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Wow ! One Trillion Horse Power.. (h/t L Matthews)

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At 8,000 BHP/engine, I counted 296,000 BHP, or approximately 220.5 Megawatts equivalent.

Yeah, it’s not a “trillion,” but Holy Mary Mother of God, it’s still a lot.

Also flashed me back to living in Pitt Meadows, B.C. when the damned multi-hundred-double-stacked freight trains, kilometres in length, would waddle through our neighbourhood and cause the whole house to shake. Never again.

For what reason? Are they getting the cattle cars ready for some mass transport of unvaccinated at a central location? Could it be there are no longer CCP goods to ship from a particular geographic seaport location inland? News at six. <sarc

bverwey

SD 40-2’s are 3000HP each, total of 105,000 HP for 35 of them.
The only ones running are the BNSF units, 2 in front, 2 at the rear.
The rest are sold to NREX, for scrap or rebuild/lease, being hauled dead in line.

Dan says:

January 18, 2022 at 11:47 am

Yup. Short of a trillion HP by a factor of over 9 million. Math is hard.

One engine on a Boeing 777 has more horsepower than that string of locomotives.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/a-single-boeing-777-engine-delivers-twice-the-horsepower-of-all-the-titanics/250698/

One country moving more engines through one state than some countries even have.

Sadly, I see lots of them parked out here in the west; likely because we’re not moving nearly as much coal as we used to.

Of course, there is still a lot of oil to move, given the existential threat that pipelines present to mankind.

I noticed on the last Loco that it was the BNSF railway. (Warren Buffet)

Probably these locomotives are required to move oil from Alberta to the US in a Moving Keystone Pipeline.

I live in a town on the CPR (main line, I think) in Western Manitoba, driving around all day for work, and I see many trains barrelling through town since they fixed up the tracks and raised the train speed-limits. All are 100-120 oil tanker cars, pristine black with no graffiti tags, which to my untrained eye indicates that they never stop anywhere to acquire such adornment. I presume the eastbound are laden and the westbound are empty?
It’s great fun to think about sleeping every night with a rolling, clattering oil pipeline passing by two blocks away, 4 times a night…
(In past decades, it was grain cars or Sask Potash cars.)
Weird, eh?