5 STRANGE North American Locomotives (Part 2)
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Published 2023-12-07
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0:00 - Intro
0:12 - GE BQ23-7
2:26 - EMD SD89MAC
4:36 - M-K MK5000C
7:28 - GE C39-8CF
9:31 - EMD DDA40X
11:51 - Outro
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All Comments (21)
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Few things you missed about the BQ23s, when CSX acquired them, all of them are turned into booster units. Their control stands are removed and the windows are sealed shut with metal plates. Also their bogies are uniquely using blomberg that you usually find on EMD GP engines.
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These units are indeed unique in their own ways. The MK5000C is no exception because I thought I'd be interesting for me to see how many freight cars a single one of these locomotives could pull unassisted. Man, the 90s were a decade of superpower war for railroads
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Similar to the DDA40X, was DD35A and DD35B units for SP and UP.
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The Family Lines/SCL BQ23-7s rode on traded in Blomberg trucks, like the regular B23-7s. I loved seeing them when when they were brand new in the late 1970s in the Miami area.
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I hope the unique locomotives still around, get put into preservation
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I used to see plenty of those BQ23's as a kid with a SCL family lines classification yard in my town. The real treat was when a Chessie system or other foreign power would pass thru. Like SOO, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, WM, PRR etc. I took a trip up north to visit my sister and stopped in at the Illinois Railway Museum outside Chicago & they've got DDX40a in one of the barns, I hope they restore in my lifetime. Simply amazing being beside something so large.
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Morrison Knudson (Morrison Ka-nude-son). The MK5000C were the better options of the 5000 HP units but MK Rail went bankrupt. Only 7 were ever built
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1:56 Interesting way of looking at that!
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I found this quite an informative video! Now, I know what the C39-8CF thing was, and what happened to the SD89MAC. Thanks for the video!
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DDA40X was called Centennials to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike in 1869 not UP 100th anniversary.
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Been trying to find the name of the MK5000C's for a while, thanks for this. One of my favorite locomotives
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I love that kind of information and thank you for doing your homework especially that Dash eight using Coal Dust Wow 🎩🎩 off to you!
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I can suggest one locomotive for a future video; the Morrison-Knudsen TE70-4S. These were a quartet of rebuild GE U25B locomotives on the Southern Pacific.
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I'm going to have to do some more research into that coal slurry engine that's a pretty neat idea
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As always Steve, informative and good visual as to what's going to happen. Ted
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1:02That's the joy of unions!
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Great video, interesting info!
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Cool video and channel just subscribed
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Fun vid and some of my faves from my earliest Bachmann buys as a kid of the BQ23-7 and DDA40X nice work here. Just wished on the SD90MAC segment you covered the fact the UP ones shown were 4300hp that had options to be upgraded tot he H-Engine when it was perfected.
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the first train looks pretty weird, if I saw that I would be like, Huhhh?
