An excellent video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado, where we still use five "Phase 1" F-7 units. Two A units and three B units provide daily commuter and express passenger train service, and they look fantastic with their matching passenger cars. P.S. I love the pictures of the Burlington units, especially the super clean GP-30. 💙 T.E.N.
You sound like a youngster, but, oh so impressive. You enunciation was excellent, good voice, well thought out script, and I enjoyed this video immensely. Great job! Kiddo!
I hired out as a fireman on the Texas and Pacific Railway Co in 1973. We still had some F-7s and I got to run them as a fireman, engineer trainee, and engineer until they were all retired. I liked running them and was sad to see them go.
When I was a kid I used to watch trains at the Niagara Falls, NY rail yard. Most of the activity was switching work with switchers but every once in a while I'd catch F locos most often in New York Central markings that was a treat. Now I have an F7 A/B combo in Pennsylvania RR livery in my HO scale model train layout brings back memories of seeing the F locos going in and out of Niagara Falls.
Excellent job on this nice short video! The F7 is probably one of my favorite locos of all time. Keep up the good work and continue making great videos! You have a real talent.
The maximum speed of a diesel electric locomotive was determined by the gearing. Freights were generally geared to max out at 70 MPH while passengers were commonly geared for 90 MPH. If a carrier wanted greater speed, that maximum speed would be specified in the purchase orders or changed during a major servicing.
There were some Australian variants of the EMD F-7. The Australian variants included Victorian Railways S300 and B Clsss, NSWGR 42 class and 421 class, and Commonwealth Railways GM class. They were slightly longer, had 6 axle bogies (trucks) and the NSWGR 421 class had a semi streamline B end for running B end first. The Victorian B class was also unique in the fact that they were double ended
Thank you for the good and insightful video! I wish the U.S. continued to use this style of diesel designs throughout the decades. Seeing Australia continuing to employ similar-looking locomotives on their lines is _very_ cool, culturally and visually.
Some of the newer passenger locomotives actually are carbody units (like the Siemens ACS64 and Chargers), but their noses sure look strange (the mid-to-late E- and F- unit bulldog nose seems less likely to shovel an obstacle on the track up into the cab).
I love the way the 1940s/1950s USA diesels look, particularly because the DP1 Deltic prototype was based on it, and that the Class 37 (1960-present day), 40 (1958-1984), 44 (1958-1977) and 55 (1961-1981) resemble them. I love the massive noses and headlights as well as the slim windows.
@@TrainMaster26 The 37s are still going strong after 60 years with around 60 still in use and another 30 in preservation. Their growling roar can’t be matched by the “ying ying ying ying” of any current EMDs
Nice job kid! I would ride my bike to the train station in Downers Grove IL. just to catch and admire all the green F units on the Burlington Northern back in the early 80’s. I’m now 50 and always will love the old F units. 👌
I remember in the 1970's when I was in Elementary school me and my friends would hangout near a Southern Pacific switching yard. Couldn't throw a stone without hitting an F7 they were so prevalent.
A red/yellow/silver Sante Fe F7 is hanging out here in Sacramento,California by the State Railway Museum. I personally love the Santa Fe colors F7 but since watching this video and seeing the Burlington Northern stripes on one it's a tie between the two.😅
Wow do I love trains when I was young I slept on a bed near window, I Crack the window, and on the hardy tack, and I could hear the bells ringing as the train approach, I lived in Houston, Got I love it
If I recall correctly, the Santa Fe F7 that broke the wall was converted to a CF7 road switcher and is still in service on a short line in the southeastern United States.
To those with only a passing interest in trains, the F units were the ones they most identified with trains. That's why trainset manufacturers always had them in their sets - usually with the beautiful red Santa Fe Warbonnet paint scheme. Bachmann sets often came with yellow Chessie System F7s, even though there was never a Chessie prototype painted in the yellow, vermillion and navy blue scheme. The bright colors and handsome looks of those F units moved the trainsets off the shelves.
fun fact these locomotives were often made in the same factories that made cars for the population and as such some parts of these trains were repurposed for use on the trains that is the most prevalent with the windshield and wipers as those are pretty much just old car windshields and wipers modified to fit on them heck some have the same exact style of opening windows for the engineers to seeo out of as the cars of the day had even some gauges such as speedometers were just repurposed and modified to be used on the instrument panel of the train
The EMD F adapted for Europe is still in limited service. This clip is from yesterday: ua-cam.com/video/Z6TpnmPK-HM/v-deo.html . They are both essentially F7s, the yellow Nohab from Denmark and the other one from Luxembourg.
