All EMD Yard Switcher Models Explained (SW/SC/NW/NC/MP/T/TR)
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- Опубліковано 19 гру 2022
- It has been brought to my attention that the music is a bit loud, and I will try to bring it down in the future. If you think I missed any credits, let me know and I'll put them in the description.
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I've loved "The Entertainer" since I was a kid, about the time I had an HO scale Santa Fe switcher.
Another excellent reference is the long out of publication Kalmbach book "Our GM Scrapbook", featuring articles from Trains magazine illustrating the development of EMD locomotives. In one section entitled "Cows, Calves, and Herds" there are multiple side by side photos of the various TR configurations.
great video. To point out that the trucks on most switchers of EMD were the AAR type while some roads ordered flexicoil trucks. The flexicoil allowed a better ride and slightly higher speeds. The Bloomberg B style truck on the MP-series was step up from the flexicoils.
THANK YOU FOR CLEARING THAT UP I WAS CONFUSED
Good overall info on classic EMD switchers. Thanks!
Thank You .... This video was an interesting clarification on Switchers; an important Loco then and now. A constructive suggestion : Drop the ( over-powering ) background music or significantly reduce the volume ( The tunes themselves are apt ). Regards + Cheers For Now / Johnny
One limitation of the end-cab switcher design is that without a short hood, there is no place for a potty, which limits their use in road service.
The 567 and 645 are the exact same size. I can say this with authority as I am an EMD certified locomotive mechanic for a short line railroad in Texas. I have been doing locomotive work for seventeen years. The 710 engine is in fact larger than the 567 or the 645.
Good video explaining each locomotive. Side note at
Thank you for the video, however I must correct you a bit on the current states of both RS1325's. They were initially built for the CNW to use in their Chicago yards for switching and passenger service, but the CNW weren't intersted. It wasn't until the C&IM purchased both prototypes, 30 and 31, off the showroom floor. They'd both serve the C&IM, and current G&W IMRR until 2016 when 30 went to the ATW, another G&W subsidiary. 31 remained with the IMRR until retired and sold for scrap in 2020 when the Monticello Railway Museum purchased the locomotive, which is still operating at the museum today. 30 was just recently donated as of 2022 by the ATW to the Illinois Railway Museum.
The Amtrak "SW1000R"s were rebuilds of old MKT SW9s by NRE. Two of them (790 and 791) languished out of service underneath the old Harrison Street post office adjacent to Chicago Union Station for years. They were finally pulled out and scrapped sometime in the last 5 years or so. They were there forever though and still worked until maybe 2010 or 2011. Some others stayed around in service for longer(and might still be in service) in Washington D.C.
I saw CRR NW3 in the scrap line,,Erwin,Tn.
I enjoyed this. I don't know which models specifically, but saw a lot of these various models up where I lived in Montana.
I remember seeing the Blue and Yellow switcher at about the 6 minute mark at a grain elevator or similar industry in either Iowa or Minnesota when I first started trucking in 2017. There was an old Conrail switcher and some first gen geeps at other industries along that same back road. This one stuck out because it used to be owned(I think it was just a parts unit at that point) by a Chicago area shortline/locomotive leasing outfit. It just sat stored on this industry lead near O'Hare airport for years before UP kicked them off that line, then it and another switcher sat near Rochelle for a while. It made the rounds around the midwest before ending up in Ohio for a rebuild and new coat of paint. It was still in faded Amtrak colors beforehand with ATSF paint shining through. It was one of the many rebuilt "SSB1200s" that ATSF traded to Amtrak for the SDP40s(or whatever models they were) Glad to see her kicking around, as I was sure she would end up on the deadline at NRE or LTEX
I've rewired and upgraded so many switchers. I like the MP15AC with freaking AR10 in it.
Missing: Lehigh Valley SW8 no's 256-273. These were the only SW's ever built with dynamic brakes straight from the factory. They were known as the "Delano Pups".
The Victorian Railways Australia version is called the EMD G6B and were powered by an EMD 6 cylinder 567C/645E power plant the road numbers were Y101-Y175
great video but a small correction. the SW900 had an 8 cyl. engine producing 900 HP, not 9 cyl.
I thought these live 30 years and 14 years is short
I actually caught one of these at a crossing