Wabtec/Roy Hill Battery locomotive in the lead!

[@MSRTA_Productions]

Finally get to hear the horn on this thing. Not as bad as I thought I'd hope.

[@espeescotty]

You can see it sanding the rails at 2:42 as it is no doubt under heavy load accelerating the 6000.

[@F40-RULES]

That horn sounds exactly like a go transit cab car 🤣🤣😂😂. At least the newer ones.

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@F40-RULES I actually think its the same type!

[@aidantherailfan2175]

I was gonna say the same thing, it really does sound like go transit’s cab car horn

[@leonardovalladares4315]

😂😂😂

[@F40-RULES]

If it had the same loud emergency horn, then I would think it is the same horn. 😂😂🤣🤣👍

[@aidantherailfan2175]

@@F40-RULES lol

[@Elifilmstrains]

Very nice video. Great to see the 2001 leading!

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@Elifilmstrains Thanks!

[@galaxyrailfanning7860]

Amazing! Great footage Stephan!

[@stephankoenig5481]

Thanks. It will test that way off and on over the next few weeks.

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

Very cool video and enjoyed once again. Have a great rest of your Tuesday. Steve

[@stephankoenig5481]

Thanks! Enjoy your day too!

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

@@stephankoenig5481 you're very welcome and thank you also.

[@ElPasoTXRailfanner]

Nice catch

[@stephankoenig5481]

Thanks!

[@DebbieSuttle]

Now that is pretty awesome right there woot woot 🌞😊

[@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq]

Shurley is an interesting looking locomotive!

[@WH_Railfan84]

Very nice set of catches. I like the LED's on the front!

[@keithfurlow5024]

Great catch as always and very informative! Thanks for sharing my friend!👍🏾👌🏾

[@stephankoenig5481]

Thanks! Thanks for watching!

[@keithfurlow5024]

@@stephankoenig5481 you’re welcome!

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

It’s amazing that those poles ones used to hold a catenary wire are still standing in a time when general electric built electric locomotives most notably famous being the Milwaukee Road Little Joe and the Pennsylvania railroad GG1

[@stephankoenig5481]

There is only one left from 1909 at mp 1.75. A few from the 1920s.

[@aaronl_trains_and_planes]

It's too quiet. I want to hear the rumble of an approaching engine.

[@stephankoenig5481]

When its by itself it almost sounds like a very quiet SD70Ace.

[@rearspeaker6364]

needs a 400 watt DCC encoder installed.

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@rearspeaker6364 Wonder if Loksound will make one. : )

[@aaronl_trains_and_planes]

@@rearspeaker6364 🤣😂🤣😂

[@rearspeaker6364]

@@stephankoenig5481 watch it have the wrong upload, and its UP4014!!

[@Xander-m1w]

I love that horn!

[@joshthetrainfan]

That thing looks cool. When do the CN/BLE ones come out?

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@joshthetrainfan towards the end of the year. There is only one.

[@joshthetrainfan]

@@stephankoenig5481 oh I thought there were more

[@Elifilmstrains]

@@stephankoenig5481 CN's getting battery locomotives for the Bessemer?

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@Elifilmstrains Just one, should be out later this year.

[@rearspeaker6364]

So that's how they charge them up🤣🤣

[@m.e.345]

What is the economic case for a locomotive that can only run for 5 hours before recharging? 🤔

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@m.e.345 It is still to be used in a consist. On the road it would be much longer with support comming from the other locomotives.

[@FanRailer]

The real benefit of running battery locomotives in conjunction with conventional diesel electrics comes in mountain territory, where use of dynamic braking can be turned into regenerative braking, recapturing the generated electricity and storing it in the battery for later use rather than dissipating it as heat through the dynamic brake resistors.

[@jordaneriksson5417]

It's so quiet i can't hear the motor roaring

[@maestromecanico597]

Oh so close! Now isolate the alternator in AC6000 from the electrical cabinet and run bus connections to the FLX. Then run another set of buses from the FLX battery to the AC6000’s electrical cabinet. The engine will only ramp up to charge the battery and ramp down to idle/shutdown when the battery is charged.

[@stephankoenig5481]

I actually think something like that is in development!

[@maestromecanico597]

@@stephankoenig5481 When I saw my first AC6000 in the late 90s the road slug had been a reality for almost a decade on CSX. The next step was obvious: A road slug/mother set spreading out that 6000hp over twice as many axles. Replace two SD40s with better traction and half the fuel consumption. Now with batteries it’s even better.

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@maestromecanico597 I have worked with battery power over the last 10 years The torque is much higher. Spreading it out would work better. GECX 3000 had much more torque than the equivalent GEVO. This one is even more powerful.

[@maestromecanico597]

@@stephankoenig5481 An inherent advantage of steam and electric traction was full potential as soon as you opened the throttle. With a diesel you have to wait until the engine revs up. A fully charged battery goes back to that full potential. This could get interesting.

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@maestromecanico597 Yep! Down side is the gears and motors wear out quicker in some cases.

[@JessLemley_RONT]

You can’t even hear the horn after it passes lol

[@bowlinglegendofleftwich4775]

This is making me think about the horn on GECX 3000 Although, nobody has heard it, I wonder what horn GECX 3000 is

[@stephankoenig5481]

For the last test of the 3000 it got the same type of horn that 2001 has to test it to se if it would work. There is too much on the roof of the units to have a horn up there.

