. I was called to be a brakeman a couple of times to there.

[@SLJ2137694]

@@bemseer My father, Lyle Jones was an engineer there for The Milwaukee Road.

[@bemseer]

@@SLJ2137694 That’s interesting Steven. Who knows, maybe we ran across each other at some point. I wonder if he ever had runs to Nahant in Davenport.

[@SLJ2137694]

@@bemseer I know he went to Bensonville occasionally and he went to the Quad Cities at times. He mostly switched in the Savanna yards but did make some longer runs. I remember when he took me on the last steam engine in the yards. He also ran a pusher engine. His father worked for the Burlington Route. Small world. Where do you live? I wish I was back in Savanna, I am in Tacoma, Washington now.

[@MrGerbilBrain]

WOAH AWESOME SOUND DUDE!!! :D :D :D

[@bemseer]

Yeah, they just keep on going and going. Did you notice at about the 028 mark that the engineer put his foot against the console preparing for a wheel slip?

[@samcompton7440]

Nothin like that gp-9 at full throttle

[@robertoalonso4451]

Me gusta en la aceleracióm, me gusta de veras

[@PantherLineProductionsofOhio]

Nice sounding 567!!!!!

[@JLScott3178]

First rate railroading - the kind that no longer exists.

[@bemseer]

@Locomotive450 Thank you for the response. I just visited your page. Very impressive. Is Campo along a Amtrak route? May be taking a trip that way. Would like to visit.

[@Erail87]

Sweetness

[@Locomotive450]

@bemseer I'm a volunteer that the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo, CA. If you're interested, I have lots of videos of our GP9 up on KZbin including cab ride videos and a startup video.

[@ac83052]

hows that gonna help?

[@jaswmclark]

Looks more like the cab of a GP-7

[@fr8ARTruleZ]

Road Foremans Watching!

[@upheritage6]

1:07 sounds nice