My in-law showed us the old Intruder Navy bomber in its hanger n those jets had long n tall drip pans underneath its shadow! One could hear plink, plink, plink sounds as hydraulic fluid rained upon those drip pans. The maintenance crew recycled that oil for future use but he explained that once the jet got into its flight, all seals tightened up w/zero leakage. But it was funny to see ea jet parked n leaking like a sieve! 😂😅
@@gregginter5867SR-71 leaked fuel on the ground because the tanks were not sealed to allow them to expand due to heat from friction in flight. Had a friend’s uncle who worked on the ground crew for the 71 and said they had fuel leaking all over the place.
1:01 that statement right there is literally true with some people’s luck. It’s literally like going into trainz and then spawning your own consist in, with like 3 special interest units and then driving it around the line in the video game, then only to find the consist IRL when out railfanning. That’s how some people’s luck is.
We could really use someone like you up in the Twin Cities. So many oddities & historically significant railroad things of all sorts waiting for their day in the spotlight.
9:08 that lashup is incredible, looks like something straight out of the 90s! To bad the one bnsf unit was there or else it would really look like it! Either way that is an incredible catch. Definitely need to pick up some of those for modeling!
18:14 If your wondering about this unit this is a Ex-TFM AC4400CW, that was delivered to TFM, when KCS bought out TFM in 1997, it became KCSM since then. Now it's CPKCM after the merger with CP and KCS as of 2023. I think KCSM 4537 was TFM 2637 before the patch and renumbered.
fun fact: BNSF 2042 Was actually rescued by an unknown person and was restored to where it can run so basically if BNSF see's this then it might get storage again
Today… Sir, I have recently discovered your content and I must say, you are in a class of your own. After watching your dash 8 videos, I have a request. If you find the time, may you please make a video about the last remaining cascade green BNSF SD-60M’s like the dash 8 videos? Thank you in advance, and merry (early) Christmas, sir.
RE: Geometry car- Granddad was telling me that back in the '40s the railroads he worked for (Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern and Erie) had cars equipped with a recording seismograph. It used a paper tape synchronized to the wheels. So with 100% mechanical technology, you could automatically detect low joints, etc. by mile marker. This was of course combined with visual inspection.
I got to see one of those special passenger cars seen at 10:08 today. A single H2 Dash 9 was pulling it but it looked like it was waiting for a passing mixed freight to go by. Saw it 15 or so miles south west of the Santa Fe Junction. I couldn't get a picture as I was going along Interstate 35 in KS. But I recognized it since I watched this video beforehand.
1. Ex NS C40-8 8302 left LTEX a couple months ago along with a bunch of ex CSX C40-8W's that went to various G&W Railroads so maybe 8302 is going to one of them 2. One Norfolk Southern heritage unit GEVO has already got their treatment, 8099 (southern) it was in A wreck and then it came out of the shops probably about towards the beginning or middle of the year with a new coat of paint and new black number boards
I hate to break it but CN has retired ALL of their C40-8W’s. They are being cut up left and right across Canada and America. Ironic considering Lordstown also has CN/BCOL Dash8’s being cut up too
16:51 At least one NS GEVO Heritage Unit has been repainted, 8099 - The Southern. Though this was after it went through fight, with a landslide, in Pittsburgh....
Great video! I actually caught the bnsf geometry train on the BNSF Omaha Sub by surprise and it also had a fake bonnet in trail behind the leader which another cool surprise.
Great Video liked when you talk about 325 and the brief history of the of the WC its means alot to bunch of us. Thank you for putting out another great video.
I absolutely have to model some of these units! I live in Minneapolis and get to see tons of odd lash ups, unique locomotives, and vintage equipment on a regular basis One local railroad, Minnesota commercial never disappoints when it comes to strange power and equipment. I love your videos thanks!
I was lucky and caught BNSF #2042 sitting in the BNSF Eola Yard in Aurora Illinois earlier this year. I have a picture but not sure if I can share it with you.
