The high pitched squeal is actually called wheel creep, controlled wheel on rail slippage. With the wet conditions, the control system on the locomotive would allow quite a bit of wheel creep, which actually increases adhesion

By the way Radioditch, when a turbo blows in a diesel, its white to blueish smoke from unburned fuel, maybe you should think before you speak, GENIUS!

Crazy catch! Although its not rare for a GE to blow up like that. But as a railfan to see it happening… awesome!

Thank you so much Noah!

Awesome catch! That's GE for ya!

I still find it fascinating that 2 locomotives can haul that much cargo

Lol, I like how I could be heard in the background. I'm a very loud person when excited. xD; Great shot! :)

That flickering screen on the left though..

You can tell that sound is coming from the 1st locomotive from the doppler effect... could be traction control allowing some wheel slip as John Ball mentioned below.

101 lets learn something

Usually when it smokes like that, it isn't a blown turbo, but a new turbo.....A blown turbo is flames and sparks...

The squeal you here is wheel creep not a fire alarm. Locomotives do not have fire alarms. Wheel creep allows the wheels to slip slightly which actually allows for more adhesion to the rail. It has nothing to do with whether there is sand in the "tanks." The turbo is not blown. When a turbo blows the locomotive shuts down. I've had them blow on locomotives I operated blow. The smoke gets heavy and more towards the black side right before it blows and when it goes there is usually a boom and often hot lube oil will blow out the stacks as often the line used to pump lube oil to the bearings on the turbo ruptures. Or when the turbo comes apart the oil is pumped through the turbo and into the impeller which helps blow it it out the stack. And sometimes when the turbo blows it throws parts out through the stack or through the car body doors.

white smoke= unburnt fuel vapour, more likely a bad injector or bad compression on a cylinder due to unsealing valve (ie no oil burning).

Almost looks like the scene here is in Wisconsin near Milwaukee and the CP train is a "Sprint" on its way to Chicago from the Twin Cities

The day the GE wanted to be a steamer

Lucky catch that is a lot of smoke man!

Thanks!