The C175 makes sense to put in a locomotive. That’s a monster 85 liter V16 engine. But why a C18? It’s a small 18 liter inline 6 engine that was primarily used in semi trucks.

@@UltraMagaFan I’m guessing the C18 provided power for idling, moving around light, and an extra kick if needed at higher speeds.

Thanks for the history

I knew something was different. It had an old style AAR cab but also had SD70 flared radiators. The recent paint job was also a tell that this was not your typical SD40-2 being scrapped.

That loco don’t look to beat down or old. Wonder why demo instead of doing updates and keeping it in operation

The accuracy of this comment won’t get recognized by those who don’t know how accurate this actually is. Gotta keep an std test with ya every time you use one

Contact any rail scrapper and bring money.

@@Comm0ut I will .. IN all honesty.. cuz I don't have a clue... what is a realistic monies ? I understand $$$ is required and desired.. and would spend.. just want to have a ball park

This was owned by progress rail.

The engineers that ran these locomotives are glad to see them go to scrap

The SD-50 was the beginning of the end of EMD. I am honestly not all that upset seeing an SD-50 get chopped up. Prior to this EMD was the clear leader in this country as a locomotive producer, but they lost a lot of business because of it and all the problems it had. This to EMD was their version of the 737 max to Boeing.

@@MattyC62185I’m curious why

​@@MattyC62185 These PR43C rebuilds were actually far more unreliable and useless units than the GP50's & SD50's. Most GP50's & SD50's received swapped power assemblies from 645E3's which solved the problems for the most part of the 645F3's. The problem with two stroke diesel engines is that displacement needs to be increased depending on the horsepower,opposed to four stroke which can produce more and at lower RPM,and this is where and what EMD failed. EMD's downfall was EPA regulations and the fact that GE was always ahead of them in terms of being technologically advanced with better traction motors,tractive effort,and dynamic braking including microprocessors and wheel slippage prevention for their units. The biggest mistake EMD created was the SD90MAC H1's & H2's. Even the SD9043MAC's were problematic involving cracked frames. CAT/PRLX resurrected the same errors with the SD70AH-T4's which made all other EMD units highly preferred instead.

2ft by 4ft pieces

It was rebuilt into a PR43C genset around 2010.

It was previously a SD50. Like JR said Progress rebuilt it into a PR43C. They took out the old EMD 645 Prime Mover/Engine and replaced it with 1 Caterpillar C175 and 1 Caterpillar C18 engines. So it did have 2 diesel engines.

They are! Especially one that size!

Peanuts compared to the steel he just recycled.

You need meds

@@alanbiancardi2531 LOl

don't worry, these things were horribly unreliable, lost the railroads tons of money and were an overall failure.. scrapping this model of locomotive is the best you can do with it.

Nothing to cry about...It was a unreliable SD50 for most of it's time and then was a short lived EPA rebuild as a PR43C which was even more junk in my opinion.

nothing to cry about, these things sucked.

@@harrimanfox8961 They did ik but still

The PR43C's made the SD50's look like a rookie mistake with all the mechanical malfunctions the units presented. There's a reason why only about a dozen were even completed and the program was scrapped...The units were junk. At least with the SD50's,most times swapping power assemblies or changing governor settings solved the reliability issues. Just like with derating the horsepower on the SD45's,SD45-2's,SD45T-2's,or SD45M's in order to avoid crankshaft failures and stress.

@@Slim_Slid I mean yeah-

It's diesel fuel. You can cut or weld on it, not the same as gasoline.

Number 2 fuel, when properly atomized will burn quite easily and that’s what I meant by decommissioning. The vapors could flash. The temperature of a cutting torch is well above the flash point of diesel fuel.

@JTTTTx I've been working on diesel trucks for a long time, I've cut and welded on tanks when they still had fuel in them, just use proper safety precautions and there won't be any problems. You aren't gonna atomize fuel that's sitting in a tank without pressure through a small orifice like an oil burner on a furnace. Get a gallon of diesel fuel and throw sparks in it till it lights, I'm willing to bet you will be there forever, even if you were to get the residual fuel to catch its not going to case any issues.

@JTTTTx I disagree, I've cut and welded on fuel tanks that had fuel in them and never had a fire. In fact, it's better to fill them up completely.

I agree with you about the atomization, I am in the heating industry. I only mention it because it can on rare occasions cause a problem. In my state, those tanks couldn’t be transferred or transported without being properly cleaned and certified by an agency. DEP rules etc. We did have a case where a couple of guys were removing a pipe bushing with heat and it did “ cause a problem “.

Large North American railroad locomotives like this weigh about 200 tons.

Just Union Pacific alone has over 8,000 locomotives and there is 100's of them sitting in scrap yards throughout the US plus 1000's more from the other 3 class 1 railroads and defunct railroads.

Why’s that

I've seen photos recently of hundreds of train cabs sat in slowly growing greenery so seemingly the demand isn't as high as folks think.

The GP40-2's & SD40-2's have proved for many years how reliable and versatile the units are. Those units won't be retired anytime soon. The GP50's & SD50's were junk. By far not the worst EMD units built,but still were the result of cutting costs and failed promises. Most issues were fixed by changing governor settings or power assemblies but there was still other contributors correlating to the electronics. The PRLX PR43C's were actually far worse and continously had immense mechanical malfunctions. Basically anything EMD with a Caterpillar prime motor has proven to fail every time,and alongside that is the SD70AH-T4's...