This looks so much better for BNSF to give 1755 it's classic ATSF Numbers instead of that Black Patch with White Numbers now it looks much better different than 552 but with it's Warbonnet Logo in red instead changing that fading Pink Color to it's classic Red and I was going to call 552 a Oddball
along with the oil top off they sample the oil send it off to be analyzed and they add in supplementative oil additives for wear protection, seal conditioning , friction and viscosity modifiers ect... they only really get an oil change when/if the oil gets contaminated
In fact I saw at least 12 BNSF dash 8's in Iowa as well as a bunch of ex Norfolk Southern Dash 8 and dash nines as well as some CSX ones and a CSX-B40-8, I've seen my fair share of ex BC rail dash 9 and dash 8's
9:14 could've fooled me being in the early 90's. Wow! I hate to admit it, but Galesburg, IL is WAY better than watching trains in Boone, IA and North Platte, NE combined.
Wow! Amazing to see a Smurf paired with warbonets! Also how do you know that code for a train? I’m still a little new to railfanning, well, 8 months but still. Love the videos keep up the great work!!
Love your vids. Planning a daytrip to railfan to Galesburg and see my first humpyard. Checking google maps they don't show a 4th street bridge. They show 3rd street and Hwy 10 crossing the yard. Am I missing something?
The 3rd street bridge is the 4th street bridge. Idk why the street names randomly change like that. The gravel patch by the wye just off Seminary street is also a good spot, but the bridge is the best; you can see everything.
With motive power pulling the trains from start to delivery and back, now there will be many motive power road names seen anywhere. It is more cost effective than changing locos that moved to the end of a rail section owned by a specific company. Once lashed up, they just continue pulling the train to the end of the run or to a classification yard where the cars would be regrouped into different trains to move to their final destination. The motive power is just leased to the next block of ownership and to the end of the run. This vastly reduces locomotives dead heading (moving motive power only) back to get the yards to get another train. The locos lash up to pull another train back to their rail home base. Crews may change out, but the locos continue on. I hope I explained this well enough. It is a bit complicated. I tried to simplify the processes. I am sure many current road names will change in the next ten years or so. When reconsolidating into a new railroad name, they get to write off the cost of the motive power, rolling stock, rail right of way, and track for tax savings after the tax deduction has hit the statute of years it can be written off. Most corporations do this like clockwork. You can almost calibrate the atomic clock by it.
The blue paint on a BNSF eninge isn't new. Back in the day, before the BN came into being, the Great Northern played around with a blue and white colour scheme. I remember some of the GP9 and the E or F series painted blue, along with some passenger cars.
I know atleast some rail fans have noticed this. The way the airline is ran when not connected and the 2 lights on either side make the train look like its making the ":3" face.
Smaller companies, meanwhile, that are keen on attracting new business see it as a valuable promotional tool - as the big companies did in the old days. I guess that when a company gets too big it gets lazy and complacent, believing that it can exist forever on the business it already has
Man I love your videos. UA-cam keeps unsubscribing me. This is the 2nd confirmed time that it's happened. It's ticking me off. I want to support content creators I like but how am I supposed to do that when it won't even let me stay subscribed?!?!
Total noob, I just do yard assists through a outside contractor. But I did mention my surprise at seeing one of those Illinois Central locomotive to one of the conductors.. They seemed pretty happy about having it as head end power.
Folks see what happens when we all get along ❤, but no we wanna homogenize everything and run it through a Macco paint booth .I'm going to name it Jessie's 🌈 collation collision train ser 😂
I can tell you that the 1755 was "repainted" at some point between July 7th and August 27th of 2023, I have 2 pictures of it, and the first doesn't yet have the new number style. Edit: this was actually intended for the video I watched before this one, so I'll repost it there, but I'll leave this comment here since 1755 is also in this video.
But I do have a question. With the geometry train I see multiple videos and every geometry train has a grain car or cement car in front of the robot car. Is that to add weight and simulate train load or what is it used for?
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12:55 Owld age
12:31 to 12:43
2:08 2:09 2:11 2:12
13:34 Scrapped a long long time ago
"Something somewhere on these giant machines is always going to be leaking" Lmao, sounds like the Chinooks I work on daily!
Lol
Thousands of parts, rotating at high speed around an oil leak.
Or a pre-Evo Harley Davidson
My in-law showed us the old Intruder Navy bomber in its hanger n those jets had long n tall drip pans underneath its shadow! One could hear plink, plink, plink sounds as hydraulic fluid rained upon those drip pans. The maintenance crew recycled that oil for future use but he explained that once the jet got into its flight, all seals tightened up w/zero leakage. But it was funny to see ea jet parked n leaking like a sieve! 😂😅
@@gregginter5867SR-71 leaked fuel on the ground because the tanks were not sealed to allow them to expand due to heat from friction in flight. Had a friend’s uncle who worked on the ground crew for the 71 and said they had fuel leaking all over the place.
