CB&Q 9911A Engine Room During Mainline Acceleration

Описание: This was filmed during the Illinois Railway Museum's 2023 "non-stop" Showcase Weekend special event when trains operated from 10am Saturday to 5pm Sunday. The Nebraska Zephyr dining car served dinner on Saturday night and breakfast on Sunday morning. I was onboard as a chef, cooking up some spectacular meals. I shot this after dinner when I had some time to kill.

Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy #9911A is the last EMC E5A. It has a special place in my heart as it was the first cab ride I had ever gotten when I was just a kid. So many years later, as a volunteer, it's one of my favorite units to see and work on.

The 9911A was built in February 1940 for the CB&Q. Like the other E5s, the 9911A was clad in polished stainless steel to match the Burlington's signature Zephyr trainsets. It served in Zephyr service on the Q and Fort Worth & Denver, a Q subsidiary. It was traded to EMD in 1968 for credit on an order of SD40s.

9911A was purchased by the IRM in 1968 and has been operating at the museum ever since. Thousands of hours of work have gone into the 9911A and its 5-car articulated trainset to restore it to its mid-1960s appearance, and today, it is one of the most reliable locomotives we run.

Some other notes, the early E-units have their prime movers facing the same direction as each other, as opposed to later Es which have them facing opposite directions. Because of this, the 9911A has a unique sound; you can hear the two prime movers go in and out of sync.

Also, at 0:16 and 2:54, the automatic transition from series to parallel occurs; the wheelslip light flashes twice to confirm this. That feature was removed on later locomotives.

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