Extreme Street Running by a BNSF Coal Train With 8 Locos = 34,000 HP in Ft. Collins, CO

[@jaredkelly930]

That’s the Mega coal trains BNSF is doing. Still even though it has 8 engines, this one is an empty and they typically only have 4 of those 8 engines online and running. Generally it’s 1 online and 1 isolated on the front, 1 isolated 2 online and 1 isolated in the middle, and 1 online and 1 isolated on the rear, and even then there’s still a notch 6 or 7 restriction. Now if it’s loaded they run all 8 with no throttle restriction.

[@uzytkownikyoutube9150]

Nice video ! I counted 199 cars.

[@geoffreylee5199]

These ultra long trains, while a boon to business, can be annoying to municipalities. If it breaks the repair time is hours. Still to a train fan, these are great.

[@geoffreylee5199]

This thing is about 12,000 feet, 4,000 yards, over two miles long, or about 3 kilometres long. Mechanical engineering at a supreme level.

[@z9nc982]

love riding my bike on mason street when a train comes through, completely stops traffic for you and makes you feel so cool as you ride past everyone stuck in traffic

[@harshabiliangady3211]

200 wagons that’s a long long train. 8 locomotives and 34,000 HP ie about 4,250HP per Loco. I can only think of the loco drivers wife stuck in an 🚑 and in labor.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

I recognised that intersection like I grew up here; Mountain Avenue and Mason Street. Not very many years ago, the train ran in the middle of the street with no curb at all between blocks. Coal unit trains in Fort Collins; my father covered the first ones for the Denver Post, nearly half a century ago. By the way, those are all empties rolling north.

[@Zebrajellyfishphoto]

Hate it.

[@jameschristiansson3137]

Watched the video start to finish. Worth every second.

[@milehighkit4725]

I lived in Fort Collins for quite a few years. One of these trains could really toss your schedule 🙂

[@anb740]

Looks like they combined two trains together. CSX and UP both do that, then separate the two at a certain point to go their separate ways.

[@walkermessiasgameplay5128]

199 cars... MONSTRUOUS!! We need some of these to drain our overproduction

[@Mr6stringchaos]

I used to live next to the Front Range Sub in Westminster. I used to love sitting on my balcony and watching the coal trains go by.

[@benjroof]

Great video hawaiiantrains.Many thanks.Impossible in The Netherlands.

[@daveruttman6501]

One of the great reasons to live in Fort Collins Colorado. If you are late to work, you can always blame it on the train.

[@stovalish6]

Shitty if you're trying to get to the hospital. Call the chopper, this train is way too long. I've stood on that corner trying to go to 1st national.

[@B0bLeeSw4gger]

@@stovalish6 back in the day...if you had to cross Vine St. ... good luck!

[@chrisbeard5794]

Great video, longest train I seen was CSX loaded coal train with 3 locomotives pulling 2 mid train DPUs and a pusher DPU at the end with a total axe of 594.

[@Matisyahuwu]

In Fort Collins you pray to god you don't get caught in a hurry when one of these comes through.

[@jasonbabila6006]

Combo trains, first half from one plant while the second half came from another, two trains put together at a yard heading back to the PRB or Montana only to be broken up in two separate trains again before reloading, it's the same thing done to grain trains and other combos such as grain/ oil, grain/ coal, or coal/oil trains, we got numerous combo trains on a regular basis.

[@darylcheshire1618]

The railway from Brisbane to Cairns runs through Rockhampton on Denison Street. The train staff for the section had a bell on the end of it which one of the crew would ring out the window. Not sure if they still do that now. The track is set into the road and cars can drive over it. There is an old style pub in the middle of Dennison St and I have stayed in it a couple of times and looked over the railway from the balcony. The other one in Wycheproof runs in a median strip with mown grass.

[@sexygirlove20]

hello daryl... when i was buying my jaguar car from rockhampton jaguar i was busy watching the train drive past... very interesting, the trains once went thru the middle of mackay...

[@yankeesforlife24]

Its a super train, great catch

[@sifubongz8197]

Monster coal drag, nice catch!!!

