BNSF US Military (Abrams Tanks) Train over Tehachapi

BNSF Military Train over Tehachapi
April 2017
Enjoy!

[@BeauMinnick]

These are M1s, and M1IPs being taken out of long storage in the high desert. They are on their way to Aniston Alabama to be broken down for rebuild. Once broken down they will be retrained and sent to Lima Ohio to become M1A2SEPV3s.

[@Makzimiser]

Very cool!

[@chesslerbooks]

I counted 95 tanks. I'm back, 3 years later, September 2023, still counting. This time I count 97 tanks, and about 14 are single oads in the front of the train, the rest double loads.

[@EdWhizAviationTrains]

Stunning footage, I really enjoyed watching and of coarse I subscribed 👍😎

[@johnbell5068]

A lot were going to Ft Irwin Ca. National training center near Barstow. Many times a year.

[@trainsandtrucks]

Great video. So different from where I live (NL) :) Thanks for making and sharing!

[@butwere3-0wou]

We should be more thankful for our railways because of this!

[@tractorsmachinesro1405]

Great & epic video as always...I like IT!!! Big like from Romania

[@EdWhisenantAviation]

That was AWESOME, Huge Like & you have a new subscriber 👍👍

[@doug383]

its possible that they may be headed to lima OH or anniston army depot for rebuild M1a2 sep package

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[@toxic1venom]

That's what I counted myself unless I counted wrong. Very nice catch of video. Don't see those everyday. Thanks for sharing

[@suratsutikbanyuwangi267]

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[@potatothorn]

wow wow WOW this is Awesome. Ive been there a few times, seen lots of great trains there and along 58 but nothing like this / So Cool you share it with us thank you!

[@user-yt7ex1ju6l]

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[@davidmedina737]

97 tanks is what I've counted.

[@yasminkazihossan8074]

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. I enjoyed looking at this video. So amazing.

[@chanderbhan4348]

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[@Beausabre]

Those all look like older model M1's. Like M1A1. None have the independent commander's sight found on the M1A2, and several are missing road wheels - most commonly the middle two. Also looking at the variety of paint schemes (tan, olive, and three-color NATO) I think that these are all older model tanks going to disposal or possibly remanufacture into newer versions.

[@SAMMOBADEXPRESSTRAIN]

B Sabre nice

[@Beausabre]

@nowonyuno They use modified M113's at the NTC to represent threat vehicles. M1's would be horribly expensive to run as OPFOR vehicles due to the cost of running their turbine engines.

[@d.ferrell9978]

I was thinking the same thing. Some of them looked like they were in pretty rough condition.

[@stripervince1]

i used to work for sp signal here in the 1980s. what a amazing exciting place. non stop trains 24/7 365. probably one of the best places in america for rail fans, (also cajon pass about 100 miles southeast of here on interstate 15) this is no place for inexperienced engineers and conductors. very easy to stringline a train out here. (pulling lighter weight cars off the tracks around a curve if there is too much weight on the back of the train. generally a train should be loaded heaviest cargo front. a 4500' train will cross over itself here on the over pass. i worked out of palmdale but loved it when we had jobs in mojave and tehachapi

[@jaquelineguadaluperodrigue3922]

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[@valerieromero1603]

I lived near the Cajon pass and have seen some of the longest trains I've ever seen there. I once seen a train that had at least 80 striker fighting vehicles on it, it was very cool.

[@user-em8tt7km4s]

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[@himavardannekkali6119]

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[@ivanomarhetze3837]

Mi cooperativa la ganadera de general Ramírez

[@guillermosalazar1283]

Que bonito es el tren es otro mundo saludos a todos los que trabajan en esos ramos DIos me los cuiden

[@ronhutchcraft2290]

This is a nice Video, I'd give anything to be able to live in those hills and watch trains all day. 👍🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃

[@andywerner838]

I saw something like this going through glacier park ..2001 i think ...was neat

[@walterpires4770]

Wet ver

[@candidamariacruzsouza218]

Isso mesmo amo ver o trem e ainda ele pitando obrigado parabens

[@trevornathasingh6600]

Worked the rail while in the army loved loading and unloading trains.

[@Mark-Dibble]

Tanks for posting this cool video.

[@Handlesarestoopid]

Cool. I love M1A1/M1A2 Abrams. Also I love trains

[@dropship123]

Tanks a lot for the upload 😉

[@hernannavarreterojas5946]

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[@richardpearcy6149]

Was this train headed to Anniston Alabama? Many of those vehicles looked to be in pretty rough share.

