Wasn't he with Alco ?

Then answer me this please, why the hell is a north american locomotive designed so diffent to the Europeans, ours are square, american are not

@@NortOfficialFr I won’t lie some of your fright locos look pretty cool, but others just look strange - as they’re pretty much just a giant a box 😭 I love my American locomotives 🤩

I still scratch my head as to how they have 3 1/2 mile long trains! It’s amazing how much these locomotives can pull n the amount of power they create!

@@mikelowery5741 They almost move half of America in one go eh mike !

​@@mikelowery5741 it's because American locomotives are built more heavier and taller than most locomotives ik tbeh world, for example.. Compare a amrican ES44AC that's 16,1 And a British class 59 thats 12ft tall, The American one is (obviously) taller than the British, because America is such a big continent, The locomotives done here has to be more larger and heavyer to cover far distances, which allowes them to pull tons, This was a thing with steam locomotives too, that's why the big boy(the world largest steam locomotive) is what it is now, If you we re to try to put a American locomotive on the British loading gauge, it won't fit and it would cause the rails to sink in.

I work at the london plant, today I was offloading I beams from gondola cars in the western highbay ( the bay in the video) my dad worked here for 26 years.

😂😂😂

Funny because these things take like months to make

@@TyDeSimone funny you don’t get the joke

LMAOO ..and amazing how they achieve the full build and not losing any focus with that woman talking there. 😂

Stupid comment.

@@samsngdevice5103 Bro you replied to a 7 year old comment stfu with your "stupid comment" b.s. lmfao

Sarcasm detected!

@@amtrakisveryepic get over yourself

People who work in media believe in their own self-delusional measure of superior intelligence, when more often than not they prove the opposite.

They didnt make a train. They made a LOCOMOTIVE

robert retka Get off the stage.

I had a major WTF moment at the end.

When you weld something wrong but you had a have a video

I'm guessing this was uploaded to KZfaq around 1968 or so.

Joseph Astier I’m taking one for the team KZfaq was made in 2005

avg yes. The people who go mad with hp bring up the average. Typical? Naw. Most guys got compact cars or compact suvs with 110-150 and 130-200hp respectively today. Back when this was filmed, even less, 10 to 20 less.

I dbout it

Yes

Well, you have problems with coupler strength. Too much power and you will overwhelm the couplers breaking them.

Fuzzy mountains

Yep that America for you

LOL

Actually that's an sd70m-2

no we them here in the us cuz there are us locomotives

Yeah and also they show complete different locomotives at the end of the program then they were building. Stock footage woo....

Not everyone's a foamer.

whats a good loco doco for me to watch? im going through a phase at the moment i want the good stuff

"How it works" is aimed at primary school education and the intelligent level of unemployed sofa surfers of similar iq, Works well for what its intended.

@@howlingwolven how does that matter

And FP7, FP9 GP40P F40PH'S.

also EMD SD40, EMD SD40-2, EMD SD70, EMD SD75, GE AC4400, GE AC6000, etc

0.1 mm (0.04") is meaningless to a railway track gage.

Indian Railways track width is 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge!

@@algrayson8965 Meaningsless as it is, that's still how they do it.

what other kinds of trains are there?...

an explanarion to your corrections would make your arguement valid. until then, video was accurate and concise.

I can picture them using a DCC controller

We suffer in Britain from early railway pioneers (rightly) not understanding the full potential of railways. By the time that was understood, we had a network of narrow structures. It's often said we run narrow gauge trains on standard gauge tracks!

Still my friends and I envy the development of rail structure in Britain for convenient commuter travel.

@@RCassinello- Isambard Kingdom Brunel understood the advantages of his Great Western broad gage of 7'-0-1/4"!

Yep, these American locomotives then and now are standing at 16ft, theres a possibility we can even make them 17ft tall in future time. Who knows. It depends of the government would allow it, I would love to see these Giants grow.

You have to forgive them Bill, they have no concept of that kind of weight in a European train. And they have no clue as to how long our trains are. @ locos on a train? Try 4 on the front, one or two in the middle, and another one or two on the rear. All controlled by the engineer in the cab of the lead loco.

@@gravelydon7072 the DDA40X could haul a train single handedly!

@@Ben31337l DDA40Xs often ran with a smaller unit or two. Two smaller units of today out perform one DDA40X. And they don't act as track straighteners.

@@gravelydon7072 Well, that's because the DDA40X was built using 2 SD40s. Also, the fact that you claim they were 'track straighteners' si interesting since the wheelbase between the first and last wheels should be smaller than the wheelbase cound on a regular steam locomotive. Unless the DDA40X weren't equipped with flangeless wheelsets.

