WEIRDEST New Locomotive?

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  @SD40Fan_Jason · 2 years ago (edited)

  Santa Fe was doing this 50 years ago, taking old covered wagon engines and rebuilding them with freight bodies. Check out the book "CF-7 From Cleburne to Everywhere. " by Cary Poole.Those engines got a new lease on life with ATSF. And then they were peddled off on shortlines all over the world. Even Amtrak owned several CF-7s. Many are still being used today, despite their non compliance with Tier 4 emissions requirements

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• TW

  @twiggs24 · 2 years ago

  The sd40 lives on. Sd40-2 is one of the best locomotives ever built

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• SU

  @sudriansignalman9387 · 2 years ago (edited)

  As someone whos worked with those rebuilds, theyre nowhere near as powerful as the unrebuilt ones, but they are so quite and smooth. We got her in on a mow train. She didn't stay long but i liked her

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• TR

  @Traineater2024 · 7 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imajKbTL3N0&amp;t=138">2:18</a> &nbsp; That looks like they took of a radiador of a SD70ACE and put it on the back

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• ME

  @Messicrafter · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imajKbTL3N0&amp;t=90">01:30</a> haha, I was the conductor on that 1714 when it went from Spartanburg, SC to Kingsport, TN, probably not long after you took that video. It isn&apos;t a really good engine, it loves to drop its load when it goes from its sub-21 MPH to 21+ MPH ?gearing?, which isn&apos;t a good idea when it is the only engine pulling a train up the mountain.

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• PH

  @phuturephunk · 2 years ago

  An uncountable amount of time from now when the Universe achieves heat death and the end of time comes, in a sea of leptons that will never meet there will be a single thing that still exists : A beat up EMD SD40-2.

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• LA

  @landonriley9226 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Looks like an ES44AC and SD40-2 had a baby lol

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• RO

  @robertdean9392 · 2 years ago

  Great video and great information. &nbsp;I enjoy your videos. &nbsp;There is a small group of us that railfan at Amtrak Station in Clemson.. Saturday evening, I was early ahead of the rest of the group when a grandmother showed up with 2 grandsons. They both had tripods and cell phones with scanners on their belts. They asked about you tube train channels. I provid we d yours, and several others including Distant Signal with Danny Harmon. Helped both of them with Grandmother&apos;s permission, to set up and subscriptions for all the channels. They were absolutely excited and loved it. I told the grandmother about rail day at Folkston, and she said they will attend in the fall.

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• AN

  @anf_8310_ab · 2 years ago (edited)

  The SD23T4 also have their dynamic brake fan section raised a little, which i assume to accommodate necessary Tier 4 components

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• BO

  @bowlinerailfan · 2 years ago

  I saw 1713 several months ago when it was pulling one of CSX&apos;s geometry trains. It was parked in a nearby yard over the weekend I saw it. But I barely missed it when it left due to having to go do something else.

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• KE

  @kennyspry5189 · 2 years ago

  Bottom Line is EMD Engines are still Thee Best Engines ever made and also Good Looking Engines period.

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• WA

  @wacojones8062 · 2 years ago

  I can remember seeing F7 and Fairbanks Morris running through Rondout Lake County Illinois. Biggest train I have seen had 24 SD-40 and 240 Coal cars test run for train control electronics Chicago &amp; Northwestern main line along US 41 near lake Forest Ill in the Mid 70&apos;s

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