Inside Galesburg's Incredible Locomotive Shops!

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3 ай бұрын

Today, we'll be taking a brief tour of one of the most vital buildings in Western Illinois. Get ready to see things they won't show you during Railroad Days, along with some incredible motive power, and hilarious stories.
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@bendermender926 3 ай бұрын

daily machinist activities include: pooping (in the coolant tank), drinking (the coolant), and hurling random stuff all over the shop

@carstrainsandcrossings8639 3 ай бұрын

LOL 💀

@West_Kootenay_railfan 3 ай бұрын

Lol 😂😂

@inconsistencyiskey6862 3 ай бұрын

Does the random stuff include the poop that was in the coolant tank?

@YourLocalHistorian 3 ай бұрын

That must be some uncouth gibrony

@nimblehealer199 3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@DFWRailVideos 3 ай бұрын

I find it funny how BNSF requested you blur out the logos. Not like there's gonna be thousands of railfans watching this video who know the BNSF paint scheme well!

@GreenRC24 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, ridiculous.

@bwnotredame06 2 ай бұрын

That's why I came to the comments. Like non-rail fans could tell you which company that is. LoL

@BNSFrailfan01 3 ай бұрын

Now we know why NS derails so often: they employed pink teddy bears as engineers.

@archiebunker7688 3 ай бұрын

No teddy bear story here but I recall a pair of purple panties that floated around a locomotive shop floor. There was only one female in the locomotive shop and she always toted a gym bag so they must have fallen out at some point or some hanky panty was going on it was never exactly common knowledge but eventually the purple panties showed up on an inflatable doll!!! This is true, all true. Well a newlywed 3rd shift guy was having troubles with his new democrat feminazi wife and took the doll home one day panties and all and when his wife was out late drinking before he left for work that night he slipped the doll in their bed and tucked her in like any new husband would do, knowing his drunken democrat wife would be coming home and discover. That morning the new wife/ex-wife became a white tornado, The End.😮 Another day in the locomotive shop one of the sportsman, an inspector, had a way with collecting pigeons in an overhead no longer used enclosed catwalk that connected buildings- he would find them roosting and with a sneaky well placed finger to the birds breast, he put them to sleep and took home for his hunting retrievers to train on. Anyway there was an older guy in the shop kind of a good natured jokester and during a lunchbreak the sportsman inspector had stuffed the older guys locker full of pigeons and the whole shop knew this and secretly watch as the situation moved along. Lunchtime was over and when the old guy opened his locker door those pigeons flew out like a sign from above and the old guy knew he'd been had- again! The time before that was a dead goose the sportsman brought in and laid on the old guys Sterrett polished granite inspection table. That time the old guy totally ignored the goose as he went about inspecting a brass contact switchgear he just machined but I did see his eyes glance up and he scanned the shop for the perpetrators and cracked a grin of approval. He sadly has since passed on.

@rushylvania.northern 3 ай бұрын

That's the only issue with inclusivity

@railfandepotproductions Ай бұрын

@@rushylvania.northern Its PSR

@Shaken_AND_Stirred 3 ай бұрын

Why are all of the “BNSF” logos blurred out? It’s pretty obvious what they are. Around 1995, a coworker and myself got to take a tour of the Souther Pacific Diesel Locomotive Servicing Facility on the Northside edge of downtown Houston. It was a huge place and a really cool experience. Sometimes during lunch, I would ride my motorcycle over there and just watch all of the locomotive traffic. Unfortunately, after UP bought SP, it was closed down some years later, leveled and new condominiums erected there in its place. Sometimes, “progress”, isn’t always progress in my opinion.

@tueypjr4823 3 ай бұрын

Maybe so the fra doesn't slam BNSF for letting unauthorized personal within its facility?

@DanMeyer80 3 ай бұрын

@@tueypjr4823pretty sure FRA could figure it out.

@Maximilian7992 3 ай бұрын

@@tueypjr4823That doesn’t really help considering each railroad has a different color for their locomotives and if you know them by color… that’s kinda pointless

@ralfie8801 3 ай бұрын

If I heard him right, BNSF logos weren’t scratched out, it was the old original ATSF logo on the computer screen cases. Not even on the exterior of the locomotives.

@turnerdeedo4633 3 ай бұрын

@@Maximilian7992 Well I think it's another one of those cases where because of how the United State's legal system works, BNSF can get away with it here. Any crime has to be proven without reasonable doubt, and technically there is reasonable doubt that this was a BNSF shop, because you can't see any logos. Any defense lawyer could say that was another railroad's shop, like CPKC or WFRX, two railroads who have many patched BNSF units, and there really wouldn't be a way to prove the guy wrong.

@BNSFTrains10 3 ай бұрын

8:41 NOTE: That this clip will have some Strong Language and I liked how the workers were talking about the Butter and the Teddy Bear. Another Note: That BNSF Requested to blur the BNSF Logos including the Patch on the Fallen Flag Engines when you are filming in the Railyard.

