Hello, so alot of you guys brought up the reasons on why the ES44C4 and ET44C4 exist, and i'll admit, its quite impressive to say the least. While my opinion on GEVOs is still the same, the C4s are simply "okay".
Cowl Unit Productions, I’m sorry, But I like the look of GE locomotives with Their Cab’s smaller than their hoods. Also, The GE C40-8M is a Good looking locomotive.
A great sequel to a great video! Can't wait for what this channel has in store in the future. Never knew the transfer engines existed until now. The XP24 looks goofy but a bit like an ALCO. G&R is a nice touch for background music too. Just so happens that Paradise City is also my favorite G&R tune.
@@okipullupon747sp what if the next video is every small diesel locomotive builders like the company that built the ingalls 4-s which was a one of a kind locomotive built by a small company
Hi okay so ATSF and BNSF nerd here: Okay so the ES44C4/ET44C4s were made because BNSF needed fast power for their high priority transcon trains. Its similar to ATSF asking for the B40-8W and GP60M, they wanted a locomotive that can quickly start up and keep the speed and power, while leaving the 6 axle power for other jobs that require all 6 axles. A1A was basically like BNSF asking GE for a 4 axle variant of a ES/ET44. GE, knowing BNSF would be the only customer of the "4 axle" variants, decided to just remove the traction motor from the 2nd set of wheels on the Hi-Ad, hence the A-1-A name. It would've been much cheaper for GE and BNSF instead of trying to make a new frame or trying to fit a GEVO onto a B40/B"44" frame. I hope this clarifies the reasoning for the ES44C4 and ET44C4.
I didn't know that! So, essentially, the ES44C4 and ET44C4 are express-freight versions of the ES44AC and ET44AC. In that way, the A1A-A1A arrangement makes perfect sense! Thanks for the information!
Got to love the Gevo. Here's a fun fact, I got to tour the cab of NS 8100 when it was in Ft Wayne displayed alongside Nkp 765. You also had me laughing super hard. (Edit): I'm surprised that the Gevo, Dash-9, and AC4400CW don't have a... MANDATED PASSENGER VARIANT!
Loved the video. Thanks for featuring SP 3100, it’s one of the favorite locomotives to operate at the museum. Rides super smoothly and is wonderful to run. Sometimes just doesn’t like switching though thanks to the couplers being less than cooperative.
Having lived along a CN line in Minnesota for nearly 17 years, it just isn't the same without the BC Rail C40-8Ms around. I can always just imagine them snaking trains through the mighty mountains over in British Columbia.
So the reason for the A-1-A or "C4s" was that GE advertised these locomotives to match or exceed the performance of a C44-9W and ES44DC while using 2 less traction motors and more maintenance friendly AC motors. The cylinders on the truck side frames actually lifts the center axle enough to put all the locomotive's weight on the 4 drive axles and also featured a variable traction control system and this caught the eye of BNSF as they could, in their minds, have an AC traction locomotive for essentially the same price or even a little cheaper than the 6 motor DC counterpart. Unfortunately, this setup was alot better on paper that in real world conditions as these locomotives are prone to wheel slip especially on wet rail! It also didn't help when BNSF started hauling trains that these units really weren't designed for pulling. Most crews have told me that they performed best on high speed intermodal trains that are typically not as heavy as mixed manifest or even heavy unit trains!
Do you know how ge can fix the wheel slipping problem? I’m guessing that weight restrictions are a main reason why they can’t just add more weight to increase grip. Maybe better traction control software?
@@Jeragon186 CSX has a version of the standard ES44AC and ET44AC called ES44AH and ET44AH. These versions have extra weight and software enhancements to improve tractive effort. In the case of the C4s, they already feature similar software for monitoring tractive effort per axle and while adding more weight would slightly improve adhesion, it still wouldn't be enough to overcome being down 2 traction motors! Both the ES44C4 and ET44C4 were originally designed for high speed intermodal service, not for hauling heavy tonnage unit and mixed freight trains. The only real true fix, is to turn the C4s into true 6 motor locomotives. This is probably one reason there's still a good number of Dash 9s and standard 6 motor gevos still hanging around and would also explain why the EMD P4 version never took off either and could also be the reason both the SD75M and SD70MAC have seen a bit of a resurgence as well!