@@Ben31337l All wheels on the DD35s and the DDA40Xs were flanged.

TrainStation! Ya

It really depends. Every engine has its limits. The engine's horsepower and load output is determined by the governor/fuel rack settings. The new Tier IV ACes are rated at 4500hp, but only 43-4400 is dedicated to traction horsepower. Hence why GE used the same 7FDL16 design from the U-boats up to the AC4400s and Dash 9s

Remember what Scotty said in that _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ episode _Relics_; "An engineer is wee bit conservative on paper", so it may be little more powerful.

U.P. railfan IC Junk!!!!!!!!!

Come on man, do you even know what IC stands for?

No, I have no idea. I've only worked for CN (WC) in Stevens Point, WI for nine years as a locomotive engineer. Tell me, what does it mean! Illinois Crap? Inflamed Colon?

Come on man why do you have to be rude like that? Illinois central is a "still in operation" railroad but CN gained control of them in 1998 but it's CN owned IC operated, it's kinda complicated but they don't have a lot of locomotives left so it's cool to some one everyone in a while! I'm surprised you didn't even know what it was! After all you do work for CN!

Of course I know what IC means. I had the POS IC 1007 in my consist yesterday, along with the POS CN 2446 in the lead. I worked for the IC thug, E. Harrison Hunter. I know what IC means. Jeez, dude.

However locomotives at heights, America and Russia has far larger locomotives Designs. Both having 16ft and 17ft.

Shan H Fernandes The US has plenty of oil from the middle east , as they say, y not flaunt it when u got it !!!! but in under a decade or so when the dollar gets de-linked from the oil trade , they will switch over to electrics completely ...like the rest of us

Harsha Jade I'm excited for Electric Trains, adds an extra track on the rails and stops people from walking on them! If they touch them, they are dead.. Electric Locomotives are quiter and faster anyways, which will be good for the economy and the ecosystem.

+xXGoldDoesMCXx Seems all electric trains you've seen are subways. There are other ways of conducting electricity to the train, too.

+Corey Williams Dude Indian tracks are 18% more wider than American ones. Don't listen to that lady

Goddamn! You Indians have crazy locomotives!

Maybe to some countries. The United States, much like Australia, the United Kingdom, most of mainland Europe & Canada just to name a few use International Standard Gauge which is 4ft 81/2 Inches, between rails. American railways are built to withstand larger locomotives and heavier trains, necessesary for the massive continent, much like here in Australia, however in Australia, our trains are larger than the UK but smaller than the US, this is to do with the loading gauge. You won't find double decker passenger trains in the UK as compared to Australia and the US because of the smaller loading gauge. All that in mind, not all countries use the Standard gauge, most if not all of Africas rail network is narrow gauge (3ft 6in), while places such as Russia use Broad Gauge which is either considered 5ft which is what Russia uses, and 5ft 3in, to me they are both broad gauge. Here in Australia, we used all 3, we have at least a standard gauge link to all states now, compared to say the 60s.

+Parkes RailwayTV Thanks for the reply and info, that's all really interesting, I hadn't thought about Oz, of course you guys have a bit of everything down there. Saw a good film about "The Ghan" a few years back, looked like some complicated mixed gauge track work for sure. We have 5'3'' here in Ireland but I believe you have a bit of that too. I knew about the loading gauge being about that actual size of the rolling stock but didn't think about the weight of it, seems obvious now you point it out. Thanks again for the reply and introduction to the way things are done "down under" Mick.

+mickfromleitrim No Worries, we have mostly standard gauge now, but within some states other gauges are used. Tasmania, Western Australia, Queensland and a part of South Australia use 3ft 6in, Victoria and a part of South Australia use 5ft 3in and the rest is Standard Gauge. We have of course the now standard gauge links, including Sydney - Adelaide - Perth (Indian Pacific), Adelaide to Darwin (The Ghan, Melbourne to Adelaide (The Overland) & Brisbane - Sydney - Melbourne. Each state of course has its own regional connections, in NSW where I live, the XPT provides connections from Sydney to Melbourne, Dubbo (Central West farm country), Brisbane while the Xplorer is more regional, with the longest Xplorer service and longest state only trip from Sydney - Parkes - Broken Hill, the NSW border town to South Australia. If these do interest you further I have filmed and uploaded a few of these trains to my channel, feel free to have a look.

In Britain, we also had many smaller lines of narrow gauge (usually around 2' gauge), and for a while in the 1800s we also had a region almost solely using 7' 1/4" broad gauge

I knew that was not American accent. So American locomotives manufactured in Canada. Which also happens to be in America.