Musics a wee bit loud but otherwise it felt like watching Amtrak guy. This was lovely. Will do the pre war streamliners like the Pioneer zephyr and M10000?
Locomotive that crashed through the wall at L.A.'s Union Station was caused by Engineer, Fred Hurst, error. He accidentally released the air brakes causing the engine to jump the tracks and go through the wall. He lost his job over this.
@@TrainMaster26 They're fascinating beautiful looking futuristic engines both of the E1 and the E a's EMD in 1937 of course made the TA Rock Island was the only one that had it beautiful locomotive Sunset models made a model in Oh scale I have it it's absolutely magnificent the Baltimore Ohio EA model is coming out by the same company in probably the middle of this year One train that would be really cool to review is the Missouri Pacific Eagle trains the Colorado eagle the Texas eagle and other trains of course Texas and Pacific also worked with them some of the most beautiful paint schemes done on trains ever this one was made by Raymond loway you may be familiar already but they're hard to find videos of in color especially.... Enjoying watching your channel looking forward to more videos.. Have you thought about doing a video on the eagles already?
@@fulviosantangeletta5838 That sounds like an interesting idea! I really love the paint schemes of early passenger trains, they dont get much better than that. I think I will make a video talking about most of the famous passenger trains from that era, it sounds pretty interesting!
Train Master 26 The 100 to 119 MPH came from Wikipedia on the stats for the FP7, the passenger version of the F7s. Probably the main difference was different traction motors and gear ratios.
Train Master 26 Also they probably have different traction motors that can turn higher RPMs than the standard F7 traction motors. Max RPM of the traction motors is part of the formula, along with the gear ratio, that determines Max MPH. Over speeding the traction motor can unwind the windings inside the traction motors. I can remember riding in the cab of an FP7 with my father on passenger trains when I was in high school and running between 95 and 100 MPH. We left Avondale, LA an hour and twenty five minutes late, as they held us for 5 hot piggy backs, and we pulled into Alexandria, LA, 184 miles away, on time. One more difference the FP7s had was a steam generator used to heat the passenger coaches in the colder months. That is why they were about 5 feet longer than the standard F7s.
As cool as these locomotives may look, the design sucked as far as operations are concerned. I've ridden with my dad, who was a locomotive engineer, on a similar design E8 passenger locomotive. Those automotive looking windows provide limited forward visibility as they are placed too high above the deck of the cab.
This video wasn’t the best research wise, I believe some f units were able to reach 90-100 mph. Maybe sometime in the future I’ll redo this with better information.
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1:39. Well, it is in the heading of your video, but I find it too difficult to convert your antiquated measurements to metric, especially with the overwhelmingly loud porn movie music in the foreground. So, I'm out. I'll read about this somewhere, whenever I am interested in this topic again.
Hi! If you're finding this video through UA-cams recommended then consider subscribing! I spent over 10 hours on this video so it would mean alot!
As both a diesel enthusiast and EMD fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Great job!
Thanks so much! I worked really hard on it!
An excellent video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado, where we still use five "Phase 1" F-7 units. Two A units and three B units provide daily commuter and express passenger train service, and they look fantastic with their matching passenger cars. P.S. I love the pictures of the Burlington units, especially the super clean GP-30. 💙 T.E.N.
Thank you! thats really neat!
EMD F units are my favorite locomotives.
Kid, you are dropping knowledge!!
Haha Thanks man!
I'm a kid and I say he is I take this to my mom and says that's me
Wish we could do a collaboration
So I find that funny!
You did your research well and taught us older guys a good many things about this beloved locomotive, well done!
Thank you!
F-7 Sante fe stream liners were so beautiful !!!miss seeing those diesels back in the 70s and of course ending with the caboose !!!!
Same here!
You sound like a youngster, but, oh so impressive. You enunciation was excellent, good voice, well thought out script, and I enjoyed this video immensely. Great job! Kiddo!
Thank you so much! I tried to do the best I could!
Great vid, the EMD F-7s are my favorite diesel locomotives.
Thank you!
