Here's something you won't see often. A rare catch as a “consist” of 30 locomotives put on quite a display! A real treat, especially for BNSF fans. Check it out.
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Great video, surprised BNSF is selling them to CN. They have been short on power for some time now. Thanks for posting. Nick
Hey Gary, these BNSF C40-8W, 800-866, came off lease and were actually going back to the lease company who in turn sold most of them to CN. This video is not a new one. Plenty of life left in theses Dash 8s.
Used GE....They'll be sorry !
Curious if lead engine has to pump off all the engine brakes or are some unit brakes cut out.
Would the last unit have EOT or would it be run like a pusher engine with headlight on and could be monitored by the lead engine? In the last third of video it almost sounded like the pusher was running (engine noise), but maybe was reflected sounds.
That was neat to see.
-Greg
-Greg
I noticed that many of the War Bonnet painted engines has an orange box behind the cab. I assume this was a replacement unit or the likes. Can anyone clarify? They all seemed to have it. It was not a number board, more like a compartment door.
When engines are m-ued, whether they are shut down or running, the rear headlight's electricity comes from the controlling unit. There is a limit to the number of locomotives it can pass through and still be relied on to illuminate the headlight.
This consist is long enough that it would be prudent to have the rear unit at least idling and its own rear-facing headlight switch turned to DIM, if that is going to be the marker. The preferred method of addressing this type of movement is to set up the rear trailing locomotive as a Distributed Power remote unit. An end-of-train device could be used, but why take one away from where it is really useful, when you have a built-in marker viz the headlight.