@@Jeragon186 I mean, the only real fix, if we're talking keeping the C4s in their current configuration, and again, this is what I've heard from crews that I've talked to, is adding extra locomotives to these heavy trains. Ironically, most BNSF loaded coal trains here on the Thayer Subdivision operate with a total of 5 locomotives in either a 2×3 or 2×2×1 configuration with ES44AC, AC4400CW, SD70ACe and SD70MACs in charge and can stretch out between 7000-8000 feet in length. The MEMTUL (Memphis, Tennessee to Tulsa, Oklahoma) and MEMKCK (Memphis, Tennessee to Kansas City, Kansas) train often only operate with a total of 3 operable locomotives (any extra locomotives that appear on these trains are usually offline or "boxcared" units) in a 2×1 configuration. Crews have often told me that if they can get 1 to 2 extra locomotives operating on these trains they would be in far better shape or an even better solution is to simply shorten the trains to around 7000-7500 feet in length, basically knocking around 2000 to 2500 feet off of what BNSF tries to currently run with these particular trains which can get as long as 11,000 feet in length.
2:55 as a nerd, GE used Aluminum wire on the U50Cs instead of the regular copper wire so that they can go "lighter" and i mean lighter that their wirings were burnt as a result of Aluminum not being good as an electric conductor.
I didn’t even know the Amtraks are GE locomotive, same thing with the ALCO locomotives. I thought the Amtrak can be their own locomotives, and alco are emd locomotives.
That whole thing about the c40-9s being rebuilt ac44c6ms is true. The c40-9s were my favorite ns locomotive and because they loved them so much back then. The c40-9s had excellent reliability and no reports on fire. But when ns was forced to buy wide cabs all the c40-9s were rebuilt :( The ironic consequences were the ac44c6ms were EVEN WORSE than c40-9s as they had crap electronics, rough ride and caught on like nothing now.
No, the problem with the U50C was that they used _aluminum_ wire. Copper is superior, but they were trying to save weight with aluminum windings. The problem is that aluminum wire can experience 'cold flow' aka 'creep' and connections can arc and come loose. That's why aluminum wiring is banned in most construction projects and industrial equipment.
You forget some locomotives: 1.- The GE U36CG (a U36C with steam generator for passenger trains, like the SDP40). 2.- The GE C30-S7R 3.- The GE C30-S7N 4.- The GE C30-S7MP 5.- The GE B23-S7R 6.- The SF30C. 7.- The C30-7A. Greetings from Ciudad Juarez, México.
Correction with the U50C: It was aluminum wire that was part of the electrical (fire) issues, the same reasons why we kinda stopped using aluminium wiring in homes because higher resistance, oxidation and loose connections can overheat and start fires and cause electrical hazards. They did this because aluminium is cheaper than copper and lighter.
POV your the person who made the GE Battery 3000 and GE BQ23-7: hm. Lets make a design that’ll cost us SOOOO MUCH money and piss off the railroad community!
Thanks you were correct on the locomotive cause that locomotive was called Antaibao 3, one of three former Conrail (née Erie Lackawanna) U33C's after recently being rebuilt. These units were sold to Island Creek Coal and rebuilt from January to February 1987 for the Antaibao surface mine, a joint venture with the Chinese government.
How could you miss the B30-7A(B)? Growing up with Burlington Northern was weird. Freight B-units and Cascade Green E-9s. Only hope there's picture or video of B30-7A(B)s operating with GP60Bs, just for added sillies.
Yeah, I now agree too. Infact I’m more supportive of replacing diesels with hydrogen locomotives and or Nationalizing the America class 1s(except KCS due to its upcoming Canadian Pacific merger) in order to get them to stop cutting corners over profits, and get them to electrify their network so EMD and GE can make electric locomotives for them to use instead of diesels.
