16 Locomotives Lead M-BRCGAL

Or as NicTrain35 would say: SUPER ULTRA RARE OMG 16 LOCOMOTIVES LEAD ULTRA RARE BRCGAL TRAIN WITH EVERY RAILROAD EVER!!!!!!! LONG HOOD FORWARD BLUEBONNET SD40-2!!!!!! PLEASE COMMENT!!!!!!!

Ahem....So this is from March of 2006, but it's worth posting. I was at Fairview Avenue on the Racetrack when a 10-engine light power move went by me eastbound. I heard something on the scanner about the westbound M-BRCGAL losing power to one of its two on-line locomotives at Clarendon Hills. The crew didn't think they could make it up the hill at Westmont so they enlisted the help of this 10-engine power move to bring them to Eola Yard. Of course the rear engine of the light power was an SD40-2 facing forwards, so when they got the two trains hooked together, a long-hood-forward Bluebonnet was leading 15 other locomotives, with only the first 3 providing power.
Dang, how boring railfanning has become in the past three years - I'd kill to see that many SD40-2s in a week nowadays!

Light Power Consist (in reverse from its original direction):
BNSF 6360 SD40-2
BNSF 5923 ES44AC
BNSF 847 C40-8W
BNSF 7918 SD40-2
BNSF 5379 C44-9W
BNSF 710 C44-9W
BNSF 6793 SD40-2
NS 9531 C40-9W
BNSF 7757 ES44DC
BNSF 5924 ES44AC
Original BRCGAL Consist:
BNSF 6743 SD40-2
CSXT 8463 SD40-2
CEFX 3171 SD40-2
NREX 5670 SD40-2
NREX 5774 SD40-2
NS 7148 GP60

Whew!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• BNSF
• M-BRCGAL
• Light
• Power
• Move
• 16
• Locomotives

[skinnyshit8888]

Love the impression of Nictrain35

[MP36er]

@skinnyshit8888 I try. I still cringe when I watch this video. If this happened today, it would be nothing but GEVOs and Dash 9s.

[bechho]

good video. do you remember which kind of industry the train was passing?

[MP36er]

That's the Pepperidge Farm bread factory. It's served by a local switch job almost every week day.

[jqwonders]

@thetrainguynk20 either that or the extra locomotives were needed somewhere else.

[thetrainguynk20]

Yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sick lash up but if the Santa Fe had been facings the other way then it would been a show but very rare for a 16 engine freight that train must a been very long i estimate at least 185 cars for that kind of lash up

[trainlover1999]

AWESOME CATCH. million stars. They can have CEFX, NREX, CSX, NS, BNSF, Sante Fe, but not a Union Pacific and how come the first three engines were providing the power.

[admydragon]

Sonuvabitch!

[UPRR11]

16 engines and the CZ!!! Great catch!!

[RailfanningRulez]

missing a more important railroad than BNSF......... UNION PACIFIC!!!

[bnsfwarbonnet]

amtrash

[Jamersonde]

Talk about determination. lol

[12engines]

Awesome!!!!! 5 Stars & a favorite. If U do not like this , then U must not be a real Railfan!!!!!

[MattBNSF1991]

I just wanna frolic in a yard full of Gevos and SD40s!