Firing Up A Santa Fe GP30 at Commerce

[tarmac2001]

A locomotive that was made 40+ years ago and still working for a class I railroad that's also a top Fortune 500 company! Now that's an amazing piece of machinery.

[skinnyshit8888]

it's alive. IT'S ALIVE

[123legodude]

if you bring one of those to Britain and fire it up next to one of they're locos, they will think we are geniuses by how clean they fire up. insted of wasting half the tank firing up a loco over there, that blow black smoke, and they wonder why they have so much smog...tsk tsk tsk

[coolman1558]

@123legodude no it'll prove that locomotives in Britain are pussies with no muscle

[123legodude]

@coolman1558 yea right. their engines pull only a quarter of the cars that the american trains can pull. those pussy trains in Britain will have to use like 6 of their locos just to pull a full length american train.

[coolman1558]

@123legodude GP-30 next to British locomotive

[GP-30 Starts up]: sqeeelc put put RRRAAAAWWWWRRRREEE

[British engine leaks oil in fear of the big engine] : put put put ptu put put- multiple turnovers of starter, but to no avail locomotive dies in fright of GP-30

[123legodude]

@coolman1558 you forgot one thing for the british locomotives [put put put (big cloud of black smoke begines to blow out) put put put...]

[adrianspeeder]

Oh that is a great video, thanks for sharin!

[cbehr91]

Aren't most of the GP30s laid-up bad order now?

[Conraildan]

what kind of engine was that behind the GP30? it kind of reminds me of a SD24 or GP20 with the slanted nose.

[cchan006]

Could have been a GP35u (rebuilt GP35) as few of those were in the area back then.

[MsC1953]

Great catch!! Sounds good!

[mygirl22ward]

Did the ATSF or BNSF ever consider converting their GP-30's into "mother-slug" combos like the CSX did? I dont know if any other road that did this. Its weird seeing a 30 with smooth sides and filled with concrete!

[cchan006]

I haven't heard of a Santa Fe or Burlington Northern mother/slug GP30's, but Union Pacific had the cab-less GP30B's.

[WhopBobbaLuBop]

@mygirl22ward The CSX conversion program was fraught with problems, I don't see any around here any longer (Clifton Forge).

[verastaki]

Here Vancouver, Washington got rid of all SW 1200 and 1500 it seems and now are using same GP30 and other GP engines instead for shuntning.

[cchan006]

I remember seeing a white-face BN GP30 in Vancouver last time I was there. I hope they stay around for a while.

[05clenharth]

need more clag for me

[RailfanJames]

Great to see that the ATSF GP30's are still looking and sounding good. Unlike the HULKS of CSXT GP30 Slugs we get here.....

[tarmac2001]

BNSF is pretty unique in that they still use models of EMD 567 power in regular service.

[conrail2]

nice engine

[balddanny72]

great stuff..the only GP30s I see anymore are the "skeletons" on the CSX

[omegaroad]

in fact to cchan006s comment it is a layshaft that starts the engine no holding any buttons its all a done by that shaft what he was doing was blowing any water out that mite have built up on the pistons be for starting the engine cause if you crank it with water in it will you will brake a rod or bend them or worse blow a seal i have got to start one of them engines be for and had to do the same thing is very cool it hear them crank over

[SpeakerPolice]

That's a 645 rebuild! Nice! =D

[wannabeangel83]

I never did get how u start a locomotive...do u hit a button or something???

[cchan006]

I saw the engineer walk in the cab first, then the alarms went off (beeps you hear in the video). After that, he opened a panel on the long hood and I saw him pull a lever, which I think is called a layshaft, which you see in this video.

[jtw2278]

its a two way switch in the back...first you prime the fuel system up turning it left then you crank the engine turning it to the right...u gotta push in the layshaft about halfway to help it

[jtw2278]

woke the old man up!..lol

[teddybeareleventeen]

A beautiful sound! i've go a couple of Proto 2000 GP30's being painted in Rio Grande and think I may just ahve to put sound units in them!! ;) Good Stuff!

[Espeelover]

nice. to bad UP does keep there old vintage stuff. ;(

[L324RT12]

Come on, give it some lay shaft!!

[luvtrns4evr]

Music to my ears. Just luv em' GP 30 still working amazing

[UH1DHuey]

Hey is that how you start these locomotives, at the actual engine? Youmean there is no key and ignition in the cab like in a car? All these years and i never knew.. Every locomotive I have ever been on has always been already idle and running for 3 days before I even got to it =)

[michigandon]

Warms the cockles of my heart to see a "30" still on the job!

[omegaroad]

yes i have to agree where i live in toledo oregon near a paper mill there is a GP30 still pulling rail cars them GP30s are one tough engine

[mrfifer]

Thanks For Sharing!

I just love those GP30's . Now we need a video of a Pre 1972 paint ATSF!

Mike

[Brandon26pdx]

Sounds awesome when a modern diesel locomotive powers up, turbos spooling, etc.

[SkyhawkACE123]

great vid.

[BNSF5608]

And she coems alive with a cough and a hack then already starts whining. Turbo whine that is :D

[B422TMack]

swet sounding

[BoxcarFrank]

Awesome!

[massltca]

Nice, good catch!

[flamerail]

SWEET!