Funny!! Thanls for making me laugh along with making some valid points. Battery-powered locomotives as currently designed will never work. Can you imagine how bad a lithium battery fire would be in a major derailment/collision? God help anytone or anything that was close by. I hated the Dash 8 locomotives with the hump above the cab roof. Ugly, ugly, ugly. Try to find one that's still running. Or any Dash 8's for that matter. The only reason the Class ones are rebuilding a few of them out of desperation is because the new Tier-4 compliant engines suck. Bigtime. Looking forward to the Alco/Baldwin/F-M video.
5:28 Technically you weren't required to include that one, as you claimed to review every diesel, not electrics. Though you did include the steam-turbine electric and gas-turbine-electrics. So basically everything not powered by overhead wires or only built for export.
There is genius afoot here. Genius. I would buy you a drink... one of those flaming drinks, and shout "UP TURBINE" at the top of my lungs. The bouncer would throw me out into the snowbank, shouting never to show my face in there again, and I'd shout back "YOU DON'T EVEN GET IT, DO YOU?"
Hello, so alot of you guys brought up the reasons on why the ES44C4 and ET44C4 exist, and i'll admit, its quite impressive to say the least. While my opinion on GEVOs is still the same, the C4s are simply "okay".
Isn't 1:33 a steam engine?
@@Mr._funny2006
Yes...
Ge e33
Do a every rr in 10 words
Cowl Unit Productions, I’m sorry, But I like the look of GE locomotives with Their Cab’s smaller than their hoods.
Also, The GE C40-8M is a Good looking locomotive.
ah yes, the three genders: freight, passenger, and new jersey
/Reading or LIRR LOL
4:11 now the pyromaniac variant for just $19.99
2:56
They were using aluminum wiring, not copper. Copper is a way better electrical conductor
A great sequel to a great video! Can't wait for what this channel has in store in the future. Never knew the transfer engines existed until now. The XP24 looks goofy but a bit like an ALCO. G&R is a nice touch for background music too. Just so happens that Paradise City is also my favorite G&R tune.
Can you do alco next?
5:54
I was thinking the same thing
After this it shall be baldwin.
@@okipullupon747sp what if the next video is every small diesel locomotive builders like the company that built the ingalls 4-s which was a one of a kind locomotive built by a small company
*no*
Hi okay so ATSF and BNSF nerd here:
Okay so the ES44C4/ET44C4s were made because BNSF needed fast power for their high priority transcon trains. Its similar to ATSF asking for the B40-8W and GP60M, they wanted a locomotive that can quickly start up and keep the speed and power, while leaving the 6 axle power for other jobs that require all 6 axles. A1A was basically like BNSF asking GE for a 4 axle variant of a ES/ET44. GE, knowing BNSF would be the only customer of the "4 axle" variants, decided to just remove the traction motor from the 2nd set of wheels on the Hi-Ad, hence the A-1-A name. It would've been much cheaper for GE and BNSF instead of trying to make a new frame or trying to fit a GEVO onto a B40/B"44" frame.
I hope this clarifies the reasoning for the ES44C4 and ET44C4.
I didn't know that! So, essentially, the ES44C4 and ET44C4 are express-freight versions of the ES44AC and ET44AC. In that way, the A1A-A1A arrangement makes perfect sense!
Thanks for the information!
5:10 indeed I love these. They’re my favorite locomotives because of their nice and good sounding K5HLs.
I know absolutely nothing about trains, and still laughed my way through this video. Hope more people discover your channel, this sh*t good.
Got to love the Gevo. Here's a fun fact, I got to tour the cab of NS 8100 when it was in Ft Wayne displayed alongside Nkp 765. You also had me laughing super hard.
(Edit): I'm surprised that the Gevo, Dash-9, and AC4400CW don't have a... MANDATED PASSENGER VARIANT!
You forgot the cw60ac
Loved the video. Thanks for featuring SP 3100, it’s one of the favorite locomotives to operate at the museum. Rides super smoothly and is wonderful to run. Sometimes just doesn’t like switching though thanks to the couplers being less than cooperative.
1:42 I have a freaking N-Scale TOY of this...