[@danielkennedy7845]

Excellent!!! great find thank you

[@BherulalDhobi-dd2dc]

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[@T16MGJ]

Lifelong UK Railway enthusiast enjoyed watching all twelve plus minutes of that. Thanks for posting. Maybe an illusion created by the lens, considering the size of the USA, what surprised me was to see the very tight radii of some of the curved parts of those sections of track. Here in little old UK, such tight curves are rare. We have long freight trains in the UK ~ helps keep freight off our traffic laden Roads and Motorways, but nowhere near as long as you have over there. Impressive stuff.

[@balwindermultani8912]

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[@iansutton3176]

I bet we won't see a video like this one again in a long time!

[@kenneycooper6199]

This is the horseshoe curve at Caliente. I believe he’s going east to Tehachapi pulling the hill. I always enjoyed my visit in the area.

[@heavydutyrepair64]

They are probably headed to Anniston army Depot or the Lima army tank plant for rebuiding

[@gordonmusic6936]

John McLaurin. Yes maybe lima tank plant where some of my family worked rip Darrel music or mountain man

[@adamb.1786]

97 Tanks for rebuilding or scrapping. Looked rough missing parts, rust, an overall lack of maintenance.

[@lock8038]

@@adamb.1786 probably scraped, M1 shown pretty much out of date . I think I also saw a couple of M1A1s aswell.

[@foulanchor9537]

Probably sending old M1's to the Marines.

[@jbizzle1966]

Sharpe Army depot maybe?

[@jeffreybarkey56]

I was a Tank Commander in the U.S.Army, retired 21 years and retired from B.N.S.F.Railroad 2013. Love my jobs but enjoyed my Retirement.

[@Handlesarestoopid]

Cool. Thank you for your service

[@kietdang1631]

Ok👍

[@yolandajohnson8685]

Jeffrey Barkey Hello Tank Commander. I was assigned to the 157th Infantry Brigade Reserve Unit in Horsham PA in 1985-1988

[@splash5150izy]

^^^@Jeffrey Barkey .. Great Stuff US Army and Railroad Personnel, thank you for your service .. .

[@SJM6791]

Well deserved brother!! Enjoy your life. You’ve earned it!!

[@briancooper562]

On a previous video of tanks being transported east bound over Tehachapi the tanks where transported on 6 axle flat wagons. These proved extremely noisy as the flanges squealed due to there being no lateral 'give' in the 3 axle trucks round sharp corners. I cannot see, because of the shadows, if these wagons are 4 or 6 axle, I would assume the double loads (124 ton) are 6 axle, unless the tanks are stripped out, and the single loads 4 axle?

[@kruser79]

The US always uses the DODX flat cars to move Abrams tanks. Never seen them moved with ANYTHING else.

[@gregwarner3753]

I saw a similar train leaving the ALCO Plant in Schenectady, NY loaded with Patton tanks headed for Korea in the early 19590's. Just part of our Forever War.

[@patricks_music]

That place looks like an old dirt bike video game map I used to play on.

[@sriraman1981]

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[@OliverWoodphotography]

Great shots here - good sound too :)

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[@iankravitz5723]

My guess is they're on the way to the boneyard for long term storage. A lot of them look old and need to be retired.

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[@cravingsweetyumchannel6597]

Oh..how long that train, amazing,thanks for your nice video..

[@Steve-Cross]

Now that is a lot of firepower on that train. Great video. Thanks :-)

[@SAMMOBADEXPRESSTRAIN]

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[@charlesnelson4609]

Excellent photography, 5 diesel engines, pulling the entire Military equipments. Hates off⚘👍🙏👌🚦🚦

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

Former Abrams operator here. Never got to see the trains travel between bases, as I was at either end waiting for them. I also became the UMO (Unit Movement Officer) who's job is to supervise and plan the rail movement of the vehicles. Every one of those tanks has fuel (not much admittedly) and is capable of being driven for a good distance. All ammo and installed weapons like the mounted machine guns are not present however for obvious reasons. The most back breaking part is doing the tiedown thing, and after that guiding the vehicles just so onto the cars is much harder than you think. Another important thing to note is that Abrams tanks (and Bradley IFV's) aren't driven everywhere. We transport them via truck (HEMTT) to the loading and unloading zones. Driving the vehicle is only done in short distances for maintenance or fueling, longer distances are only traveled for training exercises and proper war. I could keep going, but congrats for reading this far! Best job I ever had!

[@peterwiremuormsby9383]

Why have some of those tanks have two wheels off, and it's the same two wheels?

[@asiakhatun5062]

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[@pinturaikwar8780]

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[@MausMasher54]

Headed to Ft Irwin for refurbishment????

[@ranjitsingh9738]

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[@TheFahadasif]

Beautiful Location .Great Video🇵🇰👍

[@victoriaskinner2748]

Hi I am going to collapse with happiness because I just love trains that much. Thank you for the videos you are an inspiration.

[@peterdurnien9084]

What does that lot weigh?