[@Timmyval123]

Lol, I park in that parking garage just about every week

[@Tyrael1701]

I'm a train fan but it still gets really old sitting at these intersections waiting for it to pass. Also, hi hometown!

[@mikebracht9261]

I think that's the longest train I've ever seen.

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

great video hawaiiantrains :)

[@sethnaffziger1402]

I park in the garage on this corner for work right now, that shit will make you LATE lol

[@dubvtrainman1869]

Longest loaded coal I’ve saw is on the CandO in WV 220 loads and four locos.

[@asgardali22]

You know that traffic was messed up on College Ave bc of this lol

[@jathbr4113]

That pizza place on the corner there is pretty good

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

Gotta hit up Big Al's Burgers & Fries for their famous 60/40 bacon burger!

[@elperico5418]

Wow!!! great video, but really,,, that long train should be illegal, shame on bNSF for the inconsideration they showed this town, if a emergency vehicle was stuck at ay intersection, the person that called 911 would be in some serious hurting..

[@Link8451]

good thing theres emergency services on both sides you really expect all services to be on a single side of town

[@xxfryguyxx6315]

I use to live here and gotta be honest the trains going through the middle of the town is kinda annoying

[@jbo5o643]

thats funny, they forgot to stop and back up four times to make me late to work

[@ModernMountainLiving]

I can tell you that this train is not that cool to watch when you are sitting at a light or they decide to stop for awhile.

[@MAX-xy7hf]

Wow, I am surprised that American people are so patient and cool !! And I am surprised that American locomotive are so powerful and incredible hulk ( ´,_ゝ`)

[@noctuanecatrix]

As a resident of Fort Collins, I promise you we are NOT patient for these monsters.

[@briansauer6695]

@@noctuanecatrix I was thinking the same thing in that it would really piss me off waiting! I counted 199 cars. I have a CN branchline which runs behind my house, in which they are using for a commuter train line during the day so no long freights then. A train full of loaded cars runs by at about 11.30 at night, then a train with empties runs by around 3AM. If I'm up, I'll run and count the cars, which can average between 50 and 100. Heading west, they "pour on the coal" as they head out of town and are going pretty quick, maybe 40MPH by the time the last car passes. coming east, they are coming into town so they already start to slow down before my place. They used to run during the day like that until the push for the GO trains to and from Toronto. It pissed me off during the day with the 100 car train. I can't imagine 200! Plus, how slow they have to go! That's crazy!

[@briansauer6695]

@@noctuanecatrix How does it affect emergency services there?

[@danherrmann8755]

Dirty coal for dirty power. I will take it. Thanks for the video

[@georgetabback9084]

Can you tell me if Fort Collins, in 2024 still looks like this today? Is the street running still in tact and does it look the same as it does in this video? I thought I remember reading somewhere that somehow this section of street running was eliminated some years back, but I'm from the east coast so I have no idea. I've always loved the street running action in this area from back in the day.

[@hawaiiantrains]

The video was taken in summer 2019

[@Banom7a]

the street running are non-curbed from Mason and Laporte (a very short stub) before it curves away, but the rest of Mason have been grade-separated like the one you see in the video.

[@indenturedLemon]

Ah the memories of getting stuck right in front of the train while rushing to get through classes.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

LMAO I went to college here too! The excuse never worked for me, though.

[@tdillpickleh4684]

Works for me to get to work late often. Getting stuck behind this one would be a huge pain.

[@calebtrains2261]

@hawaiiantrains, AWESOME Catch, BNSF Doesn't Usually Run Their Tier IV Locomotives On Coal Trains. Does It Have To Do With Their Tier IV'S Lacking A Powered Center Axle On Their Bogies/Trucks?

[@GretchenDawntreader]

what is different about the 5th middle engine that it's painted in like...cream/bone and spruce green?

[@Link8451]

that engine is a former Burlington northern engine which was the predecessor to BNSF so it still has the original colors

[@Blippity_Bloop64]

BN painted a series of engines in what is known as the "Executive Paint Scheme". It was a departure from their normal livery. It is also referred to as "Grinstein Green", after the president of BN at the time. I believe even some were painted this way after the merger. Since then, some have been repainted, but I'm pretty sure the green/creme livery was never standard for BN.