Having lived along a CN line in Minnesota for nearly 17 years, it just isn't the same without the BC Rail C40-8Ms around. I can always just imagine them snaking trains through the mighty mountains over in British Columbia.
So the reason for the A-1-A or "C4s" was that GE advertised these locomotives to match or exceed the performance of a C44-9W and ES44DC while using 2 less traction motors and more maintenance friendly AC motors. The cylinders on the truck side frames actually lifts the center axle enough to put all the locomotive's weight on the 4 drive axles and also featured a variable traction control system and this caught the eye of BNSF as they could, in their minds, have an AC traction locomotive for essentially the same price or even a little cheaper than the 6 motor DC counterpart. Unfortunately, this setup was alot better on paper that in real world conditions as these locomotives are prone to wheel slip especially on wet rail! It also didn't help when BNSF started hauling trains that these units really weren't designed for pulling. Most crews have told me that they performed best on high speed intermodal trains that are typically not as heavy as mixed manifest or even heavy unit trains!
Do you know how ge can fix the wheel slipping problem? I’m guessing that weight restrictions are a main reason why they can’t just add more weight to increase grip. Maybe better traction control software?
@@Jeragon186 CSX has a version of the standard ES44AC and ET44AC called ES44AH and ET44AH. These versions have extra weight and software enhancements to improve tractive effort. In the case of the C4s, they already feature similar software for monitoring tractive effort per axle and while adding more weight would slightly improve adhesion, it still wouldn't be enough to overcome being down 2 traction motors! Both the ES44C4 and ET44C4 were originally designed for high speed intermodal service, not for hauling heavy tonnage unit and mixed freight trains. The only real true fix, is to turn the C4s into true 6 motor locomotives. This is probably one reason there's still a good number of Dash 9s and standard 6 motor gevos still hanging around and would also explain why the EMD P4 version never took off either and could also be the reason both the SD75M and SD70MAC have seen a bit of a resurgence as well!
@@randallellison6421 So more wheels = more adhesion is my understanding. What can be down with the ES44C4 keeping with the A1A concept?
@@Jeragon186 I mean, the only real fix, if we're talking keeping the C4s in their current configuration, and again, this is what I've heard from crews that I've talked to, is adding extra locomotives to these heavy trains. Ironically, most BNSF loaded coal trains here on the Thayer Subdivision operate with a total of 5 locomotives in either a 2×3 or 2×2×1 configuration with ES44AC, AC4400CW, SD70ACe and SD70MACs in charge and can stretch out between 7000-8000 feet in length. The MEMTUL (Memphis, Tennessee to Tulsa, Oklahoma) and MEMKCK (Memphis, Tennessee to Kansas City, Kansas) train often only operate with a total of 3 operable locomotives (any extra locomotives that appear on these trains are usually offline or "boxcared" units) in a 2×1 configuration. Crews have often told me that if they can get 1 to 2 extra locomotives operating on these trains they would be in far better shape or an even better solution is to simply shorten the trains to around 7000-7500 feet in length, basically knocking around 2000 to 2500 feet off of what BNSF tries to currently run with these particular trains which can get as long as 11,000 feet in length.
@@randallellison6421 Would this be the same for general manifest trains or even other types of bulk trains IE: grain?
3:29 They may have been an absolute mechanical nightmare, but I will always like them
I'll be looking forward to the Alco, Baldwin, and Fairbanks-Morse video.
we must need an ALCO version
4:25 mandated new york variant
Do more of these, these are hilarious!
2:55 as a nerd, GE used Aluminum wire on the U50Cs instead of the regular copper wire so that they can go "lighter" and i mean lighter that their wirings were burnt as a result of Aluminum not being good as an electric conductor.
5:10 These are my fav GEVO's
3:40 that is cool
Mandated passenger variants:
2:20
2:43
3:49
I love how you used paradise city, I really love GNR.
The GTEL 3 fucking killed me jesus christ
Same
2:37 *SCREAMS OF HORROR*
Mandated passenger variant meme will never end
Manadated *New Jersey* Variant
12/10 best fucking description of the 34
The GE C40-8Ms need some saving. More mandated passenger variants. Cowl Unit Productions, you are so hilarious.