@Mauscmkwk 3 ай бұрын

4:31 man it would amazing with a fresh coat of paint

@bwnotredame06 2 ай бұрын

I wish they'd repaint all the War and Blue Bonnets and keep the OG SF logos. Just have smaller bnsf somewhere

@Ya_shooter_B 18 күн бұрын

Hey man love your videos since I’m in NS territory it’s nice to see the power out west where you are and plus I think I could sit down all day and just watch your videos love the stuff you do man keep it up❤️🚂🤟

@sanddabz5635 2 ай бұрын

I'm going to start a GoFundMe for that War Bonnet and send it to the paint shop. ASAP!

@VenityGT 3 ай бұрын

As someone who was born and still lives in Galesburg, I never knew what the yard looked like from inside! Thank you for this interesting video!

3 ай бұрын

VERY COOL that you got that kind of access. Thanks for posting this. =)

@averagepokemonfan5510 3 ай бұрын

I live in Fulton County in Illinois and I'm pretty much near Galesburg, just a bit of a drive away

@buccaneerrailfanning1776 3 ай бұрын

Now this is epic

@CSXincyRailfan 3 ай бұрын

Wow! Great Video! I've gotten an interest in the SD70MACs recently, I really hope they get into preservation someday! I want to maybe try and do one, if I can...

@IowaRailfan 3 ай бұрын

Nice Video! Been needing to get to Galesburg at some point!

@SP4449Railfan 3 ай бұрын

Amazing! Just so awesome to see the Galesburg shops! Especially cool to see the Santa Fe locomotives in there! 🤩❤️😎

@taylorbaggarleyunionpacifi3409 3 ай бұрын

That's cool buddy I love tour this yard someday I love how bnsf is getting busy all time now

@BNSFES44AC 3 ай бұрын

Oh cool I’ve been looking forward to seeing this video

@justanotherghost4589 3 ай бұрын

Okay now this is just awesome! Makes me wonder what all is hidden around the Juniata shops here in Altoona in some of the buildings and such, if only I could look around, a while back a Dash-9 or AC44 went by with a Conrail long hood door, so now I'm wondering if there's just a stockpile of old Conrail parts still around 😂 it's unfortunate that railroads have to be so secretive, but I guess it makes sense because of safety and liabilities. Anyways, I loved watching this, I'm glad you could get into there, seems very exciting, I'd love to know what some of those guys think of the older stuff that shows up.

@Southern_Plains_Railfan 3 ай бұрын

In terms of paint, they don’t care if it’s a fallen flag, an oddball, or faded H2; it’s a locomotive all the same. Generally they like working on older equipment because it’s simpler, more intuitive, and more reliable.

@salemcripple 2 ай бұрын

As an automotive mechanic, it's great to know that mechanics of all machines are all the same slightly childish, sarcastic smart asses. The butter reminded me of the time (someone who shall remain nameless) turned our cheetah cannon into an air powered, socket firing death mortar. And ended up blasting a 3/4 in socket through the shop wall at 100psi lol.

@SoCalOCRailfan 3 ай бұрын

Amazing video!! Wow, that’s so cool to tour around inside the shops and get an up close look at the locomotives

@TheWinnipegRailfan 3 ай бұрын

GALESBURG!!! WOOOOOO we out here

@dfwrider3830 3 ай бұрын

all the blurred out bnsf logos made me smirk. like who else would have a fleet of orange engines, and a santa fe engine? im guessing they required you to blur their logo for legal reasons?

@alcopower5710 3 ай бұрын

Excellent coverage….. thanks for sharing 👍

@Texasrailfan9021 3 ай бұрын

Why is the BNSF logos And Letters Censored?

@Southern_Plains_Railfan 3 ай бұрын

The railroad requested it.

@Texasrailfan9021 3 ай бұрын

That’s alright I know you hate it as much as we do but great video!

@RailwayDan 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant. Thank you.

@zenontrainstrucks9433 3 ай бұрын

Great video! Very interesting to see what goes on in there!

@AWVRisthebestrailroadever 3 ай бұрын

I know you might not take requests, but you should check out the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad's Gibson yard in Hammond. they have a locomotive similar to that NS rp14 called the rp15bdf rebuilt from SW1500s, the rp15bdf is only used by the IHB. no other railroad has them.

@tfs4499 3 ай бұрын

Great video, very informative!

@cxmx3295 3 ай бұрын

Very good and cool video and some very funny stories nice job.

@EntertainmentWorldz 3 ай бұрын

superb video Bro ❤😍😍

@jamesburnside3023 Ай бұрын

Fantastic video enjoyed it

@LostInTheIceOfLife 3 ай бұрын

Good to see the vid back!