1:01 that statement right there is literally true with some people’s luck. It’s literally like going into trainz and then spawning your own consist in, with like 3 special interest units and then driving it around the line in the video game, then only to find the consist IRL when out railfanning. That’s how some people’s luck is.
Lol
Great video! Those lashups are INSANE! still gotta love Dash 8s!
Thank you! Yeah, D8’s are always awesome
CN has the Wisconsin And Southern Heritage Unit plus they have the Elgin Joliet and Eastern, Illinois Central, BC Rail and a Grand Trunk SD70M-2
We could really use someone like you up in the Twin Cities. So many oddities & historically significant railroad things of all sorts waiting for their day in the spotlight.
9:08 that lashup is incredible, looks like something straight out of the 90s! To bad the one bnsf unit was there or else it would really look like it! Either way that is an incredible catch. Definitely need to pick up some of those for modeling!
18:14 If your wondering about this unit this is a Ex-TFM AC4400CW, that was delivered to TFM, when KCS bought out TFM in 1997, it became KCSM since then. Now it's CPKCM after the merger with CP and KCS as of 2023. I think KCSM 4537 was TFM 2637 before the patch and renumbered.
Nice locomotive catches especially 1063 and the fallen flags and the heritage units
fun fact: BNSF 2042 Was actually rescued by an unknown person and was restored to where it can run so basically if BNSF see's this then it might get storage again
Thank You for making the video, great explanations about some of the units. You always go a great job.
Today…
Sir, I have recently discovered your content and I must say, you are in a class of your own. After watching your dash 8 videos, I have a request. If you find the time, may you please make a video about the last remaining cascade green BNSF SD-60M’s like the dash 8 videos? Thank you in advance, and merry (early) Christmas, sir.
Great video 👍👍
RE: Geometry car- Granddad was telling me that back in the '40s the railroads he worked for (Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern and Erie) had cars equipped with a recording seismograph. It used a paper tape synchronized to the wheels. So with 100% mechanical technology, you could automatically detect low joints, etc. by mile marker. This was of course combined with visual inspection.
I got to see one of those special passenger cars seen at 10:08 today. A single H2 Dash 9 was pulling it but it looked like it was waiting for a passing mixed freight to go by. Saw it 15 or so miles south west of the Santa Fe Junction. I couldn't get a picture as I was going along Interstate 35 in KS. But I recognized it since I watched this video beforehand.
1. Ex NS C40-8 8302 left LTEX a couple months ago along with a bunch of ex CSX C40-8W's that went to various G&W Railroads so maybe 8302 is going to one of them
2. One Norfolk Southern heritage unit GEVO has already got their treatment, 8099 (southern) it was in A wreck and then it came out of the shops probably about towards the beginning or middle of the year with a new coat of paint and new black number boards
I hate to break it but CN has retired ALL of their C40-8W’s. They are being cut up left and right across Canada and America. Ironic considering Lordstown also has CN/BCOL Dash8’s being cut up too
16:51 At least one NS GEVO Heritage Unit has been repainted, 8099 - The Southern. Though this was after it went through fight, with a landslide, in Pittsburgh....
I really appreciate your videos. Thanks so much for the research and time that you put into making these info filled videos. Keep up the great work.
Great video! I actually caught the bnsf geometry train on the BNSF Omaha Sub by surprise and it also had a fake bonnet in trail behind the leader which another cool surprise.
Awesome!
Loving the Allis Chalmers at 9:47
such cool stuff there. I'd be visiting that yard everyday if i lived near it. Seems BNSF has lots to offer in terms of cool stuff.
Great Video liked when you talk about 325 and the brief history of the of the WC its means alot to bunch of us.
Thank you for putting out another great video.
You’re welcome, I’m glad you enjoyed!
16:45 i thought the Southern HU (gevo) got the repaint after it was repaired from it's wreck? or am i misremembering?
It did, but it wasn’t rebuilt.
Dale yoopers rusty Chevrolet is always a classic. 12:35
Great video! Thanks for covering Galesburg again!
CSX has A good amount of C40-8Ws left along with the CM40-8 Rebuilds.