I hired out as a fireman on the Texas and Pacific Railway Co in 1973. We still had some F-7s and I got to run them as a fireman, engineer trainee, and engineer until they were all retired. I liked running them and was sad to see them go.
That sounds like a lot of fun! Its a shame they were retired :/
Train Master 26 They were worn out and sometimes we were having to keep them running with paper cups and fusee caps.
What a great job narrating young man!
Thank you!
When I was a kid I used to watch trains at the Niagara Falls, NY rail yard. Most of the activity was switching work with switchers but every once in a while I'd catch F locos most often in New York Central markings that was a treat. Now I have an F7 A/B combo in Pennsylvania RR livery in my HO scale model train layout brings back memories of seeing the F locos going in and out of Niagara Falls.
I would have loved to see F units in their prime, thanks for the story!
Excellent job on this nice short video! The F7 is probably one of my favorite locos of all time. Keep up the good work and continue making great videos! You have a real talent.
Thank you!
Thanks for the video that let me know the history of North American trains, and this beautiful engines. Regards from Spain.
Thanks for watching Im happy you enjoyed!
The maximum speed of a diesel electric locomotive was determined by the gearing. Freights were generally geared to max out at 70 MPH while passengers were commonly geared for 90 MPH. If a carrier wanted greater speed, that maximum speed would be specified in the purchase orders or changed during a major servicing.
It's always a treat to see F units on the go! Nice job, Train Master 26!
thank you!
Fantastic video bud, you did a great job!
Thanks a ton!
There were some Australian variants of the EMD F-7. The Australian variants included Victorian Railways S300 and B Clsss, NSWGR 42 class and 421 class, and Commonwealth Railways GM class. They were slightly longer, had 6 axle bogies (trucks) and the NSWGR 421 class had a semi streamline B end for running B end first. The Victorian B class was also unique in the fact that they were double ended
A double ended f7 sounds pretty cool!
Thank you for the good and insightful video! I wish the U.S. continued to use this style of diesel designs throughout the decades. Seeing Australia continuing to employ similar-looking locomotives on their lines is _very_ cool, culturally and visually.
No problem! I think it would be pretty cool to see retro styled trains in the future.
Some of the newer passenger locomotives actually are carbody units (like the Siemens ACS64 and Chargers), but their noses sure look strange (the mid-to-late E- and F- unit bulldog nose seems less likely to shovel an obstacle on the track up into the cab).
Such a great video! Excellent work!
Thank you very much!
I love the way the 1940s/1950s USA diesels look, particularly because the DP1 Deltic prototype was based on it, and that the Class 37 (1960-present day), 40 (1958-1984), 44 (1958-1977) and 55 (1961-1981) resemble them. I love the massive noses and headlights as well as the slim windows.
As do I! It really gives them character that’s lacking from most modern engines.
@@TrainMaster26 The 37s are still going strong after 60 years with around 60 still in use and another 30 in preservation. Their growling roar can’t be matched by the “ying ying ying ying” of any current EMDs
As both a diesel enthusiastic and emd fan throughout.
The venerable Covered Wagon. Great job on the video!
Thank you!
LOOK IT IS WILSON!!
Ok I’ll go see myself out
This is my favourite American Locomotive because of the sound of its diesel prime mover.
Nice job kid! I would ride my bike to the train station in Downers Grove IL. just to catch and admire all the green F units on the Burlington Northern back in the early 80’s. I’m now 50 and always will love the old F units. 👌
Thank you! I really like the Burlington northern paint scheme too. The big white stripe on some of them looked really sharp.
Excellent video, Fantastic job.Thank You for uploading & sharing,Please keep them coming, I Really enjoyed watching.
Thank you very much! It means a lot to me that people enjoy what I put out. I've definitely got more on the way.
Thanks for the documentary. You have excellent narration skills.
Thank you! That means a lot
The EMD F-7s were in both freight and passengers.
They put some wings on them and they could fly.
They would fly from Melbourne to Tasmania back in the 1960's.
We had 122 of the vertical nose version.
I used to see F7 Southern Railway in freight running through the other side of Salisbury NC when my sister and I were little
Well done!
Thank you!
I remember in the 1970's when I was in Elementary school me and my friends would hangout near a Southern Pacific switching yard. Couldn't throw a stone without hitting an F7 they were so prevalent.
A red/yellow/silver Sante Fe F7 is hanging out here in Sacramento,California by the State Railway Museum.
