Matched power huh ? Then you would have hated the rainbow trains we had back in the 70s. Early Conrail and early BN. No one from my era could forget the colorful Chessie System. They even had a couple of steam trains made up in Chessie colors. Conrail blue was so nice compared to Penn Central dirt. I do have to hand it to BNSF for picking the old Great Northern Empire Builder scheme for the railroad.
If you like high headlights then NS is mostly your field of dreams. However they did have some units that were nose light, all ex-BN. They had 9 first gen 60Ms with the 3 piece windshield from 2014 to 2019. It's a shame they got rid of those.
I prefer engines with a cab headlight because at night you don't have to swallow or inhale a bunch of bugs to get on the engine. As a foamer I prefer noselights though.
Hit the nail right on the head with mainline steam. It’s a dream of mine to see something like 2816 on the mainline someday, no matter what steamer it is.
I took got to see cp 2816 in Davenport, Iowa. It was sooooo worth it, I got to see big boy a few years back as well. Especially considering both passed through my hometown and cp 2816 passed right in front of my house. No matter what railroad mainline steam is always cool😎
Im a big fan of BNSF units still in warbonnet paint along with their H4 paint scheme. But one satisfying thing you missed is freshly painted engines. Those spark satisfaction as well no matter the paint scheme used for any railroad.
I know it’s a good train when the headlights are separated and not all crushed together from a far distance. Either an EMD or an SD70M/Ace or an old Dash 8, 9, AC4400CW, and the godly AC6000CW
There never was an H1 GP60M, found a list of every paint scheme the GP60Ms wore and none wore it. GP60M liveries were: ATSF Warbonnet, BNSF Warbonnet, Maersk Sealand, BNSF H2, H3 and H4.
2:00 honestly yeah i agree, stater cabs like the GP40 should have the lights on the nose and the ACE 40 should have the lights on the top. would look more better.
I've always preferred high mounted ditch lights. That being said, BC Rail takes the cake when it comes to ditch light mounts, using both high and low on the same locomotive.
I do agree with many of these. There's certain things locomotives can have that makes them look so much cooler! The headlight thing reminded me: There's a fictional railroad of mine that I'll probably start modeling one day, and the locomotives operated by this railroad have both high and nose headlights instead of one of the two.
I think SP did that for a while, too. I know Reserve Mining used to do something like this. Theirs were even weirder, since they had two lights up top, with a single light on the top corner of the nose
To be fair, BNSF has always been this way when it comes to mixing different locomotives together in a consist. Heck, you could even go back to predecessors Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, you very rarely saw matched consists back in those days. Also, totally agree about the Heritage 1 scheme (and I'll even throw the H2 scheme in there as well, despite the inconsistencies of the orange on those units), not only for its looks, but just for the fact it was when BNSF was a much better company in general to work for.
1:30 As someone who sits trackside in Roseville, i can tell you that something about Thundercab ACes are much cooler than the ISO ACes. I’m glad UP did their heritage units with Thundercabs. Edit: i liked and caught UP 1988 2 days after this vid came out
Big Boy 4014 was testing a PTC system without a Diesel helper this week, so perhaps if it works well, it could allow steam excursions with other streamers being PTC equipted on other lines (if the other lines agree to them).
1:12 bro actually said CPKFC Btw, only American locomotives have bells because American railways aren’t fenced off while European ones are. So American locomotives need a constant warning while European ones don’t.
I railfan the UP and something about Norfolk southern leaders just hits me. Any other foreign power does not quite hit me the same way as an NS lead. Something else that hits me is when you actually get good audio of a wayside horn.
Eh, i dont really care much for the ditchlights lol. Maybe ill start paying attention to them. I do like it when trains have horns they aren't supposed to, or that rare chance a horn can get fouled/broken and then sound better. I know NS 1070 is supposed to have a K5LLA, but that got replaced with some P5 thing and then it got a K1L13, which i personally really like and suits it well. Also i gotta mention CSX 483, its K5LA is broken a little bit but it makes it sound really cool in my opinion.
for me i like the nose headlights idk it just looks better to me more than a high light cause when ever i go out and se a high light i think of ns i also do not like low ditch lights for some reason its really ugly for me hope i didnt mean to upset u guys
Just an opinion, but I think almost every modern locomotive looks better with a nose mounted headlight. Now that excludes, EMD standard cabs. Not a huge fan of the nose headlight on standard cabs from any year.
