Union Pacific Turbines of the Wasatch

Union Pacific Turbines of the Wasatch

UP 8500s, the world's most powerful gas turbines, were all but gone by 1969, but their memory lives on in railroading lore and in this wonderful video. You'll see the very thunder of these massive steel Goliaths as they pull heavy tonnage out of the Salt Lake Basin. There's never-ending action in this exhilarating documentary of turbine power on the Union Pacific Railroad!

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• pentrex
• union
• pacific
• turbines
• wasatch
• mountains
• railroad
• trains

[ThePowerbloke]

Just a shame the narrator and music could have been silent...for a while so we could hear them!! :-)

[danielday36]

hardly practical today due to the fact that these machines were made during cheap oil.

[johnbo48]

@Makemyday0126 Proud? What of? - well I guess you invented the potato??

[gringo4x4do]

Both Turbine Videos that I bought have poor Turbine sound to them. Most likely due to the technology and cost at the time available from trackside users. Good Video with outstanding noise recording capabilites was just too expensive unless you were filthy rich back in the late 50's and 60's when these beasts ruled the rails in Wyoming

[iRailfan]

It just an add. Go to Pentrex or eBay and get the video. You can certainly here them in it.

[Makemyday0126]

@johnbo48 Limey me arse..irish and proud Boy!!!.... and seemingly your easiest attack on me is questioning my sexuality .. xxxxx with a sloppy tongue for added ooomph ...

[johnbo48]

@Makemyday0126 Shut it you gay limey prick.

[BXM4C]

@izkeh1 I agree. Even I was saying SHUT UP so I can hear the locomotives!

[michaelXXLF]

Check out the oil tender at 0:40 and 0:52! These engines ran on grade C bunker fuel which had to be heated and they apparently used massive loads of it.

Btw, the American pronunciation of 'turbine' and 'turban' is identical according to the Merriam-Webster. Check it out for yourselves if you don't believ it.

[izkeh1]

Just SHUT UP already. I will NEVER visit Pentrex on the web, EVER!!

[turbo1431]

that is the cheeseist narration of a commercial that i have ever seen

[megatwingo]

Cool locos in a nice landscape. Thumbs up! :)