NRE units left on property Silvis, IL and Iowa Interstate’s empty yard July 2, 2022

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  • @kens.3729
    @kens.3729 2 роки тому +11

    Of the Railroad Graveyards I’ve seen here on UA-cam, this is the Most Depressing since it’s here in the Midwest. 🤔🙏 Thanks Jeff. 👍

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +1

      Yeah, it is sad Ken! Thanks for watching!

  • @MikeG42
    @MikeG42 2 роки тому +4

    Awesome video Jeff ! It is interesting to see all these old veteran's of the rails as they sit silent. So many locomotives with many different roadnames. I could spend an entire day visiting this place. I ought to march right in there with my camera and take thousands of pictures. Although it's sad to see these units sitting here being unwanted with the vegetation starting to take over it also has a different effect , a certain charm all it's own. Excellent video Jeff Thanks ! 😁👍

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you Mike, glad you liked it. It is sad to see all those units just rusting away.

    • @MikeG42
      @MikeG42 2 роки тому

      @@jefftoft5568 your welcome

  • @Rainbow2997
    @Rainbow2997 Рік тому +1

    Is that sand at 9:15?

  • @StormySkyRailProductions
    @StormySkyRailProductions 2 роки тому +2

    Awesome overhead video of what is left at Silvis, Thanks for sharing that with us Jeff. (Steve)

  • @AlikStansberry
    @AlikStansberry 2 роки тому +5

    That’s a lot of old power there! An old yellowbonnet, and some SPs.(one was a tunnel motor)
    I don’t want to see many of those unit get cut up, they deserve another shot at service if they can be rebuilt/refurbished.
    Happy Birthday by the way!

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +4

      Not sure what the fate of those units are, there were a lot more units, but they have been either moved been cut up or sold. My son and I both have videos of NRE at different times, I shot one about a year ago. My son did several under QC Drone. Thanks for the Birthday wish and thanks for watching!

    • @ralphbalfoort2909
      @ralphbalfoort2909 2 роки тому

      A lot of those units (most?) are SD45s with 20-cylinder engines; not much call for those beasts.

    • @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85
      @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85 2 роки тому

      @@ralphbalfoort2909 No they are SP SD40T-2 not SD45T-2s.

  • @willwozniak2826
    @willwozniak2826 2 роки тому

    Didn't know the Slugs were parked as well.... Nice fly over man!

  • @beefs0ck911
    @beefs0ck911 2 роки тому

    Glad to see the place is going to be handling the restoration of two UP steams and a Centennial

  • @denniscoleman8802
    @denniscoleman8802 2 роки тому +1

    Wow Jeff great video it may be the last time I see the old CNW green and yellow 😥
    Looked like an old SD50 …….7009?
    everything changes…. I was working in Council Bluffs when they were new to the fleet…half a lifetime ago now 😮

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks Dennis, yeah it is sad. Thanks for watching!

    • @yeahman70
      @yeahman70 2 роки тому

      Well there’s good news it seems that loco was bought by the Illinois Railway Museum which means it will be preserved

  • @josephlalock8378
    @josephlalock8378 2 роки тому +2

    sad to see this. i remember this as a hustling n bustling yard when i was a kid in the eary 80s...whoever got that much grass to grow in the old yard needs to do consulting for lawn care companies in the southeast and southwest

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +2

      Yes, it is sad to see. About this time last year there were more than double the units now. NRE is still there in a smaller capacity, Friends of 261 own the rest and are eventually bringing the UP Challenger there to be restored. Possible museum down the road.

  • @MikeG42
    @MikeG42 2 роки тому

    Oh wow awesome Jeff !

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks again Mike!

    • @MikeG42
      @MikeG42 2 роки тому

      @@jefftoft5568 your welcome Jeff

  • @KCTopDawg
    @KCTopDawg 2 роки тому

    Cool video Jeff! We'll take all those EMD units in KC lol!

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому

      I know, love to see them on the rails still. Thanks for watching Darryl!

  • @centraliowarailproductions2810
    @centraliowarailproductions2810 2 роки тому +1

    Nice video!

  • @armandoperez7967
    @armandoperez7967 Рік тому

    A lot of those locomotives look like they will never run again! Depressing!

  • @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85
    @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85 2 роки тому

    Happy that CNW 7009 fround it's new home Illinois railway museum

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +1

      Yes, they will get back where it belongs. Looks and running wise I hope.

  • @Scatsisbusy
    @Scatsisbusy 2 роки тому

    Are those over grown tracks all original from rock island?

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +1

      I’d say from the looks of things and never seeing any work done there, it would be original track from then. Thanks for watching Cayden.

  • @miIwaukeeroad
    @miIwaukeeroad Рік тому

    Hello I might go past here soon how did you get your drone in there do you need permission or did you just do it?

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  Рік тому

      Just flew over it, about four times in the last 5 years. Not much in there now.

    • @miIwaukeeroad
      @miIwaukeeroad Рік тому

      @@jefftoft5568 Yeah I saw, on a few aerial photos all is missing.

  • @ProLGL
    @ProLGL 2 роки тому +1

    2:03 that CP Rail dual flags unit is in incredibly good condition

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +1

      Yeah, some of those units don’t look bad at all. Thanks for watching Joe!

