I don’t care who you are, what age you are, what you are into or anything else…if you don’t get excited when you get to be anywhere even close to trains, have your head checked. I’ve had the fortune of working in railyards every once in a while in the military and there is still nothing that makes me smile more than watching a mile or so of no-joke freight weight moving out. From the engines to the most bare flatcar and everything in between, a train is all about mass motion: you have to be able to keep hundreds of thousands of tons of materials moving along safely, but what happens when you hit a geographical obstacle? Rolling along on the prairies is easy…climbing the Rockies isn’t by a long shot. That’s when you double down and in some cases order up a pusher locomotive to help shove all that girth up the side of a mountain pass, like this train that is climbing through the Moffat Route in Colorado. The locomotives are General Electric units (BSNF’s choice unit, according to the film maker) and they are turned up to max throttle to make the climb! Finish off you work week with something that’s working harder than you!
