Thanks for watching! Check out my channel if you can! I've gotten better cameras and posted a lot more in recent years!

Nice video mate, Aussie here, can’t get enough of how amazing the EMD 16-645E3 engine sounds. Luckily for me locally there is one type of locomotives called the Australian National ALF class which instead has the EMD 16-645E3C engine when all 8 locomotives were rebuilt in 1994 after being originally built in 1976-77. Hopefully I can come to the states one day and see these wonderful SD-40’s rumbling away, take care 👍

Wow. 71 cars and a shuddered unit in tow. That’s gotta be some kind of record for an SD40-2!

Wow when you said stall I thought you meant due to wheel slip or not enough power on the train but i've never seen a prime mover just stall. Wonder what happened. Excellent video, though. No diesel ever made a better mechanical noise than the SD40-2. That low frequency rumble is music to my ears. Brings back my childhood when we used to live down the street from some old MKT lines and they used to run GP's and SD's around there during the 80's.

@PJWey

Жыл бұрын

Likewise, takes me back to living in Bakersfield in 1990 as a kid and hearing and feeling the Southern Pacific trains rumble past our school and neighbourhood.

Awesome! SD40-2's are my favorite EMD's...this is one reason why.

AH the SD40-2... the railroad equivalent to the Crown Vic.

@hakeemsd70m

5 жыл бұрын

Very well said 💯🚃🚘

@gordonashumway

4 жыл бұрын

I had a crown Vic for a long time and I liked that car, like all Bundy’s Dodge.

Great video! Just shows how good SD40-2's are and why they are still in mainline service!! Viva'la SD40-2's...LOL Cheers Gregg

@subhamnayak6096

5 жыл бұрын

@Andy Properw

@The747Isnotdead

3 жыл бұрын

VIVA LA SD40-2!!

For the note, no train here stalled. Engine shutdown is all that occurred here. I've had that happen many times. Also, that SD70 isn't shutdown. Isolated, merely. However, this a neat video!

@acts2211

5 жыл бұрын

Pardon my ignorance. So the SD 40-2 literally the engine cut out for a multitude of reasons Governor electrical fuse overheat low oil what have you and the SD 70 engine is simply idling but isolated and not providing power to the train is that correct?

@sneekyturbo_AMG

5 жыл бұрын

@@acts2211 that's how railroads work lol. Depending on the train and urgency of moving the freight. Most railroads will basically run the bare minimum for power on low priority trains to save fuel. Or have knotch restrictions. Here in canada it's usually about .6 hpt. Intermodal trains is what you want to be on. 1.2 1 3 hpt. Fricken rockets on the main

@dalton1583

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. NS ups/ intermodal gets wide open runs. Everything g stop for them. Got to go a few runs from atl to Linwood and Greenville

Nice video young man. Thanks for sharing and keep'm coming!

SD40-2 is the best engine in my opinion

The SD40-2 still did a good job hauling the train by itself

@BoneValleyFilms

10 жыл бұрын

I agree, those old warriors can still hold their own.

@CyberSoldat

10 жыл бұрын

SeaboardRailfanner Sorry for the late reply but do you know why the SD70 wasn't running?

@BoneValleyFilms

10 жыл бұрын

ShmotzGaming not sure, it may have sprung some sort of issue because it was running soon after

@jeremyamundsen537

3 жыл бұрын

@@CyberSoldat Possibly for fuel conservation.

Both of my very favourite locos on one train so sick

Those hoppers must be empty as that one engine would not pull all of them by itself.

If the Mac was really isolated and the SD40 was the only motor pulling, it was probably the governor shut down which shutdown the engine.

Most of our trains C.P. and C.N. inCanada,in the western provinces are pulling 150 to 175 cars for the past 5years.

SD40-2's are fricken bulletproof.

@j-z6871

6 жыл бұрын

blackflagqwerty no they aren't

@cdavid8139

6 жыл бұрын

But as far as older power is concerned, they are close to it

@hakeemsd70m

5 жыл бұрын

@@j-z6871 Name another 6-axle locomotive that is as unbreakable as an SD40-2. I sure can't think of any, but I suppose the SD70M comes very close.