This is quite a funny video! Thanks for making them!
5:07 I have an OC that is this type. Her name is Savannah and she works for BNSF.
GE DASH -8 IN ONLY 2 WORDS!!
“ EMD KILLER”
KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!!
👍👍
1:45 It's wizard time mfs! FIREBALL!!!
I love the 20/23 ton boxcab, it’s adorable.
Indeed, they are adorable! Probably some of the cutest switchers I've heard of yet!
0:46 Pet the 20 toner
5:25 These too (GEVO ET44C4)
I didn’t even know the Amtraks are GE locomotive, same thing with the ALCO locomotives. I thought the Amtrak can be their own locomotives, and alco are emd locomotives.
[Sigh] say it with me now.
Mandated. *PASSENGER VARIANT.*
The ES44AC was so good... that everyone got them and now they are the only thing you see...
4:39 in all honesty, the best thing GE made
That whole thing about the c40-9s being rebuilt ac44c6ms is true. The c40-9s were my favorite ns locomotive and because they loved them so much back then. The c40-9s had excellent reliability and no reports on fire. But when ns was forced to buy wide cabs all the c40-9s were rebuilt :( The ironic consequences were the ac44c6ms were EVEN WORSE than c40-9s as they had crap electronics, rough ride and caught on like nothing now.
At CAD Rail in Montreal, the Battery 3000 is sitting on display... stripped. 🤦♂😂
No, the problem with the U50C was that they used _aluminum_ wire. Copper is superior, but they were trying to save weight with aluminum windings. The problem is that aluminum wire can experience 'cold flow' aka 'creep' and connections can arc and come loose. That's why aluminum wiring is banned in most construction projects and industrial equipment.
I like your music choices. Guns and roses will always be amazing.
3:39 I literally cried because of how ugly that switcher is. Not ashamed, I think anyone would have that reaction.
wait, with the U50C, wasn't it ALUMINUM wiring that was the problem and not copper wiring?
You forget some locomotives:
1.- The GE U36CG (a U36C with steam generator for passenger trains, like the SDP40).
2.- The GE C30-S7R
3.- The GE C30-S7N
4.- The GE C30-S7MP
5.- The GE B23-S7R
6.- The SF30C.
7.- The C30-7A.
Greetings from Ciudad Juarez, México.
2:51 lamo
Holy sh- is so big XD
Can you do "what your favorite rail company says about you" next?
What is the song at 4:46?
The reason the U50C's were bad was because of the LACK of copper wiring. They used aluminum wiring instead, and that's why it was so bad
Correction with the U50C: It was aluminum wire that was part of the electrical (fire) issues, the same reasons why we kinda stopped using aluminium wiring in homes because higher resistance, oxidation and loose connections can overheat and start fires and cause electrical hazards.
They did this because aluminium is cheaper than copper and lighter.
POV your the person who made the GE Battery 3000 and GE BQ23-7: hm. Lets make a design that’ll cost us SOOOO MUCH money and piss off the railroad community!
5:10 where did these come from
2:27.yup and i like it and i have a model of it.
Wait i f-ed up it was 2:21 ,the u28cg
5:17
To fix hunting oscillation.
What is that locomotive at 2:37? I’m curious about it
Wild guess but the would be a booster unit of the u33c , don't know much about it.
Thanks you were correct on the locomotive cause that locomotive was called Antaibao 3, one of three former Conrail (née Erie Lackawanna) U33C's after recently being rebuilt. These units were sold to Island Creek Coal and rebuilt from January to February 1987 for the Antaibao surface mine, a joint venture with the Chinese government.
How could you miss the B30-7A(B)? Growing up with Burlington Northern was weird. Freight B-units and Cascade Green E-9s.
Only hope there's picture or video of B30-7A(B)s operating with GP60Bs, just for added sillies.
5:18 and 5:24 That's everyone's question
Also 6:08 , pretty sure you meant to say "Don't use aluminum wiring in your locomotives"
Me: Why do you hate battery locomotives?