As much as I want to call you a delusional foamer, I’m with you with the high headlights and the low ditch GE. Also GEVOs paired up is just ugly nobody can change my mind. H1 is also the goat
Hey man I'm so happy you got to see see Canadian Pacific 2816 if you want my two cents though I think they should have brought out the Royal Hudson that would have been even better to see don't get me wrong seeing a main line steam locomotive is awesome as heck but to see a real Hudson I think would have been a whole lot cooler but that's just me I was going to go friend of mine said he was going to come and get me we were going to go up to Oklahoma to see if that's about 4 hours from where I live I live down in Texas in the Dallas Fort Worth area the problem with this guy is loving to death awesome guy but he has poor planning skills and very poor communication skills I'm thinking he's going to come and get me at like maybe five or six we drive to Oklahoma get a hotel spend the night get up at 8:00 the next day or earlier to watch the train to park and Chase it down to Shreveport Louisiana unfortunately that did not happen it's getting later and later and I'm like dude what's going on where are you he keeps getting delayed I said this is not going to work out and the reason is because well if I was to leave at midnight I wouldn't get there until like very early in the morning and I would not get very much sleep to go and see it then he said I'm going to be leaving at 4:00 in the morning the next day to go out there you want to come I told him I would if you had told me earlier LOL if I had known I could have gone to bed about 8:00 or 9:00 and got plenty of sleep there were storms all over the place where the train was running anyway but for anybody who had a chance to see it I am very happy for you and I hope you're blessed and I hope all of you are safe out there watching this beautiful locomotive to see it with f units must have been amazing but you know honestly I'm looking forward to seeing the big boy come back to Texas this year the Hinckley said I have no idea where that is I'll have to look it up but if you could tell me I'm just curious what state it runs through anyway I really enjoyed your video and I'm glad you found some positives about rail fanning I don't complain too much then again I can't go real feeling very much but when I do get to go and see some trains it's always nice to take some pictures and videos and unfortunately one of my railroads the Trinity Railway Express is about to replace a lot of their power with the ugly Simmons Chargers so I'm going to go see what I can while I can anyway keep up the good work be safe around trains happy railroading and may the good Lord bless you take care
Hey! Sorry, no disrespect at all, and I thank you very much for your support, but it just sounds a little bit inappropriate and I like to keep my channel as family friendly as possible... I hope you understand
Matched power huh ? Then you would have hated the rainbow trains we had back in the 70s. Early Conrail and early BN. No one from my era could forget the colorful Chessie System. They even had a couple of steam trains made up in Chessie colors. Conrail blue was so nice compared to Penn Central dirt. I do have to hand it to BNSF for picking the old Great Northern Empire Builder scheme for the railroad.
You forgot early CSX too. You would see mixed consists of Seaboard system, Chessie system, family lines, SCL, L&N, B&O, C&O, CSX, etc locomotives
Early BNSF had some crazy mixes that only started becoming rare in the last few years
Leaser era
Probably my favorite locomotive to wear H1, has to be the ancient SD9 high hood still working away in Nebraska
I'm with you on the high headlights, the UP and KCS thundercabs👌
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1:12 bro says CPKFC System 💀💀
That's a meme
That’s funny
That's what it called. Canadian Pacific Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Wtf
High headlights on EMD standard cabs hit different than on wide cabs
Just so your aware, since steam engines like 611 or 2816 don’t have PTC installed, they need diesel assistance
Dont they also provide electricity to the coaches the steam locomotive is pulling?
@@thealmightydoge5653 let me check
No, but they provide backup power in case something happens to the steam engine
The diesel(s) also provide dynamic braking, so they're not smoking the brakes of the train too.
@@thealmightydoge5653 no because almost of it are freight locomotive
The next video will probably be him ranting on CPKC's new paint scheme 💀. It should be titled, "Why Paint Schemes These Days Are Cringing Me"
5:33 I thought the idea of slapping Cascade Green on a warbonnet was BNSF's original design
LHF or "Southern Style" always goes hard though
If you like high headlights then NS is mostly your field of dreams. However they did have some units that were nose light, all ex-BN. They had 9 first gen 60Ms with the 3 piece windshield from 2014 to 2019. It's a shame they got rid of those.
I prefer engines with a cab headlight because at night you don't have to swallow or inhale a bunch of bugs to get on the engine. As a foamer I prefer noselights though.
It’s also better for longer distance visibility. You’re not staring through beams air diffraction to look down the line.
Dude I completely get the headlight placement specifically with SD40-2s and I’m so glad to see someone who agrees lmao
Conrail and Savage C39-8s having low ditch lights and high head lights:
No they don’t!
high headlight, low ditchlights would be sexy
Hit the nail right on the head with mainline steam. It’s a dream of mine to see something like 2816 on the mainline someday, no matter what steamer it is.