Excellent quality!

Ok found out that the 8011 was built in March 1979 it was first L&N 8011 Then changed to Seaboard 8011 the became CSX 8011

If it's EMD power, I like it! Good video!

I was an engineer for 36 years for various railroads, 12 freight, 24 with AMT. I worked for a short time out of Denver to Pueblo,CO. on the Joint Line. I worked for ATSF but most of the trains we manned were the BN trains, mainly coal train, about 15,000 tons on average. Operated many, many SD40-2's. The Santa Fe one's weighed in at about 390,000 lbs., not to bad. The SP SD40's we would get in pool service weighed in at about 410,000 lbs. The BN SD40-2's in coal service weighed in at about 421,000lbs.! Six of those was good pay for us engineers, and there was no stalling. Power to weight ratio means a lot.

Awesome train video

@davidallen6333

10 жыл бұрын

Nice video man !

@BoneValleyFilms

10 жыл бұрын

dave allen thanks!

how lucky to see a SD40-2 its really rare they dont use sd40-2 quite often

Ive said it once, and I’ll say it again. CSX constantly underpowers all of their trains.

@cdavid8139

4 жыл бұрын

typical railfan comment

Awesome videos :)

There's more than 3 yards in the plant. They have a yard for load out, 2 yards for wet rock, a sulfur yard, and loaded car yard in the back. They also have an in house cleaning track. They do not use ammonia cars at this facility.

@tomp8871

Жыл бұрын

Where is it exactly?

Amazing Horn!

I screwed up. I should have gone into this work when I was first getting my life started

600 AMPS at 50 MPH still don't know any other engine that can do that.

awesome video

Nice film!

Best loco ever period !

Wonderful video.

Also judging by the springs those cars looked empty, so,probably only running the SD40 due to horsepower restrictions

They certainly put too much on that poor engines load. Subbed =)

Nice video! So what exactly do they carry in those cars? I've seen one pop up in Russell Kentucky before for scrap but it was the only one I ever saw.

@BoneValleyFilms

9 жыл бұрын

These carry dry rock to the port of Tampa. Its the only place in the world that you will see these in action, along one freight line, unless they move for repairs or scrap.

@keithsuggs7935

Жыл бұрын

It's DAP or diamonium phosphate.

This train is empty thus is relatively light, thus is light enough that a single locomotive can pull 71 cars. Also, the gradient is very minimal (if any) in that area which helps as well.

@keithsuggs7935

Жыл бұрын

There's a pretty rough grade from Royster Rd. (distant signal) all the way into the plant. The north leg of the wye turnout isn't much help either.

nice video!!!!

@BoneValleyFilms

10 жыл бұрын

thanks!!

the eng did not stall it just died - low water or low oil

@kleetus92

3 жыл бұрын

Did you see it surging after it was restarted? I seriously wonder if it didn't have a plugged filter or actually low on fuel?

Where's the stall??

what kind of hoppers are those? they look like old coal hoppers,with extended metal added to them and a grain hopper top added to the top of each car.is that right or am i wrong?

super train Video :) very Best !

Where is this located? Florida? What is Ridegwood? A mineral processing plant of some kind? It's nice to see trains/cars not spay painted for a change. Thanks for sharing.

Great footage man..I'm a late comer to this video..LOL

Nice,what exactly does CSX mean,I thought only east coast. Did see a power unit on main northbound, northern cal.

is the shut down to prevent the engine from blowing, sorry i just stumbled onto this video, and dont know much about trains lol, the information you guys give is great and easy to understand too, thanks, q:)

@thetreedemoknight4827

4 жыл бұрын

I only think that steam trains can burst, not diesel. Also, it's likely low fuel or water.

what are those fright cars, and what are they hualing. thanks for any feed back. great video.

@Tcaauwe2002

7 жыл бұрын

thats a phosphate train.

@MrJimmybgood

7 жыл бұрын

isnt phosphate used in napalm. or for bombs.

@kurtiskaskowski5386

7 жыл бұрын

James Finborg They are phosphate hoppers.

@tosh4461

6 жыл бұрын

Air

Why couldn't they get the SD70 to start (even if they connected the cables)?

