SD80MAC Update

interesting video!

Did that last night freight have an sw1500 engine?

No.

On that last freight...

Let me start from the beginning;
I live on Long Island, and I went to Cranford, New Jersey, where I taped the SD80MAC's. I took the train , LIRR and NJT, and when I was returning home, I saw an LIRR freight at Mineola, so I turned my camera on and videotaped it.
So the last train on that particular video is LIRR (before New York and Atlantic took over freight operations on Long Island).
The Locomotive(s) on the LIRR freights are MP15AC's, not SW1500's. NY&A purchased a number of locomotives from LIRR, on account that locomotives need cab signals to operate on LIRR track. NY&A also purchased some GP38-2's from the LIRR, when they were retired and replaced by DE30AC's and DM30AC's

Sorry for the confusion, it was sloppy tape to DVD editing on my part.

I've heard all the sd80macs are painted over in NS or CSX painte

tjsingle wrote:I've heard all the sd80macs are painted over in NS or CSX painte

Yup that would seem to be a correct statement, sad though they should have kept one in blue kinda like a heritage unit.

This video clip was shot at Prescott , Pennsylvania on July 7th, 1997.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ8hLJYCTPg
The first two trains are led by SD80MACS, and we were using two cameras. The trains, are NSSE and PICC, and the third train is a meet, MAIL-3.
The PICC is a very long train for two locomotives, and it proves the power of the SD80MAC's.

This is Episode 5 of the production "Conrail at Prescott". I had to break it into episodes to fit it on Youtube.