ABESELOUTE MUST SEE!!! 2 AND A HALF TRAINS AT BELMONT!!!!!!!

First we see the Railbandit taking off. It had a few cars loaded w/ railroad ties. IT also had a BN (CS) caboose at the end. In the middle the brick gal passes through with a D-9 on the point, a CSX C40-8 second and a Soo SD60 third out. As soon as that passes a Metra inboudn passes by. I chase the railbandit through the Belmont station.

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[SplitSecondTowing]

Sure looks like your standard semi chassis....like maybe a kenworth...stretched out like a big straight job....ten speed trans with a split axle to get way down loooooow........very cool......i've just never seen anything like that on the triple tracks.....or anywhere for that matter. We're pretty lucky to be in the chicago area, we gets some killer railfanning!!

[Andrewsaxamophone]

uh, yea!

[mercenary454]

what IS a railbandit...i mean...thats one serious truck to be able to pull that kind of load.....thats gotta be brutal on ANY chassis.

[Andrewsaxamophone]

Its basically a truck used for MofW. Not sure of the horse power though, and that is all I know about the truck.

[rainman29]

Ya these trucks ate built by Brandt industries in my home city of Regina, Saskatchewan Canada right down the road from the steel plant I work at, they sell alot if them and they are impressive to watch to say the least and actually they just finished building their first genset switcher last year

[ackmino]

@bnsfjay yep you got me, i know nothing about trucks. I do know my locos and a locomotive has a much heavier hydraulic transmission to handle pulling all those cars.

[bnsfjay]

@ackmino That explains how much you know about those trucks, zero and your only guessing.

[ackmino]

@bnsfjay whatever you say rail-dork. lmao

[ackmino]

@bnsfjay whatever you say rail dork.

[bnsfjay]

@ackmino

No it won't, it has much heavier duty components than those that you will find on the regular highway trucks.

[bnsfjay]

@muffen6365

The one I operate has a 12 speed fully automatic Twin Disc transmission and it is hydraulic shiting and it does have a seperate torque converter.

[bnsfjay]

@smartassstevie

It has a separate auxiliary air compressor exclusively for the train brakes and the large air bags on the Hirails and the locomotive horn.

[bnsfjay]

@Andrewsaxamophone

It varies, the one I operate has a Cat C15 at 475Hp and the tractive effort goes up to 60,000lbs.

[bnsfjay]

@mercenary454

It's a Roadrailer produced by the Brandt company in Sasketchewan, Canada.

They mostly build those Roadrailers on either Westernstars or Peterbilt chasis.