TRAINS: Where diesels go to die

Storage yards filled with retired diesel locomotives from all over North America. There are some real antiques in this footage, with some of these units being seventy to eighty years old! Makes one sad for some odd reason.

Date posted to YouTube: February 16, 2024
Length: 23 minutes, 30 seconds

- Pseudo Boethius

TRAINS: Worlds largest diesel locomotive on the Cheyenne turntable DD40X 6936.

The largest diesel ever made for railroad use gets turned on the largest turntable ever made for railroad use: a Union Pacific DD40X in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 

SCIENCE: The Engine That Powers the World

The most important technology BY FAR of the 21st Century was actually developed in the later days of the 19th: the diesel engine.

2019-01-27  [P-B]