5 SD80MACs and a coal train - Creslo Station 30.12.06 8661

[Kareldekorte]

Awful horn, it belongs on a boat in my opininion.

[AM458]

Are the SD80 manned in Helper Service or are they DPU. Like the newer Locomotives?

[48alfaone]

Just found this video now in 2010. Great shot and angle of the SD80MAC's! From this side view back from the tracks 100 feet or so you really get a great look at the train and units. I love the look of the well used SD80's. Cool vid, thanks.

[golfisgreat123]

nothing like 25,000hp

[fnm9908]

plus NS never had any SD90MAC's there is a few differences between the 2 ,CSX does have both types they are easy todistinguish one another,just look at the rear of them,

[123chinch456]

@fnm9908 csx doesn't have any sd90s, do they?

[tomahawk368]

@123chinch456

Nope. Only some ex Conrail SD80's and some SD70ACe's.

[fnm9908]

thats the power of the 710-20 cilinder ,only ac traction locomotives on the NS until recently.......

[21stCenturyJRoyo22]

It's interesting to see normal Hopper Cars and bathtub gondolas in the same unit train

[TrainsforGTA]

this is in pennsylvania right

going to the power plant there. Saw this route on a history channel series called Extreme Trains.....created by UP actually. See alot of SD80s and DC9-40s

[PaulPeirceFan]

yes it is

[iwannaboneu]

The coal train in Extreme Trains originated in I believe west Brownsville (PA)..In that episode they were PPLX cars, and bound for the power plant in Washingtonville, PA. (Strawberry Ridge) with an SD60 leading. (I should know I was the helper on the rear.)

This coal train either came from the Winber mine (Somerset) or Mine 78 on the South Fork Branch.

[OhioRails]

@iwannaboneu how annoying were the people from the show?

[trainzandbridgez101]

The Conrail units are SD90MACs.

[railfanca]

Nope.

[trainzandbridgez101]

The first 2 NS units are SD90MACs. The last Conrail unit pushingis also an SD90MAC. All the other units are SD80MACs. I compared the units to a picture of an SD90MAC, and those ones matched

[Guilford88panam]

no conrail bought 32 sd80macs then ns inherited 17 of them and csx got the rest when they split conrail. they basically are the same shell/body as a 90mac though

[PaulPeirceFan]

conrail had 27 sd-80s

[Guilford88panam]

yeah but they bought the emd demo ones too im pretty sure

[PaulPeirceFan]

ya i didnt know that they bought the demos...

[Guilford88panam]

ha thats iight man im not a 100% sure i thought i read that tho so idk im prob wrong haha whatev

[royalewithcheese12]

Now that's how it's done! Big railroading at it's best!

[PaulPeirceFan]

ive seen a ns coal drag with 9 sd-80s and 4 cr sd-80s in sept

[cn78356]

yeah only half a dozen left

[yuer7676]

Espectacular!! the sd80 MAC are beautiful engines!!

[armyof11]

Yea the SD-80s are 5000 horse and the SD-90s are or least were supposed to be 6300 but had the 4300 horse and I believe UP gave theres back to the leasing company probalby CEFX!? Now EMD just got the 710 series in these pretty worked out and they are selling three hundred 6300 horse egines to those fucking communist bastard Chinese! What next will Bush give away to China? Global market?? Anyway EMD has had better luck with the SD-70ace and mac-2s as of late. tractive effort is great. AC traction

[CSXAC6000CW]

ok a correction to my above post the SD80MAC are 5,000 hp . In Real life maybe one day I may see a SD80MAC on a freight train down my way.

[CSXAC6000CW]

5,000 HP and they were great pullers love to see a SD80MAc and a CW60AC lash up on a train.

[Railfan19960]

How much horsepower does the SD80MAC have??????

seeya

[Railfan19960]

I love that horn:]

[cmdrflake]

NICE!

[vipondiu]

hahaha, nice idea

[SouthernSD80MAC]

My favorite locos!!!

[napatom2005]

I get to see these things almost weekly on the Conemaugh line in PA.

[MaxInterjects]

Leslie S-3Ls sound so musical. i love it. those scraping flanges sure dont. but nice vid, man!

[CalDaCPRGUY]

wow nice catch on the 80macs man

[SD70MAC]

nice horn : )