[@c.l.r.3677]

Fort Collins a city of about 200,000 still as no overpasses. The city is shut down by a train this long. Laughing at the city

[@deeppowhazylab]

Down town Fort Collins, I’ve ate shit longboarding those tracks.

[@bigdog-xr8eb]

It has 3 mac units

[@Theodorerockingchair]

So this is how santa gets all that coal

[@hardrock6762]

énorme wow❤️

[@ernestomercadomaciasat4rer896]

Excelente, ^^

[@stephenswift5531]

I know there's 3 locomotives but how many cars are there

[@emwungarand]

844 axles. My god.

[@daviddelaet8116]

The towns forefathers should have built a bridge.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

There is a bridge at one point and a pedestrian tunnel on the University campus.

[@Sunset4Semaphores]

I do not know why precision railroading is allowed on street running trains. This is a safety issue cutting a large town in half for 1/5th of an hour. Just wait until the inevitable derailment from deferred maintenance on rolling stock.

[@Ranger0463]

Tracks were there long before the town. People don't like the train, shouldn't have built the town next to and in this case on both side of the track.

[@kelloggswag]

This was done by design to carve up cities. Where do you think the expression "wrong side of the tracks comes from"

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

@@Ranger0463 no, Fort Collins was just that- a fort- and the town grew up around it. The train came later.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

There was a flash flood that actually derailed a train and cut the town in half during a major emergency. Check out the Fort Collins Flood of 1997. Crazy stuff!

[@wraywraith]

@@ttystikkrocks1042 1877 bud......... trains were here for over a hundred years.......

[@keeganm2482]

Are there trains on any of the islands that make up Hawaii?

[@hawaiiantrains]

www.hawaiianrailway.com www.kilohanakauai.com/plantation-train

[@sexygirlove20]

@@hawaiiantrains model railroader had an issue that showed a very nice ho layout

[@kcsernestomontanez]

BNSF ET44C4

[@beringstraitrailway]

So each engine only has 4,250 HP?

[@randallellison6421]

Actually the GEs (now Wabtech) units crank out 4,400hp while the SD70ACe puts out 4,300hp and the SD70MACs are running at 4,000hp. The one exception could be the SD70MAC that's in BNSF's H3 (aka premium heritage or wedge) scheme. Those units were rebuilt and are now classified as SD70MACe, the "e" meaning enhanced. They recieved new electrical components and while I can't really confirm this, there were reports that their horsepower was boosted to 4,300hp, again not confirming that, it's just something I had heard.

[@wilsonnadar5700]

any one late for work today?

[@HandDryer-gv8ie]

🎵 Carribean Music

[@Zebrajellyfishphoto]

Absolutely ridiculous. I live here and hate this shit.

[@alandegani7497]

It's 9 locomotive not 8

[@RetiredPlum.]

All quite impressive But. Look at the massive amount of CO2 about to be dumped into the atmosphere apart from loco emissions...Time for change USA..we've all but closed 95% coal power stations it in UK.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

We'll get there. Eventually.

[@michaelpass2176]

Dry long grain.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

No Sir. Coal. These are empties headed back to Wyoming to get reloaded.

[@Fardad-hg8gz]

🤯🤯🤯🤯👌👍💯👏👏👏✅✅✅✅✅

[@warren5701]

Not a coal train when it has no coal.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

Sure it is. They don't use them for anything else!

[@ukkfayooyay]

Behold, liberals: your worst nightmare. Affordable energy.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

Behold; a right winger who doesn't understand the concept of uncompensated externalities.

[@ukkfayooyay]

@@ttystikkrocks1042 Oh look, a liberal who is willing to make millions starve and freeze today because he’s afraid of what might happen 100 years from now.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

@@ukkfayooyay so you're so selfish that you don't care what happens to others 100 years from now. Got it.

[@ukkfayooyay]

@@ttystikkrocks1042 And you’re so selfish you don’t care that your ideas are killing people today.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

@@ukkfayooyay if you're backing fossil fuels, you're backing the real killers. More people die because of their air pollution than by renewables!

[@bertcresta6685]

The length of this train is insane! The poor people having to wait for it to pass through…😢🫤