NCTM GP30 #2601 with a bad turbocharger.

GP30 #2601 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The locomotive turbocharger had alot of cabon deposits on it's blades, which is the reason it is not running correctly.

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• bad
• turbocharger
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• Carolina
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• train
• locomotive

[ljones121]

i'm gonna say they got the problem fixed, i just rode that loco this morning and it sounded fine to me

[ncrailfan]

@ljones121 yea they fixed it the week i filmed this.

[jewboy1576]

Ok. Great video man EMD's all the way.

[ncrailfan]

Yea man especially EMD's geeps (gp).

[jewboy1576]

lol that turbo was done for GREAT VIDEO

[ncrailfan]

It wasn't sone for, they just cleaned it out and put it back in.

[locohog]

what the problem is, is the loco is mainly ideling most the time, cause of the slower speed, and the turbo cant blow all the soot out, the sucker needs to be opened open everyweek, where i work we have 3 Alco S4s, and we get the same problem, so every week we pic a day and open themn up, meaning run them faster. they run better when they have work to do, instead of ideling all the time

[funnyfunnys]

i wasn't even there and I could tell son=mething wasn't right about that engine, definitely a bad turbo.

[ricofojas2011]

howd you clkimb on board?.

[schrap72]

I love it even with the bad turbocharger

[guitaristjon94]

EMD needs to start making these locomotive styles again becuase i like them, and i hate to say it but the only Gp 30s left in service are ones for railway museums, in the 1980s through the late 1990s railroad companies have been gtting rid of these and they didnt make as many as they did when the gp 9 was on assembly line and now they have been scraped and the rest sit out to be whethered or rust away. I think they should be re-manufactored and be seen on railroad again.

[southern4501isawesom]

great p5

[BNSF1985]

great video

[bnsf4]

This is the best P5 I have ever heard!!!!!!

[SOUSD40]

Its sort of sad to see that great restored Geep stuck on a little loop museum track. Why don't they get a SW or MP for that sort of back and forth slow loop`de`loop and see about opening up that GP-30 on some better mileage from time to time the rest of the time keep it shut down rather than waste its engine. You know those parts aren't going to be any easier to find next year or cheaper by doing those piddly-diddle tedious back and forths with that classic SOU HH GP-30!

[metroliner89]

LOVE THE HORN!!@!!!!