I personally love the Santa Fe colors F7 but since watching this video and seeing the Burlington Northern stripes on one it's a tie between the two.😅
They're all great but I personally like the santa fe yellow bonnets.
Wow do I love trains when I was young I slept on a bed near window, I Crack the window, and on the hardy tack, and I could hear the bells ringing as the train approach, I lived in Houston, Got I love it
Ive always had a fascination with train, definitely the most interesting mode of transportation out there!
@@TrainMaster26 my friend I've loved any kind of trains
GO Transit used these F7 in the 70s and early 80s and earlier on with CP and CN Rail freight trains . Great video review.
Real nice video keep it up!
Thank you!
Good work. I’m surprised at the quality. Love to see it
Thanks!
If I recall correctly, the Santa Fe F7 that broke the wall was converted to a CF7 road switcher and is still in service on a short line in the southeastern United States.
that sounds probable, from the amount of damage that it sustained It would need a major overhaul.
To those with only a passing interest in trains, the F units were the ones they most identified with trains.
That's why trainset manufacturers always had them in their sets - usually with the beautiful red Santa Fe Warbonnet paint scheme.
Bachmann sets often came with yellow Chessie System F7s, even though there was never a Chessie prototype painted in the yellow, vermillion and navy blue scheme.
The bright colors and handsome looks of those F units moved the trainsets off the shelves.
Yes, if im not mistaken I think the F7 is one of the most widely produced engines in model railroading
Excellent Video. Very informative and educational.
Thank you! Ive made a few more of these styles of videos if you're interested. They are a lot higher quality.
Awesome video and narration! Keep up the good work
Thank you!
I see you are using Railroad Tycoon music! So nostalgic!
Great video!!👍
Thank you!
Just to point out, at 2:59 that is an F3, not an F7. You can tell by the sides and the top vents.
Nice vid! I do have to say, music choice seemed very close to AmtrakGuy365. But besides that AWESOME VID MAN
Thanks so much! Yeah in the next episode i changed up the music so I can have my series be more original.
I actually clicked on this video because I am building a live steam gauge EMD-F7
That's awesome! hope you enjoyed!
The Verde Canyon railway in Arizona runs 2 F7s for its tour train!
Good morning from SE Louisiana 3 May 21.
I love the F series
Same! Its one of my favorite engine designs
Love the emd f7..
Even a dirty F7 was gorgeous
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The music at the beginning is from Railroad Tycoon 2; that brought me back...
A true classic
Love this video
Oh you for got the f7 was in a movie
silver streak!! !!!!
The music is distracting, and also make the narration difficult to hear. Most videos don't need background music, they are interesting enough.
Yeah ive fixed the music and audio problem since this episode. My latest one is a hundred times better
A very interesting video
The B&O museum just finished restoring #51.
Maximum speed depended on final gear ratio, not 65mph. Many F7s were geared for 90+ mph.
Great work
Thank you that means alot!
Please do one for the F40 PH
That sounds like a good idea! I'll put that on the list of engines to cover.
F7 were so synonymous with the AT&SF ,but the Espee was the biggest customer.Go figure lol
fun fact these locomotives were often made in the same factories that made cars for the population and as such some parts of these trains were repurposed for use on the trains that is the most prevalent with the windshield and wipers as those are pretty much just old car windshields and wipers modified to fit on them heck some have the same exact style of opening windows for the engineers to seeo out of as the cars of the day had even some gauges such as speedometers were just repurposed and modified to be used on the instrument panel of the train
Guess that’s why they call it a “car-body”!
Noice!
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The EMD F adapted for Europe is still in limited service. This clip is from yesterday: ua-cam.com/video/Z6TpnmPK-HM/v-deo.html . They are both essentially F7s, the yellow Nohab from Denmark and the other one from Luxembourg.
interesting
very
why does this sound like a school presentation lmao
Yup all true.
3:00 "Hey buddy, you can't park there!"
NS hasnt had the F units for awhile now though. 2 went to RBMN
Yeah i didn't include them selling their units in the video for whatever reason.
I’m actually British and am really interested in the USA trains [= so thx
No problem! British trains are pretty cool too!
Musics a wee bit loud but otherwise it felt like watching Amtrak guy. This was lovely. Will do the pre war streamliners like the Pioneer zephyr and M10000?
