Chessie units switching Queensgate yard 1990

[@vivekshreeni7897]

The sound of a 567d3a engine is music to my ears.As you know the sd35 is the successor of the moderately successful sd24 series which offered slightly less tractive effort than its sd24 brother and it is the predecessor to the successful sd40 and sd40-2 series of locomotives made by emd.Unfortunately these units lost their charm as their 567 engines were difficult to maintain than 645e3 engines.But some railroads kept them in service without removing the turbo where as Chessie rebuilt 5 with non turbocharged 645e engines and southern pacific popped in 645e assemblies into a few if their models by retaining the turbocharger and the others by removing it.I gotta say you have a lot of 567 sounds which were a part of our GT16s.truly Awesome.

[@jefftoft5568]

Thanks Vivek!

[@warthog5562]

Love the chug of a 567 prime mover

[@jefftoft5568]

Yes sir, nothing better!

[@V-max97]

Best paint scheme ever

[@jefftoft5568]

Yes, it is my favorite. Thanks for watching Douglas.

[@vivekshreeni7897]

Is it required to remove the brake handles,switch off the headlights other than removing the reverser handle while switching control stands in a dual control unit and why locomotives have a start switch near the engine and inside the cab

[@jefftoft5568]

No, just switch the lever. That is the way they were designed to be started, I don't work for EMD.

[@vivekshreeni7897]

Is there any procedure to change the control stands on the dual controlled me locomotives.

[@jefftoft5568]

You take the control lever from stand and put it in the other stand.

[@vivekshreeni7897]

Is there any other way to control the idling speed of the engine without using the throttle by adjusting the fuel racks or someother way.

[@jefftoft5568]

No, I don't believe so.

[@vivekshreeni7897]

Jeff sir why some first generation diesel locomotives had F for front,1 and 2 marked on the long hood and short hood end is it because they were equipped with dual controls or something else

[@jefftoft5568]

F for the front, that way the engineer was on the right side to see the track side signals. N&W was one of the few railroads that had dual control stands.

[@vivekshreeni7897]

Jeff sir Since you have worked on railroads I would like to know when did railroads stop using steam cranes and switched over to diesel cranes.

[@jefftoft5568]

I would say late 50s to early sixties.

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

chessie rebuilt those SD35s into a so-called SD20. 5 were built. note, one of them went up with 2101(reading T1). just after the fire(arson)I went to Ky and photoed the mess, the SD20 had about half it's paint torched.

[@jefftoft5568]

Wow! I knew Queensgate had three or four of them. I think the first one was numbered 7700 but then they renumbered them.

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

@@jefftoft5568 yes,,,chessie numbered them beginning with 7700.

[@vivekshreeni7897]

Any more videos of chessie sd35s

[@jefftoft5568]

I don’t think so, Vivek.

[@vivekshreeni7897]

Jeff sir do you know exactly when chessie took control of Baltimore and Ohio,cheseapeake and Ohio and other railroads like Louisville and Nashville.

[@jefftoft5568]

CSX absorbed the L&N, which was under Family Lines (SCL L&N). I’m not sure of the exact dates, CSX early 1980’s. CSX stands for Chessie Seaboard.

[@vivekshreeni7897]

Jeff sir I would like to know why American railroads and railways don't have gaurds or people who show flags when a passenger train or a freight train was about to depart in the 20th century while the British had one.also why cabooses weren't meant for gaurds while the British had a gaurd on board a caboose.

[@jefftoft5568]

There was no reason to have guards cabooses were for the conductor to keep an eye on the train, he was in charge.

[@BNSF4706]

Queensgate reminds me of a CSX yard in Roblox

[@jefftoft5568]

Never been there, thanks for watching.