This aged well
The warbonnet leading the inspection car did it have a k5la horn
Amazing video! Galesburg is all about the good stuff.
I like how you blocked out sertain thangs without using that same ol blur that's cool thank you 👍👍👍👍
I live about an hour from Galesburg so I like to come and watch trains there too.
Mind blowing catches! Great video!
At 6:38 you can see one of the locomotives on the Z train is spitting fire!
Go back and start from @6:30. Keep watching the signal light on the right side of the track.
@@Z4Zander I saw my mistake a while ago
I absolutely have to model some of these units! I live in Minneapolis and get to see tons of odd lash ups, unique locomotives, and vintage equipment on a regular basis One local railroad, Minnesota commercial never disappoints when it comes to strange power and equipment. I love your videos thanks!
18:12 I saw 4537 trailing on RCHI457 along with a Ferromex ACe
I live in Red Wing, Mn and see alot of BNSF units up at the Northtown yard... I have been able to photograph alot war bonnets lately.
I was lucky and caught BNSF #2042 sitting in the BNSF Eola Yard in Aurora Illinois earlier this year. I have a picture but not sure if I can share it with you.
18:40 Anyone catch that natural gas gevo in the background? Anyways, great video Southern Plains! Looking forward to the next video uploaded.
12:02 sounds like that warbonnet dash 9 has a k5la
I just watched that Yoopers video out of Christmas spirit - fascinating to see it here
It's awesome to see red Warbonnet's, but sad to see them in such rough shape. Great info in this video - nice job!
This looks so much better for BNSF to give 1755 it's classic ATSF Numbers instead of that Black Patch with White Numbers now it looks much better different than 552 but with it's Warbonnet Logo in red instead changing that fading Pink Color to it's classic Red and I was going to call 552 a Oddball
12:32 I lost it 😂
Da Yoopers, “Rusty Chevrolet”. A great Christmas parody song, with a video here on UA-cam.
Dang this guy knows a lot..Well done Sir!
12:31 Rusty chevy
Diesel shop break
Love the video and also how did you get in the locomotive shop and also you never fail to see something cool
Once again Great Video and lashups! Also the BNSF smurfs always remind me of Conrail.
Thank you! Actually, 2042 did work for Conrail ~25 years ago.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan Wow still in blue even after being sold!
@@Metra167ProductionsSold twice.
Love the work has always ! Great video!
I have a picture of BNSF 515 and 545 in Davenport IA back in 2016
along with the oil top off they sample the oil send it off to be analyzed and they add in supplementative oil additives for wear protection, seal conditioning , friction and viscosity modifiers ect... they only really get an oil change when/if the oil gets contaminated
9:08 Yep it speaks for itself
Im on the CSX and NS so I probably wont see a Warbonnet
Did 691 have a K5LLA?
In fact I saw at least 12 BNSF dash 8's in Iowa as well as a bunch of ex Norfolk Southern Dash 8 and dash nines as well as some CSX ones and a CSX-B40-8, I've seen my fair share of ex BC rail dash 9 and dash 8's
9:14 could've fooled me being in the early 90's. Wow! I hate to admit it, but Galesburg, IL is WAY better than watching trains in Boone, IA and North Platte, NE combined.
Great vidio, very informative article, like the fact so many Canadian locos depicted. Thanks for the morning coffee...
You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed!
Wow! Amazing to see a Smurf paired with warbonets! Also how do you know that code for a train? I’m still a little new to railfanning, well, 8 months but still. Love the videos keep up the great work!!
Love your vids. Planning a daytrip to railfan to Galesburg and see my first humpyard. Checking google maps they don't show a 4th street bridge. They show 3rd street and Hwy 10 crossing the yard. Am I missing something?
The 3rd street bridge is the 4th street bridge. Idk why the street names randomly change like that. The gravel patch by the wye just off Seminary street is also a good spot, but the bridge is the best; you can see everything.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan Excellent, thanks.
Question: why do they always put a hopper or something behind the locomotive other than the geo cars or passenger cars?
Graffiti artist: Paints Graffiti over a locomotive with a Fallen Flag Railroad Paint job
The Railfans & Foamers: “So you have Chosen, DEATH.”
haha, thanks for "da Yoopers" cameo in your video.
