ex-BHP SD70ACE, MRL 4316 switches BNSF San Diego Yard solo

[@platec4798]

4316 is lucky! It gets to miss the cold Montana winters and hang out in San Diego. Wish I could do the same! LOL Great Video, thanks for sharing. Plate C

[@TheEMD710]

Wow.... From the beautiful mountains of Montana to............ This.

[@mattlaszlo3781]

Knowing BNSF is using SD70Ace, SD75M, SD60M, and Dash-9 locomotives as switchers is making me feel really old.

[@davidwhiting1761]

Trains are so long and heavy anymore you almost have to use bigger units to put them together. Also not much better you can do with a non-PTC compliant locomotive that can't be used as a leader on the main. I imagine the power desk would hate having a non-leader just floating around the system that they actually have to work around when building power for outbound trains. "Just put it in yard duty somewhere where it won't be on the main."

[@devernepersonal3636]

@@davidwhiting1761 well in a lot of cases the MRLs were being used as DPUs on BNSF coal drags. The one in this video had been being used on the Palos coal drags as a DPU for example.

[@devernepersonal3636]

yeah. thinks do change faster now too though. SD40-2s probably were the ones that would have the longest service life in the yards. Dash9s are already gonna kick out EMDs from yards. Just look at Northtown Minneapolis.

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

We've come a long way from those little sw1500's

[@gastech7188]

As a long time San Diego resident and CA native it is great to see this action. Thank You.

[@espee.cascades]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@cobraspottedwolf8791]

Bnsf took over and mrl power is showing up everywhere

[@Steven_Williams]

Wow! BHP!? What a long way. Awesome video!

[@espee.cascades]

Export, and re-imported

[@MRL_4303]

Worked on that unit many times on the helpers. Miss MRL

[@andrewhawk2642]

Ha… I commissioned that new unit in Port Hedland back in 2007? Great to see it still in service, albeit de-modified.

[@trainlover0315]

the back-to-back K5LLA's goes hard!

[@santeebandit3246]

Nice catch!! Looked like a great evening for it.

[@espee.cascades]

@@santeebandit3246 thanks, yup had just enough sunlight!

[@TrainiacProductions]

Awesome catch and footage!

[@ClearTrackSpeed]

Beautiful Photography, thanks for sharing

[@espee.cascades]

@@ClearTrackSpeed thank you😊

[@TracksideSFL]

I never knew i needed a SD70ACE with a K5LAR24 on it 👌💯

[@TheTrainEnthusiasts]

Wow what a catch! Not every day you see that!

[@Posttrip]

What a beautiful BRUTE!

[@bahnnvids_nordwestschweiz]

Cool video nice to see something new in SD and not only this BNSF locos

[@ravenhawk6910]

Thay unit gets around! I saw it a few weeks ago on Norfolk Southern on the BNSF Atlanta to LA run through train.

[@espee.cascades]

@@ravenhawk6910 wow!

[@jackkilleen47]

The double horn!

[@GEVOlutionCPKC]

Excellent 🚂✨💯👌🏼

[@flabiger]

Those road crosses those tracks to essentially give access to two things. 1. A park. 2. And a naval shipyard. (I can't tell you how frustrating it would be to get off work and sit at the railroad crossing waiting for the barriers to lift with no opportunity to drive around.)

[@stanfullerton8485]

Big horsepower for switching

[@RDC_Autosports]

i never noticed the dual horns on em before

[@rickdee67]

BIG switcher!

[@AndreiTupolev]

How the mighty are fallen 😕

[@yankeesforlife24]

4316 never had ptc and never will. MRL 4300-4319 are all thunder cabs and therefore can’t lead under BNSF general order so they’ll never receive PTC

[@SilverKnife0311]

My Favorite ENGINE!!!! Next to F-9's

[@clydedonaldson7369]

With the size of the trains that are being made up now, an SD 70 is likely the smallest "switcher" that you need to use.

[@sgtdebones]

Waiting for MRL units to show up patched

[@THE_IRON_HORSE]

I was wondering why this sd70 was looking weird till I read the title 😂

[@FSTM4003]

interesting use of a mainline locomotive

[@gsf_ryder]

I'm curious. Does this affect the loco considering it wasn't made for switching?

[@ElPasoTXRailfanner]

The locomotive has 2 K5LAs

[@UsTrainsAndSirens]

Um but like....2 HORNS?!

[@espee.cascades]

@@UsTrainsAndSirens yup! Part of its BHP legacy

[@HunterWilliams-le9bk]

4316 doesn’t have PTC.

[@VoxelBro]

NICE!!!

[@golfberg1]

Must've been short on Switchers 😅

[@Dustinburns-gp2er]

Yeah they take good locomotives and turn them into the razor blades

[@espee.cascades]

Not at all, yard crews just wanted to have fun lol

[@robertwhite9898]

Cool 😊

[@timothyshepodd7826]

Is all that ethanol used for local gasoline formulation to California standards?

[@jonathanlarathetrainguy7788]

How th. Does 4316 have 2 horns

[@Washington_State_railfan1]

Hmmmm. 👀

[@golfberg1]

5,000hp to move some cars around. 😂

[@surplusgear3545]

What is that doing there in San Diego and how did it get there in the first place

[@animenut69]

Bnsf took over mrl territory and so this unit managed to wander down to cali.

[@espee.cascades]

Since BNSF took over they started to float around the country.

[@suppylarue220]

graffitied tomorrow. 🎯

[@DaniKintana]

Is this if the sd70ace can pull cars on its own what seems to be wrong with it the people see that I don’t.

[@TSArea_Railfan]

Those things doesn’t even have ptc

[@proudfoamer2]

Using a big road hog as a yard switcher is a waste of horsepower n diesel fuel.