[@E9ONE1]

Aloha~beautiful video..could you tell me type of camera/setting you have used for videos thank you!👍🤙👊

[@josephthottan2724]

Well captured. Three different angles and different places. No shaking of camera. Never a dull moment for the train enthusiasts. The sirens in the beginning and no train visible, add drama to the incoming giant! Great video!

[@peterwiremuormsby9383]

and no bad music either.

[@user-uq9bv3ws4c]

Perfect clip!👍👍👍

[@debasishmaitra8857]

I also counted the Numbers of tanks attached with locomotive Engines and found 97.Nice video. 👍

[@ronaldhowland4655]

If you look at the tanks they look like they are going to be refurbished, because there are no mounts for a .59 caliber machine gone by the the tank commander's hatch or no antennas

[@tjbailey29820]

Nice video, my only suggestion is to edit out the parts where there is only track to view. As an example, it is a full 67 seconds in the beginning before the first engine appears.

[@Plisko1]

THM SGR yeah... too bad there isn't also some sort of software that lets you trim your videos so that the viewer doesn't need to do your job for you.... oh wait...

[@torchandhammer]

I like the anticipation.

[@paulthesoundguy1]

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[@NoBody-ht1oh]

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[@PC-dc1kv]

torchandhammer Me too!

[@MrMASSEYJONES]

Wow! A real train. I live in Calgary Alberta where we see DPU and 200car trains all the time all the time, not down east, where a 60 car consist is “spectacular” . Absolutely great job!

[@deksoaja5983]

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[@user-os8fh8bt8c]

Просто нет слов. Да просто нет слов.... Точнее они есть, но их нет...

[@richkeeshan9757]

Im guessing the troops are transported by planes now? In my dad's day they went right with the vehicles

[@cbrown717]

The physics of locomotives and freight trains never cease to amaze me. All that weight on such little surface area between wheels and rails.

[@user-wt4ko2gv3u]

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[@richramik2092]

Contact surface is about the size of a dime (wheel to rail) from what I remember!!!!!!

[@cbrown717]

@@richramik2092 it's crazy isn't it! Tons and tons and tons of train sitting on the surface area of the size of a dining room table.

[@abhishekbhaskar2931]

@@cbrown717 amazing....

[@mpadmanabha1954]

Really marvellous. Nice powerful train..

[@mabutoo]

Clearly, these are some of the tanks from the mothball yard. They are likely heading for refit so they can be put into service.

[@Arman_khan777]

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[@CMDRFandragon]

Just assorted Abrams variants going to the Lima plant to be overhauled? Only once seen something like that coming from Arizona to Michigan, the train, I think, had Bradleys on it. Saw it somewhere in the desert, passed over the bridge and only got a quick glance.

[@JEJ2502]

How many tanks were on the train? I counted 105!

[@Luucero]

Hermoso vídeo me fascinan las locomotoras me crié cerca de ellas

[@KARTAVIDEO2TRAINS]

waw. this was just exciting, the battle tanks were transported.

[@georgeionescu6425]

how much weight can a single loco pull or push?

[@JawTooth]

Awesome video and I like seeing both sides of the train!

[@marcin815]

Many of them appear to be very worn, even damaged.

[@samcrunkleton3420]

11,640,000 pounds of tanks (not including the train). Also, looks like the center wheel section goes out more often than the others and they are apparently scavenged quite often.

[@clark57225]

I got 12,028,000 lb. (97 tanks x 62 tons x 2,000 lb. per ton). Oops, you're right. Some of them were missing road wheels and side plates.

[@patrickwhelan5703]

How much total weight is the train pulling???

[@martindavis9930]

Are the tanks going to the Army depot in Alabama to be refurbished ?

[@gtnsteve1]

Nice to hear that the Q signal is still is use! Seems our local freights just toot a couple of times.

[@fernandomercado7]

I had railhead with this type of convoy while in the army and very impresive to see and be part of it.The rain conductors are very awsome GBUS.

[@jlet4ever]

I hoped on a tank and rode a few hrs in a train not too long ago. No security or green berets or anyone was around . Our military. Gotta love em.

[@tvm73836]

Yeah right!

[@Jhihmoac]

Aren't the M1s going to get that long-overdue A2 upgrade/rebuild/refit, I heard about, or something? 6:06 - That would explain why I don't see the diesel or original equipment jet turbine engine modules that hang off the back side (just behind the treads) of any of them!

[@lourivaljesus563]

Estão vindo pro Brasil?se for Maravilha!!!!!!!!

[@JDsHouseofHobbies]

That's a first for me. I've never seen a tank train before!

[@stupidasso77]

WikdSeafood You must have never partied with your parents.