Me after finding out their range sucks: Oh, makes sense now. Do you like Hydrogen locomotives any better?
Because he, along with others believe that the battery is going be a flop.
Yeah, I now agree too. Infact I’m more supportive of replacing diesels with hydrogen locomotives and or Nationalizing the America class 1s(except KCS due to its upcoming Canadian Pacific merger) in order to get them to stop cutting corners over profits, and get them to electrify their network so EMD and GE can make electric locomotives for them to use instead of diesels.
2:51 HOLY SHIT ITS SO BIG
Funny!! Thanls for making me laugh along with making some valid points.
Battery-powered locomotives as currently designed will never work. Can you imagine how bad a lithium battery fire would be in a major derailment/collision? God help anytone or anything that was close by.
I hated the Dash 8 locomotives with the hump above the cab roof. Ugly, ugly, ugly. Try to find one that's still running. Or any Dash 8's for that matter. The only reason the Class ones are rebuilding a few of them out of desperation is because the new Tier-4 compliant engines suck. Bigtime.
Looking forward to the Alco/Baldwin/F-M video.
5:28 Technically you weren't required to include that one, as you claimed to review every diesel, not electrics. Though you did include the steam-turbine electric and gas-turbine-electrics. So basically everything not powered by overhead wires or only built for export.
5:27
What's your beef with battery electric engines?
They will be total flops 😭 they lose so much range when towing they shoulda just kept it in R/D
0:44 my opinion on the 20/23 and the 43 tonner
4:57 my favorite GE locomotive in history.
you should make an episode that covers the rebuilds and exports of both emd and ge, we need those here
I love the P32-8BWH and the paint scheme and that's why amtk 160 is my favorite
Indeed! The Pepsi-Cans are a classic!
There is genius afoot here. Genius. I would buy you a drink... one of those flaming drinks, and shout "UP TURBINE" at the top of my lungs. The bouncer would throw me out into the snowbank, shouting never to show my face in there again, and I'd shout back "YOU DON'T EVEN GET IT, DO YOU?"
Battery powered trains
Nobody:
Railfans: 🤬
Great way to end the video my guy 🤣
4:14 PN 8211 in a nutshell before it died XD
Also, explain the ET44AC one guys...
I loved the video and your channel very good
3:50 SAY IT LOUDER BOI
The GE U50 is definitely the 3rd favorite Locomotive of mine
Best 6:09 seconds of my life..
5:18 5:24 The mandated bnsf version
1:45 so true
What about the MBTA HSP46? Does it classify as a GE since it uses GE parts?
"I'm only doing diesel locomotives"
Puts a steam locomotive on the list less than 2 minutes into the video.
Wait, steam locomotive?
@@MackeyBigBoy4014 1:33
What’s wrong with Hiad trucks on Gevos??..
You forgot the GE 132 tonners.
C36-7(Meanwhile in Estonia)
0:58 SRM No.3??
🤔🤔
Dash 9 series 4:40 c40-9 operated by norfolk southern nickname tophat 4:40
4:06, GE, Why?
4:16, GE is Pyro from TF2.
Why are you actually funny!😂
5:10 screaming sound audio please
These are great lol, you should do Alco, FM, and Baldwin at some point too.
I was wondering if we’d get a GE one! Fantastic 👌🏻👌🏻
1:31 you can barely call that Canadian the white pass is 97% in Alaska and I’d know, I live in Alaska!
The lake shore railway museum has a 20/23 ton boxcab locomotive but it's not operational
ayo, what about the U6Bs used on the Hampton and Branchville?
Correction it was aluminum wiring in the U50C, they were prone to overheating
2:52 that’s what she said
4:57 MO POWA BABEH
C39-8 diesel locomotive and actually patch by norfolk southern 4:15
GE has easily the strangest designation scheme for its locomotives.
1:44 🤣ITS WIZARD TIME MOTHERF(HONK) FIRE (FARTNOISE) BALL
Tier 4 epa emission standrad 5:21