Train Stalls On Hill & A 2nd Train Pushes It Up The Steep Grade! Loudest Locomotives Ever! 3 Engines On Front & 3 Sets Of Pusher Locomotives Or DPUs To Lift The Steel Monster Up The Steepest & Curviest Part Of The Line! Train passes train on the hill, this is the most awesome train ever! These trains are in Kentucky on the Norfolk Southern main line that runs from Cincinnati, Ohio to Chattanooga, Tennessee. I walked over a mile to get to the steepest and curviest part of the line so that I could film a train struggling on the grade. My radio was busy on 160.950 and I found out that a train coming up the hill had stalled due to the leading locomotive running out of water. The train had 3 locomotives on the point and one DPU fighting gravity to get 14,000 tons of freight up the hill! With the leading locomotive dead in the water the train tried a second time to get over the hill and then had to wait for another train to push it up.
This video starts with a train coming down the hill. That train was cool because it had a Union Pacific locomotive in the consist. After we see that train pass me we then get a look at the stalled train in the distance. The person in the video with the big stick who walks over the tracks after the first train passes is probably a local. I saw him walk by in both directions. The good action starts at about the 4:00 mark. The stalled train was train #123 and it had 4 locomotives with haz mats cars on the rear. The shoving train was train #375 and it had 3 locomotives with loads of steel rolls. When I said in the video that the train weighed 14,000 tons that did not include the addition of the second train!
Anyway, the action really starts when the train passes me and while it is going uphill another train passes it going downhill. Listen to how loud the DPU units were working as the train passed me. The lead unit was quiet because it was dead due to being out of water. The DPUs were the loudest that I have ever heard and the ground was shaking. Just look and listen to all that power going past me! Have you ever heard such power and if so, where at? I think this may just be the most awesome train video that I have ever filmed. The crews were talking on the radio about whether or not to stop a few miles up the line to refill the lead locomotive with water at Erlanger, Kentucky. As it turns out they did stop at Erlanger. Once they restarted the train at Erlanger, they separated the train back into the original two trains. I filmed both trains passing me just minutes apart farther down the line at Richwood and that will be in a future video. Just think of all the power it took to get this massive amount of freight over the hill. Just think of the fuel it took to make the energy to get this monster over the hill. I think its facinating to see how America moves her freight. I hope this video does justice in showing the battle that the railroad won in its effort to fight gravity. You probably had to be there for the full experience so leave a comment telling me what you think of this video and have you ever got to witness the railroads work this hard? Filmed between Ludlow and Crescent Springs, Kentucky on June 20, 2022

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