WEIRDEST New Locomotive?

Santa Fe was doing this 50 years ago, taking old covered wagon engines and rebuilding them with freight bodies. Check out the book "CF-7 From Cleburne to Everywhere. " by Cary Poole.Those engines got a new lease on life with ATSF. And then they were peddled off on shortlines all over the world. Even Amtrak owned several CF-7s. Many are still being used today, despite their non compliance with Tier 4 emissions requirements

I live in Erie PA. Wabtech has been more cunning, devious and cut-throat against their employees than even GE was. These workers have built locomotives for decades. They are skilled. But the company wants to move production to Texas and pay wages that are half or less, to laborers who have very little experience. In a short decade or so, watch for some Wabtech locomotives to have issues with quality and build. These will be the ones built by cheap labor.

As someone whos worked with those rebuilds, theyre nowhere near as powerful as the unrebuilt ones, but they are so quite and smooth. We got her in on a mow train. She didn't stay long but i liked her

Notice the Red light over the Ditch Lights on the Canadian National Unit. They use the Red light for rear DPU usage. I wished every Railroad would adopt this standard.

Looks like an ES44AC and SD40-2 had a baby lol

Great video and great information. I enjoy your videos. There is a small group of us that railfan at Amtrak Station in Clemson.. Saturday evening, I was early ahead of the rest of the group when a grandmother showed up with 2 grandsons. They both had tripods and cell phones with scanners on their belts. They asked about you tube train channels. I provid we d yours, and several others including Distant Signal with Danny Harmon. Helped both of them with Grandmother's permission, to set up and subscriptions for all the channels. They were absolutely excited and loved it. I told the grandmother about rail day at Folkston, and she said they will attend in the fall.

The sd40 lives on. Sd40-2 is one of the best locomotives ever built

I can completely understand Rehab, Rebuild and Reactivate especially when the Cost of New Units is one (1) to two (2) Million plus dollars. Thanks Charlie. 👍🙏

I loved this video! You put a lot of work into it and it shows. Those 1713 & 1714 are crazy looking locomotives.

Can also confirm that the 23s are supposed to be only in MoW service........ our mto got yelled at for using her as a second engine on the local while waiting for the mow to finish relaying the yard lol

The SD23T4 also have their dynamic brake fan section raised a little, which i assume to accommodate necessary Tier 4 components

01:30 haha, I was the conductor on that 1714 when it went from Spartanburg, SC to Kingsport, TN, probably not long after you took that video. It isn't a really good engine, it loves to drop its load when it goes from its sub-21 MPH to 21+ MPH ?gearing?, which isn't a good idea when it is the only engine pulling a train up the mountain.

Good video. Very informative. That SD23 looks like the result of a one night stand between an EMD and a GE.

I saw 1713 several months ago when it was pulling one of CSX's geometry trains. It was parked in a nearby yard over the weekend I saw it. But I barely missed it when it left due to having to go do something else.

Interesting design, though the radiator overhang means it's lost its ladder, which may make maintenance a pain.

T4? Nah, as someone who worked for the railway new GEs are not even close to T1 on a good day. Emissions from locomotives will always be high but way lower than semi trucks

Another flawless documentary from V12 Productions

These rebuilds from CSX are just another in a long line of crazy rebuilds railroads would pump out, and there have been some wild ones over the course of history! You should check out some of the ones Frisco and MKT for example pulled off! Alco RS units rebuilt with GP7/9 long hoods and prime movers, Santa Fe's famous "Beep" locomotive, PA-1s rebuilt with EMD engines, the list goes on! Love them, or hate them, these SD23-T4s are just following in the footsteps of some of the more zany rebuilds of yesteryear!

EMD nose and flared radiators make these stunning. I love these things and wish they’d escape Barr Yard here in Chicagoland more often. Very photogenic.

As far I’m aware, the reason why locomotives use water instead of antifreeze is the engines leak too much. Antifreeze contamination of the oil will ruin its lubrication qualities & turn it into a milkshake.