Awesome! ty

Awesome Video! I wonder what the engineer is feeling or thinking when his train stalls.....

@eLiZaBeThKoEhLeR

6 жыл бұрын

"Welp, time to put her in neutral, get out, and start pushing."

@j-z6871

6 жыл бұрын

Freedomtower Studios the train shut down it didn't stall.

@j-z6871

6 жыл бұрын

MzZzLzZz that's not how they do it they have to punch a button . plus I didn't stall, it shut down

@martihill3611

6 жыл бұрын

The train crews feel like complete failures in the game of life, when their train stalls.

When the governor is low on oil or the water gets low they are designed to shut down. He had to punch a button in to restart it. Good video

@BoneValleyFilms

10 жыл бұрын

thanks, did not know that before.

@carlvanlugpin9984

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah our Metra F40PH-3's do that too sometimes. You'll be walking through the coaches cutting tickets and then all of the sudden the lights and A/C go out at 70 MPH. LOL

@firefox5926

6 жыл бұрын

lol that sounds kinda terrifying lol

He had to stop and switch out the Hampsters. They get tired running in the Dryer basket. They only use Hampster wheels in the smaller switching locomotives.

If the sd40 had stalled on me, I might have connected the jumper cable. Furthermore, I then might have fired up the SD70 for mor power. Just to be on the safe side and prevent future stalls

Go to 5:30 to avoid the rest, if you want. All good, but stall around 5:30

Not the brightest thing in the world to do, as a railfan. The speed limit sign clearly said 55 and there you were doing 20 just so you can follow a train. I can clearly hear every single car passing you up. You are lucky you didn't get rear ended or cause a pileup.

@BoneValleyFilms

9 жыл бұрын

It wasn't nearly as bad as you state. Where I was doing 25 was the 45 mph zone and I sped up once I hit the 55 coming out of town, trust me I live here, I know where its safe to run like that. Oh and the traffic wasn't going nearly as fast as you hint. Plus the highway was wide open. There wasn't any risk of a pileup or accident of any sort.

@beeble2003

9 жыл бұрын

SeaboardRailfanner You passed a 55 sign at 20-25 mph. It doesn't sound like traffic is heavy but there is a constant stream of cars coming by you. You're a moving roadblock at less than half the speed limit: that is not safe and not much less dangerous than just parking your car in the highway. Please do not do it.

@soxlosenow

8 жыл бұрын

Yeap.. Typical foamers.

@BoneValleyFilms

8 жыл бұрын

soxlosenow an ignorant comment from someone who can't see the road and has no idea of the traffic in my area. I rest my case. If you don't like my videos, feel free to leave.

@BigTex9752

7 жыл бұрын

Ikr,just watch the dam video or leave if you complain about him not doing the speed limit rather than watch the train video,which is the sole purpose

what are those freight cars hauling or used for? I've never seen them before.

@SouthWye

6 жыл бұрын

They are used for wet rock

It wasn't a stalled out engine, he probably went pass idle with the throttle.

+SeaboardRailfanner what camera are you using and how much did it cost!?!

@BoneValleyFilms

8 жыл бұрын

+TheBlueHero22 That was my old Nikon Q820, it cost me 200 roughly

Normally a train cannot stall unless an engine is defective ! The tractive power should be calculated taking into account the weight of the train and the gradients. The calculation was therefore mistaken.

Great video! You guys need to invest in a scanner so we can hear what's going on with them.

@BoneValleyFilms

9 жыл бұрын

This is a much older video, I have a scanner now. Makes life much easier

That is a capable machine

Plus the curve radius ! Here we have 71 cars @ 90 metric tons, i.e. 6300 metric tons for a tractive power of 6000 hp... There is no chance that this train can get over the faintest gradient !

@hadesdescent6664

4 жыл бұрын

Empty cars! But let's assume that there's 6300t, SD40-2 alone can pull it, trust me, and the 8011 did not exeed notch 3 and was at 20mph, at notch 8 it would go 60mph! There's around 2000t and less with 71 car ×30t (and less when empty), okay with addition of SD70MAC 2200t max!

Talk about a lucky catch.