Thanks for the feedback! Ill definitely do a episode covering most of the streamliners. :D
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Locomotive that crashed through the wall at L.A.'s Union Station was caused by Engineer, Fred Hurst, error. He accidentally released the air brakes causing the engine to jump the tracks and go through the wall. He lost his job over this.
nice video - just a note EMD Made the EA (for the Baltimore and Ohio only ) in 1937 1938 was the E1 s only Santa Fe had them
Oh I didn't know that, that's pretty interesting!
@@TrainMaster26 They're fascinating beautiful looking futuristic engines both of the E1 and the E a's EMD in 1937 of course made the TA Rock Island was the only one that had it beautiful locomotive Sunset models made a model in Oh scale I have it it's absolutely magnificent the Baltimore Ohio EA model is coming out by the same company in probably the middle of this year
One train that would be really cool to review is the Missouri Pacific Eagle trains the Colorado eagle the Texas eagle and other trains of course Texas and Pacific also worked with them some of the most beautiful paint schemes done on trains ever this one was made by Raymond loway you may be familiar already but they're hard to find videos of in color especially.... Enjoying watching your channel looking forward to more videos.. Have you thought about doing a video on the eagles already?
@@fulviosantangeletta5838 That sounds like an interesting idea! I really love the paint schemes of early passenger trains, they dont get much better than that. I think I will make a video talking about most of the famous passenger trains from that era, it sounds pretty interesting!
According to other sources for the stats of the F-7 the max speed could be up to 119 mph.
That sounds like it could have been possible, but we may never truly know.
Train Master 26 The 100 to 119 MPH came from Wikipedia on the stats for the FP7, the passenger version of the F7s. Probably the main difference was different traction motors and gear ratios.
@@billmorris2613 ooooh ok I forgot that the fp7's were just re-geared f7s
Train Master 26 Also they probably have different traction motors that can turn higher RPMs than the standard F7 traction motors. Max RPM of the traction motors is part of the formula, along with the gear ratio, that determines Max MPH. Over speeding the traction motor can unwind the windings inside the traction motors. I can remember riding in the cab of an FP7 with my father on passenger trains when I was in high school and running between 95 and 100 MPH. We left Avondale, LA an hour and twenty five minutes late, as they held us for 5 hot piggy backs, and we pulled into Alexandria, LA, 184 miles away, on time.
One more difference the FP7s had was a steam generator used to heat the passenger coaches in the colder months. That is why they were about 5 feet longer than the standard F7s.
Wow! Making up an hour and 25 minute delay is really impressive! Thanks for sharing!
Cool.
I like your content I subscribed
Thank you! I appreciate it
@@TrainMaster26 your welcome
I’m pretty sure you used a song from Sonic Unleashed a couple times in this video. Nice touch!
Thank you! Sonic Unleashed’s ost is some of the best in the series.
@@TrainMaster26 Bro for real. Especially the freaking opening sequence, that music and scene altogether is like peak Sonic right there.
I wish frontiers had an opening like that, unleashed’s opening puts it to shame.
2:48 well runaway train 1985 it wasn’t really a EMD F-7 It was a alaska railroad F unit 1500
Southern railroad has surviving all E and F units.
3:07 that sounds familiar.
As cool as these locomotives may look, the design sucked as far as operations are concerned. I've ridden with my dad, who was a locomotive engineer, on a similar design E8 passenger locomotive. Those automotive looking windows provide limited forward visibility as they are placed too high above the deck of the cab.
Then north folk southern auctioned off there f units
Yeah, its a shame. I didn't really feel like adding that bit of info since it wasn't important to the topic
@@TrainMaster26 They are still alive in 2021 and run, But they are unknown to me.
Yeah hopefully we can see them back up and running on the mainline or something.
Your statement that F7 were geared for 65 mph is WRONG!
Oh really how fast could they go? Everywhere I looked said 65 mph
I’m not sure, but I think they went faster than 65
This video wasn’t the best research wise, I believe some f units were able to reach 90-100 mph. Maybe sometime in the future I’ll redo this with better information.
I did that
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1:39. Well, it is in the heading of your video, but I find it too difficult to convert your antiquated measurements to metric, especially with the overwhelmingly loud porn movie music in the foreground. So, I'm out. I'll read about this somewhere, whenever I am interested in this topic again.