3 Conrail SD60I's + 4 SD40-2's in Full Throttle and Sanders

June 10, 2008: Full throttle, sanders, Leslie RS-3L... wow! NS 536, the "king of the hill" takes about 130 PPLX cars up the 1.15% grade at Carney's Road crossing, PT 253.2 on the NS Pittsburgh Line, near Lilly, PA.
NS SD60I 6725
NS SD60I 6722
NS SD60I 6719
All wearing Conrail Quality paint bring up the front while a four-banger of helpers:
NS SD40-2 3373
NS SD40-2 3338 "CRQ"
NS SD40-2 3346
NS SD40-2 3340
Bring up the rear. The sound could be heard from miles, the thumping of the engines goes right through you, the RS-3L is not bad, although it is over blowing just a little bit giving it a harsher tone.
The last scene is at the tunnel hill over look, as 536 starts to head down hill, the four-banger still sounds great, even in dynamics.

This train will eventually head of the Nittany and Bald Eagle line at Tyrone, PA and is for the Pennsylvania, Power and Light plant at Strawberry Ridge.

pahogger, I know you'll like this one!

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[EsPeSD40T]

Those Conrail Engines LOOK LIKE SHIT!!! with their Red Class lights removed.. Im so pissed off at NS and CSX for removing these lights from their units!! They defaced them and made the locos look like shit!! the class lights were the EYES of the units.. Now they all run blind! Arrrg!

[o00o00ozy]

I agree but CSX left most of the class lights intact.

[inrun84me]

Like the great sound of 567c thundering away into history, the rumble and whine of 16 cylinder 645e3a diesels will slide into history soon. Enjoy there music ,i sure do

[SPIRITAIR1]

Awesome vid dude 5 stars :)

[MegaHosscat]

does make a difference wether or ot the second and thrird engine units are backwards or forwards, i noticed some are in reverse and some forwards and some are both, whats the reasoning behind that is there one/

[GeARHeadranger88]

Why do the leading units flash the ditch lights like that? I've seen it alot but never figured the reasoning behind it, can some one answer?

[RRYankfan]

Love it!!

[kekedog]

oh my god 7 locomotives coupled together,what a wonderful freight train is....

[shadowknight227]

@inrun84me Most of the rairoads are having extened life programs. (Except BNSF. Most of the SD40-2s are gone from them.) CSX is rebuilding their SD40-2s and SD50s. NS is also doing it too. UP has had a turn around, and is rebuilding, INSTEAD of retiring the majority of SD40-2s. If anything, we must remeber UP's standard cab C40-8s. THEY are on the cutting block now

[Inline6boost]

Nice catch. Does anyone know why the last CRQ was rolling in and out of coal?

[GordonFreemanD40]

hope the 710 is here to stay... could be made into 24V710, which can power a SD90MAC

[NSHorseheadSD70]

@pele6922 That's the Helper Link. It allows the helpers to cut away on the fly. It's rarely used though. All the new SD40Es have them too.