[@bowlinglegendofleftwich4775]

@@stephankoenig5481 makes sense

[@ChloesProductions-zk5wz]

Hey Something new !! always seems cool, now my honest opinion, Run it alone and pulling a normal haul, can’t wait to see this cluster, I wouldn’t bet a dime on this impending fail.

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@ChloesProductions-zk5wz technology may warrant it obsolete in the near future.

[@corsaronero2577]

Why does it have two red MU sockets?

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

YEESH that thing looks like a bomb. Keep it away from any populated areas.

[@Train_Tok_Man]

This is going to sound like an odd question, but where are the controls, the right or left?

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@Train_Tok_Man Same as the US locomotives.

[@Train_Tok_Man]

@@stephankoenig5481 Nice! Thanks for answering my question.

[@redhen334]

The horn sounds like a Nathan K horn with bells 1L and 1, one step down from the 1 and 2 combination used on the GT46C-ACe and other locomotives on the mainline in Australia. Not really a fan of 2 chimes but they don’t sound awful.

[@Trainsandanimationstv]

Might be the first time I've seen a freight locomotive with LED lights

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@Trainsandanimationstv The former Pan Am adopted them.

[@hayden4516]

Arkansas and Missouri RR operates SD70ACes with full LED lights. They’ve got a few videos up on here!

[@stephankoenig5481]

​@@hayden4516 Thats cool I saw them a couple years ago!

[@jamesnulliner2390]

That thing sounds so cool will the diesel engine and the electric engine

[@octopus1066]

so how many people will get ran over by a quiet freight train, or how many times will she get stuck on a hill having to be pushed up the hill by normal engies? same reason why battery trucks won't work for pulling heavy loads, it will be WAY WORSE on a train hauling freight.

[@stephankoenig5481]

On the plus side looking at locomotive production and new ideas diesels will still be built and rebuilt into 2040. as they are the best investment.

[@scax859]

That AC6000- does it have a 16-cyl GEVO engine? Sure sounds like it

[@stephankoenig5481]

It still does just derated.

[@Justrandomvideos-2023]

Sure its battery powered but how good will it do pulling and pushing thousands of tons of weight and for how long?

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@Justrandomvideos-2023 Thats what they need tp fond out from the tests.

[@ChloesProductions-zk5wz]

Toast

[@alwhalen3488]

I don't think the intent is to run only battery units. They supposedly will be included in a consist for extra power when needed to pull and will get recharged when needed for dynamic braking.

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@alwhalen3488 That was the intent. For US railroads they were marketed as an as needed DPU that did not need to run all the time.

[@VinnieRozzisi]

Do you happen to know if 6000 is an actual AC6000?

[@stephankoenig5481]

It was. It was changed to be classified as an AC46CH.

[@Espeon14]

Es44 cab with SD60 back

[@shaunrobertson1857]

Diesel will always be superior just saying it almost stalled with only one fully loaded loco

[@mikecross4350]

So 5 hours ..not pulling a train and with a just in case diesel tagging along?

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

All locos are tested this way. The diesel does dynamic braking to put a load on the working loco. I don't doubt that the battery loco works, but I do doubt that they will work very long before a major reportable incident.

[@hannamaniacrailproductions5082]

I have A LOT of questions

[@Kendrickhobbs189]

What is that thing? 0:46

[@stephankoenig5481]

Its a memorial to a kid that was killed there in 2003.

[@Trainplaneenjoyer]

Ah yes the SD6000M So yeah the horn doesn't sound that bad it just sounds like an Australian horn or a fouled P3 but the bell stays the same and yeah can someone tell me where to find this locomotive

[@TheRealBlakeBradley]

made it 100 likes

[@stephankoenig5481]

That was quick!

[@AmtrakNerd42]

That looks like it could be used in a Barbie movie.

[@rorirocks6663]

Dont know what horn is on this loco but sounds like the P2 that caltrain and metrolink lile to use And being an aussie loco, why not put it on one the nose like most aussie locos? And why only 2 chimes, would be better off with a 5 chime, 5 trumpet horn like the earlier K5s the earlier diesel Locos got, hell even the domestic C44ACi got a custom K5Ul horn that CTTrasit use currently

[@coolleo149]

Horn type? Cause it really doesn’t sound good at all :/

[@stephankoenig5481]

@@coolleo149 someone IDed it as a P2.

[@isaacsmith1874]

The paint scheme is god-awful, it is definitely interesting.

[@darthvader43609]

It's because the CEO of Roy Hill is a breast cancer survivor, and I have all the respect for her.

[@isaacsmith1874]

@@darthvader43609 OK, now I understand.

[@SilkyTrains]

⁠@@darthvader43609Yes. She deserves respect

[@bennettgibson7287]

The horn sounds terrible it's not tuned.

[@xero925]

This technology is not sustainable in railroading. What happening when its cold outside and the battery cant start? When the trains stop, so does our economy!

[@TrainsAreReallyCool]

I really do not like this thing.

[@anonymous-s5y3]

The horn sounds like shit

[@Southwest_Ohio_Railfan]

That thing sounds like shit 💀

[@SilkyTrains]

Conrails fouled horns are worse lmao