I took got to see cp 2816 in Davenport, Iowa. It was sooooo worth it, I got to see big boy a few years back as well. Especially considering both passed through my hometown and cp 2816 passed right in front of my house. No matter what railroad mainline steam is always cool😎
Congrats on 10k b4 July 🎉
Im a big fan of BNSF units still in warbonnet paint along with their H4 paint scheme. But one satisfying thing you missed is freshly painted engines. Those spark satisfaction as well no matter the paint scheme used for any railroad.
1:12 Canadian Pacific Kentucky Fried chicken 💀💀💀
I thought I was the only one who caught that lol
@@TheOutlaw2.0 lmao
@@MTR-MikeTheRailfan me and my freind laughed at that, funny joke
@@Metra-502-Productions lol
@@TheOutlaw2.0 real i was about to comment about it aswell lmfaoo
I know it’s a good train when the headlights are separated and not all crushed together from a far distance. Either an EMD or an SD70M/Ace or an old Dash 8, 9, AC4400CW, and the godly AC6000CW
I agree with you on everything. But brothah, you gotta see CSX YN2's back to back. They are just BEAUTIFUL
I have seen them back to back, just off camera 💀
@BNSF1458 they look good tho don't they?
It sucks when popular steamers aren’t allowed to run on the mainline. *cough cough* Norfolk Southern
High headlights means american built and imagine what would have the bnsf/cn paint scheme would have looked like
There never was an H1 GP60M, found a list of every paint scheme the GP60Ms wore and none wore it. GP60M liveries were: ATSF Warbonnet, BNSF Warbonnet, Maersk Sealand, BNSF H2, H3 and H4.
I’m a negative former too!
2:00 honestly yeah i agree, stater cabs like the GP40 should have the lights on the nose and the ACE 40 should have the lights on the top. would look more better.
I've always preferred high mounted ditch lights. That being said, BC Rail takes the cake when it comes to ditch light mounts, using both high and low on the same locomotive.
I'm pro-high headlight, & low ditch light.
True about them high headlight units . Way better than nose lights .
I do agree with many of these. There's certain things locomotives can have that makes them look so much cooler! The headlight thing reminded me: There's a fictional railroad of mine that I'll probably start modeling one day, and the locomotives operated by this railroad have both high and nose headlights instead of one of the two.
I’ve seen some D&RGW geeps that have both cab and nose lights
I think SP did that for a while, too. I know Reserve Mining used to do something like this. Theirs were even weirder, since they had two lights up top, with a single light on the top corner of the nose
I just saw a Heritage unit
0:00 facts though.
To be fair, BNSF has always been this way when it comes to mixing different locomotives together in a consist. Heck, you could even go back to predecessors Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, you very rarely saw matched consists back in those days. Also, totally agree about the Heritage 1 scheme (and I'll even throw the H2 scheme in there as well, despite the inconsistencies of the orange on those units), not only for its looks, but just for the fact it was when BNSF was a much better company in general to work for.
Low ditchlights + nose numberboards is such a vibe
UP 7109: Nose Numberboards + Nose Ditchlights
Some Random UP AC6000 Rebuild I Saw Leading UP ICOG4 In June 2023: Head Numberboards + Low Ditchlights
The unspoken holy grail, GE's with high headlight and low ditchlight. They are rare, they are nearly extinct, but if one shows up, all bets are off.
I Caught BNSF 7271 Along With NS 9747 And BNSF 7191, I Caught Them On Tuesday, Wednesday And Friday
Thundercab or early model aces hit different especially hearing a first or second gen K5LLA
I call them Thundercab
1:30 As someone who sits trackside in Roseville, i can tell you that something about Thundercab ACes are much cooler than the ISO ACes. I’m glad UP did their heritage units with Thundercabs.
Edit: i liked and caught UP 1988 2 days after this vid came out
Bro you are crazy about headlights
Ah yes the CPKFC
Try UP 7312, high headlights + low ditchlights heaven for ya
Big Boy 4014 was testing a PTC system without a Diesel helper this week, so perhaps if it works well, it could allow steam excursions with other streamers being PTC equipted on other lines (if the other lines agree to them).
I seen the gp-60m h1 paint sceam before
Your BSN profil is a high head light
If you want matched power sets just railfan NS Chicago Line where you’ll get nothing but C6Ms the entire time other than the occasional Dash 9
Yup.
I liked this video and I am not joking saw 3 sd70acu’s powering a train two of which where cp 7018 and cp 7019
1:12 bro actually said CPKFC
Btw, only American locomotives have bells because American railways aren’t fenced off while European ones are. So American locomotives need a constant warning while European ones don’t.
or in alt note, americans were infact idiots
You should make a video on the best train horns if you haven't alrdy
Isolated cab sd70ace's look strange
I railfan the UP and something about Norfolk southern leaders just hits me. Any other foreign power does not quite hit me the same way as an NS lead. Something else that hits me is when you actually get good audio of a wayside horn.
