A buddy of ours finally got us pics of us changing the wheels on a locomotive at work, thought I'd share them with you guys. Just think of this next time it's raining and you have to change a flat..











the crane we used is rated for 175,000lbs, a train with no fuel weighs about 173,000lbs and they carry 2500 US gallons of fuel so we had to wait till the train had almost no fuel.
For anyone who's interested in the finer details or if you want to compare your ride to mine...
thats a MLW Alco
2000whp@1060rpm redline @ 1180rpm
53,400lbs-ft@450rpm
0-60 in 1/8th mile (never timed it because we don't have 60mph track, but i'd guess 15 seconds or so)
108L 45-degree v-12 boosted to 35psi
and lastly fuel economy... it'll burn 10gallons of fuel in 1 hour at idle.