@22NCRAILFAN23 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful video!!

@williamflowersrailfannerpr3808 3 ай бұрын

This is interesting ❤ thanks SPR

@AaronArroyo-sn4uy 3 ай бұрын

Great video. Love those classic warbonnets.

@Running-with-skizers 3 ай бұрын

This was do cool thankyou for the video

@stateoftexasrailfan 3 ай бұрын

Great video my dad works for BNSF and he told me that the BN guys would scratch the Atsf logo in the speedometer

@tkost1 3 ай бұрын

great video

@LostInTheIceOfLife 3 ай бұрын

This is awesome! Must be nice to finally be up close to a yellow and war bonnet!

@johnniewelbornjr.8940 3 ай бұрын

Cool vid and tour. Love seeing the Santa Fe paint these days (there's one that resides here in Williston in local service, in fact) after all these years. I have fond memories of filling in on a dedicated run at the first trucking company I worked for back in 93... Got to hook up to one of BN's trailer in West Burlington, haul traction motors and parts out to Lincoln, then go out to Alliance (along NE2, of course) and return. Still remember shooting photos of an old E unit in West Burlington on the condition of being careful lol. Times have changed a lot... Thanks for sharing this.

@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243 3 ай бұрын

Didn’t get a chance to watch this the first time around, but the nature of this video reminds me a lot of when my late grandfather, who was a 4th generation railroader with the Grand Trunk Western, pulled some strings with some of his former coworkers and took my dad and I down to the Flint RIP track when I was a kid. Ended up getting a few gifts from the crew including a blank GTW bad order card dated 1972/1977! To this day, that bad order is one of my favorite pieces of railroad paperwork, second only to my CN-Grand Trunk District operating rules dated December 1998 (the month and year I was born)

@roberthoppock5349 3 ай бұрын

grew up in Galesburg seen there yard be for it was moved

@ConrailSD80MAC Ай бұрын

That tour of the 🟧🟧🟧🟧 locomotive shop was really cool!

@oohwhop716 2 ай бұрын

This is so cool

@MrGlenferd 2 ай бұрын

Reminds me of my years as a machinist at CN. Worked the backshop and the running shop.

@OldIron2188 3 ай бұрын

Boy I wonder what railroad this is lol. Great video

@RDC2003 3 ай бұрын

W video. That’s a very nice opportunity

@coloradonscaler 3 ай бұрын

i saw 669 last February on a manifest. nice to see that she's still around!

@MrBnsftrain 2 ай бұрын

I'm glad you got to go inside the cab of an ex-ATSF Dash 9! It was at Mid-America Car Inc in Kansas City awhile back, and now I know why it was there. I am surprised they wanted you to censor the railroad's name, when they usually don't do that when their locomotives appear on TV.

@nickrose5452 2 ай бұрын

This is an incredible video! As a diesel truck mechanic, Ive wanted to move into a locomotive shop my whole career. Great to see inside the Galesburg shop! How long as 669 been working the humps and where has 1755 been usually assigned these days?

@Texasrailfan9021 3 ай бұрын

Great video and how did you get in?

@AnnArbor393 3 ай бұрын

Wow.😊

@Train_Master_4014 3 ай бұрын

Very cool and awesome! Btw at 5:40 there is no video link in top right corner

@AndreiTupolev 2 ай бұрын

This is back? I thought it had been taken down. Good to see some kind of arrangement has presumably been arrived at

@BalloonBugle88 2 ай бұрын

5:09 you can still clearly read the letters lol

@Karlos_with_a_K 3 ай бұрын

I get to watch it twice

@ih1440 2 ай бұрын

Interesting. There used to be someone in KZfaq who worked there who posted a lot of videos of locomotives running at that same shop.

@Mauscmkwk 3 ай бұрын

If only the railroad would allow paint touch ups

@jeffreyhunt1727 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video! I'm curious, though: Why did you blur out the road logos?

@1924ab 2 ай бұрын

I would like to see a tour of the Topeka system maintenance shops, worked there for 7 years but left 24 years ago.

@mijicalmagiemance8014 3 ай бұрын

You should have gone inside 1755's cab

@betsymani2734 3 ай бұрын

“Machine gun butter noises”

@bnsfgevoproductions 3 ай бұрын

Based

@erykbeaudry6790 18 күн бұрын

hello southern plain railfan i have a question why have you stop uploading because i love your content

@user-gn5bo6jp1q 23 күн бұрын

Bizzarre coincidence had been appeared in this channel

@OG-Productions 3 ай бұрын

How cool is this, how did you get permission to do this

@lizggil123 3 ай бұрын

Why are you censoring the BNSF logo?

@Southern_Plains_Railfan 3 ай бұрын

The railroad requested it.

@bub-e2592 3 ай бұрын

But you didn't censor the F-Bomb, cuz Yeah. @@Southern_Plains_Railfan

@LMR78 3 ай бұрын

@@bub-e2592womp womp KZfaq doesn’t ban you for cursing.

