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  • Discussion of General Electric locomotive technology. Current official information can be found here: www.getransportation.com.
Discussion of General Electric locomotive technology. Current official information can be found here: www.getransportation.com.

Moderators: MEC407, AMTK84

  by Allen Hazen
 
Look at the handrails alon the side of the unit: there is a second railing halfway down the stanchions, not just a single, top, railing as on U.S. domestic units. Hood-type locomotives for Australia also have this feature: I think it may be required as a safety feature (Australian laws about work-place safety being, I think, stronger than those in backwards countries like the U.S.).
  by MEC407
 
More videos of these units in action. Thanks to Philip Wormwald for the links!
Philip Wormwald via GElocos group wrote:An empty Westbound coal train exits the last tunnel before the summit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf_UbkRF2L0

Another Westbound train, this time recorded East of the previously mentioned
tunnel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAtoewXD4So

A variation of the previous one, recorded just before sunset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFrptTq7H1M

The last Westbound for now, seen here just before the summit, in great
light:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8pfzWpyLjA

Then we go to the other side of the pass, to record some (Much heavier!)
Eastbounds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGAon5HPREA (Banked by a DF4B!)

And this time an even heavier coal train, pulled by a HXN5 and banked by two
DF4B's!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U4wSdl10to

Man, the GEVO-16 with twin turbos is a NICE sound!