What are those grain cars?

he accidentally shut down the loco, by going beyond the idle notch into the shutdown notch.

I can tell from the started the SD70MAC wasn't online, Because the Jumping cable was not connected between the units. If I remember correctly the CSX SD40-2's in some series have a over heat fuse of some kind so if the traction motors are to hot and the unit is sitting it will do one of two things- 1 shut the engine down or 2 the engine reversing motor inside the cab will stay in neutral. It's been a few years from my last update look at the locomotives of CSX.

where does the rear safety light get its power?

@whiteknightcat

5 жыл бұрын

It has a battery pack. Some models use a small turbine powered by the trainline air to provide power.

Time to power up the MAC!!!!

COOL CATCH LAD.

wow was on quickly with a train yes, ship and good really

what is gr-1

I think the locomotive behind the EMD SD40-2 is an EMD SD70M.

@whiteknightcat

5 жыл бұрын

Close. It's an SD70MAC.

Where is the boxcar with some hay in it that you can live in . I want to do that

Empty or Loaded?

What is carried in those cars? They look like hoppers with hatches on top, but how do they unload them? I don't see any gates or hatches on the bottom.

@BoneValleyFilms

7 жыл бұрын

+NiceMuslimLady these are rotary dump hoppers. They literally are turned upside down and dumped

@NiceMuslimLady

7 жыл бұрын

I know they do that with coal and stuff...but those are open hoppers. These look like covered hoppers. They must be able to take the top off to unload.

3 sd 40’s can pull a Sky scraper down

Nice filming, but I have an issue with driving 5 mph on shoulder. I saw the 55mph sign. Please be careful

The engine died, not stalled, for what ever reason.

What are those cars used for

@whiteknightcat

5 жыл бұрын

They're for hauling phosphate.

what are gr-1 cars used for?

@09JDCTrainMan

8 жыл бұрын

Phosphate. It's used for fertilizer.

@j-z6871

6 жыл бұрын

zippa .way good one

@j-z6871

6 жыл бұрын

09trainman OK now I know

They should have CSX 4792 helping to

"Stalled" implies the train was too heavy for the locomotive and the train stopped. Anyone knowhy the engine shut down?

@Paublo79

9 жыл бұрын

Robert Gift auto shut down most likely. On the NS our older EMD power doesn't like to start back up on its on own after auto shutting down. CSX probably has the same issue.

@robertgift

9 жыл бұрын

Paublo79 Oh. Thank you, Paublo. What causes auto shutdown? Overheated traction motors? Engine coolant overheat or coolant level loss?

@Paublo79

9 жыл бұрын

N

@Paublo79

9 жыл бұрын

No they auto shut down after not moving for an extended period of time to conserve fuel.

@silicon212

8 жыл бұрын

+talesin- god of the internet Don't forget crankcase overpressure.

knowing there are speed restrictions in some areas, if they stall out in those places, and they know it's possible. why don't they add extra engines to get past these places??

i have counted 72 cars , may be I double count some

Where I live doing 20 in a 55 mph zone can get you a ticket. No less than 15 below the limit.

@sherpajones

8 жыл бұрын

I was gonna say . . .

That was a rare 1

yay trains

the governor needs to be adjusted

the S70m was probably in neutral

What is GR-1, and why is it significant in this story?

@whiteknightcat

5 жыл бұрын

It's a unit phosphate train, in this case empty, headed to the Mosaic Bartow facility.

1. Are all SD40s turbocharged? 2. What boost PSI do they run? Does the engineer have a boost gauge (aka manifold pressure) he watches in the cab? 3. It appears the lead unit SD40-2 has added 2 white air conditioning units on the roof. What would prompt that? Does that mean all SD40s without the white boxes doesn't have any AC at all?

