Bite Sized Oddities - LAUR LDH125-107
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- The United States is known for constructing locomotives to be exported to other countries, but what about the opposite. What about importing locomotives into America from other countries? There are some well-known examples, but today were going into a overlooked and obscure case, from the country of Romania.
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Bătute - Stamping dances
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Do a video about the ND5 aka the Chinese C36-7
0:35 hey wait a minute
CN scheme, yes.
Canadian National in Romania be like:
Romanian National Railway, a subsidiary of Canadian National.
What in the poutine avec extra bacon.
We have Canadian national at home.
Canadian national at home:
Lionel made another catalog. *Their most recent one is surprisingly amazing* (minus a few cursed stuff)
The locomotive: *is clearly nicknamed Quarter Horse*
CUP: “the locomotive was nicknamed the Quarter House”
0:35 Ah hell nah, how did CN end up in Europe?😭
Well some CN GMD-1 do end up in Cuba
that's pretty much how it goes importing foreign locos in general, even outside of the US. premade loco classes are designed for an entirely different system, and when they get an order to manufacture a class for foreign use, they're manufacturing for a system they have next to no experience with. giants like EMD or GE have plenty of experience with a worldwide market, which is why they're one of the few successful cases.
As usual, I found this quite informative! Now, I know why the "Quarter Horse" didn't catch on: it was too light-weight, it wasn't suited for American weather, and the exhaust is located near the cab.
Also, as a San Diegan, I'm honored to see the Sprinter Siemens Desiro sets be listed as an exception to the rule: that foreign units on American soil tend not to work.
Thanks for the video!
im a certified romanian who enjoys the average north american railfan content, and i have to say i was not expecting this video.
Actually there is more to the story of this engine. The technical aspects were minor, as to why there was only one test unit. You see, the romanian delegation did pretty much everything to "sell" the engine, but the politics of selling it was the problem. At the time, Nixon was trying to distance as many soviet allies as possible from the Soviet Union. One of these allies was Romania, so you got moments like this, with a locomotive brought in from overseas for tests for a potential sale, in hopes that this would make Romania a more closer partner to the west than to the Soviet Union. It also happened with buses for New York, where a romanian bus was brought for tests when NY was looking for a replacement for it's older models. Now, for the locomotive, Nixon, could not make the private operators buy it, so the american side proposed, maybe, just maybe, the romanians could lease some engines under contract, and eventually maybe some would get actually bought, if not, they would be returned. Given the situation at the time, the romanian delegation did not budge so, there was no lease contract for more. The test unit was left in the States, and the rest if history. It would have been nice to see these run there. In Romania, these little locomotives are pretty much every railfans childhood favorite, they were doing duty on a lot of local passenger trains, they were the romanian equivalent of the alco RS series. Today, they don't really see much action, some of the modernized ones do passenger, but most are used as switchers.
Not to be an ass, but that's an R, not an U. It's Quarter Horse, not a Quarter House. Cool engine though, not many Diesel-Hydraulics saw use in the US, the only others I can think of are the Kraus-Maffei engines.
0:35 strange looking Canadian National locomotive but ok…
0:35 DOLLAR STORE CANADIAN NATIONAL-
Czechoslovakian National
0:35 WAIT A DAMN MINUTE-
Halton, ik this vid is 3 weeks old but I have a fun announcement! On my way to Knoxville, Iowa, I will be visiting Rochelle Park! It’s going to be loads of fun!!!
1:15 ge um12c & alsthom ad24c at Thonburi station
The problem with something like that is even if it is perfectly good in terms of operating capability it can be hard to live with day to day. Spare parts are harder to come by and if something fails by surprise, it can take the unit out for a long time while a new part is found and shipped from overseas. Manuals may not be available in English, and if they are, the translations may not be good ones. The technical experts at the manufacturer are often home in bed when you'd like to talk on the phone, and they may not speak English anyway. If your mechanics have only been speaking "EMD" for a couple of decades, they are going to feel lost for a while too. You may have 99% of the metric tools you thought you'd need too, but that 100th percent will cause you grief some day.(There is a lot to be said for standardization.)
This is not like buying a foreign car: A car may have been built anywhere in the world, but you have local dealerships with factory trained mechanics and shelves full of parts. This is one non-standard unit on its own 8 time zones from help.
Awesome video
New Bite Sized Oddities Idea: Union Pacific GP30 844 (aka the diesel imposter of the famous UP FEF-3 4-8-4 of the same number)
Huh, I never knew about this compact loco being in the US until now! I'd like to suggest a subject for a bite-sized oddity: EMDX #3 (later GMTX #9041 and currently GMTX #9000), a demonstrator SD60 that is one of only five 60s equipped with HTCR (radial) trucks. It's the only Spartan Cab 60 with said trucks (the others are SD60MACs), and was the test bed for the HTCR design! There was an interesting thread on CS.Trains where one of the people associated with testing the then-new HTCR truck recounted his experience with it and the design behind it.
Hey, I’m reminding you to do another video on the csx heritage units. You said to remind you a year later to see if they’ve grown on you.
do a video on the lionel 2024 vol 2 catalog
Can You do The SDL39 Fepasa Chilena Railroad!❤
Hey, where is the Lionel catalog video? With all your friends.
0:21 you know the fact that many people who mispronounce names of cities in romania is not rare.
(Its pronounced something like buCArest, although being written with an H)
Side note: there is a mistake in the title (LAUR instead of FAUR)
0:06 Ah yes CSXT 7374, a Dash 8 that was sold to the FCCA and is now FCCA 1033. Ironically it has a goddamn Conrail can opener logo painted on it today in its current FCCA colors. (Apparently FCCA named the unit Henry Posner III)
Lionel catalog 2024 Volume 2 just dropped
rip it to shreds (when you get time) (plz)
Bună din România
Do a bite sized oddity on the uh.. .the italian rail car that ended up on the rock island in the mid 70s.
LDH125-107 definitely went on a journey. Yea Cowl has a point when he says most European equipment just malfunctions in the US
AEM7, ALP44, ACS64 and the Chargers are all based on European designs but adjusted for North American standards.
@@uncipaws7643yes
such a shame amtrak dident get X2s
Even TTC got Ikarus buses from Hungary and they didn’t last long
SEPTA had the British Rail Pacer Railbus on test for a while. It worked well enough but they declined to take it permanently due to how hateful those things are 😂
Do a video on svrr 367
0:35
Wait a second...
First, and nice video
Quarter Horse, not Quarter House
New idea for Bite sized oddities: UP 6344
0:35 What the Czech railways copy Canadian national paint job
Where www 7374 going…
3 minute anniversary
20 Minute Anniversary
1 hour anniversary
"Erm, it's actually "boohk-arest" not boocharest"🤓🤓"
0:35 who bought CN off Temu????????
poor little oddly proportioned locomotive
0:35 ey this isnt Canada why is it in CN paint
Wait until you find out that CP (Comboios de Portugal) used to have a livery very similar to that of CP (Canadian Pacific) and both had Alco locomotives too!
That ripoff CN livery at 0:35 💀
0:35 the heck that doing in a knockoff CN?
Why 😭
0:35 They ain't no way that they're trying to ripoff CN paint scheme. How disgusting.
I mean, it looks nice