@bub-e2592 3 ай бұрын

I know, but I was just pointing it out@@LMR78

@bub-e2592 3 ай бұрын

8:46 That's the first time you swore in A video.

@XavierTheRailfanner_ 3 ай бұрын

He did do the middle finger in "You Made me Do This"

@josephp.elstad4328 3 ай бұрын

I thought that load test looked familiar lol

@F40M07 3 ай бұрын

YOOOOO

@user-vh1uc6in7b 16 күн бұрын

Locomotives Shops is BNSF Trains immortal power and repaint that's Was a long time ago on Santa fe.

@CreamyPennePasta 3 ай бұрын

Did you see the hump tower?

@kenczerwinski6365 Ай бұрын

I’ve been there via Lacrosse

@user-gn5bo6jp1q 23 күн бұрын

EMD Santa Fe Sd40-2

@gamingwithlukeJToH 3 ай бұрын

must've been really cool to see all that so close! also I have to ask, why is every BNSF logo in this video blurred out? you haven't done that on previous videos.

@ejdsndnj 2 ай бұрын

the railroad requested it

@RealJeep 25 күн бұрын

Must be June again. Everyone is cramming the rainbow down our throats. Romans 1:24-27 TRUTH

@gamingwithlukeJToH 25 күн бұрын

@@RealJeep ...ooookay?

@brwayden6987 21 күн бұрын

I wonder what railroad this could be 🤔

@canadianbacon2205 3 ай бұрын

Nice video, but why is BNSF so strict on logos?

@Southern_Plains_Railfan 3 ай бұрын

I’m not sure, I know railroads everywhere have been kinda skittish about their image being put on the internet after the Blackwell and Northern got shut down, because the FRA supposedly patrols railfan sites looking for violations. The other reason could be looney corporate/HR rules.

@Heroduothecomedian 3 ай бұрын

Why are the railroad names censored for 😂 anyone with a brain in the USA knows what each of these railroad are especially if you love trains

@trainbrainbros1933 3 ай бұрын

why or the BNSFs blurred out

@user-mp5zt7qj5h 2 ай бұрын

ET-cetera not EK-cetera

@kens.3729 3 ай бұрын

Not sure Why I’m Not Receiving Notific- ations on your Channel. I have tried Unsubscribing and Subscribing several times over several months with NO luck.

@thelongislandplanesandtrai3638 3 ай бұрын

No ones talking about why hes bluring the BNSF logos?

@3henry214 3 ай бұрын

Read through previous comments... many folks asked about it. The answer is the railroad requested it to be done.

@user-gn5bo6jp1q 23 күн бұрын

GE Santa Fe b40-8w

@drrockf4d 2 ай бұрын

3:55 why blur out the logo on the front of the locomotive?

@lleroy8929 2 ай бұрын

Funny how they made you blur out BNSF..

@libertyvilleguy2903 2 ай бұрын

Did you ever say where this is? The title says Galesburg, but where is Galesburg?

@rushylvania.northern 3 ай бұрын

@Southern_Plains_Railfan 3 ай бұрын

Nah, the railroad requested I blur the logos.

@Interesting_Banana 3 ай бұрын

@@Southern_Plains_Railfancouldn't possibly guess which one :P

@Ruvssians 3 ай бұрын

@@Southern_Plains_Railfanthat actually sucks ngl…

@Mrunnecessary846 3 ай бұрын

But why though we see Railroad logos all the time

@Ruvssians 3 ай бұрын

@@Mrunnecessary846maybe cause southern plains isn’t Like a Small Railfanning KZfaq channel like us anymore

@railroadhistoryarchives 2 ай бұрын

I wonder what railroad owns all these locomotives...

@shermanfirefly4343 2 ай бұрын

Why did they scratch out the Santa Fe logos on the screens?

@user-gn5bo6jp1q 23 күн бұрын

Sd40-2 1755

@fiercetrains4052 3 ай бұрын

Why is the logo censored? It's everywhere on YT

@Southern_Plains_Railfan 3 ай бұрын

The RR requested it for this video.

@fiercetrains4052 3 ай бұрын

@@Southern_Plains_Railfan but why?

@Texasrailfan9021 3 ай бұрын

@@fiercetrains4052 because of copyright

@ttangen8754 2 ай бұрын

Wait why is the Santa Fe not blurred?😊

@FoamerProductions- Ай бұрын

Because it is a fallen flag, BNSF doesn’t care about the fallen flags being blurred but they need there logo to be blurred for copyright

@tonysamtraktrainvideos 3 ай бұрын

This is my first time seeing your video of this and I just subscribed to your channel but why would you blurred out the BNSF on the locomotives? Like dude, you don't do that at all!!! Nobody doesn't do that