    • @theodorethompson9032
      @theodorethompson9032 2 роки тому

      we are putting those CP units back in service but CP is very slow on supplying us the parts

    • @detroitdieselseries5071
      @detroitdieselseries5071 2 роки тому

      @@theodorethompson9032 you mean the CP GP38-2s?

  • @MikeG42
    @MikeG42 2 роки тому

    All these old loco's , I'm in heaven ☺️

  • @Bob.W.
    @Bob.W. 2 роки тому +3

    Thx Jeff. Is the NRE yard closed for good? Are they out of business?

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +2

      No, they are still using a small part of the building. The Friends of 261 who are getting UP 3985 Challenger and a DD40X are getting the majority of the building to work on steam engines sometime down the road. Thanks for watching Bob!

    • @AlikStansberry
      @AlikStansberry 2 роки тому

      @Jeff Toft Good to know. But one small correction; Centennial 6936’ designation is “DDA40X”. I’m not sure why some people tend to call it “DD40X”, but I guess it’s because of the refurbishment features it received a while ago from UP. But I still consider it incorrect.
      Apparently during the centennial’s production, EMD originally called it the “DD40AX” but it was later changed during development.

    • @ralphbalfoort2909
      @ralphbalfoort2909 2 роки тому

      @@AlikStansberry, people confuse the Centennials with their predecessors, the cabless DD35 and cab-equipped DD35A. They think the Centennials should be like the DD35A with an 'X' substituted for the 'A."

    • @theodorethompson9032
      @theodorethompson9032 2 роки тому

      @@AlikStansberry because it says DD-40-X right on the cab

  • @pavabo
    @pavabo 2 роки тому

    What was the number of the Soo Line unit?
    Nice video! Wonder what those new tracks are going to be for?

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому

      Probably a 700 series, tracks are probably going to be new yard tracks

  • @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85
    @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85 2 роки тому

    @1:45 Santa Fe SD40-2 yellow and blue freightbonnet would donate to arizona railway museum as part Santa Fe arizona railroad collection and southern california railway museum as part Santa Fe southern california collection.

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +1

      All NRE for rebuilding or parts, Thanks for watching!

    • @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85
      @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85 2 роки тому

      @@jefftoft5568 Is there that NRE would have sold off every locomotive equipments to other museums?

    • @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85
      @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85 2 роки тому

      @@jefftoft5568 No the NRE facilitie has left slivis they when move on to other facilities that is not near slivis now Union Pacific is taking charge of ex NRE slivis facilitie so that's a no on milwaukee road 261 program can't not share room with Union Pacific it's equipment there is taking control that ex NRE and some Union Pacific/Ex NRE equipment were for scrap now is that chance of restoration them with Union Pacific 6936 Union Pacific 5511 & Union Pacific 3985 with Union Pacific passenger equipment.

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому

      @@atsf855sanbernardinocounty85 The Union Pacific equipment was donated to Railroad Heritage of Midwest America which now owns the ex NRE Silvis building and land. NRE still rents part of the Silvis facility and are still doing work there, they have a five-year lease on part of the facility Railroad Heritage of Midwest America plans is to restore the former Union Pacific equipment. They are also associated with Friends of Milwaukee 261. So no UP does not own the former NRE Silvis, IL building.

  • @davewallace8219
    @davewallace8219 2 роки тому

    once it was a great facility!

  • @petecasillas4727
    @petecasillas4727 2 роки тому

    These have all been moved now to the north side

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому

      I saw they were no longer there last week. Thanks.

  • @devernepersonal3636
    @devernepersonal3636 2 роки тому +1

    That is where friends of the 261's huge facility is now going to go

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому

      Yes, NRE still has a small part of the building they will be using for awhile yet.

  • @hockeyman1054
    @hockeyman1054 2 роки тому +1

    RRHMA should be taking over here soon I believe. Before the end of 2022... I'm glad to see it!

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +1

      NRE will still have a small area of the building for a while.

  • @Cnw8701
    @Cnw8701 2 роки тому

    Funny how that place is getting turned into a museum, when it literally was one the whole time it was owned and operated by NRE!

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +1

      Yeah, there was a lot of neat stuff there over the years.

  • @fredlohmann1448
    @fredlohmann1448 2 роки тому

    its not an empty yard!! i see tankers gondolas, coil cars!

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому

      Compared to what it usually is, it was pretty bare.

  • @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85
    @atsf855sanbernardinocounty85 2 роки тому

    It would be awesome idea for good time first start off to have some Southern Pacific some Union Pacific what's left some of Santa Fe units & other road names would go donate all railroad museums while the NRE in silvis still closed from covid 19 virus before they start resume their operations destroy the classic locomotives & rebuild them their crappiest company name NRE if they not resume their operations then the in tried open acre land of ex rock Island silvis yard will for sale least who anybody railroad museums won the have locomotives that are there just abandoned them.

    • @jefftoft5568
      @jefftoft5568  2 роки тому +2

      NRE still does some business there on a limited basis. The land and building was sold friends Milwaukee 261, which is getting engines and equipment from the UP. 3985 steam engine, DD40X 6936, another steam engine and cars to be worked on and run out of Silvis, IL. So eventually they want to have a museum at Silvis.