Aging workhorses: Norfolk Southern SD40-2

[IIIJFRIII]

Dose anyone know if they still make the 1st and 2nd model engiens?

[MoeJae86]

@IIIJFRIII If your talking about the first two sd-40 units, unfortunately no.

[IIIJFRIII]

@MoeJae86 Damn :( . Maybe if I'm ever rich I'll have to buy used ones and rebuild them even stronger. I hate the new models of today that all look like the 3rd engien. 1st and 2nd though are classics like the FL9's and GP38s. The GP38 look like the 1st and 2nd engiens to.

[MoeJae86]

@IIIJFRIII Yah I know what you mean. Such great units, at least they are being rebuilt and used on short lines. Luckily where I live, Austin Western Rail Road has a handful of old sd60's sd40's, GP40's and even a GP60M that have the wide cab. (Although I hate the yellow and black paint job....) I see those five GP40's on daily bases working together pulling that limestone in gondola's.

[IIIJFRIII]

@MoeJae86 Thats so good and awsome to hear man!  Im here in Long Island NY. The LIRR is the biggist comuter RR in the county, and basicly no friaght trian at all. The only desiels they gots left are a few MP15's. The other desiels they have are the DE30AC witch I hate so much becuase if ment for comuter only I think. They use the MP15 for the work trians. The LIRR sold all theyer GP38, FL9, and any other good ones to a short line that. I saw one GP38, and I worked next to the tracks lol.

[IIIJFRIII]

@IIIJFRIII Im depripped of all cool trains lol!! If I go onto the main land my Dad seys NS, CSX and a few others can be seen at yards in NJ and on the main land, they dont come onto the Island. My Dads is a engiener. But its really all electric out here now :( . No cool trians here anymore. The short line that the GP38's is the only cool things you'll see but the MTA only lets them on the rails at night so you'll never see them. I worked next to the track for almost 2 yrs, saw 1 once :(.

[MoeJae86]

@IIIJFRIII Just one?! Geez.... The DE30AC? NICE, Well at least you got EMD pulling those passenger cars instead of those GE Genesis... that pull our Amtrak Eagle Pass... Our rail transit system is very poor in Texas compared to you guys. We just got these 2 car Swedish DMU's, which are ok, but would prefer to see a EMD push and pull cars. Another thing is in my city, we have the no train horn rule. So we don't hear those freight horns, and I have to travel out of town just to hear them.

[LOGINKPW]

What? No warning bells?

[cj382]

put that ugly monotone horn back on the tugboat it came off of.

[MrTransman99]

@cj382 the horn sucks

[1968Jayhawk]

this is to troy12n have'nt you ever heard of sd40-2's reffered to as the workhorse of the railroad industry??

[troy12n]

SD40-2's are "big power"?

[DJGENEX71]

They may be old, but the 2 lead engines will probably still out-last the 3rd...

Great shot! 5*****!

[meccaturbo]

@DJGENEX71, actually probably not.

[IIIJFRIII]

@DJGENEX71 I hate the way the 3rd looks, and all those that look some what like it.  I love the first 2 and all the one that look like that. And of corse the FL9, but those are legendary classics.

[Bartman1764]

gotta love that terrible horn

[CHP324]

@Bartman1764 i agree

[techman124]

over power much?

[BrunsAce]

Dang, I wish YouTube would fix the comments so they'd show up correctly in the normal view. I, and I am sure many others as well, have replied to a question already answered, hence the deleted comment.

Guser223, that sounds right, but I'm not an expert in that field either. ;-)

[pilotmanmax]

Did NS buy over Conrail?

[Guser223]

Both NS and CSX filed a joint application over Conrail in August 1998, and on June 1, 1999 both railroads began operating their portions of Conrail. NS acquired 58% and CSX got the remaining 42%.

[pilotmanmax]

OK awsome, what exactly is is COnrail Quality?

[Guser223]

Well it's basically Conrail, but I think, and someone correct me if I'm wrong. I think, when Conrail did put Conrail Quality on their locomotives and freight cars, they wanted to let people know that they are a quality railroad and they wanted to let everyone know that.

[ConrailForever]

"Conrail Quality" was just a motto so to speak. It was never a part of the road name or reporting marks.

[troy12n]

@pilotmanmax

Conrail "Quality", lol...

[southern4501isawesom]

@Guser223 HAA! NS FTW!!!

[ER801]

An NS train not required to burn his headlight brightly when travelling over grade crossings?

[Guser223]

Maybe that's all the brighter it burns.

[lorimersnd]

Cool!

[kurvjuh]

It's quite strange that there is no bells on that crossing.

[Guser223]

Tyrone, PA is the same way, no bells. I think it's a town decision, reduces less noise, but you still have the horn. I don't get it.

[CSX1123]

this is one of my favorite vids on youtube.=]

[slybrdsngjr]

This my friends is the unique way that the engineer can do with a locomotive valve, the manual valve you can regulate your own air going to the horn, to make the horn a little bit more quiet when it sits on the horn on top of the cab, us crews hate when they are right up there loud! LOL

[UndertakerRocks123]

thats a scary looken train

[PossessedDonutz]

no the old NS sd40's are awesome

[UndertakerRocks123]

no i met at 0:09

[PossessedDonutz]

:P ahh when it coimes out of the trees

[UndertakerRocks123]

yeah but not the horn it is awsome

[TheGondorian]

help me...they need 3 cars to pull that train? as i heard out, 3 engines were running

[TheGondorian]

i mean engines, not cars

[charlieb640]

No they don't. Sometimes railroads have reasons to shuttle power around. Or, on the trip out it these three units may have been pulling 12000 tons but coming back just this short train.

But to answer your question again, no the three units were not required for this tonnage.

[downfallkid]

unique horn

[yonkersrails]

Nice S Curve.

[CSX700]

Thats classic railroad horn for ya. 25 bell only. ohh well you get used to it after awhile.

[CR6479]

who put an lesies S25L on the leader. it should be RS3L horn.

[Miketherailfan]

It is a RS3L, but only the 25 bell is sounding.

[Derailedtrain666]

Awsome! it's always good when you find train with more or the same # of loco's as cars.