Eh, i dont really care much for the ditchlights lol. Maybe ill start paying attention to them.
I do like it when trains have horns they aren't supposed to, or that rare chance a horn can get fouled/broken and then sound better.
I know NS 1070 is supposed to have a K5LLA, but that got replaced with some P5 thing and then it got a K1L13, which i personally really like and suits it well.
Also i gotta mention CSX 483, its K5LA is broken a little bit but it makes it sound really cool in my opinion.
Yeah BNSF needs to go back to the H1
I long the Mars light
Hey Bnsf 1458, Mbta 1136 here, now where are your ditch lights???
I wonder what his thoughts are on the new CPKC paint scheme.
for me i like the nose headlights idk it just looks better to me more than a high light cause when ever i go out and se a high light i think of ns i also do not like low ditch lights for some reason its really ugly for me hope i didnt mean to upset u guys
AYO I MADE YOU AS A SMALL PAPER TRAIN!!!!
Just an opinion, but I think almost every modern locomotive looks better with a nose mounted headlight. Now that excludes, EMD standard cabs. Not a huge fan of the nose headlight on standard cabs from any year.
What lines are eligible for the free Heritage unit?
These I agree with, and yes FRA needs to be replaced by more smarter people, why do I feel like we shall restore the strict rules again?
1:12 "Along the CPKFC System" ?
As much as I want to call you a delusional foamer, I’m with you with the high headlights and the low ditch GE. Also GEVOs paired up is just ugly nobody can change my mind. H1 is also the goat
1:12 CPKFC 🍗 😂
How long will it be till it becomes a meme?
The Winnipeg Railfan said that
@@captainminecraft631not long at all lmao they started already
Second. Sorry I'm an old steamer. 😔
I want csx Chesapeake and Ohio 1869 heritage unit please
Hey man I'm so happy you got to see see Canadian Pacific 2816 if you want my two cents though I think they should have brought out the Royal Hudson that would have been even better to see don't get me wrong seeing a main line steam locomotive is awesome as heck but to see a real Hudson I think would have been a whole lot cooler but that's just me I was going to go friend of mine said he was going to come and get me we were going to go up to Oklahoma to see if that's about 4 hours from where I live I live down in Texas in the Dallas Fort Worth area the problem with this guy is loving to death awesome guy but he has poor planning skills and very poor communication skills I'm thinking he's going to come and get me at like maybe five or six we drive to Oklahoma get a hotel spend the night get up at 8:00 the next day or earlier to watch the train to park and Chase it down to Shreveport Louisiana unfortunately that did not happen it's getting later and later and I'm like dude what's going on where are you he keeps getting delayed I said this is not going to work out and the reason is because well if I was to leave at midnight I wouldn't get there until like very early in the morning and I would not get very much sleep to go and see it then he said I'm going to be leaving at 4:00 in the morning the next day to go out there you want to come I told him I would if you had told me earlier LOL if I had known I could have gone to bed about 8:00 or 9:00 and got plenty of sleep there were storms all over the place where the train was running anyway but for anybody who had a chance to see it I am very happy for you and I hope you're blessed and I hope all of you are safe out there watching this beautiful locomotive to see it with f units must have been amazing but you know honestly I'm looking forward to seeing the big boy come back to Texas this year the Hinckley said I have no idea where that is I'll have to look it up but if you could tell me I'm just curious what state it runs through anyway I really enjoyed your video and I'm glad you found some positives about rail fanning I don't complain too much then again I can't go real feeling very much but when I do get to go and see some trains it's always nice to take some pictures and videos and unfortunately one of my railroads the Trinity Railway Express is about to replace a lot of their power with the ugly Simmons Chargers so I'm going to go see what I can while I can anyway keep up the good work be safe around trains happy railroading and may the good Lord bless you take care
Instead make pateroen then this membership
Hi I was the first person to view this video
Ok.
ur second
@@MissouriRails I know that. I'm a slow streamer. Don't judge.
I'm just curious but if you complain about trains so much then why do you like them
Attack me all you want, but H1 kind look a little bit ugly TBH
hello please say my whole name, very disrespectful. much love from africa
Hey! Sorry, no disrespect at all, and I thank you very much for your support, but it just sounds a little bit inappropriate and I like to keep my channel as family friendly as possible... I hope you understand
How can 2 of the same locos back to back be "something nice." But gevos be boring, is it not the same shit??
First
yes its CPKFC its totally the name