@silicon212

8 жыл бұрын

+Syclone0044 Yes, all SD40 series units are turbocharged. The turbo isn't exactly what you're used to - these engines are uniflow two stroke diesels and as such, require charged air to run. On the turbocharged EMDs, this is accomplished by connecting the compressor shaft on the turbo, through an overrun clutch, to the camshaft gears by a 12:1 step-up - i.e. the compressor shaft, when under drive from the engine, is turning at 12x the rotation speed of the engine. Once the exhaust has enough velocity to drive the turbo direct, the unit decouples from the engine drive and freewheels - powered by the exhaust. The extra boost varies due to engine load. There is no boost/manifold pressure gauge. The turbo compressor outputs into airboxes located on each bank. The airbox contains the charged air necessary for the engine to run, as a uniflow two stroke engine cannot aspirate directly on its own. The airboxes supply charged air to air ports at the bottom of each cylinder bore, uncovered by the piston in the downstroke. The exhaust is expelled through the cylinder heads via 4 standard poppet valves, driven by overhead camshafts, one on each bank. The bottom to top scavenging is referred to as 'uniflow'. These units, the first of which was built in 1966 (as an SD40), and 1972 (as an SD40-2), do not have air conditioning from the factory. That practice did not begin until the late 1980s with the proliferation of the comfort cab (widenose).

@zachogdahl210

8 жыл бұрын

i work on boats and we use 4 16 645 emds to provide power to electric drive motors.... when you get 4 of those turbos up off the clutches at the same time the noise is incredibly loud. they are probably my favorite diesels to work on in the fleet (other than our detroit 60 generators) but sadly due to epa regs the classic emd is going away for us. no more new builds using emd 2 stroke engines :( the new tier 4 engines are basically redesigned cats...

@adamlelacheur962

7 жыл бұрын

the answer is no we do not have boost manifold gauges we only have gauges that show our Ampurage to the traction motors.

normally when they have 1 or more Locomotives hooked up together is not because so it can feed power to help the first loco with power...

@gabeitto3188

8 жыл бұрын

I'm starting to learn about this. Educate me please. So what is the reason for another loco if its not helping pull the load? I would figure its a waste of fuel having only one doing the work of pulling a dead weight loco plus the train load.

@Emmanuel4334

8 жыл бұрын

+Itto i live in Nz and here they hook up 2 locos at most sometimes more depending on what they are towing. but yea usually the second loco does thr work cause u hear it but the first does the controlling but yea to answet 100% i cant ill ask and get back to ya

@svelements

8 жыл бұрын

+Emmanuel Habtegabre Sometimes to transport power or if one loco has a problem and cant be used they have a backup.

@Emmanuel4334

8 жыл бұрын

svelements yeah i figured the same aye haha

8 жыл бұрын

+Genki Itto additional locomotives *are* used to provide additional power. the is the whole purpose of MU in this case, they were hauling empties so I am sure the MAC was shut down to save fuel. The MAC will be used when they have to pull the loaded cars

Excellent. ♡ T.E.N.

The cars are clean, because people respect the railroad in that area.

What do you think those train crews think, when they see two guys in a car following them around filming everything they do, in a age of terrorism and uncertny , I would think it would get them a little nervous to say the least.

@BoneValleyFilms

8 жыл бұрын

I know this crew personally. the local crews here all know us and so do the train masters

@davidschneider9264

8 жыл бұрын

+willibill c The crews could care less. They know you're railfans.

@BoneValleyFilms

8 жыл бұрын

David Schneider plus I personally know this engineer.

@davidschneider9264

8 жыл бұрын

We never though about guys driving around taking pics as anything but that. Age of terrorism, never entered our minds.

@125sloth

8 жыл бұрын

+David Schneider I wouldnt worry too much about the "terrorism" bullshit. Maybe around a busy passenger station there might be an over reactive concern, but seriously a freight train out on an open track? And what about train crews who record cab rides then post them on social media or youtube for the world to see. It could be argued that doing that is wrong too, and a possible security issue. which it isnt. Anyone can film almost anything in the public domain and guess what? TV stations do it all the time for their news.

If he only had an extra helper he wouldn't stall don't y'all agree!

@whiteknightcat

5 жыл бұрын

No.

I bet if a GE had to do this, it would blow a turbo. Or catch on fire. Or just flat out explode.

trainmaster sees you with two on line...you fired...by the way 10 mph max. going into Ridgewood and uphill can't see more than a few car lengths...trainmasters set traps try to get a rules violation... they are nice people !

Speed limit is 55

I love SD 40-2s

Hello do like your video