ICE funeral Train

[amtrak3501]

nice lashup, nice horn as well.

[trainlover1999]

nice catch, did they scrap the ex conrails too?

[waynemegaman]

I guess they cant all go to a museum but that doesnt make the pill any easier to swallow. Thans for the video and information!

[k5lta]

maybe they got replaced with ACEs or GEVOs.

[Railfanable]

ICE?

[southern4501isawesom]

i wish they would save the sd40-2s they are better then those damned dash9s

[deloreanman14]

I remember reading somewhere a man recalling when SP scrapped their GS 4-8-4 steam locomotives. They would be hauled through town to the scrap yard two at a time (and without tenders) by diesels and he said it was almost impossible to watch.

[meccaturbo]

Those Conrail units are ex PRR.

[EMD710ACe]

Wow nice catch but sad!

[redzmvt]

221(ex-CNW 924),would have looked good at IRM repainted into her original paint scheme.At least UP does donate retired stuff.

[peepeevagi]

At least all trains go to heaven. Shame you cant pull a Oh Danny boy with train whistles though.

[trainmandan05]

Well, at least ICE has a neat paint job. . .

[railtrailer44]

A little off topic but kind of reminds me of the feeling you get when you see a livestock truck full of slaughterbound horses going off to Canada--and many of them still usefull.

[railtrailer44]

A little off topic but kind of reminds me of the feeling you get when you see a livestock truck full of slaughterbound horses going off to Canada.

[southparkline1]

The Union Pacific just sold off all but three of ex D&RGW tunnel motors to scrappers so modern locomotives do get scrapped often.

[homerboy488]

What fucktard took that stupid video?!?

[BNSF2184]

Wow that ex-NYSW was in the Best Of the Midwest vol III Pentrex video.

[UnionPacificRules]

The GP 15! :"( noooooo!

[ericdeankilla]

Dead means out of service till they get to a servicing point on the respective RR, they do not recycle locomotives they sell them to smaller RR's or just keep them running for there own use, You just dont get rid of LOCO's they are to expensive to replace. I know this cuz I work on the (what use to be the ICE) railroad.

[cnw8577]

Well, those units WERE cut up for scrap about a week after I shot that video. NREX looked at getting the old ICE SD40s, but they were in such bad shape they weren't worth fixing up, so every last one of them was scrapped(except for the ICE 208(now ICE 6102) which was upgraded to an SD40-3 or something like that). They were sold to Houston Locomotive and cut up by a company called Jabco IIRC in Chicago Heights.

[BNSF6127]

@cnw8577 208, 206, 209 were all saved and rebuilt into dash 3's. 209 became the ICE 6100 and 206 became ICE 6101. They all seem very reliable so far...

[BNSF6127]

@cnw8577 208, 206, 209 were all saved and rebuilt into dash 3's. 209 became the ICE 6100 and 206 became ICE 6101. They all seem very reliable so far...

[StCatharinesRailFan8]

@cnw8577 caught 6102 on a CP ethanol in Ft. Erie, ON yesterday (July 28th 2011) :P Ex-Montana Rail Link

[skinnyshit8888]

@ericdeankilla As a matter of fact, Railroads do tend to scrap locomotives

[Manongjojo]

@ericdeankilla I am a truck driver and I haulded parts of cut up locomotives. They usually cut up what is not able to rebuild then send the parts down to Mexico to be recycled.

[RailsandRoads]

sad

[trueheart39]

It would be nice to have one or more of the lococs if they ran, and used in a musuem or something, or donated to a group for something like a weekend getaway type thing.

[Bartman1764]

heyy was one of them a SD45

[Guilford88panam]

Yes but it may be down graded to an sd40-2 variant

[t3hsully1985]

@Bartman1764 Former New York Susquehanna & Western paint too!

[TheTrain1962]

men are like locomotives after we work are ass off and then are wife scraps us

[mygirl22ward]

Love that comment! It is true in most cases but my wife and I met in a hobby shop and have been married for 13 years and she still loves trains...YIKES! Am I blessed? Check out SP 4449 videos at "mygirl22ward"

[vigo894]

Thank God I'm not married.