[@seanhancock3799]

WikdSeafood I was train hopping on one lol

[@nayarnayarg3595]

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[@Prince-gu8or]

Thomas the tank engine

[@gilbertosanchessantiago1683]

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[@inmybox100]

Fast forward to 2:20 then some tanks on a train that looked unloved and Rusty or is that how they should look ?

[@winningspeechmoments9141]

How do they determine how many engines they need? Why there were two engines in the middle?

[@RailwayTV]

❤️ Amazingly beautiful videos. Thank you for sharing.

[@manioaron949]

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[@sifubongz8197]

One of the best produced train videos I have ever seen. Well done!!!

[@mahibulislam2975]

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[@MrPegge]

What happened to the 4th wheel on so many tanks? There were some precious metals?

[@kornami8678]

I was surprised they put two tanks on one the flatbed car. Each tank weighs around 135,000 lbs. and they put two on a car. Wow!

[@jamessimms415]

Kornami notice @ the head end for 13 cars it’s a single tank? I’m guessing either a low load limit flat which doesn’t make much sense, an attempt to keep the head end weight down, should there be an accident, less armor to clean up off the ground, or more likely less weight up front to keep the head engines from pulling out a draw bar.

[@sgtkah07211]

All heading for rebuild/refit.

[@nhyardlimit]

I LOVE Military Trains!! and this one is fabulous!!

[@jerryeinstandig7996]

every penny spent on machines of destruction robs society of benefits, like universal health care, education, housing.

[@f.lloydwrong7127]

Just seen this same convoy in spokane about 40 days ago, coming from west, seattle, and was heading east towards idaho panhandle.. 7/29/22. Today's date, approximately 6/15/22 Ish

[@DonLovell]

I was 19K way back in the 1980s. These old girls served us well for many years. Looks like the lot or some of them are on their way to the boneyard this time around. RIP

[@scottgeorge4760]

Super cool ! , I doubt I'll ever see this any where else. I have some trains that run through the nearby area and find them impressive .

[@claesmansson9070]

Well,you can doubt all you want,but happens in other countries as well,not sure if was abrams tanks,but came from Esbjerg to one of the baltic states through DK,didnt drive so slow though,but also not so many!

[@bendavis6722]

do they use a helicopter to unload the military vehicles from the train? sorry for getting off topic.

[@alexwolf8019]

Where these going to be scrapped or refitted and updated? I almost wanted to salute them :)

[@MrKWiley918]

Hopefully back to a depot for rebuild and upgrades... lots of road wheels missing on some

[@katherinehunsberger6542]

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[@rajsekharvavilla5467]

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[@michaelmuller6890]

what platform is long enough for that monstrosity?

[@franceselainethurston1606]

I was lucky enough to see a train going over Tehachapi.

[@thebeast2746]

Who cares saddo 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@conceyullena]

Great video!! Amazing landscapes and trains! Greetings from Spain

[@prabhulalkumawat5205]

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[@sc0tte1-416]

Why do the first few cars only have one tank per car? Is it to raise braking force per lb of weight? That's my guess?

[@zsuzsannafekete8431]

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[@yasminkazihossan8074]

Never seen a real train before, would love to travel and enjoy these lovely sights of trains

[@PraiseTheSun2023]

Looks like it is driving around in circles...

[@dapto234]

are these tanks off to be scrapped ..they dont look fit for much else.

[@ivofelixoliveira4903]

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[@giralihilaria8820]

Me encantan los trenes😊😊

[@francisbusa1074]

Back in the '90s we and our friends used to drive up to the loop and sit and watch for the train. I counted 97 Abrams, close to the number required for a Second Division Armored Brigade, I believe. That's supposed to be about 116 MBTs. This train was hauling about 6300 tons of MBTs.

[@adinalhadid1233]

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[@trainlens3789]

Nice view coming around that curve.

[@billfulgenzi2287]

For the first 1.15 minutes I thought that the train was if fact a "stealth train". No train only horns, maybe a shade better editing on the front. But the video was fantastic. With a train approaching 10,000 tons in weight it would be positively scary if that monster got out of control. The Tehachapi has had that happen in the past with catastrophic results. Surely with the military value of those tanks there was armed security somewhere close? ...and yes I did subscribe!

[@plumbingstuffinoregon2471]

That was the most interesting train I've seen in a while

[@johnnyhernandez7561]

Saludos desde Para Maraba , Brasil foi um vídeo maravioso , muito obrigado por compartilhar lo

[@epj900]

Are the slave engines in the middle of the train controlled by radio?

[@PasleyAviationPhotography]

Like others have said, definitely going for updating, those are some of the oldest m1a1's i have seen and all in various states of disrepair

[@khaderhaji76]

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[@thomasmoran9114]

@niels lund They are probably headed for the Sierra Army Depot for storage. The Army regularly upgrades and rebuilds them to new condition at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama and the Lima, Ohio tank plant. There has been no new production in years.