With motive power pulling the trains from start to delivery and back, now there will be many motive power road names seen anywhere. It is more cost effective than changing locos that moved to the end of a rail section owned by a specific company. Once lashed up, they just continue pulling the train to the end of the run or to a classification yard where the cars would be regrouped into different trains to move to their final destination. The motive power is just leased to the next block of ownership and to the end of the run. This vastly reduces locomotives dead heading (moving motive power only) back to get the yards to get another train. The locos lash up to pull another train back to their rail home base. Crews may change out, but the locos continue on. I hope I explained this well enough. It is a bit complicated. I tried to simplify the processes.
I am sure many current road names will change in the next ten years or so. When reconsolidating into a new railroad name, they get to write off the cost of the motive power, rolling stock, rail right of way, and track for tax savings after the tax deduction has hit the statute of years it can be written off. Most corporations do this like clockwork. You can almost calibrate the atomic clock by it.
There are a lot of leasing companies power at donkey creek yard near Gillette Wyoming
Hello from alva
I saw a blue BNSF engine once on the main line once in Tennessee
Great Video!
The blue paint on a BNSF eninge isn't new. Back in the day, before the BN came into being, the Great Northern played around with a blue and white colour scheme. I remember some of the GP9 and the E or F series painted blue, along with some passenger cars.
At 9:13, I wish the BNSF gevo wasn't there, it would make for an all-Santa Fe lashup. Sorry I'm so late here
Come to Terre haute Indiana would love to hear the history and your videos.
10:10 that is a very nice locomotive
16:56 is incorrect, 8099 was refurbished after wreck damage
1:10 rip 2042, got sent to storage recently.
I like seeing new videos
I know atleast some rail fans have noticed this.
The way the airline is ran when not connected and the 2 lights on either side make the train look like its making the ":3" face.
Ex atsf 647 has a conrail c40-8w blue part on the left side I don't know what it's name is but it's there
1:44 “BNSF… doesn’t care much about looks…”
Paint don’t pull. That’s how I heard it, at least.
Smaller companies, meanwhile, that are keen on attracting new business see it as a valuable promotional tool - as the big companies did in the old days.
I guess that when a company gets too big it gets lazy and complacent, believing that it can exist forever on the business it already has
Love your content,I don’t live near Galesburg
At BNSF, we don't make the locomotive, we make it bluer.
BNSF should make a Smurf heritage unit!
Nice. Thanks.
16:55 8099: Am I a joke?
Looks like my model RR.
There is a Chessie closed hopper at the Elgin County Railway Museum in St Thomas Ontario🚂🇨🇦🇺🇲🙋
Very cool
Thank you!
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan your welcome
When did 1755 get a new number font in the ATSF style?
Man I love your videos. UA-cam keeps unsubscribing me. This is the 2nd confirmed time that it's happened. It's ticking me off. I want to support content creators I like but how am I supposed to do that when it won't even let me stay subscribed?!?!
Total noob, I just do yard assists through a outside contractor. But I did mention my surprise at seeing one of those Illinois Central locomotive to one of the conductors.. They seemed pretty happy about having it as head end power.
Nice trainz raiway
I saw a kcs in battle ship grey it was nice but it was showing it age
Folks see what happens when we all get along ❤, but no we wanna homogenize everything and run it through a Macco paint booth .I'm going to name it Jessie's 🌈 collation collision train ser 😂
I can tell you that the 1755 was "repainted" at some point between July 7th and August 27th of 2023, I have 2 pictures of it, and the first doesn't yet have the new number style.
Edit: this was actually intended for the video I watched before this one, so I'll repost it there, but I'll leave this comment here since 1755 is also in this video.
I think BNSF 1063 was involved in the Roswell Train Wreck. . .
In New Mexico I was recording and then I stopped and then a Geo train raced passed me
Feels like I just graduated Railroad University and I'm not even in the US.
The Z train is kinda like the ATSF Super C train
Lash ups are a term coined by foamers,as a former railroad employee it’s called a consist,,nothing else
I’ll consider myself lucky if I see anything other then BNSF unit through my town 😢😂
But I do have a question. With the geometry train I see multiple videos and every geometry train has a grain car or cement car in front of the robot car. Is that to add weight and simulate train load or what is it used for?
Got to see a ghost i was so surprised she was beauty i have it on my channel i cant recall her number
Da yoopers are funny
#5972 Good stuff sir☺️
I HATE this video!