[TrainSpotterX]

Gidday from downunder Australia

Crikey that's a bloody awesome video mate, thanks for sharing.

[trainkids]

221 has the same paint scheme that the Montana Rail Link uses. Did it use to work for MRL?

[Andrewsaxamophone]

It's a complicated thing, the MRL, the IMRL, and the ICE. I'm not completely sure of how it all goes myself but correct me if I'm wrong, the IMRL became the ICE but the IMRL was a subsidiary of the MRL.

[thetrainman407]

thats so depressing. frankly all of those units shouldnt be cut up. why do they have to cut up so many SD40-2s!!!

[CSX2665]

How is it a funeral train?.

[deathstarmygnr]

Because some of the engines are dead and going to be cut up.

[CSX2665]

What the Hell?

[deathstarmygnr]

A funeral train in the railfan world is when a train is carrying dead locomotives that are going to be cut up for scrap.

[WARD5KUSTOMZ]

just makes me sick that they wont try to refurb them and use them again

[BrodyFarmBoy]

I here taps playing every time I watch this video

[Metracab123]

That Is A Rare Horn For Union Pacific!

RIP I.C.E

[modeltrainsarecool]

what is the ICE? The "Inter City Express"?

[drnack]

Iowa, Chicago and Eastern

[KSE828]

Thats a very sad horn

[LocalRailfan]

whats a funeral train??

[cnw8577]

This was their last trip, they were cut up for scrap less than a week after I shot this video

[MattBNSF1991]

i meant to say does

my bad

[MattBNSF1991]

the horn dies!

woah

[PaulPeirceFan]

*Starts to cry*

[tullynewyork]

Was that a Suzy-Q SD45? Remember those going through Tully to Syracuse with old skool Sea-Land Stackers. Walt Rich R.I.P.

[golfingrobert]

me feel sad :-(

[KSE828]

Wow, even the horn has a sad note to it.... :'(

[SWASTAFIX]

i hate and love watching trains going to there graveyard.

[Derailedtrain666]

I WANA SEE SOME CNW's HERE in COLORADO!

[trainlord11]

Great ideo! Nice mix of power! I can't belive all of thoughs engines were cut up, I saw the ex Conrail 203 leading an IC&E train out of Winona. I got seeral good shots of him! What was with the SD45?

[cooldit1]

Poor locomotives :`(

[aaron13133]

what do u mean funeral train?

[cnw8577]

The four ICE units were on their way to Chicago Heights to be cut up for scrap. If I remember, all of them were torched within a week of me shooting this video.

[deathstarmygnr]

why? The former IMRL, NYSW and Conrail units all looked in good shape? Were they dead maybe?

[NJT4111]

I don't follow the ICE that much, but the NYSW I do, do you know, or does any one now the NYSW number?

[kleetus92]

Wow... that's odd that they would have gone backwards on that to make a non turbo engine that small that probably would never see a tunnel. I wonder what the history was on that one...

[kleetus92]

Did anyone notice the GP-15 in the middle? The predecessor of the 40T-2 and 45T-2 engines?

[UPTRAIN]

No. The first GP15 was built 5 or 6 years after the SD40T-2 and SD45T-2 came out.

[Hiei2k7]

*Plays Taps for the fallen locomotives....*

I know EXACTLY where that is! and If i remember right, that house there supposedly went up for sale recently! (I was up in that area, but came back to Missouri on the day this was filmed, 03-13-07)

Acker Road comes off of US 30 outside of Fulton, IL, right before the BNSF Savanna/Galesburg branch crosses both UP and US 30 At that Spot...

[twiggs24]

waht are razor blades

[cnw8577]

Sorry, i meant they were cut up for scrap.

[ic6071]

Thats a sad story... Great video though.

[cnw8577]

Just FYI, within a week of this video, all 4 of those units were turned into razor blades.

[DAKRUPAINATER]

the horn really sucks!!!

[SD70MAC]

Great sound ! : )